"AUGH!! Shit man! Why do they keep poppin' outta nowhere?!"
The hick's yell from the living room could be heard down the hall in the bedroom, where it promptly made Nick choke on his tea, almost spilling it all over his bare chest, pajama pants, the mattress, the bedspread and his current copy of BMB magazine he was reading.
"Son-of-a-" Nick started before tea when down the wrong hole, turning his would-be curse into a fit of hacking.
Once he finally stopped coughing, Nick tossed the magazine on the bed and padded down the hall, rounded the corner into the den where Ellis, clad in boxers and a wife beater, was currently sitting cross legge
L4D2: Baby, It's Cold Outside by karatekid369, literature
Literature
L4D2: Baby, It's Cold Outside
Ellis loved Christmas. Especially post-apocalypse Christmas. Why, you might ask? Well, ever since CEDA finished cleaning out the infected rampaging across the country and people started being allowed to settle down places again, Nick had invited him (gruffly and rather embarrassedly, at that) to come and live with him. He had a place up north, and it was conveniently located within one of the cleared areas.
After processing quite a lot of paperwork and greasing a few palms ("This is why I kept my wallet full, kiddo. Money talks even during an apocalypse."), they were allowed to move there. Due to its rather remote location on the outskirts o