A/N: This is a story I just started, I am not sure how far I will take it. It follows the same plotline as the game. I did change to timeline of the game some. Instead of Sam being gone for 15 years, He is only gone for 10 in my story and obviously Sam has a love interest in this story. The story is rated T, there may be some graphic scenes in later chapters but I will double post those as standalone's on my page. So basically this story gets the TV censored version of those scenes but I will post the full uncensored scene separately for those who wish to read it.

EDIT: I had to make some changes to this chapter after I realized I named my character after Nathan and Elena's daughter. I also added the playlist I listened to while writing this chapter.

Chapter 1

"This is a bad idea Sam and you know it!" She yelled at him. "Jessica, would you just try to listen to reason. This is the only way in." Sam pleaded with her. "We go in get the artifact and then get out. That castle is the key to finding Avery's treasure, without it we have nothing." Jessica paced back and forth across their small apartment shaking her head silently disagreeing with him. "You want to find this treasure just as bad as we do so what's the problem?" She stopped abruptly turned to face him hands on her hips. "My problem is you letting yourself be locked up in a prison, in fucking Panama! Oh and let's not forget you are relying on that ass hat Rafe to get you out!" She yelled exasperatedly. Sam approached her, slowly with his hands up so as not to set her off again. When she didn't immediately object he laid his hands on shoulders. "Jess it's going to be fine, Rafe isn't so bad. Don't forget he will be in there with us, I have no doubt he will have an airtight plan set up for escape once we get what we need." She rolled her eyes and looked away, her arms crossed saying she was still unsure. "Look at me." He said firmly. "Jess, look at me." She didn't comply, so he grabbed her chin and turned her head towards him. "Do you trust me?" He questioned. "Of course I trust you!" She argued. "That's not the issue, you agreed to this even though you knew I was against it! We are supposed to be a team, me you and Nate, I can't even be there to help you guys this time. If you would just give me a little more time I know we can find another way to get this done."

He took a step back and ran his hand over his face, he was exhausted they had been having this fight for a week straight now. Rafe and Nathan would be here any minute to pick him up and head to the airstrip. He knew she was angry now, and would be even angrier when he walked out of the door, but he would make it up to her when he got back in a few weeks. "Are you even listening to me?" She asked. "Jess, its done. I will be back before you know it." He grabbed her hands in his and brushed his fingertips over the ring on her left hand. She still refused to meet his eyes. Oh yeah, he was going to be paying for this for a long time. "Once we get Avery's gold we will go on a trip just the two of us. Hell maybe we will even elope. Someplace nice, like Italy." He said drifting off into thought. She deserved a nice wedding and with the money, he would finally be able to afford one. He may not have been after the gold for monetary reasons, but the prospect of money certainly didn't hurt.

"So that's it then, is this what our future looks like? You just making decisions for both of us? I don't get a say?" She said far to calmly for his liking. He was used to the yelling, that he could deal with. She was quick to anger but calmed down equally as fast. This was unchartered territory; he wasn't really sure how to diffuse this situation. A knock on the door ripped him from his thoughts. "Knock knock." Rafe said as he let himself in with Nathan right behind him "This is bullshit Sam and you know it." She said quietly the fight having died out of her. "Uh oh trouble in paradise." Rafe chuckled. Sam shot him a glaring look to shut him up. Rafe threw his hands up. "Alright I get I'll wait outside. See you later princess." He said to Jessica who refused to look at him. "Jessi you worry too much." Nathan interrupted with a little nervous chuckle at the end of the sentence. Jessica turned around sharply to yell at Nathan, "Shut it Nate!" Sam sighed, "little brother you might want to wait outside." Nathan hurried outside, he had never liked being in the middle of their fights. He always felt like he had to take ones side over the other.

After the door shut again Sam spoke. "I promise you Jess when I get back I will make it right, but I have to leave now." He grabbed her gently and pulled her in for a kiss, she didn't stop him but she didn't kiss him back either. When he pulled away he could see the tears in her eyes that she was refusing to let fall. He picked up his bag from the couch and slung it over his shoulder. He turned back towards her to say goodbye and she grabbed his hand placing her ring in his palm. He stood there for a moment not sure what to say. She didn't mean it, she couldn't. It sure wasn't the first time she had threatened to leave him; over the years he had given her plenty of reasons. "Take it." She said. "I don't want it anymore, not if it is going to be like this." "Jess don't be like this, you're overreacting." He replied. When she refused to take the ring back he simply laid it on the table next to them. Rafe chose this exact moment to pop back in. "We don't have all day Sam; the plane is leaving in 45." He noticed the ring lying abandoned on the table and smirked before leaving again. "Look I will be back in three weeks. I know you are upset but I have to go. Ok?"

She didn't say anything and just stared at him, any tears that might have been there were gone and all he could see was her pulling away from him. He quickly kissed her cheek "I love you Jess, you know that." Then he took one last look at the ring on the table and walked out.

Nathan, and Rafe were waiting for him on the other side of the door. "Trouble in paradise?" Rafe Questioned mockingly. They heard something shatter against the other side of the door. "You have no idea." Sam said in response. Yeah, he was definitely going to pay for this one, maybe he would buy her that motorcycle she had been wanting. On the other side of the door Jessica was sitting amongst the pieces of the broken vase she had thrown at it. She whispered knowing he couldn't hear her, "I love you too."

6 Weeks Later

Jessica was sitting in front of the TV with a beer, if you had asked her what was on she wouldn't have been able to tell you. It had been six whole weeks since they left for Panama and Sam had insisted it would not take more than three or four at the most. She had gotten a single text from Nathan when they made it Panama. Once again Nathan was being used as the middle man. She spent the first month coming up with new ways to get back at Sam when he returned. She thought about packing his things and taking them to Nathan's, because there was no way her was sleeping with her. She thought about burning all of his clothes, she even thought about changing the locks.

At the five week mark she began to get worried, she hadn't heard anything and she had been manically checking her phone every thirty minutes. At the end of that sixth week she was fighting the worry by picturing Sam begging for forgiveness, because there was no way he wasn't coming back. She looked at the clock for the hundredth time that day, it was almost eleven. She knew she should be tired; it was getting late but she hadn't been sleeping much lately.

Her beer was far from cold at this point but she kept sipping on it anyways. "He will have to crawl on his knees and beg." She said to no one in particular since she was alone. "He is taking me to Italy too…on a private jet." She glanced back at the ring still on the table. She had wanted to make a statement by leaving it there, but she missed the feel of it on her hand.

Suddenly she heard a knock on the door. She jumped up and rushed over to it. She threw it open prepared to lay into Sam but Nathan was standing there instead. She scoffed, "Oh look its tweedle dee, and where may I ask is tweedle dum? Hiding in the bushes somewhere waiting to see if I'm still mad?" Nathan looked down at his feet. "Jessi" She cut him off "No, Nathan I'm not doing this with you. Where is he, is he too scared to face me himself?" Nathan walked past her into the apartment. She looked around outside before shutting the door. "What's going on?" Nathan turned to her with a strained look on his face. He had dark circles under his eyes and she could tell he had slept in his clothes. "Jessi, he is gone."

She looked at him confused. "What like he left to find the treasure without us, is Rafe with him?" "No, I mean he didn't make it. Sam is Dead Jessi." His facial expression didn't change as he uttered those words. Emelia didn't quite understand what he was saying. Surely there was some misunderstanding. "What are you saying?" She said moving closer to him almost like she was trying to hear him better. "Everything was going smoothly until we tried to leave, the warden he got greedy and Rafe…well he shot him. In minutes we had every guard in the place on our tails. There was a boat waiting for us…we were so close. I could see the boat, but Sam he got shot. It all happened so fast I was pulling him up and then I heard the shots…there was blood and then he fell." The words rushed out of him like he was still trying to process the event himself.

Emelia didn't know what to say, her eyes were locked on the ring lying on the table. She picked it up, "I told him, I told him not to trust Rafe. He never listens to me." She said very softly. That wasn't right though she thought to herself. That was thinking in present tense, Sam was dead so it was past tense. "He never listened." Nathan was staring at the wall lost in his own grief, she noticed the tears that were starting to roll down his face. Oh god, this was real. It wasn't a joke; Sam was really gone. "This can't be happening. Are you sure?" She questioned begging him with her eyes to say something different.

"I'm sure Jessi! I saw him spitting up blood, his shirt was drenched in blood and he had to have fallen at least three stories!" He yelled. Jessica flinched at the anger in his voice and held the ring to her chest. "Shit, I'm sorry Jessi, I'm so sorry." He rushed to catch her as she fell to her knees. They held each other on the floor both crying silently, taking a small comfort in their shared pain.

10 Years Later

Nathan was sitting in the office trying to finish up some paperwork before heading home for the night. They were closed but someone was persistently knocking on the door. "Alright, I'm coming." He sighed aggravated all he wanted to do was go home. "Asshole." He opened to door to find a man in a blue jacket pretending to be interested in some papers lying loose on the table. "Can I help you?" Nathan asked not even trying to hide the aggravation in his voice. The man turned around "Yeah, I'm looking for my little brother, he is about your height, a little leaner, he's got a little less grey in the temples." The man said with a small smile. "Sam?" Nathan asked in shock. "It's good to see you again little brother." Nathan rushed his brother to hug him. "Whoa there take it easy." Sam exclaimed.

A few hours later the sun was going down and Nathan had agreed to help Sam find Avery's treasure in order to save his life. They were sitting silently looking out at the water. "How… how has Jess been?" Sam questioned, unsure if he wanted to know the answer. It had been ten years, she thought he was dead. He knew she had moved on by now. "She is doing ok, now. It took her awhile, she… well she didn't take it too well." Nathan shook his head. "I think she blamed herself. She blamed Rafe too, refused to have anything to do with him." Nathan replied he leaned forward and turned his head to his brother. "She wasn't too happy when I kept working with him to find the treasure. I caught a lot of shit for that one." He said with a small laugh trying to make light of the situation.

Sam returned to laugh halfheartedly. "That sounds about right. Where is she living these days, is she married?" He asked unsure what he wanted to answer to be. He had always hoped she was happy, even if it wasn't with him. That didn't mean it wouldn't hurt like hell to know she was with someone else.

"Nah man she isn't; she has a house near here but never stays there for very long. She travels a lot, but she is actually in town right now. Elena and I are supposed to meet her for dinner later this week. Sam felt the breath he had been holding in leave him in a rush. She was here, in the same town as him after ten years. She wasn't married either, he doubted she would even speak to him though. Not with the way he left things.

"Sam?" Nathan questioned, "you know we have to tell her, right?" He joked, "If she finds out you are alive from anyone else she will kill us both." Sam didn't answer but thought to himself she might prefer if he stayed dead. "Besides we are going to need her, she has the kind of connections I can't even dream of. She can get us anything we need with just a few phone calls." Sam smiled. "No shit, what does she do?" He asked.

"A little bit of everything, she makes most of her money acquiring hard to find items for people with too much money." Nathan explained. "Do you remember how good she was with locks?" Sam nodded his head. "Well now she can get past some of the best security systems they make" Nathan exclaimed. Sam didn't say anything and just continued to stare out at the water. "I will give her a call and see if she can meet us tonight. Right after I can think of what to tell her." Five minutes later his phone was dialing her number.

"Hey Nate, what's up?" Jessica said when she answered the phone. Sam was close enough to Nathan that he could hear her voice on the other end. His gut clenched in response, he never thought he would hear that sound again.

"Hey Jessi, I was just wondering how long it would take you to get over to my office?" Nathan asked. "What tonight?" She responded. "Yeah, it's pretty important that we talk tonight." Nathan said giving a glance to his brother. "If this is about a job you know what my answer is going to be." She answered. "No its just… can you just come meet me?" He tried again. "Ok, ok no need to be so pushy." Nathan and Sam both sighed at the same time in response. One out of relief the other out of anxiety. "Alright thanks, you remember how to get here right?" "Yeah, I can be there in twenty. See you in a few." She said before hanging up. "She is on her way." Nathan stated. "Yeah, I heard." Sam answered. "Now comes the hard part." Nathan snorted, "that's understating things a bit."

Exactly twenty minutes later they heard the sound of a car pulling up. Sam felt himself starting to lose his nerve and that's when he saw her. Her hair was longer but other than that she looked exactly the way he remembered. Dark brown hair, long legs and all. She was wearing skintight black jeans a black sequin top a green jacket and black knee high boots. "Shit" He panicked and turned around and leaned over the railing. What if she refused to help them? What if she wouldn't even speak to him? "Sam, you alright?" Nathan asked. "Yeah, I just need a minute."

Jessica pulled up to the salvage company Nathan worked at and got out of her car. She was always surprised to hear that he still worked at this pace whenever she talked to either him or Elena. Honestly she felt like they were both kidding themselves with this normal life thing they had going on, it all seemed so boring to her. As long as they were both happy she kept her mouth shut though. Those two were the only family she had left.

Her mom had died a long time ago and her dad was an abusive prick that liked to beat on her when she was a kid. It's actually how she hooked up with Nathan and Sam. She had a knack for picking locks and they had a knack getting into trouble. She helped them bust into book store one night and they were fast friends after that. Now all she had were Nathan and Elena, they were the ones that kept her grounded. Whenever she felt like spiraling one of them was there to catch her.

She shook off the cobwebs from her past and kept walking. She heard voices coming from the side and walked toward them. She saw Nathan and one other man standing outside. The other man instantly turned away when he saw her which put her on edge.

This better not be about a job, she thought to herself. Once she got close enough she spoke "Alright Drake, what's so important it couldn't wait until tomorrow?" Nathan smiled at her. "Do I not even get a hi, nice to see you?" Jessica smirked at him. "You're looking older; do I see grey hairs?" Nathan pulled her into a bear hug. "It's great to see you too Jessi." She laughed and pushed him away. "Seriously Nate it's not that I wasn't happy to hear from you. but why did you drag me out here? And who is your friend?" "Ok, now try to stay calm." Nathan requested.

"Why do I need to stay calm?" She asked taking a step back. "This is about a job isn't it?" Nathan struggled to find the words to explain. "So it is then?" She said beginning to get angry. "Jessi just stop it's not like that." Nathan defended. "So it isn't a job?" She said her eyes narrowing.

"Well, I mean it kind of is, but that's not the only reason I called you." He sputtered. "God damn it Nate! What did I say? I'm not doing any more jobs with you. You are bad luck my friend like really bad luck." She argued.

Nathan momentarily forgot about his brother. "What! I am not bad luck." He defended. "You got me shot…In the ass!" She shouted with her finger pointed at him. Their conversation had become so animated that she didn't notice that the other guy was now watching them with a smile on his face. "How long are you going to keep throwing that in my face?" Nathan fought back. "oh gee, I don't maybe forever!" She yelled.

She knew he was up to something; she could always tell with him. The other guy cleared his throat, to remind them he was still there. It was dark out and she couldn't get a good look at his face, she felt like she had seen him before though.

"Now children settle down." The stranger interrupted. "Excuse me, sir? I don't know what bozo over here told you but you guys are on your own." She said heatedly. "Bozo, really! That hurts Emmy." Nathan voiced finally remembering why he had called her in the first place. The stranger stepped closer to her into the light. She could see his face clearly now, all of the blood rushed from her face. She felt lightheaded, and everything came rushing back to her. How could she not have recognized him from the moment she saw him. She still had dreams about him from time to time, someone once told her she said his name in her sleep. This was the man the man the lost her virginity to, the only guy she ever really loved.

"Sam?" She whispered barely loud enough to be heard. She took one step forward her arm outstretched. "It's me jess." He said in a shaky voice. She laid her hand on his cheek as if to make sure he was real. He closed his eyes and leaned into her caress, at the same time he ran his hand up her arm and held her hand against his face.

All to suddenly she jerked away. "What is this? He is supposed to be dead! You told me he was dead Nathan!" She said accusingly. "Hey calm down Jess. He didn't know." Sam said defending his brother. "He said you were shot, he described it like a scene from a horror movie, said there was blood all over you." She said crossly. Sam sighed, "really little brother? You had to tell her that way?" He questioned. "Hey! I was still in shock myself, and I did not say there was blood everywhere." Nathan said trying to defend himself. Sam pulled up his shirt again to show her the three round scars on his abdomen.

Jessica stepped closer again and ran her fingertips across them, like she was trying to make sure they were real. Sam sucked in a breath and stepped back quickly. That little touch was all it took and his blood was running hot. He knew he shouldn't be thinking of that right now but it had been over ten years, it didn't help that she showed up looking the way she did. "Alright, explain now! From the beginning." She demanded.

Playlist:

NF- Paralyzed, Can you hold me

Rihanna- Russian roulette

Halsey- Is there somewhere