The four men were about to get them but suddenly stopped when one of theirs fell to the ground with a hole in his head. Almost automatically they started to look around randomly when their eyes fell upon Ryan. One of them growled but made no move to do anything. Ryan was a feared yet hated enemy. â€œWell lookey here boys, looks like a parade is in order, we have to please the princess after all.â€ The leader said with a touch of fear in his voice that he couldnâ€™t hide even if he wanted too.<br/><br/>The other two still remaining looked to their leader with wide eyes. Gulping they turned back and with one final grip of courage smiled and bowed their way out of the situation. The leader looked to his left where the other two were and watched in horror as they left. â€œUmmâ€¦â€ He said and looked back to Ryan. Smiling himself the leader took his leave in a less dignified way than his men had. At full speed he ran away to let his own boss know that Ryan was in the area, not that it would have done much good anyway.<br/><br/>Eric winced at the loud shot of the gun and turned quickly around to see what it was that helped them. He was just about to open his mouth for a thanks when he saw that it was Ryan. â€œahhâ€¦ummmâ€¦hi.â€ He said not quite sure what else to say. It was certainly surprising to see him there he didnâ€™t know what else to say. He raised his hand to wave but it refused to do anything but stay at his side. The feelings he had fought to suppress came flooding to the surface. He didnâ€™t even know what it was exactly but whenever Ryan was around or even when he was mentioned it came up. As much as he wanted to he couldnâ€™t shake the feeling away anymore.<br/><br/>It was almost as if he was resigning himself to his feelings. Eric didnâ€™t like it and he felt like a spotlight was being pointed directly at him whenever the feeling came up. â€œSo, thank you.â€ He said finally getting out words to speak. â€œWe were just looking for the way back to our hotel to leave. We didnâ€™t have a very good welcoming party at the diner when we woke up for breakfast. That is the honest truth, we just stumbled here.â€<br/><br/>He glanced at Kat hoping she would think of or was already thinking of a way out of this. Eric was pretty much fresh out of ideas and if the truth helped he would give it, well, as much as he was qualified to anyway. A little tidbit of information about this Thomas person from Ryan would help them greatly but he doubted it would happen unless Kat had a plan. As far as Eric was concerned his brain was shot and Ryan being there didnâ€™t help much in that respect.