We are going to see who this returning female character is. Don't forget to review. AN: I love archaeology, which is why I like writing treasure hunting stories.

Now it was dawn and Lara was awake before Ben. Instead of wearing her blue shirt and khaki pants, she was wearing her panties and Ben's white shirt. It was few sizes too big for her, but she did not care. She went to the kitchen and fixed herself some coffee. Afterwards, she turned on the TV and switched to the news. It was all in French though, she had no knowledge of what they were saying.

"Is there anything on that is dubbed English?" She began flipping through several channels, all dubbed in French. Sure Lara was fluent in dozens of languages, but her French was unbearably rusty. She could only say a dozen words and she regretted not studying it.

"If it makes you feel any better, I can translate what they are saying for you." A voice said beside Lara. Ben was dressed in his jeans and not wearing a shirt, because Lara was wearing his shirt.

"That would be much appreciated Ben." Lara answered, looking at his bare chest. "You know, we got to talk about the Crown of Immortality at some point, if we want to find it."

Ben grinned like a giddy schoolboy. "Sure thing, I believe my research is in my luggage next to the couch. Can you be a dear and get it for me?" He asks politely. She quickly handed him a document and he began reading what was written down.

"Taken from a tablet discovered in Antalya, which is in Turkey." He tells before he reads a different language on the paper.

The Crown of Immortality, as Moses has dubbed it, is a precious crown with powers beyond anyone's imaginable dream. I, Aaron, put the Crown of Immortality on my head and I felt a kind of energy that is nigh uncomparable. I felt as if nothing can harm me, and I felt like I could live forever. I felt like I was God myself. Me and Moses both wore the crown and we used it to help other people. We were told by Jehovah himself that anyone who wears the crown is granted everlasting life, but something happened. After Moses struck a rock with a staff and said that he made it instead of He, Moses lost his immorality and faced the Wrath of God himself. Both of us lost our immorality and we began to decay and deteriorate as we got old. Now anyone who wears the crown is cursed with unspeakable evils. To protect it from the world, I hid it inside the ark of the covenant along with my rod and the second set of the ten rules. We hid it away forever before raiders came and took the ark and the crown itself. Me and my brother pursued and we followed the thieves to a place that God would later call Catalhoyuk. The Crown has been hidden in the temple just at the center of the site. Me and Moses climbed down the bottomless abyss and we found the crown hidden at the very bottom. We tempted to take it, but we decided it was best it stay there. We locked it in a unbreakable safe that can only be unlocked by God himself. To people who want the crown, the combination to the lock is the name of God and the throne of God.

"Wow, so Aaron and Moses discovered the Crown of Immortality and they became immortal." Lara said, impressed. "That place that Aaron mentioned, Catalhoyuk, that's in Turkey, Konya Province."

Ben grinned, happy and excited at the same time.

"How do we know it's real, someone could have written it as a fake?"

Ben, having a bullet in the chamber, walked towards her and sat down on the couch. "Look at this script. This is not Hebrew, this is a very ancient language, Sumerian. A language no has written in the last two million years. A language that has not been disturbed for the last two million years. Very few people actually read it, one in four billion can actually write it. And Aaron is that one in four billion." He hands her the document. "Read it yourself, if you can read Sumerian."

A knock on the door.

Ben quickly put on his flannel and walked up to the door. Before he opened it, Lara put on her khaki pants.

"Hello…" A raspy voice said. Ben was staring into the face of a woman who was exhausted, thirsty and wounded. Blood was seeping through her fingers from her abdomen. "I...need…water...please…"

"Oh my god." Ben catches her just as she falls. He looked at the ground and saw a trail of blood coming in from the hallway. I'll clean that up later, don't want the police to get the wrong idea. He brings her in and closes the door. He lays her flat on her back on the carpet of the floor and uses his flannel to cover up the wound. "Stay here, I'll get the first aid."

Lara finished putting on her pants and stood straight up to see what was happening. A woman was lying on the floor and bleeding out. She runs up to her side and puts pressure on her wound. Ben's flannel was painted a deep red color from the blood.

"Hey Lara...long time...no...see." The woman says slowly, her throat as dry as a desert.

Lara could not believe her eyes. The second she saw the woman's face, she knew who she was. They served together on at least two occasions. "Nadia?"

"Me again…" She tries to lighten the mood by forcing herself to smile. "You look nice...haven't seen you since...Siberia."

"What the hell are you doing here Nadia?" She does not take any pressure off her wound, nor does she break eye contact with her friend.

Ben rushed back to Nadia's side with a first aid kit in hand. He opens it up and takes out a few bandages, a cloth, and a small bottle of rubbing alcohol. He pours some alcohol into the cloth and orders for Lara to lift the flannel. "This is going to sting a lot whatever your name is, so I want you to brace yourself." Nadia nodded, understanding every single word that he said. "Three...two...one." He presses the cloth to her bare belly as soon as the flannel is lifted and she winces in agony. She bites down on her lips to prevent any screaming. She felt as if someone was pouring acid onto her bloody wound. He knew he was hurting her, but he also knew what kind of wound she had. She was cut by something that had some kind of bacteria. If he didn't treat the wound, she would get an infection and die a slow and painful death like that guy Georgy on I Spit on Your Grave 2. (Sorry if I spoiled that)

Several minutes later, Nadia was lying on the couch after passing out from the pain. Ben had done an excellent job patching her up. He cleaned up the wound as if it was nothing.

"So, who is this woman? I heard you call her something so you must know her." Ben spoke.

"This woman is Nadia, a friend and a somewhat annoying little bug." Lara told. "Remember how I told you of my Kitezh adventure, how I saved someone from being locked up in a locker? Nadia is that woman. I actually saved her, her grandmother and grandfather. Then she and me and another worked together to stop a disease from a nearby Soviet facility from spreading. That was a year ago of course. Been a while since I've seen her."

"Oh, so she's no threat. I am still on high alert, since the bar. But I trust you, even though I've only known you for like a day."

"I trust you as well. As soon as Nadia wakes up, then we ask her what is going on with her." Lara sighed before going to the chair and watching the sleeping Nadia.

Flashback

As soon as 'Nina' was on the window to the twentieth floor, the sun had began rising and she smashed the window. As soon as I am out the woods, I'll pay for the window. Unfortunately, as she climbed through, she had been uncaring and she cut her stomach on one of the sharp pieces of glasses.

The pain shot through her instantly. She has been stabbed before, but not like this. The glass went uncleaned for a long time, so basically she was cut by a knife that was tainted with the infected blood of Cujo.

"Oh god, that burns a lot." She falls to her shoulder, crushing glass beneath her weight. She felt as if someone had inserted a hook into her stomach and was pulling with all their strength to rip her flesh.

'Nina' tells herself to get up and to walk towards Lara's apartment.

Lara went into the bathroom and started throwing up in the toilet. She thought maybe she ate too much, until she felt something lumpy eject from her throat. The worm that 1-3 implanted in Lara's Gin. She also speculated that since they did not use protection, she could be pregnant, although if that were the case, it would be too early to tell anyways.

Outside, Ben was watching Nadia closely as she woke up. Like Lara, she asked who Ben was and Ben began questioning her like an interrogator. "How did you wound yourself?"

She explained how she was cut by glass.

"You know glass like that goes uncleaned for weeks? You are lucky to even be alive. All those toxic chemicals in your body and whatnot."

"But you saved me. Thank you so much." Nadia said with a bright smile. "So...has Lara told you about me? I mean...she probably did...we been on some...cool adventures before...what's your story. I'm sure you have an awesome story."

Lara found Nadia to be annoying, Ben found her to be amusing. "I'm an archaeologists myself, so you know. I've had my share of adventures. And I've had an encounter with Trinity before. I beat up two of them last night."

"Cool...I bet you really kicked their...ass."

"You're so cute Nadia I just want to put you in my pocket." He chuckles. "So, what've you been up to since Kitezh?"

"I wanted to set out for my own destiny and I...left my people at the remnant village and I moved to Kazakhstan for a brief time. That is when I...came upon two more Trinity...assholes."

"I know you're serious, but I find you to be quite amusing. I hope you don't mind."

"No, not at all...I'm used to be amusing. My mother told me that it's my way of coping with being...nervous."

"So anyways, you were attacked by two Trinity assholes and then what?"

"I came here to warn Lara of Trinity not only hunting me, but they are also hunting her and since you are with her, you as...well. I was chased by...two thugs in this hotel."

Ben's eyes widened. "Wait, there are agents here in Paris?" He shook his head in disbelief. "How did they find us?" Then he remembered something. That bartender must have implanted something in Lara's drink to not only put her to sleep, but to track her. That is why Lara is throwing up, she puking out the GPS tracker.

"I was chased by a curly haired one and a...bald one. But...there are more. There's at least five of them. I saw them outside the hotel some time before I got here." She told him about the chase and how she got away. "And that's when I got cut by the glass."

"Oh no, we gotta get out of here." Ben stands up. "As soon as Lara is done throwing up, then we shall be leaving."

"Where to?" Nadia asked, standing up to her full height.

"We are going to Turkey. We're looking for the Crown of Immortality."

Nadia's eyes widened upon hearing of the mythical object. "Ah, Lara is once again looking for another object that grants...everlasting life. Why does it have to be immorality, why not riches in gold and...jewels?"

"Don't ask me why. Just cause. In the words of Forrest Gump, 'we all do things for no particular reason at all'. Just like how I love the great country of Germany, but I have no reason why."

Lara came out of the loo after flushing the toilet. She put a hand on her head and gazed at both Ben and Naida. "What are you two up to?"

"Hey Lara...how you...feeling?"

"Pretty good, now that I am empty."

"That's what she said." Ben joked.

Nadia looked at Ben with an odd look. She was not exactly let in on the details of their relationship. She thought they were probably friends or at the very least, relatives. But now she was getting a feeling that they had a deep relationship. I wonder if they slept together or something. Are they boyfriend and girlfriend, fiance and fiancee, or are they husband and wife?

"But anyways Lara, Nadia was telling me that she was chased by two out of five Trinity agents here in Paris. They know where we are and they know Nadia since two of them tried to abduct her in Kazakhstan. That bartender must have implanted some kind of GPS tracker in your drink. It's a good thing you 'emptied' yourself. Pun intended."

"Shit, we have to be leaving." Lara gathered her stuff and took a sip of water. "Nadia, you may want to get out of here and head for safety."

"But I want to with you to Turkey." Nadia pleaded. "Please? I love going on adventures with you guys...well Lara at least. Plus I don't like Trinity any more than you guys."

Lara faced Ben. "You told her about Turkey? Why?"

"She was no threat and plus she is obviously a friend. A friend can't be let in on some things? Plus, Trinity knows about her and will most likely send someone to abduct her. We can bring her with. She can be useful."

Lara was about to argue with Ben, until she realized that he had a point. She knew Nadia and she knew that Nadia was a capable fighter; despite hiding in a locker and waiting to be saved by the bell basically. "Alright then. We can bring Nadia with us." She was now putting her trust into Nadia.

"Alright then. You ready for another adventure Nadia Wave?"

"What? What does 'Nadia Wave' mean?" Nadia asks.

"It's a pun for 'Alpha Wave'." He explains, but she did not get it. "I have good puns. Like my 'Fountain Ben'." He laughed hysterically.

At this moment, Lara was comparing Ben to Nadia. They go hand in hand like peas and carrots. Like milk and cereal. Like Tom and Jerry, like Bullet and Gunn. Like Gert and Daisy.

Do you think it is possible that Lara is pregnant with Ben's child. Read to find out.

Slavik Kennedy

Born: May 13, 1982 (34), Wales

Alias: Tango 1-2

Hair: Red

Eye: Blue

Height: Five-eleven
Weight: One-sixty
Nationality: Celtic

Relatives: None known

Biography: Slavik Kennedy was born into a wealthy family, but ran away at the age of five. Spent the next several years living on the streets while being raised by people from town to town. On his eighteenth birthday, he became infatuated with the military, which he eventually joined and fought alongside several plattons, all whom eventually died in a war against Iraq. Now living a life as a mercenary due to PTSD, he was contacted by the leader of Trinity, who offered him a job working for Trinity. He accepted and spent three years as a mercenary before becoming an initiated member and becoming best friends with Kovak