Gordon opens the big door and he finds a pitch black room inside. He wonders if he's on the right place. This was where he was instructed to go. He was a bit afraid it was all wrong.
He was so eager to get to a place where he could wash himself and get something to eat. He tried to look around in the room. He tried to switch on his flashlight. But he soon remembered it was broken since a long time.
He almost couldn't admit it to himself, but he was so in the need to see those blue eyes of Dr Kleiner behind the big glasses of his. He wanted to find everybody alive in here. Barney, Eli, Isaac, Alyx and even Lamarr. But the darkness really scared him.
He almost whispered out Dr Kleiner's name.
"Barney?"
"Anyone here?"
Suddenly he heard something sudden. Like a pet flask hitting the floor. He quickly aimed his Combine rifle out in the middle of the darkness.
He was suddenly blinded by a strong light and he blinked a couple of times before seeing in front of him. There he found Dr Kleiner with Lamarr in front of him. It almost screamed at him. It was like a dog.
They were standing in an old workshop. Kleiner had already set up some computers on an old table.
"Get back, I have a head-crab!" Kleiner screamed desperately and looked quite scared. But soon he just looked surprised at Gordon.
"Gordon! I can't believe it!" he bursted out and took a step closer to Gordon. Lamarr didn't stopped screaming its ugly scream. Gordon hated that thing, he hated head-crabs.
"Lamarr, be quiet!" Isaac told it and it did.
"It's so good to see you, you always intend to survive everything", Isaac continued and Gordon just nodded. He always got that kind of credits.
"Barney! Gordon is here!" he screamed and looked over his shoulder back on a blue door. It soon opened and Barney walked in with a big smile on his face.
"You did it from the evacuation trains, thank god", he said when he walked up to them.
"You don't know where Alyx is?" Gordon suddenly asked. He had lost her by the trains. He was so afraid she hadn't made it.
"I'm afraid I do Gordon, she came here about an hour ago. She's fine, just some easy wounds."
Gordon puffed. Thank god.
"She's very worried about you, you should get back there and see her", Barney said and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder.
Gordon just passed him with a nod and walked over to the blue door. Behind it he found a short empty old corridor. By the end of it was another blue door. He was fast over there and opened it.
Then he found a small room with all kinds of weapons on the walls and ammo in boxes on the floor.
By one table Alyx stood and loaded a rifle. She looked disturbed and sad.
He managed to stand there for a while before she looked up at him. She screamed his name very load and ran over to him. She hugged him really hard.
"I thought you didn't make it!" she cried and held him tight. He was a bit surprised. She cried.
Soon she looked at him right in the eyes behind his glasses which where a bit blurry.
"You know me, I don't do stuff like dying", he said and Alyx laughed.
"I'm so glad to see you", she said after a while and let him go.
"It's crazy out here in these woods, combines all over the place", she then said and walked back to the table and finished setting up the rifle. Gordon walked up to her.
"Where did you get all this equipment?" he asked and grabbed a gun and studied it for a while.
"Don't ask me, Kleiner manages to do everything."
