Authors note: same disclaimer as always...! Oh and a big thanks to valve for creating the l4d series!
Theme 17: Blood
Blood. The precious red, life giving liquid every breathing living creature needed in order to stay alive. Lose a certain amount, and you would die of blood loss. Even Nick knew this, and as he desperately applied whatever bandages he had to Crystal, bleeding and broken on the ground, he hoped with all he had that he wasn't too late. She had already bled what seemed like too much by the time they could get her battered body dragged into the safe room they were holed up in now. They had been caught completely off guard by a Witch, who had somehow managed to go unseen and unheard, attacking with violent vigor as Crystal had turned a corner, practically stepping on the crying infected. Before she could even lift her rifle to shoot, the witch had been on her. It took all he and Ellis had to kill it before it could kill Crystal.
But now as he continued trying to stop the bleeding, it looked as if the Witch might still succeed. Then he noted the flow had slowed down quite a bit, and was now almost at a stop. The massive sigh of relief from his mouth showed how worried he was. But they weren't out of the woods yet...and he knew this. There was no way to do a transfusion..since even now hospital blood stores could have been infected with the Green Flu, and there was no way to tell if any of them were a match. He would just have to hope she would recover on her own...with time.
End of Short!