Aiden was always kind of a screw up, trying a myriad of different things throughout his teens and up to his twenties, but never actually perfecting anything. He always tried to follow his older brother, Wyatt. Wyatt dropped out of school to work on cars, becoming a fairly good freelance mechanic. He made a livable wage and genuinely enjoyed doing what he did. Aiden wanted to learn too, but couldn't grasp it. He couldn't sit still long enough to properly learn anything. Aiden would get angry, but only at himself, and keep it inside him. The only thing Aiden had up on his brother was his high school diploma, so maybe education was the better route for Aiden. He enrolled in community college, meeting some shifty but overall pleasant folks there. He got incredibly enamored with 'pharmaceuticals'. Processing, obtaining, cutting, and taking the creations him and his friends would make. This janky lab rat crew became drug dealers throughout the campus, selling shitty drugs to students for their parties and whatnot. When the virus started to spread, Aiden and his friends just kept doing their thing. When life actually started to take a turn, Aiden called Wyatt to help him get out of town. Wyatt arrived to pick up his brother, but was greeted by his friends that forced him out of his truck and drove away. Among these friends was Aiden himself, who was too high and peer pressured to look back. Wyatt had to make his own living, while Aiden went off with his friends. Eventually, withdrawal hit. Aiden and his friends drove everywhere, eventually ending up in LA. Heavy rioting was going on, but they managed to push through. Eventually, they made it to some docks, where a man was preparing a boat for travel. They pointed a gun at this man, and forced him to travel with the group. The destination was a vacation home in Finland, a home the man owned and went to in the summer. However, the boat was packed for one person. The boat currently was traveling with 5 people. One night, one of Aiden's friends got in an argument with the man about their food situation, and it ended with a bullet. He shot the man in the leg, and the group's efforts to save him fell short. The man bled out on his boat, and now the group was stranded at sea. One by one, the group took the easy way out. One member shot himself when everyone else was asleep. Two members started fighting, leaving one dead and the other fairly hurt. It was down to two people, Aiden and a friend. They made a suicide pact, and shook on it. His friend shot herself, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Two days later, land was visible. Finally, on September 2nd, Aiden landed in Norway. He didn't know this of course. He didn't know what day it was, what month it was, or where he was. He was just happy to be on land again.