My first l4d2 fan-fic, yay :) It includes several OCs of mine and of course Nick and Ellis! They'll be coming into in two chapters later.
I spell-checked it about 20 times, but I'm not perfect, please don't hit me if you find something xD
Here you go~
JONAH'S POV
"UGH. Not again!" another dead end, this was impossible. I had no idea where I was going, no idea where I was, and could barely remember how I got here. My brother let out a heavy sigh and lazily sat down on the alley ground.
"C'mon Get up! We can't rest, we gotta get out of here."
"Dude, we have no idea where we are, we'll just get more lost! Can't we take a break?" he grumbled.
He was right. I had no sense of direction, and the town being almost completely destroyed didn't help our situation either. I mumbled some curses with my last bit of strength and slid down to sit beside him, leaning against a dumpster.
"You gotta admit though, the zombies ARE pretty awesome, right?"
"It's hard to admire the 'awesomeness' of dead humans resurrected into flesh eating monsters whilst they're trying to devour you Ashton!" I sounded much harsher than I planned.
"Well.. I don't think they're flesh eating.."
"Whatever."
He turned his head away from me, his spirit trampled on.
"Gah!" I twitched my arm and a sharp pain shot through my body.
"Oww.." he observed, pointing toward the rather large gash going across my shoulder.
"Don't touch me!" I tried to act like I knew what I was doing, as I tore away at my t-shirt revealing the full injury.
"Here lemme"
"NO!" I protested.
"Not just lemme."
"NO!"
"Look all I gotta-"
"NO!"
"Here I'll just put-"
"No ASH, OW!"
"Shut up! I'm helping you!" He was almost growling at me, I gave up, hoping he didn't attract any nearby infected. He took a clean part of my shirt, dabbed it with spit and cleared the cut, before using another small piece of fabric to wrap it up with.
"There, ya bitch."
"Uh thanks" I murmured, stretching out my arm and rolling my shoulders back. Silence consumed us for a few minutes. I tried to think of meeting back up with Bryce and Toby, keeping up my course in the police force and everything going back to normal, but my mind kept wandering to the negative. What if Toby is really dead, what if Bryce doesn't make it. What if I don't make it ? Oh and Charlie, the last time I saw her was before the outbreak, god knows where she is, oh and my parents…
"Jo.. Hey. Jo.."
I snapped back to Ashton's voice. He face was mere centimetres from mine.
"Dude.. What was that?"
"What?" I moaned, shoving him off a little and sitting up straight. Loud, dog like snarls were coming from a little further down the alley, a dark hunched over figure emerged in the shadows, a dark liquid dripped from its lower lip, it looked human ?
"SHIT. Ash RUN!" I darted to my feet and started running back up the alley, ignoring the pain and looking over my shoulder to see Ashton following screaming quietly to himself. Unnatural screeches pierced through the air as I tried to navigate through a street of fallen buildings and fires. I stopped for a moment to make sure Ashton was keeping up, but there was no sign of him.
"Shit, Ash!" I hastily ran back in the direction of the creature to see Ashton lying on the ground being mauled by the thing.
"JONAH! Get it OFF ME, AH!" he roared shoving and flailing around to no avail.
"Uhh uhh." staring down at my bare hands, I hesitated, wondering how the hell I was gonna get it off him. It was tearing down at flesh now, after ripping through Ash's hoodie.
"Oh crap!" I decided against rummaging on the ground for something to hit it with, and instead ran at it and swung my leg under its chest sending in tumbling off of Ashton. It yelped and cried out before running off out of sight. I pulled at his arm trying to lift him up, as he held his stomach with his other arm.
"Y'alright Ash" I asked, though I knew he wasn't. He stood up straight, hands shaking.
"Duuuuude. What was that ?"
"I have no idea, but I sure as hell don't wanna stick around and meet his friends and family" I said quickly, starting to walk on. Ashton didn't move.
"Can you walk Ash ?" I asked, sincerely worried.
"I think so, argh" he clung both hands to his stomach. I walked back and eventually peeled his hands off his stomach, after some severe resistance.
"Shit, Ash" he was badly cut up, nothing too deep, but plenty of small cuts.
"I'll live... wont I ?" he let out a chuckle, which obviously hurt as he tried to hold back the pain and flashed me a weak smile.
"Right so, let's go" We started walking at a slow pace in a some-what eastern direction, well we hoped we were. After about 40 minutes our walking came to a halt.
"I hope that's not the only road out of this town" I glared at the road ahead of me, concentrating on Ashton's remark. The road was way too bent out of shape to walk across, there were large pieces of it missing and upturned cars everywhere, not to mention the gaping holes in the ground and fires coming from the cars. I couldn't help a sick feeling from forming in my stomach. We are never gonna get outta here are we ?
"HELLOOO!"
"Oh, what sorry Ash?"
"Man, you're so spacey, I SAID CATCH." he moaned pointing at the crow bar which was thrown to my feet.
"Where'd you get this?"
"There's a toolbox in this car" he said, popping his head out a window from inside of the car.
"Oh right, kay. I guess we better head some other way."
"Yep." He jumped out of the car and walked over to meet me as we headed off.
"What the fuck Ash. Where did you get that!" I said ogling down at the silver weapon in his grip.
"Same place" he said trying to sound innocent.
"You found a GUN in a tool- actually you know what doesn't matter, as long as I get a shot.. no pun intended" I laughed. Ashton laughed along too, not taking my threat seriously. We were both at the point of nearly giving up so we didn't fret on what direction to go in, we just walked, and walked, and walked. Hoping for anything, another sign of humanity, a way out, help.
We'd been travelling a good while, and it was starting to get dark. The orange luminous sky now turned to a dirty blue, dotted with stars. I didn't realise Ashton was watching my gaze.
"Have you never seen stars before Jo ?" He said, staring at me like half my face was missing.
"Have you never wished on one before Ash ?" I said, my voice now husky after not talking for a while. A crack of thunder rang through our ears and it started to pour, and when I say pour I mean torrential rain.
"Well whatcha wish for?" We were both trying to shout over the rain.
"I can't say! Or something bad.. will… happen." I slowed my speech, remembering our current situation.
"I'm not sure things could get much worse" even through the rain I could hear him laughing at his own words.
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First chapter over and done with :D Yay.
Thank you so much for reading , If there is interest I'll continue to update regularly~
