Chapter 2

Cameron walked around the house, looking for any possible threats. After she concluded that their were no threats, she realised that Sarah was not in the house. The UFO convention she had gone to finished hours ago and she should have been back by now. Her first thought was to go and tell John. But he was in the shower and Cameron concluded that walking in to the shower and telling his that his mother was missing while he just nearly lost his girlfriend was not a good idea. She instead took out her phone and dialled Sarah's number. Sarah's phone was turned off. Cameron now knew something was wrong, Sarah never turned her phone off in case John needed her.

Instead of disturbing John, she now phoned Derek. "Yeah, what do you want?" Derek sounded as he always did with Cameron, bitter and resentful. Cameron inputted the code to confirm it was her and waited for Derek to do the same. She heard Derek frown and punch the code in himself. Cameron rolled her eyes." Derek, Sarah hasn't returned form the UFO convention and her phone is off. Something's wrong. " Derek didn't answer straight away. Cameron waited patiently. She heard the shower turn off up stairs, meaning John was finished. " Okay, I'll be there in ten minutes, we better go look for her." He hung up. She heard a sound outside and moved quickly to inspect if their was a threat. Walking outside, she looked from the left to the right and back again, scanning for anything out of the ordinary.

Satisfied that nothing was outside, she turned around and headed back inside the house and went upstairs. She decided to tell John about his mother. She got to his bedroom, opened the door and walked in. John was standing there, bare-chested, halfway towards getting dressed. Her gaze fixed on his body, it fell down and back up again. " You could have knocked" John said bitterly as Cameron removed her gaze from his chest to is eyes. "Sorry, I just thought you should know that Sarah hasn't returned from the convention. Me and Derek are going to look for her". John felt like Cameron had just slapped him. " She's probably found another three dot lead, she'll be fine". Cameron tilted her head to the side as John pulled a shirt over his head and put it on. John noticed that she was staring. Cameron wondered why John wasn't as concerned as she expected him to be.

Derek arrived five minutes later. He refused to go anywhere alone with Cameron so he forced John to come along. Derek attitude towards had changed a lot since defeating Cromartie in Mexico. He was fine driving alone with her when coming to save John in Mexico, but after realising how much Cameron had taken form his weapons stash, John had to step in and stop him shooting her with her own shotgun when digging Cromartie's grave. John Sat in the back next to Cameron. Derek kept his eyes in the rear view mirror and via that on Cameron more then he did the road. " Derek, just because she's sitting near me, doesn't mean she's going to kill me!" Derek stopped the car. " Derek turned and faced John. " One of these fucking machines is going to kill you one day and I'm sure its going to be this one ". He jabbed his head in Cameron's direction. Cameron stared from John to Derek and back to John, waiting to who would win the debate. Jon turned and looked at Cameron. Green eyes met brown for a few seconds before he turned to Derek." I've told you once before and I won't tell you again, its not going to be this one". Cameron grinned as Derek swore loudly and continued to drive. John turned and gave her a grin before looking out of the window.

Arriving at the UFO convention. John and Cameron asked the few people that were still left there about Sarah. Finding no useful Information, they returned to the car and headed in the direction of home. They got caught in a traffic jam caused by a car crash ten cars ahead of them. Cameron was looking out of her window, watching a man and woman walk by, the mans arm that was closer to the woman wrapped around her. She tilted her head to the side as she watched the couple pass the car and out of view. She thought the woman seemed to feel warm and safe with the man holding her the way he was. She scanned her memory banks for any sign of this interaction. She found that many boys and girls at the school she and John went to did the same. Mostly boyfriends and girlfriends did this. Her thoughts of this disappeared as her gaze fell on a man standing about twenty feet from the car. He was tall and unusually still. She scanned him. "That man over there, he's a T tripe eight". She said quietly. John and Derek turned to look as well. "The one day I didn't bring the guns" Derek said this though gritted teeth. Cameron turned and pushed Johns head down. He didn't resist.

The terminator's focus luckily wasn't on the car but on a large group of youths across the road watching the emergency services move the wrecked cars up ahead. Cameron looked over the youths and recognised two of them at once. "Derek, his targets are over there, William and Elizabeth Anderson". John felt Cameron's hand move off his head allowing him to sit up. He and Derek both looked at the youths across the road. " If those two die, we are so fucked." Derek now looked worried. John looked from the youths, to Cameron, to the terminator and back to Cameron. "Who are they?"." William and Elizabeth Anderson, brother and sister, are two of your top lieutenants. William was one of your weapon designers and Elizabeth was your Temporal mission planner. She sorted out all time travel missions, including mine." Derek turned and faced John" If they die, there goes us winning the war". Cameron turned her gaze to the terminator, who began to follow two of the youths walking away. John spotted the youths and got out the car." John!" Cameron got out also. John turned to Derek. "Find my mom, we can take care of this!" Derek opened his mouth to argue but the traffic began to move and he was forced to go. Cameron followed John over the road and after the terminator.

John and Cameron walked side by side as they followed the terminator. "Won't he realise he's being followed?" John said looking at Cameron. " Probably not, he's has his targets in sight, he won't stop till they are dead". John could see the two youths take a left turn and disappear from view. The terminator broke in to a run as his targets went out of sight. Cameron and John also began to run. Cameron having no muscles quickly took the lead over John as they neared the corner. Cameron got to the corner and spotted the terminator forcing its way through a door in the nearest house across the road. Cameron narrowly avoided being hit by a car when crossing the road. Gunshots rang from the house, followed by screams of a teenage girl. Cameron quickly ran in the house and ran straight in to the terminator who quickly turned the shotgun he was holding to Cameron. John reached the garden when he head two shot gun blasts come form the house, He took the pistol form the back of the trousers out and made towards the house.

The terminator stepped out and looked straight at John. The terminator apparently didn't realise who he was. John realised that Cameron was struggling under his grip as he threw her across the garden and on to the road. John opened fire on the terminator aiming for its eyes. John had trained with guns all his life and knew how to aim. His first shot missed but his second hit the right eye. The terminator stumbled for a brief second before moving towards him. Cameron got up and saw the terminator advance on John. She yelled for John to run as she ran and kicked the terminator on to its back. John ran in to the house and watch as Cameron and the terminator were locked in fighting. Punching and kicking one another so hard that they could smash concrete. The terminator got back out its shotgun and shot Cameron in the back three more times.

Cameron fell to the floor, seemingly unable to move. The terminator began to land heavy blows to Cameron's face. John's instincts and training told him to run. Something in him, made him run towards the terminator. Diving towards the shotgun, John rolled forwards and aimed at the back of its head and fired. The moment it turned to see who shot him, John fired again, this time in the other eye, he fired again and again until he ran out of ammo. The terminator slowly arched backwards and fell to the ground next to Cameron, it twitched slightly and then didn't move at all.

Cameron got up slowly, she stared at the terminator and then at John . John was still aiming the gun. She looked at his face. John's face looked different, he looked angry but relived. She looked in to his eyes and saw a sparkle of light in them. Opening a memory file of future John, she compared the eyes, and saw that for the first time the eyes matched. Cameron had compared the eyes of this John and Future John every day since she met him and for the first time, she could see them as the same person. She closed the file and inspected the T triple eight. Looking in to its eyes, she saw the remains of what was once the terminators chip. " Its dead, I'll get a car, go and check if William and Elizabeth Anderson are alive". John lowered his gun and turned in towards the house. It felt a little strange taking orders from Cameron.

The front door had been torn off by the terminator and the rest of the hall way had been more or less destroyed by him and Cameron. John didn't have to look long to find the two, he found both of them hiding in the kitchen, crouching behind an overturned table which had bullet holes in it. " Are you two alright". Elizabeth looked over the table. "I'm okay, is he gone?" she was shaking. Her brother put his arm around his sister as she began to cry." I'm ok as well, where did he go and why did he try and kill us?" John jumped when a car horn went off outside, he knew that Cameron had found a car. That was quick, how did she find one so fast?. He looked at the terrified brother and sister." I cant stay or explain what's going on, but that man won't be coming back here and you won' see him again, I guess I'll see you both in a few years".

They looked at each other and then back to John, confused by his statement, but John had already backed out of the kitchen and left the house. He spotted Cameron looking out of the window of the car, John walked over and got in. He noticed the T triple eight on the back seat. "Are they both alive" she said looking at him. Cameron had huge cuts on her face and was bleeding a lot more then she normally did when her skin was damaged. "Yeah, their both fine, just shaken". He looked in to her brown eyes and she stared in to his. " Are you okay?, you took some punishment back there". Once again, she tilted her head to the side. " I'll be fine". She turned away form John after a few seconds. John waited for her to move the car until he relished he was in the driving seat. Shaking his head a little, he turned the key in the ignition and began to drive home.