My Anchor (Lara x Fem!reader)

So nice to see you again! This chapter will be a bit longer because it's the LAST CHAPTER! Finally it's here guys! Without further ado, enjoy.

Warning: Blood, death and gore

Lara's P.O.V

-"Odin?" I asked softly, almost scared to say it. -"I am known by many names. But yes, Odin is one of them." He said calmly, his voice warm but commanding. -"I must be dreaming. Was I drugged?" I asked him, trying to wrap my head around this. -"You were not. You passed the trials. You earned the Mead of Suttungr. You have started a series of events that cannot be stopped, Lara." He said, walking around me, each one of his steps accompanied by the clink of the spear. -"You know my name? How?" I asked him confused. -"I have known you for many years. I have watched you. I chose you. We are one and the same, Lara. You are walking the path I walked many lifetimes back." He told me. -"What does that mean?" I still couldn't understand him. -"You will bring Ragnarök to your world. Just as I did to mine. This is the first step, and also the only way." He told me.

-"Wait. I will bring Ragnarök? What kind of sick game are you playing? I would never destroy the world for my ambitions! We're nothing alike!" I raised my voice at him but as I was about to walk closer to him he hit the ground with his spear and the ground shook. He took a second to look at me properly. I couldn't read his expression. -"What about her world? You destroyed it when you killed her father, because of your ambition." He said. -"I....I didn't mean to." I replied, feeling the guilt again. -"But you did. Our worlds may be different. But you will destroy them all in the end. The best thing you can do is to walk in my footsteps. And save the ones you care about the most." He told me calmly. -"It's too late for that..." I glanced at Y/N's body.

-"Remember. We are one and the same. You deserve this. You have earned it." He told me as I looked at the Mead in my hands. -"No...." I said quietly. -"What?" He asked shocked. -"I won't walk in your footsteps, old man. You doomed everyone you love because you're selfish. You know, I used to think that about myself too. And if I found this three days ago I wouldn't hasitate to drink this. But she openned my eyes. I won't let my ambition hurt anyone else. I'm done." To my surprise Odin didn't say anything, he just watched as I walked to the Eternal Flame. -"Choosing your own path may be dangerous. You will suffer a great loss if you choose to define your fate. You may seal the fate of others with this. Everything I did was the safest way to survive Ragnarök. Choosing your own fate can lead to your demise sooner than it was intended." He told me, but never made a step closer nor tried stopping me.

-"I may be the reason Ragnarök will start. But I will do anything in my power to stop it....My own way." After I said that I threw the Mead into the fire. I heard screaming and multiple battlecries.

-"It is done. You have altered your fate. I knew I chose you for a reason. The Jötun are not happy about this. You need to go. Farewell, Lara Croft." Odin nodded at me. -"Wait! You're just gonna leave me here?" I asked him, not knowing how the hell am I gonna get out of here. -"You are writing your own story now. But there is one thing I can do. Here." He threw me a small vial. -"Eir's tears. Now go and get out of here....both of you." With that he disapeared. Both of us? Oh my God!

I rushed to Y/N with the vial. I put her head in my lap again. Slowly I poured the liquid into her mouth and made sure it went in. Tears appeared in my eyes again as I got filled with hope. -"Please, please, please work." I said desperately. Moments flew by and my hope grew shorter but then she took a sharp breath and openned her eyes. I screamed from pure joy and wrapped myself around her. Now we were both laying on the ground hugging and crying.

-"How? How did you do that?" She asked. -"It doesn't matter. I'm just so fucking happy it worked." I squeezed her tightly. -"Fuck, Lara..." She finally relaxed in my arms, no words needed. Our brief moment of joy was interrupted by an explosion in the wall...ice explosion. -"How fast can you run?" I asked Y/N. -"I guess we'll have to find out." She replied. Just as she said it a Jötun climbed in through the hole, he immediately made eye contact with us and let out a bloodcurling battle roar. We shot up, she held my hand and we ran towards the only window in the hall. I broke it with my climbing axe and we got a view of a nearby side of a cliff. -"Do you trust me?" I turned to the beautiful girl beside me. -"Always." She replied and we backed a little to jump.