Unlikely Partners – Chapter 7
Introduction
I do not own any of the games/characters I mention, I just made this story for fun – I am a big fan of both this characters and I just like to think about what it would be like if they met.
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*- This information was based on Uncharted 3 (Cartagena, Colombia – Young Nathan)
**- This information was based on the 'Tomb Raider Crossroads Trailer' - 2013
-Chapter 7: Confessions
"It's ok, we'll stay here…"
…
We walked farther in to the cave and started a fire. We could hear the rain starting to hit the sand out there. It was only a matter of minutes until we were installed. We were on opposite sides of the cave. I kept staring at her face. She was looking down. Though it was the worse time in the world, all I could think was damn, she is beautiful. She was nervous, that was clear as water.
"Are you ok?", I asked. She took a few seconds to answer.
"I'm fine.", she said.
"I got there it time… Didn't I?"
"You did, don't worry about that.", she was so goddamn nervous.
We were in silence for a few seconds.
"The explosion…", I said, "Was that you?".
"That was me. I guess I should've just ran out of there instead of starting to shoot them."
"It's ok… You're ok now.", I tried to calm her down.
"I know…", she kept looking down. "Thank you, Nathan.", she said finally looking me in the eyes.
"No problem Croft.", I tried to speak normally so she would come down.
"Hey…", she said.
"Yeah?"
"When was your first kill?"
"What?"
"How old were you when you first killed someone?", odd question.
"Wow, you really want to know?"
"Yeah."
I thought about it (even though I had done that one hundred times).
*- "I was… Fourteen.", I finally said.
"Fourteen?", she almost yelled.
"Yeah…" She opened her mouth with the surprise, I continued, "It wasn't an actual kill, it was an accident: I was running away from this man through the roofs and when he grabbed me, I threw him down… To the ground…" (*)
"Oh, my God."
"How old were you?"
**- "Well, I was 21."
"How did it happened?"
**- "I was in a boat and it sank. It was my first really adventure: Me and a few people were castaways on this island and there were a few man there… Russians. One of them captured me and tried to…", small pause, "I found a gun and I had to do it."
"Oh… 21…"
"Yeah…"
"So… Since we were confessing things… Tell me about that Kurtis guy."
"What? No!"
"Come on…"
"No way…"
"I just saved you, you own me one!"
"I would have done fine on myself… Ok, fine. I met him in Paris."
"Oh… The city of love…", I said almost singing and she laughed. She had a cute laugh. "I think that's the first time I see you smile…"
She carried on smiling. "Anyway, it wasn't like that. I was on the Louvre in mission and…"
"What kind of mission?", I interrupted.
"Well, I was actually trying to get proofs to the cops that I was innocent."
"Oh? Lady Croft was running away from the cops?"
"Like I said, I was innocent. Anyway, he stole something from me and when I tried to get it back, we ended up working together."
"Ok… And you fell in love with him?"
"I… I guess."
"What happened?"
"I don't know. When I finished the mission and came back to see him, I found blood on the floor but he was not there. I found his weapon and it sort of led me to the way out of there, but I never saw him again."
"Did you look for him?"
"For months… But nothing. I never saw Kurtis Trent again… I don't even know if he's alive…"
"I'm sorry…"
She shrugged trying to remain calm. "So… And this Elena girl…"
"Bah…", I didn't want to talk about that.
"Come on! I talked about Kurtis."
"Fine… We met about 5 years ago: She was just a journalist doing a story about me. But the adventure got dangerous and she wanted to come… We just ended up falling in love… We broke up, got back together, got engaged, broke up again, got back together, got engaged once more and broke up again."
"Wow… You have so much history… Maybe that means your love is here to stay."
"No… It's over this time. We are just not made for each other. And now she is going with her new boyfriend to the wedding…" Damn, I thought to myself once more.
"Do you have someone to go with?", she asked me, shyly.
"Why? Would you like to go with me?"
"I didn't say that…"
"But would you?", Please, I added in my mind.
"Would you like me to go with you?"
"Come on, I asked first."
"I would go with you… If you asked me properly."
"Oh, come on… You are really going to do that?"
"Just saying…"
I thought about it.
"Fine… Would you come to Chloe Frazer's wedding with me, lady Croft?"
"God no!"
What?, I was offended.
"Just kidding, of course I would go with you!", she finally said.
We both smiled at each other. I was thinking about how beautiful she was again…
"So…", I said, "Let's eat?".
"What?"
"Aren't you hungry?", I took two sandwiches off of my backpack.
"Where did you get that?", she asked.
"I stole them from the hotel's breakfast."
We didn't take too long to eat them and fall asleep.
…TO BE CONTINUED…
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