Kelly, Alisha, Curtis and I all walked in to the flat. Kelly was talking"These new powers are bullshit. I thought this power would make me dead clever and everything but all I know is how to build and design rockets," andI started looking around for Simon assuming h would have already returned from his training. They all sat down as I wandered into the bathroom to find Simon standing without a shirt on. A smile crept on my face as the tension released from my body. I was so glad to see him. He must have heard the others talking because he turned around to see me watching him. I felt myself blush a little at being caught but Simon didn't seem to notice immediately walking over and giving me a kiss. It was crazy how much more comfortable he was now. "Hey." He finally greeted whilst I wrapped my hands around his waist nuzzling my face into his chest. "Hurry up and put some clothes on, I said we'd go for a drink." My voice was muffled and Simon chuckled before grabbing the shirt he seemingly only just too off.

We were all sitting at the bar, Simon had just gone to put a song on the jukebox choosing It's getting boring by the Sea from the Blood Red Shoes. He returned a moment later taking his seat next to me. "Has anyone heard from Nathan?" Kelly asked none of us in particular. "He's still in Vegas with Marnie and Nathan Jr." Simon answeredand I rolled my eyes "Why he still insists on staying after we had to fly over and bail him out is a mystery to me." Simon gave a shy little smile obviously thinking of thering he had given me. He then quickly glanced away towards Curtis who was pouring us all drinks. "He's going to use his power to try cheat some more money out of the casino. Then maybe bring Marnie and the baby over." Alisha scoffed at Nathan's plans, "You don't need to be able to see into the future to know that that is gonna end badly." I sighed thinking of Nathan Jr. he'd really grown on me, "The baby's really cute, though." Kelly then knocked Simon's shoulder gesturing to me with her head, "I think she's getting all broody, mate. Better knock her up." I shook my head playfully when Simon cleared his throat. "Actually we've been meaning to tell you." Alisha nearly spat her drink out. "That sure was quick" Curtis commented eyebrows raised as he looked between us, I quickly started to shake my head laughing at the reaction, "No, no, no. Nobabies on the way." I lifted up my hand suddenly calling attention to the ring that had been placed on my finger only a few days ago. There was a sudden eruption of excitement from the girls. Curtis let out a whistle before a guy walked over.

"Garcon!" He cried out to Curtis, who seemed confused in response ,"You talking to me?" We all looked at each other obviously noticing that he looked familiar but having trouble placing him. "I believe so, it's French." The stranger spoke again and two girls appeared, also looking familiar. When it hit me, they were the kids from community service. Alisha moved her hand up to shield her face obviously uncomfortable. "What's wrong?" Simon asked concern lacing his voice and I was hooked. Alisa mumbled a small 'Nothing' before letting out a breath and louder stating "I'm knackered. Can we go?" I looked at Simon who shrugged his shoulders and Kelly agreed. "I'll come with you." We turned slightly offer Curtis a goodbye before all walking out the door and parting ways with Alisha and Kelly; Simon and I walked home in a content silent hand in hand.

"His head's all cut up and I'm standing there with a broken bottle in my hand. I don't remember doing anything." Somehow someone had really fucked Curtis over. "That is definitely some power shit." Kelly blatantly stated as I looked at Curtis in some kind of shock. "What are we going to do?" Simon said turning to me. "We don't have to do anything." Alisha said sounding annoyed, "We keep our heads down and stay the fuck out of it." When she finished Curtis rolled his eyes "Cos that always works." Kelly spoke up next and her words almost scared me more, "This is the kind of shit where we need that guy in the mask." Simon shared a look of panic with me. "Look, why do we always have to get involved?" This time I was glad for Alisha's blunt attitude. "Can't we just do normal stuff that normal people do, like... go for brunch?" I asked hoping that Kelly's comment would be forgotten. Kelly was the one to answer confusion all over her face. "What the fuck is brunch?"

The next day we were walking down the streets with some food when Kelly turned to ask me a question "So is this, like, brunch?" Simon stifled a laugh beside me causing me to turn around a lightly hit his arm as Kelly continued. "Cos it feels like I'm just eating a bacon sandwich." Curtis suddenly stopped and gestured to the community service kids. "Oi, that's him. That's the guy that said I bottled him." We all looked up and watched as he suddenly froze whilst a girl stared at him huffing. "What's she done to him?" I whispered not wanting to draw attention when she pushed him down the stairs hard. He seemed fine now groaning as we all looked over him. Simon was the first to talk, worried about the stranger's safety, "Are you all right?" He didn't even respond to Simon causing me to step closer in an attempt to comfort him. "You're that crazy barman that bottled me, you are." The guy shouted accusingly at Curtis who cried out annoyed "I didn't bottle you, it must have been her." He looked back at the girl questioningly "Why would she do that?" Suddenly there was the sound of glass breaking and Kelly had a large rock in her hand. A car alarm was wailing and a cop suddenly rushed towards us. "Fuck!" I shouted grabbing onto Simon's hand. Kelly shouted for us all to run "Go!"

We managed to escape the police officer and were hiding out on the stairs panting when Rudy spoke up, "I've got to stop smoking and doing loads of speed, me." Curtis came running towards us. Kelly spoke startled, "I thought they had you." Curtis smiled and started to explain, "No. I got away. I..." he looked over at Rudy hesitantly, "I did my thing." Rudy exclaimed and started talking. I swear he talked more than Nathan. "If that's some sort of vague reference to all this "power" bullshit then don't worry about it, cos I am cool and the gang with all that." Simon stared at him with surprised and bit of disgust as Rudy pointed at him. "You're very starey."

We all ended up in the elevator to mine and Simon's warehouse home. I had just sent Alisha a text letting her know where we were when Rudy started up again."Ah, hey! Whoa, this is cool. Loving that lift. Look at this lift! Brilliant." Rudy laughed reaching his hands up to the ceiling, he was constantly talking. Curtis and Kelly were sitting on the bed with Rudy now in front of them, "See all this whole... this turning into a girl thing, is it born out of some sort of sexual confusion or something?" Curtis was annoyed by the question, "There ain't no sexual confusion." Rudy rolled his eyes, "If you say so." Curtis got defensive and I rolled my eyes at the exchange, "They all got their powers before me! That was all they had left." Rudy turned around, "He's a bit touchy, ain't he?" he started touching things around our home, Simon stepped forward forcing him to put whatever it was back. Rudy was unfazed and just turned to ask him a question, "So this girl he turns into... would you?" Simon stared at him blankly, "You know. Would you, er... would you fuck her?" Rudy started to shake a box both Simon and I rushed forward worried he would destroy it. "We've never seen her." I said annoyed not really enjoying the company. Rudy then reached and pulled off a knob, "Oh." I gave up defeated and just laid down on the bed trying to ignore Rudy, but I couldn't because he was so loud. "I've always wanted my own vagina. Not to keep, cos I've heard they require a lot of maintenance. You know, upkeep, like cleaning, polishing, things like that."

Simon suddenly spoke out annoyed "Put that down." Considering what he had already done I had no idea what could have required such a reaction. Iopened my eyes and leaned forward in time to see Rudy handing Simon the photo of us in Vegas. I immediately rushed over and Rudy held up his hands obviously trying to show he meant no harm. "Sorry, just looking." The elevator started moving, creating a distraction when Alisha walked out. Rudy immediately went slack. "Oh, it's... it's you." This piqued my interest as Alisha looked at him horrified, "Do you two know each other?" Alisha seemed to realize we were there looking at me surprised. "Er... we went to the same college." Rudy suddenly was set into motion panicking "Urn... this has been brilliant... ain't it?" He rushed towards the elevator holding onto his stomach. "Ah, I really have to go, I've got things... got to do stuff and that." Kelly raised an eyebrow,"You all right, mate?" Rudy ignored her instead struggled to open the elevator door."Come on, you... How does this fucking lift work? Who has a lift in their flat, man?" I rolled my eyes seeing as how a few minutes ago he was praising the idea. "Come on! Piece of shit!" He finally got the door open whilst still holding onto his stomach he closed it, though we could still hear everything. We all turned to Alisha looking for some explanation but she seemed pissed off. "Why's he here? What's going on?" Curtis, Kelly, Simon and I were all standing in a line all feeling like we were getting a growling from the teacher. Kelly spoke first refusing to look Alisha in the eyes, "We were brunching." She looked around at us and I took a step closer to Simon. "And then it just kicked off." Alisha huffed.

A few days later we were all at the bar with the exception of Alisha. Rudy had brought his girlfriend or something and they were currently making out in one of the seats. Kelly turned over to look before turning her head disgusted. "Is he fingering her?" Curtis nodded his head before averting his eyes. "I think he might be." Rudy then walked towards us, reaching between Kelly and Simon to grab a napkin wiping his fingers. Everyone looked at him questioning if he had really just done that. "That's some thirsty work, that. Same again, please." Rudy asked Curtis who looked at him disgusted before turning around to get the drink. Rudy looked aroundawkwardly before gesturing to me and Simon. "So you two are together,aren't you?" I gripped onto Simon's hand wanting to protect him, even though I knew, at least recently, he was able to handle himself. "Yeah, you were literally in our house." I spoke looking to Simon checking to see if he was fine with my sharing the other news but he beat me to it, lifting up our joint hands showing off the ring he had given me. "Newly engaged too actually." Rudy looked over his shoulder disinterested. "That's great, man. I'm with that beautiful, innocent-looking girl down there." He gestured to the girl saying what we had already gathered. "Yeah. She absolutely loves it up the arse! I know! I know, we're all just pussying around, aren't we? 'Should I slip it up there?' 'No, you can't. That's where she makes toilet.'Turns out..." God talk about too much information "Come here. Turns out..." He leaned close to Simon's face and attempted to whisper. "It's also the way to a woman's heart." Kelly scoffed "You stick anything up my arse and I will break your face." Rudy seemed to be worried and stepped back, "It's just the posh ones. It's just the posh ones." He glanced at me then Simon and winked, I felt sick but before I could leave he tapped Kelly on the shoulder, "Listen... just so you know, you don't have to worry about that girl who screwed with us, cos your Uncle Rudy's all over that shit like a motherfuckerrrrrr!" Rudy spun in a circle holding out his drinks just as Alisha walked in. Suddenly Rudy groaned, dropping the drinks and clutching his stomach. He started jerking around and his girlfriend stood up to help whilst we all sat there confused. "Is he having a fit or something?" Kelly asked the group though no one could take their eyes off the phenomenon. "I'm fine. Nothing to see here."

Suddenly his arms flung up over his head and a duplicate appeared. We all just stared in shock. The one who appeared stood sheepishly in front of Alisha while the original tried to explain though his girlfriend started freaking out. "Urn, what the fuck is going on? I can't believe there's two of you! It's like he came out of inside of you!" Alisha took a step back from the one who was staring at her, "What?" He quietly spoke, "You know what you did." Simon stepped forward,"What did she do?" Obviously he wasmore comfortable than before since he was standing up for our friend; and although it was irrational I thought back to the bond they shared when Alisha and Curtis broke up. How she was the one to tell him about the future Simon. I was jealous. I had always had the tendencies and I couldn't deal with it right now. I stood up abruptly. My right hand was fiddling with my ring, my reminder that Simon did in fact love me. I mumbled something about the bathroom. Simon looked back at me concerned, everyone seemed to be slightly annoyed at me ruining the moment. "Simon can just tell me later." I quietly said already rushing off, not missing the look of sadness in my fiance's eyes. I locked myself in a stall and sat on the floor, finally throwing up in the bowl. A few minutes later I was feeling better and I heard a knock. "Hey you doing okay? They wanted me to check on you." It was Kelly I was quite comfortable with her it made sense. I stood up and opened the door. "Yeah, just feeling sick." I shrugged my shoulders not wanting this to be a big deal. "I'll be fine I'm just gonna head home and sleep." Kelly looked at me worried and I felt a burst of gratitude. "Okay, just let me go get Simon." I looked over her shoulder shaking my head. Although things seemed rough in there and he would probably love to escape I didn't need him fretting. Kelly still looked at me concerned. "I'll see you tomorrow" I mumbled with a small smile.

I had rushed home and immediately fell asleep. I was awoken a little while later to Simon coming home. He was out of breath and immediately rushed forward to me. "There you are." He wrapped his arms around me. I breathed in his scent and held onto him. "You didn't have to rush back for me." I mumbled my eyes already half closed again. "I couldn't leave you here alone, not when your sick." He whispered back, obviously not concerned with the fact I was falling asleep again. "I love you." I head Simon murmur softly already believing I was asleep andfelt a soft kiss on my eyelids fluttered as I tried to opened them to no avail. So that is how we sleep. In our clothes, wrapped together on top of all the bedding. It was perfect.

The next morning we woke up to the sound of ourphones ringing. Stumbling through the pockets I managed to pull out mine, it was Alisha calling to tell us that we had another situation. With a groan we headed over to the community center to find two dead bodies. We headed out to a forest and dug a grave for the two girls. We were all looking down at them when Rudy started freaking out. "I've... I've got to tell you, guys, I am... I am kind of freaking out here, all this killing and burying and dying. I'm just... I'm outside of me comfort zone." I remembered feeling similarly when we killed the first probation worker. "If it makes you feel any better, we've done a couple of people too." Kelly lifted her eyebrows in agreement, "Shit just happened. You bury 'em, you just get on with your life." Rudy sounded like he might cry when he spoke next. "I just... keep seeing this image of her cute little face, she's biting down on the mattress, there. She absolutely loved it up the arse. God rest her beautiful soul." He lent back to grab a handful of dirt to throw on the grave,"Amen."

"Well, that could've gone a lot worse, you know? For me." We were driving back from the forest and Rudy had done a 180 on his recent tragedy. "New day tomorrow, who knows what it holds for all of us." He looked around at all of us. I rolled my eyes and moved closer to Simon just as police sirens went off behind us. "Shit!" Rudy exclaimed we all looked to him alarmed. "It's all right, just stay cool. Right, don't get upset or anything, but this isn't exactly my car." It was suddenly chaotic as Rudy took his hands off the wheel and turned to talk to us, Curtis who was in thefront lunged for the wheel to keep us from dying and us girls just kind of stressed. "Whose car is it?" I practically screamed though Rudy barely noticed, "Nicked it off a man with a perm. A man with a perm, what's that about?!" Kelly looked about ready to give up, "We can't get caught in no nicked car we're all on probation." Rudy leaned back trying to provide comfort, "Ah, you'll be all right. Maybe they'll let you off with a warning, love."

They didn't. Of course they didn't. "Honestly, guys, I just... I thought they'd let you off wi' a warning." we were all standing in our old jumpsuits glaring at Rudy and the predicament he had got us in. We then heard a slow sarcastic clap and turned around to see Shaun "Well, that didn't take you long, did it? Congratulations." He folded his arms smirking. Alicia rolled her eyes, "You haven't changed." Shaun seemed impressed with himself. "That's where you're wrong. Yeah, cos I've found a new dedication, ensuring your complete and total rehabilitation. I'll get started right after I've watched Homes Under The Hammer." I scoffed and rolled my eyes while Rudy asked after him, "Ooh! Can... can we watch that with you?" Shaun then walked back into our eyesight. "You lot can piss off and do some work. Chop, chop."

We were all hanging out on the roof, Kelly was writing down some plans and Simon and I were just relaxing sitting together when. Rudy walked over to Kelly,"What you doing?" Kelly looked up at him not interested at all, "Designing a new propulsion system." Rudy looked at her confused, "Why?" Kelly glared at him clearly annoyed. "Because I'm a fucking rocket scientist." Rudy suddenly started jumping around all excited "Ah! Are we doing catchphrases? Maybe we could all have one. Mine could be, 'Now you see me... Now you see two of me.'" Curtis just looked at him confused, "Why do we need catchphrases?" Rudy rolled his eyes like it was obvious, "You know, for when shit goes down, man. Oh, c'mon, d'you really think we're just gonna spend the next seven weeks ambling about, picking up litter?" Simon sat up a little looking at the others, "He's got a point." Alisha seemed annoyed, "Yeah, well, maybe it'll be different this time. Maybe there won't be any shit going down." Rudy scoffed at the idea, "Oh, trust me, there'll be shit. It's in the air. I can smell it."

*This chapter is based on Season 3Episode 1of 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*