((I almost forgot this part, I do not own Valve or Left4dead one or two, this is just for fun! Enjoy!))

Chapter One

It had taken one year to rebuild most of what was destroyed, three months to make sure everyone was clean of the infection, and now five months later CEDA's request was still in the back of her mind. Savannah wasn't her home town, but she knew she wouldn't find anything back home. At least here she was starting a new life, with a new job as a news reporter, and a new home with the people who had brought her this far. There weren't any more monsters to be afraid of, but there was a new silence that frightened everyone.

People were starting to miss the sounds of children, all of the young had been taken by the infection as soon as it struck, their body's to weak to fight the infection leaving them for dead. It was fortunate that they didn't have to suffer, but that left them with no chances of trying to survive, not that they possibly could. She was surprised anyone had survived in the first place.

'Knights of Columbus, how am I going to bring something like this up to them?' Rochelle sighed loudly at her thoughts. She didn't agree with CEDA five months ago, but now she was starting to consider her age, and how long the news station would keep her. She was starting to think about how much good another child could bring to the world.

Coach glanced over at Rochelle who was standing close to the stove, she held the frying pan in her hand hovering away from the flame, "Them eggs wont cook like that. I guess this is why you told us not to make any jokes about you in the kitchen, huh?" He chuckled "What's been troubling you baby-girl?"

Rochelle blinked a few times before snapping back to the reality, she smiled nervously at Coach "Ah well-" She paused thinking her words over "There is something I would like to ask of you all, tonight" She figured she'd win them over with an amazing dinner.

"Well, alright." Coach frowned thinking something was wrong, "As soon as we are all home we can talk about it."

Rochelle nodded her head slowly, she somehow wished they would all disagree and make this easy on her. But deep down she really wanted to be a part of something bigger, she always did.

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After breakfast everyone got ready for work, it was Ellis' day off so he figured he'd try to encourage Nick to get a job. He felt sorry for Nick, seeing him around the house doing nothing, at least Rochelle and Coach had jobs to keep them busy and even friends. But Nick just seemed to slow down a lot after a few days at CEDA.

"Good mornin'!" He marched into the room with a large smile spread across his face, flopping down on the bed with his head rested in his hands, his face close to Nick's.

Nick opened one eye slowly, turning his head to face Ellis. It had got to the point where he didn't bother pulling away, the boy had no boundaries and telling him to stop could only do so much. "What?" He said in a dry irritated voice.

"Well I was wondering, I could use another job to keep me entertained." He said nodding his head "So I was wondering if you could tag along, you never know maybe you'll find a job too? Not that you need one or anythin', but a job ain't all that bad."

Ellis was just about to give up and leave, he wasn't comfortable with the long pause. "Why not" Nick pulled himself out of bed, "Let me just get ready."

Ellis had to bite his lip to keep himself from cheering, 'Victory!' He had won this battle with ease.

"Yea yea, sure!" Ellis got up and quickly left the room.

After a few minutes Nick walked out, he looked so different in his jeans and dress shirt. "I'm still not used to seeing you without that white suit Nick." Ellis smiled.

"Do I look bad or something?" Nick looked down at himself, he needed to get himself a new suit but the issue was money at the moment, which was a strange feeling to him.

"No no!" Ellis said loudly, he was afraid Nick would think twice about going. "It looks pretty nice on you."

"If you keep looking at me like that, I'm not going" Nick pointed at him.

"I was just sayin'!" Ellis whined, "Now come on, day's a wastin'."