Richard did his best to walk down the stairs to the first floor, but he relied on Jessi's support more than he liked to admit. He was hating himself for being so weak, after all it was a husband's duty to be strong for their wife no matter what. However, he could not wallow in self pity at the moment. The strange situation they found themselves in required nothing less than their combined attention to figure out.<br/><br/>It wasn't until they reached the lobby and his wife voiced her realization of where they were that Richard took a moment to really look around at where they had woken up. She was right, there was no denying it as his eyes passed over a familiar piano with a brown lacquered finish that sat in one corner near the gift shop. He remembered listening to a hospital volunteer deftly working the keys while he had waited on the results of Jessi's tests the last time they had been there. "I don't know honey," he said, trying to keep his own voice as reassuring as possible, "but we'll figure it out, I promise."<br/><br/>As Jessi lead them to a nearby wall and slid down to the floor to rest against it, Richard looked out through the gigantic pane-glass windows that lined the front of the building. What he saw chilled his blood even more than the thought of being left alone in a hospital on their own. There was no movement outside that he could see at all. No pedestrians traversing the sidewalks, no cars looking for a particularly decent spot to park, not even a bird breaking the clear blue sky with the flapping of its wings. It was as though the world had moved on, and for some reason it had decided to leave Richard and Jessica Thompson behind. Sliding down beside her, his arm automatically found its way around her waist as they sat there in silence.<br/><br/>Whatever was happening to them, he knew that sitting there wasn't going to solve it. At the very least he figured they needed to try and get somewhere more familiar than the place they had awoken. He took a minute to stretch out his legs until he was satisfied with the lessened numbness in them before standing on his own. He didn't need Jessi to voice how worried she was about his health, they had been together long enough for him to know how she felt. Even still he looked down at her and smiled, "Don't worry honey, I'm feeling better...really. Let's see if we can find a way to get home from here."<br/><br/>His legs didn't feel like they would betray him anymore, but the haze that clouded his equilibrium refused to dissipate as easily. It didn't matter though, because he was determined to push through that minor bit of discomfort for her. Taking her hand in his Richard led them out into the parking lot to search for a means of transportation that wasn't their own two feet. "Search the cars and see if any of them have keys inside, but don't stray too far okay?" Considering the state of the hospital he wondered if any of the cars would even crank, but quickly dismissed the thought. There was no reason at all for him to think such an outlandish thing, but it still nagged at him nonetheless.<br/><br/>It took them a half an hour of going down the aisles of abandoned vehicles before Richard got what he hoped was their first lucky break. In the ignition of a black Toyota Tacoma hung a set of keys with a rabbit's foot dangling from the ring. "I think we've got a winner baby," he called out to Jessi as he tried the door and found it miraculously unlocked. His heart started pumping rapidly as the anticipation built up within him.<i>Please God, if you're listening give us this,</i>he thought to himself as he climbed into the cab and tried to turn the engine over. For a moment it seemed as though it just wouldn't happen, but just as he was about to give up the truck roared to life. "Yes," he exclaimed as he rolled down the windows and buckled his seat belt while waiting for Jessi to climb in with him, "finally something is going our way!"