Can't Save every one (Tag Laura Croft)

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Lara finally managed to turn herself over just as she was dragged inside as soon as she seen the thing it sort of looked like Jabba the hut from Star Wars but a lot bigger and more ugly if that was even possible. It made one wonder how it could have fit in the truck maybe it could grow in size and shape? She pointed her guns at the thing and opened fire on it shooting it until her clips were empty by then the thing had thrown her into a bunch of wooden creates. She was going to feel that later but she couldn’t complain about it now she had to get to her feet and get moving before that thing could get a hold of her again. Come on come on come on move! she forced herself up and took off running she reloaded and slid to a stop and opened fire on the thing before jumping to avoid the tentacles.

This thing just wouldn’t die no matter how many times she shot it. It just seemed to make it mad though it was bleeding at lest she think’s it’s blood. The liquid that was coming out of the bullet holes was black so she wasn’t sure if it was blood or something else. That was the thing with some mutants they didn’t all have the same color blood as everyone else. So you couldn’t tell if they were bleeding or something else. Even though Lara was fast she just wasn’t fast enough to avoid the next attack that hit her in the side sending her across the room she hit the floor and rolled. How was she going to kill this thing? The answer was right in front of her Excalibur she started to move for it but was pulled back away from it.

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There's no way Julia is losing Lara again, not after all these years. Julia isn't interested in a romance with Lara, but the girl means to much to her psychologically to let harm come to her. She grits her teeth and dive bombs the street, she pulls out late and winds up gliding at some 70 miles an hour just a few feet above the ground. When she zips through the alley ways, she prepares herself to slam through the boarded up windows on the warehouse that lara is in.

A second later, splinters and board shreds fly randomly in all directions as she bursts through, she throws her hands out, the webbing she was gliding on disappears. Several long strands of webbing fly out, several more appear around this huge beasty grub thing! Before Julia lands, a total of twenty six pinkish purple strands of webbing have constricted and bound the mongrel, Julia plants her feet flat on the ground and collects all the web strands she has in her hand, ten of them, and jerks them back with all her might. Each of her webbing strands has the tensile strength of about a hundred tons and there's over twenty of them! Not to mention that, but Julia herself can lift ten tons clear over her head. At this point, in order for the grub monster to move, he'd probably have to tear the building down around them.

"Pick on some one your own size you freak. Lara get over here now!"

Pieces of the boarded window she just flew through spray around her and land like confetti around her feet. She's breathing hard but only because of adrenalin and fear, not for herself but for Lara.

If Lara doesn't move quick enough, Julia might just web her and jerk her over. She knows what happened to gwen stacy though, so she will be gentle and tries to avoid doing things like that.

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Julia might have the mutant thing webbed up but she missed the tentacle that was wrapped around Lara’s leg. He dragged her across the room before lifting her up “Let me go or I’ll beat her into the ground until there’s nothing but a bloody smear left.” Lara just dangled there her guns were empty and her sword was to far away to reach. “I think your tough guy talk scared her to bad it didn’t work on me.” she pulled out the Wraith Stone and summoned Fluffy the creature appeared near her before taking off towards the slug monster and ran right through it as it passed through it Lara was dropped to the ground before disappearing back to where it came.

Lara sat up rubbing the back of her head before going to work on removing the tentacle “Just another normal day in my life.” she reached into her backpack and pulled out a knife and tentacle off her seeing as she couldn’t pull it off. She got to her feet holding her side she didn’t think she had any broken bones but she was cut up and a bit bloody and sore. “I’m ready for that drink now.” anything to numb this pain for a while. She looked over at Julia “You can fly too? Is there anything you can’t do?” before bending over to pick her things up that she had dropped and making her way outside again.

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Julia had apparently not realized that Lara was restrained, well a lots going on and no ones perfect, still she'd have run towards the woman. When Lara summoned her pet demon thing, julia would stop short and give that thing a wide berth. Seeing it carve through the slug thing was pretty incredible, even more-so when it disappears right after.

"Yeah, I can't keep a steady girlfriend or boyfriend."

It was a joke made at her own expense, but it was funny. It's not something she usually tells people, but Lara was there in the beginning, she was Julia's first true love and she disappeared. Julia liked to blame Derrik for her relationship problems, but maybe they'd started sooner then that even? Julia had never given it considerable thought. Wouldn't do anybody any good to start trying to blame people for things now though. She needs friends, even more then that, she needs allies, and who better to have at her side than Lara Croft?

"Okay any ways, yes....drink...I saw a bar on my fly over...also, it wasn't really flying, it was gliding."

She turns around and moves towards the exit of the place, the bar is most likely in shambles, but they might be able to find a non broken bottle in the back, maybe?

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Lara thought for a moment “The last time I went on a date was….with you before I left on that trip.” kind of sad when you think about it but she rather run around in tombs all over the world being the first person to see and do so much that no one not even the super hero’s had done. And she still had time to give the queens men a hard time when they try to get her to do something she didn’t want to do. As they walked she checked and reloaded her guns making sure she was ready for whatever might happen next.

“Don’t feel bad I enjoy what I do I get to see the world and parts that no one’s seen in years or at all. I never imagined of settling down having a family I guess I just thought I would be an Archaeologist until my luck ran out and someone or something put an end to it…but now with the world ending. I don’t know what to do with myself.” Something did put an end to her life an angry Horus but she came back she didn’t know how or why but she did and she didn’t want to talk about it to anyone not even Winston her butler every time he brought it up she would change the subject or just ignore it until he stopped asking. "It seems kind of pointless to keep doing it."

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The small town they are in is still mostly in chaos, there are people crying, in shock. It's a disaster, but the immediate danger has been averted. No one else is going to die today, except perhaps from serious injury and Neither of these women here can help with that. Julia organized a task force when she got there to help keep the peace and for the most part it was working, and had grown.

She takes a step over some debris as she listens to Lara talk, she liked the sound of Lara's voice, she'd probably never get tired of that sexy accent or gorgeous tone. She grins a little bit when Lara tells her the last person she went on a date with was Julia herself. How sexy was that? It turns Julia on a little, but not enough to peruse anything. She'll probably just masturbate to the idea later, like she's been doing for years and years.

"Well I've been with tons of men and women, I have a kid some where out there, that I'm currently trying to track down. Batwoman was helping me, but we got separated in gotham a week ago or so. Sounds like we've both had pretty eventful lives, maybe you more than me...Glad you haven't lost that amazing figure at least."

Julia thought about touching Laura in some provocative way, but she restrains herself. Laura said she isn't interested in women any more, and so Julia is just going to have to deal with it. Besides, with all that's happened between herself and Batwoman, she wouldn't want to cheat on the woman, even if Batwoman has gone missing. Julia did search and search, but couldn't find her. She might be dead. Julia pushes that thought from her head. She can't afford to think about things like that right now.

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“You have a child?” Lara stopped walking and just stared at Julia trying to figure out if she was joking or not she really couldn’t picture her having children. From the look on her face she wasn’t. The sleeping around part wasn’t so shocking that seemed like something she would do. “I don’t know what to tell you about Batwoman all I know is people like her dress up in silly costumes with their underwear on the outside of their pants and they beat people up.” And she just realized Julia probably wore one of those silly costumes which probably didn’t leave much to the imagination knowing her. She shook her head and kept walking the bar was just ahead.

“I live life on the razor's edge where I could die at any second. That’s how I stay in shape and why I’ll probably never settle down or have a family.” she stopped and pulled the door open it took a little work but she managed it. “You know what they say live fast die young and leave a beautiful corpse. That’s probably what will happen with me.” There wouldn’t be any little Lara’s running around she couldn’t ever picture herself a mother. With the things she usually ends up getting dragged into she didn’t have the time and she couldn’t stand sitting around and doing nothing for nine months let alone eighteen years it took to raise a child.

She reached up to her left strap on her backpack and flipped on her flashlight it lit up what was left of the bar as she walked in she placed a hand on one of her 9mm Colt 45s out of habit she was use to having someone or something popping up out of no where trying to kill her. Stepping inside she looked around the place and realized there wasn’t anyone inside that was alive. There could be someone dead but unless they started smelling they wouldn’t know it. She turned back to look at Julia “You coming or are you going to stand out there looking pretty all day?”

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With the daylight still left in the day there was enough light in the place to make sitting and drinking realistic, at least for now. Still she couldn't blame Laura for using her light to get a better look at the darker places, Julia follows Laura right in and takes a look around herself.

"Yeah, her name is Rachel, she's 11. And When I dressed up as arachne, I didn't wear any underwear, inside or out, the outfit's to tight and nobody but perverts like panty lines and bra lines...and well, I might BE a pervert, but that's not the point."

She chuckles a little bit. She moves to the very obvious bar, the place is deserted, no one dead in here. thank goodness, most of the dead people were in the destroyed buildings or outside in the streets. She hops over the bar.

"I don't live on the same edge as you, but I do live on the edge. After you left I was all kinds of confused. Went through half a dozen boyfriends and girlfriends both before university, then nearly got married to this ass hole football quarterback. He got me pregnant and ran away. Apparently a kid would interfere with his football career, which is obscene, but what ever, I love my daughter and my parents were able to afford a good enough lawyer to get him cut completely out of the picture. After university I got into some financial trouble a few years down the road. I'm sure you could guess by just looking at me, I'm not very good with money. I was hell bent on not asking my ass hole dad for help, so an old girlfriend from college hooked me up with this awesome deal. Get experimented on and get paid. I couldn't see anything past the six digit pay out so I signed on the dotted line so fast I left tread marks on the paper. Then after six months of agonizing pain and suffering, being sick day and night hurling my guts up, constant feavers and enough needle marks to think I'm a junky, I got these powers. Apparently I'm a special case though, because as far as I know, they couldn't duplicate it in anybody else."

She chuckles a little bit. It's funny now, but then it was awful. She didn't have energy to do anything, it was the worst six months of her life, but it paid off in ways no one had imagined.

Julia starts to sift though the alcohol behind the bar looking for a bottle of her favorite stuff. She figures Laura can do the same, offering her a drink might be borderline boundary crossing and Julia isn't interested in that right now.

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“Do you have any idea where she might be?” Lara followed after Julia heading over to the bar as well. “If you want I could help look for her? I do have this habit of finding things or people no one else can. And I really don‘t have anything to do with myself anymore seems kind of pointless looking for artifacts now.” She took her backpack off placing it on the bar she had it for years and didn’t plan on getting a new one any time soon it was sort of a good luck charm along with a loaded gun in hand. “Why am I not surprised you didn’t wear anything under there.” she hopped over the bar and began looking for a bottle of something.

“I really do still care about you Julia I mean you were basically my first everything relationship wise and I guess my only real relationship. I wish I hadn’t been such a stupid git and had tracked you down and tried to explain things to you instead of just leaving you hanging like that.” She was still angry with herself for never thinking about doing that. While she was talking she found and placed at lest four different bottles (Whiskey, Tequila, Scotch, Jagermeister) on the bar she grabbed a few other things and began to pour some of each into a shaker before adding some ice she put the lid on and shook it. “If I had I could have helped you with the money. I have more then I could spend in a hundred life times might as well put it to good use.” she took the lid off and pour the mixed drink into a glass stuck a straw and one of those silly little umbrellas just for fun.

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Julia was also in the process of mixing something, she hadn't thought to look for ice, but when Laura found some, julia looked at it like it was pure gold, she moved over to it and ate a piece as she listened to laura. The thoughts warmed her heart, but she couldn't lose focus on things like romance right now. She'd wasted a lot of time with Batwoman, and look how that turned out, heart ache. Seems like every relationship for her turns that way, or maybe she's just cursed and the people she cares for get hurt or wind up in trouble.

"Having help with finding Rachel would be great. As for the feelings part...I'm glad, you always seemed so cold and matter of fact, so the fact that I've gotten to keep my spot in your diamond heart is really touching. It'll be nice to travel with a friend for awhile."

She decides not to mention that batwoman also said she'd help and is now missing. As Laura pours her drink and mixes it, Julia does the same, she doesn't do anything fancy though, she just pours a bunch of mixers and different kinds of liquors into a glass, for a few seconds it looks like a rainbow in the glass. It's a drink called the fruity pebbles and it's delicious, can't taste the alcohol, just the fruit.

"And I know, My parents could've helped me with the money to, that's not what it was about, I was tired of feeling spoiled and wanted to do things on my own for once. It was driving me insane having anybody with power over me, I wanted to be self sufficient, got tired of trusting other people to help me."

She turns the ice and alcohol filled glass up and drinks the entire eight ounces down in a bout five seconds flat, gulping furiously. Perhaps she was thirstier than she thought. She wipes a bit of it from her lip and laughs, realizing how silly and awkward it must be.

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Ouch that hurt a lot but she didn’t let it show “I guess that happens when you’re an orphan both my parents were gone before I was ten. Guess I didn’t want anyone getting close to me so they wouldn’t disappear like they had.” with that said she drank half her dink the four horsemen raced down her throat setting it on fire. Maybe that’s why she lived the life she did she stayed away from everyone to keep them from disappearing. She didn’t have the best of luck with what she considered close friends they either betrayed her and ended up dead most likely by her hand or ended up dead because they were friends with her.

While Julia talked Lara started making another four horsemen one wasn’t going to be enough if they were going to be talking about the past. “At the cost of selling your body to be poked and proded to the point it nearly killed you. Which turned you into Spider-Man with boobs.” She finished off the first drink before refilling her glass. She turned around and hopped up onto the bar leaning back on her hands watching Julia inhale the drink she raised a brow “Planning on getting drunk?” Lara couldn’t really blame her for wanting to drink with everything that’s happened in the world as well as what happened to her daughter. Anyone would want to drink themselves stupid everyday.

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Julia hadn't said what she said as an insult, it was a compliment. Julia really admired the control Laura had on her emotions, she's a pillar of physical and emotional strength. Hell it's half the reason she shared her first kiss with Lara and not some boy some where. Her first real kiss, not a peck on the check, not a quick lip touch, a deep passionate kiss. It's left a lasting impression on Julia.

"Seems reasonable Lara, but you can't say you're not doing good. I meant what I said as a compliment, and not a backhanded one either."

She doesn't bother mixing another drink and just grabs a bottle of whiskey and starts to down it. Taking a swig here and a swig there. Mention of her trials to get the powers she has gives her an uneasy stomach, even after every thing she's been through, it's still so easy for her to experience a quasi kind of post traumatic stress for those events, complete with nausea and clamminess. In fact she might look a little paler just now.

"And yes, I think I will, I haven't in a few weeks, not since I ran into batwoman and found out how gay she is."

She decides to leave that open, but knowing Julia it's likely there was a lot of drinking and then probably a lot of fucking. But how well does Lara know Julia? She wasn't the sultry vixen she is now, back in high school she had a temper and was kind of shy but tended towards a kind of radiant unexpected charisma which helped her maintain her popularity between boughts of anger and awkwardness.

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Lara reached into her backpack and pulled out a map opening it up she begin to look it over “That’s true if things ended up differently I’d probably be spending my life having to listen rich old women telling me what I should and shouldn’t be doing with my life.” Lara might have been the Countess of Abbingdon but that didn’t mean she liked being around those old aristocrats she put up with them when she had no other choice but she usually avoided them like the plague and she didn’t care what they said about her behind her back. She got the most out of life which is a lot more then she could say for those women who couldn’t do anything on their own with out their butlers doing it for them.

Lara was following a road on the map when Julia spoke again this caused her to stop and look at Julia. She knew her old classmate wasn’t straight she played both sides from what she’s heard and remembered. It was just the way she said it that seemed strange. “You don’t seem to be upset by it so I’ll take it as a good thing then?” she frowned not at what was just said but at the way Julia “Are you alright love? You don’t look so good.” If they were going to be traveling together she wanted the red head to be in good health for her daughter when they find her.