A/N Decided to tell what happened to Paine before the big adventure and why she decided to join the crimson squad and why her name is Paine. This is my best one out of them all.

PAINE...

I know my story, but I don't know where I messed up. How did I get this way? So alone, so independent? I do not know. My life was perfect. A mother a Father and a brother. I was a straight A student with all honors, I knew algebra when I was in 6th grade. I was sure to become something important, this I knew…… so why did I join the crimson squad?

Monday afternoon August 16th 3005, I was 13 I came home blood everywhere….. I started to freak. I called my mother's name but she didn't answer, I called my father's name, he didn't answer. I started to cry trying to understand what happened but for some reason my brain shut down, like a lifeless doll I stood there dumbfounded. Then in a blink of an eye I realized I had a gun stuck in my mouth and I was held tightly by a group of men….. I couldn't tell who they were. All I could do was cry. Soon a glimpse of hope came home, also a fear of terror. It was my older brother who came home from school. It was sudden when he realized what was going on and started talking to the men….. I was still being held captive. They threatened to pull the trigger if he came close…. I knew I wasn't going to get out alive. Then my brother said the most dreadful thing anyone could ever say….. "If you let Cara go and live, then I will take her place in death."

I cried more and begging him not to do it. The men let me go and I ran over to my brother. While he was waiting for his own funeral he whispered this in my ear

"Cara, when I leave this world I will always remember you, I hope one day you will get strong and get revenge on these people that did this to you and us. Take this pendent a token of my gratitude for always being there to heal my pain." Then the sound sounded like 1000 horses stampeding in my head…..BOOM. Cara heard her brother's last breath, it sounded like a cry for help, or a breath of bravery to save a loved one's life. The bullet hit, blood splattered everywhere on Cara as she knelt down beside her brother and sobbed while she looked up at the men and back at her lifeless brother, she knew it was a bad dream, trying to wake up she then suddenly knew she wasn't sleeping. She looked back up at the men and looked at the one that shot her brother, he had a huge scar on his face and he was smiling at the fact that he had killed. The men walked off leaving me alone. I felt like I was paralyzed. I just sat in the same spot for two days, a blood soaked floor and a river of tears. Then when I got the courage to get up, I walked through that door and was now known as Paine, not Cara. I Chose Paine because it describes every moment of that day, pain. It was the only word that stood out of my brothers last words to me, the reason he gave me that pendent. "Take this pendent a token of my gratitude for always being there to heal my pain." I held onto those words forever, I even made it my name.

A/N End of Chapter I hoped you liked it PLEASE RR So i can see if I should move forward.