A Story Of Survival || Ethan & Emily (Valley AU Prompt)
He wasn't sure how it had come to this.
He wasn't Indiana Jones. He wasn't Lara Croft. He knew jack shit about tombs and traps and pyramids. But he was in one. And he had to escape. By...
He had might as well say it. By killing someone.
Emily Crawford was a witch, he knew that much. But nothing more, and that left him uncertain. He was immortal, he knew, but he knew too little about witches and their magic to use immortality as an ace in the hole. He could only trust in his natural abilities... wits, deception, running away and a powerful survival instinct. His fingers curled around a knife he had found in one of the myriad chambers of the pyramid. A powerful, powerful survival instinct.
He wasn't a killer. He didn't want to kill a woman who had done nothing to him. He just wanted to live. If he could find a way to get out without more blood on his hands than already present, he would take it gladly. But there wasn't.
He moved slowly down a narrow passage, not holding a torch. He was blind in the darkness, but that just helped him focus on his other senses. He was lost in the pyramid. If he could just find the exit... no one would have to die. He couldn't say what Emily Crawford was thinking about, whether she would kill him or not, but either way, he would have to exploit it. It was his nature, it was his advantage and it was possibly the only way he would leave this alive.
He had removed his shoes and socks, and his bare feet made no sound as he padded along the stone floor, cold and hard. He had been wearing a floppy, flamboyant hat before this all happened, and he had kept it on the head of a stern statue in another room. He couldn't very well expect to be stealthy while wearing it, could he? But he was down to the bare essentials, and he knew a thing or two about sneaking around. He would find her, and if Emily Crawford wasn't paying attention, she was going to get a real surprise, real soon.