Katie POV
I walked through with Piper on the side of the road. Our car had broken down and we were walking to find a signal. I spotted a shed and being in the Nevada desert I ran to it to escape the heat despite Piper's protests. She came with me and I opened the door and was blasted with cool air. I looked inside at the cozy living area with a kitchen attached. I walked in almost entranced and once Piper got in the door slammed shut by itself. Piper was messing with it while I looked around. This place was so familiar, like I've been here before, when I was younger or something but that wasn't possible because this was my first time to Nevada.
"Katie" Piper breathed. I turned around and she was staring out the door. I moved towards her and saw a forest outside the door. I grinned.
"What the hell is this?" I asked excitedly and Piper left the doorway and I heard her shuffling around in the background while I stared at the lush grass.
"You remember those stupid things Lacey used to say about time machines and the government hiding them from us?" she asked. "According to this, it's true" I turned around saw the metal wall with big letters 'DELTA' spelled out. Under was a single book inside the wall. Piper took it out and showed me the first page.
"So this is really a time machine? You've got to be kidding me, where's the cameras?" I called out and waited for someone to pop out saying 'you've been punked!' but it never happened. I looked back at the door and stuck my head out. It was the same door that we came in but there was a forest instead of a desert.
"You have got to be kidding me" I said and walked out towards the interesting animal. It was like a mix between a bunny and a cat. It was weird but cute. I reached out to pet it but it hopped away. I laughed and almost screamed when a head came down larger than life and ate leaves from a tree. I stood and looked at the reptile type of creature. "Is that a fucking Dinosaur?"
"What?" Piper yelled back confused. She came outside and screamed before running back in. "Katie, get in, it could be a meat eater!"
"I don't think so! Come here, live a little!"
"I want to live more than a little!" she argued. I sighed and reached towards the extinct animal. Well it isn't extinct now is it, Jesus. "It's kind of adorable" Piper said next to me. I jumped alarmed and she laughed. She put her hand on the neck and patted it gently.
"What does it feel like?" I asked.
"Like skin, now put your hand on it, you told me to live a little, live a lot" she said. I sighed, since when was she the adventurous one. I pet the dinosaur and there was a screeching noise. I jumped back with Piper and we looked above to see a large flying animal, it had wings and feathers, but it was not a dinosaur. It was an abnormally large bird.
"Jesus" Piper whispered. I laughed.
"We found it, can we name it?" I asked. She laughed.
"Pitie or Kaper" she said. I laughed.
"Kaper sound better" I said. She nodded in agreement.
"This is all real, oh my god, we're touching a living dinosaur!" she said and laughed in delight.
"It's amazing" I whispered. I then realized something. Our families.
"What about your dad? my dad? your sister and brother?" I asked. She looked at me with wide eyes.
"Oh god, dad!" she said and ran back in the DELTA thing. I followed her and once we were in the door shut. Piper pulled out her phone and dialed in a number.
"How do you have service? We're in the Triassic period!"
"Shut up" she scowled at me and I laughed.
"Dad! No matter what anyone says, I'm alright, I swear, I just have to go into hiding!" she lied. "For a while, I don't know how long but Katie is with me and I'm safe, there are people after me, don't call, they could track me, I love you and everyone" she hung up and I looked at her.
"That's way too dramatic, anyways, the only person I have is my dad and he won't even notice I'm gone" I shrugged and went back to the door. I tried to open the door but it was stuck again. "Great" I sighed. "Well, we could be here a while, lets make ourselves at home"
"We don't have anything but what's in our purses and one pair of clothes" Piper said.
"We could buy some when we get somewhere near our time" I suggested.
"And how long will that be?" she asked. I shrugged.
"We don't exactly have a schedule in here anywhere" I said. She gave me a look and I laughed. I walked around and found a perfect bedroom for me and I looked in the drawers on instinct and found clothes, perfect clothes for me.
"Pipes!" I yelled.
"Did you see the clothes too?!" she yelled back. I laughed.
"This is great" I said.
"Hello?!" someone yelled through the house. I stopped dead in my tracks and Piper snuck in my room.
"Maybe they're from our time" she said. I looked at her and we both ran off to the front room where the door was closed and three people stood looking around. Two guys and a girl looked around. The girl had blonde curly hair and grey eyes, she was tan and athletic looking, not to mention taller than me. The first boy had blonde hair and it was shorter and electric eyes, he was tall too. The last caught my attention, curly brown hair that looked as soft as clouds, blue eyes, like the summer sky on a perfect day. He was taller than both of them and thin, where the other boy was broader he was scrawny in the way where he still had muscles and was in shape but not built as much as he could be.
"Who are you?" Piper asked. I stood next to her and I studied all of the people standing in the living room.
"What's Delta?" the blonde girl asked. I stepped forwards.
"Government operation, it's a time machine" I said. "What are your names? How did you get in here, where did you get in here?"
"Time machine?" the brunette boy asked.
"Yes, no answer her questions" Piper said.
"I'm Jason, That's Annabeth and Travis, we walked in here when we got lost in a storm in the mountains, in Colorado" the blonde boy, Jason, said. I looked at Piper.
"That's hundreds of miles away" I said. She nodded.
"But when did they come in?" she asked. We looked at the trio.
"What's the date?" I asked them.
"March 31st 2015" Annabeth said.
"That's a month before we came here" I said.
"Wasn't there a thing on the news about three college students who got lost in the Colorado mountains in April?" she asked. I looked at them.
"Oh god, that's where they went, of course that's why they never found bodies" I looked at them.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Travis asked.
"You three are from our past, you disappeared and they found no bodies, you're assumed dead, I'm so sorry" Piper said with sympathy.
"What the hell are you two talking about, are you crazy?!" Travis yelled. I nodded to the door.
"Open it, just try" I said. He walked to the door and tried to open it, then Jason, then Annabeth.
"What did you do?" Annabeth asked.
"We didn't do it, you guys are stuck here, with us, the next time we land somewhere, you'll understand us, god, we just pet dinosaurs!" I laughed and Piper looked at me with a smile.
"We did didn't we, oh my god we're the first humans in history to touch an actual dinosaur" she laughed and I hugged her.
"What the hell is wrong in your minds!" Jason said.
"Is this what happened to Amelia Earhart?" I asked. Piper smiled.
"Maybe!" she laughed.
"We could meet Queen Victoria!" I said. Piper grinned and I ran to my room and I jumped on my bed and laughed. "Wait! We have to show them their rooms!"
"I'm on it!" Piper yelled back to me. I ran back out and laughed in joy. I don't know why I was so happy but this would be amazing, traveling the world, all of time. I opened a door and Travis looked inside and walked in.
"I love it" he said. "But that still doesn't explain why we're stuck here"
"I have no clue!" I grinned and jumped away. I found Piper and we laughed at the ridiculousness of this all.
"We could meet hot guys who actually would give a damn about us!" Piper said. I laughed and the door burst open to two boys.
"Right, let's explain this to them again" I said and we stood in front of the boys.
"I'm Piper and this is Katie and this is the Delta, a time machine"