Katie POV
I grabbed Jason's hand and turned him around while we ran away from the bomb. It was 1916 and we had just landed in the middle of a bombing. Percy and Leo were in front of us and they carried Annabeth and Piper, who were knocked out from the impact of the bomb, they didn't have any shrapnel in anywhere important so they were safe, Travis dragged Calypso along with him behind us. I jumped over a pressure plate thing and we ran into the woods. I took a deep breath as we made it to a sort of cave, we had lost everyone else, it was just Jason and I.
"Katie, where did Piper and Leo go?" he asked about his best friends. I took another deep breath and shivered at the damp and cold winter air. I was just in shorts and a fuzzy sweatshirt that I slept in. I was woken up by the bombs blasting Piper and Annabeth back. I looked at Jason who wore nothing but plaid pajama pants. I saw him shiver too and I leaned on him.
"We need to keep warm" I said and he nodded. He pulled me close to his chest and embraced my warmth. I laughed and he hugged my body close to his own cold one. We were like that for a bit until we heard movement in front of the cave. He jolted us up and he picked me up since I was almost pretty much asleep and he carried me while I was on the border of falling asleep. He walked us towards the noises and we found Calypso and Travis walking around. They saw us and Calypso smiled while Travis looked at me.
"Is she okay?" he asked. I smiled and made my eyes open up wider.
"Perfect, he's so warm" I smiled and snuggled into Jason. Jason laughed and gave me to Travis who was warmer and I relaxed in his arms and turned my head so my bare cheek was on his forearm and I felt right.
"Do you have any idea where everyone else is?" Calypso asked. I leaned my head in the pit of his elbow and feel into a deep sleep. I woke up to dirt ground. My head hurt and I groaned. I was picked up again and was held close to someone's chest as he ran. I looked up at Travis and he didn't notice.
"What's going on?" I asked. He kept running but glanced at me.
"Um, Germans are shooting at us, we have to get away, we've lost Jason and Calypso, we're going to the Delta" he said and jumped. I was dropped and saw Travis was bleeding out of his upper leg. He hissed but I got up and pulled him over to a sheltered area.
"Keep pressure on that" I said and he nodded.
"Don't get yourself hurt" he said. I smiled and ran towards the Germans. I dodged bullets but got grazed on my arms and legs a few times. I kicked one in the face, took his guns then shot at the rest. I threw a grenade- which exploded and killed the rest of the men. I looked at the guy I knocked out and left him before hurrying back to Travis. I was in pain all over my body thanks to the grazes but I helped Travis up and walked us towards the Delta where I put him on the floor and looked at his leg. The bullet didn't break the bone. I pulled it out to his pained face but I didn't know what to do after that.
"Katie, pour some alcohol in it to clean it then-" Travis went on to tell me how to heal it and I did. I then took a look at my arms. There were two on my right arm and one on my left. Two were on my left leg and none on my right. I cleaned them and put cloth bandages over them until the bleeding stopped.
"Piper's been shot!" Percy ran into the room with men coming behind him. I took out my gun and shot them before Travis closed the door. Percy cleared off a table and put Piper on it. Travis stood on his good leg and looked at her stomach.
"Guys, it's bad, we need an actual doctor" he said. I looked at the door and so did everyone else. I opened it and saw a hospital. We carried her inside and they brought her in for surgery. We waited and I paced next to Percy and Travis.
"What about Annabeth, Calypso, Jason, and Leo?" I asked.
"We just have to hope we can make it back to them" Percy said. He ran a hand through his hair. He left Annabeth behind, this must be killing him.
"Percy" I walked up to him. He clenched his jaw and looked at the ground. "They will be alright, what if they got to the Delta too?"
"We got to it first" Travis said. I grabbed Percy's shoulders and led him to a seat.
"Yeah, but you two managed to get into the Delta at different times, what if they got in but at a different time, the Delta doesn't leave anyone behind, we all know that" I said. Percy nodded and sighed.
"I hope she's okay" he said.
"Annabeth's tough, she's probably taking care of everyone else" I smiled at him.
"No, I know she's fine, Annabeth can survive hell and come back- it's Piper, she was shot bad" he said. I nodded.
"She's going to be okay" Travis said. I looked at him and he stood next to me.
"Family of Piper Grace?" the lady asked. I looked over at Percy and Travis.
"Grace?" I asked but we walked over anyways.
"I'm sorry, there must be some mistake, her last name is McLean" I said. The woman smiled and shook her head.
"No, we looked in her records, she's married to a Jason Grace" she said. I looked back at the guys and they returned my confused look. "I can take you to her now"
"Thank you" Travis said and put an arm around my shoulder to guide me forwards.
"Piper and Jason get married?" I whispered to Travis and looked on my other side at Percy. He shrugs
"I guess" Percy said.
"We shouldn't tell her, she might feel pressured" I said.
"For now we won't" Travis said and we walked in her room. She was sleeping in the bed.
"Nothing was badly damaged, she should be able to leave when she wakes up, but she'll need assistance, who here is her husband?" she asked.
"He's in France" Percy said. "We're her friends"
"Alright" she said and left.
"We need to wake her up and get her out right now, we need to go and find everyone else" Travis said. I leaned down and shook her arm, careful not to hurt her. She opened her eyes and smiled at me.
"Katie, where are we?" she asked. I smiled at her and we pulled the wheelchair over. We helped her on it and casually but quickly rolled her towards the Delta. We got her in and carried her to her room where she fell asleep. I pushed the wheelchair out with her hospital dress on the seat, folded. I closed the door and walked over to the living room where Percy and Travis sat.
"How are we going to find them?" Percy asked. I took a deep breath.
"We can't control where the Delta goes, we just have to trust we'll see them again" I said.
"Yeah, but they could be stuck in world war one, hurt" Percy said.
"Well, obviously we find them again because Piper and Jason get married" Travis said. I took a deep breath and Percy put his head in his hands.
"What about that thing saying that history can be rewritten, what if what we do changes things?" Percy said.
"Well, we can't really prove that" I said.
"We could, look yourself up on a computer, when there's a picture of the four of us, then we'll know" Travis said. I smiled.
"Like that'll work" I scoffed.
"Try it" Percy said. I sighed and typed in our names. I went to look at pictures and saw there was a whole website dedicated to us. I clicked it and found a whole conspiracy theory. They said we were time travelers, they had pictures of us from some of the first to very recent ones. There was a photo of the four of us further down the top article, us in 1924 New York City. I laughed at my dress, I was a flapper!
"Jesus, this is amazing, they talk about our travels like they're fact, there are people saying they've met us, old men and women, young kids and written historical records even saying that I delivered Queen Victoria's baby. Of course the British parliament says that it was a distant ancestor and didn't really comment much on it.
"I think this suggests that history is written in stone" I said. I closed the tab and heard their protests. "Hey, if we know our future before we actually do it, it could make us insane"
"I hate it when she's right" Percy said. He and Travis stalked off and I just shook my head amused. I relaxed on the couch and read a book my sister told me was good, Inferno by the same guy who wrote the Da Vinci code. Hello Robert Langdon, maybe I'll meet Jesus and Mary.
I got to chapter five before I heard shuffling. I got up and found Travis, looking bone dead coming out of his room. He went to the kitchen and made himself a sandwich. I laughed and then he turned around and looked at me in surprise.
"Do this a lot?" I asked. He gave me the finger and went back to his bedroom with his sandwich firmly in hand. I laughed and went to my room. I went in the shower. Whenever I had to think I went to my shower, I loved it, it was one of my happy places. At my house, the bathroom was the only door with a lock so I would lock my self in and just enjoy the peace, I got a lot of it since my dad was never around, but I never felt fully at peace unless I was in there. I felt my knees go weak and I fell on my butt to the ground. I let the warm water wash over my legs and I smiled.
"Just like home" I said. I leaned back and looked at the foggy ceiling. There was a knock on my bathroom door.
"Katie? You alright? I heard a thump" It was Percy. I laughed and pulled my knees to my chest to cover everything.
"Percy, come in" I said. I heard shuffles outside and I knew he was with Travis or Piper or both.
"We aren't very comfortable with that" Percy said. I smiled.
"Just come in, all of you" I said and Piper opened the door and smiled at me. She sat on the counter while Travis sat on the closed toilet seat and observed me. I had everything covered up but he could still see my legs and bare sides. Percy stood awkwardly leaning against the wall. I sighed.
"I think it just really sunk in- I've killed people" I whispered. Piper looked at me and so did Percy, they haven't killed, not like Travis and I, where it's cold hearted.
"I'll leave you to talk about that with Travis, I think Percy's a little uncomfortable" Piper said and pulled him out. I chuckled and Travis looked at me.
"It gets easier, I promise" he said.
"I don't want to have to do it again, we're humans, not god, we can't pick who lives and who dies" I said.
"But doesn't god plan out our future, doesn't he pave our path, if we kill its because he wanted us to" Travis argued. I sighed.
"I don't know" I said in a frustrated tone. Travis threw me a towel and stripped down to his underwear then came in the shower. I pulled the towel over me and around. He put his feet under the warm water.
"This is really comfortable" he commented and I smiled.
"I know"
"Why do you do this?" he asked. Gesturing to the sitting down with the shower on.
"It lets me think" I shrugged. He nodded.
"When I have to think, you know what I do?" he asked. I shook my head. "I don't do anything, thinking makes me second guess my instincts"
"They teach you that at the FBI academy?" I teased. He smiled.
"No, my mom taught me that" he said. We sat there until I fell asleep in a curled up position in the corner and him leaning against the glass door.