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Okie dokie this is my first tscc story. It is an AU! that means Alternate Universe. Kyle Reese didn't die. Constructive criticism appreciated. Its unbetaed. I don't know when or if I'll update. My uncle just passed away so I decided to write story to distract myself.


"What the hell are you doing?"

Derek started, jerking the gun out of his mouth and banging his teeth.

"Fuck." He turned around. Great. Now he was hallucinating.

"I said, what the hell are you doing?" Kyle asked again.

Derek swallowed hard and just stared. It couldn't be Kyle. Last time Derek saw Kyle, he was 24, not 15. Hell Derek hadn't even seen Kyle when he was 15.

"Who the fuck are you?" Derek ground out past the lump in his throat.

"I asked first." Mini-Kyle threw back.

God, he sounds just like him, Derek thought. He never could deny the kid anything.

"I…umm…I couldn't… I didn't…" Derek fumbled for the right words. How the hell was he supposed to tell the 'Ghost of Mini-Kyle' that he was thinking about offing himself. Wasn't it obvious?

"Yeah, it was pretty damn obvious." Mini-Kyle said.

"I said that out loud?" Derek asked. He felt like he'd been thrown for one hell of a loop.

The kid looked at him. "Well I didn't read your mind." Snarky little bastard. Really was just like Kyle.

"Kyle-" Derek started.

"John."

"What?"

"My name is John." Mini-Kyle, John, whatever, looked him over. Johns' eyes stopped on Dereks' name patch and widened.

"Reese." John visibly swallowed. "Any relation to Kyle Reese. Sergeant Tech-Com DN 38416. Served in the 132nd under Perry before being transferred to Connors' command?"

"He is," The pain choked Derek but he pushed through it. "He was my brother."

John smiled at Derek, like the kid knew something he didn't. "You said it right the first time."

"What?"

"You said-"

"I know what you said." Derek snapped at the Kyle impostor. "What the fuck did you mean by it?"

"I'm here to take you to Kyle. Orders from Connor himself." John smiled like he knew a joke Derek didn't.

Derek stared at the kid in disbelief. "Connor sent you to take me to my brother?"

"Yeah." John didn't seem too sure. Derek said as much.

"It's complicated." The kid was fidgeting.

"What's complicated? Either Connor told you to take me to my brother or he didn't."

"That's not the complicated part. We need to get going if we're going to do this." John gestured for Derek to follow. Derek fell in step beside John as they made their way back to Serrano Point, his gun at the ready in case this turned out to be some weird Skynet trap.

It's got to be a trick, Derek thought. But what would be the point? His mind whispered back. You're nobody. Kyle was the important one. An hallucination then. I want Kyle to be alive so badly I'm making myself nuts. Derek thought back. What if it's real?

"Derek." John started Derek out of his thought. Great way to get yourself killed stupid.

"Entrance is coming up." John smiled tentatively at him.

Derek could see the huge warehouse like door was open invitingly. Perry was waiting for them underneath it looking grim and not so inviting. "Where the hell have you been Reese?" Perry questioned. "Connor's been looking everywhere for you." Perry looked at the kid. "And you, what were you thinking? You weren't supposed to leave the compound."

John shrugged, sheepish. "Connor will understand."

"No he won't." Perry said.

"Yes he will." John told him.

"I think I know him better then you do kid." Perry shot back.

The kid laughed. "You gonna take us to Connor or are we gonna stand here all day arguing?"

"No need." Another voice broke in. It was John Connor. He had a small smile on his face.

What the fuck is going on? Derek wondered. When did I fall into the twilight zone?

"I'll take it from here Perry. Lt. Reese, John follow me." Connor didn't wait for a reply and John was walking even before Connor had finished speaking. Derek hesitated a moment before catching up.

"Where's my brother?" Derek didn't bother adding a sir.

"2008." Connor replied. They turned into an empty corridor.

"2008 what?" Connor stopped at a door with some kind of electronic lock on it. It scanned his retina and the door popped open.

Connor turned to look at him as he opened the door. "The year, Derek. 2008 the year."

Derek opened his mouth to ask Connor what he was on and if Derek could have some when he snapped it closed again. "Holy Shit! What the fuck is that?" Derek stared at the glowing iridescent bubble in the middle of the room.

"You know, you say that a lot." John piped up from behind Derek.


"That bubble is going to take me to 2008?" Derek was having a hard time wrapping his mind around everything Connor had just told him. Kyle was in 2008. He was sent back in time to protect Sarah Connor, John Connors' mother, from the metal.

"Us. That bubble is going to take us back to 2008." The kid said.

"Why you?" Derek wanted to know.

Connor answered for John. "Because he's me. From 2008. Believe me Reese you think you're having trouble with this? This is the second time I've been through this scenario. Once as the younger me standing over there, and now as the older me here."

Derek paled. Connors knows I was thinking about offing myself.

"Crap." Derek swore.

Both Connors snorted.

"That sums everything up nicely." John the kid said.

Connor slapped him upside the head. "Now I know why dad used to do that to me so much."

John just looked at him. "You realize you just hit yourself right?"

Connor didn't dignify that with a response. "You need to decide what you're going to do Derek. 2008's almost a different world. You'll have trouble dealing. Everyone who goes back does. Especially the ones who have to deal with people on a day to day basis, instead of just crushing metal."

Derek didn't hesitate. "I'm going."

Connor nodded like he knew that was the answer, hell he probably did, and said, "Good, you go through now. Unless there's any goodbyes you need to say?"

Jesse crossed Dereks' mind for a moment. "No goodbyes." She'd understand, he thought. Kyle's my family.

"Take off any gear." Derek looked at Connor questioningly.

"Nothing dead will go through," Connor told him. "You'll come out naked on the other side."

Derek shrugged. Didn't matter to him, so long as Kyle was waiting on the other side.


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