Left 4 Revenge
I in no way, shape, or form own left 4 dead.
Eric, Lexy, Shara, Nara, Kalila, Angie and Jack are my OC
If you wish you may send in your OC and I may use them and obviously give you credit for your contribution
Previously on Left 4 Revenge:
The click of the door nob being turned instantly pulls her out of the trance that had encased us both and she turns to the box of supplies just as Angie appears in the door "Are you finished patching up in there" she asks in a harsh tone "Diners ready"
"Yeah, yeah, we'll be right there." Lexy manages to say weakly. Lexy stands up and faces the door as Angie walks away, After a while i rise up quietly and go to stand right behind her. Then she turns and looks at me with surprise at how close I am. She steps forward to me and keeps her eyes down on my feet, and raises a hand to run gently along the bandages on my side and up my chest to rest on top of my beating heart. She leans in close to me and pushes her head into my chest and under my chin, then she whispers to me "Be more careful next time, I can only mend so much" her words breath softly against my skin and i can feel the cold wetness of a tear on my flesh, she kisses my chest just above my heart, then rubs her cheek against me, and breaks away quietly without looking up and walks out the door.
Eric's POV:
I make my way out the room, moving a little better than before, but slow, still trying to determine what just happened. I come to sit at the table where everyone is already waiting. As I sit down, Nara speaks to me.
"Hey there mister I'm too cool for shirts."
"Oh, come on, it's not my fault I can't bend enough to get into my shirt with out breaking my ribs more."
"Yeah yeah, that's what you say, I think you planed this so you could show off how much more muscular you are than me" Jack says jokingly.
"It's alright, you know I like them with a little more around the middle" Nara says teasingly to Jack, and everyone laughs.
"Hey, I don't have more around the middle."
"Of course not" says patronizingly, kissing Jack on the cheek.
"Oh knock that mussy mussy off at the table. I'm trying to eat" says Shara.
"Hey, if you can't stand the heat" Nara says.
"Get out of where ever we are" Jack finishes her sentence, and everyone laughs some more. The rest of the meal is accompanied by similar joking chat until everyone is done, and soon everyone is heading off to bed. Jack is now sleeping on the couch.
I head off to my room and undress and climb into bed the best I can. But after a couple of minutes there's a knock at the door.
"Come in" I say. Then in walks Lexy dressed in a mans black Hurley tee shirt that comes down to her mid thigh, and her blond hair strait, down below her shoulders. She makes her way over to the empty side of the bed and looks down at me. "Hi there, what's up?"
"Well" she says rather matter of factly "we all got together and decided that your injuries are too sever and that there is the possibility you could still go into shock, so someone needs to look after you at all times. And it also will help to ensure that you don't sneak off on some midnight run mission."
"How did you guys ever come to agree on this?"
"We're all going to take turns watching you each night."
"Hmmm, and your on first?" I ask
"Yes, me, then Angie, Shara and Kalila."
"No Nara?" I ask even though I'm not surprised
"She didn't want to."
"So this was on a volunteer basis?"
"You could say that. Plus we've all been missing being able to talk to you, since you're always fixing something, going to get something, or getting beat up, so we all get more social time with you."
"Guess I don't have much of a choice then"
"Nope not really" as she says this she lifts up the covers and slides in next to me. "Well, goodnight then" she says giving me a kiss on the cheek then putting her arms around me, and laying her head gently across my chest and closing her eyes.
"Goodnight, Lexy" I whisper in her ear and reach over and turn off the lights. I lay in bed for a long time with my eyes closed just listening to her steady breathing and her warmth on my skin and her heart against my chest. Then I feel her shift. "Eric," she whispers softly "are you still awake?" I continue to pretend to be asleep. I feel her raise up a little and gently place her hands on my chest. "Good," she says quietly to herself. And then I feel her lean down and press her soft pink lips against mine. Her cheek against mine is hot and I can feel her heart race. She runs a hand across my face and then removes her lips, then gives me one more small kiss, before returning her head to rest upon my chest. And with that I let out a small sigh.
"You were awake." she whispers almost inaudibly into my chest, and i feel her cheeks pull up in a smile as we both drift off to sleep in each others arms.
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I wake up early in the morning to the light pouring in through the window. I look down and Lexy is still laying half on top of me with her arms wraped around my chest and her legs in-twined with one of mine. I can hear her breathing softly and see her back rise and fall with every inhale and exhale. I gently move my hand over her face to brush a small lock of blond hair back to her ear. I feel her sigh out and then slowly opens her eyes to look up into mine.
"Good morning" I say to her with a little smile. She smiles back and closes her eyes to streches. "How did you sleep?" I ask her.
"Amazingly" She says smiling up at my and wrapping her arms around "I could stay like this all day" she says holding me tighter. I go to move out of the bed to get ready but she keeps me in with her. "Noooo" she says in an adorable voice "Please, just a little more time her with you all to myself, please." I decide to allow her this and lie back down and she holds my tight in her arms. She closes her eyes and snuggles her face close up to mine and her mouth against my ear. "I know that with the way things are right now," she whispers to me "the infection and all, that a relationship would just make stuff so much more complicated, especially with how all the other girls around here feel about you. But it's always nice to think of what might have been if this whole thing never happened." at this she raises her head and kisses my cheek lightly. I give off a large sigh and brush another strand of hair from her face and let the back of my hand linger across her cheek.
At that moment Nara comes bardging in the door "Oh good, you're up."
"Didn't anyone ever teach you to knock?" I ask from the bed.
She looks right in my eyes and answers "No. Now come on it's time for breakfast. Eric can you dress yourself or does Lexy need to help you." I take a glance at Lexy who shrugs.
"I'm okay to dress."
"Good cause I wanted to talk to her." Nara then runs over and takes Lexy by the hand and practically pulls her out of the room and shuts the door. I manage to get up and go to my closet right by the door. I can hear the voices of Nara and Lexy on the other side so I lean my ear against the door and listen.
"So, did you guys? Well, you know?"
"What? No. But oh my god it was such a wonderful night. Sure beats sleeping alone in my bed. He is so charming it sould be illegal" this puts a little smile across my face.
"Did you tell him how you feel about him?" As they talk I carefully dress myself.
"Well, a little. There's no confusing in his mind as to weather or not I like him, I made sure of that. I do wish him and I could be together but there's so much that would get in the way right now. You know, with the other girls."
"Well, I've been talking to them and Shara only wants him cause of how he looks and she figures he'd be pretty good in bed." I almost stumble and give myself away at hearing this but manage to remain quiet.
"And Kalila just wants him for the same reasons but figures she can get him no matter what. I think she wants him more because the other girls want him. And, well, you know that I'm not a threat, but Angie. She seems to be a different story. Both you and her are the ones that seem to be falling for him."
"Yeah, and she seems to be the only other one that he seems like he's gotten attached to. I just don't know who he has more feelings for. And she's up next for watching him tomorrow night."
"Hey do you think he'll do anything with Kalila or Shara on their nights to watch him?"
"No, I think he's a guy who would actually refuse someone like Shara if she tried to go after him."
"Well come on, he's going to be out of there any second now. We can talk about this more later"
When I'm sure they've left I limp out carefully. My wounds seem to have done quite a bit of good healing. I had expected to be out for a week, but with how I'm feeling I could probably be out again in a few days. I wonder if Lexy spending the night had anything to do with it? I make my way to the kitchen and everyone is already there eating breakfast.
"Hey, Eric." Angie is the first to notice me "How are you feeling?"
"A lot better than yesterday." I say as I slowly take a seat and Kalila hands me a bowl of cereal and milk.
"Shaken, not stirred" Kalila says smiling at me over the bowl and pointing to the cereal.
"Just the way I like it." I say with a smile. "So what's no the agenda today" I ask.
Jack speaks up, "For you? R&R, some rest and relaxation. A few of us are making a few runs to town but you're staying right here."
I give a little frown at this. "Oh don't worry." Angie says, gently putting her arms around me "We're going to have tons of fun here. I promise" she say with a smile.
...
After breakfast Jack, Nara and Shara head off to do their running in town. I go in and take a shower to clean off completely. Once I'm done and dressed again, Angie, Lexy and Kalila insist that they all help re-wrap my injuries. And once that's done, Kalila hands me quite a few pills to help curb the pain. Then we all sit down to watch a movie, I get a little chuckle from the fact that Lexy and Angie both sat as closes as they could next to me and blocked Kalila from getting a seat near me, so she angrily but quietly took a seat in a recliner. The girls picked some cheese romantic comedy and I soon realize why I was given so many pill. My eye lids start getting heavier and then next thing I know I'm looking up half asleep at Angie playing with my hair and looking down into my eyes. I can tell that time has passed but I don't recall falling asleep. My heads in Angie's lap and I look down the couch to see Lexy gently rubbing my feet and looking down at me. For a second before I fall back asleep I almost thought I saw Lexy shoot a nasty look Angie's way.
When I wake up again i'm still on the couch in Angies lap and I look strait up into her eyes. "Hey there sleepy-head. have a good nap."
Then I hear Kalila from the kitchen "Oh, is he up? Is he in pain? Here get him to take these." I can barely see her walk over to the back of the couch and hand Angie another large dose of meds and then turn around and return to the kitchen.
I motion for Angie to come closer and when her face is up to mine I whisper in the ear, "I'm not falling for that trick twice" pointing at the pills in her hand.
She smiles back at me and whispers back "I won't make you take them. Kalila is trying to keep you druged up cause she knows it's my night to watch you tonight" she whispers this with a little smile and slips the pills into her pocket. Then she leans down, "try to get more sleep though, it'll help you heal and your probably still feeling some of the effects of the pills you took seven hours ago."
"Seven hours?" I say in amazement. "Have you been here the whole time?"
"Yeah, but don't worry, I've enjoyed watching over you."
"Really? Somehow I don't think me unconscious would be very interesting."
"It was interesting for me."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, let's just say that your not always quiet when you sleep."
"I talk?" she gives a very cute little nod "Good god, what did I say?"
"I'll tell you later, but only if you start getting some rest, right now. Besides diner will be ready in an hour or two and Jack, Nara, and Shara will be back from their final run soon."
"What were they doing?"
"What did I just say, it's rest time for you" She says giving my nose a light flick and then putting her hand over my eyes to keep them closed. "Now sleep"
"Yes master" I say in a fake raspy voice. She gives a little snort of laughter.
"Knock it off, I'm supposed to be making sure you rest, other wise the medicine woman over there will shove some more pills down your throat"
"Understood" I say giving a military salute and I peek through her fingers to see her snickering at my joking. "Okay, okay I'm sleeping" I turn on my un-injured side and close my eyes.
...
I can feel something soft and smooth rubbing my nose lightly. What is it? A blanket? No. It's skin. Who the hell is rubbing my nose? I open my eyes to see Angie's big light green eyes staring back at me and she's rubbing my nose with hers. "Time to wake up, you. Everyone's back and diners set. come on" she says scurrying around the couch to help me up and get to the table and take my seat with my back to the front of the house. then she takes her seat.
"How are you feeling Eric?" Nara asks
"Tired." I say with a yawn.
"I meant your injuries, but what have you been doing that's got you tired?"
"Sleeping" I reply without looking up and I smile a little.
"Wow, sounds like a tough day" Jack says.
"Yeah, and what did you three do" I ask pointing at Jack, Nara and Shara.
"We went and got the rest of the cars on the list"
I choke a little on my food "No one ran this by me" I say looking up at Jack specifically.
"What were you going to do. It's not like you could come with us and we can handle retreaving a few cars."
I mumble to myself a bit but then admit defeat "Yeah, I guess it was a good enough idea to go get them. At least now we'll be ready for tomorrow."
A round of surprised responses resound from everyone.
"What, you're in no shape to go out that soon." Lexy says.
"I disagree, I'm healing quick and by tomorrow I'll be able to move enough to go out again. I already feel good enough to go but I figure I can give it another day and a half."
"But that's rediculious" Nara says.
"Every day we spend not looking for other survivor is another day they have to try to survive alone. And that reduces our odds of finding them alive. I've decided and that's it. Tomorrow afternoon, Jack, Nara, Angie and I will be heading out. I promised Nara and Angie the first round of looking for survivors."
Everyone else starts making noise and creating a huge jumble of words, trying to talk over everyone else. So I just let them gab for a while then...
"Hush up. Shhh!!! Everyone be quiet." All the voices quiet and I tilt my head trying to hear better.
"What is it Eric?" Kalila asks.
"Quiet" I say and continue to listen. Then there's a shrill scream from the boarded up window a good 20 feet across the room, behind my chair. I only have a short second to act but time seems to slow down to a crawl. I quickly grab Jacks holstered gun from where he sits next to me and I swing my arm all the way behind me just in time to see a hunter shatter through the two by fours. I fire three shots, the first strikes it in the shoulder but the other two hit it right in the head and it's dead before it hits the ground. The body smacks the floor and slides across to be stopped when it hits my chair. Most of the girls can only jump in surprise but it's already finished off when they do. I stand up out of my seat and look down at the body. I aim the gun at it's head and fire a shot. I look up at the others from across the table where they look down at the body in disbelief, "Still think I'm not ready to go back out"