BROKEN

CH.40-the enigma

*KARA'S POV*

"I'm sorry," I mumbled, sitting in the open truck bed. We were training in the field again today, but I wasn't of any use. Apparently, the incident with the iniquity last night had me completely drained, but I was too afraid to go to sleep.

"You're sorry for what exactly?" Seven asked.

"Oh, I'm just so useless! Everything happens to me and then I'm not of any good to anybody. I can't even train today because I'm so weak," I stated. I was upset for a lot of reasons. I had too much on my mind, and maybe that's why the iniquity found it so easy to possess my body. I'm just weak.

"It's not your fault," he assured, sitting down next to me.

"It could be. An iniquity possesses the human body when it's weak and I'm just so overwhelmed and stressed out that possessing my body is probably as easy as walking into Macy's." I did feel defeated and generally useless in every sense of the term.

"Listen, just take a few days off to rest and build up your strength and when you get to feeling better, you'll be ready to go for this war."

"My strength's depleted, sweetheart. Listen to Abernathy. He's right."

I nodded my head in understanding to both Aragon and Seven, and then began sorting through the files again. There were scribbles of notes everywhere highlighting everything that we could possibly prepare for regarding the war.

"Iniquities from the VA. Super powered humans and vampires from the VHA. Powers unexpected. The earthquake was most likely caused by one of them. Lucinda and Seven are our only known examples to go by. Cloud Winters has most likely been plotting this war for years, training children, vampire and human alike, for this moment. We don't know what we're going up against. Be prepared for anything."

The majority of the writing was illegible, but we knew what we had to know and all we could do was train. The months had slowly turned to weeks which had slowly turned to days. The curtain was coming to a close, and nobody could stop it.

I had yet to tell Ace about the information that Cora and I had uncovered. He was ignorant of who his parents truly were. He was ignorant regarding the progress that had been made decoding the Genesis files. He was ignorant regarding vital components of his past.

None of it was fair, but I was hesitant to tell him. How would he react? Recklessly? Would he be angry at Cora and me for withholding substantial information? The result of telling Ace was unpredictable, and to tell a boy who spent his entire life trying to avenge his parents' death that those parents may have been the very souls that handed him the fate he was forced to deal with now?

We could lose him.

Of course, given that the information seemed to be so easily accessible to him, that's probably exactly what Cloud wants.

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"Well, it's been good knowing all of you," Orion stated.

"You act like we're all going to die," Mitchell returned.

"He's being realistic. Not everyone is going to make it out of this alive if any of us do at all," Weston grumbled, and everyone went silent. I supposed this was the way with alpha wolves. They bled demand for respect and honor. Weston's pack was prepared to die for our cause, and that was something that was to be held in the highest regard.

We were all sitting around my house just eating and discussing things. I felt like someone was about to give a speech, even if we still had a few days. Everyone could sense in the very depths of their soul that things were coming to a close. Everything was winding down and the curtains were coming to a close. It felt strange. My whole life I thought everything was fairly normal and fine. There was a time when Ace's not talking to me was the biggest worry on my mind. I use to worry about what I was going to do with my future, and now I had to worry about how to make the most of what's left of it.