Just a quick note to say yes this really is the sequel to Ready to Start! If you haven't read that fic of mine, then I suggest you read it before reading this otherwise it'll be too complicated I think :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Skins or Misfits and all characters belong to their rightful owners. (although I would take better care of Grace than they did lbr)

Chapter 1 – Blue for You

It was the middle of a fairly hot summer and so the colour of the sky could deceive anyone of the actual time. Three guys in their late teens finally spotted the two men they had been looking for.
"Smith, over there!" The shorter and plumper one said, pointing over in the direction of where they were. Smith pointed aggressively at them whilst crossing the road. The blond one out of the two casually turned around and stopped; when his friend tried to leg it he pulled him back. The blond smirked at the approaching gang.

"You owe us dosh, prick!" Smith yelled, checking around him to make sure nobody was around as he removed a gun from his pocket and pointed it menacingly at the blond.

"Maybe you should put that away," The blond advised, but he backed himself against the wall.

"No, Luke, I don't think I should… You give us what you owe and then we will all carry on." Luke shook his head, nodding slightly at his friend who nervously nodded back. Smith's guys also removed weapons, one with another gun and the other had a bat.

"I don't have it and you're never going to get it back." He raised an eyebrow challengingly. Smith went to shoot at him, but Luke's friend jumped in front of him and raised his hands in front of him. This seemed to create a protective bubble around him and Luke that caused the bullet to bounce off and land on the floor. Smith opened his mouth in confusion and glanced down at his gun. Luke smirked as he held his hand out in front of him as if it was a gun. He then shot all three of him in the head before they had time to process what was going on.

"What was the fucking point of that?" Luke's friend shouted at him. He shrugged back in reply and picked the gun out of Smith's unmoving hands.

"They were going to kill us or didn't you see that?" He looked up from his position on the floor over Smith and pointed over at one of the other bodies. "Now stop divvying around Jimmy and grab that gun."

"Yeah, but we had the money." Jimmy did what Luke had asked, but still questioning Luke's choice. He was scared by this, as he had never seen Luke shoot someone, but he had always known this was what he was capable of.

"Of course we did," Luke stated, standing up and putting each of his hands on both of Jimmy's shoulders. "We'll get noticed by other 'gangs' now, people will be scared."

Jimmy didn't say that he was scared, but simply nodded.

"Now we need to recruit."

"Hi," Rich looked up from where he was sitting to see Mini standing tentatively in the doorway. He nodded at her and turned back to stare at the statue. They had stayed behind the day it happened to move her to one of the storage rooms that only they really used. It had been forty-eight hours since this had happened and Rich hadn't stopped hoping she would suddenly turn back into… Grace. Mini walked on in and took the seat nearest to Rich, but made sure there was some distance between them.
"Want one?" Mini asked, showing him the packet of smarties she had. He shook his head and she shrugged and started picking some out for herself.

"I used to have problems eating," She said quietly, and when Rich glanced over in her direction she was looking down at her overalls, refusing to look up. "Nobody ever said anything, but everyone knew. Grace loved these," She said, gesturing at the smarties. "Whenever she bought them she would ask if I wanted some. She would force me to eat some in her own Grace way and make some stupid song out of it. Blue for you, the rest for me. I didn't want to, but I would eat them just because of Grace."

She opened her hand to reveal a small amount of blue smarties in her hand.

"Basically I'm just saying I know you think this is my fault, but I love her and I didn't want this to happen."

"I know," He stated, he could see the sincerity in her eyes and realized she couldn't be that bad. After some time had passed, he pulled a face and said. "I thought they got rid of the blue ones because of chemicals or some shit."

"They brought them back ages ago, smartass." She said with a weak laugh, but he smirked back.

"It's all… fine now right?" He said, pointing in her general direction to make it clear what he was talking about; the fact that she nearly turned herself into a statue. She seemed confused at first, but then she sighed.

"Oh, yeah. Gracie fixed it." She glanced at Grace's sitting statue form and she would just do anything for her to be alright.

"How did it happen anyway?" Rich asked, not bothering to hide the fact that he was curious. Mini paused before asking.

"After a talk with Alo… after Nick died." Mini furrowed her eyebrows, while Rich raised his in surprise.

"Maybe you like him." He scoffed, thinking about the possibility of that ever happening. Mini didn't laugh but looked mildly offended.

"Maybe I fucking don't." She said, slightly snappily but a small smile formed when she saw Rich was simply joking. "She'll be fine, right?"

"Yeah," Rich said, sounding serious. "She's going to be fine."

"She's got to be, so you two can finally stop dicking around and get together." Mini smiled sadly.

"How far till this café then, Als?" Liv groaned, rubbing her stomach. "I'm really fucking hungry."

"Malone… we only just left the community centre." Liv simply shrugged, as Alo counted on his fingers the estimated time it would take to get there. "Ten minutes probably as long as, you know, we don't get lost or anything."

She shook her head, half smiling at what he said. Her mind was on Grace though; half her time she would be really sad about it, but it felt silly because she was still there and she somehow just knew she would be okay eventually. It was the waiting around for something to happen that bugged her so much. There was nothing any of them could do except wait, so she tried to stop feeling so depressed over it all and try to be normal until they came up with an idea… And then something happened.

"Alo…" She said slowly, standing still as she pulled Alo back. He turned around, completely confused. "It's that guy again."

"Wha-" Alo began, turning his head in the direction Liv was looking at. Liv had mentioned after Grace was turned into stone that she had seen some creepy guy lurking around the funeral and the community centre. Now the guy was here again, some fifty feet away, simply smoking a cigarette and keeping one eye on them. He noticed the ginger looking at him and casually began to walk away. "Uhmm…"

"Go and fucking chase him then!" Liv shouted, angrily gesturing at the way the guy had just started walking off in.

"Oh, right." Alo said in a dazed voice, as he suddenly remembered he had a power that allowed him to run fast. He picked up his speed and although the other guy tried to sprint out ahead, Alo had caught up with him in 5 seconds. He managed to push him to the ground with his speed and was just bringing him up to his feet again as Liv caught up, completely out of breath. Alo squinted his eyes at the guy's face and his jaw dropped.

"We've got a problem…" Liv looked up at Alo quizzically before turning to the guy with a glare.

"Listen prick -" The guy was wriggling free, so Alo had to tighten his grip and he tried to get Liv's attention once more.

"LIV!" She stopped midway through her sentence and gave an aggravated look. "I think this is Nick's brother."

Liv took a moment to process and looked to the guy in baggy black clothes as if to confirm whether this was true or not. He shrugged Alo away finally and brushed off his shirt. After a sigh, he nodded solemnly.

"I saw photos of him at Nick's house… Matty, right?" He nodded at the question, but Liv continued to give him a harsh look.

"Why the fuck have you been following us?" Matty widened his eyes as if to say 'Isn't it obvious?' Alo walked to stand nearer to Liv.

"I wanted to see if it was your fault! You were the last ones there with him." He used his hands to exaggerate his point, which automatically made Liv feel guilty and she sucked on her bottom lip before replying.

"Sorry about Nick…" Alo didn't have to say it; because it was pretty obvious by his expression how upset he still was about him. "We didn't do anything though… He was shot by some guy."

"Really? None of you guys could have stopped this?" Liv and Alo exchanged confused looks. "You've got powers, you could have stopped it."

"How did you know about that?" Alo asked, completely bewildered.

"Err… You were just basically showing off your power." He replied in a completely bored tone. Alo backed down immediately as he realized it was true.

"We tried to stop it from happening, we really did. The guy who shot him had a power though." She paused, wanting to kick herself with how stupid she was being. She pointed at Matty before asking, "How come you're being so chill about the powers?"

"I've got one." He ruffled his hair with frustration and perhaps a bit of excitement. "Do you know this guy? I could…"

"We know nothing about him." Alo shrugged.

"Hold the fuck up. What's your power? Why will you finding this guy make any difference?" Liv pointed out, crossing her arms. Alo nodded his head in agreement.

"I can reverse what somebody has done with their power. I could reverse what this guy did and maybe… maybe it would be fine." He turned around, sensing he had said too much about himself. Liv let out a shriek of excitement, which Matty ignored, and she followed closely behind him, pulling him back.

"No, no, no. You're not going anywhere." She scrambled around for words in her sudden joust of excitement, as Alo stood looking as confused as ever. "My friend can turn people into stone by just touching them and she touched my other friend, who can heal people, and well nobody else can actually turn her back because well… nobody else can heal people." She took a deep breath, "Can you help us, Matty?"

He looked contemplative. Alo seemed to finally get the idea and turned to Matty with a pleading, puppy dog look, whilst Liv chewed on her lip. She gave it the idea one final push.

"I swear we tried to help him…"

"Fine." He was met with cheers and a hug from the other two. They pulled him over to the community centre excitedly and Alo ran out ahead of him to tell the good news.

Rich and Mini turned around in their seats to see an out-of-breath Alo standing before them.

"TA DA!" Alo shouted, causing Mini to frown even more, but Rich raised an eyebrow.

Liv and Matty soon followed after, both of them out-of-breath too, but Liv was grinning from ear to ear.

"What the fuck?" Mini asked, moving to stand in front of Grace so she couldn't be seen. "Are you bringing hobos here now or something?"

"He can help Grace," Liv sighed, bringing Matty closer to Mini. Rich's mouth twitched into smile, but he still looked dubious. Mini's mouth gaped open in utter shock.

"How? How can he do that?" She asked slowly and timidly. Liv opened her mouth to explain, but Matty started before her.

"I can reverse some of your actions caused by your power. The longer I make the connection the more I can take back." Mini still frowned.

"But you can't touch me." Matty gave a small smile and walked closer to her.

"I don't have to touch you." She let herself smile, as Rich rubbed his face with both hands; it was clear he was worried to get his hopes up too much in case it didn't work.

Matty showed Mini how she should keep her hand – in front of her, palm facing up – and moving his hand over hers with the palm facing down, but they never touched. A small flickering light began to glow from his hand, which grew stronger as the seconds passed. Everyone stayed in complete silence, entranced by the light glowing. Rich was the only one who simply watched Grace's stone body, waiting for her to come back.

A/N: So that's the first chapter! Happy Halloween everyone and I will try my absolute best to update this more frequently than I did with the prequel.

Here's some little hints for what happens in upcoming chapters to keep you all excited:

Some characters from Ready to Start will be returning and some faces from series 6 will make appearances.

Alo falls in love.

Liv makes a new friend.

Virginities will be lost as violence spreads.

Mini's mum gets handy with a saucepan.