So this is my first fanfiction... Ever... So constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged! Also read and review and then stay up to date because more chapters will come soon!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that is actually from the game Left 4 Dead 2, my OCs Danielle, Jasper, and Alex are my own creations.

"You're crazy, Danielle!" Jasper called with a laugh as she watched her sister climb the wired fence. Danielle turned to look behind her shoulder with a grin as she reached the top, her sea green eyes filled with excitement and her dark brown hair swishing behind her head as a heavy gust blew through.

"Hurry up!" Alex yelled as he started to scale up the fence behind Danielle. Jasper watched them go with a smile as she walked over to the edge of the fence. This was probably the most fun the three siblings had had for the past week, ever since it started. They tried not to talk about the infection too much, of course they dealt with it every hour when they would have to fight off a horde or one of the special infected, but they didn't talk about it afterwards.

Danielle grinned as she hopped off the fence and landed with her hands up in the air as she turned around to see Jasper, "Good landing?"

"Good landing," Jasper replied with a laugh as Alex hopped off the fence too, nowhere near the same gracefulness the seventeen year old had achieved.

"C'mon, Jasper. We need to hurry and get in there," Alex said with his slight country accent as he motioned to the mall behind them. They had been looking forward to coming here for the past two days, it was almost a guarantee that they would be able to get more supplies. Especially the thing they had been lacking and had made all of them lose nearly ten pounds since it started; food.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," the twenty-three year old responded with a smile as she started to grab the different holes of the fence with her dirt covered hands. This was an instinct now, she thought as she let her feet smoothly go in and out of the fence rings and neared the top easily.

Climbing the six feet of fence in much less than a minute, Jasper smiled as she looked down at her siblings, moving her legs so that they draped over the side of the fence, "Get ready, her-" she stopped herself as Alex held up his finger to hush her.

The smiles that had been on both Alex and Danielle's faces had disappeared quickly and were replaced with concern.

"Did you hear tha-" Danielle's question was interrupted with an answer of several grunting noises and the loud crunch of concrete being ripped right from the parking lot of the mall.

Each of the three siblings instinctively pulled out their weapons, Danielle with a pocket knife in her left hand and an axe in her right, Alex with a .44 Magnum pistol, and Jasper with an older version of a shotgun, and pointed them at the noise. In turn, each gasped as they recognized the large muscles of a Tank as he lifted the concrete over his head and hurled it at lightning speed towards them.

Danielle and Alex ducked as the chunk of concrete flew through the air and Jasper quickly hopped off the fence and began to shoot, refilling swiftly her bullet shells after every five shots. They heard the loud crack as the concrete collided into the ground behind them and Alex started firing off his pistol along with Jasper but even with fairly good aim from both of them, the bullets would barely pierce the massive muscles of the Tank.

None of them had ever seen a Tank before and had barely heard of them so none of them realized just how powerful the Tank was. It could be assumed by the large muscles that bulged off the arms and chest of the Tank, and the less large but equally impressive leg muscles, that a Tank would be powerful. Even the name suggested it. However, until you came face to face with what was normally called the most powerful Special Infected, you would never realize just how dangerous they were. Danielle didn't.

Jasper and Alex continued to shoot even though they had realized long before that it wouldn't do any good, it was the only thing they could think to do as the Tank continued to throw chunks of the concrete from the road at them. Danielle had already throw her knife at the Tank but it had just pierced the top layer of his skin causing no pain but making him even angrier.

"I think it's about time we start running," Alex said barely audible over the yelling of the Tank's grunts. Jasper nodded in agreement as she tried to reload her shotgun shells but Danielle had fury in her eyes as she shook her head and ran forward towards the Tank, axe raised in hand.

"Danielle, no!" Jasper screamed as she started to run behind her younger sister but it was too late as the Tank could move at the same pace that they did and met Danielle halfway across the parking lot. Right as Danielle swung her axe, the Tank used all of his strength to shove her.

Jasper watched in slow motion as the axe cut through what barely resembled a neck of the Tank and his head rolled off his body. The massive muscle of the infected collapsed to the ground and Jasper breathed a sigh of relief until she turned to see Danielle's body fly through the air.

Jasper watched in horror as Danielle landed in a clump against the side of a car. Immediately, Jasper and Alex dropped their guns and ran towards her but it was much too late. Danielle's natural tan face was pale, her eyes were slightly open but were glazed over, and her fist was balled together as if she was still holding the axe in her hand.

Jasper fell to the ground beside her sister and let out a scream and a sob as she looked at the dent her sister's tiny frame had left in the car. Alex bent down beside Jasper and her older brother's hand wrapped around her shoulders as they sat beside Danielle's motionless body, tears streaming down both of their cheeks.

"Jasper?" Alex said looking into her eyes with a worried frown as he waved his hand in front of her face, "You there?"

Jasper swallowed and looked behind her brother's head to see the same mall they had visited only a month ago. She nodded her head as she looked back at him, "Yeah, sorry, let's keep going."

His eyes were narrowed as he studied her face but turned around with a sigh and started to walk into the mall, "Let's just hope we can find something in here."

Jasper nodded her head as she slowly followed behind but she glanced around the parking lot, holding tightly on the pocket knife in her left hand and the same old shotgun in her right. For a second, it sounded like those same grunts as she had heard before. They hadn't faced another Tank since that day a month ago and just like Jasper and Alex had done before, they didn't talk about that day. It was an unspoken event that constantly gnawed at both of their minds but it was something both of them refused to talk about.

"Stop," Jasper whispered quickly as she looked behind her shoulder to see four figures in the distance walking towards them. Alex turned pulling out his magnum from his jacket pocket and raising it into the air but put it down when he saw the four figures.

"They don't look infected," he said observing the manner of their walking, they weren't slow nor swift, stumbling nor predator-like. It was a normal pace and each were swinging an assortment of weapons in their hands.

Jasper watched them as they came closer with narrowed eyes, "Exactly."