Flirt a little to calm things down

"Well I wasn't about to let a pretty girl get a bite taken out of her." you reply with a good degree of serious flattery, even if you decided to deliver it somewhat cheesy. Still, she laughs a little and relaxes, something she desperately needed.

"So, it was the old knight in shining armor gig?"

"What can I say? I'm a sucker for the classics." This earns another giggle from her. Once you get past some of the hardass tendency's and she relaxes, she really does look quite beautiful. Not that she looked ugly or anything before, but now she seemed a lot more approachable. After she finishes laughing, she addresses you again from the corner of her eye.

"Well, all things considering, I gotta say, you're not too bad on the eyes yourself. I'd probably fight a chomper or two if it saved as fine a piece of ass as yours."

While she's still alert, she has a friendlier look on her face. And you notice through the sideview mirror she takes a few seconds every so often to peek at you before resuming the entirety of her focus on the road.

Eventually, the car signals that its running low on gas. Thankfully, you two are able to pull up to a gas station.

In addition to gas, you also propose to find and take anything of value you can, from food to luxuries you might not be able to enjoy for much longer. At first, she seems against the idea, but once you point out the logic in preparing for the worst, you are able to get her to think less like a cop and more like a survivor.

Now comes the choice of who should do what.