It was my first day of community service. I'd gotten lucky it was only minor property damage and it was my first offence I got put on probation, me a group of other no goods were gonna be "helping beautify" the community and whatever. After I put on the orange jumpsuit I headed out with the rest of the group. I had a feeling I'd seen them before but we'd never really met so I just stood at the end of the line as our probation worker came up and started giving us a speech. "This is it this is your chance to do something positive, give something back. You can help people you can really make a difference to peoples lives. that's what community service is all about there is people out there who think you're scum you have an opportunity to show them they're wrong." The kid who was calling out when I got busted, Nathan immediately piped up with a response "Yeah but hat if they're right. No offense but I think some people are just born criminals." He gestured to the guy next to him. God it's like he wanted a fight. I hadn't even finished rolling my eyes when a phone rings, the chick immediately picks up and starts chatting as the probation worker tried to continue, he really thought he could hold our attention. Cute. The group insulted each other a couple more times, Nathan and some prick with a hat started fighting. This sure is gonna be a long 200 hours.

We were painting benches, it was honestly mind-numbing and I wasn't paying much attention but I could still hear Nathan asking everyone what they got in and he had just harassing Simon, the weird quiet kid. Nathan just finished calling him a panty sniffer when I'd had enough and spoke up "Shut the fuck up you dick." Boy it got his attention he whipped around ready to quip back at me "Wow! The pervert needs a chick to bail him out hmmm? Come on sweetheart you can do so much better than him." Simon looked between us he seemed annoyed at Nathan's jabs and "I'm not a panty sniffer. I'm not a pervert. I tried to burn someone's house down." It caught us both off guard but of course Nathan quickly recovered and turned towards Kelly. She questioned him "What'd you do?" He smiled not even thinking "Me? I was done for eating some pick 'n' mix." Bollocks, Kelly said the same thing.

Suddenly the sky turned grey as clouds formed, it was weird as hell. Th probation officer showed up and started going on about how we screwed up or whatever, I rolled my eyes tuning him out waiting for it to be over. Then a huge chunk of ice fell down on a car right in front of us, immediately another fell behind Nathan, and we all ran to try and avoid being hit as more and more chunks fell around us, so strong they were literally breaking concrete. Curtis the tall guy was trying to open the door but it was locked so we all ended up screaming at the probation worker for him to open it. He turned around to shout something back when we were thrown back. There was a lot of pain as electricity ran through my body. It stopped and we started to sit up, the freak storm was over. "I feel really weird" I stopped for a second holding my head "That would be the lightning." No one had really moved much but Simon commented matter of factly "We should be dead." Annoyed more the situation we were in I snapped at him "Well we're not dead are we, so what's going on." Nathan of course ignored us all and started talking about himself, "A little reassurance might be nice you know. You're fine, Looking good." The probation worker sat up a little and just said Wanker, Nathan didn't take kindly calling out to the rest of us "Did he just call me a wanker! Hello?" Ignoring him the worker asked us if we were all right prompting Alisha to insult him "We could have died you dick." I wonder if she heard Simon say it before but chose to move on "Are you alright? You're acting like a freak." I noticed Simon turn to look as I said the word while questioning the worker. He ignored me chose instead to tell us we're done for the day, great.

The next day we were supposed to be cleaning off the graffiti however I decided to go off to the swings on the side watching as Kelly, Curtis and Nathan scrubbed at the words. Simon walked up to the rest of the group and started to clean them off. Alisha was also sitting off to the side sunbathing and flirting with Curtis when they'd finished Kelly spoke up "You know after the storm, did any of yas feel like dead weird?" I leaned forward curious by the question but Nathan ruined any seriousness of the moment by going about his ass. Someone said something causing him to stop for a second and call them out "What's that? Squeak up." It was Simon, "Something- Something happened to me" once again my interest was piqued I was about to call out to ask him something when of course Nathan interrupted. "Are you a virgin" he started doing something else stupid when Kelly shouted at him to Shut Up "What-What was it?" Simon swallowed awkwardly quietly saying it was nothing. I wasn't gonna let this drop though.

I was swinging slowly on the swings trying to build up momentum while staring at Simon trying to get his attention without the others noticing and interrupting. Eventually he felt my gaze as he turned around and met my eyes, I quickly gestured my head to the swing next to me before it fell to the floor again. He looked at the others heading inside before making his way over and sitting down beside me. "Ca-Can you please stop, stop that." I glanced to my left to see him staring at me "Why? I'm on a swing I'm gonna fucking swing." He turned to look at the ground again, he had a habit of doing that "I-I-Its, It's distracting." I poked my tongue out at him like a child as he started to ask why I had called him over. Suddenly my skin was on fire. I screamed reaching for my face. The pain seemed to last hours but eventually it subsided and I was on the ground having fallen off the swing during my fit, I looked up to Simon only to realize something was very very wrong.

We walked into the center while Nathan was trying to make a deal with Curtis. The door got their attention and of course Nathan made it weird. "Wow you really are a pervert aren't ya, where'd you even find her." I'd somehow transformed into a little girl and with no knowledge on how to turn back I huffed off to the changing room leaving Simon to deal with the other guys. I stared at my reflection in the mirror, instead of the adult woman I was there was a little girl about 10 years old, I recognized her from the photos of me at the age but there wasn't exactly an explanation. I felt my anger slowly building up and my face started to burn again it hurt slightly less this time and eventually I lay curled on the tiled floor back in my own body. Unsure of what just happened I went to find the others.

The guys were sitting on the floor in front of Alisha who was just finishing sucking a water bottle off. When Curtis saw me behind her, seeming slightly embarrassed at what I had just witnessed he asked me what I'd done to end up in probation. I glared at Nathan "Trashed my ex's car, and he turned the cops attention to me." Before he could respond Kelly burst through the door "HE'S GOING TO KILL US!" Nathan turned around ready to harass her "Nice entrance, very dramatic." Kelly ignored him which was quite unusual for her she must've been really serious. "The probation worker's gone mental he just attacked me! There's something wrong, I keep hearing these voices. It's like I can hear what people are thinking." I was about to speak up about what just happened to me when Alisha commented condescendingly "What, have you been sniffing glue?" Once again Kelly ignored it choosing to look between Curtis, Simon and I. "The storm its done something to us." Once again before I could say anything "Okay if you can hear our thoughts, what am I thinking?" A second passed as we watched high tension. "You think this is bullshit!" Kelly was annoyed but Nathan wasn't even phased "Of course! You don't need to be a mind reader to know that." They started talking on and on while I tried to figure out what it actually meant when Kelly shouted out again "He's out there and he chased me!"

Simon hurriedly spoke up "Something's happened to me too." Nathan obviously not taking any of it seriously, "Did you pop your cherry! Aww, we're all very happy for you." Simon went on ignoring him "Earlier on, when were in the locker room. I-I was invisible." Nathan's eyebrows shot up in disbelief "I turned invisible" Simon repeated with much more conviction. Nathan wheeled himself in front of Simon essentially blocking him in before he could harass him any further I just blurted it out "I was the little girl." Nathan turned once again in shock. "Yeah right, Weird kid just put you up to that so he wouldn't seem like such a pedophile. You know you guys really are hilarious. Really, keep taking that medication." He started to move towards the exit when Kelly stopped him "Don't go out there! He will kill you." Nathan started to come back at her when Curtis spoke up " DON'T! She's telling the truth." Nathan was getting visibly more frustrated "And you know this how! I suppose you're psychic now too." Curtis quickly explained "All this, it's already happened once. I open the door, the probation worker, he killed you." He pointed at Kelly she was obviously shaken by it and started to inch away from the door. "You were right there, you were dead! Everything froze. You were all just standing there. Time went backwards."

Nathan ignored it and opened the door a tiny bit. He quickly shut it scared "He's right! The probation workers gone mental." We all backed away from the door suddenly in a group Alisha started talking like it was a nervous tick "Maybe he's on crystal meth. That stuff makes you crazy my friend Chloe did it once and she nearly shagged her brother. And he's really ugly." The probation worker bashed at the door loudly I winced as Simon spoke up "The graffiti, I'm going to kill you. He wrote it." Alisha called out "We need to call the police" but Simon responded somehow sounding calm despite the maniac at the door "He took our phones, he's got all our phones." It went quiet and Alisha and Kelly started fighting. and we all started towards the back exit when Nathan slipped. His hand was covered in blood. Slowly Curtis went to open the locker. We all jumped back screaming as he dead body of the hat guy from yesterday fell slightly out. "He's really gonna kill us" I quietly exclaimed in disbelief.

Then Curtis loudly called out, hand clasped around Alisha's wrist "I've got to have sex with you right now. You're so beautiful. Let's do it right now raw" Alisha was fighting trying to escape his grasp as he went on screaming at him to let go. I stepped back afraid of the man in front of us as Alisha finally broke free. Curtis looked around confused and started asking what had happened. "Uh you said you were gonna shag 'er" Kelly called out, Nathan helpfully chimed in "You were getting your chap out." While Curtis tried to fix himself up Simon figured it out. "It happened when you were touching her." We all went quiet as Alisha looked at her hands before pressing one onto Simon's neck. He started to gasp and I quickly jumped away almost ashamed at my cowardice until he started talking. "I'm so hard for you. I want to rip your clothes off and piss on your tits." We both stepped back in shock, Alisha's hand leaving his skin and Simon immediately dropped. I stepped forward ready to help him when Nathan called him a sick bastard.

No time to process and the probation worker broke through the window and Kelly somehow managed to bash him on the head. "Is he dead." we all took a step forward "Well I'm no doctor but see the way his head is caved in-" Suddenly he was moving again. He grabbed Kelly's ankle causing her to his head over and over until he dropped again. "That should do it." And he was dead. Our probation worker was dead. We were both saved and screwed. The others were arguing about what to do while I just kept staring at the body just waiting for it to come back, for him to kill us all. I jumped when Simon took a step forward to be next to me speaking up "No body, No crime. We should bury them under the flyover." I looked over at him "How do we do that? Somebody's gonna see us." Surprisingly it was Nathan who figured it out. "We give them a quick little," he gestured to the body whistling. "Put them in those wheelchairs, wheel them up there, and if anyone sees us, we're just a bunch of young offenders taking a couple of specials for a walk in the sunshine." It wasn't a bad plan.

We finished burying the bodies, coming up with an agreement not to tell anyone, we would all have been screwed. We sat there quietly until someone brought up the powers. Nathan suddenly started going off his nut about his apparent lack of powers despite being in the storm with the rest of us. Simon despite being constantly insulted by Nathan tried to help by offering up the fact that maybe he simply hadn't found his power yet. He really just wanted to fit in and be accepted didn't he. We all went our separate ways. Kicked out of my ex's house I was sleeping in a spare room at my friend's flat. That night I couldn't sleep though, as I thought back on everything that happened that day, Not just the dead bodies we'd buried but the apparent powers we had, and for some reason I couldn't get Simon out of my head. He seemed like he already had some idea of what was going on. I wasn't sure if I liked it.

The next day we all showed up at the center, put on our jumpsuits and silently agreed on keeping quiet around our new worker. A chick named Sally. She asked us about the other one, apparently called Tony and let us go to the roof while she made a phone call. We watched her leave the building and walk off in silence until Nathan broke it. "Great we got away with it." I rolled my eyes "You really believe that or are you just really stupid?" Nathan looked at me fake shock on my face "I actually believe that." Apparently he was already bored with that topic as he started yammering about his powers again. Until Curtis pulled us back on course. "So what happens now? Is this it? Are we gonna be like this forever?" Simon innocently spoke up looking at watch of us for approval "What is we're meant to be like superheroes." But of course Nathan ruined it "You lot, superheroes? No offence, but in what kind of fucked-up world would that be allowed to happen?" Alisha spoke up annoyed "Nuh-uh I did not sign up for that." She was quickly drowned out as Nathan continued, "Superheroes! I love this guy, you prick!" Spitting all over Simon. Concerned I asked "What if there's people like this all over town?" Dismissively Nathan replied only saying "No way, that kind of thing only happens in America. I'm telling you it will fade away. This time next week we'll be back to the same old boring shit."

*This chapter is based on Season 1 Episode 1 of British Television Drama Misfits I wrote it purely out of passion so it isn't perfect or an attempt to steal any works from Howard Overman or anyone else*