In springtime, We light a fire

Underneath the dark sky

I take some time, to read your mind

You are shy, but so am I

We´ll live forever

Young Dreams ~ Young Dreams

The A Team

Grace could see Liv's chest gently rising and falling, so she knew she was still alive. Grace dared to feel for a pulse even though she didn't know what the pulse rate per minute should be. She kept her hand right on Liv's neck to feel for it, where Dylan had been sucking the blood from just a few moments earlier, and was happy when there was a distinct rhythm in the pulse rate.

Suddenly Liv's eye popped open and made Grace immediately fall backwards in surprise. Liv took a deep breath and looked surprised herself that she was waking up. She touched her neck almost absentmindedly before sitting up and looking at Grace.

"H-how are you okay?" Grace asked in a timid voice, bringing her legs up to her chest as she continued to sit right by Liv's side.

"What?" Liv asked, her eyebrows furrowed and looking at Grace as if she had gone crazy.

"Liv!" Mini squealed happily, unexpectedly entering the kitchen and sitting down on the other side of Liv. She gave Grace a grateful smile for helping out.

"I didn't do anything…" Grace mumbled in response to Liv's question and to Mini's appreciativeness.

"How is she okay then?" Mini asked, glancing from Liv to Grace. Liv stayed still, staring off to Dylan's statue and where Rich lay with Alo hovering over him.

"I think she might have a power…" Grace started to say, examining Liv closely. "Invincibility? She healed herself after all."

Mini stared down at her hands and was reminded of when Liv and her held hands and she hadn't turned to stone. Did this mean Mini could touch Liv without having to worry about her power? Was this because Liv was invincible? Or something else?

"I… touched you earlier. I thought, maybe, I could turn you into stone… to save you, but nothing happened." Mini said slowly and awkwardly, wringing her hands in her lap. She glanced up at Liv and gave a small smile. Then she turned to look at Grace. "Maybe it's… immunity?"

"Oooh… Maybe it's both?" Grace suggested with a smile starting to spread across her face, but it wasn't quite reaching her eyes.

Liv held out her hand a little unsurely, but when she saw Mini's face, which was a mixture of nervousness and excitement, Liv cracked a smile.

Grace found it difficult to hide her jealously as Liv and Mini held hands and everything seemed to be fine. She knew this would bring them closer together and she would be flung aside.

Liv and Mini both let out disbelieving laughter and hugged each other tightly, as Grace looked on.

"You have no idea how great this feels!" Mini said happily into Grace's shoulder, as Liv rubbed her back comfortingly.

"Gracie!" Grace yelped, as Alo popped up by her side with a worried expression. He looked apologetic when he saw Grace clutching her chest in fright. "Sorry… It's just Rich kinda needs you over there."

Alo gestured over his shoulder and Grace nodded to show she was on her way. She glanced over back at her two best friends, but they were too busy with their bonding to notice that Grace was leaving them. She stood up and ran over to the other side of the room.

Alo continued to stand over Rich in a state of worry over his best friend. Rich was still awake, but looked like he was in pain. Grace hurriedly placed her hand over his bloody wound.

For a split second Rich enjoyed the feel of Grace's warm hand against his skin, but almost immediately afterwards there was a sensation that reminded him of getting especially sticky chewing gum stuck to the sole of your barefoot. It was an uncomfortable feeling to say the least and he let out a groan.

"Everything's better!" Grace said in a cheery tone. He looked up to see her smiling face hovering over him and he somehow felt better after that. Then he saw Alo standing behind her looking relieved to have his best mate healthy again.

"Uhh… About earlier – I didn't mean that. I mean, I did at the time, but there are a few exceptions I guess." He said in possibly the most awkward way possible. Grace looked away for a second in an attempt to hide the smile off her face at his version of an apology.

"I'm sorry as well. You were right, I can't just save everyone I want to." She said quietly, as she was secretly just as stubborn as Rich was when it came to who was right and wrong.

They shared a smile and Grace helped him stand up. Liv and Mini walked over as well with their arms linked. They were all standing around the statue and probably were all thinking the same thing.

"What the fuck do we do with this guy now?" Liv finally said. The others wrinkled their faces in concentration.

"Smash him up?" Alo asked, but the rest of the gang took that as a joke.

"How about we just chuck him at the garbage site?" Liv asked.

"Maybe you could keep him in the garden?" Grace asked, but she wasn't being entirely serious. Rich was the only one who smirked at it, but Grace thought it was quite funny.

"I could tell my Mum he left, she wasn't really attached to him anyway... We could pack his suitcase and take him and the bag down to a skip… It could work." Mini mused. Nobody else had a better idea, so they all nodded in agreement.

Grace hated the idea that he would never wake up again, but he couldn't really do good in the world.

"Some Twilight shit here, right?" Alo asked as they all stayed standing around and looking at Dylan.

"Meh… I prefer True Blood." Mini said with a small smirk. Alo took this as an opportunity to discuss their current predicaments with the powers.

"So… Are we like the A-Team now or something?" He said, failing to try and hide his enthusiasm.

"Not really, Alo." Rich said with a shake of his head. The others started to disperse and began to get everything organized for the skip drop-off.

"Everything's ready! Come on, Liv." Grace said, trying to pull Liv out of the house. Rich and Alo were in the van waiting impatiently. Liv scrunched up her face and Mini stood in the doorway pulling Liv back inside.

"She's got to stay here and play Doctor for me." She said laughing as she pointed at her hand. It was now wrapped up in proper bandaging, so Grace didn't really see why Liv couldn't come back to Community service, but she dropped the subject.

"Well, we're going to the pub later… You two will come, right?" Grace asked, trying to sound her normal cheery self. Liv and Mini exchanged glances before both of them nodded.

"Sure, Gracie." Liv said.

Grace waved and got into the van next to Rich.

"Liv not coming?" Alo asked, sounding as confused as Grace felt.

"No…" Grace replied, immediately hating the fact that she sounded so sulky.

Rich sat at the bar waiting for Grace to arrive. She had stayed in the locker room after Rich and Alo had left to get ready and to wait for her friends to get here. Alo was over at the other side of the bar trying to hit on some bimbo looking girl, who Alo didn't have a chance.

Rich shook his head with a laugh and pointed at his drink to signal to Nick that he needed another one.

"There you go." Nick said, handing him over a bottle of the same beer. "Is that girl from yesterday going to be coming back?"

Rich didn't know whom he meant, but he had a feeling he was talking about Mini, because of that huge scene she had created yesterday.

"The blonde one?" He asked a little unsurely. Nick nodded eagerly and Rich narrowed his eyes. "Why?"

"She was hot." Rich rolled his eyes, because he had been thinking it was something much more important than just how 'bangable' she was.

"Rich?" A feminine voice from behind him caught his attention and he turned around slightly in his bar stool.

He widened his eyes in surprise as he saw who it was. Franky Fitzgerald. She was a girl who was at his and Alo's college. She was petite with short brown hair, an androgynous look and to top that all off was a little… well, clingy. Rich had liked her well enough, but she had developed an obvious crush on him and Rich had kept his distance from her since, because she had begun to send him weird texts.

"This is crazy! What are you doing here?" She said in a seemingly casual voice, but there was something dark in her eyes that made Rich think it wasn't such a casual meeting.

"Uh… I'm doing community service. Nice to see you." He said hoping this was just a quick hello and goodbye conversation. Then he muttered under his breath as he took another sip of his beer, "Kind of…"

"It's great to see you too." She was much more enthusiastic than he was and he knew she hadn't heard his last statement. She gave a long pause and chewed on her a lower lip for a moment. "Maybe we should… go out for a drink sometime. Or now if you're not busy?"

"I'm waiting for some people… Oh -" Rich couldn't say another word when he saw Grace head over to where he was sitting, because she looked lovely in a pale pink dress with a floral design on it. Her hair was down, which he had never seen on her before and he reluctantly realized in that moment that he liked her.

"Hi Rich." She said with a mischievous smile, which suggested she had seen Rich looking at her with his approving grin. Then she saw Franky standing there and looking momentarily flustered. "Oh hi, I'm Grace."

"I was leaving." Franky said in a rather annoyed voice and turned to leave. Grace raised her eyebrows, but took a seat next to Rich. There was a moment of silence before Rich cleared his throat to say something.

"So Liv and Mini aren't coming?" He knew he sounded a bit too hopeful about this. Grace just shook her head.

"They're watching a film or something." Rich didn't mean to, but he listened to her thoughts.

'How much longer until they just ignore me completely…. Stop talking to me at service… Stop texting me…'

"They'll be back tomorrow though." Grace turned to look up at Rich and then she smiled sadly.

"I wish you wouldn't listen to my thoughts, Richard…" Then she gave a toothy smile, which was quickly becoming his favorite smile of hers. "It's not fair seeing as I don't know what you're thinking."

He gave a nervous laugh before taking another sip of his beer. Grace was still looking up at him expectantly, as if he was actually going to tell her what he was thinking.

"Well… uh… I think you're kind of nice and they're being bitches right now." Grace couldn't help but laugh at the awkward statement and Rich ended up joining in as well.

"Gracie, you joined the party!" Alo shouted as he came and threw his arms around both Grace and Rich.

"Yes I did, Alopops." She said smiling.

"What happened to that girl you were talking to over there?" Rich asked, even though he just seen the girl slap him out of the corner of his eye a moment ago.

"Not my type." Alo said simply with a shrug of his shoulders. "Shots?"

They spent the next two hours doing shots and talking about their home lives. Alo lived on a farm, Rich lived in a standard middle class house and hated his parents, whilst Grace lived in quite a big house and Rich and Alo learnt she had a twat for a father – David Blood, the Headmaster of their old college. Grace, Mini and Liv had gone to an all-girls school for sixth-form. Rich thought this revelation would have made him automatically start to dislike Grace, but it didn't really affect his opinion of her.

Grace eventually said her goodbyes and failed to notice the glare she was receiving from Franky. She left the pub and staggered in the direction of where she lived. It was getting dark and Grace wished she hadn't lied and told the boys she was getting a lift home. She honestly didn't trust them to walk her back home, but now she wished she had some company.

She stopped at a wall so she could lean on it in an attempt to clear her head slightly. When she set off to walk again she could hear the sound of footsteps behind her. She turned her head and to her disbelief there was nobody there.

"He-hello?" She called out a little uneasily. It was uselessly pitch black and she gave up squinting to look for someone there.

She turned back around and was instantly grabbed around the throat by a small hand. She tried to scream, but no sound came out…

A/N: Hope you enjoy this chapter and the little cliffhanger there! I probably won't be able to update for a while because I'm going to be busy with exams and then I'm going on holiday, but I will try to if I have time! :)

Now that everything has been revealed I thought I would give a little reasoning behind the powers:

Mini – She usually tries to isolate herself from people and can come across as quite a cold bitch haha, so I thought it would be interesting to give her this power.

Rich – Well Grace explained it pretty well in a few chapters back. He judges people on appearances so this power allows him to actually find out more about people before he judges them. That's how he started falling for Grace.

Grace – She, by nature, likes to sort out people's problems and is always there for her friends. I kind of see her as an emotional healer already, but now with this power she's also a physical one.

Alo – I gave him this power simply because in his series 6 episode he said that line, 'Maybe they weren't running fast enough!'

Liv – Invincibility and immunity because I thought she needed a double combo power. Also in her series 5 episode she drank so much alcohol that I thought she would die or something, so I think she's very strong.

Thank you to the two people who have been reviewing every week and those on tumblr who have been motivating me with the story. AND YOU MEGAN FOR HELPING ME SO MUCH!

Thanks,

TheCheeryCherry x