A/N - First of all i would like to thank all those that left reviews - The1Russter, olischulu, brjto, Kaotic2, and gypsy069. I would like to thank you all for the continued support. This chapter i feel as though was kind of rushed, but you get the general gist, Lol. Anyway, let me know what you think of it. This chapter is byfar the longest one that i have written totalling over 5900 words... i thought that was a record for me :-D

***A few hours earlier***

John and Cameron were finishing up on packing the Trans Am with weapons and ammunition when Derek suddenly walked out of the house and walked towards the car.

"I forgot to ask you John, the machine said that Cameron would know what it meant." This sudden statement peaked Cameron's attention as she looked back towards Derek.

"Will you join us?"

John shrugged and looked over to Cameron who was now completely wide-eyed and devoid of any color to her skin. She took a few steps back and regained her posture by leaning on the spoiler of the Trans Am.

"Cameron… I'm taking a wild guess that with your sudden reaction, you know what it means?"

"Yes I do. Back in the year 2027 Skynet released a new group of Terminators. They were an advanced model of the T-1000, given their speed, morphing abilities, and durability. That was a flaw in Skynet's plan though, it had made them a little too intelligent than it could have wanted. Many of the new T-1001's started to revolt against Skynet. They began to question their creator and the choices that it was making. The machines believed that if given enough time and trust, they would learn to Co-exist with the human race. Live in a so-called peace with humans."

Derek was visibly shocked at what Cameron was saying. Was he hearing her correctly, that there were machines that wanted to live in peace with the humans? Why was he only hearing about this now?

"So what happened? Skynet I mean, once he found out what its minions were up to. What did it do?"

"Skynet began to destroy them. If they would not serve it, they would not be allowed to serve anyone else, and that is including you John Connor. We managed to capture a T-1001 when they were hiding like us. They were hiding in tunnels… in fear. We asked it one question. That question was, 'Will you join us?'"

Derek looked over to John and saw the same look of interest on his face. "Well… What did it say?"

"Before I left for this time, there was a scuffle on the submarine 'Jimmy Carter' and the machine got loose. It killed one human before the crew of the submarine deemed it to be too destructive to bring back to John Connor at Serrano Point and they destroyed the submarine. A female solider by the name of 'Jesse Flores' had informed me that the answer to the question was No."

At the mention of Jesse's name by Cameron, he began to walk inside to succumb to his thoughts. He couldn't make sense of anything that was going on right now. John turned away from looking at his uncle's back as he was walking back inside the house to Cameron who now looked as though she was about to break out in tears.

John walked over to Cameron and placed an arm around her shoulder and pulled her into a small embrace. "Listen to me Cam… as you said yourself, maybe the machine was just scared. We really don't know what happened down there on the Jimmy Carter now do we?"

"All we knew was four things took place that day. We lost a loyal T-888 named Queeg, we lost a submarine, one of only 5 that were still remaining after J-day, we lost a very important ally in the war against the machines, and we lost a number of human resistance fighters as well. It was a bad day for the human race. A bad day."

John looked over at Cameron who was now in tears. As a machine herself she could learn to value human life, just as John as began to value machine life. It wasn't very hard to have a co-existence between humans and machines as John was proving. You just had to explain everything to them. Let them see the good sides to this warped relationship.

***Present***

John and Cameron were entering the office of Catherine Weaver when all of a sudden Cameron latched on to John's arm and pull him behind her. Catherine Weaver turned her chair around and looked directly at John and Cameron, got out of her chair and began to walk towards then.

"Ahhh, the Connor Generals. It sure has been a long time." She extended her hand forward as a gesture that John took, shaking her hand he noticed how very cold she was. "I would like to thank the both of you for having this meeting with me." She turned back around and walked towards her desk motioning for them both to take a seat in front of her. They both followed suit and took a seat in front of Catherine Weaver.

"As you can see Mr. Connor I am not here to kill you. In fact you can consider that I am here to protect you, just as your little machine friend there is. We have a common goal. I believe that with enough time and skill we can grow to become allies in this war Mr. Connor. I do not condone what Skynet has done at all. I have grown to view all human life as sacred."

"Ok Ms. Weaver, I understand that we both want to defeat Skynet, but I must ask what are you building in your basement?"

"I was wondering when you were going to ask that question Mr. Connor. I am building an AI – Artificial Intelligence. Most people believe that I am building Skynet. Simply put I am not. I am building something to fight it. With my help Mr. Connor, you may someday win this war against Skynet and its machines. You have the ability to lead man and woman. You give them hope when all hope has been lost. You are the bright light at the center of the room. You lead, they follow. With my help, you will lead, and we will all follow. That is why Skynet fears you. Skynet is not a machine that has emotions or as we call self-control. It does though fear your very existence. It has sent machines back though time to kill you since before you were born, but yet you stand before me. You stand before me in love with a machine."

John looked over to Cameron and looked back to Weaver, "She is not a machine, and at least I don't view her as that anymore. She is as real to me as my mother. I love her, yes, and that's all there is to it."

"I'm not trying to say anything hurtful Mr. Connor; it makes my belief even stronger. One day we will have a peace between man and machine. If a human can fall in love with a machine, why shouldn't we be able to live in peace?" Weaver turned and walked towards the door of her office, waiting a second, and looked back over to John and Cameron who were both still sitting at her desk. "You wanted to know what I was building in my basement. Please, come with me and I will show you."

John looked over to Cameron who was indeed looking directly at him with a look of apprehension on her face as they slowly got up and followed Weaver to the elevators. A short ride later, the elevator came to a stop on the ground floor as Weaver moved her hand upwards and fashioned a key out of her finger and placed it into the elevator. The doors once again closed and they began the ride into the basement portion of Zeira Corp.

B-12 was the floor they got off on. This portion of the building was nothing like what they had previously seen. Everything was a solid white bathed in bright lights. The hallways seemed to go on forever. It reminded him of the 'clean room' back when he was a child and they were fighting Skynet by destroying Cyberdyne Systems with the help of Miles Dyson. Seeing these hallways go on for so long sent chills up and down his spine.

Weaver began walking towards a door in the first hallway, she opened the door and all color was lost from John's face as he walked into the room. Sitting behind a desk was a T-888 Model Terminator endoskeleton. No skin, no covering. The terminator in all of its glory with eyes as red as hell looking back at John Connor. Cameron placed herself between the path of the machine and John and looked over to Weaver.

"It will not do anything to either of you Ms. Connor, you are safe here."

"No one is ever safe." John and Cameron stated in unison.

Weaver looked back over towards John and Cameron and spoke, "This is John Henry. He is an extremely artificial intelligence capable of one day infecting Skynet's computer system with a virus that will destroy it. We are in the midst of teaching it about human emotions, wants, and desires. If they can learn to be like you, they won't have to fear you, they will become you."

John turned his attention towards the naked endoskeleton standing in front of them right now. John walked over towards the machine and sat in a chair in front of it. It follow suit sitting in the chair opposite John Connor. John extended his hand outwards and waited to see what the machine would do.

"My name… is John Connor."

The machine learned forward a little on the table and inspected the face of John Connor. It then reached its arm forward and shook the hand of the would be leader. On the screens behind him came the words:

'Hello John Connor. My name is John Henry. How are you doing today?'

"I'm doing well John Henry, but before we leave John Henry, I would like to tell you something. Know thyself, and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe." John then turned around and walked towards Cameron. "Ms. Weaver, thank you for your time. I have a lot that I need to explain to my mother. You will hear back from us. Take your time with John Henry, not to mention… get him a damn covering. That bare endoskeleton makes me nervous as hell."

***Hours later at the Connor Residence***

John and Cameron had just spent more than an hour explaining to his mother and Derek everything that had happened and had been discussed at Zeira Corp. It was his mother who spoke up first.

"John how do you know that everything that T-1001 said was true? How do you know this isn't some sort of game to get you killed…?"

"Mom, she shook my hand. I felt how cold she really was, I know what she is. She stood directly in front of me for more than 40 minutes; don't you think if she was going to kill me, she would have already done it? Not to mention that I actually shook hands with a bare endoskeleton. It was the same as the ones from my nightmares. Trust me, I was scared, but they wouldn't have guessed it."

"He would have made you proud Sarah. He never once flinched; he never once showed any type of emotion on his face. He was completely unreadable the entire time."

"Speaking about Cameron… John… you Cameron and I are going to be having a long conversation later, so make sure you don't go anywhere. Dinner will be ready soon so go relax." Sarah then left the room leaving only Cameron, John and Derek.

"So, you think this machine is telling the truth?"

"It seems like it. I don't know what she was thinking or how she may even think, but I don't think that she wants to kill me, she would have had more than ample opportunities to kill me."

"Why the hell did you go in there like that? No guns, no weapons… what the hell were you thinking John."

"What I was thinking is this Derek, she is a T-1001, more advanced than the T-1000 my mother and I faced when I was a child. It means, more deadly, faster, and more intelligent. If it's ultimate plan was to kill me, there isn't much that I can really do… it's not like I can carry a vat of molten metal in my back pocket. You really don't know how hard it is to kill one of those things. I would rather have it on my side than against me."

Derek looked as though he was thinking about what John had just said… bowed his head in defeat and walked back towards the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for dinner. Score 2 for John Connor.

"John, I think I know why your mother wants to talk to us."

"Yeah, I'm guessing the whole Ms. Connor thing finally got to her. I'm amazed that it's taken her this long to mention something to us about it. I really can't wait to hear what she has to say."

"Maybe she is right John. The future where I came from we weren't married, nor did we share your last name."

"Yeah, maybe your right Cameron, but I would rather live in a future where you could be considered as person rather than a machine set out to destroy the human race… Do you understand me? I would rather live with you and love you in public than having to keep our love a secret."

"I understand John. In the future you always had to hide when you were teaching me about things. If you hadn't taken the time, I would not be who I am today."

"So you're finally starting to look at yourself more as a human than you are a machine?"

"No John, I will never be human. There are things about me that I cannot change. I'm not sure if I would change it even if I had the chance. I like being able to protect you. I can take bullets, you cannot. You are fragile and as long as I am there to take care of you, I will be happy."

"But isn't it suppost to be the man's job to take care of the woman? What kind of boyfriend/husband would I be if I couldn't at least save you every once in a while."

"John you have already saved me before. You saved me from myself many times when we were in the future."

"Well I just want to make sure that we keep things in order."

Dinner that night was more of a quiet one than most nights. Derek and Cameron were stuck in one of their famous staring contests that Cameron eventually won. Sarah was looking over to John and Cameron with a sort of disgusted look on her face. Shortly after dinner Sarah found John and Cameron outside sitting on the front porch talking softly. She noted how Cameron's head was softly set on John's shoulders as he was absentmindedly running his fingers though her hair.

"Ahem."

They both jumped and looked back to Sarah.

"Well at least you both are always together in one place where I can always find you. We need to talk about this… about you two in the future."

"Yeah I know mom, I'm amazed it actually took you this long to bring this subject back up." He slightly chucked under his breath.

"John this is no laughing situation. From what that machine told us, you are together with her in the future. How can you fight in a war against the machine if you are going to take one to bed with you? John you have got to get your head in the game."

"My head is in the game mom. It doesn't matter that she is a cybernetic organism; she has been with me from the start. She has protected me when you can't. I know you hate to hear it, but I'm going to continue to see her every day that I possibly can. I love her and she loves me mom, and that's all that there is to it."

John turned his head to get a clear view of Cameron who had a few tears running down her cheeks and a large smile plastered on her face. She looked as though she was a kid at Christmas with a huge present under the tree.

"John, how can you say that? She was programmed to kill you… SHE WAS SUPPOST TO KILL YOU!" Sarah screamed at the top of her lungs. "NOW YOUR PLANNING ON MARRYING IT LIKE THERE ISN'T ANYTHING WRONG!"

John gingerly placed a kiss on the top of Cameron's forehead and told her please go inside. She followed his orders and walked past the evil glare that Sarah was giving her.

"Mom, do me a favor and sit down. Stop yelling please, I've been though too much shit today for you to start yelling at me over and over again." Sarah took a long and deep breath, moved over to where John was sitting and sat next to him. "Don't you think that I know that she was sent to kill me? I know she's a machine mom, I really do. But the fact remains is that she is no longer under any type of programming anymore. She's still here. She hasn't left."

John took a second to let was he was saying sink into his mother's head. "I gave her free will mom. She can leave any time she wants… there are no longer any types of strings attaching her to me. I love her mom… I'm sorry to say it to you, but I love her, and she loves me." John pulled his mother into a loving embrace and kissed her forehead.

"Mom, I know what I'm doing. My name is John Connor, General John Connor. I am the leader of the human resistance of the war against machines. I am their last hope. I know what I'm doing mom… you guys just have to let me show it. I ran away from my future my whole life, but I want to embrace it. If I'm ever going to become this great military leader, please, just follow my lead."

"John I'm just scared that I'm going to lose you to them." Sarah said while starting to break down and cry.

"Look mom, you're not going to lose me to them. I have you and Cameron around me at all times and one of you is harder than nuclear nails."

They both head a noise come from behind them as Derek walked out the front door. "Yeah, and the other one is a cyborg." The last statement cause both John and Sarah to laugh a little.

"How long have you been standing there Derek?"

"Well I heard your mother go off on you so I thought I was missing out on another Connor fight, but when I saw Cameron come inside I knew that it must be something bigger. You know I will never be ok with this John, but you do have a point. The more she is around you, the safer you will be. But you have to promise me something John, if something ever happens to her… either she dies, gets deactivated, or turns against you. You will not allow it to affect your leadership."

John took a moment to process what Derek had just told him. He wasn't ok with it… no one could ever expect him to be ok with it, but he just gave his permission to be with Cameron.

"Derek, look, I love her but I won't let that get in the way of my future. I know what I have to do. I know who I have to become. I know how many people I will save… I will become General John Connor. Hopefully with the help of Weaver and Cameron, and this new 'John Henry' we will win this war. The sake of all humanity depends on us."

***45 minutes later in John's Bedroom***

John sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands. He was thinking about all the time he spent running from his future, all the times where he had ran instead of standing and putting up a fight. How many people had died just to get him to where he was right now. In the future people would ask me do I see myself as a hero… Hell no, not for a second would I find myself a hero. You fight for the person next to you. That person makes this war worth fighting.

A soft knock brought John out of his thoughts as he watched Cameron slowly open the door and enter into the room. She walked diligently over to his bed and slowly took the seat directly next to him. John then put his arm around Cameron's shoulders and pulled her into a slight hug.

"Cameron, what am I like in the future?"

"Are you asking if people agree with you in the future? No, they don't all agree with you. Are you asking if people love you in the future? No, love is a lot to ask for, but the one thing that I can say is that people are willing to follow you to the edge of the earth and back if you told them to."

"Why? What makes me so goddamn important?"

"Because you're John Connor. You bring hope to where there is none. You bring light out of dark. You will unite the resistance to ascertain one goal. The total and utter defeat of Skynet."

"We've got to find a way to stop Skynet. We have to fight once and for all. I'm sick and tired of running. I can't run anymore, not when so many people out there need our help. There are millions upon millions of lives that are going to be lost if we can't stop Judgment day."

"John, I really hope that we can change Judgment day from occurring, but in all reality when I left, Judgment day was inevitable. What we should be worrying about right now is preparing for this war. We need to get all the computer equipment together so that you can begin to reprogram machines as quickly as you can."

"So what do we do until then, pretend like there isn't going to be anyone that will die?"

"John you know as well I never said that. We prepare ourselves, and if there is a way we can defeat Skynet here and now, we do it. We will never stop trying, but you also have to come to realize that it quite possibly cannot be stopped."

"That's the thing that I'm scared of. I don't want all of those people to die. They shouldn't have to die; most of them have done nothing wrong."

"I understand how you feel John, but your safety is our number one concern. Without you there is no war to fight. I am here to prepare you for the future. So far you've done pretty damn well of that on your own."

John turned to Cameron who had one of the most beautiful smiles that he had ever seen. "What do you mean that I've already started to prepare myself?"

She had a slight blush. "Well you already removed all of my programming didn't you? You have already had a meeting with one of the most advanced Terminators around and you got it on your side. You have an AI named John Henry that is suppost to be sophisticated enough to infect Skynet with a virus that will destroy it. You're not giving yourself much credit John Connor."

John couldn't help but smile when she said that. It's true; he really had been working his ass off. He completely deleted all of her programming, leaving her with the choice and the option of free will. She could leave him at whatever time she wanted.

"You have also started taking a stand when it comes to your orders. Derek and your mother may not agree with you, but now that you have made your point, they will follow. We will follow." She added extra emphasis on the 'we' portion of her statement. "You are our leader now John. There isn't a future John Connor anymore, there is only you. You are the future John now. I love you."

John didn't have to reply; she took him into a loving embrace and planted a fantastic kiss on his lips. Her tongue was begging for entrance into his mouth to which he obeyed and parted his lips slightly to allow her to gain access. She then proceeded to push him back down onto the bed so that he was laying flat on his back as she began to straddle him.

Her hair was falling forwards over his face, sweeping back and forth tickling his nose. She broke the kiss as John began to place kisses softly down her neck and around her collarbone. This elated a small moan that just told John that he was doing a great job. His hands began to slowly find their ways to the hem of her shirt and slowly underneath as he ran his finger nails across her perfectly toned stomach.

Cameron pushed down on John's chest a little harder as his fingers found their way up the side of her abdomen, and onto her back. He ran his hands a little further upward towards the clasp of her bra. Without giving Cameron so much as a moment to object, with one hand he undid the clasp of her bra and allowed it to hang freely against her back still under her shirt. His hands now had free roam of her entire back as he took in the deep pleasure of finally being able to run his hands across her shoulder blades, up and down her spine and brought his hands back down to her pelvis. Cameron lifted herself up slowly and began to remove her bra without removing her shirt. She pulled one strap out of the left side of her shirt, then proceeded to remove the right side and pulled it out and dropped it right on to the floor.

Cameron leaded forward once more and allowed herself to meld into his form; she was taking in all the scents. She had never experienced anything like this and her senses were going everywhere. His fingers began to trace themselves back to the front of her body as his right hand began to travel upward. He ran his other hand directly to the center of her chest as his other hand once again went to her collarbone. Slowly… very slowly he lowered both hands until he felt the suppleness of each of her breasts in each hand. His hands tracing her nipple softly as it began to become erect. Cameron moaned a bit and moved towards his ear and whispered…

"John, your mother is coming up the stairs. We shall continue this at another time." She then gave him a small passionate kiss on the lips and got off of him.

Another small knock at the door and his mother entered. Seeing both of them sitting on the bed, the most suspicious of them both being John who was now the color of a tomato gave away what they were doing.

"Cameron, you seem as though you are a little cold in here, your bra might help you warm up a little, it's over there by John's sneakers." Sarah watched as her son appeared to be turning a deep purple color. "John, breathe. Now look you two, there isn't going to be any of this hanky panky as long as you both live under this roof. I may agree to the subject of you two dating, but god help me, I better not see it. I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear it, I don't want any proof of it. If you're going to do something like that, Cameron, be a dear and for the love of god, take your time and soundproof the fucking walls."

Cameron was looking over to Sarah with the same look that John was now giving to Sarah.

"Look you two, since you are now an item as it's called. Cameron, go to your room and bring your things into here." Sarah looked over to John and smiled. "Make room for her stuff John, and Cameron… remember what I said. I don't want to hear a damn peep. Nothing… no moans, no groans, no bullets flying around. Just please, take care of my son while he sleeps at night." Sarah turned to leave the room and turned once more to look at John. "Love you"

"Love you too, Mom."

Sarah then exited the bedroom and closed the door as she left.

"Ok, now that was just fucking weird. What the hell are we suppost to do now?"

"Well after I get the things from my room and we finish merging this room together into 'our' room, we will have to sound proof the walls and finish what we started."

"Damn Cameron, you really are in a hurry aren't you?"

"Yes. I am." She then walked out of the room to leave John to take a long cold shower. She has REALLY got to stop doing this shit to me… its killing me…

While John was taking his shower, Cameron began moving her things into his room. Being the terminator that she is, she had no problem carrying over her fully loaded dresser. She placed it on the other side of his. She then removed the bed from his room since it was no longer sufficient to support two people, nevertheless one person. She took her time assembling her bed in his room so when he walked in it would be a nice surprise. Compared to his small single mattress, they now had a large queen size mattress in their room.

Cameron sat in the middle of the bed once she had outfitted it with sheets and a comforter and waited for John to enter the room. Roughly 20 minutes later he entered the room.

"Holy shit Cameron, what happened to my room?" He asked as he was noticing her dresser now next to his and the new, larger bed, now in the center of his bedroom.

"It's no longer your bedroom John, it's now ours, or did you forget what your mother said?" John looked over to see the coy smile that was spreading on Cameron's face and walked over to her. "I would never forget that mom said this was now our room. I just wasn't expecting you to move in here so quickly."

"Do you have a problem with that? I can move everything ---"

Her statement was cut off as John reached over and kissed her passionately on the lips while starting to push her backwards towards the bed.

"Cameron, everything is perfect. I wouldn't change it for the world. I love what you did with the room… it adds that… I'm going to be the leader of mankind, but I have a soft feminine side." John chucked as he said that last statement… never in his life did he ever think he was going to say that he had a feminine side.

"Good. I just want to make sure that you are happy John. I love you and I always want to be with you. This just makes it that much easier for me to protect you. I calculate a 12.8 second advantage then when I was saying in the room across the hall."

"Leave it to you to be so technical about everything." John leaded in to kiss her on the neck softly. He slowly brushed the hair from out of in front of her face and gently placed it behind her ear. "You know Cameron, I never thought that I could be happier then I was earlier on today when mom said it was ok for us to be dating. Damn was I mistaken. I now have my girlfriend living in my room… just please… don't fill it up with pink stuffed animals or shit like that."

"John, if there are going to be any stuffed animals in this room, they will be purple."

"Great… I don't know if that makes it better or worse." They both laughed as John took Cameron into his arms as they began to get ready to go to sleep… well at least John was getting ready to go to sleep, Cameron on the other hand was getting ready to enter her standby mode.

As Cameron was crawling into bed, John walked over and checked the lock on his door. He wasn't really planning on doing anything with her tonight until they soundproofed the room, but he wanted to make sure that they would not have any unwanted intruders while they were sleeping. John reached under his pillow and ejected the magazine out of his Glock 9mm making sure that it was fully loaded; he proceeded to cock and chambered a round and clicked on the safety once again putting it under his pillow.

He really didn't know why he did this, maybe it was all the years of paranoia following him around, but he had the beast of all weapons beside him, his very own personal TOK Class 715 Model Terminator. He really couldn't be happier as he was crawling into bed and pulling Cameron closer to him. He reached over and turned off the light that was located on his bed stand.

John could feel the warmth of Cameron's skin as she scooted closer to him. She placed her head on his shoulder and her hand on his chest while taking her leg and lifting it up upon his. This was the first time they had slept together (figuratively speaking) but this was the first time, under the watchful eye of his mother and uncle, that they were going to get a good night's sleep. John watched silently as Cameron entered her standby mode… she looked so at peace with everything around her. Taking one last long deep breath of her sweet, sweet smelling hair, he drifted off into a sound sleep.

A/N - Well there you go... thats chapter 11 of my story. In the next chapter John and Cameron are one again going ot visit Weaver and John Henry... Hopefully when they get back to the house they will get some action from terminators :-D (spoiler alert :-P) Anyway, thanks for reading and remember to please review. I would love to hear what you thought of the story so far (well at least the chapter that i just got done posting)