Alan didn't know what to believe, but he knew he wasn't that rich in options and when it came to still being pursed by the darkness, he was willing to try anything. That probably made him desperate, but his apartment was cluttered with lamps and in order to even get from the desk to the fridge, he had to duck under strings of lights whose bulbs made him ridiculously paranoid every time they flickered. The lights were on every minute of every day, and though he hated to admit it, he didn't sleep much anymore. He just spent most of his time changing bulbs, and that...that mostly just made him feel bad about any disparaging remark he'd tossed Cynthia Weaver's way.
He'd been packing a bag when the knock came - extra guns, ammo, flares, as many flare guns and flashbangs as he'd been able to find. He'd raided every police station in the city just about and those last two things were still hard to come by, but things just seemed to replenish themselves. So far, that'd worked in his favour, but he knew he couldn't keep living like that. He liked Jean and Andrew - they were good people. Sam was too, and whether or not he managed to help Alan with his problem, Alan had spent so much time trapped at the bottom of a lake that it would've been nice to spend some time with anyone, let alone the people he'd gotten to know.
He slung the bag over his shoulder and made sure his gun was loaded before opening the door, stepping back for Sam to come inside. He didn't really let people in on his crazy - it'd gotten him into three car accidents and even locked up twice over a matter of days and that was before the darkness had even decided to take him. "Hey," he said quietly, trying to mask the nervousness. "You uh...you have everything I asked you to bring?"
He didn't know what else to say. Pleasantries had been one of those things he'd more or less let go by the wayside since he'd had no one to talk to outside of the ghost of a writer the darkness had trapped before him. "I uh...as you can see, it's gotten a little more than out of hand," he pointed out sheepishly, gesturing to all the lights.