Prompt: Tomb Raider/Lara Croft AU
"You just had to examine the sarcophagus up close, didn't you?" Helen shouted at Nikola as they ran hand-in-hand down the cramped passage of the tomb, the rock walls shaking around them.
"Scientific curiosity!" he shouted back, before swerving to avoid a small boulder that crashed down where his head had been only moments ago; it threw them both off balance and they tumbled to the ground, rolling with the momentum until Helen was situated not uncomfortably on top of Nikola.
"Besides," he went on with a grin and an appreciative glance down, "it's not as if I summoned a horde of zombies like last time, right?"
"I suppose not," Helen agreed begrudgingly; she always found it rather difficult to hold anything against him when those distracting dimples of his were on display, and at least the earthquakes seemed to be calming.
An unsettling creaking noise issued from further on down the passage, and Helen tore her gaze away from Nikola to see dark shapes shambling at them out of the murkiness.
"On the other hand, you may want to rethink that," she said, and jumped to her feet, tugging Nikola up by one hand and stepping in front of him, and drawing her gun with the other.