A Feast for Kurtis

"What?" shouted Lara.
"You heard me. You know what I said."
"How could you?"
"Do what? Sleep with her? Quite easy, really. You take off your..."
"Just shut up, Kurtis." She pushed him into the chamber wall. "Why?"
"Because I felt like it."
"You felt like it?" Lara got more and more visibly angry. "How could you!" she roared at him. "How...?"
"What is all this commotion?" The acolyte slammed the door open.
"Now!" Lara shouted to Kurtis. Kurtis kicked the follower in the back of the knee, sending him into a crouching position. Lara kneed him in the face. They partially went forward and peered out of the door to check the coast was clear. It was. "You wouldn't really cheat on me, would you?"
"Course not." They jogged up the stairs. They followed the endless corridors, eventually getting back to the arena. Some more equipment had been installed. Some cameras and wires around them, but that was all. They had a look around. There was only one more way to go, beside the way they had originally came in and they way they had just came out of. They headed into the new passage. The passages twisted and turned, and so did Lara and Kurtis with them. As they got farther and farther along, the sand volume started to increase. They got out at the other end. There was a couple hundred people in the room, and Lara's prize. They ran behind one of the pillars and stuck their heads out to see what was happening. As like every cult who have some sort of artifact that their going to use for evil, the leader made a big boring speech which gave the good guys some thinking time. This time it was going to be harder for Ms. Croft and Mr. Trent as they had no weapons or disguises. But as Lara always says, her best weapon is her brain. "Aha," she whispered. "That chandelier could be knocked off quite easily."
"How are you going to get up?"
"By kicking myself off this pillar and that wall." She kicked herself off the pillar, flipped and pushed herself off the wall and grabbed the ledge, just next to the pillar. She pulled herself up into a commando crawl position. She moved silently across. "Ow." She gasped. Luckily no-one had heard her. She twisted herself a bit to reveal a small, sharp stone. "This'll do nicely." She crawled along. Lara reached a suitable place for cutting the chandelier. She grabbed the rope of the chandelier, trying her hardest to not swing it around. Lara started cutting at it with the sharp edge of the rock. In no time, the rope was hanging by it's last thread. She slid the stone back and forth once more. It fell. There was now a huge outcry of help from the cult followers who had survived the chandelier falling.
"Settle down!" The leader shouted while looking around. "It was old, probably on it's last legs. There is nothing to worry about. Get these bodies out of here!"
"You're a bit thick old man." Kurtis and Lara remained out of sight while they removed the bodies and waited till the room was empty. Lara squeezed herself down. "That man really is thick." She tilted her head, "He's left my artifact."
"Truly a stupid man." Lara ran up to the small pillar that was holding it. She picked it up. The handle was made of red rope interweaved with gold. The handle made of silver and curved at the end. She had never saw anything so beautiful, excluding Kurtis of course. She took the tiniest thread of red rope off. This is what invincibility felt like; a beautiful feeling. Calm, releaxing, unafraid. She heard a gun click.
"Suggest you give it to me, Lara." He paused, "Or your future husband will be dead."
"Richard, you annoying little man," She turned around. "Do shut up, you won't be getting this."
"Not even for him." Her face softened. Lara took Kurtis' hand. She took her hand away.
"Love is only a trick that nature plays on us. Kill him if you want." Kurtis' heart was broken. Emotionally and literally.