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Chapter 6, Poisoning information.

London, Powell's office

"Are you sure this will work Mr Powell?" Daniel asked holding a plate with four cups of coffee.

"It's either me or them and I am not willing to die yet, so it will be them."

Powell opened the door to his office and saw that Mr Gareth and Mrs King were already waiting for him. Powell nodded at them and seated himself behind the same table. Daniel placed the cups in front of the three Illuminati members and saved the last cup for himself. He wanted to take a seat next to Powell but Powell moved his hand up

"Thank you Daniel, you can retire for the day." Powell said.

"Yes sir, thank you." Together with his coffee Daniel exited the office.

Once the door was closed behind him Mr Gareth started talking.

"Your 48 hours are over Mr Powell." He said. "And unless you have the stone, we have to undo the mistake we made by rescuing you from the ruin city."

Powell smirked, slowly spinning a spoon through his coffee. "I have the stone…" he lied, but hid the lie from his eyes.

"Good, hand it over to us immediately." Mrs King demanded.

"I'm afraid I don't have it with me."

Mrs King's eyes started to fill with anger.

"Pardon me? What do you mean Mr Powell?"

"I mean exactly what I'm saying Mrs King, I don't have the stone with me. I hid it somewhere safe, you can have it but first I want to be certain that my life will not end tonight, then I can have Daniel bring you the stone."

Mr Gareth lifted his coffee cup "If you have the stone like you say you have Mr Powell, your life will not be in danger." He brought his lips to the cup and took a good sip from his coffee.

"Well then, I'll have Daniel get the stone."

Powell walked to his desk and fast dialed to Daniel.

"Daniel, would you please bring us the stone?" Powell said.

"Yes sir." Daniel answered and Powell immediately disconnected.

He walked back to the table and seated himself again, noticing Mrs King taking a good sip from her coffee as well.

"I must say Powell," Mr Gareth started "I never thought you would manage to get the stone from Lady Croft, I'm impressed." He paused shortly as he cleared his throat. "I take it lady Croft is no longer alive?" again he cleared his throat.

Powell leaned back in his seat and smiled.

"Actually, lady Croft is still alive." He said.

"What? You managed to get the stone and you failed to kill lady Croft?"

Mrs King jumped from her seat from anger but immediately seated herself again as she felt something getting stuck in her throat. She started couching and so did Mr Gareth. At the same moment Daniel entered carrying a box. A wick smile was forming on Powell's face as he took the box from Gareth and removed a small bottle from it.

"Actually I haven't been completely honest with you."

He noticed Mr Gareth and Mrs King were suffocating.

"What did you do to us…?" Mrs King asked while she tried to breathe normal.

Powell placed the small bottle on the table and stood up from his seat.

"You see the stone is not in my possession yet," Powell stated, ignoring Mrs King's question. "Well not yet, it's still in Lady's Croft's possession."

He started pacing around the table, with his arms calmly behind his back and his eyes examining Mrs King and Mr Gareth. They had stopped couching, but blood was coming from their eyes, he could see they were in a lot of pain.

"And to get it, I have to get rid of a certain problem, then no one will be in my way of getting what I want."

Both of their bodies started shaking, blood continued dripping from their eyes and even from their mouth. They started to weaken, it would all be over soon.

"You won't….get away…with…this…" These were Gareth's last words before he died. It seemed Mrs King had already died a few seconds before him.

"I believe I already did." Powell said smiling. He moved to the table and grabbed the empty bottle. "A nasty way to die." He said, looking at the bottle and then tossed it on the floor.

"Daniel, make sure someone cleans this mess, I'm going home."

Daniel smiled "consider it done Mr Powell."

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Croft Manor

Lara's eyes snapped open as she felt a hand rushing through her hair. Beautiful sea blue eyes and a smile came in her sight. She smiled at the man in front of her as he wrapped his arm around her.

"Good morning Lady Croft." Alex said as he pulled her closer.

"Good morning Mr West." She let her eyes fall on the clock behind Alex. "Bloody hell, it's already noon."

Immediately Lara jumped out of bed and started to get dressed.

"Lara, calm down."

"Alex, half the day is already wasted, I don't want to calm down, what if Bryce has already found something."

"Then he would have come to us immediately and you know that, now slow down, you're making me dizzy."

He grabbed Lara by her waist and pulled her back in bed. He jumped on top of her and prevents her from leaving the bed. Lara smiled and didn't try to break free from the American.

"You think that will stop me?" she asked.

Alex smirked and grabbed her wrists to pine them next to her, he put quite some force on her wrists.

"You can't go anywhere, I have you right where I want you."

He moved his head down to kiss her, but then Lara moved her leg around him and in one light move it was Alex who was flat on his back. Both tomb raiders laughed and they started kissing.

"Eureka!"

Their kiss was broken abruptly when Bryce ran into the room.

"Bryce can't you knock first?" Alex said sounding a little angry.

"Oh, yeh sorry yank," Bryce answered not sounding like he cared "Anyway, I've found something you might be interested in Lara."

He pushed the paper he just printed in Lara's hands "I've found this as a note in one of his translations, I'm sure it must mean something."

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

"Lara tossed the paper on the floor "Bugger, William Blake." Lara said and immediately put on the rest of her clothes.

Alex grabbed the paper from the floor and wondered why Lara was this upset. He read the poem, but that still didn't tell him anything.

"Lara, is there something I don't know, because I don't have a clue what this means."

The paper was yanked from his hands "Get dressed Alex, we're going back to Dr Wagner's apartment."

"I don't understand, I thought there was nothing in his apartment,-"

Alex couldn't finish talking as Lara threw his jeans right in his face.

"I'll tell you once we get there, just get dressed."

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Half an hour later the couple was back at Dr Wagner's apartment. Immediately Lara started searching through the books but still Alex was confused.

"Lara, what are you looking for, I don't understand."

"When I was after the triangle of light my father had written me a letter that was instructed to be send to me on the Eighteenth of May. In it was the same poem that Doctor Wagner had hidden in his computer." Lara stopped talking for a moment when she found the right book. "Got it… My father had hidden a secret map to the temple in the book where the poem came from, my guess is that doctor Wagner has done the same."

Lara instantly opened the book and looked at the front and the backside, there was nothing hidden in there. Then she ran through the pages inside. Suddenly a small piece of paper fell out on the floor right in front of Alex's feet. He picked it up, Lara stepped beside it and together they read what was on it.

Just before we left professor Kumara had come to me, he said he wanted to talk to me. I was confused. What could he possibly want to tell me?

"Have a seat." He said but I was so nervous I decided to stand.

"What I am going to tell you now is very important and you must not tell anyone." This only grew the nerves inside of me.

"There is a way to destroy the rings."

I thought I misheard him. "What?"

"You heard me the first time boy, I said there is a way to destroy the rings."

I was stunned, why me, why would he tell me something so important.

"I don't think I understand."

Then the professor removed a small box. He opened it and except for three small openings there was nothing inside of it.

"When you place the rings in the correct sequel they will loose their powers and become of no further use."

I was confused why he would not tell that to the Emperor.

"Then why don't you destroy it?"

"No, my son, it must not be destroyed, it is too precious to be destroyed. Remember, we used the rings to save our Empire. It is a shame to let something so powerful be destroyed, it can be useful for the future of the Empire. The Emperor fails to see that but perhaps future Emperors won't. Write this secret into your diary and take it with you into the tomb."

Those were his last spoken words to me, I left and later that day I heard that the professor had been murdered by the emperor himself. Now I was the only one alive who knows the true secret of the rings and soon not even I will be alive anymore and the secret of the rings will be forgotten for ever.

Lara folded the paper together and placed it in her pocket.

"Bugger, the rings can be destroyed and we are the only two persons on this planet who know that."

"Maybe Powell knows." Alex said.

"No, I don't think he knows, let's go back to the manor."

Alex followed Lara outside "I still don't think it's a good idea to stay at the manor." He said.

"I know Alex, but we need the computers and library to look for information about this Professor Kumara. If we can find out where his grave is, we might find the box."

"But I'm still not happy about it."

"Don't worry Alex, I had Bryce increase the security."

"That still doesn't make me feel better."

By now they had reached the car "Alex, shut up and get in the car."

"Yes ma'm." he obeyed and entered the car.

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So, this was chapter six. I'll do my best to hurry with the next chapter oka. In the mean time you must keep reviewing, cause if you don't I think I might die…or something…