So this chapter I think is longer then the rest I have done. It goes into a bit of Cori's past and what not. I thought it may be good for a little insight. I hope you guys like it. Please review as always! Have fun reading

Callie looked at me with concerned eyes.

"Um yeah I have, why?"

I was going to tell her about Nathan and Jake and how ever since I got out of Juvie I have not been able to stop thinking about them. They should have been here with me. We were all going to get a new start together, that's what we had promised each other. It never should have happened like that, I feel so guilty, all the time. Nathan and Jake, they were the people that deserved a place at the Fosters, not me.

"Um you know what never mind. Thanks for the talk. Night."

I got up from the stool and placed my cup in the sink and went up directly to my room. Everyone was asleep now, except myself and Callie of course. I went to my room and shut off the lights. I crawled into my new bed. It literally felt like a cloud and although that made me happy, it wasn't enough to keep me from feeling awful about Nathan and Jake. I finally fell asleep after a while, but is was nowhere near a good nights sleep.

*Nightmare*

I'm in the warehouse again. Nathan and Jake were with me. I sit on a crate with Jake as Nathan paces around in front of us.

"Where are they?" Nathan asks.

"They'll be here soon. Kenny is never on time." I tell him.

"Don't worry man we are going to be in and out of here in a sinch." Jake says trying to make him feel better.

"I'm telling you guys, I got a bad feeling about this one, we shoul-"

Then we hear the metal door to our left open.

"Yo kiddos hows it goin?" Kenny says walking through the door with his pose. Nathan and him do that guy handshake thing and Jake and I hop off the crate.

"Were doing good." Nathan tells him as they finish their handshake.

"Really? good? Cause I don't think it is going good at all." In a second Kenny goes from being chill to completely pissed off. He pulls out his gun from behind his back.

"Here's the thing, someone told me that one of yous have been talking to the cops."

He starts waving the gun around.

"What dude now way! We hate the cops just as much as you!" Jake tells him.

"You're lying to me!"

The truth is we are all lying to him. We have been C.I's for the police for about 3 months, helping them take Kenny down. I speak up.

"Look Kenny, why would we want to talk to the cops? We would all be put in Juvie in an instant! You know how much drugs we carry! We aren't talking to any cops."

"Na, you are still lying to me and I HATE liars." He motions to the guy on his left.

The guy grabs Jake and pulls him over to the corner. The guy pulls out his gun.

"You guys are going to start talkin or else he is gonna get it."

I look over at Nathan really quick and then to Jake.

"Come on Dude don't do that! None of us are talking to the cops!" Nathan tells Kenny.

Kenny looks over at his guy. The guy pistol whips Jake and he crumbles to the ground.

"NO Jake!" On instinct I run to him, but I am brick walled by more of Kenny's friends who just throw me to the ground.

"Seriously? Seriously Kenny!" I yell at him and get up off the ground.

"None of us are snitches!" Nathan yells angrily.

"We ain't snitches Kenny." Jake says coming off the ground and spitting out some blood from his mouth.

Kenny looks at his guy again and the guy nails a really nice punch into Jake's face. He falls to the ground once more. Then he points his gun down at Jake's head and pulls the trigger.

My heart stops and my eyes widen. Then I see Jake move. I sigh in relief. The bullet went right next to him into the cold hard concrete.

"Next one goes in his head you here me!?" Kenny yells. He walks over to Nathan.

"I bet its you pretty boy." Kenny says brushing Nathans blond bangs out of his face with his gun. He pistol whips him just like his friend did to Jake.

I roll my eyes. This is going to end badly if I don't do something. I raise my hands up as if to surrender.

"Kenny its not him, its me. I'm your snitch." I look at Nathan on the ground and give him a tiny look. I don't want him standing up for me. Kenny was less likely to shoot a girl then a guy, he had his standards, so if anyone was going to have to take the blame for this it should be me, logically.

Kenny walks over to me and gets right in my face.

"Look, they didn't know about. I was doing this solo."

"You sure about that." He says getting closer to me.

"Positive. Don't take it out on them. Do whatever to me, just don't hurt them."

Out of the corner of my eye I see Jake being let go by the guy. He slowly starts walking closer to me. I look over to him and he stops walking.

"You wearin a wire?"

"No." I told him truthfully.

"I don't think I believe you." He holds the gun up to my face, but I don't even flinch. I had to be strong. He suddenly pushes me to the ground and I see Jake and Nathan come closer to me from my peripheral vision and then get held back by multiple men. The guy are a lot bigger, they have no chance.

Kenny attempts to rip of my shirt, but I fight against him, squirming and pushing him away. I almost win until he hits me in the face with his gun. Shit, that really does hurt. Things start to go blurry and I just yell at him to stop. He rips of my shirt and his cold hands touch my stomach. No wire.

He whispers in my ear, "You're lucky."

He grabs my hair and begins dragging me across the floor. I start to regain my senses and begin to fight against him, but his grip is too strong. I look up and see the barrel of his gun. I hear a shot go off and for a second I thought I died, but I didn't . I look back at Jake and Nathan. Jake had managed to grab one of Kenny's friends guns and shot him in the leg. Another shot rang out, but louder. It came from Kenny's gun. One of his own guys dropped to the floor, he was aiming for Jake who was right next to him, but managed to hit his own guy. What an idiot. I realize Nate somehow has a gun too, and it was becoming a full on fire fight in this warehouse. Kenny pulls me up off the ground and begins using me as a body shield. For a second there is silence. Then the shooting begins again. I try wrestling myself off of Kenny which just gets me some scratches on the arm and a few hits here and there. I then do what any girl does in a situation like this. I donkey kick him right in the balls and he crumbles to the floor. All of a sudden I feel like all the bullets in the world are coming at me. I race to find a place to take cover. As I am running to a crate I see a gun on the floor and I bend down and scoop it up .

"CORI! DOWN!" I hear Jake yell and I duck. I hear a bullet whiz right past my ear. I quickly get up and see one of Kenny's guys behind Jake who had popped up from behind the crate. My instincts kicked in and like that, I fire the gun. I somehow hit him right in the neck and he falls to the ground. I run to the crate that Jake was behind and sit and catch my breath.

"I am so sorry Jake. Shit this is all my fault."

"No this isn't we were all in this together. If it weren't for you I probably would have been dead twice already."

We look at each other for a minute and then our crate begins to take fire. I stick my hand out above the crate and left off three rounds. The shooting settles down and Jake pops his head up from behind the crate and shoots some guy, but he yells out in pain. He drops to the floor next to me holding his shoulder near his heart.

"JAKE! JAKE!" I yell bending down next to him shaking him slightly. His eyes open and he stares into mine. I press on his bullet wound.

"JAKE DO NOT LEAVE ME! YOU ARE NOT DYING TODAY OK?" I was pretty much in tears. Our crate began to take fire again and I shot off my gun blindly still pressing on Jake's wound.

"You got to get out of here Cor. All that work we did, it can't be for nothing. New start remember?" he tells me. His voice calms me down.

"Yeah, that new start was for the all of us. You are coming out of here alive and we are getting that new start together with Nathan." He nods and shuts his eyes with a smile.

"Shit no. Jake? Jake? shit." I begin to cry again, but this wasn't the time. I take a deep breath and take his gun and my gun off the concrete. I hold one in my hand and stick the other one behind my back. I stand up from behind the crate. I was a good shot and any person I saw was either maimed or killed. I am angry now and scared. All the gunfire stops again.

"Little Max!" I here Kenny yell his stupid nickname for me. I turn to him instantly and my heart stops again. He has Nathan with a gun to his head.

"Let him go Kenny." I say.

"He walks if I get you." I nod and begin to walk over to him. He fires his gun and it hits my shoulder. I yell out in pain and double over clutching my shoulder, but still am standing.

"WHOA WHOA WHOA. HELL GIRL YOU THINK YOU ARE GETTIN CLOSE TO ME WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND? DROP IT NOW."

"You just had to say so." I say threw my teeth. I drop the gun and continue to walk over to him. He pushes Nathan out in front of him and he begins to walk towards me. As we walk past each other Nathan quickly and discreetly slips my extra gun out of the back of my jeans. I don't really get how he does it without Kenny seeing continues to walk on and I do too. When I am about to reach Kenny, he forcefully pulls me close to him and again starts using me as a body shield. Nathan was pointing my extra gun right at Kenny and Kenny was holding his up to. He kept pointing at me and then at Nathan.

"Let her go Kenny." Nathan says.

He grips me tighter and I start to find it hard to breathe.

"SHUT UP!" Kenny yells. "SHE IS A DIRTY LITTLE SNITCH WHO IS GONNA GET WHAT"S COMING FOR HER!"

"If she had told the cops anything valuable they would have busted your ass by now. LET. HER. GO." Nate says demandingly.

"Nathan just leave, your going to get yourself shot. I'll be fine just go." I plead with him in my cracky voice. Some more air would be nice right about now.

"I can't do that Cor, I'm not leaving here without you."

"Well I'm not leaving here with you in a body ba-"

Kenny's grip got tighter and now I really felt like I could not breathe.

"BOTH OF YOU JUST SHUT UP!"

Kenny's gun goes off and so does Nathan's. Nathan's bullet ricochets off a column right next to me and Kenny' bullet, it finds its target. Nathan drops to the ground and I scream. Luckily, Nathan's bullet scarred Kenny enough to let me go and I run over to Nathan until he dives at me and we both are on the floor. He flips me over so we are face to face. He begins punching me and punching me.

"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!"

"YOU FRICKEN SNITCH!"

"GET OFF OF ME!"

His words start to sound less like insults and instead like something else.

"WAKE UP! WAKE UP CORI! WAKE UP!"

I awake with a start. It had only been a dream. I was staring directly at Steph now. I was breathing really heavy, as if I was running. She looked at me very concerned. I could feel how wet my face was, it must have been a mixture of sweat and tears.

"It was just a dream." She tells me calmly.

I sit up in my bed with my knees to my chest. I then realize just how big of a scene I must have made. Leena was on the other side of the bed and everyone else was by the doorway. Shit, I woke up the whole house.

"Ok guys, lets give Cori some privacy don't you think?" Leena said leading all the other kids out of the doorway, shutting the door, and leading them into their rooms.

Steph crawled onto my bed and sat in front of me.

"Cori?" she said sweetly.

For some reason I just started to cry. I buried my head in my knees and let it all come out. She moved beside me and began holding/hugging me. I didn't object for once. I leaned my head against her shoulder. I cried and cried and you know what? It felt good to just cry and not care. Steph gently rocked me back and forth and said nothing, she just let me cry and I thank her for that. She may not be all that bad.

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