Just finished the game and I can’t move on from them 😭😭😭
Aw, and now you’re blushing.
UNCHARTED SERIES ➤ MAIN LADIES
What the hell is she doing here? You said find help, I got help.
"We just did a thing." Ultimate Uncharted Challenge | 1/3 trios: Nadine, Chloe, and Sam
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you meet chloe in cairo. it’s too hot, the streets are too loud, and she talks too much. not to you, at first. you’re just the extra set of hands for a quick recovery job that’s gone sideways more times than it should’ve. you’re supposed to stay quiet, keep your head down, and do what you’re told. chloe doesn’t like people who take up space she didn’t give them. but she notices you.
the first time she actually looks at you— really looks — is after you talk a local dealer down from six thousand to two and a half for a map fragment she’s been trying to get for weeks.
she blinks. “well, i’ll be damned.”
you shrug, lips quirking. “he likes pretty faces.”
“so do i,” she says, and then walks off like she didn’t just throw a grenade and smile at the explosion.
it’s messy with her. always is.
the job stretches on longer than anyone wants to admit. more flights, more trains, more guns. more nights where neither of you sleep, and not just because of the danger. there’s this... buzz, you trade dry remarks, silent glances. she gives you that grin when you’ve got blood on your cheek and your chest is heaving and you both almost died, again.
she doesn’t touch you. not yet. but she wants to. and you feel it. that simmer just under the skin, waiting.
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she kisses you in istanbul.
you’re in a crumbling hotel room with no lock on the door and only one working lamp. you’re bandaging her arm, a shallow graze, but it looks worse than it is. and she won’t stop fidgeting.
“hold still,” you mutter.
“you’re enjoying this, admit it.”
“you bleed too much.”
she laughs, but it dies off quick. her eyes are on you now, and they’re soft in a way you’ve never seen from her. like she’s thinking about letting you see something she’s spent years hiding under ten layers of sarcasm and steel. then: “come here.” she doesn’t say please. chloe doesn’t beg.
but you go to her anyway.
the kiss is rough. urgent. like she’s afraid if she waits, she’ll talk herself out of it. and maybe she would’ve. but you’re here now. and her hands are on your hips, pulling you in, grounding you both in this flickering, half lit room that smells like dust and gunpowder and something sweeter that neither of you will name.
you don’t sleep that night.
after that, it’s not easier. not with her. she still picks fights for fun, still flirts with danger like it owes her money. but she holds your gaze a second longer. hands linger when they don’t have to.
she lets you see her scared. once. maybe twice.
and when it’s all over, when the artifact’s in a box, the buyer paid off, the trail cold, she stands next to you on a rooftop in athens and says, “i don’t do the whole happily ever after thing.”
you nod. laughing at the comment. “me neither.”
she looks at you. quiet for a long while.
“but... yknow.. i could try.” she says, voice low. you slide your hand into hers. no fairy tale. just this. just her.