The Ghost

28. The blank faced sister

"Well, what do you think?" Domino quietly asks her husband in the car.

Jackson sighs, "She's definitely our daughter, but how the hell did she kill the whole school faculty."

She shrugs, but thinks back to her encounters with her daughter while she was at the school. Galaxy had been so ruthless, cunning, and she definitely had resources outside that helped her get all the gear she had hidden away.

Jackson notices that she has become lost in her own mind, and starts wondering what she's keeping from him. When he can no longer handle the silence he bursts out, "What is going through your mind right now?"

She flinches as if shaking her thoughts into place, "I just was thinking about the week I got to spend with her back at the school. She is exactly the same now. It's almost as if she hadn't just killed so many people and saved all these girls form the torture that is the school."

Jackson looks at her as if she's insane. "The kills had to have changed Galaxy somehow, not even the best trained assassins could have done that without any remorse."

Domino glances at her husband, "She has been trained since she was 5 years old. There is no telling what she has become. Hell she could kill us without a second thought."

He glances down in shame of what he's done to her. "I... I... I just wish..." he stutters out unable to finish his sentence.

Domino puts her hand over his hand that isn't on the steering wheel, "I understand, but it's too late now. All we can do now is pray for her forgiveness and show her we thought we were protecting her."

Keeping his eyes on the road, he silently agrees with his wife. Although the fear of his daughter is starting to consume him.

When they reach the mansion, no one else is wandering around, so Domino goes straight to their bedroom and Jackson to his office.

For the next few days the parents try their best to get to know their daughters and the girls with them. Their daughters on the other hand are doing their best to avoid them, so that they don't kill them.

Galaxy sets the girls up to go to school, so that they were around other people their own age. They were enjoying showing off their cars and other skills at school because everyone was treating them like royalty.

(AN I know that 13 is not a legal driving age, but pretend that it is)

Mark and Galaxy spend their days going over the year she missed at Electra Inc and any potential problems that she has to take care of personally. For once she is excited to have someone else to work with, but she's sad that he spent so much time on her company considering he is supposed to be running the mafia. Mark is just happy that he can spend more time with his sister and see the other sides of her.

One afternoon, the girls and Jace get home from school and all of them are sitting in the kitchen eating snacks, sharing what happened in their days. Domino and Jackson come in with a look of hope in their eyes, "Galaxy, Rosie can we talk to you?"

The two look at each other, silently arguing. Galaxy doesn't want to be left alone with them, but Rosie still has a fantasy of them becoming a real family. After a staring match that lasts about 2 minutes, Galaxy gives in, knowing that Rosie still needs them. So the two follow them upstairs to his office, while holding hands. Rosie holds Galaxy back, while Galaxy sends her as much comfort as possible.

The hope in the couple's eyes had started to die down, when neither moved, but had flared back to life even stronger than it was before. Leading the way, they exchanged nervous glances, hoping beyond hope that their daughters would be willing to share what had happened to them during their time away. They knew that it would be extremely difficult to hear, but they wanted to share in their daughters' pain even if it was only a taste.

When the group reaches the room, the parents shuffle their feet trying to figure out how to ask them what happened, but how do you ask the daughters you basically abandoned to share their trauma?

"Well we wanted to talk to you two about what you went through... you know... at the... school." Jackson starts off awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. Domino nods her head sadly.

Galaxy starts seething in anger, Rosie can barely manage to hold her back from attacking them, but soon G overpowers her and starts towards their parents. Rosie runs out of the room calling for help, while G is punching in the faces of her parents. Once she gets Jackson on the ground in pain she turns to her mother, "You know exactly what we went through you fucking bitch so don't you ever ask either of us to relive that trauma with you." Then she continues on her pain spree and starts fighting with Domino. Domino only dodges her daughter's attacks, but refuses to strike against her.

Rosie is glad that Jasmine, Paris, and Ashley are there today, and drags them with her back to the room hoping that somehow Galaxy hadn't murdered their parents yet. When they walked in the desk had been flipped onto a barely conscious Jackson and Galaxy is throwing everything she could get her hands on. She freezes when she barely misses Rosie with the book she was aiming for her mother's head.

Then the trio that Rosie went to get, rushes in pulling Galaxy from the room. Seeing the damage caused by her big sister Rosie turns to her parents to see Domino lifting the desk off of Jackson. "If you really wanted to know what happened there, this was not the way to do it. You have completely lost all of our trust and need to gain it back for us to even give you a glimpse of what happened there. Honestly the only reason we're even here right now is because you went and had yet another kid despite abandoning two already. We couldn't leave Jace to deal with you as parents, so once we believe he's old enough we will be taking him and leaving you for good."

The couple breaks down sobbing hoping that it never comes to all their babies leaving them. Domino is thinking about how to gain their trust back, and Jackson is trying to figure out if Mark is included in the "we" that will be taking Jace and leaving them for good.

After Rosie leaves the room, she goes in search of the group knowing there is only a small chance that they will even be able to calm her down. After searching all the rooms in the house, she finds them outside sitting in the grass while Galaxy runs laps around the yard. When she gets closer to the group at the end of her lap she yells out, "Can I be done now?"

Paris yells back, "No! You lost control again, you will run until the blank faced sister I know is back in charge." The rest look back at Galaxy as if daring her to stop already, so she keeps running and running and running until nightfall.

When she stops running, she collapses to the grass, staring out at stars thinking about how much has changed since she had "graduated". She just hopes that it stays changed for the better and that nothing dark happens to them anymore.