The Unforgiven

By: esmtz

Once everyone had been fully healed they all (except Coach) grabbed another health kit from the table as well as ammo and then made their way out the door. Coach was still a little pissed that he let himself get taken down so easily by a witch that he was taking it out on the zombies that were in front of him. Nick, Ellis, and Rochelle stayed behind him afraid that he might accidentally shoot them if any one of them tried to pass him.

"Coach, save your anger for the next witch will ya?" Nick said as Coach kept taking his kills along with a few of Ellis's and Rochelle's.

"Trust me she'll get what's coming to her, but since I don't see or hear her and I feel the need to kill right now these zombies will just have to do." Coach replied shooting the heads off a couple of zombies.

Nick sighed getting agitated that Coach was doing all the work. Once they headed inside yet another building and jumped down from the balcony onto a van was when they heard some of the special infected.

"Hold on, don't jump from the van yet. I see a charger." Coach told them.

They watched as it charged at them and instead it hit the side of the van. Nick snorted.

"How stupid can these guys be?" Nick asked.

"Got it!" Rochelle said as it died but before she could follow the guys a smoker wrapped its tongue around her and started pulling her up, "Help smokers got me!"

The guys had been too busy trying to kill the smoker that was hiding on top of the building that they had just been in when a jockey snuck up behind them. It jumped on top of Ellis and started steering him away just as a group of zombies that were down there with them started surrounding them.

"Fuck! Coach take care of that smoker! I've got a jockey to fucking kill." Nick yelled out.

Nick pulled out the pipe bomb he found in the building and tossed it. He then ran towards Ellis and to Nick's horror saw that he was being steered towards a witch.

"Get this thing off me!" Ellis yelled out having not noticed the witch's angry growl.

"Ellis!" Nick yelled.

Nick caught up just in time to get the jockey off of him and then pulled him away before the witch could start screaming.

"Nick, what are you…oh I didn't see her there." Ellis said watching as she calmed down.

Nick sighed releasing his grip on Ellis's arm.

"There's that fucking bitch!" Coach said going up to her and quickly shooting her in the head.

"You alright there, Ro?" Ellis asked as she walked towards them.

Rochelle nodded.

"I'm fine though I can't say the same for that witch." Rochelle said.

Nick and Ellis turned to watch Coach still shooting at its dead body.

"I'm surprised that I haven't pissed him off to the point of him doing that to me yet." Nick said as he continued on ahead.

"He's not going to try and kill you, Nick. We still need you with us." Ellis told him following right behind him.

"Who are you talking about, Ellis? Because the Coach I know really would leave me to die as he has proven that already before." Nick replied.

"Coach, she's already dead." Rochelle said trying to get him to leave her dead body alone.

"Not yet." Coach told her before shooting the witch's body a few more times, "There now we can go."

"Better yet I'm pretty sure he'd be the one killing me especially if something happened to you or Rochelle." Nick said once he and Ellis turned inside another building which ended up looking like what used to be a bar.

Ellis frowned looking at him.

"How come you and Coach don't get along, Nick?" Ellis asked.

Nick didn't know how to respond to that question as he instead concentrated on killing the zombies that were inside. They made their way upstairs and before it could get away Nick killed the spitter and watched as its goo (acid) spilled all around its dead body. Nick sighed and looked at Ellis.

"Some people just don't, overalls. One look at someone else and a person can immediately tell if they like someone or not and in our case we just ended up not trusting or liking each other."

"Yeah, but after you got to know us at least a little you started to like Ro and me. So I still don't understand why you and Coach still don't like each other." Ellis replied.

"It's complicated."

"Obviously cause I don't follow at all. The both of you are just plain awesome! Coach is great at killin witches and you are always savin and healin me. Without you I'd probably be dead by now and without Coach we'd probably would have had more witch troubles." Ellis told him.

Nick looked at him not sure to be happy about that or to feel guilty that Ellis seemed to rely on him a lot. As soon as the goo cleared and Coach and Rochelle caught up, they headed towards the direction the spitter was just at and turned to the left to get ammo that was in the small room before jumping down to the ground. They could barely hear the tank nearby and Rochelle pulled out the molotov that she had spotted just before they grabbed ammo.

"It's probably around that corner, Ro." Ellis said.

Rochelle nodded walking slowly so as to not accidentally walk right into it.

"Get yer ass in front, Nick!" Coach told him.

"What the fuck for?"

"If the tank is right there he can hit you instead of Rochelle."

Nick gave him a dirty look.

"Don't make him do that, Coach. I can do it!" Ellis said walking right in front of Rochelle.

Nick growled.

"Look what you did, Coach."

"Well then if I were you I'd get up there before he gets hurt." Coach replied.

"I can barely see his arm y'all!" Ellis said just as Nick was about to walk towards him.

"Well he's blocking the doorway to where we need to go. Get ready to back up!" Rochelle told them as she threw the molotov directly towards it.

The tank roared with anger as it came out of 'hiding' and started running towards them. With all of them shooting at it in one direction almost immediately brought the tank down.

"Why couldn't all of the tanks be this easy to kill?" Nick asked passing its dead burning body.

They had to wait for the fire to burn out before they could go through the building. Once they headed inside they made their way to the third floor and grabbed ammo before heading outside again and dropping down to another part of the building and then down to the ground.

"So who's going to alert the horde? We're going to need to bring that board closer to this building we were just standing on to cross to the other side." Rochelle asked shooting at the few zombies that were there.

"I'll do it." Coach replied as he went up and pulled the lever.

"They're coming!" Rochelle said watching as it started moving the board over to where it needed to be before glancing at Nick.

Ellis and Coach went upstairs to stand back on the top of the building.

"You're not going to do it are you?" Rochelle asked as she turned her attention towards the zombies that were showing up and rushing towards them.

Nick didn't respond as he started killing as much zombies as he could. He already knew that he was taking to long to even try to attempt to make Ellis hate him.

'Why the fuck am I hesitating? Normally I would have already pissed whoever off by now, but Ellis…' Nick glanced upwards towards his right and saw that Ellis was covering him and Rochelle from the building.

"Hunter!" Ellis yelled out.

Nick turned and saw that it had pounced on Rochelle. He shoved the zombies away from himself before shooting and killing it. He then felt himself being pulled and immediately felt his body up against a smokers as zombies started attacking him while he was defenseless. He started yelling out for help as he realized that Rochelle was too busy fighting off a big group of zombies that had her surrounded so that left only Ellis who was able to help him.

"Smokers got me!" Nick choked out.

Nick forced himself to try and look up and to his surprise saw that Ellis either hadn't noticed or heard him because Ellis was looking the other way. Finally he started to feel real anger start to consume him.

"Nick!" Rochelle cried out as she limped her way towards him.

Rochelle shot at the zombies before making her way to him and then hit him forcing the smoker to let go of him. She quickly killed it and helped Nick to his feet.

"You alright?" Rochelle asked.

Nick was shaking with anger as he hung on to her for support. After another minute of killing the zombies, the horde started to die down and Rochelle had noticed that they were able to cross to the other side now.

"Come on, Nick. They're waiting for us over there." Rochelle told him.

Nick gritted his teeth as he glared up at Ellis who looked like just now was realizing that he was hurt. Ellis was about to jump down to rush towards him, but Coach grabbed his arm and shook his head. They waited there until Nick and Rochelle got there.

"Nick, you alright?" Ellis asked looking at him worried.

Nick growled as he limped past him. Coach pulled out his pain pills and handed them to Rochelle.

"Thanks." Rochelle said and took some.

"Nick? Nick, hold on!" Ellis said grabbing a hold of Nick's shoulder.

Nick turned to face him angrily.

"You're fucking useless you know that, Ellis?"

"Wha…I…."

"That fucking smoker had me and I was yelling out for help! You were fucking right there, Ellis! I can't believe you didn't help me!" Nick yelled.

"I didn't know! Coach was getting his ass handed to him by a charger and he needed mah help! How was I supposed to know that you were in trouble?" Ellis asked looking at him in surprise and hurt.

Nick snorted.

"Again it's Coach. It's always fucking Coach! Do you like him or something?"

Ellis looked at him horrified and Coach gave him a what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about look.

"He needed mah help, Nick! How on earth does that imply in any way that I like him?" Ellis asked.

"If he's in trouble and can't help himself you're there. If he needs to be healed and can't do it himself YOU'RE the one who heals him. It's almost the same with Rochelle! How many fucking goddamn times have you saved and healed them compared to with me?"

Ellis didn't say anything as he kept opening and closing his mouth.

"You've lost yer mind, Nick!" Coach told him.

Nick gave Coach the coldest look he had.

"Stay the fuck out of this!" Nick told him.

Coach glared at him before turning to continue through the building with Rochelle quickly following right behind.

"I'm sorry alright, Nick! I'll stay by yer side next time." Ellis finally replied.

Nick shook his head as he took out his pain pills and took some more and then pocketed them again.

"There isn't going to be a next time you fucking loser! I understand now why you're so useless! It's because you got it from that butt buddy of yours!"

Nick finally hit a sensitive chord with him as Ellis's face contorted with fury and he clenched his fists tightly.

"Don't you dare talk about Keith like that!" Ellis yelled.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend your fucking boyfriend!" Nick replied.

Ellis stayed quiet as he continued to get angrier.

"So he was your boyfriend? Let me guess I bet you got your interest in guys from your mom or was it your dad. Either she was a lesbian and wanted to try being with a guy or he ended up being gay and that's why you came out the way you did. They would have been very proud of you." Nick said.

Ellis punched him hard enough to make him fall to the floor. Nick felt something wet coming out of his mouth. He wiped his hand on his mouth and then looked at it and saw blood. He glared up at Ellis and then smirked.

"I didn't think a kid like you had it in you to hit so hard." Nick said.

"You know I thought you were a good guy, Nick, but I was wrong. Coach was right. Yer a fuckin asshole who only thinks about himself. I hope you die out here, Nick cause I don't ever want to see or hear from you again." Ellis told him coldly as he left him there to follow the others.

Nick slowly started getting to his feet feeling completely hurt inside that he had said what he said to Ellis as well as the words that just now came out of Ellis's mouth. Nick sighed angry with himself for even feeling this way in the first place as he went to catch up with the others. Nick hadn't realized as he kept walking that there hadn't been any zombies in his way. He also hadn't realized that he had already caught up with the others and hadn't been paying attention to the fact that he was walking past the zombies without even attempting to kill any of them that were attacking him. Rochelle was the only one attempting to help him out. Surprisingly by the time they got to the safe house, Nick hadn't been jumped, pounced, rammed, vomited or anything that a special infected could have done to him. Coach and Ellis gave him hateful looks before heading up the ladder to heal. Rochelle closed and barred the door behind her and then turned to look at Nick.

"I'm not sure what happened, but I'm guessing you did it." Rochelle said looking at him worriedly as she saw the look on his face.

Nick had been and was still zoning out, but managed to listen once Rochelle had said something.

"Yeah…yeah he hates me now…" Nick swallowed.

Rochelle looked at him sadly before removing her health kit from her back.

"Here, let me heal you." Rochelle said sympathetically.

Author's notes: Well finally Nick managed to get Ellis to really hate him, but with Ellis being Ellis he's going to end up feeling guilty about it later and horrified the moment Rochelle tells him the truth. It's getting emotional I know which is how I wanted this to sort of end up being. Actually once again today I was playing as Nick and again I got frustrated with Ellis being the absolute last resort to heal me that I kinda did take it out on him in this story. Uh yeah did not intend for that to happen, but it did seeing as I was kinda getting annoyed with Rochelle healing me all of the fucking goddamn time (sighs) not even Coach helped me. I think I need to buy another game before I get really bummed out about this, but seeing as Halo Reach doesn't come out till next month and Black ops for another two months after that it leaves me with only one option which is to buy COD4 Modern Warfare. I tend to get a tad bit emotional when I don't get the person I want to heal me specifically when I'm Nick as you can see and extremely jealous when Nick heals someone else other then me (Ellis) which is rare since recently he's mostly only being healing me. I don't know why but I like Rochelle better in stories then I do in game. I like her, but she gets annoying after awhile. I'll admit it I'm a bitch and clearly possessive. XD