Silent Lucidity
By: esmtz
"Well so much for everyone gettin out of here. I'm sorry about yer friend y'all." Keith said as they ran all the way towards a fuel truck and started climbing it just as more zombies started to show up.
Rochelle sighed sadly before turning her attention to the zombies.
"I wish we had time to mourn, but there are way too many zombies out here." Rochelle replied killing a few zombies with a headshot.
"Well mourn later because it looks like we're almost there. I can barely see the helicopter from here." Nick said once he climbed up the ladder of the fuel truck.
Ellis felt like he was on an adrenaline rush because his heart beat wouldn't slow down from what he had just seen with the Tank. This made things harder on him because he knew that if Coach was killed THAT easily and fast he knew that there was a possibility that Nick could get killed just as easily even though they were almost to where the rescue was going to be at.
'Shit. I was right. I knew sumethin was gunna happen I just didn't think it was gunna be…like that.' Ellis thought to himself wincing as he saw a hunter jump towards him and Rochelle and quickly killed it before it could get on either one of them.
Rochelle started making her way up and then she, Nick and Keith covered Ellis as he started climbing.
"We're almost there y'all just a little further!" Keith yelled out as they made their way to the upper portion of the bridge and saw that there were a couple of huge holes right in front of them.
Ellis groaned as he saw zombies coming from ahead of them as well as behind them. He also saw a Spitter just ahead of them and tried to kill it before it could spit at them.
"Y'all look out for the goo!" Ellis yelled out having to move closer to the edge of the right side of the bridge as he managed to kill the Spitter, but it still managed to spit where they were at.
Everyone else moved away from it making Nick growl as heard a Boomer and possibly another Charger.
"There's no way in fucking hell that we are dying now. Ellis, you and Rochelle take care of the zombies behind us. Your friend and I will take care of the ones in front." Nick told him as they kept making their away across the bridge, killing anything that got in their way, "Just make sure to watch out for the Charger this time alright, Ellis. We can't afford to lose anyone else before we get to the copter."
Keith frowned glancing slightly at Nick as he could barely hear that Nick sounded almost like he was worried. He wasn't stupid. He could tell that when they had arrived at the safe room it seemed to him as though Nick and Ellis had a relationship that was almost about the same as what he and Ellis had.
'Naw. No way is Ellis cheatin on me, but then again it has been a few months since we were separated.' Keith thought to himself as he felt himself start to get jealous.
Keith had also heard the conversation in the safe room just before they left so that all the more fueled his anger and jealousy as he tried to get himself to stop thinking about it as they jumped onto another fuel truck and landed down on another portion of the bridge.
'El promised me that we'd always watch each other's backs and stay together, but that's not happenin right now is it?' Keith thought as he saw a Boomer suddenly show up and vomited all over Nick and watched as Rochelle and Ellis quickly helped him out.
Keith started killing as many zombies as he could get, but also paid attention to Ellis's reactions as he saw him kill the Boomer once Nick pushed it away. Just as they thought they were in the clear Ellis saw with wide eyes as the Charger came out from its hiding place (behind a car) and tried to ram at Nick, who still had the smell of Boomer vile on him and was close to the side of the bridge.
"NICK!" Ellis screamed out in horror as he knew that the Charger was too fast and that there was no way they could kill it before it rammed into him.
Keith, being closest, grabbed Nick's arm and pulled him towards him making the Charger just barely miss him. Ellis sighed with relief as he saw Nick say thanks to Keith before continuing to kill the zombies who were still rushing at them from both sides. While Rochelle and Nick went on ahead to clear a path to the helicopter, Ellis went up to Keith and smiled at him.
"Thanks, Keith." Ellis told him before following behind the others.
Keith raised an eyebrow completely suspicious about the fact that he might have been right about them being as close or maybe even closer than him and Ellis. Keith grit his teeth trying to tell himself that he was Ellis's boyfriend not Nick and he was just reading too much into this. Of course it was getting hard to tell himself that when it seemed like to him that Ellis was more worried about Nick than about him.
'Maybe it's just cause I haven't been in trouble yet that's it. That's gotta be it.' Keith thought to himself before shaking his head realizing exactly where his thoughts were leading him to, 'That's crazy that's just gunna put them in more danger and I can't do that to them especially to El.'
Keith had been too busy thinking that he hadn't heard a Hunter sneak up on him. By the time he turned around it pounced and started ripping him to shreds.
"Help! This thing's messin me up!" Keith screamed.
"Keith!"
Keith heard his name being called out as he heard a few gunshots and the Hunter was quickly killed. Ellis helped him up as Rochelle tossed out a pipe bomb she had just found.
"Come on, Keith you can't die now. Like you said we're almost there so come on just a little more." Ellis told him as he handed him his pain pills and looked at him worriedly.
Keith nodded wincing in pain as he looked at him. Ellis was worried, but it was nowhere near how worried he was about Nick. Keith had a pained look on his face making Ellis worry even more.
"You alright, Keith? Can you walk?" Ellis asked.
Keith nodded as he quickly took some of the pain pills.
"Yeah let's just go." Keith told him as they ran before the zombies started running after them again.
They could now clearly see the helicopter as they started making their way down the ladder.
"Boys, we have to run!" Rochelle yelled out as she saw a Tank lift a rock and toss it towards them.
"Shit!" Nick yelled out backing away making it just barely miss him.
Nick and Rochelle started shooting at it while Ellis and Keith climbed down the ladder. The Tank started picking up speed as it ran towards and got close enough to hit Rochelle. With having hit Rochelle away from it and Nick being the next person it saw the Tank ran after him. Ellis was wide eyed and ran towards the Tank.
"Dammit, El! I don't think you can take much more! Come back!" Keith yelled out as he ran after him.
Rochelle got back up and started shooting at the Tank again. Nick cursed as he reloaded and just as he was ready to fire again the Tank hit him sending him flying towards a set of cage bars and ran after him.
"Nick!" Ellis yelled out as he started getting closer to the Tank.
Having heard Keith's warning Nick growled as he stood back up.
"Ellis, don't you fucking dare get close to it!" Nick yelled out as he started backing away until he actually hit the cage bars and kept shooting at it.
Just as they all thought it was going to land another hit on him it fell on its knees then fell backwards and died. Nick saw that Ellis had already been right behind it just as it died making him growl angrily in frustration.
"Dammit, Ellis…"
"Nick, not now! The helicopter!" Rochelle told him as they all quickly ran just as the zombies caught up to them and they all managed to get inside the copter.
They watched as it closed its door and they all started sitting down as they felt the copter start to take off.
"Finally we made it." Rochelle sighed with relief as she had a small smile on her face.
However Nick was too pissed off to respond and even Ellis and Keith were looking at him obviously knowing why he was mad. Not even caring that he was saying this in front of Keith and Rochelle, Nick growled.
"Ellis, I told you not to go and try to protect me like that. You could've gotten yourself badly hurt if not killed!" Nick said angrily glaring at him.
"I'm sorry, Nick, but after Coach there was no way in hell that I was just gunna stand by and watch a Tank once again try to kill you!" Ellis replied obviously not sorry for taking the risk that he had.
"El, if you had taken another hit by sumethin like a Tank it most certainly woulda broken yer ribs. You've taken too many hits recently and it's just lucky that you haven't broken anythin yet." Keith told him
"Listen to him, Ellis. I'm still worried about what the Charger did to you that if the Tank had hit you I don't even know if you'd be conscious right about now let alone…." Nick said suddenly cutting himself off as he didn't even want to think of what could have happened.
Rochelle and Keith were surprised at how honest Nick was being right now. Ellis sighed.
"Nick, the Tank was goin after YOU and it was a risk I just had to take. You've done so much for me already that if I didn't do anythin to help you I wouldn't be able to live with mahself if sumethin happened." Ellis swallowed and looked away.
Nick sighed almost wishing that Ellis was still the kid who'd go off recklessly and kill everything in sight instead of trying to sacrifice himself to keep him alive. Right then Nick wanted to go over and wrap his arms around him and tell him how much he needs him, but with Rochelle and Keith here he couldn't, he still had his pride after all.
"Don't say that, Ellis. You've helped me enough as it is. You're not invincible y'know and you can't always be there to help me and I'm not expecting for you to do that." Nick told him still looking at him sadly.
Ellis bit his bottom him still refusing to look at him or even at Rochelle or Keith.
"I can try." Ellis whispered.
Nick and Rochelle looking at him worriedly while Keith just sat there completely trying hard not to show that he was jealous and angry.
'So I was right. Damn him from takin Ellis away from me!' Keith thought to himself angrily as he looked at Ellis while glancing at Nick.
Author's notes: Well another 2 weeks passed and once again the chapter I promised last time is up. I've been watching The Walking Dead recently and man it really is awesome! I can't believe I didn't see it before when it came out on T.V. I mean I saw parts, but not entire episodes. So now I can't wait until Season 4 starts. I bet it'll be just as good as the first 3! Only thing I don't understand is that they call them walkers and not zombies which seems odd to me, but whatever. Once again, unless I'm busy or lazy, it'll be at least another two weeks before I post again. The story is coming to an end here pretty soon so, so much for 20 chapters huh lol XD.