The rest of the group was hiding behind Kenny, all of them armed with whatever they could find. Clementine was hiding with the baby behind a table, her hatchet close to her.

"Arvo, who are these people?" Christa questioned him.

Arvo and Timur then looked to each other as if they were thinking of what to say, Arvo stood up and began limping towards the doorway. He feared it was Erich and his goon squad. Arvo reached his head out into the cold and noticed Erich and the deuce and a half behind him.

"Shit, there's a lot of em!" Kenny observed.

"What do we do?" Clementine began to panic.

Arvo swallowed his breath and felt immediate fear. "Is Erich".

The group look confused.

"Who the fuck are they and what do they want?' Lily began to panic also as she began to shake from fear of the unknown.

Erich began to walk slower as he was quickly approaching the doorway where Kenny had his rifle sights aimed on him.

"You must be the ring leader, I see". Erich remarked, talking loudly so Kenny could hear him.

"Come on out, bring your group, we know about the baby, we can help, we've got a pretty good offer for you". Erich tried to convince them.

"How the fuck do they know about us?' Mike asked.

"Clem, you keep the baby close to you alright?" Luke assured her.

Erich paused in the middle of the road as the snowflakes were falling and collecting on him. He began to try again at convincing the entire group to come out. "Let me at least give you my offer, then we'll leave and pretend this never happened, how's it sound?"

The group listened to his offer and began to shake their heads. "Arvo, you now these people?" Mike said.

"Yes, sort of".

Kenny quickly snapped back at him. "It's either you do or you don't shit bird!"

'He can help us, just go outside". Arvo replied.

The group then looked to each other and noticed each member seemed to not trust what Arvo was saying or the offer from the unknown man.

"You tell your boys up there to lower their guns and we'll see about it". Kenny told him. Erich paused and looked back to the two men near each side of the truck and Ryan who was on top; he raised his hand and lowered it slowly. The men did what he said, lowering their guns to the ground. Kenny then slowly walked out of the building and onto the frost, his rifle steadily aimed at the torso of Erich. Luke followed then Mike, then Lily and Nate, then Christa, Timur, and finally Clementine and the baby who was last. The group followed into Erich's trap like a mouse into a trap for some cheese. They were all standing in the middle of the road spread out, each of them with the rifles aimed towards Erich and the men behind him.

"My men did as you requested, now I ask you to do the same, so we may begin a proper conversation".

Kenny slowly lowered his rifle, and so did the rest of the group.

"I'd really think about not putting your loved ones in so much danger, if you haven't checked, you're surrounded". Erich implied to Kenny .They immediately began to look to their right and left, and they were indeed, surrounded. Two men were in the alley way next to them, rifles aimed towards them, behind them was the black man, his bow and arrow aimed towards Kenny. Then from the side of where Erich was standing, the man with the silenced Browning Hi Power appeared.

"What do you want?" Christa demanded an answer.

"Our community of Wellington is looking to expand. We've got supplies, barracks for each member, jobs, barricades, scientists, what else?" He began to ponder what to say next. "I'm the leader of Wellington, my name is Erich. We've got baby supplies as well. So here's my offer."

Mike began to mumble. "I don't know about this guy".

"My offer is to let you all join Wellington, our striving community. Think about it for a minute, your fate lies on your answer".

'What the fuck does that supposed to mean?" Kenny said to him.

The group began to look to each other for answers. Mike shrugged. "We might as well see if he is telling the truth".

"He is". Arvo said to them.

The group began to talk amongst themselves as Erich waited for an answer. He looked to the man with the silenced pistol. "Jack, get the head, when I tell you, come out with it". Jack, the man with the scruffy beard and comb over hair did what he said and began to walk towards the truck.

Erich began to grow impatient. "Still not decided huh?" He asked them. "Alright then, you've got something we want, and we've got something you might want". Erich turned to the truck as Ryan seemed to have been commanded to do something. He let go of his assault rifle and let it rest against the roof, he grabbed Jane by the shoulder and began to pull her up. He squeezed her short hair and made her stand up next to him. Jane had blood smeared against her face, on the left arm of Ryan, covered up by his sleeve was a fresh cut. Ryan was ordered by Erich to cut himself on the way here and make it look like Jane had been beaten.

Luke's eyes grew as he noticed that blonde hair, it was Jane. He then noticed the patch of blood on her white pale soft cheeks.

"That's Jane!" Luke was in shock. "What do you want with her man?"
"You have something of ours, we have something of yours, you join us, and you can have her back". He then sarcastically replied. "Man".

"What the hell do we have of yours?"

"Arvo, Timur, Buricko, and Vitaly". Erich replied. "Arvo, where the fuck are they?"

Arvo turned to Kenny and the group with a look of pure hatred. "These sick people, murdered them!"

"They tried to kill us!" Screamed Clementine.

Erich was not expecting such an answer. He then raised his voice and began to talk louder.

"I'll make my final offer. Our Wellington has a law, a law stating that any outsider is a threat and must be eliminated. You can either join us, or you die, if I were you, I'd think about the baby". Erich then turned to Jack, and Jack began to walk towards him. "Don't believe me?" He rhetorically asked. In the left hand of Jack was a severed head, and he was holding it by its hair. The group was dumb founded and in fear.

Arvo frantically began speaking to Timur in Russian, the group began to talk and none of them knew what they should do.

"Let's not make this a massacre, join us at Wellington". Jack spoke up in his monotone sounding voice.

Arvo and Timur seemed to have made a decision; they raised both of their arms in the air and began walking towards Erich.

"Fuck!" Kenny let out. "You ain't having our fucking baby!"

Erich then answered him. "Of course".

"That baby stays with me and her the whole time, you fucking touch it, you're fucking dead, I swear to God!" Kenny threatened him.

A voice from behind the group began to order them. "Raise your arms over your head and make your way towards the truck, drop all weapons, they will be collected and returned to you once we reach our destination".

"Whose truck is that?" Jack asked.

"It's mine, and I ain't leaving here without it". Nate quickly spoke up.

Erich turned to Jack. "Fine, my man here will drive it to Wellington."

"I meant, I will fucking drive it to Wellington or I'm not coming". Nate replied with some sass.

The group began to comply; Mike and Luke raised their arms and slowly began to walk towards the truck.

"Just let them do it, Nate". Lily tried to reason with him. Nate listened to the sweet calming voice of Lily and he was already in love with her the first time she smacked him with her rifle. He reached in his pocket, pulling out the keys, and threw them towards his truck.

"Alright men, load them up. All of them in the back and let the baby have the blanket we found. Guard them in the back, on the way over they are not to socialize".

As the deuce and a half drove towards Wellington with the white truck of Nate following close behind, they turned down an road and began to slow down. They slowly drove past a grizzly scene, three bodies, all male, one was missing a head, and the other two had been brutally butchered to death. A large pile of blood soaked the snow coloring it tinted red. Two of the men were missing shirts, and were lying on the ground partially naked. The truck then sped back up, Erich didn't even look at the grizzly scene him and his men had instigated earlier. He was serious about his law, maybe Arvo knowing Erich and being with them was a blessing in disguise. If Arvo hadn't of said he known Erich, Kenny and his group might have met the same fate.