Voiceover by Destiny
" My dad told me lots of things when I was a little girl. He told me that he loved me, that I was his best friend and we would always be together. He said he'd never leave me or hurt me in anyway. My dad lied. He lied the day he sent me away. "
Sarah and Amy sat at the kitchen table and stared at each other.
Sarah looked down for a moment and back up. "What's the story this time?" Sarah asked.
Amy sighed and answered. "Destiny lives with a huge target on her head and lately it's gotten much worse than usual. Skynet wasn't supposed to know she was alive but it found out and has been doing what it can to eliminate her. My present time wasn't safe for her. The war was too even so John couldn't send her to the further future withought knowing she'd be safe, so he sent her to you. He knew you would keep her from harm."
"I sent her away?" John asked quietly as he entered from the living room.
"Yes, In a way."
"Why?" He persisted.
"You felt it was better for her to be safe here than leave her in the future." Amy answered.
"But she'll never be able to get back to future."He summarized looking away.
"What is more important John: For her to be with you or for her to be alive? Because, you could no longer have both. It was getting too dangerous." Amy whispered. For that, John had no answer.
After a moment of silence Sarah spoke up. "So she has no mission, she's just here to live."
" No,- Amy cut her off- She has a mission. Her main mission is to stay alive but also, she's here to help you get a head-start with the war"
After taking a breath, she continued. " Future John sent her with a chip with information on it for you. Unfortunately, the chip was in her pocket and may have been removed by hospital personnel when she was brought in."
"Wait a minute." John interrupted. "You mean this?" He asked as he pulled a tiny case from his pocket. It was a small, clear, case with a small chip in it.
"That would be it. Where did you get it?" Amy asked astonished.
"It was in her pocket." He shrugged. He opened the case and placed it on the table. He quickly left the room only to return a moment later with a laptop. "Can we read it?" He asked.
"It was meant for that." Amy said bored. John booted his laptop and stuck the chip into the front card-reader. A second later he frowned. Sarah got up and leaned over his shoulder. "What's the matter?"
"It requires a password to enter the program that runs it." He frowned again and looked up at Amy. "I don't know it"
She pursed her lips and thought. "But Destiny would."
John thought for a moment. "Let's wake her up then." He said as he moved into the living room.
Sarah quickly followed him. "No, John, let her sleep." She whispered as he approached the couch.
He glanced at his mom and back at Destiny. "She's been asleep for the last two days."
"She's also has time lag and was strung out on morphine." Sarah said looking from John to Destiny. She had twitched with the noise of his approach and a slight frown appeared on her face. John bent down and gently shook her shoulder. Sarah sighed. Destiny slowly opened her eyes and looked up at John.
"Hey. Do you know what the password for the chip is?"
"Yeah, it's DNA." Destiny mumbled. John looked confused. "The sequencing of DNA. You have to have the written code to open the program." She continued.
"And what's the particular sequence?"
"Ask her." Destiny said, glaring at Cameron. John and Sarah turned to Cameron.
Cam looked up from Destiny to John and Sarah. "I don't have it in my records. I need a blood sample to read the DNA."
"Blood from who?" Sarah asked.
"You, John or Destiny: Someone who carries similar DNA to John." Destiny huffed and ripped the bandaging from her stomach and threw it at Cameron. She touched the tip of the bandage to her tongue and stared at it. " T."
John got up and went back to his laptop, typing in the letters. A slight smirk crossed his face. "Got it.!" John shouted.
Sarah glanced at John and back at Destiny. Wincing, she rolled her shirt over her wound and applied pressure. "You need a new bandage." Sarah said as she got up and left the room.
"I don't need a bandage." Destiny mumbled and dosed off again. John laughed.
"What's funny?" Cameron asked.
"She's stubborn." He answered.
"Yep, stubborn like her father." Amy said.
John looked darkly at her. "You know her or something."
"Seen her around a few times. Heard plenty of stories though." Amy admitted.
"I'm sure there are stories on you, Adams." Sarah said as she reentered the living room.
Leaning over the couch, she gently applied the bandaged. "Not like the ones on your family." Amy quipped.
November 16, 2009
Amy searched through her pack and went for the door. "Where are you going?" Sarah asked as she entered the kitchen.
"Out." Amy replied and left. Sarah sighed.
"Future idiots." She muttered.
"That's mean." Destiny said as she came in the room.
"Sorry." Sarah whispered and looked around for her cell phone as she picked up her keys.
"Where are you going?" Destiny asked curious.
"Need to pick up IDs today and you need some clothes of your own." Sarah said nodding towards Destiny's borrowed clothing.
"Oh. Have fun." Destiny said half-heartedly.
"You're coming too." Destiny's eyes light up.
"Really?" Sarah nodded.
"You said I couldn't go, so why does she get to?" John asked as he quietly entered the room.
"I can't pick her clothes for her, John." Sarah answered. Her eyes narrowing.
John half-smiled. Destiny grinned to herself. "I know, I'm going to be interrogated." Destiny laughed and walked outside.
John laughed and Sarah looked stunned. "Smart." John said.
"Stay here, we'll be back." Sarah said and shut the door behind her. John laughed again.
Destiny stared out the passenger window intently, trying to absorb everything. Sarah stared out the front windshield. Occasionally looking at Destiny and back again.
"What are you looking at?"
"Everything, just looking at everything."
Sarah nodded. Just then, they went under an overpass and Destiny leaned forward, looking in awe. "Wow." She whispered.
Sarah laughed. "How old are you, Destiny?" She asked.
"16." Destiny replied.
"You're awfully tall to be 16."
"My Mom is tall." Destiny answered.
"What's your mother's name?" Sarah asked.
"Racheal Connor."
"Racheal." Sarah repeated. "And what's your story?"
Destiny shrugged. "Same as Dads'…Johns' I suppose." Sarah half-smiled and pulled into an abandoned parking lot. Destiny sighed as Sarah hit the locks.
"Why are you here?" Sarah asked. "
You told me come." Destiny quickly replied.
"No-Sarah sighed- I mean why are you in the past?"
Destiny sighed deeply. "Because I'm a liability to my dad and he couldn't afford to have me around."She admitted reluctantly.
Sarah thought for a moment. "Hmmm."
"What?"
" Adams said something about giving us a headstart on the war."
"She did?' Destiny asked.
"Yeah, said that was the reason for the chip. John said it had some good information on Skynet, HKs and different terminators." Destiny just nodded."I need to know if there are any machines on your tail. Sarah said firmly.
"Why?" Destiny replied guardedly.
"What do you mean why? I need to know if you being here puts my son in more danger than he normally is, that's why." Destiny sighed and looked away. Sarah turned her back around to face her.
"Answer me." She demanded. Destiny looked down. "Answer me!" Sarah yelled louder.
"You know you're not usually this crabby in the future. Well, not to me anyway." Destiny muttered. Sarah fumed and threw her right hand out to Destiny. Withouht looking up, Destiny caught Sarah's wrist inches from her face. "Missed." Sarah glared at her as Destiny slowly released her hand. "I know you. Well, later in the future I do." Destiny smarted off.
"Stop talking about the future like it's already happened." Sarah sighed annoyed.
"Whatever you say, Nana." Destiny mocked and stared back out the window.
Sarah rolled her eyes. "I'm not a grandma." Sarah said as she started the car and put it in reverse.
"You're mine." Destiny whispered. Sarah looked her up and down then back on the road.
Amy walked casually down the streets, admiring the simple way people flowed in and out of stores in a hurry. "Always in a hurry." Amy laughed to herself. A dark figure watched her from the alley. As she passed where he was standing, he jerked her from the street to the dark alley.
"Derek?!" She almost screamed as she threw her arms around him.
"Can't breath." He choked.
"Oops. Sorry." She admitted guiltily and pulled back. A snicker from the dark let her know that she was not alone. "Roberts?" Amy accused as her eyes narrowed.
"Guilty." He smiled.
Destiny sat in the passenger seat, flipping through her various forms on ID. Her grin grew and she laughed.
"What's so funny?" Sarah asked.
"The last name on the papers."
"Sanders. " Sarah stated. "Yeah, It was my moms' last name..before dad."
"Just a coincidence." Sarah said.
"Or Fate." Destiny said stubbornly.
"There is no such thing as fate." Sarah said firmly.
"Yeah, I know. 'No fate but what we make.' That's just ugh… fate exists, if it didn't then well, I'd be in charge of my own life.: I'd be normal." Destiny muttered, daydreaming as they pulled up to the house.
"You are normal, for this family anyway." Sarah said as they got out of the car.
"Just perfect." Destiny said, rolling her eyes. "Stuck in this life, being pushed into some god awful destined future from hell." Destiny argued loudly as she went in the house.
Sarah stopped and sighed before following Destiny inside. John was researching on his laptop at the kitchen table sighed frustrated and looked up as Destiny came inside and watched her take off upstairs. Sarah shut the door behind her and walked over to the table. She passed John his set of IDs and began pilling the bags on the table.
"What's with her?" John asked staring at where Destiny went.
"I'm not sure." Sarah lied.
"Well, what did you talk to her about?"
"How old she was, her mother, why she's here and fate."
John rolled his eyes. "Fate's never a good topic around here." He mused.
"So I've noticed. " Sarah answered.
"What else?"
"She has daddy issues to put it lightly." Sarah said, folding Destiny's clothes.
"I should talk to her" John concluded.
"You're not her father, John."
"I know that but I don't know. Maybe I could help her." He grumbled.
"And yet you're still in here. Might as well make yourself useful" Sarah mused as she passed the basket of clothes to John. John inspected the clothes.
"These aren't mine." He commented.
"No, they're hers." Sarah said and went into the living room to sort the rest of the clothes. He looked at the clothes for a minute and went upstairs to what had been transformed from Cameron's' room to Destiny's.
He peeked through the slightly opened door to see that she was laying down on the bed with her eyes closed and he took a breath. He opened the door and walked in slowly.
"Hey." He muttered when he saw she had opened her eyes.
"Hey." She whispered.
"I brought your clothes." John hinted at the basket in his hands.
"Oh, thanks." Destiny said.
John sat the basket on the bed and looked around. "Do you want to watch a movie or something?" John asked suddenly.
Destiny looked confused. "What's a movie?"
John stared at her. "I was born in 2014, don't judge me." Destiny mocked.
John smiled. "Alright, it's moving pictures and sound. Like visual and audio stories." He explained.
Destiny nodded. "I like stories."
John grinned. "Then lets go watch a movie."
Cameron locked the doors and stared out the window.
"What are you doing?" Sarah said as she entered the living room.
"I'm running a scan of the perimeter." She responded.
"And are we safe?" Sarah questioned her.
Glancing at Sarah, Cameron finished the scan and responded. "No one is ever safe." She answered before walking sighed and began turning off the lights.
She worked her way upstairs and checked every room as she went. She noticed Destiny's' room was empty as she turned the light off. When she reached John's room, she peeked through the crack. John and Destiny both sitting on the floor watching a movie. John was watching the expressions on Destiny's face. Smiling now and again at her sudden amazement at the sounds and colors.
Amy, Derek and Terry had scored enough money to lease an apartment close enough to the Connors but not too close in case of infiltration. Opening the door, Amy went first to observe the area with Derek and Terry behind her. "Not bad. She muttered.
"Looks like crap." Terry teased.
"Well, we've been in worse." Derek said jumping on the couch.
"Babies." Amy gripped.
December 1, 2009
Sarah dropped John, Destiny and Cameron off for their first day of high school. John and Cameron were pretending to be juniors while Destiny played the younger version of a sophomore. After picking up their schedules and books, they each went separately to their first class. Cameron went to the left and John and Destiny walked to the right. Destiny was vaguely aware of the voices surrounding her. The mumbled cat calls became whistles and she turned around to glare at them and they laughed. She sighed and went to her class after one more "Hey, Baby" was called. John's class was 3 doors from hers. He hadn't realized that he had stopped until he felt pain in his right hand and looked to see that he was gripping the door tightly. After letting go, he went to his class.
Sarah was cleaning up the kitchen when she heard a car pull up and grabbed her gun. She looked out the window to see Amy stepping out of the car and Sarah sighed. Then she noticed the other forms and she frowned. She recognized Derek and Amy but not the other man. "Great. Just, great, more future idiots." She grumbled.
Amy walked up to the door and opened it. "Sarah." She nodded. Derek and Terry walked in behind her. "You know Derek already but this is Corporal Terry Roberts." She nodded at in his direction.
Sarah nodded. "I don't think there's room for all of you here." She said suddenly.
"That's okay. We have a place. It would cause too much attention for all of us to live together and too much danger for either kid."
Sarah sighed annoyed. "Right. Then why are you here?" She questioned.
"Because you don't like surprises and this is better than me surprising you with it sometime down the road when you're pissed." Amy answered.
Derek thought for a moment. "There's more than one kid?"
"John's daughter." Sarah answered.
"Which one?" he asked nervously. Amy rolled her eyes and turned to Derek.
He took in her stance and rolled his eyes. "Great, the crazy one." He muttered.
Sarah looked perplexed. "Which one? The crazy one? Why do you future idiots insist on talking in riddles?"
Amy smirked. "John has two daughters. One is quiet and normal and Destiny is well, wild to put it nicely."
Roberts laughed and everyone in the room stared at him. "Nothing." He said.
"Whatever." Amy muttered as she pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Sarah. "It's our cell phone numbers if you ever need any help." Amy whispered.
A screeching sound alerted everyone in the room. "Just the kids." Derek said, peeking through the backdoor window.
A moment later John, Destiny and Cameron walked inside and evaluated the newly crowded kitchen. "What happened now?" John asked, looking at his mom.
"Future you felt the need to torment me with more future idiots." Sarah explained. John rolled his eyes. "How was school?" Sarah asked. Destiny rolled her eyes and went upstairs.
"Didn't like being with the normal people?" Sarah asked.
"Not really. There naïve and materialistic and stupid. "
Sarah held back a chuckle. "What about you?" She called at John and he froze. He turned to look at her but couldn't meet her eyes. Sarah looked at Cameron. "What happened?"
"We went to school, picked up supplies and went to out classes. Some boys were trying to court Destiny and John became angry and hit one of them." Cameron stated.
Sarah looked at John. "You hit a boy?"
"He deserved it." John replied. Derek laughed.
All turned to look at him. "Shut up, Derek." Destiny called down the stairs. Derek laughed louder.
Amy slugged his arm. "Shut up, Derek. Let's go before you piss me off." She jerked him out the door. "We'll be in touch." Amy said on her way out. Terry rolled his eyes and followed her out.
Later that night, Destiny walked back into her room drying her hair from the shower and sat on her bed, pulling her backpack towards her. After flipping through her notebook, she started on her homework. Not too much for her first day. The Spanish was easy since she had been taught it as a child, chemistry too. History proved to be difficult since much of the records were destroyed in the nuclear war, there was nothing to go on. Destiny half sighed half growled as she turned the pages in her textbook.
"Up a little late?" A voice called from the distance. Destiny looked up to see Sarah standing at in doorway.
"Just finishing some homework." Destiny mumbled as she tried to make herself look busy.
Sarah nodded and moved closer. "You've been staring off into space for the past 20 minutes."
"You were watching me?" Destiny accused.
"I make rounds before bed." Sarah said looking over Destiny's shoulder at the textbook. "Battle of Gettysburg. Doesn't seem so hard."
"It is when you've never heard of it and all the past records have been destroyed…. And it's weird when you have to explain why people fought against people when I have never seen that." Sarah sat down at the edge of her bed.
"You've never seen two humans fight?" Sarah asked astonished.
"Well, in the future we are all on the same side, except for the grays. Never met them…. don't really get out much." Destiny smiles weakly then looked over Sarah's shoulder and glared. Sarah turned to see Cameron standing in the doorway
"We have company." She stated.
"What?" Sarah asked and got up. Destiny motioned to get up.
"Stay." Sarah said firmly as she left the room. Destiny sneered and got up anyway. John heard the noise and came out of his room. "Stay up there, John." Sarah called back as she went down the stairs.
John didn't go back to his room, instead he waited by the stairs. Destiny stayed near her door and peered down. "Move." She whispered at John as she air swatted at him. John moved back and looked from the other side of the staircase. Sarah grabbed a gun from under the couch and crouched down, taking at aim the door.
Cameron merely walked up and opened the door. "Bout time." A man grumbled from the doorstep.
"Welcome back, Lieutenant General Devlin." Cameron said withought emotion. Ignoring the remark, the man entered the room and smirked. Sarah lowered her gun and stood up.
"Connor." He greeted her. Both John and Destiny crept down the stairs and Destiny lost her balance and began to fall. She reached out to John and caught his shirt, pulling him down with her. Landing on the floor, she looked up and met Sarah's irritated look with a sheepish grin. Tyler glanced at both kids and laughed.
"Hiding behind daddy again, Silver Spoon?" Tyler teased.
Destiny looked annoyed and flipped him off.
"Destiny." Sarah warned.
Tyler laughed. " You're too young for my taste."
Destiny looked disgusted and got up. She gave Tyler one last look and shook her head before going upstairs.
Sarah looked at Tyler with curiosity. John looked confused and stood. "John, go to bed." Sarah said quickly not looking away from Tyler. John shrugged and went upstairs. Sarah looked at Tyler and went into the kitchen sitting at the table. Tyler followed at her heels and sat down across from her.
"How many more are coming?" Sarah asked.
"I'm the last." Tyler answered.
Sarah nodded. "Why are you here?" She asked harshly.
Tyler smirked. "You'll see."
Destiny closed her books and put them away. Thinking for a moment she grabbed one of her throw pillows and began stuffing them under the sheets, moving them to look like a body. . Silently, she put her shoes on and opened her window. Happy with it, she went back to the door and flipped the lights off. John had started up the steps when his mother ordered him to. He walked up a few steps till he was out of sight and leaned against the wall to listen to his mother and Tyler. When they had become quiet, he moved up the stairs, afraid he would be caught. Thinking she was sleeping, he tiptoed past her room. Curiosity got the best of him and he looked into her room. He wondered about earlier at school when she was obviously offended by his need to stand up for her. He should've known she was capable of taking care of herself.
He couldn't help himself, the instinct to knock the boy on his ass was too strong to ignore. "Get a grip, John. She's not your daughter. She's not yours to take care of. She's supposed to be your sister. Act like it!"He thought annoyed and looked up to the inside of her room. A shadow quickly flew out the window and climbed down. Stunned, he flew to the window and stared down.
"What the hell are you doing?" He whispered at her.
Destiny grinned and shrugged. "I'm being me."
John tilted his head. "You're going to get caught, trust me."
She smirked. "You're a wuss." She said and took off into the darkness.
John looked around and began climbing out the window after her. "Crazy kid." He muttered.
Destiny turned around." I heard that." She said.
He followed her into the woods until the darkness took them. "Psst, Destiny?" John asked franticly.
"Relax." After a moment he saw her at the edge of a lake, bordering the woods. Silently, she sat down and he walked over to her and sat down beside her.
"Can I ask something of you? "John asked.
Destiny looked curiously at him.
"Sure."
"What's your dad like?"
Destiny thought for a moment." Smart, strong, witty, sarcastic and brave. Sometimes he's funny when it's a good day and sometimes he can be a jerk when the stress gets too much. He was a cold-hearted leader to the resistance because he had to be." Destiny answered honestly.
"What was he to like to you?" John asked curiously.
"Any fool can be a father but it takes a real man to be a daddy. He was my daddy and then he dumped me here." Destiny said smugly.
"I don't think he did it as a way to hurt you." John said suddenly.
"And you know?" She asked stubbornly.
"I would better than most. I will someday." John answered sullenly.
Destiny laughed. "Yes, you will, John... One Day You Will."
