Infected

„Nick? Are you there?" Ellis asked, even the question was useless because the older man was only a few Stepps away from him and even in this Darkness he was to see, but the young man only wanted to talk to forget his fear a bit.
"Sure I'm still here!" He heared the older mans voice.
"Whats the matter with you?" Nick turned around, looking in Ellis' face, saw how scared the boy was at the moment.
"I...I'm a bit worried because of Ro and Coach." He said looking around.
The other half of the group lost the two men in the darkness as they turned off the lights because of a witch.
Now Coach and Rochelle where somewhere running around, searching Nick and Ellis and the two where searching they too.
That it was so quiet around, that not even a few zombies where around worried Ellis much.
Nick walked closer to him and lay one hand on his shoulder.
"We will find the two. I'm sure they found a save room and we should go and find that too."
With his shotgun in his hands Nick walked the dark street down. Ellis followed him.
"But are you really sure we will be save one day again?"
"Sure." Nick answered directly.
"And later you can tell your kids the story how you fight your way through Savannah with only three other survivors."
'What am I talking here?!' Nick thought and looked how his words worked on the younger one.
On Ellis face was a wide smile.
"Yeah! Zombieslasher of Savannah! Sounds cool!"
A short smile was on Nicks face too. Thank god, he could cheer the boy up a bit.
"But you will tell them your version of the story too!" Ellis said.
"We will see." Nick said and stopped.
"Please Promise you will visit me then." Ellis said with big eyes and Nick sighed.
"Okay I promise I will visit you then, but now look!"  
The save room was on the end of the street and inside was light and two shadows moved around there.
It seemed that Ro and Coach where there.
"Okay Ellis, lets run like hell to that room and we should be fine." Nick Whispered and saw how the boy nod.

They both run over the street fast, but now a few Zombies heard they, running over to them.
"SHIT!" Ellis turned around, shooting a few zombies down, but it lure more zombies.
"ELLIS! STOP SHOOTING AND RUN!" Nick yelled at him.
Ro and Coach looked out of the save room, helping the two by shooting the to close zombies down.
Ellis reached the room for Nick as he stepped over a bigger stone and fall.
"Argh Shit!" he mumbled and looked up.
A horde had suroundet him.
"Today is defenetly not my best day..." Nick mumbled, stood up fast and tried to shoot his way free to reach the others who tried to help him.
A few zombies grabbed at his white jacket pulling Nick down again as he felt strong teeth in his shoulder.
"ARGH SHIT!!!" He screamed as the zombies let him fall. He looked up, saw Rochelle and Ellis standing over him.
"Come up man, no time to lay around here, we need you!" Ellis grabbed Nicks arm and pulled him up.
"You okay?" Ro asked and looked at Nick who nodded and aligned his jacket to hide the bite.
"I'm okay."
"Then lets hurry!" The young mechanic grabbed Nicks Hand instead of his wrist and pull him in the saveroom.
Coach locked the door behind they.
"God Nick, there we nearly lost you!" the older man said and knock on Nicks shoulder.
"Yeah, but only nearly, so fast I don't die." Nick said, rubbing over his shoulder. The bite burned a bit.
"Okay lets prepare ourselfs and lets go again." Ro said and grabbed munitions.

Only a bit later they where on the streets again.
"Who of you guys is making this strange noises?" Coach asked after a while.
Ro looked at Ellis who looked at Nick.
"Nick your teeth are chattering..." the boy said and everybody looked at the white suited man.
"I can't do anything against it....I'm freezing."
"Freezing?" Ro looked closer at him and lay her hand on Nikcs forehead.
"Oh god don't get ill here Nick, your forehead is totally hot."
"He has fever?" Coach asked but Ro shrugged.
"Don't know."
"I'm okay...only freezing a bit." Nick said holding his shotgun tight in his hand.
"Okay, but tell us when it is too much for you." The oldest man said and Nick only nodded.
As he would whine around now because of a bit fever.

It wasn't long as Nicks temperature fall down. Too much down.
The group was in a park as Nick suddenly hold on Ellis Shoulder.
"Guys...I...I feel...." before he could end his sentence he get down on his knees.
"Hey Nick what is with you?!" Ellis get down too to helpin Nick up again.
"Whats wrong with you man?" Coach asked and Nick shrug.
"I feel not well."
"God you are totally cold." Ellis realiced.
"And you are pale."
"Better we make a break." Rochelle said and the others nod.
They sat down on a bench while Ellis looked in the near toilet if the sink gets water.
"Nothing." He said as he returned.
"Is okay...I feel better." Nick lied and wanted to get up but Coach pushed him back on the bench.
"You stay down." He said and the other man obeyed.
Ellis sat down too and Nick leaned against his shoulder.
"Is that okay?" the older whispered and the mechanic nodded only, let him rest on his shoulder that way.

"We can't waste our Time here, we must Hurry." Rochelle said later.
"But he sleep, we shouldn't wake Nick up now." Ellis said.
"I carry him!"
Coach and Rochelle looked at him but nodded.
"Okay, I help you." The oldest said and helped Ellis to carry the sleeping Nick on his back.

"Where are we?" Nick asked nearly an hour later as he finally woke up.
"On a graveyard." Ellis told him and looked worried as the older man.
"Nick..."He begun and fear was to see in his eyes.
"What?"
"Is it possible that you are...infected?"
Coach and Rochelle looked at the white suited man too.
Nick tried a bad smile.
"How should that happen? You guys are always around me and I'm infected only because I feel a bit worse?"
"Was only an idea..." Ellis mumbled and blushed softly.
"I'm worried about you..."
Nick looked at him surprised. Since years nobody said that to him.
A warmer smile was now on his lips and he lifted Ellis face up to look in his eyes.
"Thats nice, but you don't need to be. I will be okay again."
Then he turned around.
"I hear a smoker...." Nick mumbled and looked around.
The special infected was on a tomb, spitting his long tongue aiming at Ellis, but Nick pushed the boy away and get grabbed by the tongue. But only a second after the smoker grabbed him he let the man go again.
A few seconds the smoker looked in Nicks Angry face, then he run away because Coach, Ro and Ellis started to shoot at him.
"How have you done that?!" Rochelle asked and looked serious at Nick.
"What do you mean?"
"The smoker let you go again! Whats wrong with you man!?"
"Nothing!"
"Maybe he taste bad." Ellis joked and Coach smiled.
"Yeah, when the suit taste that bad as he looked at the moment no Zombie ever wanna eat you Nick."
Nick forced himself to a smile.
"Come on, lets go I don't want that this graveyard will be mine."
They walked along the graves searching a way out of that.
"Best we spend the night in the next saveroom." Ellis said.
"Good idea." Coach agreed while Ro and Nick only nodded.

The night came and tired as hell the four survivors reached a saveroom, get in and locked and blocked the doors with all the could move.
"I guess we are save enough for a little nap or?" Ellis asked, didn't waited for an answer and lay down on the ground falling asleep fast.
"What a baby..." Rochelle mumbled and sat down her back leaned against the wall while Coach sat down on the only chair in the room.
"You really okay?" He asked Nick who sat on a board that they moved against the door, while he rub his shoulder.
"Yeah I'm okay...only a tickling feeling in the shoulder."
"Shall I check it?"
"NO! I mean not nessecarry Coach..." the brunette man stood up and made the door free.
"I go and check the area a bit, I'm back in a few Minutes." He said and left.
"Be carefull!" Ro yelled behind him while Coach blocked the door again.

Nicks walked far away from the saveroom. He felt that his time was over. He was infected, he would turn in a zombie in a short time but that was the last he wanted and he didn't wanted that the others saw him that way.
He stopped, leaned for spitting blood on the street.
"Shit..." he walked down the street.
On his way a hunter saw him. Sitting on a bin the hooded zombie looked at him, Nick looked back.
But the hunter didn't made a move to attack him, instead of that he turned around and walked on all four in the sidestreet let Nick alone, who walked the street down.

After a while the man couldn't anymore and sank on his knees, panting like he was run for his life.
Footsteps were to hear and Nick saw a shadow on the wall. A shadow he knew good.
"Go away from me Ellis!" he said loud.
The young man stopped.
"What? Why?"
"I'm sorry....I...I can't make my promise true....I can't visit you later when you are save...."
"What are you talking about? What is with you Nick?"
As Nick turned around to him Ellis stepped away with a shocked and sad face.
"Oh no..." Ellis mumbled while tears running down his face.
"You are really infected...."
"Yeah...Ellis...please...I never wanted something from you but please do me a favor..." Nick sank down on his knees looked up to the younger man.
"Please kill me! Do it as long as I'm a human...I don't wanna be such a zombie..."
"I...I can't do that...you...you are my friend..." Ellis cried getting a bit closer to the older one.
"Than as my friend KILL ME!!"
Ellis sobbed and aimed at Nick with his shotgun with shaking hands.
"Ellis calm down you only need to pull the trigger and thats it."
"You think thats so easy for me?!" The younger yelled crying harder.
"Oh shit...I can't kill you Nick...even when you are a few steps away from being a zombie...I can't."
Nick stood up and thumbed the tears from Ellis' face. The younger one looked at him sad.
"Then let me help you." Nick mumbled and grabbed Ellis' hands, lead the gun up to his left part of the chest.
Ellis shaked badly, still crying while he watched how Nick lead his hands.
The older mans hand layed around Ellis hand one finger over the one on the trigger.
"I wish you guys luck." Nick mumbled.
"And I'm sorry that I can't help you anymore..."
"We will miss you Nick..." Ellis cried and closed his eyes tight.
He felt how Nick pushed against his finger on the trigger and then the shoot was to hear.
The younger opened his eyes again looking in a pair of green eyes.
"Thank you..." Nicks body felt forward and Ellis let the gun fall to hold him, get down on his knees and holding the older one in his arms. He hold his hand until Nicks breath stopped and he was dead.
"ELLIS?"
The boy heard but didn't react.
"ELLIS?!" Again somebody yelled at him, but he didn't care. His hand run through the dark brown hair of the dead one in his arms.
"ELLIS!" Footsteps where to hear and he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Ellis, dear what happened?" It was Rochelle. She looked down at Nick.
"You...you killed him?"
"He was infected...he wanted that I do that..." Ellis mumbled, lay Nicks body down on the street and stood up.
"Rest in peace Nick." Coach mumbled and grabbed a Molotov.
"What are you wanna do?" Ellis asked him while Coach pour the alcohol over the dead body.
"Giving him a cremation." Coach said, grabbed a lighter and throw it at Nick.
Directly his body burned, while the three others looked.
Rochelle wiped over her eyes.
"We must go...we must find a way out of here."
"Yeah you are right...Ellis come..." Coach lay his hand on Ellis shoulder and pull him away.
A moment Ellis faltered but then he walked with the two.
'A reason more for me to survive.' He thought.
'I must tell the world about Nick. The man who died so that we can life!'