Two Survivors [Lara Croft x Male Reader]

Open Wounds

"Might be some supplies on board." Y/N said as he and Lara spotted a crashed helicopter in the distance.

The pair of them ended up walking through the sewer pipe under a mercenary camp.

"What's going on?" A squad leader asked

"We caught a prisoner hiding in the chop shop. The Somalian's putting the screws on him now." One of the Mercenaries answered.

"What about the other one?" The Squad Leader asked.

"No, nothing. Gotta keep looking."

Lara let out a sound of disgust.

"...the smell." Lara remarked to herself as Y/N looked calm and stoic.

"Alright, let's check around the chopper." The Squad Leader said before the Mercenaries moved out.

"Where's the old man?" The Merc interrogator asked his prisoner.

"I don't know what you're talking about... please..."

"You are lying... I know you escaped with him." The Interrogator said as Lara went to grab her bow but Y/N stopped her.

"Please... I... don't... *coughing* I... don't..." the Prisoner said as the Interrogator looked at him.

Lara turned to Y/N.

"We have to do something-"

"We can't, Lara we wouldn't get to him in time." Y/N said sadly.

"Maybe I need to loosen your tongue. Tell me! Tell me where he is!" The Interrogator demanded.

"Aah! Aagh!" The prisoner said before Y/N and Lara heard choking and gurgling blood.

"Alright, hey, show's over. Get back to your post...!" the interrogator said as the mercs left the room, Y/N and Lara continued onwards.

"What the hell's going on in there?"

"The Somalian. He lost his temper." A Guard reported.

"Again? Any sign of the old man?" The squad leader said with a laugh.

"Nope. He's a tough bastard, but he won't get far." The merc answered.

"What about that boy Jason wants?"

"I don't know, but I say we just kill the little fuck."

"What the hell was that?"

"Well here's your shot!" Y/N remarked as he moved out from behind cover and shot three men with his revolver before holstering it and drawing his rifle, firing it from the hip.

The mercs dropped to the floor dead, Y/N stepped into cover as more arrived, Y/N slung his empty rifle onto his back and loaded three bullets into his revolver before looking to Lara, she nodded and Y/N moved out from cover and shot six men in the chest before ducking into cover, as more arrived Lara lit them up with her submachine gun.

The mercenaries were dead and Y/N set about gathering their supplies while Lara climbed into the helicopter, having noticed that Y/N's stomach wound had opened. However having rummaged in the medicine cabinet, she did not find the medicine

"Shit!" Lara cursed to herself. She checked the pockets of the deceased pilot. "Sorry..."

Lara walked over to Y/N.

"Take your shirt off." Lara said as she started using the lighter to heat up an arrow.

Y/N removed his bandolier, his jacket which had been turned into a vest with the loss of it's sleeves, and his shirt, Lara removed the dirty bandages from Y/N and then used the heated arrow to cauterize Y/N's wound.

Y/N stifled a shout of pain, letting out a small groan.

"Sorry." Lara said as she heated the arrow once more before moving it to his wound again, she moved in and kissed Y/N while cauterizing his wound again, the kiss muffling his groan of pain. When they broke the kiss Y/N looked at her.

"Don't be." Y/N said with a smirk. Lara kissed him again before letting him put his shirt, jacket, and bandolier back on.

Lara took out her radio.

"Roth, can you hear me?"

"Lara! Are you okay?" Roth asked with concern.

"I'm fine. Y/N's here with me." Lara said.

"Yeah, I'm fine too." Y/N remarked as he put his jacket back on with some slight struggle from the pain, but he powered through the pain after the first flareup from it.

"You don't sound fine to me."

"I'm fine, Roth." Y/N said as he finished getting his clothes back on and started to reload his weapons.

"Lara, Where are you both, girl?" Roth said as Lara looked around.

"We're in some kind of shanty town, near the fortified palace." Lara said as Y/N thought for a moment.

"I'm still coming down the hill. How did you get there so fast?"

"Long story."

"I can see the town from here... Are you near that large gate?"  Roth asked.

"We're heading towards it." Lara said as she looked to Y/N who was looking at the gate in question.

The couple walked through the shantytown 

"It's the outsider!" A Mercenary called out as Y/N and Lara turned to look at the merc.

"Oh shit..."