Vanessa Fenway

Vanessa Fenway is Lara Croft's old college roommate who appeared in one of the Tomb Raider comics called Dead Enter (from a comic book Mystic Artifacts).

History with Lara

Lara herself tells to Chase Carver that Vanessa is her old friend and roommate. She also reveals that Vanessa was one of the best students Harvard ever had. Later on in Dead Enter Vanessa works in an archeological dig with her own group of students. When she found something very unusual, she invites Lara and her accomplice Chase to help her.