That awkward moment when you post your newest chapter into your old story on accident...

Yeah sorry about that. I had this chapter up like a week ago and didn't realize I had uploaded it into the wrong story. I decided to investigate when I noticed all these people checking out my old story instead of this one and found out I'm an idiot. Well here you go, hope you enjoy and sorry again about the mix up.

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Rayne was collapsed on the cold wet floor of her cell. Her bloody wrists still shackled together. She stared blankly watching water drip down into a puddle from the ceiling. Every part of her body hurt. Her last escape attempt didn't go to well. They had caught only a few minutes after she had escaped her cell. She wasn't known for going down without a fight though and this last escape earned her quite a beating. I can't do this anymore she thought to herself. She curled up into a tight ball in the corner of her cell and started to cry. She just couldn't hold the angry tears back anymore. That was the last time she swore to herself. She really couldn't do it anymore. She was so tired of failing every time; and she was tired of being cold and hungry and sick; and she was tired of the beatings. A harsh coughing fit came over her and it used up the last of her strength. She didn't even have the energy to get herself up off the floor and onto the old cot that made up the sole furniture in her cell. She didn't know how long she had been on the floor, but since she had finally given up, time no longer seemed to matter. At one point there was a loud commotion outside. Before, she would have gotten up, maybe used that as a chance to get out, join the fight just to fight but not this time. She was done. Then she heard someone outside her cell. She closed her eyes and ignored it, not caring what it was. She didn't even move when she heard the metal door slide open.

"Rayne?" called a rough but gentle sounding voice. She knew the voice but she didn't care enough to open her eyes. She reminded herself that she had given up and it didn't matter who it was. She was just going to go to sleep.

But then that voice was calling again. "Rayne? You have to get up! You're getting out of here"

She was never getting out of here though. Whoever was telling her that was either lying or stupid. Didn't they know that she had already given up? Then they started shaking her. Why wouldn't they just fucking let her sleep?

"Princess, get up!" it commanded. She cracked her eyes open to see Yuuto. The huge man that was entering her cell was her only friend here. She hated it when he called her Princess. He wouldn't stop calling her that no matter how many times she had asked. She was by far the youngest and smallest person in the jail and he always said that he looked after her because she reminded him of his own daughter; his princess. She wanted to go with him now but she couldn't. Too bad she had already decided to give up; guess he didn't get the memo on that one.

"I can't" she heard her own dry, cracked voice say.

"Then I guess I will just have to carry you."

Yuuto pulled out a ring of stolen keys and undid the shackles on her wrist. They fell to the floor with a heavy clang. Suddenly Rayne felt herself being picked up. His large muscular arms wrapped around her making her feel safe. And then they were out in the hallway and she had no idea how the two of them got there. There was yelling coming from everywhere. Yuuto was running and the shouting was falling behind them. Suddenly he stopped running and Rayne opened her eyes again.

"What's wrong?" she asked. A little bit of her was finally coming back. Maybe it wasn't time to get up. What if she had been wrong?

"Dead end"

Or maybe she was right. She should have just stayed in her cell.

And then she was on the ground again and Yuuto was holding her upright by her small bruised arms. "But not a dead end for you" he said sadly. Things were starting to focus a little more now. He held her head making her look at him. "Princess you have to listen to me." It was hard to focus but she cleared her head as best as she could and tried to stand on her own. If Yuuto had done all this for her she could at least give it one last shot. What more could they do to her? He walked over to the small bared window that was at the end of the hall. "These are two small for any of us to fit through but not for a princess." He pulled on the bars, his large muscles straining. With a clang, the grate barring the window popped free. A cool breeze blew in from the outside and hit her face. All of a sudden her determination was renewed. She could fit. And if she did the outside was right there, a few feet away. She was lifted up again.

"Up you go" said the large man "Now listen here. You need to get out of here"

"What about you? I can't just leave you here!" She said, slowly but surely the fight was coming back to her.

There were voices coming from down the hall now. "Yes you can, now go."

She hesitantly looked down the hallway then back towards the window. "Fine, but I am coming back for you. I won't leave you here to die!"

"NO! Rayne, I never want to see you here again. You have to listen to me. I want you to promise me that you will never set foot in this place again! Promise me!"

"But…"

"No! No but! You get out of here. If you can be free then that will be good enough for me."

"Yuuto…" The voices were louder now

"Go Princess, be safe" he said as he lifted her towards the window. She squeezed through just barely. She squirmed out and was able to turn around just to get one last look at her friend before guards swarmed the hall.

"Go!" he whispered as he turned around.

The last time she saw him he was being beaten down by the guards, a smile on his bloody lips because he knew that he had at least gotten her out.

"I almost got caught leaving the prison site." Rayne explained to Gaara. She hesitated for a moment and then figured that she had already told him enough and it wouldn't hurt to tell him the rest.

"Anyways I was able to outrun them and hide for a time. I ran for days after that. I had someone set up a hiding point for anything I might need if I escaped and that was the only stop I made. I eventually made it here, or at least just outside of the city when I just collapsed. I couldn't go any farther and that was when they finally caught up with me again. I was able to fight them off and I made it into the city. I lost them and hid up on that roof across from your house. I passed out for a while but when I woke up in the morning whoever was after me was gone. I lived up there for a week or two by stealing food and other supplies."

He nodded his head as he listened; his eyes asking her to continue.

"I was doing fine until those guards caught me that night. I was able to run away but I knew I had to hide somewhere soon because I could tell I was going to be sick again. Unfortunately that particular attack hit me hard. They caught up with me and I was too tired at that point to fight back or even care if I lived or died anymore. And that's when you showed up."

Gaara nodded his head trying to take in all of the information he had just received.

"You know, I had a family before this, and a pretty damn good life" She said sadly, surprising him by revealing even more of her history. "My older brother, the one who did this to me, turned my father against me. In the end he believed him over me and thought I was some sort of monster. The rest of the village was told that I died." She said shaking her head. "Dead. All of my friends think I am dead. Everyone who knew me before this thinks I'm dead. My mother couldn't handle it. She pretends that I never existed now. And I have a baby sister, who will probably never remember me because she was too little. And my brother… my brother…"

Gaara realized that maybe he had been wrong; maybe she did need more help than she let on. Rayne now looked like she was fighting back tears, unable to even finish her sentence.

Neither of them realized the movie that had been on was now over and the room had gotten darker. And at some point they had gotten closer to each other on the couch. No longer were they sitting on opposite sides.

Rayne felt herself shaking with both anger and grief. She could feel the tips of her ears burning with embarrassment. A few silent tears rolled down her face, only making her madder at herself for showing this kind of weakness in front of someone.

And then suddenly there was a warm hand on top of hers and Gaara didn't even know why he put it there. She looked up at him and his face got a little red. He quickly removed his hand. What was I thinking! She had just looked so sad; he hadn't known what else to do.

"I'm sorry" he said. He moved to get up but Rayne lightly touched his leg.

"It's fine." She said. She quickly wiped her eyes. "Don't worry about it."

Then suddenly a crazy thought occurred to him. And for some crazy reason he acted on it. He leaned forward and planted a kiss on her lips. He pulled away as his head started screaming at him for completely losing his mind.

"I'm so sorry…" he said completely surprised by his own actions. Rayne just started at him confused.

She took a deep breath. "Don't be" she said suddenly. She leaned in and kissed him back harder.

And then suddenly Gaara felt something overcome him. He kissed her back again, harder than she had kissed him. Suddenly they were going back in forth. He felt her tongue lick his bottom lip and even though he had never had any experience with this type of physical contact he opens his mouth almost out of instinct. He gave her a few seconds to explore before that instinct took over and he pushed his way into her mouth. She placed one hand on the back of his head trying to pull him closer. He gently placed his hand on the side of her face, his other hand gliding over her lower back.

Rayne laid back into the couch, pulling him down with her so he was now over top of her. The feeling of his warm body against her cold one caused her to shiver.

The two broke apart only when they needed to breath.

Gaara looked down at the girl below him. "Rayne…"

"Just shut up" she said, interrupting him. She started kissing him again. She didn't know what he thought this meant but right now this was a much needed distraction from the storm of thoughts that was going on inside her head and it gave her a chance to blow off some steam.

He trailed his hand slowly down her neck and down her arm. Rayne shivered again as he slid his warm, callused hand under her shirt and on to her toned stomach. She wrapped her arm around his neck, trying to pull herself closer. She had never experienced this kind of heat before. He slowly slid his hand higher and higher, exploring something completely new to him. Rayne felt her skin break out in goose bumps when his fingers brushed the bottom of her bra.

And then suddenly she pulled away. Gaara was suddenly pushed completely off of her with speed and strength that he sometimes forgot she possessed.

"Wha-?"

She sat up quickly and faced the television pretending to be watching it. Before Gaara had a second to think about what he had done wrong the door to the house opened and Kankuro walked into the living room. He looked surprised when he walked in and saw Gaara still looking disoriented, sprawled out at the end of the couch and Rayne clearly not watching the credits of a movie. He could tell from how red Gaara's face was that he had obviously interrupted something.

"Uh, hey guys. Sorry to interrupt you. Don't mind me, just going to bed." He said before quickly walking past the two of them and walking down the hall that led to the bedrooms.

Without a word Gaara quickly got up and walked towards his own room. The boys both closed the doors one after the other and the sound seemed to echo down the empty hallway as Rayne sat alone in the living room.

"Shit" she swore under her breath as she wondered what the fuck just happened.

Kankuro had just gotten undressed and crawled into bed when there was a knock on his door. He pulled his covers up as the door slowly opened.

"What's up?" he yawned as he felt someone sit down on the other side of the bed.

"I have no idea what the fuck just happened" said Rayne as she fell backwards onto the bed.

"What do you mean?" he asked turning onto his back. He put his hands behind his head.

"I don't want to talk about it…" said Rayne, flipping over and lying face down in the pillow.

"Come on" he laughed. "What did you do to my little brother?"

"Me?" she asked turning her head to talk to him "I didn't do anything, he started it."

"Started what?"

She made a strange groaning noise into the pillow. "I said I don't want to talk about it" she said; her voice muffled.

"Fine, fine, don't tell me then." He said turning back over. Usually when she said she didn't want to talk about something, she didn't talk about it. He turned back over onto his side and tried to fall asleep.

He had almost accomplished that when suddenly she said "I kissed your brother…"

He once again turned over. "I thought you didn't want to talk about it?" he smirked.

"Shut up" she growled. After a few moments of her glaring at him she continued. "Well he kissed me first but still. Either way it was a mistake and it shouldn't have happened and I was stupid. So stupid! And as soon as you left, he left and he probably thinks that it was stupid and I am stupid and he hates me and I'm stupid. This whole thing was stupid and I said stupid things and it was stupid and it should never have ever happened and he probably never wants to see me again and I never want to see him again because I am stupid and should just leave."

"Shit, Rayne, slow down!" he laughed. She had talked so fast and rambled so much that he had barely understood what she had said. "Look, I doubt that whatever happened was stupid."

"No! We are not doing this!" she said interrupting him

"Doing what?"

"This whole discussion thing. We are not doing it. It's stupid and we are not discussing what happened. You wanted to know what happened and I told you, end of story."

"You are so messed up" he laughed.

"Yeah well you're stupid" she said resorting to the most childlike response in existence.

"Whatever you say" he laughed, turning back over onto his side. He gave her a few seconds to fume silently before saying "you should probably just go talk to him."

"I'm no good at talking" she grumbled.

"Yeah well neither is he, which is all the more reason to go. Both of you could use the practice."

"There is nothing to discuss Kankuro." She replied sighing heavily

"Obviously there is Rayne." He turned over onto his back and folded his hands behind his head. "Now do I have to actually kick you out of here or will you just go talk to him already?"

She looked at him surprised for a moment, unsure of whether or not he was serious. "But I don't want to go talk to him. And I'm starting to not want to talk to you now."

He moved suddenly and shoved her out of the bed. "Just go talk to him you idiot" he laughed as she hit the floor.

She sat up completely shocked. She glared at him, not able to believe he had actually pushed her. "Why you little-"

"Start acting like an adult and go fix things with Gaara," he laughed, "then you can come back." He turned back over and pulled his blankets over his head, pretending to fall asleep.

She glared at him for a few more moments hoping that he could at least feel her angry gaze a little bit before she picked herself up off the floor. "You know, I don't think I even want to come back." She huffed before turning and walking out the door. She slammed it hard to make her point.

Kankuro just laid in bed with a grin. He couldn't help but wonder what was really going on between Rayne and Gaara.