1 World, 2 of Us [Nellis]

to Florida!

Nick held Ellis' hand as they walked up the path of the army base, a long concrete drive, his hand feel a bit naked of one of his rings that now fit on Ellis' ring finger. Luckily, Ellis had the same ring size as him, and he had said yes to his marriage proposal.

Ellis looked at Nick as they walked, not wanting to say anything after such a perfect moment. He was afraid he'd mess the moment up and make Nick change his mind. But why would Nick when he had asked such a big question?

Nick let Ellis' hand go and rammed his foot through the wooden side door, an emergency exit. He knew that they cared less about what the material for the side-doors were made of, as long as people could get out quickly in case of a fire or something. "Fuck…I'm stuck." He reached out and grabbed Ellis by the lower arm, letting Ellis yank him free of the wood.

"At least ya got a hole in the door so ya can reach up and unlock that fucker. Actually, let me do it…" Ellis had longer arms after all…not by much. He just wanted to feel useful to his fiancé.

The mechanic got on his knees and reached into the hole, felt his way up the door, and pushed the door handle, opening the door. "There ya go. After you." Now he had to get his hand out of the fucking door. But, with a few yanks, he pulled his arm out and stood up, following Nick inside, his rifle ready in both hands in distrust of the quiet base.

"Hello?! Hey!" Nick shouted and looked around, finding no one. It was absolutely silent and sort of cold in the base, as if it were abandoned. It was abandoned actually, now that Nick got a better look at it. "No one's here. Fuckin' hell yeah! We got this place to ourselves Ellis." Nick reached behind him and was greeted by Ellis' hand being placed in his. After closing his hand around Ellis' hand, he pulled him along, heading up to the second floor offices to find information on possibly where the army had moved to, or if he could find a radio.

Upon entering the office, Nick looked around and saw a gun cabinet to his right, then a desk with papers scattered on it in the middle of the office with a few chairs around the desk. "Looks like they were in a rush…" He let Ellis' hand go and headed over to the desk, picking up papers and reading them to himself.

Apparently, the squads had headed out to sea with the NAVY, believing zombies couldn't swim. They were right…they were absolutely right! So, if Nick and Ellis wanted to get out of this alive, they had to head to the ocean. South they were going…but they needed a set of wheels first.

"What's it say?" Ellis peaked over Nick's shoulder and read the paper, gasping in stupid realization. "Well of course! Shoulda figured this out months ago, Nick…zombies are stupider than a boxa nails. Wait…what's…"quarantine" mean?" He squinted, trying to think about what the word meant. Nothing came to mind, however.

"Quarantined means...shit…it means to block off, or to isolate things I think. Fuck, it means to block sickness off from a group of healthy people. That's what we're looking for. We're going to Florida." Nick crumpled the paper up and went out to the walkway, leaning on the railing, looking down at the first floor. "They have a jeep with a machine gun on it down there, and it looks like dehydrated food in packages too. We just need to find some water, then we can get a real meal instead of that shitty canned pasta shit." He couldn't lie…he had gotten used to 'that shitty canned pasta shit', but if he could have a better meal, such as a dehydrated meal…he'd be in heaven.

Ellis got into the gun cabinet and pulled out a M16, admiring it. "'Ey Nick…lookie what I found…" He held it up and smiled widely, knowing Nick would be proud of him. When it came to guns, Ellis knew what he was looking for precisely.

Nick looked over and laughed, walking back into the office and slamming the door shut with his foot. "I think you love cars and guns more than me…don't you?" He knew well that Ellis loved cars, and now guns, but…maybe not as much as he loved Nick.

"Naw…they're cool and everythin', but they ain't nothin' compared to you Nick." Ellis put the gun back into the gun cabinet and put his hands on his hips, looking at Nick for instruction. When he got none, he just smiled and tried to walk past him to go explore the base, but was stopped by Nick's grasp on his pushed-down jumpsuit around his waist. "'Ey!"

Nick smiled and leaned against the wall, bringing Ellis in for a kiss. "Hey there…where do you think you're going so soon? You haven't even kissed me since I proposed…I deserve THAT at least, I think." Nick placed his hand on the back of Ellis' head and kissed him gently a few times before letting him go do whatever the hell Ellis was going to do.

Ellis licked his lips and walked down the stairs to the first floor, tasting Nick's slightly sweet saliva on his lips. He must've gotten ahold of some gum or something. Whatever it was, Ellis liked it.

With a sigh, Ellis looked under the jeep's hood and started it, listening to see if he could hear anything wrong with it. When he heard nothing, he looked up at Nick and smiled slightly. "There's nothing wrong with it. Just needs some gas. We can get some from the gas tank over yonder." He pointed to the gas tank in the corner of the base, full of gas.

Nick looked over the railing and nodded, getting the gas while Ellis tuned up the jeep quickly with ease, then awaited Nick to come to him with the gas and put it in the jeep.

Once Nick got the gas, he waddled over to the jeep with the heavy pale of gasoline and began pouring it in the jeep's gas tank, going back and forth until the jeep was full. "That should hold us. We really don't need anything…" Just in case, Nick quickly grabbed a few handfuls of the dehydrated food, a few guns, ammo, and first aid, then got in the passenger seat, letting Ellis drive this time since Nick had drove Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car out of the mall.

They headed out towards Florida, a long drive for two states that were so near each other.

Ellis rolled the windows down and took his hat off, letting the wind flow through his hair as he drove at over 70 miles per hour. "Feels good…I almost forgot how to drive cuz you drove Jimmy Gibbs Jr's car instead of letting me drive it!" He threw a gentle punch at Nick's arm and laughed.

Nick shook his head and reclined in the seat a bit, grabbing Ellis' hat and putting it over his face to take a short nap. "Wake me up when we cross over the border." He shut his eyes and sighed, falling asleep easily with the comfort of Ellis' hat over his head.