Author's Note:
Some action and some slight Jameron. This chapter is longer than past ones.
TK-MR, It's just a sandwich ;) John is a stubborn guy, and Cameron isn't his girlfriend yet. And maybe he likes making his own sandwiches. I don't know. I'll have Cameron make him a sandwich sometime lol.
Sarah Connor drove up to the house of James Ellison. She wanted to hate this man. He was the FBI agent who investigated her, and he stole Cromartie's body.
It had been hard since John left a week prior, and she couldn't make herself obey the speed limits on the way to reunite with him. She parked the car at the curb and got out. She nervously and excitedly hurried for the front door.
After knocking, it was Cameron who answered the door. Sarah looked at her and noticed that this Cameron didn't have half of her face blown off or any noticeable damage. Cameron gave Sarah a smile, "Hello. John is in the kitchen." She appeared to be sucking up to Sarah.
Sarah ignored her and almost tackled John. She hugged him tightly. "John Connor, don't you ever do that again." She lectured him for awhile about how stupid he was. She also awkwardly met Derek and Kyle.
(An hour later)
"So, you're saying that you're destined to be the leader of the resistance?" Kyle asked.
"Yeah." John responded. "My mom has trained me since the day I was born." He continued, "Skynet sent a terminator back in time to kill my mom, and later one to kill me."
Sarah interrupted the conversation, "We need to do something about Agent Auldridge." She was already in the game, despite the week without her son.
"Like what?" John asked.
"The only thing we can do. We get him on our side."
"How do you plan to do that?"
"We should capture a terminator." she stated. The Reese brothers raised their eyebrows.
Derek spoke, "Whoa. You want to go looking for metal?"
"Yeah." Sarah responded. Her expression could be described as determined.
Sarah found out and dialed the number for FBI Agent Auldridge. Her cell phone was the cheap, disposable kind.
"Agent Auldridge" she stated.
"Who is this?" he asked suspiciously.
"You said you want to help me."
She gave him a location and time to meet them at the following day.
"Come armed" were her last words before hanging up.
John asked, "Depot 37?"
"Yes. We're going to capture that bastard. We need more guns."
After she left the room, Derek asked, "What's the deal?"
John explained, "There's a terminator locked in a bunker. And this FBI agent needs to see that terminators are real. I think she expects the experience to traumatize the guy into helping us."
They walked into the gun store: John, Cameron, and Sarah.
Sarah was straight forward, "I need a Remington 870 and 2 Desert Eagles."
The gun store clerk was surprised but complied and then asked, "Is that all?"
Cameron asked for a glock. John thought to himself, Why does she like glocks so much?
They also bought some ammo and left the store.
The next day they were driving down the highway. Sarah, John, Cameron, and the two Reese brothers were in the SUV. They pulled off at a gas station. A few minutes later Agent Auldridge drove up.
He asked, "What's this about?"
Sarah only responded, "Get in the car." He complied.
After driving a few miles, Sarah spoke, "You said that you believe me, but I can't trust you. We'll see what you think after this."
Agent Auldridge only nodded. He still didn't know what they were about to do.
They finally pulled up to Depot 37. Cameron and John went to find away into the sealed fallout shelter. They messed with a control box and finally found an override switch. They didn't have the key, so Cameron ripped it off and directly connected the wires. Then they sprinted back to the blast doors. They were slowly opening and Sarah commanded, "Don't shoot unless I say so."
Just as the doors were open enough, Cameron ran inside. She spotted the terminator in stand-by. She quickly pushed the terminator over and jumped on top of it. She calculated that she had just 7 seconds before it would be online. She used her knife to cut open its scalp, but she didn't have enough time to pull its chip. After a few seconds, the terminator came online and immediately tried to bump Cameron off. Cameron stumbled off, but quickly jumped back onto the terminator. She picked up her knife and jammed it into the socket and popped off the terminator's port cover. The terminator flailed under her, but Cameron barely managed to pull its chip before it could bump her off again.
Agent Auldridge had seen the whole thing. Cameron had clearly pulled something out of its head. Then he noticed the bodies inside the fallout shelter. Noticing his gaze, Sarah told him, "It killed those people. It hired them and then killed them." Cameron picked up the T-888's body and carried it to the SUV's trunk.
On the drive back, Agent Auldridge was silent. Finally he spoke up, "I believe you. I wanted to believe you before, but I wasn't sure. I'll stay out of your way."
They dropped him off at his car and drove back to Ellison's house.
They entered Ellison's house. Ellison and John Henry were home.
John Henry greeted Sarah, "Hello, Ms. Connor. I'm John Henry."
Sarah reluctantly shook his outstretched hand. She couldn't get over that John Henry had Cromartie's body, and she didn't really trust him. She also thought his smile was really creepy.
John Henry informed everyone, "I found a suitable house. We can move-in in two days."
A couple of days later they went to move into the house John Henry found. They were surprised when they finally drove up. The house was big and had a beautiful lawn. It was a five-bedroom house with a large basement. John Henry instantly claimed the basement. The rooms were divided up; Sarah, John, and Cameron each got their own rooms. The Reese brothers were forced to share one, and Weaver insisted that a fifth room be left for Savannah. The house already had basic furniture and appliances.
The next day Cameron spoke to John. Like usual she was blunt, "We should date."
"What?" John asked, surprised.
"Couples establish relationships through dating." Cameron stated.
"Well yeah. Uh, sure. I guess we can go on a date." John relented.
Later that evening, John and Cameron went out to get supplies, or at least that's what they told Sarah. They hurried by a computer store and bought a few laptops, so they could get on with their date.
"So Cameron, what do you want to do?" John asked.
"Typically couples go to dinner or watch movies." Cameron stated.
"Yeah. But what do you want to do?"
"Oh. Dinner would be fine."
They pulled up to a nice restaurant. John became curious during the meal.
He asked, "Can you taste?"
Cameron responded, "Yes, my tongue possesses taste receptors similar to yours, however I usually ignore it. Taste is irrelevant."
"What? Cameron, you don't know what you're missing." John ordered a couple of tasty desserts.
"How does it taste?" John asked, hoping she would enjoy the apple pie.
"It tastes good. It doesn't appear to be healthy though." Cameron told him.
"Well yeah. Usually dessert never is." Cameron ate more apple pie; she couldn't stop herself.
After she was done, she spoke, "I have eaten more food than I require. I usually don't do that."
John laughed. "Yeah that happens when things taste good."
The drive home was silent, each of them thinking about the situation. Cameron told John, "Thank you for showing me taste. I will leave my receptors enabled from now on."
John said, "No problem, Cameron. I can't believe you had them and didn't use them."
"The first time I ate anything it was unpleasant."
"Oh, what did you eat?" John asked, curious.
"The food in the future."
John laughed, and Cameron smiled.
AN: Okay this chapter went all over the place. I hope it wasn't bad...Comment please. Maintaining logic while writing something you want can be hard. I hope Depot 37 wasn't too unrealistic (Can a fallout shelter be opened from the outside? Surely there has to be some way...) Oh and remember that their goal wasn't to destroy the terminator, but to capture it...who knows (I do hehe) what they'll do with it.