The Unforgiven

By: esmtz

Nick once again woke up to the feeling of pain throbbing through his leg. He slowly started sitting up and looked around noticing that they had made it to the safe house.

"Boy, how about next time you alert us to when yer about to pass out." Coach said.

Nick growled.

"Well excuse me for being in too much pain to say anything!" Nick replied glaring at him.

Coach snorted.

"I can't believe he's actually admittin it for once that he's hurtin."

"Coach, don't start." Rochelle told him and then turned to face Nick and smiled at him, "I'm glad to see that you're awake. You alright?"

"I've had worse." Nick told her.

"Since when, Nick? You've never passed out before." Ellis said looking at him concern written all over his face, "Man you weren't kidding. Yer leg was jacked up. I don't see how you were able to walk on it, but then again it got jacked even more because of that charger so yer gunna have a harder time walkin on it now."

Nick glanced at Rochelle feeling nervous that Ellis probably saw the bite marks on his leg.

"So was it you, Ellis who took care of my leg while I was out?" Nick swallowed as he finally noticed that his leg had been wrapped.

Ellis nodded.

"There was so much blood though that I had Rochelle help me with stitchin yer wounds back up. I guess they reopened either because of you runnin or because of that charger barely scrapin you. Either way we decided it was best that we wrapped yer leg up to prevent them from openin again." Ellis told him.

Nick frowned as he started to think that Ellis probably didn't see the bite marks at all.

'Well I guess I should thank that charger for at least doing something helpful.' Nick thought.

"You scared the hell out of me, man. I thought sumethin was really wrong with you since you wouldn't respond to me when I tried to wake you up." Ellis said.

Nick turned slightly red and looked away.

"How long was I out?" Nick asked.

"How the hell should we know? We ain't got the time." Coach replied

"It felt like maybe half an hour. Just a guess." Rochelle said, "Ellis refused to calm down the entire time once we got you in here."

"Ro!" Ellis told her as he started turning red.

"What? I think it's cute." Rochelle giggled.

"Well now that he's awake we should get goin. Once again we've wasted enough time stayin here." Coach said as he headed for the door and picked up a gun that was on the table next to it.

"Coach, maybe we should wait…" Ellis started to say.

"There's no need for that. I'm good to go because like I said before I'd rather not stay here any longer then I have to." Nick said as he stood up and slowly started to put pressure on his leg.

"But, Nick…"

"I'll be fine, overalls. Besides you and Rochelle are looking out for me." Nick told him.

Ellis bit his lip.

"Well ok."

Nick, Ellis, and Rochelle quickly went to grab a gun (and a health pack if they didn't have one already) and followed right behind Coach who had already opened the door and walked out. After killing a few zombies that had gotten in their way they started making their way towards an empty store and Coach quickly went in hoping to look for a few more supplies, but there was nothing. They then started heading upstairs just above the store and saw more zombies inside what looked like a small apartment. Once again they weren't much of a threat and Nick and Ellis easily took care of them. They went inside and went to check the two rooms that were in the back.

"Y'all I found a defib unit! Should I grab it?" Ellis asked as he just stared at it.

"I'll get it, youngin. You should keep yer health kit." Coach told him as he saw it on the bed and swapped it with his health kit.

"What makes you think we even need that thing, Coach?" Nick asked.

"It doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst, Nick. We're not exactly invincible. We've been lucky so far. Do you remember what those other survivors said to us before?" Coach asked looking at him.

"You mean the ones we met just before we got to Whispering Oaks? Yeah I remember." Nick sighed.

"They said that they lost somebody and they looked like they've been out here for quite some time." Coach said.

"So what's your point?" Nick asked.

"My point is if one of us 'dies' there's at least a chance that we can bring them back to life." Coach said shaking his head.

"So if I died, then you would use that thing on me?"

"Oh hell no. I'm only doing it if it's Ro or Ellis." Coach glared at him.

Nick snorted.

"Saw that one coming."

"Nick, you ain't gunna die and Coach yer supposed to care about everyone here not just Ro and me." Ellis told them.

Coach shook his head and headed back out of the room. Nick and Ellis was about to follow right behind him when they noticed that Rochelle wasn't moving.

"What's wrong, Rochelle?" Nick asked.

Rochelle shook her head.

"Nothing. It's just do you think they're ok? I know that they said that they would be fine on their own, but I'm just a little worried about them." Rochelle said biting her lip.

Nick shook his head and looked at her.

"Are you talking about all three of them or that stupid greasy vest wearing monkey?" Nick asked.

Rochelle glared at him.

"His name is Francis, Nick and well…I guess mostly him." Rochelle blushed.

Ellis grinned.

"Aw even when he's not here you still got a thing for him."

"I do not!" Rochelle said as she playfully started slapping him.

Ellis started laughing as he started teasing her about it making her chase him out of the room. Nick sighed and followed right behind them.

"What about you and Zoey, Ellis? Do you still like her?" Rochelle asked giggling at the look on his face.

Ellis had a huge smile on his face and started blushing.

"Zoey…she's the prettiest girl I have ever seen…she's an angel sent from up above."

"Um, Ellis she's not here." Rochelle told him.

"Well neither is that biker dude and yer also actin like he's still around!" Ellis replied.

"Not as much as you are with Zoey!" Rochelle said.

Nick growled as he rushed past them to catch up with Coach not even feeling the pain in his leg anymore.

"What's the matter with him?" Ellis asked frowning slightly.

"I don't think we should mention her anymore, sweetie. He doesn't like it when you're talking about her." Rochelle told him.

"Why?"

"He just doesn't like her."

"How can anyone not like her? She's an…."

"Yes I know, but how would you feel if Nick was the one who liked her and talked about her the same way you do?" Rochelle asked.

Ellis didn't say anything as they started running to catch up with Nick and Coach. They were just about to head upstairs to head through another house when they heard a roar and felt the ground start to shake underneath them.

"I've had just about enough of them!" Coach yelled out as he and Nick quickly backed away forcing Rochelle and Ellis to also back up and get out of the way.

As soon as the tank appeared in the doorway everyone started shooting at it which only made it angrier and it attempted to throw a rock directly towards Coach. Coach managed to dodge it as he kept on shooting it. It started running towards him, but was distracted as soon as Nick, Ellis, and Rochelle got closer to it (shooting at it) and started running backwards again the moment it turned and tried to hit one of them. It got confused as to who it should target and before it could make up its mind it was quickly killed.

"Man, I can't wait to be away from these fucking tanks." Nick said glaring down at it before heading back upstairs towards the house.

"You and me both." Coach said.

They continued making their way through the house and then jumped down to the ground as soon as they saw a huge hole in the wall in the last room. There was another small group of zombies including a charger, spitter, and hunter which had been waiting for them. The charger was the first to make its move as the moment all four of them were on the ground, it ran at them sending them all hitting the ground and it immediately started slamming Rochelle to the ground. While the guys started standing up, the spitter spat its acid at them forcing them to quickly move away from it.

"Hang on baby girl!" Coach yelled out as he heard her scream for help.

Nick killed the spitter as it ran at them and then moved away from it since it spilled even more acid. He then turned and saw that the hunter had just jumped on Ellis and before Ellis could even yell for help, Nick shoved it off of him and killed it.

"How do you do that?" Ellis asked as he stood up.

"All you have to do is aim and shoot. How the fuck do you not know how to do that?" Nick asked.

Ellis blushed.

"No I meant how did you kill it so fast when it barely got on me. I hadn't even yelled for help yet." Ellis said.

"I pay attention, Ellis. No matter what's happening unlike you who loses concentration when there's a fucking pretty girl around." Nick rolled his eyes.

Ellis looked at him.

"Nick, how come you don't like Zoey?"

"Because she's fucking annoying."

"But you don't even know her."

"I know her well enough to know that she's not good enough for you." Nick replied as he started to make his way towards Coach and Rochelle who was looking at them curiously.

"How do you know what's good for me?" Ellis asked as he ran to keep up.

Nick practically ran past Coach and Rochelle as Ellis kept bugging him about it.

"He's not going to be able to get away from him fast enough." Rochelle giggled, "Oh thanks, Coach for saving me from the charger."

"Don't worry about it baby girl. Let's just try to keep up with them before we get separated." Coach said.

They ended up going through two more houses, as they dealt with a boomer, a couple of normal infected, and a witch before they winded up having to go through the sewers.

"Oh god this stinks inside my head! I can't believe we have to go through this fucking shit!" Nick complained as he walked through the dirty water, "It's messing up my suit."

"Nick, your suit has already been messed up multiple times before." Rochelle told him before she held her breath.

"It looks like a chocolate candy bar!" Ellis yelled out.

Nick turned and made a face at him. Rochelle roared with laughter and Coach shook his head not even wanting to think about it that way.

"Boy yer gunna make me not like chocolate anymore." Coach told him.

"Well, it does!" Ellis said looking at the dirty water.

"Ellis, shut up!" Nick told him.

Nick sighed with relief as soon as he saw a ladder. He quickly shot at a few zombies that were headed towards him and the others before climbing it. His look of relief was quickly replaced by one of horror as soon as he saw how many cars there were in front of him.

"Fuck…guys watch where you're aiming when you come up here." Nick told them.

"What are you….oh that's why." Rochelle said as she climbed up and stood next to him.

Alarm cars where everywhere and one wrong step, gun shot, or even a simple touch could set any one of them off.

"Holy shit I've never seen so many alarm cars in one place!" Ellis said the moment he got up.

"Well it looks like its best if none of us uses our guns here. All we have to do is shove the zombies away." Coach said looking around for a way to get past all of the cars without triggering any one of their alarms.

Rochelle switched her weapon for the pan that was on her back.

"Thank god the tank didn't show up here." Nick said as he started walking forward shoving zombies away from himself as soon as they spotted them.

It didn't take long for them to realize that not all of the cars had alarms. They got on top of the ones that they were sure weren't going to alert a horde of zombies.

"Careful. CAREFUL!" Nick said watching as Ellis pushed a couple of zombies away from himself and shot at them almost hitting one of the alarm cars.

"Ellis, sweetie you need to shove them not shoot at them." Rochelle told him hitting a few zombies with her pan.

"But they'll just keep comin at us." Ellis said.

"There's not that many, youngin. We can get by without shootin see?" Coach said as he hit a zombie a few times before it died.

Ellis nodded and shoved his way through until they all made it to yet another ladder.

"Thank you for not setting off any of those car alarms!" Nick said as he watched Ellis climb the ladder.

Once they all climbed up, they saw an ambulance right next to them and went to check for some supplies.

"Y'all I see two bottles of pain pills. Anyone need some?" Ellis asked as he pulled out his bottle and took some of the pain pills then handed it to Nick.

"I don't need any." Nick told him as Coach grabbed one of them.

"Yer leg is probably still hurtin you, man. Just take it." Ellis told him.

"I still have my adrenaline." Nick said pulling it out to show him.

"They don't work as good as pills do, Nick and I don't really need mine." Ellis said trying to give them to him.

Nick snorted.

"Since when did pills work better then adrenaline? Adrenaline works too and besides there's another bottle of pills here so you don't have to give me yours, Ellis."

Ellis frowned as he grabbed the other bottle and then gave him his. Nick raised an eyebrow at him as he took his adrenaline and pocketed the pain pills.

"You're weird, overalls."

Ellis grinned and headed towards the other end of the bridge and before they all knew it, it had exploded so now they were forced to drop down instead of continuing on the bridge.

"Why the fuck are they bombing us?" Nick yelled angrily.

"They probably stopped lookin for survivors already. Let's get a move on." Coach replied.

"Aw man I hate cemeteries! There's ghosts!" Ellis complained as soon as he saw that they were going to have to go by it.

"You believe in ghosts, Ellis?" Nick asked

"Hell yeah I do. One time my buddy Keith and I went to go visit this old place that was supposedly supposed to be haunted. I thought it was a joke so when he asked me to go with him I said yes and the moment we stepped inside this mansion…."

'Not that fucking Keith again.' Nick thought angrily.

"Ellis, this isn't the best time for your story." Nick gritted his teeth.

"Um ok." Ellis said looking at him.

As soon as they dropped on to where the debris of where the bridge had been bombed, they found themselves surrounded by another group of zombies. They immediately started shooting.

"Jockey!" Nick yelled out.

Before Nick could even try to kill it, it jumped on him and started steering him away.

"Jockeys got me!" Nick yelled out.

Rochelle and Ellis pushed their way through the zombies to get to Nick. Coach was forced to follow shooting the zombies that were getting in their way and then quickly turning to get the ones attacking him from behind. They managed to get close enough to kill it, but fear of accidentally shooting Nick instead and with the zombies still attacking them they decided to hit the thing off of him. Nick nearly fell as soon as it was off of him and before it could try jumping him again he hit it until it died. Once they were able to take care of the zombies that had them surrounded, Nick took out his pain pills and took some.

"I'm sure as hell not going to miss this once we get out of here." Nick sighed.

"Really, Nick because it was actually startin to get fun!" Coach said sarcastically.

Nick rolled his eyes as they continued on ahead. The cemetery was practically a maze since they sometimes had to turn back because they ended up hitting a dead end. There wasn't that many regular zombies, but it didn't stop the special ones from attacking them. A smoker had gotten a hold of Rochelle at the same time a hunter had pounced on top of Coach, but both had been easily taken care of. Not until they got closer to the safe house did they have a little bit of trouble. There was a lot of regular infected and they could hear a charger, boomer and witch nearby.

"Be careful with the witch! I don't see her!" Rochelle yelled out as she switched her pan back for her weapon and started shooting.

Having not seen it because of the large group of zombies, Rochelle accidentally shot the boomer and vomit went all over her and Ellis.

"This stuff sucks, man!" Ellis yelled as he started shoving the zombies away since he couldn't see.

"ELLIS!" Nick yelled out.

Ellis felt the charger ram into him sending him towards a wall and was immediately being slammed into the ground. Feeling grateful that none of the zombies were trying to stop him, Nick went over to the charger and shot him until it died and released Ellis. Nick then turned and protected Ellis from the zombies while he was getting up. Finally after killing all of the zombies they all started running towards the safe house with Coach in the lead. At the very last possible minute Coach tried to stop himself from touching the witch, but it was too late. She had been sitting down crying right in front of the safe room door and she screamed in fury as she lashed out at him bringing him down in one hit.

"COACH!" Rochelle and Ellis yelled as they, along with Nick, quickly shot at her.

The witch died just as she was about to rip into him. Rochelle started helping him up.

"You alright, Coach?" Rochelle asked.

"Yeah, I can't believe the stupid bitch was in front of the safe house! If I hadn't run over here and had seen her sooner this wouldn't have happened." Coach said wincing as she helped him to the room.

"Finally the fucking safe room!" Nick sighed as he and Ellis went in and quickly closed and barred the door behind them.

Nick then turned his attention to Coach. Rochelle immediately removed her health kit from her back and started healing him.

"I didn't think it was possible for the person who was best at killing witches to get taken down by one. You're losing your touch, Coach." Nick said.

Coach glared at him making him shut up.

Author's note: Ok this has to be the longest chapter I have ever written. I left out a lot of the details for the setting because there was just way too much to put in and I didn't want to have to put everything in mostly because I didn't know how to describe everything even after I finished replaying The Parish again. Yes I finally got off LHP because I actually got all the achievements already lol yeah. For some reason I feel like its really hard to describe the setting in The Parish then it is in the other campaigns except The Passing because that would be hard to do as well. The big fight should be coming up soon maybe even in the next chapter, but not sure yet. Yes there is a tiny bit of EllisxZoey and FrancisxRochelle, but very little since I find both couples cute, but not as cute as NickxEllis. I'll update again soon.