Heather was on duty at the gate. It hadn't taken long to get settled into the camp. She had to fight through many of those things to get this far and any able body was appreciated on guard duty. She looked out towards the way she'd come in. Not surprised to realize would come to be that way. She shook the thoughts off. He had never been there for her before paying as little attention to her as he could. It wasn't surprising that he didn't even seem to recognize her.

She saw movement in the distance and grabbed her binoculars. There definitely people coming towards the base. She looked around and saw Frank and yelled out to him, "Hey, Frank, I think I see movement out there!"

"On the highway? Really? Living or dead?" Frank was surprised as they weren't expecting anyone and the never saw zombies coming from that direction but he headed up to her perch to get a look.

"Right there, and they are coming fast too." Heather pointed out in the direction she saw them coming. "I think they're alive, they are moving too fast to be dead," She added.

"Well I'll be damned," Frank exclaimed, "It is little Janey and Logan." Frank climbed down from the look-out and headed for the gate to let them in giving an order to Mark to get word out that someone had arrived.

Janey, Logan and the other's got to the gate out of breath from all the running.

"Where'd you guys come from? Or why are you here…I mean we weren't expecting anyone, did something happen?" Frank kept asking the obvious questions as he checked them out and they continued to calm down from the ordeal.

Janey finally caught her breath and spoke up, "We decided to come out here and see how everyone was doing and Sam was driving, we got part way and stopped for lunch. The four of us took a walk while the rest of the group took naps as Sam had suggested. Then a little while later Sam came around the bus screaming bloody murder saying there were zombies on the highway that attacked the others and we should run. We ran and ran and ran until we got here. It's weird though, we didn't see any other zombies, just our friends, only our friends."

"There had to be other zombies, they were just slower," Logan said.

"No, it seems set up, like they planned it. Sam's been acting weird all day." Janey argued.

"You think Sam took a group out only to kill them and leave them?" Frank asked. "That sounds a little far-fetched."

Just then Mel and John walked up and John spoke up, "Sound like Mason's doing to me."

Mel just shook her head in disbelief, "After the arrival of those four I'll believe anything, his own daughter turned away. " Mel gave Heather an apologetic look.

Frank spoke up, "So does that mean the other base is compromised? Should we do something because if he's gone this far, all those people could be in danger?"

"It's definitely something to think about." Mel answered. "We will have to think about how to go back to check on them. We don't know how bad it is, and if we approach it wrong, it could be bad for everyone."

Janey kept repeating as the reality of the situation finally hit her, "I know it was planned. I just know it. There were no other zombies. Sam had to have killed those four." Logan took her in his arms and hugged her trying to comfort her.

Logan whispered, "It's ok, I believe you. We're safe now."

"Let's get you guys back and see about getting you some food and a place to sleep," John spoke up as he and Mel led the group back to camp. They had already checked to see they had no injuries so they didn't appear to be a danger.

The next morning they sat around the table by Mel's camper still mulling over what to do.

"I just don't know how to approach it," Mel said.

"Maybe we don't. I never felt in danger while we were there, maybe he won't hurt anyone." Logan said.

"I don't know if we should leave it alone on a maybe. Maybe it was an accident, maybe there were zombies. I think first we need to send out a party to check the highway for breeches, at least as far out as the picnic site from yesterday." Mel said.

John spoke up, "Whatever we do, we have to proceed with caution. Not only if we go back, but in case he gets delusions of grandeur and decides to attack us. Perhaps we don't go further than the picnic site until we can get better fortified on this end."

Mel thought for a minute, "Sounds good, until we got out a little further and get better fortified and come up with a plan to check out the other base to see what is going on there. Then we can decide if we can let it go."