I DO NOT OWN LEFT 4 DEAD I MAKE NO PROFIT!!!!
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God I hate this chapter so much…. It nearly drove me insane!!
"Nick, why would you promise her that!" Alex's voice boomed from the other end
"I'll try and get down there, honest." Nick said casually.
"That's bullshit. When do you ever keep your promises?" Alex whispered "You never kept your promises to me and go figure you don't even keep your promises to your own daughter…"
"Knock it off Alex. Katie wouldn't be dying in some hospital bed if you didn't take her down south with you!" Nick snapped.
Alex gasped from the other end of the phone "It's my fault?" her voice cracked "It's MY fucking fault!? How dare you Nick!"
Nick rolled his eyes and sighed into his hand "Alex.
"I do everything in my power for Katie, EVERYTHING! What have you ever done for her? Huh? What Nick?"
Nick lay his head back on the couch "Alex don't get your panties in a bunch. Calm down."
"Fuck you, Nick!" Alex shrieked before hanging the phone up.
Nick stared at his cell phone for a minute before tossing it beside him "Fucking bitch."
Nick stared out the safe room door looking at nothing particular. The sun was beginning to set and still no sign of Coach and Rochelle. Ellis was still lying on the floor across from Nick. His breathing was even, he had stopped crying. Nick turned his attention to the young mechanic in front of him. His green eyes wandered down his broad back and downward… When Nick noticed he was checking him out he grunted and quickly turned away. Ellis glanced over his shoulder "Nick?" he asked.
Nick refused to look over at Ellis "What do you want Overalls?"
"I'm really sorry…" Ellis said, still looking at Nick.
Nick raised an eyebrow, but he kept his focus on the wall that had writing all over it. "For what?" Nick asked casually.
"For everythin' man…" Ellis said and sat up. He brought his knees up to his chin. "I didn' mean to attack ya like that… I was outta line… Damn man, I'm sorry… Did I hurt ya?"
Nick sighed and shook his head "I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I guess I was a little out of line myself… Talking about that Keith fuc-uh; you know."
Ellis smiled "Mhmm.. I know… Still sorry though. Guess we all are carin' some baggage."
"Guess so, Overalls, I guess so."
Ellis frowned "You don' think any less of me do ya, Nick?"
Nick rolled his eyes and took a breath before he looked over at Ellis. The man's hat was covering his eyes and in the growing dim light of the safe room a faint blush was painted over his cheeks. Nick let the breath out "For what?"
"For me likin' Keith… in the past I mean." Ellis mumbled.
Nick couldn't help but laugh "Please, I figured you had a thing for him the first time you talked about him. You don't hide your feelings so well."
Ellis looked up surprised "Ya knew!?"
"Didn't seem like it was a secret." Nick shrugged.
Ellis's blush deepened "Aw man…."
Nick sighed "But to answer your question. No, I don't think any less of you."
Ellis smiled up at him "Thanks, Nick."
"No problem, Kid." Nick said.
"Ya know when I told Keith he didn' believe me… It made me really sad I mean we'd been friends since we was in diapers, so you'd think he'd know!" Ellis chuckled "But leave it to Keith to think I was jokin'."
Nick nodded his head, listening to the man's story for once. He noticed Ellis getting upset again and let out a frustrated sigh "Well its Keith's loss."
Ellis's brown eyes widened "Huh?"
Nick scratched the back of his head nervously "You heard me kid, I'm not repeating myself." Nick snapped.
Ellis chuckled "Thanks Nick. Y'know yer really special to me… Probably the most important person in my life right now…"
Nick rolled his eyes looking away.
"Don' get me wrong. I love Ro and Coach. They're awesome an' all, but yer just different." Ellis blushed.
"Am I now…" Nick mumbled no longer paying attention.
"Oh yeah. I think…" Ellis took a deep breath "I think I like ya."
"That's nice…" Nick said.
"R-Really!?" Ellis gasped in surprise.
Nick looked at him confused "Really what?" he asked. 'I probably should have been listening….' He thought to himself
Ellis leapt over to Nick and wrapped his arms around him and pinned the older man to the ground "I'm glad you didn' flat out reject me like I thought ya were gonna!"
Nick hissed in pain "Get the hell off me!" he spat "I wasn't even listening to what you were fucking saying!"
Ellis loosened his grip on him and looked down at him with sad eyes "So you missed my whole confession?"
"Confession? Confession of what?!" Nick asked trying to sit up. Nick quickly noticed how close his face was to the mechanics and quickly scooted away.
Ellis sighed, defeated, before forcing a smile "Never mind, Nick. It aint that important."
Nick opened his mouth to say something when the safe room began to shake and a loud groan echoed from outside the door. Nick shot up grabbing his machine gun "That's a fucking tank!"
Ellis was by his side "Ro! Coach!" he shouted as he opened the safe room door.
"Where the hell do you think you're going!?" Nick exclaimed.
"We can't just leave 'em! They need our help!" Ellis shouted from over his shoulder. He was already a good distance away from the safe room door.
"Shit…" Nick muttered before limping after Ellis.
As the two of them ran, Ellis up further than Nick. The ground began to shake more violently and Rochelle's screams could be heard. They were getting closer to their friends. A couple of stray infected started to catch up to Nick, he turned around grabbing the machete that he had tied to his back and quickly decapitated them and willed himself to run faster as he took out his shot of adrenaline and shot it straight into his leg.
"Rochelle, Coach!" Ellis shouted as he saw them running from the giant monster "Get down!" Ellis said as he started firing at the Tank.
"Ellis!" Rochelle gasped in surprise "Becareful!"
"Run, boy, run!" Coach screamed as he shakily tried to reload his gun. He was nearly out of bullets and Rochelle had dropped her gun when the Tank almost grabbed her before Ellis and Nick showed.
The tank shoved its massive hands into the ground pulling up the concrete and raised it over his head. The tank threw it straight at Ellis who was still firing away at the tank.
"You idiot!" Nick shouted as he pushed Ellis out of the way. The two rolled and Nick quickly got to his feet. Adrenaline rushing through his veins, his pain pushed aside, he opened fired.
Coach had successfully loaded his gun and started shooting the tank again along with Nick until the giant zombie let out a pathetic groan and collapsed to the ground.
Nick swayed on his feet and nearly fell down, but Ellis caught him "Shit, man!"
Nick was breathing heavily, the adrenaline shot was running out. "I'm done saving your ass…" he gasped.
Rochelle quickly ran over "Y'all alright!?" she asked worriedly "Oh, Nick, sweetie!"
Coach came over and popped out his pills "Here you go young'un." Coach said "Thanks. We'd probably be dead if you two didn't come along."
Nick happily accepted the pills "Yeah."
"We should get you back to the safe room…" Rochelle said "We found some medical supplies that should help with your back."
"Sounds good." Nick said still not able to stand on his own.
"Ellis you got him?" Coach asked.
Ellis nodded and draped Nick's arm over his shoulder "Yeah I got im."
Nick didn't bother arguing that he could make it back to the safe room just fine without help, but he knew he needed it. His legs trembled with each step and his head was spinning. He let most of his weight fall onto Ellis, but Ellis didn't complain. He stayed silent but every so often would glance down and make sure Nick was still awake. Half way to the safe room Ellis broke his silence. "I'm really sorry…" he whispered to Nick "I didn' think-"
Nick shook his head and quickly realized that was a stupid idea "Don't worry about it… El..lis…." Nick's words slurred. Everything was spinning and the colors of the world began to turn grey before Nick's eyes rolled to the back of his head and fainted.
"Aw shit! Guys!" Ellis shouted, alarmed. He felt his hand become damp and looked to see that it was soaked in Nick's blood "This aint good, this aint good!"
Rochelle quickly took out her first aid pack and quickly began to remove Nick's shirt.
It was 3 am when Nick's cell phone started to ring. He had ignored the home phone countless times for the past hour and didn't even bother to strain and listen to the answering machine. Nick sat up turned his night side light on and answered the phone angrily "This had better be fucking important!"
"Nick…" Alex voice cracked from the other line.
Nick's stomach sank "Alex? Everything okay?" he asked, awake.
"No… No I want you down here… I need you to come down here…. Please!" Alex sobbed into the phone "Katie's… Katie's; oh god…"
"Katie's what?" Nick's pulse began to race "What happened Alex?"
"I don't know! She's not herself! The doctors are saying something about the flu!" Alex cried "They said they're sure she has it and I'm not allowed in there to seeher anymore and… and I don't know what they're doing to my baby!"
Nick was already grabbing a suitcase from his closet and throwing it onto his king size bed "What do you mean? They can't fucking do that!"
"Well they are! And the worst part…. The worst part, Nick… oh god…" Alex took a deep shaky breath.
"What, Alex? What?" Nick asked impatiently.
"She bit a nurse's finger off…" Alex whispered "That was the last time I saw her… She bit it straight off as if it was nothing! I don't know what to do!"
"I'll come down. I'll catch the next plane to savannah. I'll call our lawyer and work something out." Nick said from clenched teeth. He pulled out his expensive white suit and a blue dress shirt. He was going to savannah and was ready to kick ass.
Ellis sat beside Nick who was sleeping in one of the sleeping bags they had found. Coach had stitched Nick's back up and applied an antibiotic him and Rochelle had found earlier that day. Ellis grabbed Nick's hand and held it tightly.
Coach nodded in approval at the Barricade he had created, but knew it wouldn't last more than a day.
"Coach?" Rochelle asked as she walked over to the older man "I'm worried…"
"Nick's gonna be fine now that we stitched him up." Coach reassured her.
"I know that… I'm not worried about Nick… I'm worried about Ellis." Rochelle said glancing over her shoulder.
"Why?" Coach asked. "He aint hurt that badly."
Rochelle sighed "Men…"
Coach frowned.
"It's not obvious to you?" Rochelle asked and sat down beside him. "Ellis has feelings for Nick, god knows why, but he does…"
"Yeah well we all care about Nick, sweetheart. Even if he is a dick..." Coach yawned and sat down leaning his bald head up against the barricade.
"Not like that Coach!" Rochelle frowned "I mean like romantically… We all know Ellis is gay." Rochelle said sitting beside him.
"He's hit on you Rochelle." Coach informed her.
"That was an act. I think it was his way of trying to get Nick's attention…" Rochelle said.
"Guess him and that Keith kid were more than just friend…" Coach said.
"I'm not sure, but Ellis definitely has a thing for Nick…"
"Why does that worry you?"
Rochelle frowned and laid her head on Coach's shoulder "Because, he's going to get hurt…"
THIS CHAPTER KILLED ME TO WRITE! I'm shocked I am still breathing! Geez…. Sorry for the shitty chapter, I'll try and make the next one better! Anyway…. I promise more NickxEllis in the next chapter I mean I'm trying to form a relationship between the two before I go to the sex… Also I switched Nick's story a bit of why he went to Savannah… So yeaaaaaaah. Also CoachxRochelle ftw hahaha! Expect hinting on that pairing because I secretly like it… guess it's not a secret anymore, but oh well haha!
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