My First TSCC fic hope you peeps like it and looking forward to reviews, advice and annotations can also be posted.
Set just after Self Made Man, haven't quite thought it through yet but we shall see!
8 o'clock. I mere boring quiet night so far, Kind of sad really..Being 17, you'd look at the teens your age enjoying themselves to every corner of the year, groups and groups going out to parks, theme attractions, and night clubs. Teenagers like ourselves getting completely hammered, blavverd, munted, waking up in some dark ally or your own bed with a sweet ass looking girl or 2, ooh yeah now that's the shit when it comes to a teenage life. John Conner. Completely secluded, isolated from that kind of life. He has his own fantastic life, he's going to be mankind's last hope, The 1 man who builds a resistance army from a mere rally or 'come on lads, let's have 'em' sort of speech. Whoever thought that one person could have the heart stand against Skynet, A computer AI system built to protect its country and to destroy all who would oppose it. Real hard to believe..especially at this time but then again you do have a few machines to avoid that want to rip the wind pipe out your throat or crush the brains cells out your head and let's not forget the couple that come to protect you the exact same 'race' or origin (if you will) that have been reprogrammed to aid in your existence. His Mother, Sarah Conner also protects him from those terminators also social life not that John even knows what they really are..But still.
John's been thinking again. Thinking about if he could actually 1 day just 'poof' from this life and just literally disappear and find his own. His own home, life, routine and just leave behind all that's kept him from being 'normal' . What does it feel like to be normal? Well that's simple really.....Well that is something he has to find out for himself. To be honest it kind of scared him at first. Riley, his girlfriend, the one and only person who seems to actually make him happy and give him a strong sense of being normal rung him last night. She asked him to come for her. So what did John do? Within a heartbeat he was already driving to her location, which led him to some dude's house gathering or party whichever. He went in looking for Riley only to find sooo many people his age or maybe even alil younger, Boozing, drinking, smoking cannabis with bliss, Was that being normal? Must be. Felt good actually. But He was just there for Riley and he left once they found each other or rather they ran off when John smacked the shit out of the host for trying to flirt with his girl.
Enough thinking, John. That will do, for now....
'tik' 'tick' 'tick' The Tv went as he flicked through the channels. Nothing decent on. Just adverts about how good life is and how to protect the planet for the future or something daft like that. They have no idea what's coming, if only – 'tick'
The Simpsons. 'Wow' John thought, he flicked it on a different channel to find the Simpsons in some sort of deserted theme park. 'Oh for Christ's sake, what now?' Marge said as the street lights shut off. Stomping was then to be heard as a group of metallic Itchy & Scratchy machines marched behind them, Coming to a stop just behind the Simpson family, they turned their heads and bodies at the same time, red eyes glinted as they spotted the Simpson family. John really wasn't in the mood for this but kept on watching.
He felt a presence, though a very familiar, cold, empty feeling in the back of his chest. He turned his head to see her or rather It, sat on the other side of the furnisher. Cameron. Cameron Philips. John's protector (sort of), a very unique terminator infiltrator unit, Masked a figure of a pretty young 17-19 year old girl, a fit slender and most gorgeous body he's ever encountered in his life...and probably the only one he's ever seen, well he has seen them on TV alot, though he rather not mention, he has got a girlfriend after all can't be going on about stuff like that. That could upset people. He takes in her form. She just sat, curled in a ball almost, her back against the furnisher comfatbley, her arm resting laid out on the arm chair. Comfatbley, peacefully. Her face, almost looking half asleep and relaxed. Why? John thought, Why put effort in blending in when everybody in this house knows what you are? Why try and look human when you clearly aren't, when you're just nothing but pure metal, wires, cogs and bolts. John merely sighed and turned his back towards the TV, watching as the Simpsons took on the Itchy & Scratchy terminat- robots! Robots...Seriously that's how bad things can be sometimes, it can really dig deep in your thoughts to say you want 'out' of it all.
'Die mad robots, Die' Homer shouted as he climbed out the pile of robots that were too damaged too move due to flash photography. A chuckle came from John 'If only it was that easy' he said. 'tick' 'tick' 'tick' back to flicking through all 360 channels again waiting for something ironic to criticize. He turned to Cameron again to see if she tried to look more human to impress him. Nope. No movement no change in face expression – oh wait..she's running her finger through her feet gently. 'tick' tick' ..Wait-what? He turned to her again. Well this is new John thought. There she was sat comfortably tickling her feet slowly and gently, soo human the way she does it.
'W-what are you doing?' he asked slightly shaking his head, eyes narrowing.
She turned to look at him, head tilted and an expression that looked 'what's it like look' type. 'Tickling my feet' she said simply.
Okay...'Why' He said back. 'Part of a diagnostic'? He asked her, almost jokingly.
'No..of course not' she said almost dumbstruck. 'I like it. The feel of it, it feels nice and relaxing' she continued as she whirled her finger round the center of her foot.
This puzzled John but it reminded him when she stuck her foot out the car window while he driven. 'I have sensations, I feel' She once said. He fogged the flashback. She can't feel.
'Do you like it' she asked as she moved her finger to her other foot, running it along the same way she did with the other.
'What, tickling my feet?' This part of her mission or something? Then again she did ask alot of random questions.
She nodded. Her docile eyes looking right into his.
'Well, can't really say. Don't have time to tickle my feet and relax' as he shifted slightly, crossed his arms 'can be alil hard considering I have Skynet hunting me down among other things' He wanted this conversation to end, He wasn't really interested in talking to Cameron anymore. Ever since that day, His 17th birthday. Things took a real turning point which led to another. 'tick' 'tick' A woman appeared on the screen dressed in a white suit, her skin almost a pale white and her dark reddish shoulder length hair stood out clearly and nothing but a plain white background behind her. 'Your future, Its in our hands' she said with a empty smile. 'tick' 'tick'
Cameron looked at her feet, still running her finger along. She used two fingers and run the tip of her nails along her foot this time. Her foot jerked slightly, her mouth opened slightly, looked amazed by what just happened. Why did her foot twitch, what made it move when she didn't even want it to move? John will know, John teaches her things, emotions, how people grieve and about birthdays.
She called his name, almost demanding his full attention.
'Yes' He responded sounding a little agitated.
'Look' she said back. His head turned to her. She ran her two fingers along her foot exactly the same way she did before and as expected her foot jerked slightly. 'Why does this mean?' she asked, looking eager and determined to absorb his answer into her detailed data files.
John looked abit bathed by kept his calm head and not wanting to show any interest, he gave her an answer anyway. 'Well usually when people do that it means their ticklish'.
'Ticklish?' Obviously she didn't quite understand.
'Ticklish is when a person gets prodded or tickled their body kind of reacts to it. People can be ticklish at different places like their feet, hips or neck' He explained as Cameron took in his every word, recording the information and filing it under some Skynet symbol code. He carried on. 'When it happens it can make people laugh or tense up can even make them cry depending how ticklish they are and how long their being tickled.
Cameron, silent after five seconds he finished.
Oh, here we go, wait for it, wait for it, John thought as he saw her head tilt.
'Thank you for explaining' She said with a smile. Hm..The same smile she wore when they first met, John cherished that memory, even though he found out she was a terminator the next day it was one of the reasons why he cared for her so much.
'Your welcome' he said back nodding and turning his head back towards the TV. 'Tick' 'Tick' He could still see her at the corner of his eye, still looking at him, smiling.
John looked at the time, 9:30pm. My time really DOES go fast when you're having complete utter fun. He sighed, shouldn't he be out at some disco, with a group of friends pulling every girl you see on the dance floor? No, Noo John stick with your guns, You have a over-caring mother an uncle who disappears every so often to see somebody. Derek had more freedom than John and in the future John's supposed to be giving the orders to that man, lastly he's got unpredictable Cameron, one day she could be out to kill you the next she wants to protect you. Yeeah, John doesn't need that kind of freedom he's got everything he needs, Right here....To hell with this to hell with it all.
'I'm going to bed' he said as he got up off the furnisher, heading for his room upstairs.
'Good night, John.' She said in the terminator style tone. Skynet bless her.
He said nothing in return and was already stomping up the stirs to his room, the click of his doorknob and the the bump it made as he shut it.
Cameron, still laid against the furnisher changed her form to sitting up straight, feet now on the floor close together and hands on her lap. Her eyes pointed directly at the Tv, a blank channel with no signal, fuzz and noise only on display. Cameron stared, not moving an inch.
Well that's it for now going to do a bit more piece by piece involving other characters. Can be a bit dull if its just J&C all the way lol