Timeless

Entry #7

Location: Puente Antiguo, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Date: July 04, 2011

"Can I turn on the radio?"

Darcy's utterly bored voice actually had Kara agreeing with her, albeit internally – she wouldn't say it out loud, since she didn't want Jane chewing her head off.

"No." Jane retorted in annoyance.

She and Erik were standing in the van, watching the sky, while Kara was seated on the roof of the vehicle as they waited for the next occurrence which she and Jane had predicted would take place that night.

"Wait for it..." Jane muttered when Erik shot her a distrustful glance.

"Jane, you can't keep doing this."

"The last seventeen occurrences have been predicted down to the second." she retorted, sitting back down and scouring through her notes.

"Jane... you're an astrophysicist, not some storm chaser."

"I'm telling you, there's a connection between these atmospheric disturbances and my research."

When the male looked up to Kara, seeking back up in his attempt to dissuade the young Doctor, the girl shook her head.

"We're not crazy, Erik... everything happened by a set pattern until now."

At those last words she raised her worried gaze to the starry sky inwardly praying that something... anything... would happen to prove that she and Jane weren't making it all up.

"Erik I wouldn't have asked you to fly out here, if I wasn't absolutely sure." Jane insisted.

"Jane..." Kara suddenly said, knocking on the van rooftop. "Come look at this..."

Alerted by the urgency in her tone, the scientist and her mentor both averted their eyes back to the sky which was now lit in wavy shades of green.

"I thought you said it was a subtle aurora..." Erik retorted, when they realized that the lights were taking shape and converging toward the ground not far from their current location.

"It was..." Kara replied, staring in shock at the unusual occurrence. "Up till now..."

In a sudden bout of frenzy, Jane practically threw herself into the seat next to Darcy who was their unofficial driver, while Kara leapt inside the van just when the young girl started the engine.

"Go!" Jane shouted, retrieving her camera to film the storm. "Get closer..."

"Right, good one." Darcy retorted ironically.

"Go!"

Upon approaching, however, the vortex hit the ground causing a massive sandstorm much like a tornado.

"Jane...? I think this is close enough..." Kara said, hoping the young woman hadn't actually lost her mind.

What's more, she didn't fancy revealing her abilities to them, although if it came to the need to save their lives, she would have to.

"I am not dying for six college credits!" Darcy shouted, trying to steer the van clear of the whirlwind.

"What are you doing?" Jane retorted, grabbing the wheel and fighting with Darcy over it, trying to drive the van straight into the storm.

"Jane, let go of the wheel!" Kara finally shouted out. "You'll get us all killed!"

Their quarrel came to an abrupt end, however, when they drove into the storm and suddenly ran a guy over. The first to recover from the shock was Kara who jumped out of the van, now that the storm was dying out, rushing over to the man lying on the sand.