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Survivors, all vastly different from one another, will have to adapt to a world crawling with creatures known as the infected. In the midst of this chaos, some bonds will be formed, and others will break.
This story takes place during the events of Left 4 Dead 2, from the Vannah hotel all the way to the extraction in The Parish, and even far beyond. However, it only loosely follows the campaigns of the game.
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On his way out of town, Nick meets a promiscuous Ellis and one thing leads to another.
Originally a one-shot, one night stand but... they meet up again.
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A moment at a club turns into something Ellis can’t stop thinking about.
Days later, he knocks on his professor’s office door.He didn’t expect anything to come of it, and maybe nothing will. But curiosity is a hard thing to ignore, and so is the way Nick looked at him that night.
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Nothing, Everywhere, All at Once by dollarstoreviagra
Fandoms: Left 4 Dead (Video Games)
16 Nov 2025
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The smell of apocalypse has clung to him since they left. That smell of the ends of cigarettes stay engraved in Nick's fingertips in the way campfire smoke clings to a sweater even days after being there, like glitter to a sidewalk that you walk over every day.
He is not fond of this scent. Given his days of living off of only that, cigarettes and cheap liquor, that bitter taste and sickening burn is no stranger to him.
A stranger he sees everywhere. A stranger, never a stranger, and always there at the same time in the form of a lost friend.- Language:
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HE'S A LOVER AND A FIGHTER.
When disgraced underground boxer Nick Caputo flees Vegas after burning his last bridges, he winds up in the last place he ever wanted to be: small-town Georgia. There he collides with Ellis McKinney, a total rookie with the kind of talent that makes a legend — and the kind of heart that pulls Nick back into a fight he wanted to leave behind.
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Marble Arch by illgotosecretgardensinmymind for JustSamm
Fandoms: Left 4 Dead (Video Games)
10 Nov 2025
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Love survives the apocalypse. So does Nick Cassidy.
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When broken down, humanity's primal ways of living consists of two groups:
Those who love despite their trauma, and those who are defined by it.
Are people permanently cursed into these groups in childhood, or can they be saved by the right person? Ruined?
Which of the two gets you through a zombie apocalypse?
In a race against time to save his best buddy, Ellis, a young Georgian mechanic, finds himself on a burning rooftop with a coach, a producer, and a gambler. The strangers could not come from more different backgrounds, breeding constant tension amongst them as they are forced to band together for survival on their spontaneous journey to the last city standing: New Orleans.While the mechanic quickly becomes the morale booster of the four, the skeletons in his closet weigh him down and put the team at risk until he finally decides whether to face his traumas head-on... or lose everything to them.
On the other hand, Nick is an opportunistic man, designed to die at the hands of his own regrets, until Ellis tests the inevitability of his fate.
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Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by comedicallyBraindead
Fandoms: Left 4 Dead (Video Games), Left 4 Dead 2
07 Nov 2025
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A really head cannoned au story about Left 4 Dead, our main character here is Nicholas Vancaster, otherwise known as Nick. We learn about his backstory, relationships, and intentions as he attempts to survive the apocalypse the best he humanly can.
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In 1890s America, the R. Coleman gang is on the run after the law finally catches up to them in the dusty town of Calico Bluffs. Barely escaping with their lives, they stumble into Willowford — a middle-of-nowhere town.
All Nick wants is to sell a stolen horse and drink himself halfway to death. Then he meets Ellis — a stable hand with a quick mouth.
Ellis sees through Nick like a window and doesn’t trust a word he says. Nick doesn’t trust anyone who still believes there’s good left in the world.
There’s no safe place left in the West — but maybe, if they’re lucky, they can carve one out for themselves.
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long-form left 4 dead series closely following the four survivors from the beginning, through both expanded classic chapters and brand new settings. told primarily from nick's POV. heavy on the horror, humor and character development, with a slowburn nellis of some kind unfolding along the way.
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[RE-WRITTEN]
As the clock ticked and the days passed by, the truth became easier to digest. Six months had passed since the survivors were released from the camps set out by CEDA, and Ellis could say that he had moved on.In fact, that’s what he told Rochelle and Coach every time they gave him that pitiful look. It was obvious that they didn’t buy his words no matter how many times he repeated himself. It was obvious even after they’d stopped questioning— their looks alone louder than words. But he ignored them, simply averting his gaze to avoid meeting their sad little ones simply because he believed himself.
He was over Nick.
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- Part 2 of Like Real People Do
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(Takes place after The Great Midwest)
The few survivors left in The States are upon naval ships. Nick, Ellis, Coach and Rochelle find themselves adjusting to their new lives, while meeting the survivors from North Dakota.
“We’ve had enough of the military” constantly plays in their minds as they navigate the ship and the fate that might come their way.
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- Part 2 of Struggle 2 Survive
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Drinking Games [Reimagined] by for_the_love_of_adonis
Fandoms: Left 4 Dead (Video Games)
30 Oct 2025
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Stranded in a sugar mill town with nobody but Nick, a busted record player, and too much time to think, Ellis does what Ellis does best: tries to make the best of it.
Nick does what Nick does best: drinks, deflects, and maybe—accidentally—feels something.
(An expanded, epistolary reimagining of a one-shot called “Drinking Games.”)
P.S. This yarn’s spun by none other than Ellis’s buddy Keith—and he’d like to contribute to the summary. So, straight from that horse’s mouth:
“In this here story, there’s an injury, a little guilt, a lotta bad decisions, and—God help ‘em both—some feelings neither of ‘em quite meant to have.”So there ya have it.
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Sleep-deprived and borderline hysterical, Nick and Rochelle share a moment while in CEDA custody.
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The apocalypse is over and everyone is being sent home, but how do you leave a state of mind? How do you forget what you saw, what you did? How do you go back to a life that no longer has room for this version of you? Can you do it alone? Or must you do it together?
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A little before the begining events of the game, the events of the game, and then afterward, mostly follows canon, but i add a few people that drop off.
Inspired by Still Kicking and Retread. (Read them they're peak.)
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Ellis at a very young age had an operation done that removed his penis. He required a Penectomy because of penile cancer. He grew up ashamed of it and didn't like to show people it. This makes it hard to romantically pursue people because they want to take it further into the bedroom. He gains an interest in his teammate Nick. Things get sticky for Ellis and it seems Nick might find out. Will this change how Nick feels about him?
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Ellis and Nick have some time alone in a Safe Room, just a few steps away from freedom but unable to travel further just yet. Ellis needs blood, but Nick has to do a bit of convincing first to get him to take it
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SORRY. I’m really l4d2 brainrotted rn lmao. Nellis doomed yaoi my beloved and i may have mischaracterised them both a little but #yolo also apologies if this is short i never write fics lowkey
prompt: “in ellis’s workshop they were very lgbtq friendly for the time(2009) and when ellis realised he had fallen in loge with nick he accidentally told him one night in a safehouse when everykne was asleep and nick said that he loved the other man too but they couldnt be public for his reputations sake because he was supposed to be seen as the tough conman who was never vulnerable”
- Language:
- English
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- 325
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 5
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