PLEASE READ, PLEASE READ IMPORTANT MESSAGE!Okay, it has been a looooong time, for any of my stories. Honestly I haven't even been watching the new season of LA, and my desire to write for it is nearly gone. That being said I have taken it upon myself to finish any unfinished stories ONE AT A TIME. Read that again for anyone who is waiting for my other stories. And it seems fitting that I finish one of the more complicated one first.

That being said I see this story having one possibly two more chapters. Now just because I will soon mark my NCIS LA stories complete doesn't mean I wont ever write for this fandom again it just means that other shows have caught my eye and that is where my writing will take me.

Life choices, changes and revelations change and mine have gone through the ringer these past few months and that reflects in my writing and these changes do not entirely thrive with NCIS LA. But who knows maybe one day I will feel comfortable writing for Deeks and Kensi again.

But again I will finish any unfinished stories for LA, I have not abandoned them I have constantly thought of them and where I want my babies to end fittingly.

The ending of this chapter will be quiet dark but before you bash me remember I like happy endings and I love the character I created within Cara Blye… just remember that and all will be good :)

Now one with the show.

The Fatal Mistake

Chapter 16

Kensi's P.O.V.

As the night wore on I watched as each human in the room slowly succumbed to sleep. Sam and Callen delivered the news to Hetty that Deeks was safe and recovering, and the news that Alex did not make it and Cara was for all intents and purposes 'missing'. I tried with everything within me to fall asleep with the knowledge that Talia and Fell were out there looking for my sister, even though I knew they had no chance of finding her, she could be anywhere in North America.

I sigh as I slip from under Deeks' arm as slow as I can, not wanting to wake him. I find myself in the well stock kitchen where Kayla is sitting sipping a cup of tea, her eyes red and puffy. This poor woman lost not only a son but maybe a daughter. "Hey Kayla."

"Kensi," she whispers back. "Would you like a cup?"

"Yes, but stay I will make it, I need something to occupy my hands." I set about fixing myself a cup of tea before I sit across from Kayla at the kitchen island.

"What is she feeling little one?" her voice is quiet but nevertheless makes me jump out of my racing thoughts of the grim looking future.

I shrug, "Nothing at the moment, she must be sleeping. But earlier…she was so full of anger and sadness. Kayla have you heard of the gypsy tale about Constantine's run in with two werewolves, Aegle and Mávra?" I ask timidly watching the older wolf's face closely. There were so many questions and no answers and it was feeding the helpless feeling in me.

She nodded. "Yes, it is an old tale. Why do you ask?"

"It is just…in the story Mávra was me…she was for all intents and purposes the evil one. And Aegle was Cara…the good. They balanced each other, making them a force to fear…the status quo was intact. Kayla has it changed? Is Cara's rage because I was too stupid to put myself through the change when I was younger? Is this all my fault?" my voice cracked as I pleaded with Kayla to tell me the truth, to tell me that I am to blame…that my sister will see this and come for me with the intent to put down because I brought the death of Alex.

"Yes, little one the status quo has changed. But it is not because you did not go through the normal growth stages that other wolves go through. It changed years before you were even thoughts in your parent's eyes." Kayla leaned forward and gripped my hands gently her eyes foretelling an explanation that Cara no doubt sought out many years ago.

"Mávra and Aegle were different, they were the beginning seeds. Throughout the centuries there have been many rebirths of the two sisters and they have grown, changed, learned, but in every rebirth the two went through life how they were supposed to but never making it to their 25th birthday, they were always hunted and put down either by vampires or hunters. Until now. Mávra and Aegle were born of the gods, and while you do come from a man and a woman you were brought to fruition by Olympus because the Fates demanded it to be so. The Fates changed the status quo. Cara took the darkness in the womb, but something went wrong."

Kayla pauses, looking to the roof before continuing, her words guarded. "Cara came to me many years ago, before she sent you away and asked me why she changed early, why she was so angry, why she was so much stronger. I told her that I did not know, but I found out months later after searching through countless books and tomes. The Fates declared that with this rebirth of Mávra and Aegle would change positions, roles, this was common knowledge among the wolves, we could feel it, we could always feel when you two were brought back, throughout the generations we hoped and prayed that this time would be the time when things changed. But what most did not know was that the rebirth is a complicated ritual done on the night of conception with the chosen couple, your mother and father, when I finally found the steps for the ritual I took it to your mother. She claimed that yes, this was it but they did somethings differently. I will not bore you little one with the steps as I can no longer remember all of them."

I chuckle lightly before walking to the fridge to retrieve a midnight snack for us, I did not know about Kayla but I was starving. "So if they did things differently they made it so that Cara and I were this way initially… so what went wrong? I mean I don't have half a brain or anything."

She sighed. "I went to the Fates with your mother and asked that very thing. I mean as a mother Julia deserved to know why Cara was early in her change and oh so very different from the others and at 18 you still hadn't gone through it. Now you know the Fates and how they can be, it took a lot of pleading but eventually Julia appealed to them and they admitted that something went wrong during the ritual. It is a confusing tale my dear so bear with me...

Cara was supposed to take in the darkness that would have resided in you, and you were to take in the good that was to be in Cara…and Cara did indeed take in the darkness but something else wormed its way in, something that was in your blood, in Mavra's god borne blood, something that even the Fates couldn't see or even predict. As you know their parents were Athena and Poseidon, a union and a history wrought with feuds and anger. So when the two came together to bear a child they got twins, one representing their bond, whether they liked it or not, on one representing their anger towards each other. When the children were still young Olympus faded destroyed by the Romans in favor of their own gods. This left the children susceptible to outside forces…"

Kayla paused here, her hands gripping the cup so tight her knuckles were bone white. "What outside forces Kayla?" I ask jarring the woman from her thoughts.

"Vampires, little one." I gasp, no, no that couldn't be right… "The children looked like children, smelled like human, a last ditch effort by Olympus to protect the children from persecution but it left them vulnerable. Vampires as you know are dark, never has there been a good vampire, they are innately evil and one found the two children when they were approaching their change date. He saw two beautiful girls and thought that they would be a great addition to the Forces. So he took it upon himself to turn the both of you…"

"Oh my god…Kayla…"

"Let me finish little one. If a regular werewolf were to have this happen they would never wake from the vampires chance at the change but the two children were not human so they were much stronger…more powerful. When the vampire snapped their necks after feeding them his blood they went through the werewolf's change, prematurely…"

"What were they?"

"Abominations for lack of a better word but they were not reckless, heartless killers. They were balanced, the protected any they could together, but the good and evil in them was balanced. They were powerful but not invincible, one day while taking a stand against the Romans they fell, no one knows how. And the Fates thought that their creations would come back normal…"

"Just werewolves, with human and Olympian blood running through them?" I ask, my head swimming and my eyes watering, I knew where this story was going and I wasn't sure how to take it or how to cope with it…this was all so very bizarre…god why couldn't I just be normal?"

Kayla nodded. "Yes, they thought that with the rebirth the vampire cells would disappear because they were not born with it. But Mávra and Aegle were seeds, products of their environment, water a see with tainted water you will get a tainted plant. But when no rebirth showed no signs of vampire cells they moved on. Until you two.

As I said, vampires are evil by design and there were vampire tendencies living in every rebirth. So when the Fates did the ritual they thought they were successful until Care turned early and quiet violently. In the womb Cara did indeed absorb the darkness with in you, unfortunately that also meant the vampire cells and when you were to absorb the good, instinct took over and to protect the young child from being destroyed or worse becoming our worlds bane the good that was in her stayed. Cara absorbed it all and while in the womb she clung to you, needing you to stabilize her while a war waged within the young fetus."

"That is why I never went through the change? I wasn't a werewolf?" I asked more confused now than I was ten minutes ago.

"No you were always a wolf, but everything that made up your wolf, the dark tendencies were taken from you and you had no good instinct because Cara's Olympian blood prevented it from going through the course that was to be."

"So I was a wolf but what? It was empty?"

"It had no reason to come out. In every wolf lies a reason, some better than others and it is that reason that the wolf comes out, we usually with or without knowing find that reason within our 16th birthday."

"And when Deeks was shot my wolf found its reason? I needed to protect him and my family. Does that mean that I absorbed some of what I was supposed to?"

She nods. "Yes but enough to set you apart from other wolves, but not enough to make you even with your sister. Alpha Cara was born to be Alpha, she was born to end the wolves plight and she did, and the Fates thought their mistake was to be over looked by the good that seemed to be reigning within Cara, she had you to keep her good and then later Alex. But know she barely knows you and Alex, my son, is gone. There is no Olympus to keep the fragile balance and the Fates can do nothing, for her path has been set in stone for years, created without the knowledge that vampire cells roam within her blood. Even the all-knowing Fates make mistakes young one."

I sit and try to understand all I just learned, trying desperately to put it in laymen terms.

Cara had more darkness in her than good….

I had enough good to set me apart from others….

Magic fucking sucked….that one was a given…

I used to be part vampire but the Fates gave it to Cara and Cara kept what was supposed to be my good…

Cara was three parts evil; my darkness and vampire cells and Aegle's vampire cells…. And one half part good…

Cara and I had human and godly blood in our veins…

We were abominations…unnatural…inhuman…monsters…

The status quo wasn't just changed it was so thoroughly fucked up that the Fates themselves couldn't even hope to begin to put the pieces back together.

"So we can only hope that the small amount of Aegle she retains is enough to keep her stable and then I will have to support the rest of her?" Kayla nods. "What happens if that doesn't happen?"

The dread within Kayla's eyes made my stomach lurch. "Then you will be the only one who can get close enough to do what must be done Kensi."

I gasped…no…no…surely she couldn't mean that…"Kayla…"

"If Cara does not win this fight, you are the only one the darkness will seek out, thinking you an ally. You must be ready to do what must be done my little one."

I shake my head but Kayla grips my hands in her strong wolfish grip. I couldn't do this, I didn't want to live this life anymore, to many politics, too much death, too much darkness.

"If Cara loses Kensi, if the darkness prevails you must put Alpha Cara down. You will have to kill her."

A. Grayson.