Two Survivors [Lara Croft x Male Reader]

The Old Days

"This hut looks clear." A Mercenary said as he and his friend patrolled the area.

"We ain't gonna find anyone up here."

Y/N and Lara descended down the mountain on a zipline, with Lara landing behind cover, the rope snapped and Y/N fell and landed shoulder first, letting out a small grunt of discomfort.

"There, that's the boy, Jason wants him alive." The Mercs said as they rushed over and pointed their guns at Y/N, the pair so wrapped up in what they were doing that they ran past Lara who was behind cover.

As Y/N stood up he looked at them.

"Bugger." Y/N remarked as he looked at them both and put on his best charming smile.

"Tie him up."

"Ah, you don't want to be doing that gents. And you're both forgetting one very important thing..."

"What's that?" The mercs chuckled cockily.

"The reports mentioned two survivors, you're one short." Y/N said as Lara fired an arrow at one soldier before Y/N swiftly drew his revolver and shot the second man in the head. Y/N looked at Lara and nodded.

"Anyone out there? Roth?" Reyes' voice came over the radio.

"I'm here, Reyes. What's your situation?" Roth answered while Y/N and Lara pushed onward.

"We followed a group of men to some kind of... city. This place is insane, Roth. What the hell are they doing here?"

"I don't know, and I don't think I want to know. Any sign of Sam or Whitman?" Roth asked.

"Nothing yet. Are you with Lara?" Reyes asked.

"Yes... we'll be heading down the mountain soon to meet up with you." Roth half lied.

As Y/N and Lara traversed the ruins of a village, Lara glanced to Y/N and smiled at the sight of him.

"So... did my seventeenth birthday have anything to do with your... feelings?" Lara asked as Y/N chuckled.

"No, I had a thing for you before that, I just expected it to be one way." Y/N said as he looked to Lara.

"Well, for your information, that was a rather enjoyable night. Even if it was a no strings attached thing." Lara said as Y/N paused for a moment. "And if I'm honest, I suppose there were some feelings involved in me wanting it to be you."

Y/N thought for a moment until they heard a pair of voices up ahead.

Y/N peeked around the corner.

"You get the closest one, I've got the furthest one." Y/N whispered as Lara nodded.

"Come on, we gotta get back." The look out said before he was killed by Lara using her bow to choke him out before snapping his neck.

"Shut up and let me finish-" Before he could finish speaking, the merc who was urinating off of a cliff had had his throat cut and was shoved off of the cliff.

"That's what you call pissing in the wind." Y/N quipped as Lara rolled her eyes and shook her head before they continued to move on. The pair of them navigated a small cave before finding ruins from hundreds of years ago.

"These ruins pre-date the Kofun period. A pilgrimage..." Y/N and Lara said in unison.

"A queen... " Y/N remarked as he looked at the artistry on display.

"Himiko? Incredible... Captain Jessop?"  Lara finished for him before they spotted the captain, nestling with his own blood. Y/N rushed over to him to see if the was anything he could do to save the man, but he was gone as Y/N reached him. From the roof of the palace flew off explosive barrels, landing on the bridge both Y/N and Lara were stood on. The archers on top of the palace pointed their bows at Lara and Y/N.

"Oh my god." Lara remarked as one of the archers shot at Lara, exploding the barrels with a flaming arrow, Lara tried to stand up but the combined effects of the explosion and a heavy punch to the head knocked her out. The blast sending Y/N and Lara flying to either end of the bridge. Lying on the ground she heard cries and saw someone in heavy armour.

"For children, you've caused me a great deal of trouble. But you're just as naive and predictable. Kill her! Bring the boy!"

"The Oni, they're here!" A Mercenary shouted in fear as a deep growling could be heard.

"The guardians are here!" Another mercenary cried out as he was stabbed by a katana, voices speaking in Japanese could be heard.

Lara came to consciousness in a room littered with corpses. She was tied to the ceiling.

"What's happening here? Y/N?" Lara remarked to herself before remembering where Y/N was. "Oh god."

Y/N was lying unconscious in a cell, his hands bound and his weapons missing, along with his hat and satchel.

"Y/N... come on, there's a tomb!" Lara called out to Y/N as she slid down the small slide from her play pirate ship and began crawling through a play tunnel and into the mock tomb.

"Lara, wait for me!" Y/N called out as he crawled after. The Croft heiress was wearing a bright blue short sleeved shirt, and a pair of brown shorts, with her school backpack to carry their treasure out of the tomb, Y/N meanwhile was wearing a button up beige shirt, a pair of tan jeans, a pair of brown shoes and one of his fathers boonie hats.

"Come on!" Lara said enthusiastically as they entered the "Tomb".

They found the first clue left by Lara's father.

The pair swung over the perilous pit of doom (a small ball pit) and shimmied through the cave of despair (a small area with spiders and mummies painted on the walls), they came to an area with holes in the wall, and in front of them was a paper Pharos crown.

"This way." Lara remarked as Y/N stopped her, pointing at the floor, where there were pressure plates set up on the floor.

"Someone's never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark." Y/N remarked with a chuckle. He adjusted his boonie hat and took a cautious step before another, moving forward and nearly tripping on the floor but regaining his balance.

He moved closer and looked at the crown before stroking his 9 year old chin, imagining he was stroking a none existent beard.

He took the crown and smiled before they heard the sound of rumbling through speakers, Y/N and Lara started running, with Y/N avoiding the foam darts coming from the holes in cardboard walls that made the tomb, they reached the entrance and looked over their shoulders to see a large sponge boulder rolling behind them, the pair of them running from it, Lara and Y/N escaped with their lives from the tomb, with Y/N and Lara's fathers standing there smiling.

"Well, John, I think we've found your hat." Richard Croft said to Y/N's father who chuckled.

Y/N awoke and looked around, taking in his surroundings, he had to find a way out of here...