Ok, here is Chapter 3. Also I would like to say thanks to everyone who has sent in a review so far. I want to give a special thanks to XxDeathStarxX, I hope this answers some of your questions even more clearly.
Saturday, July 3rd, 2017
5:30 p.m.
Cameron punched the numbers in to the keypad; then held her eye to the scanner. A red laser shot out and moved up and down her eye. It then disappeared and the door slid open. She stepped through the door and it slid close behind her. She looked across the room to John, who still lay fast asleep on the bed. He'll be waking up soon, she thought to herself before continuing forward. She moved around the bed and sat down next to John. She picked him up, ever so gently, and slide underneath him.
She pulled him close, cradling him in her arms. She began to stroke his hair. She loved the feel of his hair, as strange as that sounds. She sat there, "petting" him for a while. Although, she could have continued to do so for days without having to move from the place she now sat, she slowly began to slip in to sleep mode herself. Shutting herself down only enough to make it look like she was sleeping, but still alert to her surroundings. She stayed like this until she felt John stir. She opened her eyes and looked down at him.
"What time is it?" John asked as he adjusted himself in Cameron's lap.
"5:52 p.m." Cameron replied, beginning to play with his hair again.
"Really? I slept for that long?" He asked as he made an attempt at turning to look at Cameron. He failed, and just laid there feeling Cameron chest move in a slow up and down rhythm.
"You slept for 6 hours and 37 minutes," Cameron replied.
"So, what did you do today?" John asked.
"My routine computer diagnostic," Cameron replied.
"And?" John asked, this time standing up and spinning around to see her. He couldn't take it, not looking at her while she talked. He respected her too much to do that.
"Nothing out of the ordinary," Cameron replied with a smile. Of course this was true, but it wasn't the entire truth. Cameron had found something; but John didn't need to know about it right now; but he would find out pretty soon. She wasn't sure when, but soon. John stood up and walked over to the restroom, leaving Cameron in deep thought.
As John returned, Cameron got up from the bed. "John!" she said to him, "I am going for a walk." And she turned to leave.
"I'll go with you," John replied and followed her out the door.
6:15 p.m.
I still can't believe this place exists, John thought to himself as he and Cameron got off the elevator. They had just entered a hallway. They were still in the same building, but now 200 feet underground. John wasn't sure how they built this place, mostly because he wasn't here when it was built; and yet here it stood. With over 150 floors all underground, it was bigger than the World Trade Center. Ironically, it's not taller than it though.
"Cameron," John said as they walked down the hall, "there is something wrong."
"What is it?" She asked, turning her head to look at him.
"It's you!" John said, trying his best not to look at her and keep staring forward. "There is something different about you. I don't know what, but there is something."
Cameron stopped where she was. He is getting better, she thought to herself, a lot better. John stopped and turned to face her. She had that look in her eye. John knew he did something wrong. Well not wrong as in life threatening, but he did make a mistake. But she's smiling, John thought. Why in god's name is she smiling at him if he just made a mistake? Because he hadn't made a mistake, but a discovery. John had just said the right thing. It was what she had wanted to hear all along, which didn't make any sense to him.
"John," Cameron said walking up to him. "We need to talk, again." She put emphasis on the word 'again'. Then there was silence between them.
John stared into her eyes. "Well…" he said.
"Well, what?" Cameron replied tilting her head slightly to the left.
"Talk," John said.
"Not hear," she replied looking around. People walked pass them, some smiled, others just kept on walking. "It's not save here."
"Cameron," John said turning to give a man who was passing a high five. "Nowhere is safe. You know that. You can never be safe."
"Yes I know that." She said, nodding to a man named Darren Volte as he passed. He nodded back and continued on his way.
"So then where?" John asked.
"Here," she said opening a door to her right. It was a small conference room and nobody was in it. "This will do just fine."
John followed her in and shut the door behind them. He didn't know exactly what this was about, but he kind of suspected what was to come. "So," John said turning to face Cameron, who was now sitting on the table in the middle of the room. "What is this about?"
"This is about me," Cameron replied looking him in the eyes. "This is about us."
"What about us? I thought what we had was going so well." John replied.
"I am being serious, John." Cameron said. At this John stopped, he didn't want to anger her. It would be bad on his part.
"Ok, ok. I was too," he replied, giving her a sincere look.
Cameron couldn't help but smile at this. "I have been having a problem lately. I don't know what has been happening." She said, looking in to his eyes. "I don't know how it happened; but it did."
What's she talking about? John thought to himself. He continued to stare at her. Hoping she would tell him what she was talking about.
"John," Cameron said, "You know I am an infiltration unite, yes?"
"Yes, of course." What is she getting at?
"Well, I am based of the homo sapiens know as Allison Young."
"So?" John asked, he still didn't understand.
"So, everything between us," Cameron said, then turned her head away from him. She couldn't do it. She had to. She no longer had a choice. "Almost everything I have said to you about how I feel about you…" She paused at the end of this to let John soak it in. "At first it wasn't how I feel. I said it because it is apart of my programming. Because it seemed the only way to be able to stay close to you so I could protect you. Whenever I said I love you, it wasn't me. But that's the problem. I don't know the difference anymore. I don't know if I actually have feelings or not. I don't know if I actually love you or not." Cameron's eyes began to water.
Is she crying? John asked himself. Oh my god, she's starting to cry. John knew he had to do something fast. He had to think of something to cheer her up; but he didn't know what to say. "Cameron," he began. "Somehow I have always known that. Yet, I love you just the same. Weather they are in fact your feelings or its just your programming, I don't care." John said and moved to her side, sitting down next to her and holding her head on to his shoulder and she cried. "Cameron I really do love you. That is all that matters to me. That, and you not ever leaving my side." She cried some more and he sat next to her, stroking her hair like she does to his hair, only her hair is longer so it is a lot easier. When Cameron finally stopped crying, she just sat there. She kept her head on John's shoulder. She didn't know what else to do.
Finally, John looked down at her. She craned her neck to look up at him. He looked into her eyes and again became lost within them. He was just bending down to kiss her, when the door to the conference room flew open.
Kyle stood in the door way. "Hey, John," he started to say, "Ummm….what's going on here?" He said. John and Cameron looked at each other. "You know what, forget it. We got something more important right now. We've got a problem."
So, how we doing so far? Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please Review! Then give me about a week and I will get the next chapter posted. Thanks, J.C.
