A.N. I don't know why I keep working on these so fast. I really don't. Oh left 4 dead... why are you such a fun game to play? I think the fact that my friends and I keep playing the game repeatedly night after night is helping this story along.

Disclaimer: I do not own the left 4 dead cast and crew, I only own the story I've created for them to be in.

Chapter 2.

The dinner the family gave the survivors had to be more food then the four of them had seen in several months, let alone days. Ma had managed a way to rig an oven to heat things the family had kept frozen in their cellar. Canned meat was served, as well as warm vegetables. The group didn't know where to start, or who to thank the most. The chatter around the table was mostly about who was who, the pasts that always got spoken when ever one met a new survivor. It was a way to keep the old days a live, and a way to remember a past that would and could never happen again.

Ellis told his stories about Keith, causing almost everyone to laugh, everyone but Nick. The man had grown tired of hearing the same damn tiring stories; especially over the stupidity that was Ellis's bumpkin friend. Once he was done he stood from the table. "Oh are you ready for bed then dear?" Ma asked looking at Nick. Nick gave a small nod, pushing the chair back to the table. "Well you boys will have to share two rooms. Us girls auta stick together." she gave a soft chuckle to herself as she stood up. "Let me show you to your room there Nick." She lead the tall man out of the room, leaving the others behind to talk to each other.

Ellis picked at the food on his plate, watching Nick and Ma leave. Rochelle reached over to the man, setting her hand on his shoulder. "You okay Ellis?" She asked watching the normally laughing and upbeat man, look sour and depressed. "Did something happen between you and Nick?"

Ellis looked up before smiling at Rochelle. "Aw shucks Rochelle, it's nothing." He grinned before pushing his hat up with his finger. "It's just a silly misunderstanding." This caused Rochelle to look at him like he was a nut, before slowly nodding. "You say so."

Coach leaned back in his chair patting his stomach as he did so. "That was a very good meal." Pa gave a heart filled chuckle as he watched the overweight man like himself. "That's always a good thing to hear. I'm sure ma will enjoy knowing you liked it."

"Oh yes sir, that was a fine meal." Coach grinned like a loon as he continued to rub his stomach happily. Pa laughed again as Rochelle gave her own chuckle to the reactions of the two males. Sam and Phil snickered watching the adults as Ma came back into the room. She messed with Sam's hair before heading back into the kitchen. "Kids off to bed." She called, the children stood, pushing their chairs back to the table. "Goodnight guys." Coach said waving at the younger children. Sam gave a small curtsey in her blood stained dress. "Goodnight Coach." She said before waving at the others as well, Phil took her hand before the two left to bed.

Ma came back out of the kitchen carrying alcohol, she set the different bottles of vodka and scotch on the table. "Now it's time for the adults." She laughed as she set out fresh glasses for the group. "You folks look like you could use a drink." Sitting down, Ma pored herself a drink of scotch. Coach gave a low whistle as he sat up to look at some of the drinks that had been brought before them. "Why yes indeed."

Ellis watched the others as they pored drinks and began to enjoy themselves. "Hey guys, I'm gonna go see if Nick would like to join us."

"He'd only be a party pooper." Rochelle stated as she sipped at her own drink.

"Don't mean we can't ask him." Ellis said as he stood up, "Where's he at?"

Ma giggled before waving her hand. "Down stairs, last door at the end of the hallway." Ellis nodded his thanks as he headed back to the living room, the sounds of laughter and enjoyment following behind him. It had been the first time in nearly a year the survivors had enjoyed their selves, Ellis wanted Nick to join in on the party, it wasn't right for them to leave him out. The stairway was dark once he reached it, it looked like the home it's self had gone through hell and back, yet still the family continued to stay in the home that the family had owned for years. To think that they'd defended this home for over a year was unbelievable, but understandable. The stories they'd told about the home, and growing up in this city, made Ellis miss his own home town.

He finally reached the bottom step stumbling slightly due to the lack of light. He reached for the wall only to feel a candle holder resting on the end of the railing. Fumbling in his pockets for his box of matches he lit one, then the candle. He let out a soft sigh of relief as he used the candle to slowly navigate down the hallway towards the room he was told Nick was sleeping in. "Nick?" He asked knocking on the door, "You up man?" He opened the door slowly, looking in as he held the candle in before he moved in.

The room was dark except for the soft glow the candle illuminated. It was a small room, just a queen sized bed in the middle of it, a dresser against the wall, and two bed stands. On the bed, under the blankets was the outline of a body. Ellis moved into the room a bit more, "Nick?" there was a groaning noise as the other man moved on the bed. "What." The question came out more of a statement from the half asleep man, his demanding voice causing Ellis to get a soft shiver. "Just thought I'd invite you to drinking."

Nick rubbed his head as he slowly sat up on the bed, the sheet falling from his shoulder to his hips. "What?" Nick looked at Ellis a bit as he rubbed his head. Ellis moved closer, allowing the candle to light up the others body, what he saw quickly turned his face a slight shade of red. The other male was completely nude, just a white sheet spared Ellis of seeing Nick in his full glory. Ellis could feel his face flush a light shade of red in the candle light as he stared. "We're having a small party upstairs. Ma and Pa brought out some alcohol and we were wondering if you wanted to join us."

Nick watched Ellis's face, knowing full well where the others gaze was falling. "Something bothering you Ellis?" Nick asked softly before standing, holding the white sheet over his crotch to continue shielding his manhood from being fully seen. "Uh, nothing at all man."

"Your face is saying different. You wanna say something to me kid, or you just gonna keep staring at me?" Ellis swallowed slowly before looking to Nick's face, which caused him to gulp. Instead of Nick's normal stern look, the one that always showed Ellis how pissed he'd made the man for the day, there was a face of toying. A sly smirk graced Nick's lips, his eyes focused on Ellis's face and the blush that covered it. "N-nothing man. I swear!"

Nick gave a soft huff before moving the sheet to allow Ellis's eyes to go even wider. "Nick, you don't... have nothing on." He muttered, his eyes unable to leave the sight before him. "Yeah Ellis.. I noticed. "

Ellis looked at Nick's face again before stepping back, that stupid and ridiculous feeling was back, he didn't understand why it was back, or what was causing it. He'd seen Keith naked plenty of times before, and never once did he stare like he was at Nick now. Hell, he'd never even thought of his best friend doing the things he was wanting Nick to do with him right now. None of this was making sense in his head, and he quite frankly wanted it to stop. The candle light bounced off the man before him, the year of running from the undead had toned the gambler's body. Ellis gave him another once over admiring the body before him, admiring? He shook his head before holding it, setting the candle holder down on the end of the bed.

Nick grabbed a dark bottle off the bedside table and took a long swig from it, enjoying the taste of the liquor before looking once more at Ellis. "Oh, you already have your own." Ellis stated before giving a nervous chuckle. "Guess you don't wanna join us then." He grabbed the candle once more, "I'll head back up stairs then, leave you to your sleep and stuff."

He heard the other move, and then there was the hand on his arm. Ellis had to stop himself from doing his normal when something grabbed him, a year of attacks could change a man quickly. He regretted it not even a second after. He was quickly pushed against the wall, hitting it hard with a loud thud and umph. Nick had his hands against the wall and pinned along with the rest of him. "Your damn right I don't wanna be with the rest of you. I'm sick of all of you." Ellis squirmed a bit against the nude body holding him. This wasn't good, Nick had been drinking more then he thought, why didn't he listen to Rochelle and just stay upstairs?

"Nick, come on man... Let go!" Ellis squirmed again, which caused Nick to pushed him harder against the wall. Ellis bit his lower lip and held back him moan. Nick gave a chuckle before pushing harder. "Who would have known you were a faggot Ellis?" Nick leaned in close to Ellis's ear, breathing on it as he whispered his words. Ellis grunted, "I'm not a faggot you jack ass!" he hissed as he tried to get away from the drunk man.

Nick laughed before moving his hands to hold both of Ellis's hands above his head. His now free hand moved down and grabbed Ellis, gripping his slowly growing hard on, and causing Ellis to let out a yelp. "What you call this then?" He asked as Ellis hissed slowly. "Let off man!" Nick let go of the other, allowing Ellis to lower his hands, as he stepped back to the bed. "What ever kid." He said before sitting down on the bed once more. Nick leaned back as he kept his eyes on Ellis, pulling the blankets over himself once more. "Go enjoy your party."

It took Ellis a moment before slowly moving away from the wall. "Your fucked up man!" He finally yelled, looking at Nick. "What the hell did you do that for?!" Nick started laughing as he leaned back on the bed. "You should see your face Ellis. Fucking priceless really." Nick scratched his chest slowly before pulling the blanket back over his hips. "Bet you have a raging hard on for that crap don't you?"

Ellis gave a soft snarl. "That's fucked up man!" He waved his hand a bit before going to the bed. "How would you like it if I just grabbed your junk while I was naked and drunk!" The statement caused Nick to laugh, grabbing the bottle once more. "I dunno kid, I might enjoy it myself." With that he took a long swig before putting an arm back, his hand behind his head. "Never know, I might like it."

That hit like Ellis like a ton of bricks to the head. He stood there stunned, looking at the nude man before him who was obviously drunk, but held an honest look on his face. Mind you it was also the look of a sly cunning man, who seemed to be plotting his next move as Ellis stood there stupidly, but still a man who was not telling a lie.

There was a yell from upstairs. Rochelle was heading downstairs to check on the two, the muffled words of taking too long were heard. Ellis backed up from Nick slowly before heading towards the door. "Get back over here." The words were soft, but just loud enough Ellis could hear them clearly. His footsteps stopped dead, his body froze. He didn't know what to do anymore as his heart started to race. The man who directed him so often, or yelled at him over simply telling a story was now controlling his thoughts, his movements, or at least it felt as if he was. Ellis could swear Nick could hear his heart from where he was laying down.

The creek of the bed springs filled his head, causing his racing thoughts to swiftly become dirty. The thought of Nick touching him again, or pushing him against the door filled his riddled thoughts and made his hands sweat. He swallowed hard as he heard the footsteps behind him stop, Nick was pulling on his pants. "I'll get it." Ellis nodded slowly as Nick moved to the door, pushing Ellis back behind him. "Rochelle!" Nick said with a smirk on his lips.

"Hey." She said as she came closer to the door. She crossed her arms over her chest, looking at Nick. "Where's Ellis at? He came down here to get you and never came back up." Nick pointed behind him. "We were just talking, I was going to go up and grab a drink with him, then he started to not feel so well. So he's gonna lay down while I head up and get something for his stomach."

Rochelle looked over Nick's shoulder at Ellis, trying to look at him the best she could in the dim light of the candle in the room. "He does look sick. What'd you do to him Nick?" Her gaze shifted back to Nick, her foot tapping. "What'd you do?"

"Me? I take offense to that accusation Rochelle. I didn't do anything to the kid, he just started to feel sick, I offered him to stay in here so I could take care of him, you know, in case he started getting worse." Nick pulled on his shirt from beside the door, buttoning it up slowly before looking at Ellis. "You should lay down already..."

Ellis blinked a couple times, nodding slowly before going to the bed and sitting down. Rochelle watched Ellis carefully before going into the room, stepping over to Ellis's side. "You okay?" She asked rubbing his shoulder slowly. Ellis looked at her before grinning slowly. "I think I'll be okay." His gaze shifted over to Nick who had his eye on the two before he headed out of the room. Rochelle gave a small smile. "Well you let me know if you need anything alright dear? Don't let Nick just push you around when you don't feel well. He does it enough when he's sober, you hear?" Ellis nodded slowly before looking down, trying to figure out what the hell was going on right now.

Rochelle patted his shoulder before heading back to the hallway, and then upstairs.

Ellis was royal confused at this point. His head was swimming in the tempting thoughts that felt wrong, and confused him in a whole. He didn't know what Nick was playing at, and wasn't quite sure he wanted to continue sitting in this dimly lit room until Nick came back. What if the other hurt him because of what his body was doing? How was it fair for Nick to play at his feelings like this? Wait, his feelings? He stopped, then swiftly stood up. 'I do not have any feelings towards Nick' He thoughts as he went for the door. This was ridiculous, what was he doing, what was he thinking? He grabbed the door knob and stopped again. What was he doing?

The question sunk in slowly. Within twenty-four hours he'd gone from being hated by Nick to not only liked, but wanted by Nick. Was this something he should try to fight? Was this really something he wanted to happen? His fingers gripped the cold metal of the door knob, it was something sturdy to hold onto as his mind raced. What was going to happen in the end? Fingers gripped cold metal, holding the knob hard in a death grip. Everything was so weird, everything was so fucked up. He didn't know how this had even started, he especially didn't know how this was going to end.

Finally he turned the knob, opening the door. The hallway was cold and black, what he wished his thoughts were right now, instead of fast and heated. What would Nick do if he left and just went to a room by himself? Locked his door for the night and decided to be alone. What would happen if he stayed? Would Nick force himself on Ellis again, leaving the morning with a hangover and not knowing what happened anyways? The better question was, what did Ellis want?

In the darkness of the hallway Ellis was once again lost in his thoughts, the question on if he should stay or go weighing heavily on his mind. It was again his distraction that caused Nick to sneak up on him. It wasn't until the other male was in front of him that Ellis even knew he was there. "I didn't think you'd honestly stay." Nick finally spoke, stepping in front of Ellis so they were toe to toe. Nick looked Ellis in the eye as he pulled his own crumpled shirt a bit, trying to fix the buttons. The musk the man had once more hit Ellis's nose, filling him with that weird feeling all over again.

"I didn't know if I should leave or not." Ellis replied, looking Nick in the eye, "You're drunk Nick. This is all very stupid and shouldn't be happening."

"And why's that Ellis?" Nick replied, finally getting his shirt unbuttoned once more. "Why shouldn't something like this happen? Obviously you want it, or you wouldn't have waited until I got back before deciding you wanted to go. You could have left at any time instead of listening to me. Instead you waited, admit it, you want what ever is going to happen, to happen."

Ellis couldn't deny it at this point. He'd let too many thoughts race through his mind and instead of just going as he said he would, he stayed. He obeyed Nick with little to no hesitation, and was just going to let what happens happen. "Why are you doing this Nick?" He had to know.

"Ellis... It's because I can." Nick smirked before pushing the other back into the room, shutting the door behind them with his foot. "It's because I know you'll put up a fight, but you wont stop me. What's with you anyways, does all my yelling at your stupid stories, and your stupidity turn you on?"

Ellis was starting to get mad at this now. It was one thing to poke fun at the fact that Nick made him hard, but another to insult him downright? He didn't have to stand for it, and Nick was going to make him put up with it. "I don't have to take this crap." He muttered before stepping around Nick, only to be grabbed and pulled back. "Yes you do." With that Ellis felt warm lips meet his own. It stopped him dead in his tracks, that was for sure.

The other mans musk hit him again, like a wave he wanted to stay on. He could feel his body reacting again in the way he was no longer sure he was ashamed of. The feeling of the others lips pressed against his own caused a shock down his spine, creating goose bumps on his skin. Nick slowly loosened his grip on Ellis's arm, allowing the other to remove it from his grasp if wanted. Instead Ellis moved closer, wanting more. The smell, the feel, the taste, he wanted more of all of it. Nick however stopped it, breaking the kiss to look at the smaller male.

The two stood there side by side, Nick holding Ellis's arm still, neither wanting to move.

Neither knowing what to say or do next.

End Chapter 2

A.N. I'd like to apologize for how long it took to upload this. My computer crapped out on me half way through the chapter, so I had to get it fixed.

Anyways, hope everyone enjoys. Chapter 3 will be up soon.