vi. The Last Goodbye

Everybody thought they had parted ways on that small island. That, it had been the last time the siblings had met before finally leaving each other's lives forever.

But all those people were wrong.

One day, a day nobody would ever know about, all four siblings met again.

On that very island.

"Good evening." Luke Cahill formally accustomed his siblings.

"Stop with the wishy-washy act, Luke. Why did you call us here?!" Thomas said, pounding his fist on the table. Luke gave him a dirty look, but immediately regained his normal position.

"Ah, brother. You always were an impatient person."

"Luke." Katherine commented, her tone serious. "Let's just cut to the chase. We all got a note, asking us to come here. None of us sent each other the note, so it must have been you."

"You are right. I did call all of you here."

"Why?" Jane asked, meekly. "Y-you know that I h-hate being over here after the..." She paused. Nobody present in the room wanted to remember the calamity that had befallen their family, and had taken away the person they loved the most.

"I want to end the fight between all of us." Everyone in the room gasped. Luke actually wanted to make peace? "I figured that this fight, that has been going on between us is absolutely ridiculous."

"What's the catch?" Thomas questioned, wiggling his meaty finger in Luke's face.

"There is none." Luke answered calmly. "So, what do you all say?" There was no response from anyone's side, and Luke was forced to break the silence again. "Fine." He sighed. "I apologize for my irrational behavior. I shouldn't have responded to the situation like that, it was wrong of me."

"I'm sorry too." Katherine said. The sentence was simple, but it had been loud and clear.

"Me too. I'm sorry, Luke, Katherine and Thomas." Jane said humbly, her head down low. Luke nodded to both of them in response, and then turned to Thomas.

"What?" Luke raised an eyebrow. "Fine, I'm sorry too." Thomas said, finally admitting defeat.

"Good. Now, let's proceed to other matters now." Luke said, almost too suddenly.

"Other matters...?" Katherine questioned, her voice trailing off and curious. "What other matters?"

"Well, we all have our parts of the serum right?"

"I don't like where this is going..." Jane's tone was nervous, and she glanced around to see her sister's expression hardening.

"Well, I figured that you should all give your parts of the serum to me..."

"I knew there was something going on!" Thomas shouted, rising up from his seat in a hurry. "You are up to no good, you filthy..."

"You didn't let me finish, Thomas." Luke said sternly. "The serum was undoubtedly created for a reason. Well, its no good if we all just take parts of the serum. Let's combine all of our serums...and make what dad was planning in the front place."

"Luke. That's immense power." Katherine glanced at her brother. "What if...we won't be able to handle it?"

"I'll take the serum first, and see if it causes side effects. I know father already tried it out, but I think after one small test I'll be able to fix the malfunction in it...and perfect the serum."

"Didn't you already consume your part of the serum?" Jane quivered in fear as she caught the glare Luke was directing at her.

"WHAT?!" Thomas yelled.

"What the hell, Luke?! You didn't even tell us that!" Katherine gasped. "And...you were going to take our parts without telling us about this?"

"Once a snake, always a snake." Thomas hissed at his brother. "You're a disgrace to the Cahill name, you deceiving bastard."

"What do you know about me, you muscle-bound buffoon?!" Luke finally lost his cool. "I was the one who actually would've succeeded father, not a numbskull like you!"

Katherine and Jane, too had started a rather ugly spat on the other side of the room.

"Why didn't you tell me Luke drank it before?!" Katherine yelled at Jane, her fists clenched. "Weren't you aware of the consequences? You're just a little girl, but you should..."

"I'm not a little girl!" Jane yelled right back. "And its time you acknowledged that. I'm not a tattletale like you, that's the reason I kept quiet."

"Why you..." Katherine began.

"That's it!" Thomas punched the wall, boring a huge hall in its frame. "I'm out of here." He turned over to Luke. "Breathing the same air as you disgusts me." And with that, Thomas stormed out the door. Jane looked at Luke and Katherine, her eyes shining with unshed tears. Without another word, she too, was out the door.

There was utter silence in the room. Luke stood in his place, looking at the ground, and letting his black locks hide his eyes. Katherine walked over to her brother, and put an arm on his shoulder.

"Look, Luke. I don't know if you were actually trying to bring us all together again, or if this was just one of your shallow scams to get our parts of the serum. But whatever it was, it didn't work. There's just too much bad blood between us to start over as a family." She paused.

"But who knows? Maybe, one day, someone might come along and change all that. Maybe...we will get to live as a family. Maybe...we will be reunited again." Katherine then, walked to the door, and was just about to exit the room, when something obliged her to look back.

"Until then, sayonara."

And with that, she was out, and Luke was left all alone in the room.

And that was the last day the great four ever stood in a room together.

It had also been the date Madeline Cahill was born.

-Ghost.