The Unforgiven
By: esmtz
Nick always seemed to have a problem with Coach. Even when he first met him he knew that he couldn't stand him and he didn't know if it was because Coach was older and kept insisting that they all stayed together as a group or if it was because of how he always looked and talked down to him. Nick figured it was probably both and still after spending what seemed like forever with him and their two other teammates his opinion of Coach still hadn't changed and apparently neither had Coach's about Nick. Once again Nick found himself on Coach's bad side as they including Ellis and Rochelle got off the boat and found themselves behind a building.
"Nick, where on earth is the gun bag?" Coach growled glaring at him, "Don't you dare fuckin tell me that you forgot it."
"Who the hell made me gun monitor? As I recall I thought it was your job to make sure we had it before Virgil got us away from that house!" Nick replied angrily.
Coach moved closer to him and looked at him darkly.
"I specifically said 'Nick grab the gun bag' or did you not notice that the rest of us were busy killin off the tanks that were on our asses?" Coach asked.
"Hey, if it hadn't have been for me they would have killed your sorry ass or did you not notice how badly you and Ellis were limping just before the tanks were killed?" Nick glared at him
"Exactly why I told YOU to grab it. YOU were closer to the gun bag and YOU were still able to run!" Coach told him.
"He does have a point, Nick." Ellis whispered.
"Yeah, Nick. Us three would have been ok dealing with the tanks considering they were on fire already." Rochelle sighed.
Nick growled at them and looked angrily at Ellis.
"Why the fuck do you always side with him, Overalls?" Nick asked feeling slightly hurt.
"Don't get angry at him! If it weren't for Coach we wouldn't have made it as far as we have!" Rochelle told him looking at him coldly, "You on the other hand would have most likely deserted us in order to save your own skin. After all you did tell us that the first time we all met."
Nick gritted his teeth.
"Don't you dare fucking twist my words around. I said that I would be better off alone. I DID NOT say that I was going to abandon you guys if we ended up in trouble." Nick told her.
"Well, whatever you said it doesn't change the fact that I don't like you and I don't trust you for that matter." Coach said.
Rochelle crossed her arms.
"Who would? I mean seriously I have no doubt in my mind that you will backstab us after all isn't that all you do?" Rochelle said having seen him just before the infection hit conning a man out of his money.
"I trust him." Ellis said quietly.
Nick snorted.
"Funny way of showing it, Ellis. Siding with Coach will always piss me off." Nick said.
Ellis fidgeted and looked away.
"Boy he ain't nuthin but trouble. Can't you see he cares for none of us here except himself?" Coach asked looking at Ellis.
"He saved us a whole buncha times and he coulda left whenever he wanted to, but he didn't. He's still here." Ellis said still looking away.
Rochelle looked at him noticing his face start to turn slightly red.
"Yeah for now, but who's to say he's not gunna bail on us later?" Coach asked.
"He ain't." Ellis responded.
"Ellis, why on earth would you trust someone like him? The only reason Nick's even with us is because we need his help for us to survive long enough to get to New Orleans." Rochelle said.
Ellis looked up and saw that Nick had been staring at him and suddenly found himself interested in staring at his shoes.
"Trust me the feelings mutual." Nick said turning to look at Rochelle.
"Well now that that's settled how about we get a move on. Virgil is waitin for us to get the gas." Coach sighed shaking his head as he picked up a crowbar that was on the ground trying hard to forget the fact that they didn't have guns.
Nick looked at Ellis who had already looked up and followed behind Coach. He shook his head wondering why Ellis had so much faith in him, but at the same time acted really weird around him.
'I guess I don't blame the kid. I must make him feel uncomfortable.' Nick thought thinking it was because that their personalities were completely different and because of the way he treated him.
Nick knew that he didn't really treat Coach or Rochelle 'better' then Ellis since he hated Coach and Rochelle was just plain annoying, but Ellis he was different. Yes he was annoying as Rochelle even more so, but somehow Nick found himself able to deal with Ellis a lot better then Rochelle. He was a little protective of the kid and couldn't help but feel hurt whenever he agreed with Coach or was the one healing him instead of Rochelle. Ellis didn't even bother healing Nick because for some reason he'd come up with some random excuse as to why he 'couldn't' do it, but then again Nick hadn't exactly been someone anyone could get along with very easily especially when all he's done is do nothing but insult their accent or telling them to shut up once they were about to start telling a story or having to yell at the person for accidentally shooting him all of which he was talking about Ellis. Nick sighed.
'I don't even have the faintest fucking idea why I even care who Ellis is healing let alone want him to take my side for once instead of fucking Coach's.' Nick thought.
"I don't have a problem leaving your ass behind y'know." Coach's voice rang out making Nick blink and realize that he hadn't started following behind the others.
Nick scowled.
"Whatever, as if I care if you guys leave me behind or not." Nick replied grabbing another pistol and went inside.
They each grabbed a health pack and saw that there were guns on a table. Nick was tempted to tell Coach that they didn't need the gun bag after all, but decided against it as he saw zombies just outside of the building and some ran in having already spotted them. They used their pistols and the crowbar to quickly kill what came in and then went to pick up a gun.
"I want you in front, Nick." Coach suddenly said.
Nick rolled his eyes.
"For the last time I'm not fucking going anywhere or was fighting through the swamps, going through that fucking carnival and filling up Jimmy Gibbs Jr's car with gas not prove that?" Nick replied.
"Just do what I say and get your ass movin!" Coach growled.
Ellis watched Nick walk ahead of him and he looked at him worried and then turned to look at Coach and Rochelle.
"Y'all shouldn't be treatin him like that. He's done nuthin to prove that he will leave." Ellis told them.
"Ellis, you may like and trust him, but I certainly don't have to. Once we get to New Orleans all I want is for him to be gone." Coach replied following right behind Nick.
Rochelle looked at Ellis sadly.
"Ellis, I'm sorry, but he's a bad guy you have to trust me on this." Rochelle told him.
"You don't even know him, Ro. You may not see it, but I do. He's not gunna leave and I can't believe that you and Coach have absolutely no faith in him. He's been with us since we all met up in Savannah. He's saved our asses, gave us pain pills when we needed it, healed…" Ellis paused.
Rochelle shook her head.
"You. He's healed only you and that's it. From what I see it looks like if he cares about anyone it's only you because he doesn't do that with me or Coach." Rochelle said.
Ellis turned red making Rochelle sigh.
"Don't get your hopes up. He already knows that Coach and I don't like him so he's probably just trying to get you to be on his side. He doesn't care, Ellis." Rochelle said and followed behind Coach.
Ellis stood there for a second before following right behind Rochelle.
'That ain't true. I know it ain't.' Ellis thought.
Author's note: lol Hi I bet you guys weren't expecting another story from me so soon. Only ten days after I finished making my last one. This story is strictly NickxEllis and no original survivors unless you want me to put them in. This starts at Hard Rain and warning there's another death in this story and no it's not Ellis, but if I make it a tragedy I guess it could be him as well. More then likely I'll just bring that other person back to life, which you guys already know who supposedly dies I'm sure. I don't exactly hide that fact now do I? anyway since its only NickxEllis I'm thinking I'll get more reviews now since before I'm pretty sure very few people actually liked FrancisxEllis so hopefully here's a better story. I'm sorry I have a thing for death scenes. It was hard coming up with another idea. I'm thinking this is probably the last L4D story I'll make, but don't right away count me out. Who knows I might think of a better one later.