A/N: I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. I'd like to thank the new followers, and my beta, although I'm totally positive that she's biased. But if she says it's good, I'm gonna go with that. I apologize in advance for any spoilers ahead for you PC and PlayStation owners! Anyways, onto the second letter.

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DOCUMENTS: LETTERS TO SAM: LOOKING BACK

I remember that night like it was yesterday, god I miss you so much.

My Darling Samantha,

I've been exorbitantly distracted. "I think pain is easiest to avoid by filling the days with distractions - I wish to remove everything to search for a truth." A famous magician once said that, and I believe that it is accurate. That's what I'm doing. My therapist, along with Ana have encouraged me to do something useful...it's helping me focus. Dad had been researching something similar to what we experienced at Yamatai, I've been trying to find the connection on the side from the possession research. I think I found something. You remember Ana, right? After the island, before Mexico, before all this mess. She had us over to the manor for dinner once she discovered you and I were together. God, I remember her interrogating you like you were some sort of criminal. But you handled it just like I thought you would. With absolute grace, I'll never forget how In love I was with you in that moment where you looked her in the eye and spoke to her respectfully, regarding me:

"Ana, there are a million and one reasons why people think that Lara and I don't work. I mean, just look at us both. She and I have our differences, but you don't know the hell that we've been through together. How hard Lara and I have worked to get here, to where we are now. She saved my-I apologize, fucking life on that Island. I owe my everything to her. I can't stand it when we're apart. And every time I look at her, my life is given a purpose again. I love your girl...I just..needed you to know that."

She sat there, and nodded slowly, let out a small sigh and lit a cigarette as she looked over at me. She asked me If I loved you. I told her that I've found my purpose, because of you, and that I did, irrevocably. I felt your hand shaking in mine underneath the table as she smiled, and told us that we had her blessing, that my father would have loved you. He would have too, sweetheart.

Then the fights came, and you weren't you anymore. With everything that happened after that night, you threw accusations at me, that I couldn't let you in anymore. No one got to be the hero but me. Those words cut me deeper than most, and they will continue to hurt for days to come. I've lost you so many times that my heart couldn't bear to do it again, I feared that this would be it. This couldn't have been it.

Then you were detained. I promised you that I'd put up the funds to get you out, to get you the help that you need while I find a way to rid you of Himiko. And I did just that. I've tried to visit you since, but your doctors won't let me, they tell me you still don't want to see me. I tell everyone I have no choice but to accept it, but I'm lying. I can't accept it. People are starting to talk, they say I'm deranged, like my father. There has to be a way. I can't shake this feeling, I can't eat, I take drugs to keep me awake at night to research. Though, Im focused, no new find or pertinent information, can fill this chasm inside of me. I know exactly why I feel this way though:

I lost my purpose, when I lost you.

I'm gonna fight like hell to get It back, to get you back, and that's a promise I intend to keep.

I love you. With all of my heart,

Lara

A/N: And thats it! The chapters will also be posted on my tumblr if that's more your thing. Starting next chapter, I'm going to start getting into "Rise" itself. So I do apologize for spoilers. If you like what you've read, favorite, follow, review. Later Days!