Flashback
"What's your name?"
"Kate."
"Your real name?"
"I'm not allowed to tell you."
"My name is Diane Marion Belfrey. I'm your sister."
"I don't have a sister. I don't have anyone. I'm an orphan."
"I have a younger brother. His name is Maxwell, but everybody calls him Max."
"Why are you telling me this? I'm tired. I want to go to sleep."
"You can't sleep. There are so many things you got to know."
Present day
Hydron was walking around the spaceship.
"Should we tie him up?" Diane asked no one in particular, but only got Volt's answer.
"No. It was hard enough convincing him to come with us. Doing something like that would only cause more trouble."
"Too bad. He's really getting on my nerves."
Kate took a seat next to Lync, who was playing a video game.
"Hey." she said in her usual Kate-like way "what's up?"
"Nothing special," Lync replied
"And with other people?"
"I'm not falling for it, Kate. I don't want to gossip about your sister. She's your sister, go to her and ask her."
"...ask her... what?"
"Whatever you want," Lync replied, saying a loud swear when his screen said game over.
"Dee."
Kate knew Diane despised that nickname.
"What is it that you want?"
"Information."
"About what?"
"Who, to be specific."
"Is there something happening with you and Mylene or not?" she said quickly
"Is that all you want to know, Kate? Is your life so event less and boring you worry about your sister's friends all the time?"
"I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure you guys are a bit more than friends." she said making a face that could be described as I'm-not-falling-for-your-crap-anymore-Diane kind of face
"Don't say that."
"Say what?"
"More than friends. What is more than that?"
Kate, at this point, didn't know if her sister at this point was in the mood for any kind of vestal interaction (see what I did there?).
"You know, romance, hand holding, movie dates, popcorn, cheesiness, cheesy popcorn with cheese, eating spaghetti listening to Bella Notte..." Kate tried to sound as annoying as she could. She learned a thing from hanging out with the Vexos.
"Usual stuff when you're in lo-"
"Don't say the L word, Kate," Diane warned.
"Leggings? Leather? Liquid? Laces? "
"Love," Diane replied, annoyed.
"Love." Kate echoed on purpose.
"And you're surprised I avoid talking to you."
Diane said trying to sound like she's sick of everything, but her smile betrayed her, and Kate noticed that.
"You want to talk about something, do you?"
"Maybe. Perhaps."
Shadow Prove sat next to Mylene. He could see how she was immediately annoyed, but that wasn't unusual.
"You came here to bother me?" she asked in a completely emotionless voice
"Yup," he said with a smile
"That's perfect."
"Don't you just love sarcasm?" he teased. "I've got news to share."
"Share them with someone else."
"New Vestroia calling Mylene. Mylene's not answering... Are you there? Are you alive? Is everything okay?"
"It's not!" she snapped and then suddenly got sad. Shadow could notice that, but to another mortal, it would barely be noticeable.
"What?"
"Forget it, forget I said anything."
"If that's what you want." he said, then made a pause, then started to speak again "but it's not!"
"My stepmother," she replied
"You have a stepmother?"
"She died."
"That's surprising."
"I killed her."
"That isn't."
"Not on purpose, you moron. It was an accident."
"If it was an accident, why did you say it was you who-"
"Whatever! It's clear you won't understand. You're nothing more than a pathetic excuse for a person, and a minor inconvenience, so get out of my sight!"
He was prepared to leave, but then something snapped him out of it.
"Not this time." he said more to himself than her. "it's not gonna work. You can't just push me away. You can't push everyone away and expect people will just leave if you act like a total ass! You're not an ass, at least you don't always have to be, so shut up and tell me what's bothering you!"
"Please, leave me alone."
She never said please, unless it was sarcastic and he knew it wasn't. He was getting to her.
"Mylene!"
"Her name was Karen Clarke. She died in a hospital. I didn't remember it. I didn't know. But then Diane showed me a picture. Of the fire, it was next to-"
"Next to what."
"Next to his house," she said looking at Volt's direction.
"What does that-"
He stopped himself realizing what she meant.
"Holy-"
"His family died... ... because of me."