A/N: I just recently started watching The Tomorrow People and it's become one of my favourite shows, so I figured I'd write a fic for it :P
I hope you guys like it :)

She moved her hand across the page of the book reading the last lines of the page and then folding the corner. Closing the book she set it on the arm of the sofa she was sat on. Her slippers were at the foot of the sofa and her feet were tucked under her as she curled up on the chair. With a sigh she pushed the loose strands of her red locks behind her ears, and focused her sight on the walls of the institute. She remembered when she had came here all those years ago and the now chipped and faded paint was a fresh vibrant blue. She lifted her hand to touch the peeling paint but paused and set her hand back in her lap, remembering.

"Hey Rene, coming for a walk in the garden?"

She blinked, lifting her head up to greet who spoke to her. Tugging the sleeves of her grey cotton shirt down to her fingertips she shook her head at the blonde haired boy.

"No, I don't really want to go outside today"

She began feeling bad seeing the disappointment in his honey coloured eyes.

"Maybe tomorrow though Alistair"

She finished and he nodded sitting down beside her for a moment. Rene pulled her sleeves down so her hands were tucked inside them, and she folded them under her arms.

"You do that a lot"

Alistair stated pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Do what?"

"Pull your clothes around you"

Rene shrugged.

"I just get cold"

She replied, feeling horrible about lying but it was necessary.

"You should talk to the doctors about it, you seem to be getting cold a lot"

Rene was about to reply when a loud scream echoed down the hallway. One of the nurses came around the corner.

"Rene, can you help us calm Aylee down? The last time we gave her a sedative she had a bad reaction"

Rene turned to Alistair who had already stood up and was walking into the hallway that led to the institute garden. Putting in her slippers Rene nodded and followed the nurse. Two of the orderlies were restraining the small girl, who was kicking out and wailing against the ground her black hair spilling along the ground in a puddle of inky tendrils. Rene sunk to her knees beside the girl.

"Aylee"

She spoke soothingly, brushing through the girl's hair, in a mothering gesture.

"Tell me what's wrong"

The girl was only a two years younger than Rene, 16 but looking at her tear stained face and quivering lips, you would think her much younger. Aylee shook her head not saying anything and tried to kick out again. Rene let out a sigh. She hated doing this, but it was the only way.

"Give her some space"

Rene told the orderlies and they reluctantly let go of Aylee. She tried to kick out again but stopped when Rene touched her hand to the girls temple.

I want to go home, I want my mom, I'm so alone here.

Rene read the girls mind and felt a sadness hearing her thoughts. The nurse at the front desk had told her that Aylee's mother had died in a car accident and ever since the girl had gone on a downward spiral, until she was admitted to the institute.

"Aylee, it's okay, you don't have to feel alone here, there are people just like you and like me"

Aylee looked at Rene blinking through tears.

"I want my mom"

"I know you do sweetie"

"How!"

Aylee cried out.

"Because, I still want mine too"

Aylee stopped and crawled up into a sitting position.

"You do?"

Rene nodded.

"I miss her everyday"

"Your mom's gone?"

Aylee asked, surprise in her eyes. Rene nodded.

"Mine is too"

Aylee said.

"Would she want you to cry and cause a fit?"

Aylee shook her head.

"Come on"

Rene got up from the ground and Aylee jumped to her feet. The two orderlies took Aylee's arms.

"Lets get you to your room"

Aylee looked back at Rene and received a reassuring smile from the red head.

"Come find me when you wake up okay?"

Aylee nodded.

"I will"

Rene returned to her place on the chair beside the front desk.

"Why don't you go outside dear, you look like you could use the sunlight, you're ever so pale"

Nurse Darell, the old woman that occupied the front desk peered over at Rene inspecting her.

"I'll go outside tomorrow, Marion"

The woman gave Rene a pointed look.

"It's always tomorrow and never today with you"

Rene laughed.

"Oh I almost forgot Rene, I have a book for you when you finish with the one you are reading"

She rummaged around her desk, picking up a book and then walked over to Rene setting it beside her. Heart of Darkness. Rene read the title of the book. She picked the book up, briefly seeing a flicker of a girl with blonde hair reading the book, and she pushed the images out of her head setting the book back down.

"Thanks Marion"

The woman smiled at her.

"I knew a girl like you would appreciate good books, let me know when you finish them and I'll get you some more"

Rene nodded watching as Marion returned to the front desk checking the computer. She presses a button and typed in a code on the keypad and the door behind the front desk opened. A dark skinned woman in a business suit, followed by a teenager with blue eyes and dark hair walked through the door. The woman turned to the teen.

"You, wait here, I won't be long"

The teen looked around nervously eyeing the cells that were bedrooms, down one hallway, and a girl that was rocking on a chair in the opposite hallway.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?"

The woman rolled her eyes.

"Trust me, you're going to want to stay here"

She turned on her heels following one of the orderlies down a corridor. Rene craned her neck to see that they were going to the closed unit. Rene turned to the boy who was stood looking around awkwardly. Something about him seemed familiar and it intrigued her.

"She's right you know"

He turned to Rene.

"Huh?"

"She's going to the closed unit, where the violent inhabitants are"

"Violent?"

"Yup, I almost got punched in the face before for not saying bless you when a girl sneezed."

"Wow"

"Yup"

Rene pulled her sleeves down and tucked her knees under her chin.

"So why are you here? You getting admitted or?"

"No, umm it's a long story"

"I'm not going anywhere"

Rene stated comically.

"Wait sorry my people skills are bad, i'm Rene"

The boy grinned.

"Stephen"

"So is this your first time inside a mental institute?"

"Is it that obvious?"

Stephen asked and widened his eyes in alarm when he heard a scream.
"Not used to being around crazy people huh?"

Stephen shook his head.

"It's not that, it's just people used to think I was crazy and it turned out I wasn't and I just.."

"You think that not all of us in here are crazy"

Rene said. Stephen nodded.

"Figures"

"You don't seem crazy"

Stephen admitted to Rene.

"Maybe I'm just a good actress"

Stephen laughed.

"I agree with you, about not all of us being crazy, i mean obviously some of us are, but others have just been through some horrible things and don't know how to deal with them"

"What about you? Do you think you're crazy?"

Stephen asked.

"Perhaps"

Rene's lip curved up into a smirk.

"How long have you been here?"

"7 years nearly"

"That long?"

"Yeah, I was admitted here after my mother died and well, I guess I'm eligible to leave, but no one came to get me and I don't really have anywhere to go if I did"

She pulled the sleeves of her shirt down to cover her hands.

"Are you cold?"

Stephen asked realising she was only wearing a thin grey cotton shirt and shorts. He took off his hoodie handing it to her.

"Here"

Rene was about to protest but he was already pulling it around her shoulders. His hand came in contact with Rene's and she widened her eyes.

The red-head's vision blurred and she found herself watching as a man in a suit held out a gun. He fired the gun and before it could hit the person in was intended for Stephen shouted out reaching out his hand and the gun, as well as everything around him froze. Rene blinked widening her eyes at him. She opened her mouth to speak but couldn't find any words. Stephen was looking at her with equal astonishment.

"You're like me?"

Rene nodded.

"I didn't think there was anyone like me that wasn't in here"

Stephen looked as if he was in thought.

"I think I know some people who would want you, people like us if you want to leave here"

Stephen whispered in a hushed tone.

"Really?"

Rene asked, her eyes glimmering with hope. Sure she had become attached to the people in the institute and some of the people in it but to be with people who wouldn't think she was crazy, people like her, was something she'd always wished for.

"Rene, their you are I was beginning to get worried"

Rene turned her head to the voice. Dr Somers smoothed down her black pencil skirt and put her hands on her hips.

"When you didn't turn up to your session I got worried"

The doctor stated and Rene furrowed her brows looking for the clock. She looked seeing that she was supposed to meet with Somers 20 minutes ago.

"Sorry I got totally sidetracked, I was talking to"

Rene pointed to Stephen.

"That's fine Rene, it's good to see you having a proper conversation with someone other than Alistair, I know it's been hard for you to make friends"

Dr Somers smiled at the two.

"Just come to my office, before breakfast tomorrow okay?"

Rene nodded.

"Good"

The dark haired woman smiled kindly at the two teens before saying goodbye and retreating to her office.

"Stephen time to go"

The woman that Stephen arrived with was already walking to the entrance.

"Coming"

Stephen muttered getting up from the couch.

"I'll get you out of here I promise"

He told Rene before running out the door to catch up with the woman he came with.

"What were you doing talking to that girl?"

She asked Stephen.

"She just looked like she needed someone to talk to."

The woman rolled her eyes at Stephen. She started talking to Stephen but he wasn't listening, too busy thinking about how he needed to go see Cara and tell her about Rene.