The door knob slightly turned and the door to the Jansen's apartment slowly opened with Aiden as the first person coming through,he looked back at Jonas who nodded in assurance of his readiness and then at Kara who just stared away in a furious manner,Aiden could imagine the storm welling up within the girl and decided that he wanted nothing to do with it,although he understood her plight,Marco volunteered to go and get back Aiden's briefcase despite his condition,something to which she protested rigidly,while demanding that one of the younger men do it,Marco obviously refused,Aiden knew that the man now saw himself as expendable and didn't want to risk turning in front of his daughter and ruin her memories of him,that old man had grit and great love for his daughter,that brought a sour taste to his mouth as he thought about his own father "Tch!" He mouthed while stepping out,gun raised and eyes at alert,as he had suspected,none of the undead  were on their floor,but despite this fact caution had to be applied.

As the door to the apartment Jonas claimed the kid was hiding in was picked by Aiden,the snarls of the undead inside could be clearly heard,Aiden handed his gun to Jonas and opted for a much more silent weapon,the knife,he rolled it between his fingers and took a deep gulp of air before entering,a shaking Kara then finally rushed to the staircase along with Jonas as they had planned "Are you sure that he will be able to handle all of the undead on this floor?" She asked with uncertainty while looking back for a second

"I think he won't even break a sweat,that guy is not normal,I thought you would have realised it by now" He  whispered back "Besides, we would just be in his way if we tried to help,let's just stick to what we are meant to do"

Aiden was immediately confronted by a man and a woman who were in the sitting room,the parents of the kid he thought,they had already turned,he also noticed an unpacked luggage in the room, so he deduced that they had just arrived from the station and were probably bitten there,Aiden hastily drove the knife into the father's skull with extreme ease,retrieved it with force while holding the mother and finally driving it into the woman's temple,after watching them both fall he was now sure that the brain was the main factor to take out in order to tackle the undead,all this info gathering made him ponder on what on Earth was actually going on.

He went on to the door where the boy's room was and knocked "Hey you can come out" At first there was silence before the locks were finally removed and a young boy with blonde hair and lost blue eyes and peeked out,he was probably in his mid teens and had an average height,that look and appearance reminded Aiden of himself when he was younger,he tightened the grip on his knife and  said"Come"  while outstretching his hand,but the kid ignored it and stared at the corpses of his parents,this was going to be hard,Aiden thought,how was he going to explain things to the boy.

"Thank you sir"

Aiden's expression wasn't altered by the boy's response but he was intrigued by the boy's quick grasp of the situation "Do you know how many survivors there are on this floor and the others?" 

"We are the only survivors on this floor,most of the people weren't at home when things started and those that were went downstairs to help the people being attacked so they were probably mauled by those things,there is an old couple a couple of flats from ours there is an old man who has turned,I saw her come out last night when those things chased the screaming man,as for the other floors I don't know though"

Aiden nodded and said "stay here" As he headed to the flat the boy mentioned and picked the lock to the door,as it opened the no one seemed to be in the house "Hello?" He said in the hopes of attracting the undead out of it's hiding place and it worked an old lady walked out of her room,white eyes,greyish skin and lack of speech were all signs that pointed to the obvious fact that she had turned,she was also slower than the rest of the undead,was it due to her age? He wondered as he grabbed her by the neck and drove his knife into the lady's temple,she fell instantly.....dead

However,Aiden didn't have the chance to catch a break due to the light scream that came from the hallway below,he rushed out and stealthily made his way down the stairs just to hear several voices among which he recognised Kara's and Jonas's,what had happened?

He reached for his gun but suddenly realised that he had given it to Jonas "Damn it" he sighed while proceeding down the stairs with a calm demeanour,he then peeked into the hall of the floor below and sighed at what he saw,it seemed that his plan had gone better than he thought,luckily Dutch apartment buildings were mostly one storey tall with about eight to twelve apartments on each floor,so he asked Jonas to communicate with as many survivors as possible and tell them to use the method they had just used themselves on their floors.

"So why did Kara shout?"  Aiden asked with a glint of irritation at her lack of sense while walking towards the others,he then turned towards  her"Are you trying to get everyone killed?"

"Excuse me if I am not an emotionless killing machine with guns coming out of my body like you,I was spooked by one of them" Aiden looked down at her gun wielding hand and then flashed an emotionless glance at Jonas,he grabbed the gun from her and turned towards the people that had been rescued,including the kid upstairs there were now ,five females and eight males also including Marco,his eyes suddenly widened as he realised something.

"Isn't Marco meant to be back?" Aiden mouthed slowly as he rushed back upstairs closely followed by Jonas and Kara,they hastily  entered into the Jansen's apartment just to realise that Marco was already back with Aiden's briefcase carefully placed on the table still closed, he stood in front of the window silently staring outside while the sunshine illuminated his greyish skin.