Author's note: I just saw AVP a few weeks ago and being the careful writer that I am have been planning this out for a while. I hope somebody is reading this, and I'm not weighting a fic for a dead fandom.
Warning: First AVP fic, Alien, Predator and Human gore, eventual Lex/Scar. Takes place just after Weyland dies, and will have an alternate ending.
Disclaimer: I don't own AVP, if I did the movie would have gone a little bit more like this.

Haven

Silence.

Lex glanced over at Sebastian; he was flipping his Pepsi-Cola cap between his fingers nervously. They hadn't spoken since the decision to give the hunter back his gun, and the quite was frightening, every crick and creak made them jump slightly. She wanted to say something, anything the break the terrifying silence, but words refused to leave the safety of her throat.

Beep beep beep…

Sebastian's watch. She took a deep breath and turned to the door, knowing that any second the pyramid would shift, allowing the humanoid creature through. To Lex's surprise, however, it was the door behind them that slid open. Sebastian made a quick move towards it, she followed.

They couldn't afford to stay where they were, incase it was not the hunter that found them first, but its prey. In the cold darkness of the hall the dead quietness made the young woman even more uneasy and she finally gathered up the nerve to speak. "How do you say 'scared shitless' in Italian?" she asked, trying to lighten the mood with a small degree of humor.

Sebastian answered, but she only half-listened to the gibberish that he spilled out. Two words in English are certainly a mouthful in Italian she thought. He turned to her after finishing "More or less." He smiled; trying as well to make the situation less petrifying, but suddenly his smile became a frown. "Do you hear that?" the man asked.

Lex frowned as well as she strained to listen. A growl was coming from one of the halls connected to the one they were traveling down. From the darkness a figure started to approach, black and unlike anything she had ever seen, slowly and hungrily.

"Run!'

The guide dashed off down the hall, unsure if it had been Sebastian or herself, or even both of them who had shouted. It didn't matter; running was the only thing they could do. She contemplated a moment to drop the bag, but then she remembered the gun inside that she had sworn to return to the creature hunting the Serpents. What if they turned a corner and it was waiting for them? She couldn't drop it.

They passed several more halls, and ahead she saw a fissure with a bridge, or at least it was a bridge at one point. Time had forced it to fall apart and now there were several feet between one side of the chasm and the other. Lex kept running, following Sebastian as the pyramid expert leapt across the ravine. He made it, but as she landed Lex felt stones fall out beneath her. She screamed and tried to clasp onto more solid ground but brick after brick collapsed as she grabbed at it, and finally she felt herself beginning to fall, but as she let out a final terrified scream Sebastian's hands reached out to catch her.

Relief couldn't have been more wonderful as she looked up to thank him as he started to pull her back up. But relief turned into horror as she saw another black serpent appear beyond Sebastian's shoulder. "Watch ou-" she started, but before the words had even left her mouth the creature was grabbing him.

"No!" he screamed as his grip loosed and he let go being pulled away by the monster. "Lex! Lex!"

"Sebastian!" cried the dangling woman as she tried to pull herself up from the edge. A few minutes of struggling passed, but finally she managed to haul herself onto the solid surface. Lex glanced around panting, expecting a second creature to be waiting to grab her and drag her away. Seconds ticked by in dreadful silence and it finally dawned on her that she was alone.

The dark haired woman stood up, brushing her dusty cloths off and hyperventilating as she tired to keep from panicking. She took two steps forward with her eyes to the ground when she caught sight of Sebastian's Pepsi-Cola trinket on the floor, lost with his struggles. She bent over and picked it up. It was the only thing left she had of her friend.

With a sob she pressed forward alone.

Alone.

Somehow being 'alone' was more terrifying then being with company, despite the fact that she was in no less danger with her friends. At the very least she'd had someone to talk to, someone to share her terror. But alone…Her own shadow made her jump, the sound of her own footsteps and breathing. She felt obligated to hold her breath and walk slowly to make the least amount of noise as possible lest it attract a horde of serpents to her.

The corridor she followed opened up into a large room, one she was sure wasn't going to last long considering the pyramid's design to reconfigure every ten minutes. Speaking of, Lex glanced down at her watch, it gave her bearings to which way would lead her out, but with the push of a button it would tell her the time too. But to her dismay, sometime during her flight the timepiece had been broken.

And that wasn't the worst of it.

She could feel eyes on her; the predatory gaze of something that considered her -a human being- little more than meat for the hunt. Lex hardly dared to breathe as she turned around, terrified, unknowing if this was one of the humanoids or the serpents. In the darkness of the room she barely made out the silhouette of the hunter, but the moment she laid eyes on it, the figure began advancing on her a weapon poised to strike, and the woman was too terrified to move.

"Wait, wait!" Lex begged almost a moment too late, raising her hands in surrender, whether or not the creature understood her plea was unclear, but at the very least it stopped. She slipped her pack from her shoulders and reached in for the gun which she slid across the floor toward the hunter. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend…" she whispered as the hunter leaned down to retrieve the weapon, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend…" she repeated, her voice cracked with a subtle hint of begging that this creature would understand her meaning.

Suddenly there was a noise. A growl. A serpent came from the blackness around them, Lex screamed and the hunter roared thrusting out his spear-like weapon to catch it. The black alien shrieked in pain upon impact, but did not die. The humanoid monster roared again and pulled its spear back, ready to strike again. The serpent hissed, and its tail launch forward catching its opponent off guard and the spear went flying and landed at Lex's feet.

Startled, the woman could only watch in horror as the titans dueled; neither seemed to tire or acknowledge their wounds as both alien and predator fought for their survival. The hunter pulled out another weapon, this one resembled a shuriken, and threw it with almost deadly accuracy into the alien's neck, the weapon circled back to him, like a boomerang, and it prepared to strike again, but this time the alien had found a different target.

Lex stood frozen as the creature charged her, and at the very last moment she ducked with a scream and grabbed at the forgotten spear as the alien collided with the wall. She stood, holding the weapon with shaking arms as the serpent regained itself and jumped at her again. The spear was thrust forward, almost as if on its own, and Lex felt herself thrown back as the creature rammed her and they landed painfully against the opposite wall.

There was a struggle as the monster attempted to free itself, double jaws snapped this way and that, trying to reach the whimpering human, but at last the thrashing slowed and finally came to a stop. With a sigh Lex began to ease her death grip on the weapon which had just saved her life, a moment too soon. The creature's head jumped back up in a final effort to kill her, but the reach of its inner jaw was too short, and it fell back again, silent and dead.

Lex gasped and choked, and heaved finally pushing the serpent off her, full of a creeping horror at the thought of how close to death she had come. She panted heavily and fought back tears, her eyes dotted across the room expecting another attack at any moment. Red spots caught her attention as they moved across the floor toward her. The woman followed them with her eyes until she could no longer see them, not registering what they were until it was too late.

The hunter stood before her, the gun poised to fire upon his shoulder. Its not fair, she thought. She'd brought this creature his weapon and now he was going to kill her with it. She closed her eyes waiting for the end. Again there was a roar of incoming serpents, the predator forgot about her turning away and instead firing upon the aliens.

Lex got to her feet still holding the spear. She saw two of the aliens fall from the wall, acidic blood dissolving the stone around it. Another one leapt at them and met its death in the air. These so many of them…the woman thought helplessly, how will he ever defeat them all?

Lost in her hopeless thoughts, Les failed to notice the serpent that made it past the predator's blockade; it was at pure chance that she managed to raise her borrowed spear in time to cut it down.

Something happened then. The serpents all ceased their attack and glanced around. Then without explanation, dashed away, as if some something unheard by the hunter and the human were calling to them... Lex stared into the darkness after the monsters for a while then turned her attention to the Predator, remembering his earlier attempt to kill her. To her relief however, he was no longer interested in her death and was busy retrieving his weapons. He turned away briskly down the hall.

"Hey…" she called weakly, realizing that if the predator left she would be alone again. Perhaps…perhaps she could manage to communicate her earlier message of 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'

The hunter continued walking, exiting the room as she rushed after him "Hey!" she cried louder, "Listen I'm coming with you, you ugly-"

The creature turned harshly and snarled at her. She jumped back a bit at the ferocity, but held her ground, defiance sparkling in her brown eyes, daring him to argue with her. He starred at her for a few moments before glancing over to one of the monsters she had killed. He walked briskly over to in and began doing…something.

"What are you doing…?" she asked.

There was a clicking noise as a reply, a dagger was slipped out of some hiding place and the hunter began cutting up the carcass. The creature cut off the tip of the alien's tail and a finger. He looked at her and chirped, pointing down at the tail tip. A drip of green blood splattered onto the flesh of the monster, when nothing happened, Lex wondered what the point was. The hunted chirped again and dripped more blood from the finger, this time onto the floor. It sizzled and burnt the floor, acidic compounds disintegrating the rock beneath.

Lex nodded, "Yeah…?" she'd already noticed that the alien's blood was acidic. What was the hunter trying to tell her? He chirped again and dripped more blood onto the tail and suddenly Lex understood. The serpent's skin was resistant to its acidic blood, an effective shield. "Oh." She said nodding in understanding.

The predator stood and walked over to the corner, ripping something off the wall and returning with it. It took Lex a moment to realize he was fashioning her a spear of her own (since he apparently needed his). He handed it to her, then leaned back over the body and cut free the head. After removing layers of muscles, brains, and whatever else, he handed it to her as well, a shield of some kind. He nodded with approval and headed out, beckoning her to come along, now armed she followed.

They kept a steady pace, ready for an attack if there was one. The two entered a room. Lex headed towards the door on the other side, but a big hand clasped her shoulder and pulled her back. "What's wrong?" she asked. A rumbling answered her, as the pyramid began to shift closing off the doorway she had been heading towards. The predator patted her shoulder and pointed down another hall.

This time he took a faster pace that she hardly kept up with. Occasionally he would stop and turn back to her. Lex took a moment to wonder if he was annoyed with her for tagging along, or as glad for the company as she was. Somehow he knew which way to go, picking passages quickly, without hesitating when given a choice; she figured it had something to do with the computer he had attached. He stopped again, Lex had been silently counting in her head each sixty seconds in a minute, she reached ten minutes only a little while ago, and her estimate left that her companion's hesitance to go forward was because the pyramid was about to begin shifting.

As she thought, the rumbling began again; they waited for it to stop. The predator dashed forward suddenly toward one of the exits roaring, Lex didn't understand, until it closed in front of him and she realized they were stuck in a room with no exits.

"Great!" she sighed. "What are we going to do for ten minutes?" Answering her own question she plopped down against one of the walls, resting while they waited. The Predator's quickened pace was starting to take its toll on her weaker human body. However resting wasn't something that could be done for ten minutes as her heavy breathing evened out, and she wiped her brow.

Lex glanced at her companion as he paced back and forth across the opposite wall, apparently hoping that this was the door that would open up once the pyramid shifted again. He seemed so impatient, like a teenager. Suddenly Lex remembered what Sebastian had said about this hunt being used as a right of passage. Was the hunter just a juvenile?

The creature noticed her staring at him and made a curious chirp. She shrugged, hoping to get across the fact that she didn't know what he meant. He turned away shaking his head. The silence was getting to her again, and finally Lex sighed and wished she could think of something better to do, "So you got a name?" she asked. The hunter turned back to her again, making the same chirping sound as before, "A name," she said again, "I'm Lex." She told him. He chirped again, took a few steps toward her, and she gestured to herself for emphasis. "Lex" she repeated.

The hunter cocked his head in curiosity. She rolled her eyes, figured it be too much to ask that it understood English. "L-lurr…" her head snapped up at the sound, "Lhrueckz…?" the hunter said. It took her a few seconds to realize that he had said her name, albeit butchered and heavily accented, but her name nonetheless. He pointed to her and said it again.

She nodded, "That's right." She pointed to herself "Lex…" She pointed at him with a curious face, hoping he would take the hint.

He still pointed at her, "Lhrueckz." Then he moved his arm so he gestured to himself. "Sckeahr"

Lex furrowed her eyebrows in confusion as she tried to repeat his name "S…Sc…Scar?"

He made a snorting noise, about as enthusiastic about her pronunciation of his name as she had been about his attempt to say hers.

But close enough she supposed.

The rumbling began again and the wall behind her began to shift, Scar grabbed her arm and hauled her up as a door formed from the wall she had just been leaning against. He headed to the opening, apparently he didn't care that this was not the way he had wanted to go, or perhaps she had misinterpreted his actions earlier. "Lhrueckz." He said from the hall, inviting her to come with.

"Right," she answered, "wait up Scar."

In spite of herself Lex smiled as she took up a sprint to keep up with Scar's brisk walk. Somehow giving names had created a small bond between them that made this terrifying hell of a labyrinth a lot less scary.

Author's End Note: I've read a couple of fics where 'Scar' was just a nickname Lex gives her Predator companion, I wanted to take a different stab at it and make it his real name, just an awkward human pronunciation. I found a site that has some of the Yautja vocabulary and meanings, and I intend to make good use of it in this fic, so look out Language barriers; here comes Zaerith!