A/N: I'm starting to think that not giving these two gentlemen names was a bad idea. It's getting hard to write, sorry for any confusion between the two of them. It was fun coming up with how the forced powers would come out, I don't think I did the shape shifting justice though. Again ask me if there's anything you don't understand.

Actually I changed one of the men to a girl, much simpler and less confusing.

Photos day. Everyone was looking very smart on the second day back at school. Most people were at least. A few had decided it wasn't worth the effort for yet another school photo in their dull uniforms. Trying to get every student in the five years meant they were pressed for time. 'Tempest photography' had been called in for the job. The four employees split into two and set up their equipment in the two halls. One gentleman and his female partner took up their places and waited for the first year to arrive.

"It would be so much easier to just take the ones we need."

"You know why we don't do that yet."

The girl rolled her eyes and leant against the frame of the fire door in the corner. She was dressed in the mandatory red t-shirt printed with the word 'Tempest' and the company's logo on both the front and back. She was quite young, especially compared to her colleague, whose balding head was only half covered with grey hair, and her stance put out the aura of a couldn't-care-less teenager. She would rather be somewhere else; this was one of the most boring assignments they could have been given. They would find only one or two students amongst the lot of them if they were lucky and they had developed their powers properly. She knew it was all because of her mess up last time but it hadn't been like she could have done anything. She tried her best not to think of it.

The head teacher entered the hall to discuss the arrangements for the day. The younger didn't move from her corner whilst her partner agreed on the time table they would have to keep to.

"We're going from youngest to oldest. Then family photos after lunch. We'll get half of the students. It's been arranged so we photograph the most likely students to have developed powers." He reported as he took up his position behind the camera and waited for the first student to arrive.

"Great, it's going to be a long morning."

* * * * *

"The lady and gentleman from the company will be waiting inside." The head finished his speech and ushered the first student in. Kim waited patiently whilst she emitted an atmosphere of impatience amongst the crowd. Everyone was infected by her power. Lots of people were tapping their feet and complaining about it being cold outside the hall. She smirked to herself. Only seven people entered and left before she was called inside seeing as her name was one of the first alphabetically. She pushed the door open with a smile when she heard people start to relax and laugh as she left.

She looked around the hall at the equipment set up around her and the two men. There was a white screen with a seat placed in front of it. She took up her seat, satisfied that everything was as it should be. The girl in the corner had straightened up and was watching her. Hiding her confusion she looked at the camera and gave a smile.

"Say cheese," said the man behind the camera as he grinned back at her. Her lips didn't move as he took the picture. She went to get up and leave but was stopped.

"We just need another one. The focus isn't right." The light flashed again. The girl in the corner stared at her intently and now she glared back. She felt her powers building up. She couldn't lose control. It had never happened before. She glanced at the other man who clicked the camera once more when she turned. Her eyes were wide with panic. She locked gazes with the balding man. He crumpled to his knees with tears streaming down his face. His hands were lifted to his face but he couldn't bring them to cover his eyes and he couldn't bring himself to look away.

Kim was suddenly released from whatever fed her power and the man now on his knees was released from her gaze. She stared wide eyed at the lady grinning in the corner before bolting from the room, sending the chair flying behind her.

"Emotional manipulation?" the man asked as he wiped away the tears and got to his feet.

"How'd you guess?" the girl in the corner ran her hand through her messy black hair. Her co-worker picked up the last two pictures he had taken from the printer on the desk beside him and slid them inside a folder. He scribbled a few notes on a sheet of paper and slid that inside too.

"Any more in her family?" she asked from the corner. She shook her hair back into place and leant back against the wall.

"There are four more actually. One for every year, this should get interesting." He replied as he flicked through the list he'd been given. "Cherry Casair is the next one. We have to get the rest of this year photographed first though."

The girl settled for a long wait.

* * * * *

The second period bell rang. The corridors started to fill with students wandering to their next lessons. Cherry pulled her time table out of her bag as she walked. She checked the note she'd made and put it back. She turned left at the end of the corridor queued up with the rest of her class mates. Everyone around her was chatting happily. She sighed and looked ahead at the door that led through to the hall past the couple of people in front of her.

She sat patiently in front of the white screen whilst she was photographed twice. She turned to look at the other person in the room who hadn't moved since she entered. She wondered why she was there if she couldn't be arsed to do anything. Their gazes locked and Cherry felt the power build up inside her. She could hear her heartbeat and the adrenaline was flowing fast. She tried to keep under control and managed to stand up. Wild eyed, she glanced around the room. She held her hand out before her face.

A low growling filled the room. Everything turned to black and white in Cherry's vision. The faded grey figure behind the camera looked in astonishment at her. She turned to the female in the corner in hatred. What had she done to her?

The fierce canine snarled at the girl. The flash went off for the third time. It pounced on the camera sending the man behind diving out of the way. The wolverine creature didn't reach the floor. Instead a bird fluttered wildly in panic. It aimed for the windows but found them closed. It tapped its beak against the lock desperate to escape. The dark haired man took a step forwards staring at the small raven coloured bird.

Feeling the energy finally being relieved, the shadowy bird landed on the floor as the girl it had once been. She glanced back once more at the two partners in disgust before leaving and slamming the door behind her. She stormed off to find her family to find out what was going on.

* * * * *

Relaxed once more, the black haired girl returned to his place in the corner and put her MP3 on. She glanced up whenever the door opened not expecting to find any more specials. She jerked out of her stupor when a young blonde entered. She was very pretty and her rouge lips pouted slightly. She almost had the air of a model if it weren't for the simple black and red uniform she was wearing. The shirt was shapeless and faded and her tie was done up as far as it would go by orders of her year head, much to her distaste. All of this didn't, however, distract from her silken hair and elegantly made up face. It wasn't her looks however that caught her attention.

She swept her tiny, black skirt underneath her as she sat down. She smiled sweetly at the camera before returning to her normal disapproving glare. She got up and turned swiftly to leave.

"Focus isn't right" the girl in the corner stated without moving. From behind the camera his partner gave her a questioning look. She gave a curt nod back.

"We're going to need to take that again, sorry, Nicole is it?"

She nodded and sat down once more. She gave her innocent look again for the camera.

"That one ok?" she asked.

"It's fine, thank you."

As she walked across the hall she could hear one of the men was following her. She kept walking deciding that they were probably just fetching something or were going to use the toilets. She kept walking and reached half way across the hall. A hand clamped down on her shoulder.

She spun around lashing her foot out at the same time at stomach height. She didn't know what it was that made her do it. The man had seemed pretty handsome in her eyes, not a threat and his partner looked even less so but when his grip took her shoulder she couldn't stand and do nothing.

"Shit. You little…" she glared at her. Using the look for the third time today she fed power into the student. Nicole's glare didn't falter when she felt what was happening. She took deep breaths and tried to block the sound of blood pumping around her body out of her mind. She nearly screamed in infuriation when she found nothing happening to the girl before her. She grinned back. With the blink of his eye she escaped the room.

"The girl knows self defence."

"A pretty thing like that would." The answer came from the corner again.

"What was her power then?"

"The dent isn't noticeable?" at the look from her partner she carried on. "Evidently not. She controls gravity. As you know it won't work on me but it did on the floorboards beneath me. She tried to increase my gravity, to crush me. Be glad you weren't facing her. This is one packed day isn't it? Anymore in the family?"

"Year ten twins, Charlotte and Danielle Emmerson. There's still two of the Casairs before that though."

* * * * *

The only person Cherry could find that break time was Kim. As it had turned out they were both on the same quest. Neither spoke as they searched the school. Unfortunately it was a hard job in such a large school. They checked the library, playground, gym (an unlikely option but possible if Jay was trying to worm his way out of his next PE lesson), science labs and art rooms before the bell rang for next lesson but couldn't be sure they hadn't missed their siblings. They went to their next lessons hoping that their brother and sisters would be ok. Jay would be the next to meet the two "gentlemen". He was also the one most likely to cause a lot of damage if he was put under the same circumstances that they were.

* * * * *

Jay bit on the end of the pen in his hand. He got agitated waiting for things. He rocked back and forth on the spot. Taking the pen out of his mouth, he sighed. The person in front of him was called into the hall. Jay caught a glance of a black haired girl looking out of the door. An unexplainable shudder went through his body. He looked confused for a moment but soon became impatient again. He ran his hand through his hair a few times.

Finally he was called in for the photo. He sat down and fidgeted while the man set the camera up properly.

"Okay, smile." Jay gave a smile for the camera. The light flashed.

"Sorry we've got you blinking on that one we'll have to take it again."

"Umm ok," Jay smiled once more and the light flashed again. "That ok?"

"Just great."

The girl walked up behind the camera staring at Jay. Jay gave a confused look at her serious face. The power flowing through him told Jay something was wrong. He put his hand out before him and tried to sweep the away and pin her to the wall but instead he lowered his hand when he found nothing had happened. He glanced around the room.

There were various "motivational" posters around the room bearing slogans such as "it is not the choices we make but they choices we take that make us who we are." Half of them made no sense to the students but they looked good to any visitors so the head put them there. The spins that held them in place started to come loose. Around the room the pins could be heard dropping to the floor. The posters however remained in their place. Panicking, Jay glanced around the room. Now they hovered, not touching the wall and gently gliding towards Jay. They stopped a few meters away from the wall. Jay had turned back to the girl and found his gaze locked. At that moment power filled him again like a fresh wave and the posters around the room lost any control left. They flew madly around the room. They circled and dived about. A couple flew at the man behind the camera. He dodged one but the other crumpled into the back of his head before gliding up again.

Jay still couldn't pull his eyes away from the woman and was getting very aggravated now. Suddenly all the posters swerved midcourse and became rapt in attacking the girl. However the moment she ducked to avoid a low flying "bullying" poster the chaos seized. The posters drifted to the floor.

Jay was stunned. He had no idea what had just happened and he desperately wanted to confront them. He had to know what was going on. His arms shot out in towards the two Tempest employees. The man was sent flying into the wall where he struggled desperately against the invisible grip holding him above the ground. The girl however smiled tauntingly as she remained where she was. There were choking sounds coming from the man pinned to the wall as his air supply was being cut off but Jay paid no attention to him.

"I think you ought to go Jay," she threatened. The very use of his name made him even more furious. She was trying to belittle him and she was achieving it just by standing there. He turned and headed for the door. As he left he used the slightest flick of his hand to send the camera flying into the head of the unsuspecting girl. There was a slight yell of pain from behind that put a smirk on Jays face.

* * * * *

They had nearly photographed three years worth of students and were left with just a few students from year nine to go. The mess the Casair boy had created had been sorted and once the girl had come around they went back to photographing the students and making up for lost time. After about half an hour with no interest for the frustrated girl stood in the corner, she perked up once more. She strode over to her partner to inform him that there was another one as another young boy walked into the hall shutting the door behind him.

"He's not an Emmerson is he? We're nearly finished for lunch."

"You're telling me he's another one? I was told they suspected there to be three here. I know they can't pinpoint all of them but," he shook his head as he trailed off then turned his attention to the boy. "we'll have to take them all in. one by one will be too obvious but if a family member dies in one family then the others are on holiday we can pull it off" he muttered to the girl before smiling over at the boy and telling him to sit down. Once more he took a spare photograph for his files and the woman came forwards.

Craig was in panic. He'd gone blind. Maybe. Was everything supposed to be white when you went blind? No, it should be black right? What the hell was happening? The last thing he saw was the girl in the room. Her dark eyes, that was right. He stumbled to the floor.

"Are you ok?" at least his hearing was still ok.

"I can't see damn it."

"Spots in front of your eyes? The camera flash does that if you looked into it." The man tried to comfort him.

Craig rubbed his eyes vigorously and his vision started to return. He realised what was going on and that he was seeing through things. He wasn't all that worried. He did that a lot but normally he had control over it. He turned to the corner to see the woman in full focus and as clear as she would have been without his powers muck up. Something was wrong with her. He got up and swayed a little. Everything was back in view now. He gave the girl a questioning look before leaving.

"What was that then?"

"X-ray vision, he was seeing through everything," she said as she looked through the songs on her MP3. She settled back in her corner as her colleague completed the paper work on Craig Winters.

* * * * *

Harley hopped from one foot to the other. She dug her hands deep down into her pockets and she was staring down distractedly at the ground. It was cold. Everyone else was chatting and huddling together in groups so they kept fairly warm. The only people she would ever want to talk to though were at the other hall for their photographs or in other years and in their lessons. She looked on the bright side though; she was missing a lesson of science.

She was called in after a few minutes and was glad to be in the warm. She quickly sat down in the chair. She knew she always looked terrible in these tacky school pictures but she didn't have much choice about having it taken. She played with her fringe a little whilst the man sorted out some papers on his desk. She smiled at the man's command then again when he told her she'd blinked. He joked about her being good at this when she blinked again and he took a third photograph. He turned expectantly at his partner in the corner whom Harley hadn't noticed until now. Both girls ignored the man; in the corner she didn't move and Harley got up and left the hall without being harassed by the girl like the rest of her family so far.

"No power?" the man looked perplexed.

The girl shook her head. "It was just invisibility. Not much to see, literally. I'm a bit stiff, I'll see you later don't worry I'll get those twins powers when I go outside." She stalked off leaving the man to his photographs. He sighed to himself wishing he had a better partner to work with especially seeing as this one wasn't much good with defence never mind her attitude. He was stuck with her now though.

* * * * *

She stalked on through the crowd of students outside the hall. She soon found the two identical girls standing silently and symmetrically to the side. She changed her path to walk past them. They both spotted her at the same time and glared suspiciously at her.

"She's not a student." The both muttered aloud for no real reason. The three of them didn't look away until the girl was out of sight. The twins looked at each other incredulously.