I know its a small miracle. I have not abandoned it. Just been really blocked. I knew where I wanted to go with it but couldn't write to save my life.
Anyway hoping that this will lead to more regular updates.
Thanks for not giving up on this story.
Enjoy...
10 Miles from Serrano Point – Resistance Base #4 – Northern Bunker Tunnels
John woke up to complete darkness and immediately realized that he'd been blindfolded. He tried to open his eyes wider in an attempt to dislodge the cloth to get some leverage but whoever had put it on had done their job and put it on as tight as humanly possible.
Unable to see he instead strained his ears to glean anything of his new surroundings. Hearing nothing but a steady drip, he reclined as much as the bindings around his wrists allowed him but it was futile trying to find something to cut them with as whoever had brought him here made sure that there was nothing close by to help him free himself.
The place smelled too much of dirt and damp to be near the surface and he wondered how far down into the earth these tunnels really were and how long they were planning to leave him down here.
The last thing he remembered was Allison giving the keys to his father and uncle and then his father's fist coming at him fast and hard.
A hard metal door scraped against the floor and he twisted towards the sound. He tried to shout out to whoever was coming in but they had gagged him as well and all he could do was bite the fabric and make some sort of noise.
Booted footsteps came closer and he blinked as the blindfold was yanked harshly off his eyes. He let his eyes adjust and found Catherine Weaver standing no more than a few feet from him with a finger to her lips. She loosen the gag and lowered it so he could talk.
"Where the hell have you been?" he asked harshly.
The terminator pulled up a chair and sat across from him, "I was looking around."
"You were looking around? I thought I was supposed to help you. How am I going to do that trapped in here?"
Catherine got up and undid his binds. "You are no longer trapped Mr. Connor. So you may be of help to me now."
"Are you kidding? They don't trust me as it is, me escaping won't help my cause with them."
"You aren't meant to help them. We came for John Henry and I have already located him."
John rubbed his wrists to get the circulation going. "You found him already?"
"That is correct now let us go."
"Wait, what about my father and uncle Derek."
For once Catherine showed an emotion and John wasn't too happy to identify it as pity. "They cannot come with us. It will cause complications."
"What kind of complications?"
"We do not need more than one Reese in the past."
"One? Try none but then you wouldn't know that. When we saved what we thought was your daughter, my Uncle Derek was shot and killed. So we can take them both."
"I am very aware of what occurred in my home but Derek Reese is alive and currently helping Sarah Connor and Mr. Ellison as we speak."
"I saw his body."
"Human bodies are easy to replicate. I needed him alive. The probability of him surviving the machine sent was low so I took his place and let you believe he perished. This insured his survival for mine and your eventual return."
"Wait…you knew about the terminator coming for Savannah?"
"Yes it was the only logical after one failed to kill me directly."
"When?"
"Several days earlier in the garage of Zeiracorp. We must go."
"I can't I haven't found Cameron."
"I have found her as well. She is with John Henry. They are headed this way."
John forgetting that he was supposed to be captive and silent shouted. "How long?" Catherine didn't answer. She opened the door instead and waited for him to move but he wasn't going anywhere until he got an answer from her. "How long?"
"A day ago. She and John Henry should be here soon. We must go Mr. Connor."
"I can't. Not yet. These people need my help."
"They will disappear as soon as we leap back."
"I can't take that chance."
"Allison must be taken for your Cameron to exist. If you interfere than she will disappear. She is not necessary for my mission. The choice is yours, Mr. Connor."
"I can't. I have to try to help my family." He said and sat back down resolutely.
Weaver shook her head but retied him. "You have two weeks and I will return for you with or without your cooperation."
"I understand." John replied.
"Good luck, Mr. Connor."
Weaver left and he closed his eyes again. The familiar sound of the door scraping against the floor woke him and again he looked around blindly.
The fabric was pulled from his face and he blinked in the sudden light of the overhead light. Weaver hadn't bothered with the lights when she'd been here earlier and being underground John had no clue how long it been since she'd left him.
"John, what are you doing here?"
He blinked some more and Allison's face came into focus. "I'm being interrogated," he replied.
"Why did you come here? Why didn't you trust me?" She asked.
"Trust you? I barely know you."
"Did you forget me already?" she asked sadly.
"Cameron!" he said and struggled to get out of his binds. She cut them and he fell forward into her arms. She enveloped him and he knew that it was his Cam and it dawned on him what a dangerous situation they were now in. "You have to get out of here."
"I can't leave you here. You've been seriously hurt." She said running her hands over his injured shoulder.
"I'll survive but if they find you, they will kill you. I won't lose you again." He shouted.
"I'm a machine. I can't be killed."
"Don't say that. You are not a machine. You are Cameron. You are my wife." He said desperate to continue holding her but so afraid they would find her here. "Please, Cam. Leave for me. Go back with Weaver. She'll be back for me."
"No. I will not leave you. I can't-"
"So this is Cameron." The man in the doorway interrupted. Startled John and Cameron turned to him.
Cameron stood up first and placed herself protectively in front of John. "That's not necessary," John said from behind her but he wasn't totally sure. His uncle was looking her over as if trying to figure out where a bullet would do the most damage. It was a look he'd seen many times in the past.
"It's not." Derek said and lowered his weapon and closed the metal door effectively blocking the doorway with his body. "So you're Cameron."
She stood tall and looked him square in the eye. "I am."
"And what are you to him." Derek motion to the boy behind her.
"I'm his wife." She said proudly while sneaking a quick glance at John. She was glad he didn't resemble the broken man she'd been forced to terminate earlier but she was also terrified that he'd risked himself this way for her. She was supposed to protect him especially from himself.
"I see. And what are you exactly?" Derek said pointing his gun at her.
"She's the one I came for." John said stepping out from behind Cameron and blocking her from Derek.
Cameron took her eyes off Derek and saw how John was struggling to stay upright. "Sit. You're hurt and need to rest." She sat him on the chair and checked him over.
He stilled her hands and she looked questioningly at him. "I've missed you."
"I did too." She said and kissed him lightly. He tried to deepen the kiss but he was still recuperating and the motion of trying to hold her to him made him wince.
"I have to get you out of here." She said softly.
"Nobody is going anywhere until I get answers." Derek said reminding them that they were not alone. He watched them with anger but it wasn't the uncontrollable kind that they'd known from the original Derek Reese.
"You have not been in Century." She said matter of factly and John groaned at her bluntness.
"What do you know of Century?"
Derek asked moving his weapon a little closer to Cameron than John was comfortable with. Seeing that Cameron would no doubt give a straight answer, John interceded. "Century doesn't matter right now. What do you want to know?"
Derek looked at her than at him. "How did you get here? And why do you know my brother and me? And why does she look like Allison?"
John motioned to Cameron and she moved past Derek and placed herself against the door to keep anybody from coming in. "I came here with a T-1000 in the TDE machine. You are my uncle and Kyle is my father and she…" John pointed at Cameron, "was modeled after Allison Young to bring down the resistance Leader.
"She was made to bring down General Rydex?" Derek asked ignoring all the other answers.
'Figures, ever the soldier,' thought John. "No, she was made to bring down me, John Connor."
"John, we have company." Cameron said inching the door open.
"Who?" Derek and John asked simultaneously.
"Your father and Allison Young."
