Disclaimer: I did not create Left 4 Dead 2, or it's contents, I just own a copy of the game and this story.

Chapter 1: Dark Carnival- The Highway

"Be careful going down this hill now." But even with Coach's warning, they all nearly tumbled down the hill. Ellis had somehow managed to trip over his own feet and ended up rolling down the hill screaming, though no one could really tell if he was screaming in joy or terror.

"Whoa, Shit!!!" Nick was holding onto a branch so he wouldn't go speeding down, but the branch gave way and he started running down. When he got to the bottom of the hill, he tried to halt himself so that he wouldn't go running into the water. Amazingly, he was able to stop. Phew, my shoes are still dry. He thought to himself.

"Look out!!!" Rochelle cried. He looked up just in time to see Rochelle sliding down the hill at an abnormally fast pace. She closed her eyes and braced herself for whatever she was about to crash into. Nick opened his arms out toward her and she slid right into him. They stumbled backwards from the impact until they both regained their composure.

"Are you okay?" He asked after releasing her from his grasp.

"Yea, I'm good. No broken bones." She said dusting herself off. She winced shortly after touching her left arm. She looked at her arm and realized she had a cut, probably from one of the branches that brushed against her as she was sliding down. It wasn't a big cut, but it also wasn't a small one either.

"Are you sure, I mean, that was a pretty nasty fall." He urged, grabbing her arm so he could get a better look at her cut.

"Yes Nick I'm fine." She assured pulling her arm out of his grasp. She realized that sounded a little harsh. "Trust me, I'm alright." She paused before she spoke again. "Thank you, for saving me I mean. And I'm sorry about getting your shoes wet too."

"Ah hell, they were gonna get wet anyway. No harm, no foul… besides, I have that affect on women."

She raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

"They can't keep their hands off me." He smirked.

She looked at him questionably. He looked at her, then he looked down, and back at her again. She looked down at what he was looking at and realized she was still holding his hands. Almost instantly, as if she had just burnt herself, she let go.

"Whatever." She said blushing feverishly.

Before Nick could get another chance to crack a joke, they heard the sound of Coach coming down the hill. Nick and Rochelle were unsure if he chose to slide that way, but Coach was sliding down the hill on his butt, as if he was going down a kiddie slide. The only difference between the two; children scream in excitement when they go down. When he got to the bottom, everyone rushed over to see if he was okay. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down before speaking.

"I am… getting way too old…for this." He huffed.

"What, you mean this isn't your first zombie apocalypse you lived through? Jesus Coach, you coulda told us this before." Nick said wittily. Coach shot him daggers.

"Come on y'all, I reckon we keep going right, and then there should be another hill we can climb to get to the Whisperin Oaks Amusement Park entrance. And from there, well, we'll figure it out when we get there." Ellis said.

"Definitely, getting too old for this…" Coach said at the thought of more hills.

Dark Carnival- The Fairgrounds

"We better look around, maybe there are some supplies around here somewhere." Rochelle told the guys.

"Girl's got point, but be cautious now. Chances are there's gonna be zombies roaming around too, so don't go too far."

She looked out the window of the safe house at the deserted amusement park. She was supposed to be covering a story on the outbreak, and yet here she was at an abandoned amusement park fending off zombies with a machete and machine gun. What could she possibly have done to deserve this!?

After restocking up on ammo and changing guns, they headed out. Coach wasn't kidding, there were zombies everywhere! Wave after wave of zombies kept coming after them. After what seemed like an eternity they slowly died down.

"Well now that just sucks." Ellis remarked. "People come here for fun and entertainment and they wind up dead."

"Be happy it wasn't you." Rochelle commented.

"Amen to that." Coach said throwing a pipe bomb, getting rid of the last of the zombies.

"Personally I would rather be a zombie." Nick said reloading his shot gun. They all turned and looked at him. "What, they don't feel any pain, they're never hungry, and they only snap at you if you bother them. Hell, they don't even have to go to the bathroom. How much better can it get than that? And they definitely don't have to deal with other people complaining about fighting and what not."

"What unzipping yourself is too much work for you hot shot?" She asked slashing a zombie with her machete. He raised an eyebrow at her question. "I meant to go to the bathroom you perv." But she decided to play with his thoughts. "Man if that's the case, then we can tell who does all the work in bed now, can't we?" she said walking past him.

His eyes shot wide open from her statement. At the same moment, the pipe bomb Coach threw exploded destroying the last of the zombies. Ellis was trying hard to hide his laughter, but it wasn't working.

"Touché." Nick said slightly amused that this girl had a sense of humor that could throw him off. He found himself quite intrigued by her.

"All right now," Coach spoke up, getting everyone's attention. "Now that the zombies are gone, it's time to look for supplies."

"Maybe there's something in the bathrooms. I know it sounds crazy, but it couldn't hurt to look right?" she thought out loud.

"Good idea Ro. Oh pardon me, I have to go." Ellis said rushing into the men's room.

"Okay, well that's one place I'm definitely avoiding." Rochelle said walking towards the women's bathroom.

Both Coach and Nick nodded, thinking the same thing.

As if luck were on her side for once, there were two bottles of pain pills sitting by the sink. Inside she realized she wasn't alone. She shined her flashlight on the other side of the bathroom and saw three zombie bodies lying in a corner. Normally she'd be grossed out by them, but there was something different about these zombies. These bodies weren't as zombified as the other ones, these ones were partially human-like, like an unfinished transformation.

Looks like the disease was too much for them. She thought. Their bodies couldn't endure the transformation.

"Man, that sure is a sad sight." She heard from behind her. She didn't realize that Coach and Nick had followed her into the bathroom until now.

"What are you two doing in here?"

"Well you did say to check the bathrooms." Coach replied.

"Um guys, this is the ladies room." She stated as-a-matter-of-factly.

"Excuse me." Nick said walking out slightly uncomfortable with Coach following him.

"Hey wait." She called to them before they could take another step. She grabbed the pain pills off the counter and tossed the bottles to them. "I found these pills. You two can have them; you need them more than I do."

"Hey thanks."

"Yea, thanks Ro." Nick said before walking out.

Shortly after, she followed them out.

Dark Carnival- The Tunnel of Love, Part 1

"Oh man, that was a close one." Ellis said leaning against the safe room door.

"You're telling me. I was sure that Tank was gonna get us." Rochelle replied sitting next to him.

"Ok well not that I'm not happy we're alive and all, but how the hell are we supposed to get out of here? We're stuck in the freaking Tunnel of Love for crying out loud." Nick said reloading his shot gun.

"Truth is, I think that we're gonna have to through the Tunnel of Love." Replied Coach. "I know you don't wanna Nick, but you're gonna have to if you wanna survive."

He weighed out his options. "Go through the Tunnel of Love and face a bunch of flesh-eating zombies, or stay here and die a slow, lonely death?" he thought aloud. "Eh, what the hell, I find better company with you guys than the zombies."

"Now that's the spirit." Coach said slapping him on the back.

"And besides," Ellis added. "The Tunnel of Love ain't that long. I reckon it's about 5 minutes by swan, and they don't move that fast."

Dark Carnival- The Tunnel of Love, Part 2

But it wasn't that fast, the Tunnel of Love just didn't wanna end. To them, it felt like hours since they saw the outside world. And it seemed just as long because of the zombies that just so happened to be in there with them. Instead of treading through water, they were walking treading through zombie guts.

"Man, I don't remember the Tunnel of Love being this long." Coach said jumping down the hole in the maintenance room.

"No kidding, and I don't remember there being any Chargers, Hunters, or Smokers on the ride either." Ellis said light heartedly.

"Ha ha very funny Ellis." Rochelle remarked, but not in a sarcastic way.

"Hey y'know I heard a rumor that tunnels of love were supposed to be magical. Like they would make people more cheerful, or giving, or even reveal what kind of person they are. Or some shit like that."

"Well now, that would explain why Nick hasn't said a mean thing ever since we started walking through the Tunnel of Love." Coach joked.

"Know what Coach, I think you're onto something." Ellis chimed in.

"Ellis?"

"Yea Nick?"

"You and Coach are idiots." He said flatly.

"Why thank you Nick. See, the tunnel revealed how giving Nick is. Like before, he called me 'hick' or 'dumbshit', but now he calls me 'idiot'. And he even said something about Coach too."

"Boy," Coach said placing an arm on his shoulder. "You and I are going to have a long talk about this…" he trailed off as he and Ellis walked ahead of them.

Rochelle chuckled to herself. Never before had she seen someone so confused about this kind of stuff. She walked a few more steps before she felt someone grab her wrist.

"Ro." Nick said calmly.

She looked behind her and he placed a bottle of pills in her hand, the same pills that she had found earlier in the bathroom.

"You'll need this more than I do."

"Nick I'm fine, trust me." She tried to pull her hand away but he didn't let go.

"That gash on your arm says otherwise." He said looking down at her arm.

She had realized it, but that cut from before had gotten a little bigger than it was previously. It wasn't serious or anything, but it should still be taken care of.

"Here." Nick said pulling out a handkerchief from his pocket. As if reading her mind, he wrapped it securely around the cut. "Every time you lift your gun to fire," he spoke. "You flinch from the pain in your arm and it makes your shots a little off."

"You've been watching me very closely now, haven't you Nick?" she asked raising her eyebrows.

"Well don't get too excited now sweetheart." He retorted leaning in closer to her. "Call it studying." He said quietly as he finished up her wrapping. "You're welcome by the way." And with that, he walked ahead of her.

Rochelle watched him for a few seconds then looked at the bottle of pills in her hand. She gripped them slightly and smiled to herself.

"Yea, thanks." She said before catching u to the guys. Ellis was right; there really was something magical about tunnels of love.

Preview of Chapter 2

Ellis: Did something happen between you two while we were gone?

Nick and Rochelle looked at each other, then back at Ellis.

"No" They both responded.

Ellis's eyes got bigger in surprise. "Oh I get it now." He said grinning. "Now I know why you're both acting this way. You both..."