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Lara crept into Abbey's room cautiously; Abbey had not come down to eat. Lara looked round the room and saw Abbey on the bed obviously fuming.
"Did I say you could come in?" Abbey snapped
Lara held up her hands "ok I surrender I just want to talk."
"What about, how long I'm grounded."
"No," Lara braced herself "I wanted to talk about … training you so that someday you could …" Abbey perked up and Lara groaned "join me on a raid.'
Abbey jumped up and shouted "YES" pumping her fist in the air.
"Ah-"said Lara holding up a hand "you must behave not after hours training and you have to be ready for the first training session at 5 am tomorrow morning"
Abbey flopped onto the be and said "what 5 am are you nuts you can't be serious"
"I am, consider yourself lucky Werner state me at midnight and worked me until the nest night on my first day."
Abbey jumped up and began pushing Lara out of the room
"What are you doing?" l exclaimed
"Getting a good nights sleep" Abbey said and slammed the door
Lara smiled and said to herself "this could be interesting come tomorrow morning."
The next morning getting Abbey up was nearly impossible she kept emitting unintelligible grunts from beneath the covers and when Lara became more insistent she found random weighty object to hurl near the door.
Out on the back field Abbey stood dead to the world, dressed in classic tomb raider gear: dark shirt and forest camo pants with hip holsters not really listening to what Lara was saying.
"Now the reason I brought you out here was to demonstrate that a good tomb raider needs to be ready in any situation no matter how much sleep he or she has gotten"
Lara stopped finally realizing that Abbey wasn't paying attention in the least. Lara snapped her fingers twice in front of Abbey. Not getting a response Lara walked over to where the garden hose was and turned it on Abbey. Abbey yelped and jumped back she growled and spent eh rest of the introduction sopping wet began and freezing.
"Okay now that I have your attention lets begin the day with some target practice"
Lara Handed Abbey her favorite weapon the Boran X while Lara Selected a Browning Hi-Power out of the arsenal assembled next to them including a number of hand guns: Glock 34, Bretta 92F S a Walther P22 Target Shotguns: a LANBER 2097 EST, a Alcione 12 gage, and a Browning 12G last but not last too many rifle to name but one in particular was an antique Winchester. Abbey shot with almost as much accuracy as her mother hitting the target eight times out of ten; her mother with rapid fire hitting the targets ten out of ten. After emptying every bullet out of every clip of every gun they began strength and endurance training.
Lara and Abbey walked to the training course complete with every trap Lara had ever encountered.
"Alright lets see if you have been practicing your reflexes don't worry about being impaled Bryce installed the training spikes yesterday"
"If there wasn't enough to worry about now I have to worry about if Bryce replaced all of them"
"Well that will keep you on your toes won't it?"
Lara held up a stop watch and yelled
"GO!"
Abbey sprinted and did a flying leap onto the first obstacle then leapt on the rope wall quickly shimmying up there was a click and a foam bolder fell from the top. Abbey deftly avoided the boulder by swinging away. Half way up the rope Abbey was climbing detached itself from the wall hurtling Abbey towards the ground, Abbey grabbed another one and held on for a second yelling
"You know anyone else would think your trying to kill me!"
Lara yelled back
"Keep going!"
Abbey growled and continued the course meeting with rubber swinging blade springy spikes and robotic alligators. Afterwards Abbey was cross, tired and wet after falling into a water pit disguised as a floor board.
"Is that the last of your little tests?" Abbey said disgruntled
"One more I need to test your lung capacity."
"And how pray tell will you do that?" Lara just smiled
Abbey's lungs were burning with the need to breath she decided that her mother was trying to kill her, she pounded on the glass begging with her eyes for her mother to drain the tank. Lara stood there indifferent as her daughter drowned. At the last possible moment Lara hit the button draining the tank. Abbey lay on the bottom gasping for air.
"Wonderful four minutes but if you're going to be a tomb raider we're going to need to get it up to at least six minutes"
Abbey aimed a death glare at Lara.
"Don't give me that look you're the one who wanted to do this."
"Ishuff that allhuffhuff or dohuffyou huff have anyhuff more crazy testshuff"
"No you can go and get cleaned up for dinner."
Abbey with help from Lara climbed out of the tank and headed up to take a shower and get cleaned up.
At supper Abbey fell asleep in her soup and once again had to get cleaned up when she inhaled the beef broth.
When Lara said good night she also told Abbey that they were just going to go over gear and temple schematic and that she could get up at ten.
The next morning even ten was too early for Abbey's bruised and exhausted body. She barely got her self out of bed and down to the parlor to go over specs with Lara.
Once again Abbey could not pay attention this time because of all the complaints her body was giving her.
"Now when first entering a newly uncovered tomb the first thing you must…"
Realizing Abbey wasn't listening Lara proceeded to the coffee pot and poured Abbey a cup and handed her a couple of Ibuprofen. Abbey mumbled thanks and sipped the scalding brew Abbey had inherited the love of coffee from her father and was the only girl at her boarding school who drank it, so much so that she packed a coffee maker when she went.
After reviewing the basics Abbey went to the master bathroom and had a chamomile bubble bath to sooth her aching muscles. At Dinner Lara informed Abbey that she had been called to an archeological dig and that she would be gone for a week, abbey quickly put in that this would be an excellent field test and Lara agreed better to train in an unpredictable field than in a predictable one and explained that's how she herself gained all of her Know-how..
Well that's it guys see you next week Review please
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