A/N: Hey guys : ) Hope you are all ready for an update on this! Disclaimer: I do not own Brie, Randy, Cody, Kelly, Ted or Michelle… I only own the crazy plot : )

Tainted Heart | Choices

Brie looked down the barrel of the gun. This couldn't be happening. She had noticed that Cody seemed unfriendly but she never thought he'd pull a gun on her.

"Put it away Cody." Randy shoved the barrel of the gun away from her. "You can't force her to help us."

"What the—" Brie began—she wanted answers and she wanted them right away. Unfortunately, she was cut off by Randy.

"Please Brie, will you help me?"

She eyed the blood on his shirt, her brown eyes burned with tears that wanted to fall. She felt used, she was scared, and most of all she was confused. She looked into Randy's eyes; they were filled with pain, and doubt, but somewhere beneath that she saw that same look in his eye from that morning. "Yes. I'll help you." She looked at Kelly. "You need to get somewhere private and I'll fix him up."

Kelly nodded and pulled the van away from the busy traffic. Brie pressed the palm of her hand against he wound to slow the bleeding. Randy winced. "I'm sorry."

He smiled weakly. "Don't worry about it."

"Hurry up." Cody yelled as he rammed the barrel of the gun a little harder against her spine.

"Well it's kind of hard to work with a gun in my back!" Brie retorted as she tried to stitch up Randy's wound with shaking hands.

"Cool it Rhodes" Ted said. "She's working on it—that isn't going to make her work any faster."

"Yea leave her be baby." Kelly added.

Brie heard what sounded like a growl from Cody as he pulled the gun away from her back.

"Well a nurse shouldn't take this long" he shot back.

"Well I'm not a nurse yet." Brie defended herself as she finished bandaging Randy's gunshot wound.

"What?" Cody said pushing Brie aside and standing in front of Randy. "We gave you one thing to do" Cody pointed a finger at Randy who pushed it away.

"Shut it Cody—she did great—I'm fine." Randy said as he stood up and pushed past the younger boy.

He walked around the small clearing in the woods, obviously stretching his legs.

"What are you guys talking about?" Brie asked. "Randy what is he saying."

"Don't worry about it Brie, he's an idiot."

Cody laughed. "Didn't give her a choice did you Randy? Well Brianna, he was looking for a nurse, a nurse to join us. During the last robbery Ted was stabbed by a vigilante and it really slowed us down you see. So, we decided we needed someone who could help us deal with those kinds of problems." Cody twirled the gun in his hand. "You must have been the closest thing he could get." Cody laughed.

"Knock it off Cody." Michelle said silencing Cody.

"Randy is that true?" Brie felt nauseous. She slept with him, trusted him, she had even fallen a little for the raven haired man and he was just using her.

"It's not like that Brie." He said.

"Then what is it like Randy?"

His blue eyes shifted nervously and he sighed. "I was looking for a nurse, to string along, but then I met you and you were a nursing student and you were gorgeous and sweet and I liked you."

"Awe!" Kelly said, causing everyone to look in the blonde's direction for a second.

"Oh so you liked me so it was okay to use me?"

She knew all eyes were on her but she didn't care. She had never felt so used, so dirty, so betrayed.

"No—I was hoping you'd like me too and you'd want to help us."

"Help you? You are a bunch of criminals. I want to help people not hurt people."

"We've never hurt anyone Brie; we just take the money and run." Ted said quietly.

"That's still wrong"

"Well listen to you. What right do you have to judge us?" Cody questioned.

"Well I'm not a thief." Brie retorted.

""Well here's the thing princess, you have two choices." Cody stepped forward. "You can join us now or you can die right here because there is no way I am going to let you walk away from here knowing about us." He pointed the gun at her and cocked it.

Brie looked at Randy whose blue eyes looked glassy and he mouthed the word "please".

A/N: Well that's it for Chapter 3 there will be two more chapters in this story… then there may or may not be a sequel depending on inspiration and the reception of this story… so please review?