I DO NOT OWN LEFT 4 DEAD I MAKE NO PROFIT!
FML… Its been a while… SORRY!!! Please forgive (frowns) I've lacked inspiration for a while now, but a few recent reviews made go 'omg people are still reading this I want to write mooooore rawr!' so thank you! Reviews really do help me write!
They made it to another safe room, all four of them. They were beaten, bleeding and covered in god knows what, but they were alive and that's all that mattered. Nick wrapped a bandage around his arm letting out a breath between his gritted teeth. His back was better thanks to the stitches and his nose wasn't that sore. A nasty black and blue had formed under his left eye thanks to Ellis's blow a couple of days ago. Nick glanced over at said mechanic and watched as he sat on the ground wrapping his ankle. The boy seemed to be in pain. Nick glanced around and found a bottle of pills and walked over.
"Here kid." He said leaning down to hand the pills to him.
Ellis glared up at him "I don' need yer help." He grumbled and went back to wrapping his legs.
"Just fucking take it, I know you're in pain." Nick said shaking the pills trying to get Ellis too look up at him, but the boy didn't raise his eyes. "ELLIS."
"Hey, Nick." Coach said from the opposite side of the room "Leave the boy alone."
"No, he's being a pussy. Get over it, Ellis." Nick glared.
Ellis jumped to his feet, ignoring his injured ankle, and grabbed Nick's suit and shoved him against the wall. Nick gasped, surprised but brought his knee up, catching Ellis in the gut. The boy released Nick and toppled over groaning.
"Nick!" Rochelle shouted and rushed over to Ellis "Sweetie you okay?" she whispered.
"Why am I getting yelled at? He came at me." Nick glared.
"Shut up, Nick!" Rochelle snapped and turned back to Ellis "I know your upset sweetheart, but take the pills, they'll help you."
Ellis's head hung, but he opened his hand. Rochelle grabbed the pill bottle Nick dropped and poured a couple into Ellis's hand "There you go." She smiled.
"For the love of god." Nick growled and walked to the other side of the room.
Coach glanced over at him "May be best if you don't try and talk to him."
Nick glanced at the older man "Yeah? I've done that for a couple days now, it aint working."
Coach sighed, shaking his head "I don't know boy. The kid is upset, really upset. You crushed him."
Nick grunted in response.
"Listen here, I don't want to know what Rochelle meant about you two spending the night together. My mind is just gonna say that you guys spent the whole night talking. Alright?" Coach asked "But you've been saying some pretty nasty things to that boy ever since you meet him. You obviously care for him, and he sure as hell thinks the world of you. You two need to talk this out so Ellis can go back to talking our ears off because I've had it with this silence."
Nick glanced up at the ceiling and shrugged his shoulder "I don't know Coach, I kind of like the silence."
"Bullshit and you know it."
Nick smirked and looked back at the bald man, his head still back "He won't listen I'm done trying. I joined you guys to make it out alive that's it. Ellis can hate me for the rest of his life and I won't give a shit."
Coach sighed "And you believe that shit that just came from your mouth?"
Nick laughed "Yup."
"Get down y'all!" Ellis shouted as he threw a pipe bomb. At least seven infected rushed over and surrounded the flashing bomb before it exploded, body parts flying into the air.
"Nice." Nick grinned.
Ellis shrugged and followed after Rochelle and Coach. "Look!" Rochelle gasped "There's two stores. Let's split up and get some food and supplies."
"Good idea." Coach smirked and slung the guitar over his shoulder "Ro and I will check the super market; you guys check the convenience store."
Ellis frowned "Nuh-uh I don' wanna go with Nick."
"It's only for a little bit and besides this is usually the groups we split up into." Rochelle offered a smile.
"Ya, but that was before…" Ellis mumbled. Nick rolled his eyes started walking away from the group towards the store. Ellis watched as Nick continued to walk and glanced back at Rochelle who merely shrugged. Sighing Ellis trotted to catch up with Nick.
Opening the door careful not to make any notice Nick surveyed the small store "We're not going to find anything here." He grumbled "I guess when the first infected started popping up people began looting."
Ellis raised an eyebrow but walked past Nick "Hello?" he called out.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Nick hissed.
Ellis ignored him "Any zombies in here?!"
Nick rolled his eyes "Why don't you yell a little louder overalls; I don't think they heard you in the back."
Ellis turned to him and glared before heading towards the back and started going through supplies that were already torn through. He picked up empty bottles once filled with meds and quickly tossed them aside. "There aint nothin' here…" he murmured to himself before looking over to see what Nick was doing.
Nick was leaning against one of the walls that were stained with blood. He shuffled through the inside pocket of his white jacket fishing out his last cigarette. Nick raised it and sighed, "Probably my last one ever." He looked over at Ellis.
Ellis rolled his eyes "That shit kills ya anyways."
"I'm in a zombie apocalypse. I'm not worried about lung cancer at the moment." Nick chuckled; happy the younger man was finally talking to him.
"I don't care if ya die anymore." Ellis frowned. His words seeming to hurt him more then they hurt Nick.
"Yeah I've noticed." Nick shrugged and lit the cigarette before taking a long puff "But what can I expect, right? I let your butt buddy die."
"I told ya; Keith aint like that!" Ellis snapped "And if anyone's guilty of bein' my 'butt buddy' its you!"
Nick chuckled "touché, Ellis."
Ellis blushed and started towards the door of the store "Let's go find Coach and Rochelle. I don' wanna be alone with you any longer then I have to."
"Listen Kid; I don't know what to tell you. If I had stayed with Keith I'd probably be dead." Nick said suddenly.
Ellis froze and looked down at his shoes that had blood and some dried flesh on them.
"Why was he in the hospital Ellis?"
"Keith was always gettin' hurt that's why…"
Nick didn't believe him "Come on Ellis… He wasn't sick?"
Ellis spun around "What the hell are you getting' at, Nick!? You tryin' to tell me Keith was infected? Bull-shit; he wouldn't catch that damn flu!"
Nick clenched his fists; his temper was raising "Ellis…"
"Just because yer kid got it don't mean Keith got it!" Ellis shouted
Nick bit down on hard on his lip "Ellis… Watch it."
"Keith's alive! Yer chance's of living' would have doubled with him! And-Mph!"
Nick covered Ellis's mouth "Shut the fuck up! Do you want to attract every god damn zombie in the area!?" Ellis's eyes softened as he glanced away. Nick frowned and moved his hand away from Ellis's mouth, but kept in on his cheek. "You said it yourself… We've all lost someone important. You have to come to face the facts Ellis. Keith is dead."
Ellis shut his eyes tightly and his shoulders started to tremble "He aint… I'm tellin' ya he aint…"
Nick had enough. He didn't want to argue about this anymore. Ellis was too stubborn and Nick knew Ellis wasn't going to come to terms with Keith's death anytime soon. Ellis let out a small gasp as Nick pulled him into a hug. His one hand was on the small of his back while the other one rested on the back of his head "I'm sorry kid." A small sob escaped Ellis's lips as he wrapped his arms around Nick and started to cry.
Short chapter I know and im sorry… Also I know Nick seems OOC but come on; how would you react having cute Ellis like that in front of you hmmm? Anyway writing this was hard, but I definitely got more ideas In my head so I'll hopefully be updating soon. So please review and I hope you enjoyed. Thanks so much
30-Nights