Beginnings
Authoress: Naezarhx or Kitty
Summary: Begin your life, love and friendships how you intend to go on.
Disclaimer: I do not own L4D2 or its characters...
A/N: To be perfectly honest with most of y'all, English is my second language, and I need many help with structuring my stories. Now this first chapter will be in the POV of Taylor my OC.
"That's a nice choice sir" I smiled.
"Just take your damn money!" The customer grunted, I snatched the money out of his hand and rolled my eyes.
"Have a nice day, SIR" The man gave me the finger as he stormed out the store, I just laughed. I mean that's all you could do, and I was used to dealing with crap like this, it came with the job of selling – In my opinion – Over-priced merchandise.
"Taylor I'm goin' upstairs, ya'll need to close up"
"Alright, bit early to start closing up isn't it?" I pointed out the fact it was only 1pm, I had just opened up 2 hours ago and I wasn't going to get paid any less. My boss just walked up the stairs with another load of guns; he must've had half the stock up there, just sitting in his apartment above the store. This was probably one of the weirdest things my boss has ever done; apart from the time he rode a cow around the town with an AK-47 in his hand. He said he was trying to attract customers; the only thing he succeeded in doing was giving an old lady a heart attack, and getting himself put in jail for 3 days. I just shook my head absently.
I collected today's take from the till, it amazed me at how many people were buying guns lately. I folded up the notes and put them in an envelope ready to hand to my boss. I put the envelope in my pocket while I swept the floor, it wasn't that dirty but I had to make sure it was clean enough.
When I felt the floor was done I made my way up the stairs to give my boss the money and collect my wages, I stopped when I heard a noise coming from the apartment, and it sounded like a welder. I ran the rest of the way up nearly tripping on the top step, my heart was pounding heavily. At first I knocked on the metal door, when I didn't get a reply I started to pound the door until my fists went red. "Whitaker what the hell?" I booted the door a finale time and went back downstairs. At the bottom there was a 2 way intercom attached to the wall, I pressed the red button in and started to speak "Whitaker, what the fuck are you doing?"
"Taylor ya heard the news didn't ya, 'bout them ZOMBIES, I'm stayin' up here. You need to go 'for ya attract them sons a'bitches here" Whitaker replied, I groaned pressing my head against the wall.
"You don't seriously believe that shit the news is spewing do you?" I was becoming impatient with all these rumours.
"Like hell, ya saw, I saw. Stop pretendin' like it ain't happening coz it is"
"Well what do suggest I do Bill?"
"You ain't my problem anymore Taylor"
"YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE! I'm taking your money and I'm taking your guns!" I took my finger off the button. It wasn't technically stealing if I had worked my ass off for it. I went into the 'STAFF ONLY' closet and grabbed my rucksack, I filled my bag with as many guns as I could, which turned out to be 1 SMG and 2 Magnums. Shitty little bag.
I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard my cell ring, my ring tone was the saw theme tune, one of my favourite movies; I threw the bag to the ground and answered my phone.
"Hello"
"Taylor, you need to get here quick. I'm here with Ma and Lou; we're by Green Hill Park."
"Why are you there?" I answered worriedly.
"We were on our way to the Vannah when Ma had to rest, we were gonna wait there till you came and we all were gonna get chopped to the safe zone"
"Okay I'm on my way, Ashley please do not do anything stupid" I put the phone down and bunged my bag over on shoulder. I didn't bother locking the door when I left, I just sprinted toward my destination.
Wow, what a crowd. They were all going the same way, families, couples, everyone shoving and pushing to get in front. I couldn't see damn thing, I climbed on a nearby wall to see if there was a clearing, there wasn't. I continued along the wall till I was round the corner from the park, and my family. Jumping down from the wall I had decided to run the rest of the way. When I approached the park I noticed people sitting on a bench, it was them.
"Mom!" My Mother was sitting ther looking rather worse for wear.
"Tayy!" Screamed a little boy wrapping his arms round me
"Lou, you okay sport?" I ruffled the boy's dirty blonde curls; he looked up at me with his big blue eyes and nodded slowly.
"Ma needed tah sit down fer a little while tah catch her breath" My little brother's southern accent made me laugh, he was only seven and his accent was already as strong as their father's.
"Sit down young'un before ya get yo'self worked up again. Taylor sweet pea ya okay?" My mother's voice was tired yet soothing.
"Mm hmmm, just found out my boss is an asshole, you?"
"Whatcha mouth, the good lord doesn't want ya speaking like that" My mother hissed, her hands pressed firmly on my little brother's ears. I glanced down at my sister, who now was laughing hysterically, her face was bright red, and tears fell down her cheeks.
"Okay Mom, I'll keep that in mind" I pulled my strawberry blonde curls into a ponytail.
"Okay, 'nuff of the pleasantries, we should all be headin' to the Vannah now" My sister announced while wiping the tears from her eyes. I was really tempted to kick her, but I controlled the temptation, for now.
I held a hand down towards my mom to help her to her feet; once she was standing I looked down at my little brother.
"You want me to give you a piggy-back?" I smiled.
"Uh huh, thank yuh" My little brother jumped onto my back and held tightly around my shoulders. We started to walk down the road at a steady pace, I realised we were walking too slow soon that crowd would catch up to them. I knew if we kept this pace up my mother would get knocked over then trampled over. I sure as hell weren't going to lose my mother.
"We need to hurry if we want to get there in one piece. There's a big crowd not too far back, and I think there'll be trouble if we get caught up with them" I looked over at my mom; she in turn looked at me. She nodded then started to move faster.
Eventually we had reached the Vannah hotel entrance where CEDA workers were carrying out tests and examinations. All me and my family were clear to go through, we were told to make our way to the roof. My mom and sister took the elevator up while my little brother and I raced each other up the stairs, apparently no one has ever seen a 29 year old race a 7 year old before, because I was getting all kinds of looks as we passed people. When we made it to the top I let my brother win. Okay, I lied he did actually win fair and square, can't hurt a girl to try. We walked over to the other two who were waiting patiently for us.
"Ooh you look like you had fun" Ashley said sarcastically.
"Good exercise, walking. You ever tried WALKING Ashley?" I panted, if looks could kill I'd be stone cold DEAD right now. We ran over to the nearest helicopter, Ashley and I helped mom on first, she sat down and did her seat-belt up. Lou jumped on and sat down excitedly doing his belt up, it was his first time on a helicopter. Just as Ashley was getting on a man held his arm out to stop her,
"Sorry no room left, the next helicopters will arrive tomorrow." He was holding a small clipboard, he scribbled something down.
"Ya mad if ya think I'm gonna leave my children here!"
"Ma'am calm down, your children will receive accommodation for tonight and will receive evac tomorrow"
"Don't worry Mom, me and Ashley will stay here tonight and we'll get the next one" I tried to assure my mom everything would be fine.
"Yeah don't cry Ma, Taylor will take care of me" Ashley grinned, a single tear rolled down her face.
"I wanna stay wit Tayy!" My brother screamed, he tried jumping off but my mother held him tight. I gave him a hug stroking his head, I let go of him when I heard the man clear his throat.
"Here girls take these, they'll protect ya" My mom slipped her two crosses she kept on chains from her neck, she gave one to me and one to my sister. We both instantly put them on.
"Thanks mom, I love you both"
"Bye bye, Lou you take care of Ma" Ashley gave Lou and mom one finale kiss.
I smiled at Lou, "Bye baby" I backed off slowly, we waved to them as the man slid the door shut. Lou's tear soaked face looked out the window. It broke my heart to see him like this.
"We'll pray for you!" My mother called as the helicopter took off. All the remaining helicopters flew off into sunset.
"OKAY ANYONE WHO IS STILL LEFT, THERE ARE MORE HELICOPTERS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW AT 10AM. IF YOU MAKE YOUR WAY DOWN TO THE RECEPTION AREA YOU WILL RECEIVE A KEY FOR YOUR ROOM. BANQUET HALL C IS OPEN FOR DINING!" A man ordered through a mega-phone.
"You heard the man" I whispered to my sister, I wrapped my arm around her squeezing her softly. We both made our way down the stairs to reception; we walked up to the counter where a short grey-haired man stood.
"Hello, can we get a room key please?"
"Yes ma'am, will you need separate rooms?" He eyed us both through his thick glasses.
"No, we can share"
"Here you go" He handed me a silver key with '803' on it. 'Great back upstairs' I thought bitterly.
"Thanks" Ashley said innocently snatching the key from my hand. We walked over to a small area occupied with white arm chairs; I sat on a chair nearest the end and patted the seat next to me. Ashley sat down twiddling the key between her fingers.
"Are you hungry?" I asked Ashley, she nodded. I ruffled her white-blonde hair playfully as I stood up. "Come on then, let's go get some food"
We strolled over to the hall serving food; there were loads of people queuing for food in different parts of the hall. I bit my lip anxiously.
"Why don't you find us somewhere to sit while I get the food, m'kay?"
"You WANT to leave me alone?" She asked, sounding surprised.
"Yes Ashley, I can't keep babying you, you're 20" I smiled, I patted Ashley on her shoulder reassuringly. "Anything happens just come get me, or you could ring me, you still have your cell. See you in a minute" I walked over to the shortest queue, grabbed a tray and waited.
A/N: I know this chapter was not as descriptive or as well structured as most L4D2 stories, but bear with me on this okay? Ignore ALL spelling mistakes and/or grammar mistakes Microsoft word did not pick up onto. Thanks to all who read my story and bigger thanks to all who review/fav/subscribe.