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"Here"

"What's this?"

"A journal I guess I got from a uhm, fire house"

"Uh huh"

"There's some useful stuff in there"

Tobias skimmed through the journal and read everything, learning new variants of the biters and even the dark days that the author has gone through, He felt pity upon her as he read through it, and much more as he read about her daughter.

"Poor mother"

"Yeah, and here"

Rodrick handed a photograph to Tobias, folded. He opens it and immediately he knew who it was, 'Natalia?' he whispered. Now looking at her directly after 6 years later, she has grown into a woman.

"I showed it too Zach actually, he said it looks like that name you mentioned"

"Yeah, she is in love with the guy that we'll take"

"Craig?"

"Yeah"

"No like Craig what?"

"Craig Tiffin"

"Rock"

"hmm?"

"His name Craig, it means rock right?"

"Yeah, looking back, he lived up to that name, stubborn. This girl also loves him, I don't want to kill him if that's possible"

Tobias feeling guilt over what he did looks at Natalia with tears, but he stopped his emotion getting the better of him. He turned away and gave his orders to his company.

"Ensure that no one is hurt, mentally and physically, scout the area and bring back anyone who has escaped, we need the whole city including the inhabitants"

They all do as they told, they formed different groups and did their assigned tasks. Tobias heads to towards the city hall and spoke through Craig's radio, *I'm here*. Oscar followed behind him, Dylan panics and grabs the gun of one of his dead men. He aimed at the door as he hears loud stomps, Tobias kicks the door and Dylan fired a whole magazine but it did not hit anyone.

Tobias grabbed the doctor as soon as he cannot hear anything in the room and dragged him out of the house. His men easily took over the shrunken city and they announced their plan for them. SPECTRE means no harm for the people of GWN instead they take over it in order to ensure their safety, their reactions were divided. The people who agreed to SPECTRE were former inhabitants of Washington and Woodville while others were the people who were against the inhabitants of the 2 towns to live there with them.

Kayla and Matilda just looked at Tobias, confused, even after his explanation. Natalia is the only one who is glad to hear that, but she does not want to go to Toronto in order to create a vaccine, losing hope and hearing the possibility of a vaccine just made her give up on that idea, and remembering so many of children like her died trying to get what they have now and also Tobias killed her lover. She resented the man that saved her, but she grew up with Craig not Tobias. She hated him, trust has disappeared as well. 'How and Why would he kill his first ally' she kept thinking to herself.

Every attempt that Tobias makes to speak to her she would look away or glare at him. He does so for the next months until the snow has gone down, nothing changed just the authority that has taken over them. Marathon and Mackinaw has created a strong communication with Pierre which starts to send more of their Helicopters and start to do the things they have done in Pierre. They erected buildings in order to make use more of the labor force of both cities, schools were one of the things they prioritized to create in order to teach the children how to read and write, something that was not present.

The opinion of the city and town starts to sway on SPECTRE's side and using the season of winter they took that opportunity to expand and take over the whole City and town. Using horses they pulled cars in order to make small walls. They managed to clear all of the dead in both areas, despite that they did not destroy the concrete walls. Within the 3 months since their arrival, and 3 horrible months for Dylan.

Tobias and Oscar would visit him from time to time in order to give away any information about Hearst, but he would not budge, they did not torture him as he is old. Despite that Dylan was positive about his situation and would just wait until the season has ended and Hearst would check on them, not communicating once in the past 3 months will surely raise their attention, and no activity whatsoever from Mackinaw and Marathon.

"I think we should go to Norfolk now"

"I agree Toby.. the snow has started to weaken and we can probably make the trip"

"Do we have a company ready?"

"Yeah just 1"

"Good, we set off tonight, is that possible?"

"Yeah the trucks are ready we can probably go now"

"Not you Oscar, you stay here and assert control make sure nothing happens"

"Yep"

"How's Zach?"

"Still recovering"

"Good, Foxtrot you're with me"

"all right, let's go"

They get out of the city hall and then Oscar, Foxtrot and Delta gathered the available men in the city that they can take to 'recover' Norfolk. They got into trucks 10 trucks and they feet as much men as they can, the remaining 50 got onto horses and rode ahead first. The people of Mackinaw are amazed of how big their company is, much bigger than the 'army' that they have.

Tobias walks to the grave where Craig is buried, something he laughed at. He then sees the twins and Natalia looking and still not trusting him, he scoffed at them thinking of how pathetic they area. He disrespected Craig's grave by kicking it and left to go with his company. 'He does now want people to cry on his grave' He told them in an annoyed voice, and then stomps away. He finally sees Oscar from the police department with something in mind.

Tobias smiled as he departs with his company towards Norfolk.

"All right, prepare for war, it might happen"

The soldiers who are available about 200 more has start to set up in front of the exits of the city. The inhabitants starts to feel threat as the soldiers did as they are told.