A/N: OK so I'll be deleting my unfinished stories. They will never be finished, so I'm going to just delete them. If someone wants to take over go ahead, but I won't be writing A New Kind of Mystery or The Truth of Prince Charming. Also by the time this story is out it will be completely written to ensure that I don't put out another unfinished story.

Chapter 1: The Fire

The news was playing in Sam Nishimura's apartment in New York City as she waited for the pizza she ordered to arrive. Earlier she had been in a video chat with her old friends Reyes and Jonah. They were catching up with each other, as they did every other month. Reyes's daughter had graduated from college and was now trying to be an archeologist, it seemed that the story of her mother's adventure had inspired her to learn more about the world. There was an important person missing from their bi-monthly meetings, her best friend from college, Lara Croft. These days Lara was busy being a big time archeologist, everyone knew her name. Of course they did she found Atlantis and Excalibur, among other things. After they shipwrecked on Yamatai ten years ago, Lara changed, she was more daring, and this fame she found came with a price. Every time she left to go find something, there was no guarantee that she would return and even though Sam had lost contact with her old friend, she still checked up on her through the news to make sure she was still alive.

The news then caught her attention, "Breaking news, there was an explosion at Croft Manor earlier this evening. One reported casualty. We do not know who it is at this point or how the explosion happened. More information will come when available."

Sam was frozen in shock. Croft Manor blown up? One casualty? She knew that Lara had a team that lived in the Manor with her and Winston, her butler, but there was a chance that that one casualty was Lara. She heard her phone buzz, it was the group message she was in with Reyes and Jonah. I bought us all plane tickets to England. Go to your nearest airport fast. Apparently Reyes had also been watching the news.

Sam quickly packed some clothes and a toothbrush and printed out the plane ticket Reyes sent to her. It was time to see her college roommate again in 10 years, but whether or not Lara was alive was still up in the air.