[B]"He seems genuine, but something still doesn't feel right. It's best if we leave."[/B] Josef said aloud after he heard what the voice inside the radio said. He had the strangest feeling in his gut that something was wrong.

[B][I]"He's a doctor right?... he could be useful to us."[/B][/I] Joan replied and turned her head to look at the new girl when she stood in the doorway. [B][I]"Yea, I say we go and get this guy."[/I][/B] Joan said to her. [B][I]"We can check out the scene first and see if the coast is clear. I should go talk to him just in case he tries anything, cuz I have this."[/B][/I] Joan said, lifting up her shirt to reveal a bullet proof vest. 

[B]"Where'd you get that?"[/B] Josef said with a confused face. He didn't understand how a girl who cuts herself would worry about the safety against bullets. He just dismissed the thought and waited for her reply. He didn't even notice that she looked thicker with the vest underneath her shirt.

[B][I]"Thiago was a policeman before he turned."[/B][/I] Joan answered, referring to Gabrielle's husband. [B][I]"I found this thing in a box under the bed. It actually fits ok... I think it may have been from when he was younger."[/B][/I] She said with a grin. 

[B]"I didn't know- Nevermind that. You're not going to talk to him. What's going to protect you when you get shot in the brain?"[/B] Josef said poking her in the temple before heading toward the break room door. The girl with the axe was standing in the doorway and he was actually relieved to see a new face. [B]A living face.[/B]

[B][I]"I'm not a fucking cautious-less idiot. I can jump, duck, roll, do whatever the hell I gotta do if a gun barrel comes near my face."[/B][/I] the irritation was evident in Joan's voice. She wasn't one to be fucked with if you rubbed her the wrong way. [B][I]"I can do it. I've done riskier things and you know it."[/B][/I] Joan had a point. There were several times when Josef and herself had barely escaped the brain eater's spontaneous attacks, yet still survived on their own separately. She was a very self aware person and Josef didn't even have to think about it to know it, because she had been that way ever since she was a little kid.

[B]"Fine, I'll cover you, but you aren't going to move if I get there and decide it's not a good idea."[/B] Josef sighed and then turned to the new girl, [B]"I could use your help to cover her, but first we better find some guns. You know of a place that hasn't been touched?"[/B] Joan looked at him with a [B]"I knew it"[/B] expression and Josef smiled when he could tell that she discovered that he had lied to Nathan before leaving the house, but for good reason.