I DO NOT OWN LEFT 4 DEAD I MAKE NO PROFIT
Okay, so I continued it… heh. I hope the second chapter isn't a disappointment I had a difficult time writing it. in the first chapter I though Ellis was hard to write, well let me tell you in this chapter Nick was a bitch to write haha, oh well I still love him! I hope you enjoy.
The group of four had stayed in the safe room for 2 days before Nick was able to get back on his feet. Coach stood in front of the safe room door "It's all clear. We should at least shoot for 10 miles today. You think you can handle that Nick?" he asked.
Nick was holding onto the counter in the safe room for support "10 miles? No problem, yeah I can do that, lets shoot for more though."
Ellis fixed his hat frowning "Y'all I think we ought to just get to the next safe spot."
Rochelle nodded in agreement "I think Ellis is right."
"Ellis is never right." Nick countered.
"Hey know, all I'm doin' is lookin' out for ya!" Ellis said crossing his arms, sulking.
"I think you helped me enough. It is your fault I'm in this situation!"
Ellis's arms fell to his side as he stared at Nick wide eyed "I…" he bit his lower lip before looking away "I didn' ask ya for help…"
Nick grunted and took a step towards Ellis. Rochelle quickly stood between the two and placed her hands on Nick's chest "Alright that's enough. Nick, you can't blame Ellis."
Ellis looked at Nick from the corner of his eye. Nick turned around a little too fast; he collapsed to the ground groaning "Shit… that was fucking stupid."
Rochelle kneeled beside him "You can't move that fast! You'll open the scabs on your back!" she scolded.
"I'm fine." Nick sighed.
"Ya don' look fine…" Ellis said with a worried look on his face.
"I said I'm fine!" Nick snapped.
Ellis flinched before nodding his head slowly. Coach sighed "Fine we'll go to the next safe room. It's better than staying here. Safer too. All those zombie fuckers know we're in here."
Rochelle helped Nick up and nodded "Yeah. That sounds like a good plan."
Nick cursed under his breath as they began to prepare to fight the awaiting horde of zombies outside the door.
After several hours of fighting off zombies the group was finally able to make it to the next safe room. Ellis was the first one in, practically dragging Nick behind him. He helped Nick to the ground and looked over to Rochelle and Coach who we're safely inside and slammed the safe room door shut. "Y'all alrigh'?" he asked.
"Yeah we're fine." Coach said "you two?"
"I'm alrigh'…" Ellis said and looked at Nick who was gasping for breath.
Nick glanced up and waved his hand "Fine, just out of breath."
"Ya sure?" Ellis asked leaning closer to Nick "Yer back aint bleedin none is it?"
Nick flushed slightly and pulled back "Jesus Christ, Ellis, I'm fine!"
Rochelle couldn't help but roll her eyes. Coach rolled his eyes as well and looked out the other door "Rochelle, why don't you and I go check out some of those building for supplies?"
Rochelle nodded "Sure, good idea."
"Why not take this one with you?" Nick said gesturing to Ellis.
"Someone has to stay back here with you." Coach said.
"So let Ro stay behind." Nick argued.
Coach ignored the man "Ellis you better be ready to open this door at any given moment, got it?" Coach said.
"Sure thing!" Ellis beamed "Y'all can coun' on me!"
"Good." Coach said before he and Rochelle left the safe room.
Nick and Ellis sat in silent for what seemed like hours to both, but in reality it was only a few minutes. Ellis finally broke the silence "Ya sure yer alrigh'?"
"How many times do I have to say it!?" Nick snapped "I'm fucking fine!"
Unfazed by Nick's outburst Ellis simply nodded and spoke again "So ya had a wife?"
Nick stared straight at Ellis "huh?"
"Well ya mentioned a 'ex-wife' is all… so I'm curious." Ellis shrugged "you don' have to tell me anythin' if ya don't want to."
"Good." Nick said and lay down on his stomach "Because it's none of your business."
Ignoring what Nick said, Ellis spoke again "Was her name Katie?"
"Where did you hear that name!?" Nick snapped as he tried to sit up only to wince and collapse to the ground biting his lip.
"You gotta be careful, man…" Ellis said as he placed his hands on Nick's shoulders. Nick sighed and laid his head onto the ground again before mumbling. "What's that? I didn' hear ya."
"Her name was Alex. Not Katie." Nick mumbled.
Ellis tilted his head as he sat down beside Nick "Then who's Katie?"
"God you're so annoying…" Nick sighed and sat up slowly and crefully before pulling a picture out of his jacket pocket. He looked at it for a moment before handing it to Ellis "Katie was my little girl."
Ellis studied the picture of a small blonde child with those piercing green eyes that Nick had. She was wearing a pink t-shirt and jeans as she was holding up a drawing of what looked like a stick-figure family "She looks an awfully lot like you." Ellis smiled sadly.
"Yeah, well…." Nick shrugged "She was my daughter."
"She's cute."
Nick nodded.
"She has yer pretty green eyes." Ellis said.
"Had." Nick corrected "She's dead."
"Ya sure? I mean yer immune maybe she was too." Ellis said being his optimistic self.
Nick grabbed the picture back from Ellis and tucked it back into his jacket pocket after talking one final look at it "Trust me I know. Her skin had a grayish tint while sores would randomly show up on her body. Not to mention she coughed blood all the time…"
"Ah man, Nick, I'm sorry. It must a' been hard for ya too see yer kid dying like that in fron' of ya." Ellis frowned.
Nick grimaced "I didn't see her. Alex, my ex-wife, would tell me he condition…" He chuckled and shook his head "I bet I should win father of the year award for that one, right? Not even going out of my way to see my dying six year old." He said sarcastically.
Without warning Ellis wrapped his arms around Nick pulling him into his chest. He held him tight taking Nick by surprise.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Nick snapped and tried to get out of the mechanics embrace.
"Ya needed a hug…" Ellis mumbled as he held Nick tighter.
"No I don't…" Nick mumbled under his breath but gave up on fighting. He relaxed into the embrace and felt his eyelids getting heavier.
The two sat like that for a while when Ellis finally looked down and noticed Nick fast asleep. Ellis couldn't help but let out a quite chuckle "Well now, I'll be damned…." He said and ran his fingers threw Nick's hair affectionately "Ya ain't so scary when yer asleep…"
"Hi daddy…." Katie said weakly over the phone.
"Hey sweetheart how are you feeling?" Nick asked from his New York apartment.
"Tired, but okay…" She said "The nurses and doctors are really nice. I just wish they would let me see my friends… I'm only allowed to see mommy, but she has to wear strange clothes…"
Nick frowned "Don't worry; you'll be able to see your friends in no time." He told her.
"I hope…" Katie was quite for a moment before she spoke again "Daddy?"
"Yes, Katie?" Nick asked.
"I asked the nurse and, well, she said that you're allowed to come visit me… as long as you wear those weird clothes…" Katie said "So I was wondering when" she broke off into a coughing fit.
"You okay Katie?" Nick asked with a worried tone.
"Uh-huh." Katie said "Sorry. But I wanted to know when you are going to come see me."
Nick bit his lip and took a long slug of the whisky in the cup he was holding "Soon baby."
"When's soon?" Katie asked "A few days?"
Nick shrugged "Yeah, a few days."
"Thanks daddy." Katie said happily. Nick could only imagine his daughter smiling happily, but of course the image in his head was of his healthy daughter. He couldn't even begin to think of what she looked like now.
"Daddy," Katie's voice pulled Nick from his thoughts.
"Yes baby?" Nick said.
"Mommy wants to talk to you." Katie said.
"Alright. I love you sweetheart."
"I love you too daddy, I'll see you soon. I can't wait." She said.
Nick's eyelids slowly opened as he allowed his eyes adjust to the light "Ellis?" He mumbled and sat up. He saw Ellis looking out the safe room door with an anxious look "What's up overalls?" Nick asked.
"Ro and Coach ain't back yet…" Ellis said "I'm worried. Mus' o' been at least two hours…"
Nick used the wall to help himself up "You sure?"
Ellis nodded "Positive."
Nick looked up at the sky "looks like it's going to storm."
Ellis nodded "maybe we ought to go look for em?" Ellis asked.
"I don't know if that's the greatest idea, Kid." Nick said "My back is pretty fucking sore…. And I'm light headed, there's no way I would be able to fight off a horde."
"Ya do look a little red." Ellis said studying Nick's face "Ya feelin' alrigh'?"
Nick nodded "Yeah. Just dizzy."
Ellis placed his hand on Nick's forehead "Shit man, yer burnin' up!"
"Great, fucking great…" Nick sighed.
"Take yer shirt off." Ellis said as he pushed the man's white jacket off.
"Excuse me?" Nick raised an eyebrow.
"Rochelle said to put the ointment on my wounds that time I got cut pretty good by that hunter an all." Ellis said as he pulled a small tube from his back pocket.
Nick sighed and began to unbutton his blue shirt underneath exposing his chest. He was well built and tan. Ellis couldn't help but look the man up and down and admire his build and the hair on his chest made him a little hard. Ellis quickly pushed that thought aside and cleared his throat "Turn aroun' so I can put whatever left in here tube on ya."
Nick nodded and turned his back to Ellis. There were 4 large deep gashes on his back. Two of them were a bright red and swollen, filled with puss and god knows what else. Ellis poked it a bit drawing a loud hiss from Nick. Ellis squeezed the contents of the tube onto all 4 cuts but paid more attention to the infected ones. He rubbed in gently but Nick would still grunt here and there in pain.
"There ya go…" Ellis said and pulled out some of his pain pills "Here, they'll help with yer fever."
Nick nodded "Thanks, nurse" He said sarcastically and put his shirt back and buttoning it up. Ones his shirt and jacket were on he sat back down "I don't know what we should do about Coach and Rochelle. The only thing I can think of is sitting and waiting…"
"I jus' hope that their alrigh'." Ellis frowned and sat down as well, but kept shifting his position.
"Can't you sit still?" Nick snapped.
"S-Sorry." Ellis said before finding a good position to sit in "so we jus' gonna sit here and wait?"
"Yeah." Nick nodded.
"Okay." Ellis nodded before a smile spread across his face "This reminds me of this one time Keith an' I wen' campin, well lemme tell ya we got lost. And there was this bear and Keith though' it would be a good idea to try and catch it for food since we forgot to pack anythin' so"
"Ellis." Nick said tiredly "Why do you always have to talk about Keith?" he asked angrily. Every time Ellis would mention Keith the older man's skin would crawl. He didn't want to say it was jealousy, but he couldn't find any other word to explain what he was feeling. 'me? Jealous?' he thought to himself 'yeah right…'
Ellis started to play with his fingers "Ah ,well. He's my bes' friend is all."
"Bes' friend." Nick said mockingly "Please. I never in my whole fucking life ever heard someone talk about the same person so much!"
Ellis shrugged "Sorry, I didn' know it bothered ya, otherwise I wouldn' talk 'bout him much."
"Please I don't think you can go a whole day without mentioning this Keith fucker." Nick said "You know he's dead right? There is absolutely no way he survived!"
Ellis flinched and pulled his hat down to cover his eyes "Yer wrong…. Keith's alive…"
"I'm so tired of your optimism. Coach and Rochelle are probably dead too! Hell we're probably going to die before we get rescued!" Nick shouted.
"Yer wrong." Ellis said louder.
"If you wanna be realistic, Ellis, maybe Keith's wandering the street looking for his next meal; as a fucking zombie!"
Ellis slammed Nick down to the ground, hard. Nick shouted out in pain before glaring up at Ellis. Never had Nick seen those brown eyes filled with such anger. "Yer wrong! Keith's alive!"
Nick's eyes narrowed "You keep telling yourself that." He said before kneeing Ellis in the gut. Ellis grabbed his stomach and pulled away from Nick cursing up a storm. "Fucker…" Nick mumbled as he rubbed his back "Getting so angry over your fucking butt buddy, you can get a new one."
"Keith aint like that." Ellis said when he was finally able to catch his breath "Keith don' like me like that. He had a girlfriend…" Ellis shut his eyes tightly, fighting back his tears "he don' feel the same way as me…"
Nick stared at Ellis's form on the ground shocked. Ellis admitted he had feelings for Keith. He couldn't say he was surprised, but he could say he was surprised that the other hick didn't return Ellis's feelings. Ellis was attractive, 'for a guy at least…' Nick added to the thought. "Sorry kid. I think this whole ordeal is getting to us both."
Ellis nodded from where he was on the floor. "I hope Ro and Coach come back soon…" Ellis mumbled.
Nick frowned as he watched Ellis cry silently "Yeah… I do too… I do too…"
End of chapter 2…. Hope it was okay! Woo for sexual tension! Anyway I'm not sure when, but I will be putting a lemon in this eventually…. Just wanna develop Nick and Ellis's relationship a little more… so anyway please Review and no flames pleaaaaase thanks!
30-ngihts