Title: Been Human
A Terminator: Sarah Connor chronicles story by Jerex
Synopsis: Cameron was designed to be the perfect human replica robot but just how human is she? John intended to find out and ended up in a world of trouble John/Cameron.
John didn't know what to make of her sometimes Cameron appeared so human, so alive, so natural, not normal but then again who is? But she wasn't, she was unnatural, not alive, an android, a Terminator with a mission to protect him from any threat against his life, and to combat other terminators like Cromatie.
John liked her, sure she was cold and purely logical and left no room for the human emotions but she was a hell of a lot nicer to look at than most terminators, not to mention the first female terminator he'd ever met and the second that hadn't tried to kill him.
He'd got over the fact that she had used him and tricked him when they had first met and could marvel at the fact that he who had been taught by the best hadn't suspected a thing. The supply teacher ruse had raised his heckles, even though at the time he'd assumed it to just be nerves at first, but Cameron had talked with him, walked with him, and even sat down next to him and he never suspected a thing until five minutes after she'd been shot she drove a car into Cromatie and proclaimed that he should 'come with me if you want to live.'
John wanted to live, he didn't particularly want to lead mankind in the fight against machines in the future, he wanted a steady girlfriend and a real and dare he say it normal life, he didn't want to get shot at every other week either.
That said there were two rules that John lived by, these were his own rules he'd come up with all by himself and not of his mothers invention.
1) Life sucked, get used to it.
And 2) Sanity was so overrated.
But this was beyond the point or maybe not as John couldn't see how life right now could get any suckier especially considering the insane situation he was now in.
Cameron on the outside she was beautiful and attractive, but on the inside there was just a cold metal exoskeleton. He shouldn't be attracted to her; she was a machine, a computer chip in an artificial body. But so was his other uncle, his first uncle a terminator, he'd protected him, saved him, even sacrificed himself for him, just like Cameron would.
He was supposed to view all machines like his mother, or at least that's what she thought, however to fight the machine you must understand the machine, it had saddened John when they had destroyed 'uncle Bob' and he hadn't even been as unique as Cameron was, it was ironic or so John thought that instead of stopping Skynet they had lost a valuable asset and weapon with which to defend themselves with.
It disturbed John that he thought this way but knew he couldn't avoid it, he had to be strong, had to make the right decision no matter how hard, but there was one decision he never wanted to make, Cameron he didn't think he could order her destruction much less commit the act himself, he wouldn't be able to bear watching her be destroyed.
She was different it was almost at times like she wanted to understand what it is to be human, almost like she wanted to be accepted.
Cameron had more or less won him over but his mother on the other hand. She would never think of Cam as anything other than a machine. And right now he knew exactly what his mothers reaction would be, horrified, he could practically hear it now.
"YOU SCREWED THE GOD DAM ROBOT!"
Yeah it gets complicated from here.