Trying to charm Ellis is a tedious task.
The Kid just doesn't get it!
You could literally hit him with a Train that said 'I'm flirting with you.' and her STILL wouldn't notice; but I wasn't about to give up yet.
I was out to win, and win is Exactly what I'm going to do. So, I kept trying.
At first I did subtle things like: tell him he made a good shot, or give him my pills when he needed them.
I thought it was working too. He was talking to me more, walking next to me more. He would compliment me on my shots more too.
This was good.
So, I moved on to more notable things like: Picking him to be my partner on supply runs, I even started giving him the last health kit when I didn't have one. Hell, I gave him my Health kit! When I would use my Health pack on him, I'd use cheesy lines such as; "Let Doctor Nick fix you up," and "I'm only doing this for you." I would also let my hands linger in one spot longer than it should. Boy was it working alright! I finally started getting Ellis right where I wanted him.
One night, It had just started snowing lightly when all of us were traveling to the next safe house. It wasn't too bad really, it beat the exhausting heat from before. We were walking through an old car tunnel, you could still smell fuel exhaust, and burnt rubber in the air. It was damp, and hardly lit, the only light coming from our own flashlights, and the old metal barrels lit with fire from; I'm assuming, the homeless that used to sleep in these tunnels at night for some cover. There wasn't much infected, we were lucky. We had finally made it to the end of the tunnel when we realized that it was indeed, a Blizzard. The pack stood there at the end, our warm breaths coming out in little puffs of smoke when it hit the freezing air. Zoey pulled out the binoculars she had stowed away, and peered through them, hoping to see where we were supposed to go. She scanned the horizon, and saw nothing but a small shimmer of red light, way down the snowy road. "There." She pulled down the binoculars, pointing. "I think that's where the next Safe house is." We all took turns passing the binoculars around, seeing where it is we were supposed to go.
One by one we filed out, guns at the ready. It was hard to see, hard to hear, but we stayed close together; we didn't want to lose anyone. But, of corse, SOMEONE had to just go and RUIN EVERYTHING. We were walking along, everything was PERFECTLY normal, only about 1 or 2 Infected. But no, Louis just HAD to trip over a can, and he just HAD to fall face-first into a witch, and she just HAD to be startled! From there, it was all out comotion. Louis was down, being ripped to shreads by the witch, around him was Zoey, Bill, and Coach; trying to shoot her off of him. The rest of us were circled around the four, our backs turned to them, shooting the Hored that the witch attracted. While Coach, and Bill were helping Louis onto his feet, he yelled back to us, "Goddammit! We need to move, lets GO people!" In that instant Rochelle, and Francis turned and ran with the others, leaving Ellis and I to fend for ourselves, they didn't do it on purpose, they just didn't know we couldn't hear them; luckly, Ellis looked back and saw them running the opposite direction.
He grabbed my shoulder, pulling a bit, "C'mon Nick! We gotta get moving!" I glanced back a mumbled a bearly audiable 'Shit' under my breath, and started running too.
Ellis and I were trailing pretty far behind, but we could still make it, the hord was fast on our heels. That's when things really went to hell. A charger, I couldn't tell where, but there was one. While we ran, and shot any Infected that got too close, I kept searching for it, it would be bad if he got one of us. Real bad.
A scream. For where? From who? Behind me? I froze. Ellis. I looked back, just as saw a charger run him down, carrying him away, I chase after it, unloading bullets into the damn thing. Then, It dissapeared. What the hell? I ran forward to where I last saw the thing with Ellis. I slipped, started tumbling down a snowy hill, I tried to get back to my feet, I hit the bottom, my Ancle must have twisted on its way down. Ellis, he was still screaming, blood littered the snow. I crawled forward, following the trail of snowy blood. There, I unloaded bullets into the big armed Infected, It went down.
"Ellis?" He didn't move. "Ellis, Kid, can you hear me?" I crawled over to his lifeless body.
I swallowed hard, "El?" I shook him. Nothing. "C'mon El, Ellis?" I shook him harder. A cough, another, a small trail of blood dribbled from his mouth. He sat up, smiled, then whinced, holding his side in pain. I let out a breathy laugh, and let my forehead hit the snowy ground, "How in the fuck are you still alive kid?"
He let himself fall back into the snow, eyes closing, and laughing a bit. "You didn't think you'd get rid of me that easy, did ya?"
