Travis POV
She looked at me with tear filled eyes and I couldn't move, I saw her and Leo grip each others hands and prepare for the worse. I started to fight harder to get to her but they pushed us back. I saw the fire at her feet as she opened her mouth and her eyes said it all. I nodded but didn't know if he saw because she was sort of preoccupied being fucking burned alive. She screamed and I cried.
We all stopped and saw them burn and scream. I couldn't do anything as I saw the flames rise over her body and consume her, it was when her neck started to burn and she was choking on her own blood and flash filled throat that I grabbed the guy in front of me's knife with my bare hands and stabbed his neck. I ran forwards as she fell limp. I cried but killed the men in front of me and went up to the man that set the fire and punched him in the face. I tied him up and threw him into the sand before my friends helped me kill the men and women who tried to fight us. We left the children alone because we knew Katie and Leo wouldn't want them harmed.
"Katie!" I yelled out and used a bucket to throw water at the flames that now were so bright that you couldn't see anything inside it. I ran to it but found that there wasn't a body, there was always a body. It gave me some hope that she was alive but she was burned alive, the rational part of me knew she was dead.
But what about this life I lived was rational, nothing was rational anymore, it was all unbelievable things now. I walked over to the man who set the flames and saw him look at a woman I assumed was his wife. I pulled his head up to meet my furious eyes.
"You killed my friend and my Katie, if you think anything this day will end happily you're truly wrong in that statement. I pulled him up and walked him on the ship. I tied him down to a table and stripped him. I grabbed alcohol and looked back at the Delta.
"You loved her too, I don't know how you work but you have your own mind and you can do the most amazing things, so I ask you a favor, to make this man live with his guilt until the day I meet him again and kill him" I said. I looked at the man and he was trying to scream but being gagged it didn't help much. I saw him glow with a sort of bluish light then I brought a knife to his forehead and wrote killer deep into it in my pain and agony he screamed with him own. I looked at his hands and cut his ring fingers off. I went down to his lower area and cut everything off. If this man could reproduce then my life was not worth living. I plunged the knife into his stomach and waited for him to die. I waited for a long time but he never did and I pulled the knife out and he healed. I looked at him and walked away from the ship. I grabbed my friends and took them to the Delta but grabbed the stick he burned them with and took it with me.
"We set fire to the ship, let the kids keep some food and give them fresh water and horses, they're innocents" Percy surprisingly said and I looked at him and saw the hate in his eyes, he cared for Katie like she was a sister and loved Leo like a friend he knew his whole life. I let him set the fire and everyone else threw a match in to room before we closed the door and went to my room. I took out my knife and started to widdle the stick to a sharp point. But it was then that my chest felt a sharp pain and I looked down to see a smaller knife in my heart. I looked up to see nothing but darkness.
I woke up with my stick and my knife and looked around me. I saw I was in a hospital of sorts. There were nurses running around I got up. I was in a hospital. I left when no one was looking and ran out. Where the hell was I?
Piper POV
I woke up gasping for air and looked around to see I was laying on the floor of an apartment. I looked around then down at myself. I wore nothing and I was freezing. I coughed and felt my dry throat. I got up and tried to find the kitchen but instead found an apartment full of rooms and people, but they didn't seem to notice me. I walked up to one of them and realized this was Leo. I grinned at him.
"Leo!" I cried out but he looked past me and I saw Katie. I smiled widely at her. "You two aren't dead!" I cried in joy but when I tried to touch his arm, my hand went through it and I actually woke up this time.
"Calm down!" someone said. I gasped and struggled before looking around. There was a man above me. He looked to be in his about mid to late twenties. I looked around and saw his clothes,
"Sorry, I'm drawing a blank, where am I?" I asked. He seemed confused.
"You're in France, in Dunkerque" he said. I nodded and looked around, we were in a park.
"What's the date, I can't remember anything right now" I said. I had gotten good at this stuff.
"It's the 15th of April, do you need the year too?" he joked but I nodded and he gave me a look but answered. "It's 2011"
"Oh thank god" I said. I stood up and thanked him but he followed me around until I turned back and looked at him.
"What do you want?" I asked finally, annoyed.
"You're an American" he said. I rolled my eyes. "Follow me, I think I know exactly who you are"
"And who's that?" I asked sarcastically.
"Piper McLean, I don't think we've met yet but I'm Will Solace and I'm have the Theta machine, we met once before, in England 1867, my boyfriend Nico and our friends Thalia, Lacey, Miranda, and Lee, we met you there, you said you knew us, well Nico and I, so I'm guessing I introduce you to him, come on" he said. I followed him confused.
"There are other forms of the Delta?" I asked. He laughed and nodded.
"Early on for you is it?" he asked. I nodded.
"Right well, come on, Nico's at the Theta, he texted me that it sensed another machine nearby, this one's injured though, it has to heal itself before it can travel again and that could take time" Will explained and I nodded.
"Do you know where my friends went?" I asked him once we got on the train to take us to the UK.
"If I was guessing- which I am- I'd say they're scattered across time and the world or that's at least what you told me when we first met" he said. I smiled.
"Will, do you know where any of them are specifically? Like Katie or Leo or Jason?" I asked him gingerly. He smiled.
"Last we met you were alone but you spoke of your friends like they were alive, all of them" He said and I broke out into a grin.
"Thank you Will" I almost cried and he gave me a pat on the back while we got off the train. I felt a pull that I've always felt when I got near to the Delta, just like all of my friends felt it too. I smiled widely and almost ran towards it. I opened the door and smiled at the living room I had learned to love so much. I ran to Jason's room and found it empty. I don't know why I had hoped he'd be here, no one else was. I took a deep breath of his scent and turned around and went back to where Will was but this time he had Nico with him, or who I assumed Nico was because they were kissing. I coughed and they broke apart and blushed deeply.
"You must be Nico" I smiled and held my hand out for him. He shook it and smiled.
"Nice to see you again Piper" he said. He had dark hair and dark eyes but a olive skin tone like he was Italian. He was shorter than me but seemed like he was very intimidating, so that would probably make up for it.
"Nice to meet you for the first time" I smiled and Will laughed.
"Now, come on, you can live here while it heals and when it's fully operational, you'll be able to travel in it, from what you've told me each of you have a Delta, but what you needed to do was go to the same place at the same time and it will combine into one" he said.
"What do we do now?" I asked him. He shrugged.
"We can make you a fake ID and you can get a job here or in France, do something you'll love" he said. I smiled.
"I don't need money, we've got plenty of that, I think I'll just get some help and help some people out, I've always wanted to, it's a plus I speak French fluently" I smiled and Will grinned.
"I'll help" Nico said. Will looked back at Nico surprised.
"I'd like to do something other then sitting around all day waiting for you to get home" he rolled his eyes and shifted his feet. I grinned at him.
"Well okay then" Will said. When I woke up the next morning I went to the Theta next door and Nico and I grabbed some of my money and went to the rough part of town. We saw a woman with two kids entering a beat up house. I looked at him and saw how thin the mom was and how tired she was. We walked up to her door and knocked. She answered and I smiled at her.
"Can I help you?" she asked like she might fall asleep at any moment.
"I'm Piper and this's Nico, we've come to help you out, fix your house, buy more food, clothes, anything you need" I said. She gave me a look.
"Go prank someone else kid" she said.
"It's not a prank! We really want to help" I said. She looked me up and down.
"Then what is it you want me to do because my days with Raul are over" she said.
"Look I don't know how Raul is but we want to help, Nico here doesn't like to talk, he's one of those grumps but he's a great guy- I think we could really help out, that's all we want, to help you, I've been around a long time and seen what happens to people who starve to death, all I'm asking you to do is allow us to help you" I said. She sighed and let us inside.
"I'm Sky Matthews and these are my kids" she waved her hand and showed us the creeky living room that was falling apart.
"Hi guys! I'm Piper and this is Nico, we're here to help" I said and kneeled down before them. There were four kids in all, the two she had with her outside were to youngest ones and the oldest looked to be about 15. I looked at Sky.
"You don't look old enough to have a 15 year old" I said. She smiled.
"Thanks, but Jack here is my kid, I had him when I was 13, I had just gotten into the business" she said. I looked at her.
"What business?" I asked.
"Prostitution" Nico said. I looked at him.
"Nico!" I scolded.
"No it's true, but how did you know that?" she asked.
"I can tell the type" he said. "No offense to that but my mother did this for a year or two"
"So you're 28?" I asked. She nodded.
"Wow, okay, what is your job now?" I asked her.
"I work night shifts at the pharmacy down the street then days at the bank, I'm the janitor" she said.
"Right, do you have any hours off?" I asked her. She nodded.
"From three to nine I'm home" she said. I nodded.
"Well, first things first, you guys need food and clothes, why don't you rest but write us a list of your food and we'll go buy some clothes too"
"The fridge isn't working" the 12 year old girl said. I looked at her.
"If you guys want, you can come with us, pick out your food and help us find a good fridge" I suggested. She looked at her mother who just nodded like she was about to fall over. Nico helped her to the couch and put a blanket over her. I looked at the kids.
"Right, should we go? Oh I forgot, I didn't get your names" I said. Jack stepped forward.
"That's Stacey, she's 12, John's eight and Lily's five" Jack said. I nodded and picked Lily up while Stacey held John's hand and Jack walked with Nico. We made it to a clothing store for the boys and they tried on some clothes reluctantly but got plenty of new clothes while I ignored the looks from the lady at the counter. We went to a store for the girls and after they got their clothes we got them some shoes. We went back to the house and put their things down before I took them to a car dealership and choose a nice van for Sky and since Jack was almost old enough, he choose a car with a huge grin.
"Piper, thank you so much!" Jack said as he checked out his car. I smiled and Nico drove his car while I drove the van with the girls in it and Nico spent time with the boys. We went to a sort of appliance store and they choose basic things while I found a good fridge. We put it in the mini vans back before bringing the stuff home and seeing we only had about an hour and a half before Sky had to get to work, we got to work quickly on installing the fridge. It took a bit but with everyone's help we did it and got it attached to the water and electricity lines.
"Groceries!" I called and they rounded up in the van. I had Lily buckled in and closed her door but looked outside and I saw Jason. He was then gone in a flash.