Hello me faithful readers, I am back again with another chapter!
Darlian, Thanks for the review once again Darlian. It's good to hear from one of me fathful reviewers again. All the ur questions will be answered in the following chappie.
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Chapter 5, the Aston Martin.
Lara still couldn't believe her eyes. How on earth was it possible that he was still alive? The tomb had collapsed, with Powell still inside. It takes a miracle to survive something like that. There was no doubt possible, the man in front of her was indeed Manfred Powell.
"It's wonderful to see you two are still together." The evil smile on his face was still visible. "You make such a lovely couple."
"Hmm…I'm glad we agree at that point." was Lara's only reply.
Powell started searching through Lara's bag. He would find nothing but another gun, her car keys and her driver's license.
"What do you want Powell?" Alex's words made the smile on his face grew larger.
"You never had a lot of patience, had you Mr West."
Lara answered for Alex "Please come to the point Mr Powell. You're games will have no effect on me or Alex."
"I think you already know what the point is Lara. You stole something from me and I would love to have it back."
Lara shrugged.
"I didn't steal anything from you Mr Powell, I only made sure something important will stay safe from you. You are the one who keeps stealing things."
Powell shrugged "And you are the one who's always in my way, but not for long." He said. "You see, I believe you have something in you're manor that can be of good use to me, I say let's leave the Doctor's apartment and go back to good old Croft manor."
"I don't think there will be anything to find Mr Powell, you couldn't find anything two days ago and I am sure you won't find anything today."
Powell and the man paced forward forcing Lara and Alex back into the living room.
"Off course, but now I can ask you to find it for me and if you refuse I might have to hurt someone."
By now they were standing in front of the elevator, ready to go downstairs, as a warning sign Powell pressed his gun against the back of Alex's head. Suddenly Lara remembered that Powell doesn't know about the missing page, then what was he here for except for Lara and Alex. He knew that Lara would come here but what made him think she would. The elevator door opened and Lara and Alex were pushed inside.
"Mr Powell," Alex started "Why are you struggling to get immortality, I would say that you already are, considering that you should be tying dead in the ruin city."
Alex saw Lara was making an escape plan and tried to distract Powell.
Powell started laughing "Mr West if I was already immortal you and Lady Croft would have been dead. I simply survived because the Illuminati had sent a rescue team and fortunately they found me. Good for me, but too bad for the two of you."
The elevator doors opened again and they were forced outside. Now while Powell was proudly explaining how he survived, Lara made her move, she pushed Powell backwards against the other man, they stumbled down. At the same moment she grabbed Alex by his arm and dragged him out of the elevator. They were almost outside when bullets flew around their heads, Powell and the other man were running after them.
"Great moment to escape Lara." Alex said as they stepped into the Aston Martin. Powell had taken her car keys, so Lara smashed the window and was forced to hotwire her own car. In split seconds the engine started, with the car alarm still peeping in their ears.
"Please Alex, I don't have time for you're comments now, there are people after us that want us dead."
With screeching tires Lara hurried the car on the road, but she could see Powell and the other men had already entered their car and were close behind them.
"Bugger, the bastard still has my guns." Lara said and the car alarm finally stopped beeping.
"Is that all you care about right now? You're guns?"
For a split second Lara looked at Alex and smiled at him. Then she looked back at the road and suddenly took a sharp turn left, almost hitting a bus. When she looked in the back mirror she saw Powell forced his way around the bus and was still on their tail.
"Alex, could you get my cell phone from the dashboard,-"
Lara didn't have to finish her sentence Alex was already reaching for it and handed it to Lara. With one had still on the wheel, Lara dialed to the manor. Bryce picked up.
"Hello Lara, what's up?"
"Bryce, Alex and I ran into a rather unpleasant surprise, so we didn't get much of a chance to search Doctor Wagner apartment."
"Really? What happened?"
Lara waited with the answer for that question as she suddenly had to push her breaks and turned right into a small alley. Too small for her left mirror to survive as it breaks of her car.
"Bloody hell," Lara cursed as she saw it happening. "Bryce I am not in the position to talk much, could you and Hilly go to the apartment and finish what Alex and I started?"
"Off course, we will go immediately, guess we will me later on in the manor then?"
"No, on any circumstances do not go back to the manor. You know what place to meet me."
"Okay, I'll see you there then, bye Lara."
"Bye." Lara hung up.
She tossed the phone to Alex but still kept one hand on the wheel.
"What are you up too Lara Croft?" Alex asked.
Lara kept her eyes on the road but smiled "Nothing special Alex, just something to lure Powell in the wrong direction."
Alex smiled back at her and suddenly cramped himself in his seat as he saw a taxi coming at them with high speed. Lara simply turned the wheel to the left and nearly evaded the car.
"What's wrong Alex you're not scared are you?"
And as she said this a bullet flew though the back window and went back out through the front.
"Bugger, their killing my car." Lara cursed.
More bullets followed, most of them scratching the paint from her Aston Martin and some gazed close by their heads.
"I'd prefer bullets above car crashes." Alex managed to say.
In the distance they could see traffic was forming, still Lara didn't slow down.
"Lara, you do see there's traffic up ahead."
"Yes I do Alex."
Suddenly Alex started laughing.
"What?" she said.
"I hope you give that same answer when I pop the question one day."
Lara on her turn smirked at the yank "Hold on tight Alex, this is going to be tricky."
Alex looked in front of him and saw the cars nearing for half a meter, then Lara suddenly turned the car to the left and drove it on the sidewalk, Alex was rather surprised by this.
"I never thought you would do this to you're Aston Martin." He said glancing in the back mirror and saw Powell did the same.
It wasn't busy with pedestrians on the sidewalk but when they ran in to one they immediately jumped aside. Alex had the feeling they were loosing speed.
"Why are we slowing down." He asked.
"Look to your right." Was Lara's reply.
And so Alex did, and he saw a small opening between the traffic, an opening for pedestrians to walk though but for the Aston Martin it was rather tight.
"You're joking right?" Lara locked her eyes on his and raised her eyebrow. "You're not joking, off course, you're the only woman stupid enough to do it."
Lara smirked, she looked in the back mirror and saw Powell gaining on her, he was driving much faster then she did and probably hadn't seen the small opening between the cars. And just as he was about to smash her car Lara turned the wheel to the right and hit the brakes. Powell did brake but he slides forward over the sidewalk. As Lara hits the gas pedal again, the Aston Martin scratches past the cars in traffic, some of them sound the horn but they only made the tomb raider laugh it was time to go to the old hospital.
"You think we lost him now?" Alex asked.
"Off course, you're not doubting me are you Mr West?"
"Me? No, if you let the Aston Martin go through so much to get away, I don't think there is anything to doubt about you're driving skills."
"Good, because if you do, I might have to convince you otherwise."
"Oh, on what way?" Alex asked.
Lara eyed him "No Alex, not on the way you like to think." She said.
"Ah, too bad, I might have reconsidered my opinion."
"It would be wise if you didn't."
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London, Dr Wagner's apartment.
"I wonder what happened to Lara and Alex." Bryce said as he and Hillary were searching through Doctor Wagner's apartment.
"The Illuminati happened to Lara." Hillary answered as he was searching through a drawer.
"The buggers don't know when to stop do they."
"I guess not Bryce, did you find anything yet?"
"No not yet, I'll check out his office." The tech replied.
"You do that, I'll go see if I can find anything in his bed room."
The two men separated. They kept searching but there was nothing they could find. And after two hours of searching they decided to stop.
"Well I think he has nothing in his apartment," Hillary said. "Let's go back to Lara and Alex."
"Great idea, hey can we take a detour and drive past the McDrive? All this searching made me hungry."
Hillary frowned "Can't you just stop thinking about food for the moment, we have been here for two hours I think Lara is wondering what's keeping so long, you can eat when we're back with Lara."
Bryce sighed "Okay, you win."
The two men left the apartment and took the jeep in the direction of the old hospital where they will meet up with Lara and Alex. After fifteen minutes of driving they saw Lara's Aston Martin parked at the side of the road.
"Uh oh…" Bryce murmured.
"What?" Hillary asked curious.
"Lara's Aston Martin doesn't look that good, yep someone is gonna pay for that."
Bryce made Hillary laugh "Let's go see how she is doing." He said as he parked the jeep behind the Aston Martin.
They exited the jeep and looked up at the old hospital, or what left of it. The two men walked inside and spotted Lara and Alex sitting on an old crate…kissing. Hillary cleared his throat to get their attention. It worked the couple immediately stopped kissing.
"Hello boys," Lara said as she jumped of the crate "find anything?"
"Nope, nothing." The tech replied.
"Hmm, that's interesting." Lara replied.
"It is?" Bryce said on his turn.
"Yes, I know it has to be there somewhere, he hid it so that Powell can't find it if he is looking for it."
"Excuse me?" Hillary said. "Did I hear you say Powell?"
"Yes Hillary you heard it perfectly well." Alex replied for Lara.
"Isn't that bugger dead?" Bryce said.
"I thought he was, but three hours ago he stood right in front of us pointing a gun at our faces."
"Then we have a serious problem." Hillary said.
"Yes we do Hilly. But let's go back to the manor."
"What?" Alex said confused. "That's the first place where Powell will look for us Lara."
"I know Alex, but I have the feeling that the hard drive from Dr Wagner's computer will tell us where the missing page is, I'm afraid we have no choice but to go back to the manor."
"Well let's not waste any more time then."
Alex was the first one to exit the hospital, but the rest followed close.
"Hey Lara, what happened to the Aston Martin?" Bryce asked.
"I'm afraid Powell forced me to get some scratches on it, don't worry Bryce, after this you can fix her up again."
"Yeh, yeh, leave it to me. When she's done she will be as good as new."
Lara laughed "I wouldn't expect less from you Bryce." She said and entered the car.
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