Prologue
Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher have been secretly eyeing each other since day one on that boat. Sure, Nate and Sully did ditch Elena in an unknown port, but hey, love is love… Nate was so enraged when Zoran Lazarevic and his men tried to kill Elena. He can still hear Harry Flynn's words ringing in his ears,
"Parting gift from Lazarevic, pity he took the pin." and then it happened, the thing that completely exposed his feelings for Elena. She was in such bad shape. It's a good thing they had Tenzin back in Tibet, otherwise Elena wouldn't have made it. Then, there was the time where Nate almost killed Victor Sullivan, the man he knows and loves today as his father.
"I was only fifteen, I was only fifteen, I was only fifteen…" Nate kept telling himself, even though he still obviously felt guilty about it. These events kept repeating in his head, as if they were a DVD on loop. He had to get out of that desert, even if it was the last thing he did, he had to save Sully and make sure Elena was alright.
After they stopped Talbot and Katherine Marlowe, Sully surprised Nate and Elena with his old plane, although most people would find that a bit…umm….strange, that plane had so many memories for Nate and Elena that they were so happy to see it. It just fed the fire that was, NALENA.