Conventionality
[Title] Conventionality
[Fandom] Uncharted
[Characters] Chloe Frazer and Nathan Drake
[Rating] G
[Genre] Romance?
[Word Count] 300
[Summary] They've never done things conventionally before, and they probably never will.
[Author's Note] Written for my friend Zoe, because Nate/Chloe is love.
They never properly dated.
Well, there were quite a few things they never did properly. Before they never properly dated, they were never properly friends, either. Being acquaintances turned into being friends, which was a rather rushed affair, but it still felt right anyway. When they decided they were together (it was never really spoken aloud, Nate just assumes that she decided it at the same time he did since the transition from ‘friends’ to ‘lovers’ was a fairly smooth one), they never really did the ‘dating’ thing. They liked dinner, and they liked movies, but the two never happened in tandem, not even on lazy Friday evenings when they were between jobs.
They never properly held hands like most other couples do, either. Not to say that they didn’t hold hands, but it wasn’t in public, or while walking down the street to the bookstore, not even an affectionate moment or two while driving in the car, when her hand was on the gear shift and it would be easy to reach over and hold her fingers in his. Their hand-holding took place in buildings toppling over, or when one of them hanged dangerously from a half broken bridge or a cliff.
And, as though to follow convention, they never properly broke up, either, though the details of that night are still particularly hazy in his mind (and he likes to assume in hers as well, though he dreads the day he is proven wrong, probably in an argument they wouldn’t do properly, either). He just knows that it wasn’t how most couples break up.
Doing things conventionally would just be strange, so when they meet up again after, what, six? seven? eight years? it’s another improperly done, unspoken agreement that, yes, they are back together, conventionality be damned.
[Fandom] Uncharted
[Characters] Chloe Frazer and Nathan Drake
[Rating] G
[Genre] Romance?
[Word Count] 300
[Summary] They've never done things conventionally before, and they probably never will.
[Author's Note] Written for my friend Zoe, because Nate/Chloe is love.
They never properly dated.
Well, there were quite a few things they never did properly. Before they never properly dated, they were never properly friends, either. Being acquaintances turned into being friends, which was a rather rushed affair, but it still felt right anyway. When they decided they were together (it was never really spoken aloud, Nate just assumes that she decided it at the same time he did since the transition from ‘friends’ to ‘lovers’ was a fairly smooth one), they never really did the ‘dating’ thing. They liked dinner, and they liked movies, but the two never happened in tandem, not even on lazy Friday evenings when they were between jobs.
They never properly held hands like most other couples do, either. Not to say that they didn’t hold hands, but it wasn’t in public, or while walking down the street to the bookstore, not even an affectionate moment or two while driving in the car, when her hand was on the gear shift and it would be easy to reach over and hold her fingers in his. Their hand-holding took place in buildings toppling over, or when one of them hanged dangerously from a half broken bridge or a cliff.
And, as though to follow convention, they never properly broke up, either, though the details of that night are still particularly hazy in his mind (and he likes to assume in hers as well, though he dreads the day he is proven wrong, probably in an argument they wouldn’t do properly, either). He just knows that it wasn’t how most couples break up.
Doing things conventionally would just be strange, so when they meet up again after, what, six? seven? eight years? it’s another improperly done, unspoken agreement that, yes, they are back together, conventionality be damned.