Stop Them From Making Me
By The Alternative Source
Disclaimer: I don't own the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. But it doesn't stop me from writing about it.
Author's Note: Remember I'm not really going with what's happening in the show right now. Just forget all the stuff past John and Riley hanging out more.
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Chapter 4
Cameron stopped and turned her head slightly, "Yes, John?"
He stepped further out of his room and Cameron sighed internally. She knew that this was going to take longer than she thought.
"Where did you go off to?"
"I thought I heard something outside so I went to investigate it," she lied quickly, "There was nothing there. Just a cat."
"Oh," he said as he shuffled his feet, "Look about Riley…."
"What about her?"
"She thinks that you're watching her."
At this Cameron turned completely and gave him a blank stare, "Watching her?"
"Yeah. You know…like always hovering and stuff. So if you don't mind can you lay off a little?"
"She is a possible threat," Cameron stated as her fist clenched at her side. John didn't notice it but her anger was slowly growing.
"She's not a threat. She's just a friend."
At this Cameron raised an eyebrow, "From the giggles that I heard earlier it did not sound like something that friends would be up too."
His face showed surprise at her statement, "What!?"
Cameron ignored his outburst at turned away from him and began to walk towards her room down the hall, "I will give you your space."
She heard his angry steps behind her, "It is my life and what every giggles, as you call them, are coming from my room is none of your business. It's not my mothers, its not Derek's and it most definitely isn't yours."
If Cameron could still cry, tears would be streaming down her cheeks at his sudden outburst. Composing herself and her angry thoughts she walked through her door and glanced back at him. She must have not been able to control her face at the moment because she saw John's angry face relax as he looked at her, "Your right. A machine has no right."
And then she closed the door. She stood in front of the door until she heard John's retreating steps. When she was sure he was in his room she retreated to her bed. Lying down on it she thought about what just happened.
The one man that she had ever loved, the one man that Derek said was the same man, was now telling her to back away and give him space. Turning on her back she stared at the ceiling.
These feeling were too much for her. She needed her John. She needed to have him but it seemed that he didn't want her. And if that were the way that it had to be then she would live with it.
Closed her eyes she turned her head to the side and imagined him being there just like before. He would lay next to her and run his hand over her cheek slowly. He would push back the hair across her face before tucking it behind her ear. And finally he would place a chaste kiss on her lips.
She would watch him the entire time. That is how they fell asleep since they found out that they loved each other. Every one else thought it was because he wanted protection at night just in case. But in all actuality she was there to be with him. To fall asleep with him. Or go into standby mode with him. Anything that would make the time between them even more memorable.
The last time they had spent an intimate moment had been in there bed. Nothing romantic or wild and crazy. Just falling asleep with each other like it was never going to stop.
But it had. And now she was on her bed all alone. And truth be told…..she couldn't sleep. Since the explosion she hadn't slept at all. She was a machine but her human components required and were programmed to have at least 4 hours of sleep every day. And she hadn't had even one.
Opening her eyes she looked at her clock and realized that it had been an hour.
'An hour? I was thinking about him for an hour? I've got to stop doing this before it gets worse.'
Getting off the bed she walked to her window and did a quick perimeter scan. When she didn't come up with anything she listened to the house.
Sarah was snoring softly downstairs on the couch. With a gun probably in her hand.
Cameron smirked at this, 'Always ready for trouble.'
John was sleeping in his bed also snoring softly.
'Son like mother.'
And lastly Derek. She could here the shuffling of metal and cloth. He was cleaning his weapons.
'What a surprise.'
Changing quickly into pajamas, that Sarah said was another step closer to her being normal, she stepped out into the hallway with a green tank top with green and white striped pants. Slowly making her way to Derek's door she made sure not to make any noise. Even though everyone knew that Cameron patrolled the house every hour they would still check to make sure that it was her if they heard any noises.
Gripping the door handle on Derek's door she softly knocked two times before hearing a grunt from the other side. Opening the door she smirked at the scene in from of her. When she closed the door behind her she stepped towards him.
"What are you smirking at?" he asked without looking up from his position on the floor.
"Nothing," she replied as she sat down across from him.
"Well if it's nothing then here," he tossed a cloth at her, "start cleaning."
Catching the cloth in mid-air she grabbed a gun and started the cleaning process.
"So what happened earlier?"
"Too many damn arguments," he said as he finished one gun and began another.
"About?"
"As you probably heard, the first one was between John and me."
--Flashback to Argument #1--
Derek sat at the kitchen table and waited. Cameron had left in a rush a couple minutes ago and he knew why. Riley.
He could hear the girls annoying shrill shrieks of laughter all the way downstairs and it was beginning to piss him off. Besides being a big security risk John was hurting Cameron. And he had to admit that it bothered him. She was a machine now and he knew that they had no feelings or emotions but Cameron was different. She had a heart. Not a real heart. But a heart nonetheless. And being the man that Derek was he wasn't going to admit that it was for her. He was going to tell John that the girl Riley couldn't be there because she was a security risk.
He knew eventually John would come down and get some food. And as he waited it happened. He could hear someone open a door upstairs before slamming it shut. And then a minute later John came into the kitchen with a smile on his face.
Derek got up and went over to him. When he was a couple feet away he addressed him, "John."
John stopped looking for something to eat in the refrigerator and looked at Derek, "Not your too."
"John the girl can't be here."
John's face became angry and he grabbed something from the fridge quickly before slamming it shut, "Can't be here?"
"Yeah. It's to much of a security risk."
"Have you seen her? Does she look like a security risk?"
Derek scoffed at this, "I've seen her and just because she looks pretty doesn't mean that she isn't a security risk. Look at Cameron. Pretty good looking but can snap someone's neck with just the flick of her wrist."
"Riley isn't like that. If she was a terminator or a serious threat Cameron would have detected that. Now leave it alone."
"Leave it alone! How do you expect for me to leave it alone? You risk the entire mission on some blond tail?!"
At this John became angry and left whatever he was preparing on the island before walking up to Derek and only standing only a couple inches from his face, "It's not just some tail. Now leave it alone."
With that he turned away from Derek and began walking out of the kitchen with food in his hands, "DON'T YOU WALK AWAY FROM ME!!!"
"Or what? Your not my father!" was the last thing John said as he walked up the stairs quickly.
Derek stared at the place that John had just been standing. Clenching his fist he grabbed a piece of pizza and headed over to the window in the living room to wait for Cameron.
"Fucking teenage hormones," he growled underneath his breath.
--End of Flashback of Argument #1—
Cameron stopped her cleaning and looked at him. He was still cleaning his gun. She could tell that there was something off about his story but she didn't say anything about it.
"That's the same thing that he told me earlier."
At this comment he stopped what he was doing and looked up at her, "What?"
"When I came back earlier he stopped me to tell me that Riley was apprehensive around me. It seems that I make her nervous."
Derek scoffed, "She should be nervous."
"John told me too back off and from what I can tell both arguments with you and Sarah were along the same line."
"The argument with Sarah was worse."
"What about the one with Riley? Didn't that happen first?"
"Yeah. But don't worry about it. It was all about how she wishes he would open up to her and how she doesn't like being here. A bunch of stupid useless stuff. Not worth my time but the girl doesn't know how to keep her voice down."
Cameron stayed silent as she processed the information, "What about John?"
"John just tried to calm her down. He needs a wake up call to realize that this isn't a game and that he needs to start acting like the leader he's meant to be. He's got no time to be a teenager……After the argument she stormed out of the house with John right behind her. That's where Sarah caught him."
--Flashback to Argument #3--
Derek turned his head just in time to see the annoying blonde (A/N: nothing against blondes. Lol. Love blondes. Just not this one.) storm out the front door with John right behind her. There was some arguing outside before John came back in alone.
John must have noticed him because he ran his hands through his hair in frustration and looked outside one more time. He was just about to walk away from the door when Sarah stopped him.
"John, we need to talk."
He could tell that Sarah wasn't going to let the argument go because of her stance.
"Riley?"
"Yeah. I know you like her and we've had this argument before, but it can't go further than this."
"What do you mean?" John asked defensively.
"You know what I'm talking about. You need to stop seeing her. You're getting too attached."
"Too attached?"
"Yeah John. It's a security risk that we can't take. She's got to go."
"When am I going to start living my life? I can't just be the savior of the world. I need to live a little."
"Well, living a little doesn't involve endangering everything that we are working for. If you want to live a little then go and see a movie, join a club, just don't bring people in that can endanger you!"
"She is NOT ENDANGERING ANYTHING!"
"Yes, she is John. What happens if you tell her everything? What happens if you let her in and you two fight over some stupid thing? Tell me. What if she tells someone?" John looked as if he was going to interrupt but stopped when he saw the look in his mom's eyes. She was serious, "This conversation is over John. She needs to go."
And with that both John and Derek watched as Sarah walked away. Derek watched John as he stood there. He could tell John was thinking things through. If only for a second at least. And then his face became angry and Derek knew that the hormones were taking over again.
Derek shook his head in disbelief and annoyance at John. He hadn't known the girl long and he was already all over her. He turned his head and took a bite out of his pizza. Turning to the window he waited for Cameron to return.
--End of Flashback of Argument #3--
Derek finished cleaning his gun and looked up to grab another one. But there were no other ones. Cameron smirked when he looked up at her in disbelief. While he was telling her about the last argument she had finished cleaning the rest of the guns and they were neatly placed next to her.
"Machine," he said gruffly. She knew he didn't mean it so she didn't take any offence to it.
"Upset that I finished before you?"
"No. Just annoyed," standing up and dusting his pants off he began placing all the weapons in a chest at the end of his bed, "you know where the rest go."
Cameron nodded and placed the rest of his weapons strategically around the room. Being that she was the one who kept an eye on the house 24/7 she knew where all the weapons were even if no one but Derek realized it. When she was done she turned back to Derek. He was sitting on his bed while handling his favorite gun.
"Under the pillow?"
"Of course. Just in case."
"In case I go crazy again?"
"No and yes. I don't think you will because you got all your memories back. But yes because even though they are there you are still a Terminator," he looked up at her after placing the weapon under his pillow.
"I know."
There was an awkward silence between them. They had just begun to relax around each other and it was odd. A Terminator that was once a human and a human who once hated her until he found out about her being once human. This was by far a complicated position they were both in.
Derek was about to say something when Cameron heard something. She held her hand up as she heard the sound again. Derek had heard the sound the second time and quickly retrieved his gun. Standing beside her they both listened for the noise.
When they heard it again Cameron walked quickly towards the door, "It's coming from John's room."
Just as Cameron stepped out of the room someone crashed into her. The person fell to the floor with a grunt while his book bag flew off of his shoulder. And Cameron just stood there staring at the person on the floor. She could feel Derek leaning over her shoulder to get a better look at the intruder. She could tell he was angry by his elevated heartbeat.
Cameron could only stare at the person on the floor in disbelief. Her regular emotionless mask slipping off. And the person on the floor was looking up at her with the same expression.
"Where the hell are you going John?" Derek asked over Cameron's shoulder.
"What the hell was Cameron doing in your room?" John asked from the floor as he took in there state of dress.
A door opened to the left and Sarah walked out of her room, "What the hell is going on out here?"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To Be Continued……..
Author's Note: Remember I'm not really going with what's happening in the show right now. Just forget all the stuff past John and Riley hanging out more.
Spring break is here for me so I'm going to do tons of chapters and get this story done. So tell me what you think guys?
I know Cameron and Derek are a little too friendly compared to the show but they've been through some stuff together and they need to keep an act around others while slowly working together to understand what's happening to Cameron. Plus its just fanfiction so anything goes, right? Lol.
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