<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9845.msg424391#msg424391">Quote from: Swedish Steel on 09-09-2007, 22:01:14</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"What gives me the right? What gives the hunter the right to put down a rabbid dog? It just needs doing, that's all. I take this responsibility, and I don't do it lightly. Adam tells me you're a decent human being, but now you are a threat to everyone around you. If I have to kill you, I'll do it with a heavy heart, but my feelings won't stop me from doing what needs be done." He put out his cigarette, emediatly lighting a new one.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It was not what Angela had expected to hear... she paused, eyes narrowed, tryin to think things through.  Was she on trial?  And if so, for what?   She wasn't the one who'd done anything wrong, but, from the way he talked, he believed otherwise...<br/><br/>"I'm a cop.  How am I a threat to anyone around me?  It's my job to protect and serve..."  A mental jolt flowed through her, making her pause yet again.  Protect and serve, and yet she'd been planning on taking justice into her own hands... a rabid dog... She shook her head, trying to clear that mental image.  It wasn't the same.  He<em>deserved</em>to die. If anyone was the hunter, it was her, and<em>he</em>was the wild animal.<br/><br/>"If you want to talk... let me go.  We'll talk.  But not like this, not with me chained like some monster."