Luke hadn't seen a lot that made him just pause and watch over the years, but watching the way Ryan's mind worked was one of those things. This kid was about 10 years younger than him, and when it came to situations like the one they were in Luke would've spent about two-three hours coming up with an idea. For Ryan it take any time at all hardly and he was already coming up with a way to increase their chances of survival. The odds of getting the generator up and running weren't that great, but if anyone could do it Luke had faith in his friend Ryan to make it happen. Luke nodded and said, "All-right let's see what we can do, but first I'm jumping the track and checking something in the locker area. Hold up here I'll be back and we'll take on the stairs."
Luke crossed the tracks and hopped on the platform over into the locker area. The emergency light was shining on a door and Luke had a pretty good guess what was on the other side of the door. He turned the door knob and it was locked which made Luke smile, He smiled for two reasons one it meant that nothing unpleasant was on the other side (at least that was his hope), and two Luke hadn't kicked in a door in few years. It always made him smile to kick down a door and that feeling of watching it fall back was nothing but sweet satisfaction. Luke took two steps back and brought his right leg up, and with two kicks the door flew open. To be fair though the door wasn't in great shape, and Luke was disappointed that it took two kicks instead of one. Luke shook his head and attributed it to him getting older as he shined the light in the room. He was right there was no unpleasant surprises, but it was the room he was the room he was hoping for The room was a lost and found, and Luke was willing to bet that this wasn't the only one, but there would be time to look for others later. Luke entered the room and rummaged around until he found what he was looking for, Luke grabbed the item, closed the door, and made his way back to Ryan.
Once he got back to Ryan Luke gave him a cane. Luke said "In about 20 minutes that adrenaline surge is gonna wear off, and your ankle is gonna be in some rough shape. I figure you could use this I don't think the owner is coming back for it." Luke looked around and he could still see the glow of the fire from the stairs. He said, "That thing is only gonna burn for about another hour maybe two at most. After that we're gonna have company here, so we better get going so we can hold up behind the doors if we have to." The two began to make their way down the stairs, and Luke stopped about half way. He looked back at Ryan and said, "Take a whiff." The two men nodded and Luke said, "We got decomposing issues going here which means we ain't gonna see zombies, but it also means we're gonna have more pleasant dreams of seeing people in their last moments." Luke shook his head and said, "Let's go."
The two got to bottom of the stairs and walked down a corridor Luke saw where two large doors sat slightly open. He opened them a little further as the only source of light were two emergency light boxes. He looked around and saw two sizable generators and laying in between them and around them several zombies who had been electrocuted. Luke shined the light off to the side and saw one man sitting there with a gun in one hand, a what appeared to be picture in the other, and a controller off to the side. The controller was hooked up to the generators, and there was dried blood near by. One of the things that Luke and Ryan had gotten good in their time together was being able to deduce what had happened before they got to a scene. Luke said, "My guess this guy used the blood to lure the zombies down here, got them near the generators and turned it all into a giant electric net frying all but one. Who managed to bite him, which our guy here killed, and once he was he knew he was infected he decided to go out on his terms."
Luke walked over to the man sitting on the ground and moved his left hand. The picture he saw shook Luke visibly as he called over to Ryan. Luke moved the hand ever so slightly and it was picture of the man and Erin. The picture was of the two of them at a Bears game where Erin was flashing her diamond ring. Luke said, "My guess he proposed at the Bears game." Luke shook his head and said, "He must've bought time for her to get out of here promising he's join her at some point. At least they're together forever now." Luke peered around and saw that there was a maintenance room. He walked over and grabbed some plastic sheathing and came back to Ryan,
He said, "You get going on the generator I'll take care of...." Luke shrugged his shoulders and said, "Dave. I think he could be a Dave. Anyway I'll take care of doing what's right for him, and if you need anything let me know."
With that Luke began wrapping Dave's body up and was thinking of where to store it.