Luke took his seat at the table and propped his feet in another chair, and then Ryan just had to say it. Luke looked at him first as though he had just eaten a bad olive, and then a smirk came over his face. The next thing Luke knew he was laughing at Ryan and said, "I told Candice the night I left her that if I ever saw you again I had a big I told ya so coming to me." He opened his bottle of water and raised it up to Ryan at the doors. Luke said, "You got me on this one my friend. I deserve that one in spades."

Luke grabbed another bottle of water and put it at a open seat. He said, "You deserve this one. It's good seeing you again Ryan." Luke looked around and said, "Well since it looks like we're the only ones in this joint I say we play a couple of hands and then raid some of the other floors. Not sure how much we'll fine this place has been home for me for the last four days."

Luke gestured over his shoulder and said, "I'm in the supply closet about four doors down." Luke took a swig of his water and said, "You come back here I'll tell you how it all ended with Candice. I gotta feeling she ain't gonna be troubling us for a while. Although there is a part of me that's regretting one thing." Luke took another swig and said, "I never thought i'd hear myself say this, but I gotta feeling I'm gonna regret not killing her when I had the chance." He shook his head and said, "I don't know maybe i'm just going through a bit of survivor's guilt, because of all those others who weren't so lucky in dealing with her. Like I said I'll tell you all about it when we get the cards going."

Luke noticed the stage in the grand room and smiled as he looked around. He said, "I'll bet this place really was something to see back in it's day. Probably threw some killer New Year's Eve parties too. I can almost see the jazz band on stage now, the disco ball turning in the lights, while the confetti and streamers filled the air. All the while the cleaning staff was thinking, 'Damn, we gotta clean this crap up.' They were probably lucky to be getting around 6 am."

This was pure empty conversation to say the least, but it didn't matter to Luke or even Ryan. When the two of them were together things always seemed to work out, and they had each other's back no matter what happened. Sure the whole Candice episode was a bump in the road, and Luke knew he should've listened to his friend on that one. One thing was for sure though now that they were back together their chances of survival just went up 10 fold.