[b] Daniel Crowe - Railroad Tracks - Shannon and Aleck [/b]

Snapping his neck is definitely how Daniel would kill him if it came down to it. He couldn't figure it out, but something about this guy cringed every muscle in his body... Then Daniel decided what it was that bothered him. The kid was looked a few years younger than Shannon; but couldn't be over eighteen. He felt sorry for this guy... that he was so young and yet he was tracking down a group of murderers and rapists. Six months ago, that would have been something for the NOPD to handle, not some kid that could barely grow facial hair yet. Daniel didn't doubt that he could overpower this kid, but to many he would be seen as a deadly force. Had Emma gone through these changes too? 

To Daniel; this new world was just a complication. His fellow soldiers would agree; it was just like being in the middle of a firefight, only 24/7. For Daniel, the only new thing that even slightly intimidated him was the fact that the dead had risen. What about all the men that he'd killed in war. Until his third year of service in the Army, Daniel had counted the number of men he'd put down with his M16. He'd gotten to sixty-three; which at the time horrified him. However, on one tour in Afghanistan his squad had been captured by a group of Al-Qaeda insurgents. After their second week in captivity, the US had sent a rescue team to retrieve them. During that tour he'd killed at least twenty-six men; and he quit counting. Daniel was no stranger to carnage...

But these were kids! These were people that used to be law-abiding, tax-paying citizens... They'd turned into soldiers themselves, but they'd had to fight for themselves in the worst way. No state-of-the-art military training, no top of the line weaponry; just a few weapons and a horde of re-animated corpses... 

But even so; what supposed act of genius could this kid possibly have in mind? Daniel saw that he was capable of taking care of himself; but he acted like he was a military strategist... Daniel sighed, giving in. "Alright. I'm listening."