Title: Here's Looking At You, Kate
Author: gega cai
Pairings: John Connor/Kate Connor
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: John takes notice of his wife, Kate.
Disclaimer: Characters and other likely inventive scenarios based on the world created by James Cameron, William Wisher Jr., and Michael Ferris (?)
Author's Note: Flash fiction/character study of Kate
Here's Looking At You, Kate
by gega cai
"John, hand me those cartridges," Katherine said, breaking the silence while they worked. John Connor, without hesitation, reached over a carefully lined stack of pulse rifles and grabbed the two remaining cartridges for the rifle Katherine was working with. He turned to hand her the cartridges when he paused to notice his wife. After so many years of fighting the machines with as much absolution as he had, she still amazed him. To look at her was to see the will of humanity personified.
She was different yet very much the same from when John had first met her. It took a specific type of person to be in the company of a Connor for so long. In fact, Katherine had been around the longest. John's mother, Sarah, had painted a twisted and bleak picture of John's future. While Katherine was not his mother, she was a lot like Sarah. To be snatched away from everything you knew to be normal or sane and asked to do what seemed impossible was something that the three of them had in common.
Katherine, like his mother, fought the idea of such a future but eventually mourned the past and accepted the future with an unyielding determination to meet it head on. It was when Katherine accepted the fate of the future that she was no longer Katherine Brewster. She became John's friend and eventually became Kate Connor, his wife.
"John, you're doing it again," she smiled as he broke away from staring at her.
"Here," he ignored her playful look. She took the cartridges and slid them into the pulse rifle in a single, effortless motion. John looked over the weaponry and nodded. "Looks good. I think you may be better at salvaging these things than I am now."
"No, only you know these things like no one else. I'll finish up here. You're going to be late. They panic when you are late."
"Will you be here when I return?"
"I'll be here."