The Misfits

Power/I Didn't Mean It- Chapters 1 and 2

Alex's POV

With my knocking knuckles aligned on the bat, I swung repeatedly at the large, old oak tree. As I swung I thought of the terrible things I wanted to do to equally as terrible people. The weather, as always reflected my mood, dark and gloomy. The words and lies of my once loved ones filled my cloudy, messed up head. The weather, once again, not failing to reflect my mood acted up. Now pouring with flashes of lighting. I look at my now soaked and slightly scorched surroundings and thought, Why me? Why now? All I wanted was to be a normal kid, but I knew that was never going to happen. Not now, not ever, and especially not to a misfit like me.

I dropped the now shattered Louisville Slugger and resorting to my bare hands. Bursts of adrenaline are normal when you use your powers. At least that's what they would say. Too bad they didn't understand. Too bad they hurt and betrayed me. Too bad they're evil. I pounded on the tree until I could feel nothing but the blood pouring down my freshly torn up hands. Blood on my hands? Ha! That was nothing I hadn't felt before. Nothing that they haven't made me do.

A twig snapped behind me. I knew who it was, but even she couldn't stop what was happening. I had lost control and there was no going back now. That's what happens. He pushes me and they don't care. They want it to happen. They want me to do something bad and come to them crying for help. Not happening.

"Alex, no! Your eyes. Please stop," she shrieked bolting to my side. She grabbed my battered hand and said: "you are better than this! Better than them!"

But like I said I was already at the point of no return. No matter how much I love her. No matter how much I hate them, how much I don't want to be like them, I can't stop it. Things changed. People changed. So did I. I turned around to get away from her.

"Alex, let me help you," She cried following me, "Calm down and we can fix this. I can help you with your parent and your brother."

"Help? You think you can help me? You have been living with us right? You see what goes on? What kind of people they are? If I go back I turn in to them, like I'm already starting to. The only thing I can do is leave." I seethed walking faster.

She stopped chasing after me.

"If you leave you're leaving me. You're leaving me with them, with Zayn. Do you really want that?"

I stopped dead in my tracks. How dare she use that. You know what? She never helped. She would never do anything when he would hurt me, or when I would hurt him. They never did anything to her!

"Yes. I hope he's everything my parent and you ever wanted."

"Alex pleas-" she grabbed for my arm.

She yelped as I sent a volt of electricity through her. She looked at me with pain and utter sadness. She thudded to the ground, the electricity to much for her. I looked at her limp body and tried to walk away. I tried to leave her there. I tried to find the anger I had for her but it was gone. There was stilled anger but it wasn't toward her. I tried to think of myself for once, but I couldn't. I couldn't live with the fact I might have killed her. It wasn't my fault, was it?

I dropped to her side, grabbing her wrist, to feel for a pulse. I let out a deep sigh of relief when I found one. A weak one but a pulse.

Then I heard a weak cough, "Alex."

"I'm so sorry, Lynn, I didn't mean to- they just make me wanna- ugh." I forced out my guttural words as she looked at me frightened.

"Your eyes," She said "they are completely bb-black"

I couldn't believe how much of a monster I was! The way she looked at me, I would never forget. The absolute terror. I never wanted to hurt her or anybody. It's just another thing they made me do. No, this one was all me. I really am no better than they are.

"Don't think like that!" she moaned, "I know you're sorry, but right now you really need to calm down before something really bad happens."

"Something really bad? Isn't hurting you bad? What do you want me to do to prove that I'm an animal? I could kill some people. I'm sure it's nor out of my wheelhouse!"

I always forget the fact that she could read minds. I need to be more careful about that. She's alive. I could leave her now and she'd be fine, but would she be okay? No. They wouldn't hurt her physically, it was like they couldn't, but that didn't mean they wouldn't destroy her mentally. I couldn't leave her. I didn't want to.

"We have to go," I stated standing up.

"I know we do, Alex. That's one benefit to having superpowers, super healing," she answered, "So stop worrying about me and let's get moving before they find us."

I nodded and we ran to the only place that would calm me. The one place they wouldn't go. The ocean. Even the thought of the water calmed me. With each step, I took the weather changed. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Thunder. Lighting. Snow. Any weather you could think of was there. The only thing that wasn't was the sun. Odd for where we live. To give you an idea, California is usually bright and sunny, not like this. I'm in deep this time. They always told me that my powers were stronger than normal, but lately, they have been insanely strong. A sharp pain shot through my head. Now one in my arm. They spread all over my body like a wildfire. I groaned in pain, but kept running. Once, I was sure I was about to explode, I stopped.

"This needs to stop. All of this! This pain, the weather everything going on! We need to stop this!" Just as those last thoughts were formulated into words everything went black and I was introduced to the ground.

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My eyes fluttered open I woke up in a hospital bed with Lynn by my side. "What happened?" I asked holding my aching head.

I could still feel the electricity pulsing through me.

"You were running and then just collapsed for a minute everything went haywire and then it just stopped."

"What do you mean stopped?" I asked contemplating what had just happened. I mean I knew I wanted what was happening to stop, but I didn't think I would just faint like that. Weird, even for me.

"No I don't think you get it," she said rolling her eyes, "I mean the weather it's gone. Like even the sun. I didn't think your powers extended to that."

I just stared at her unsure of what to think. I knew I had power, but I didn't think I had this much. "But how? I mean everything is working fine in here," I asked, "I know I can control the weather but I can't just stop it, right?"

"Trust me I'm just as scared as you are. And the only reason this place is working is becuase of you. You're the electrical source, once we're gone, the electricity will be too. And as for the rest of the world, they think what you did is some 'super eclipse, or 'rip in the atmosphere.' So we have to undo this fast." She commanded forcefully.

I nodded think of how to fix this. How I did it in the first place. They said weather powers, not stop everything powers. Did Zayn know?

"Well don't just lay there," she added, "we need to go fix this!"

"But I can't" I cried, "I don't even know how I did it! I'm so scared Lynn. What kind of monster am I? Why do you even stay with me with all of this pain I caused you? I don't deserve you! I don't deserve anything! I am a vile, barbaric animal!"

"I stay with you because I am too. It doesn't matter what we did, it just matters that we did it. We are misfits Alex! But that doesn't matter, right now, we have to fix the mess we have created. Together." she said ripping the IV out of my arm.

We got the rest of the stuff out and made sure nobody was around. We'd have to be quick so that we weren't caught. We also needed to be long gone, so that they didn't suspect anything about the power source being me. Although humans are ignorant, they do have pretty good guesses.

I changed back into my tarnished clothes and told Lynn, she could turn back around. We made sure we both looked kinda like normal teenagers just in case. Lynn wasn't quite a master at her powers yet, like me, and we couldn't risk it. Being thrown into a foster system wouldn't be the best thing for us.

I sighed and said, "Let's do this. To the ocean to fix this and then far, far away. Deal?"

"Deal," she said straightening her shirt, "We make things normal and live happily ever after. Sounds like heaven to me."

"Yeah," I agreed.

"But what if they find us? Your parents have no mercy, especially fo-"

"Traitors? Yeah, I know. We're not gonna get caught. They'll be to trapped in this to think of anything. You know how they are. They have to comfort everybody in the army and figure out how to get electricity. After that, they'll try to figure out what happened. They will never think it was me. Zayn might, but they only listen to him if it has to do with something evil so, yeah."

"That makes no sense," she stated combing through her hair.

"I know. It's like a double standard. They listen to some of the things he says and totally ignore other things. We both know he's totally loyale, though. Weird, but true."

"I know," she said look at the clock, "We better go before the nurse comes back."

"Okay," I said pulling the covers up on the bed.

I moved to stand next to her.

"Let's hope this works," she said in a sing-song voice.

I chuckled and said, "Let's hope.

She grabbed my hand and within a second, we were gone. Nothing in our places, not even a piece of dust. That's how it worked. It made you dizzy and disoriented but gone. Where we were going I didn't really know, but I did know we had to fix this. I had to fix this, and I needed to do it fast. Really, really fast, or else who knows what could happen?

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Start of chapter two- I Didn't Mean it

Alex's POV

When we reached the ocean I could feel the difference. It was like a whole new Earth. Of course, there was a power surge around us, but everything felt different.

Lynn still clutching my hand remarked, "See what I mean you need to fix this."

But how could I when even I didn't know how I did it in the first place? The sea breeze whipped through my matted hair as I thought of how to fix this sticky situation. I had never done this before. Like sure I had gotten angry and had done my fair share of damage to myself and others, but never like this. How had I even gotten this angry in the first place? Oh yeah, him. By him, I meant my enemy, my foe. My twin brother, Zayn. But the look his eyes. Everything he did, it was like he felt guilty. But he still did it, and this time he can't undo it. I hate him.

"Stop thinking about him," Lynn said letting go of her grip on my hand. "You know what he did to us. He's evil. This is what he does! He destroys things!"

"I know," I said roughly facing her, "He's evil. He has done so much to me. I hate him. But he might be able to help me. Not that he would. I feel so trapped," Lightning flashed.

"What about your parents? I mean I know they're terrible but this concerns them doesn't it??" Lynn asked, taking out her phone and turning on the flashlight obviously annoyed that the flashes of lightning were our only sources of light. She found me with the flashlight and just stared at me with innocent eyes waiting for me to answer her question.

I looked her in the eyes and said, "He convinced them I was a monster, and only because he knew they would listen. I thought maybe this will help me, maybe they will treat me better now. Nope. All it took was one mess up and he blamed me for everything that ever went wrong. It's like everything is opposite for us! We're evil for God's sake! He was the puppet master and I was the puppet. Not only did he convince them to think I was a monster, but he also convinced me to think that as well. But there is also something to make me think he regrets it, but then he smashed that hope. It's like there's something inside all of them that won't let them have humanity. So, to be honest, I don't think that they would help. I'm pretty sure they would look at me and laugh. They hate me, I hate them. It doesn't matter, '" She just looked at me as I poured my heart into her hands. The mixture of surprise and anger showed on her face as I told her. I knew she hated Zayn. I also knew that she knew I didn't tell her everything. I probably never would. Especially the look in their eyes. The pleading for help I briefly saw.

"I knew he always bullied you and looked down on you but I never imagined it would get this bad. But what I don't get is why your parents would believe him so easily. It's like he controls them sometimes. Maybe they're the real evil ones." She looked at me through the beam of light and joked, "But seriously, I know that you are angry right now, and you have every right to be, but for you to fix this you need to be calm. So I suggest you forget about that big dummy and get on with this. You know I hate the dark so I would like for you to fix this soon. You know there's also the fact that it's kinda getting cold and I don't feel like freezing to death. That would be kinda pathetic, don't you think?"

This is one of the things I loved about her. How she knew we had pressing things to talk about, but made it easy for me. She made things better.

I chuckled as I responded with "Yeah, you're right."

I wasn't totally in the mood, but I went along with it anyway. It's the least I can do for her.

She gave me her cockiest grin and replied, "Of course I'm right, when have I ever been wrong? Wait don't answer that!" When I rolled my eyes she just laughed even harder. At that moment I was so happy she was my best friend.

"But seriously," She said, "We really do need to fix this, I really really do hate the dark! Like really really hate it. Like I hate it so much that- Alex! Alex are you even listening?!"

We. I thought she said we. We were in this together. She didn't care what everybody else said. I wasn't in this alone, at least I had somebody. My brother and my parents are not here, but she is. I don't need them. I have somebody who cares about me. Somebody that I can trust. Somebody who doesn't think of me as a monster. She could have stayed and been safe. They have never touched her. Even if they tried they wouldn't have succeeded. Either I or Zayn would have made sure of that. That was one bearable thing about him. She could have been happy. But she stayed with me. A life of running and no known happiness. She might not be my family by blood, but she was better than any family I could ever have. Because she stayed. When the going got rough my parents and brother kicked me out, but Lynn stayed. She was there when I needed her, and is still here now. That is all that I ever wanted in a family member. I guess I didn't realize that I had it all along.

"You would have protected me!" she cried taking a step towards me shining her light aimlessly, "you really think of me as your family?"

"Yeah" I replied as I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks. "I mean you have been living with me for as long as I can remember. Not to mention you have stuck up for me countless times. I mean what can be more helpful than knowing exactly what the bully is going to say before they even say it!? Reading my thoughts might be a down, but I can deal with that. " She has to stop reading my thoughts! Somethings stay thoughts for a reason.

She smiled. She looked so beautiful when she smiled.

"That's why I came. I came because I think of you that way, too. Everybody there treats me like I'm untouchable for some reason. Not you though. Zayn is well Zayn. He is fine to me, but I know he is despicable and evil. Your parents are the same way. You're the only one I can trust. And with you, it will be a life of happiness."

We both sat there taking in each other's words and just thinking. I thought about how we were going to fix this, how we would survive if we did, and I how I would control my powers if we managed all of that. I wish I could just pause everything, so I could fix it all. I needed to catch up. Sometimes I wished I could just stop everything for a while. Just be alone and happy. And sometimes I wished I could just die. I could finally leave all of this behind. Everybody else lives would be simpler without me. I could be happy for once. I could be free. It would be so easy. Nobody would even notice. I could finally have everything I ever wanted. To be normal. In death, nothing matters. Why am I thinking about this?

"But you wouldn't have me," a weak voice said.

In my peripheral vision I saw Lynn whip away tears. This is what I meant by bad thoughts. But these weren't my thoughts. I couldn't control these. It was like something was making me think like this. I couldn't look at her. My brain wouldn't let me. I finally found somebody who cared and I screwed it up. What am I doing? But the thoughts just came I couldn't stop them.

"I would care if you died. What if I died? You would care. I think about dying, too. It would be easier, you're right. And I would be free, but then I think about you and how it would affect you. Did you think about how it would affect me," she asked hopefully.

No, I didn't mean it, my head screamed. Too bad my mouth didn't cooperate.

"I didn't. Because I don't really care. I wish you hadn't come."

What am I saying? What the heck? Why can't I control what I'm saying?

"But you said.."

"I know what I said," my heart screamed at me to stop, "But I was lying. I'm just as evil as Zayn. Except I like to crush the hope of people. I like to kinder it and watch the happiness and trust go before I kill it. I don't care about you."

I could see more tears falling from her eyes and I wanted to comfort her but I couldn't stop what I was doing.

"I never will care about you. I never have. I'll give you ten seconds before I-"

"Wait," she said, "I feel something."

I felt something prodding in my brain, but the thoughts were still there. I could control what I was saying now, though. I think. Kill her. I shook my head, trying to rid the thought.

"There is something in there," she said, "We need to get it out.

Her eyes were still glassy and I still didn't trust myself, so I just nodded. Thinking, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! But not saying it out of fear. I'm such a coward. That's why I'm in this situation. No, it's her fault. I squeezed my eyes shut.

"Did you mean it?"

I wanted to scream no but something was preventing me. So I stayed quiet. Shouldn't she know I didn't? I just told her how much I cared.

"I can't read your thoughts right now. Something is weird. Please talk to me."

I shook my head. I plead with my eyes for her to understand, but she didn't. Nobody ever did.

She sighed, "To think, I thought somebody cared."

I felt angry and sad at the same time. How can she not see something is wrong. She can feel it! I grabbed a rock from the shoreline and chucked it into the ocean. I could hear scratching. Like somebody drawing in the sand. I saw Lynn drawing and walked over.

I know your bad. Somethings there. Get it out tomorrow.

She did know. Why couldn't she just tell me? She was writing more words. I could stab her with that stick. Stop it mind!

Could be parents.

I nodded, grinding my teeth. I really hate those people. I turned and decided to sleep. I didn't tell her, but I think she got the jist. I wish I could say goodnight. I wish I could smash her skull in with a rock. That was was my last messed up though before I fell into a long, dreamless sleep.