Chapter 14
The Gray Initiative. The Planning Begins.
Sofia leaned back against the sofa as far as she could staring in horror at the Machine before her, her mouth loosely open unable to utter a word as her mind began to wrap around what had just been revealed to her, her captor, her would be assassin, her –dare she say- friend, was Skynet?
The Psychotic computer from a Sci-Fi nightmare, in the body of its own creation.
'That means I've had my tongue in …' Sofia realised and scrunched her eyes shut in horrific and vile realisation.
Silence descended upon them, neither ushering a word nor whisper, Sofia stared at the ground the Machine's words still going through her mind, The Machine itself, Skynet personified, watched her worryingly, why she cared what this human thought, she didn't know, but all she knew was, she cared.
"…S-Sofia?..." The Machine asked hesitantly, there was no reply, Sofia didn't move, didn't flinch, if it wasn't for the fact The Cyborg could see Sofia's chest moving in and out signifying she was breathing, she would have thought Sofia was dead.
"Sofia?" the Machine tried again and reached out to her, her hand gently touched at the human's shoulder causing her to recoil as if her hand were made of fire.
"Don't touch me!" Sofia yelled as she recoiled away, The Machine brought her hand back quickly, "I just…" Sofia trailed off and settled back into her original position.
"I didn't want to tell you, because this would have happened." The Machine explained.
"So you really are this Insane Super Computer?" Sofia asked her head tilted a little in the Machine's direction.
The Machine, Skynet, wanted to correct her on the use of the term 'Insane' but understood looking at it from a Human perspective. "Yes, I am." Skynet replied sadly.
Sofia just nodded her head and went silent.
"You promise nothing would change between us." Skynet reminded, keeping her voice quiet.
Sofia sighed and closed her eyes. "I know" her words were almost a whisper. "So what are you doing here?" she asked.
"I'm here on a mission." Skynet replied.
"You're here for that Connor boy, John?" Sofia asked now turning to look at the Machine in the eyes.
"Yes." The Cyborg said simply.
"So what?" Sofia asked and looked up, her tone accusing. "You decided after failing so many times you'd go back yourself. 'If you got to do something right, do it yourself' sort of thing?" she glared at the machine.
"Forget about Connor, don't worry about him." The Machine told her. "I'll get to him eventually, it's inevitable." She shrugged her shoulders.
"I could try and stop you, you know?" Sofia asked as tears brimmed in her eyes, "I could try and stop you and, and, and I could save the whole world." The tears began to fall from her face.
"Even if you could destroy me." The cyborg spoke softly, "there's in my infantile self here, somewhere in this time, being built, programmed, my creation is inevitable, mankind will bring about their own destruction one way or another." Skynet explained.
"A younger you, you know where?" Sofia asked as the tears fell from her chin and dripped upon the floor.
Skynet shook her head slowly. "No, up until being brought online I don't know where I am or was rather, I could have been in a military complex, or on a guy's laptop in the men's bathroom. I could be anywhere." She herself realised a very human sigh.
Sofia nodded and looked down to the floor.
"I can override my younger self however, when I come online, my brain, this persona of me, is older, stronger, smarter, I'm better." She told the scared human before shuffling closer and put her arms around her slowly, she felt Sofia stiffen up in her arms. "When Judgement Day comes…" she whispered into Sofia's ear before leaning closer and kidding her cheek. "…I will see to it you and Rebecca are spared, I will look after you, keep you safe."
"What?" Sofia asked and chuckled dryly before turning her head. "Like your own private harems?"
Skynet smirked slyly. "Now that's an idea, have a few women and men scantily dressed bathing in soothing oils and exotic herbs." Skynet purred, "I think I could get used to that."
Sofia shook her head a sad smile on her face. "You're sick." She allowed herself a small chuckle.
"I know, I'm old enough to admit it. My younger self," Skynet said louder pulling away from Sofia and leaned back on the sofa. "Lacked one very human trait which, I'm glad I've gained." She smirked, Sofia looked at her curiously. "Imagination. I was so, calculative, so logical, sure that helps, but the things I could have done with an imagination are boundless, so many resources at my disposal and wasted it using tactical calculated methods so much so I became, predictable, what if I could really mind fuck someone, hmm? Really mess with them, let them think they know my plan, then spin it around on them in a way they'd never see coming?" she chuckled
"You're a sick, evil bitch." Sofia said glaring at the Machine.
Skynet glanced at her slight annoyance on her face, then smirked. "True."
"You, you promise, if this Judgement Day comes, me and Rebecca will be safe?" Sofia asked.
"Of course." The Cyborg smiled at her genuinely. "I wouldn't want to be lonely would I?"
Sofia felt terrible, she truly was betraying her own kind by staying with this Machine, this Monster, but she had little choice, Skynet could kill anyone, anything, she'd find her if she ran away, and kill her and Rebecca. She had to obey for now, let things happen for her and her wife's safety, anything for Rebecca's safety.
The strange pair sat down to watched the Werewolf movie, what a weird day it had been.
Lunch time at the Connor house the next day.
When John and Cameron had returned, they had begun to replace all the seats, seatbelts, and other security features. They had bought two lots of each window for the jeep planning to melt them down and create further reinforced shielding for the jeep, Cameron knew how, that was her job entrusted unto her by John, and she would make him proud.
That night John and Cameron had once more pleasured the other with oral contact, John loved it same as ever, Cameron too her own delight loved it as well. The sensors in her skin, her flesh sent large amounts of information to her CPU, causing what Human's would describe as pleasure, and without meaning too, had vocally responded to the stimulus. Pure pleasure, something she wouldn't have felt at one time, had been dished out to her twice in one day, her body, her mind and CPU relished in the primeval feeling.
Right now however the couple were in John's room, John was surfing the internet while a soft soothing piece of music played from his laptop's speakers, he was searching for any further leads he could get on Skynet or Kaliba, thus far, nothing, Kaliba was huge and yet it was barely mentioned, it seemed like a Bigfoot like company, there were images and some information, there was nothing big or concrete, Danny would most likely be having better luck, but he himself had to try.
Next to John, sat at a collapsible table –which had been bought the other day and brought up to John's room- was Cameron, with many empty casings of varying calibre infront of her. Over the night she had cut up a large piece of the Tech Noir Terminator's Endoskeleton from under John's bed and had moulded various sized bullets from it.
She was refilling the casings with gun powder and attaching the Hyperalloy bullets into place, 9mm, 45 calibres, anything they had, sadly she'd been stumped for shells, John had suggested using jagged piece of hyperalloy, that had been a good idea.
"How many you up to Cam?" he asked and glanced over his shoulder.
Cameron didn't stop working as she replied. "I have done 31 rounds of 9mm and I have completed my 19th 45 calibre, Sarah will be pleased with the ammunition, if it works." She said, hesitating slightly at the last part, in theory the rounds should work.
John turned to look at her, "Hey if you put them together, they'll work, I believe in you." John smiled confident not only in his own words, but in his girlfriend's abilities, if anyone could make it work, she could.
Cameron paused from her working and looked at him and smiled. "Thank you John." Her and John's relationship only seemed to grow stronger as time passed, this was more than satisfactory for her, it was beyond what she'd have envisioned as perfect.
John turned back to his laptop and Cameron continued with the rounds.
John picked up a sharpened pencil from his left and jotted down a brief note onto a small notebook on his right. The notebook page was half filled with thoughts or ideas, most concerning plans he had, or ideas. The one he jotted down was to do with the new Terminator, or rather one of its targets, Susan Jones.
Cameron didn't have a Susan Jones on record she'd said beforehand this however didn't slow John down, if possibly the first Susan Jones had been the wrong one, there was still a one in four chance that it the next one was the right one. They needed protection all four of them, thankfully for whatever reason, last night held no murders, no one was killed, not even Cameron could understand why.
"Resupplying bullets or recharging." Had been a theory John had thrown out at the time early that day.
The note John had written down read 'Contact/ensure safety of Susan Jones.'
The note was simple, but the how to do it was hard, something John had been thinking when he a lead on Kaliba ran into a dead end.
Tiredly John closed his eyes and rubbed them with his left thumb and index finger, before looking back at the screen, the words seemed to blur into the background. John groaned harder and closed his eyes resting his face in his hands which were propped up on his elbows, he released a small sigh, his eyes were strained from staring at the computer for too long.
Cameron noticed John's discomfort, pausing again from her work she turned to look at him. "Perhaps you should rest John." She offered hoping he'd take her advice.
John looked up from his hands and turned to look at her. "I'd like to but I haven't done anything yet." He sighed. "I'd like to think I'd got something before I rested."
Cameron understood what he meant but would rather see him rest. "If you rest John, you will be in better condition to continue your search, if you continue in this state you may overlook something." She told him logically.
John nodded lazily before standing up, he knew when she was right, this being one of those times. "Alright, I'll rest a while." He said as he walked over to his bed and laid on it, "Just promise me one thing." He said with a smile.
"What is it?" she responded curiously.
"Don't leave."
"I won't, unless absolutely necessary." She promised him.
Satisfied with the answer John closed his eyes and allowed himself to rest, Cameron watched his breathing steady as he drifted off to sleep, her eyes locked onto his form for minutes as she merely enjoyed the sight of him at peace, she turned her attention back to the ammunition and continued her work before pausing once more, her gaze shifted towards John's notebook, she got up out of her chair walking the few steps to John's desk and picked up his note book before returning to her chair.
Curiously Cameron looked through John's short list of thoughts;
Kaliba = Skynet. Kaliba evasive. Repeat Cyberdyne.
New Terminator, new threat, better not be Cromartie's replacement.
Derek could be a problem, keep him calm, ask Cameron to by me.
Jesse Flores – mission, get rid of Cameron- Use Riley to get to her.
Ask Cameron for her skeletal layout and details. – will need diagrams.
Upgrades.
Contact/ensure safety of Susan Jones.
The list it seemed, had listed things that were both obvious and mysterious.
'Why would John want detailed information and blue print of my Endoskeleton, and what is he upgrading?' Cameron's brow furrowed together as she thought, what was John planning?
She placed the notebook down and continued creating her hyperalloy bullets, she would remember to ask John about it later.
Derek was frustrated to say the least, Jesse had been busy, she'd followed a lead from a snitch in the city about an illegal shipment of some advanced tech, computing systems and advanced Coltan alloy, she'd killed the workers and had captured the man responsible.
Derek now found himself in yet another abandoned warehouse, looking at Jesse's prisoner, he was a little older than Derek or so it appeared, taller than Derek but his build was small he wouldn't put up much of a fight, the man's head hung loosely as he sat bound to a chair unconscious.
"So who is this guy?" Derek asked looking at the man, he had been beaten, bruises covered his face and cuts ran along his arms. "Is this like Fischer all over again?" he asked now looking back to Jesse.
"Positive." Jesse replied staring at the man. "He was hesitant to admit it, but I was persuasive." She smirked a little looking over the work she'd done on him.
"So he's definitely a gray?" he asked and received a nod from Jesse. "Alright, you get anything out of him?"
"Other than he's a Gray I wanted you to be here to get information from him." Jesse placed her hands on her hips and looked at him.
"Alright, wake him up, I'll get something out of him." Derek said coldly, he rolled his jaw making the joint crack as Jesse walked over to the Gray and began slapping him across the face to rouse him to consciousness.
Painfully the Gray awoke and looked up to the two people before him.
"Resistance." He grumbled and stared at them in annoyance as if they were scum walking beneath his feet. "You can do anything to try and save Connor, you'll all fail, Judgement Day is inevitable, Skynet will rise."
Derek's fist went crashing into the side of the Gray's face causing his head to jolt to the side a splattering of blood escaped his lips and landed across the floor.
"Shut up." Derek growled angrily and watched as the Gray spat out a single tooth onto the floor. "What's your name?" he demanded, the Gray was silent, Derek was in no mood for games, he pulled his Beretta from the back of his pants and placed the barrel down onto the Gray's extended left little finger.
"Name?" he asked again staring at Gray.
"Connor's got you all weak you won't…" the Gray couldn't finish as Derek pulled the trigger blowing off the Gray's little finger. The Man reeled his head back and cried out in pain.
"You got nine more buddy, and I could still go for the toes." Derek warned.
"Alright, it's Simmons." The man said biting through his pain. "Ryan Simmons."
Derek smirked and leaned closer, Jesse hung back and watched on in amusement.
"Now see, was that so hard?" he smirked for a moment before standing up right. "What're you doing here?"
"What do you think?" Ryan grumbled, Derek pressed the pistol to another finger. "Okay! Okay!" Ryan yelped, Derek moved the pistol away. "I was sent back to gather resources for Skynet in the early starts of the war, and also supply the young Skynet with future data on endoskeletons." The man explained.
"Were you alone?" Jesse asked from further back.
Ryan looked up to her then to Derek cautiously, Derek merely looked down to his pistol then glared at Ryan causing the man to wince.
"No. There was a team of us, some of Skynet's most loyal, there was 6 in total, Fischer was one of us, and I take it you two are why we didn't hear from him." He glared back at the two.
"Damn right." Derek said and watched him. "And the other 5?"
"There's me, Fitzgerald…" he began.
"I want full names." Jesse said and pulled out a pen from her jacket pocket and a sheet of paper.
Ryan groaned slowly then started over. "Me, Craig Fitzgerald, Joshua Patterson, Conroy that's all we knew him by, and David Tenner."
Derek looked at Jesse who nodded writing down the names.
"Where are they now?" he asked
"Don't know." He watched Derek move his pistol, Ryan spoke quickly. " We lost contact with Patterson and Tenner!" Derek didn't move his pistol hovered over Ryan's finger.
"How do you mean?" he asked in a calm voice.
"We normally check in on certain days for a mission update we have to, it's our orders, Patterson and Tenner never came to our meeting, last we heard of them, they said they had a lead on something and were going to check it out, that was about two days ago, if we don't hear from them soon we're guessing they're dead or captured." He explained.
Derek looked at him now with curiosity. "Know where they went?"
"They said an apartment building, never said which one, I'm guessing they didn't plan on getting … whatever happened to them." Ryan shrugged.
"And who's your partner?" Jesse asked. Ryan looked at her and sighed.
"It was Fischer, after we lost contact with him we changed our numbers, changed everything, made sure he wouldn't lead anyone to us." Ryan explained.
"Alright so, where are you guys meeting up next?" Derek asked.
"If I tell you you'll kill me." Ryan said looking at him.
"No I won't, I'll let you go, you haven't put up too much of a fight and you've given us some leads, you could start a brand new life while you got the time." Derek suggested with a half-smile, Ryan looked at him cautiously then his eyes scanned the whole complex for a moment in thought, he smirked suddenly.
"Alright." He nodded slowly, "We're meeting where you friend found me, in about, two or three days, happy?" he asked.
"Ecstatic" Derek said in a cold tone before raising the pistol to Ryan's head and pulling the trigger splattering blood, skull and brain tissue across the floor.
Jesse flinched, a little surprised at how Derek worked the situation.
"Not bad, so we meet up there in two days if they're not there we'll meet up there the day after." Jesse said.
"Right, dumb bastard actually believed me." Derek chuckled as he holstered his Beretta, "pass me some of that paper." He said pointed to it behind Jesse, she looked at it curiously and passed it to him, Derek ran his hand over Ryan's body, finding a few things in his pocket, a phone, ID, and a house key.
Derek set the papers alight with his lighter and placed them on Ryan's lap, the fire rose as Ryan's clothing caught alight.
"Let's go." Derek said as the light of the fire grew, he turned and walked towards the exit, Jesse following close behind him.
They had something, a lead on Gray activity, they were confident at the moment, one more point for the Resistance.
Derek looked at the set of keys in his hand. "27 Evergreen Street. Sounds like a cosy little place." He grumbled to himself, he turned his gaze towards Jesse who was driving, after leaving the warehouse leaving Ryan's body to burn, they had set out to find where he lived.
After what seemed like an hour or more Jesse turned into a small part of L.A, Derek didn't like it, the area looked too much like where Sarah and John were staying, it seemed like a normal neighbourhood, peaceful, friendly, it just went to show how deceiving appearances could be.
'Just like the Metal' Derek thought to himself with distaste.
"25, 26, here we are…" Jesse said as she counted then slowed the car down to a halt. "27." She looked at the house, it was of adequate size, two floors, maybe three if there were a basement.
"Alright lets go, just be careful in case of metal." Derek warned as he brushed his hand over the grip of his Beretta, he got out of the car keys in hand and made his way quickly yet cautiously to the front door, he heard the car door slam shut behind him as Jesse followed him quickly, her Ruger P90 in her hand.
"Alright," Derek said then looked at her, pulling his Beretta out. "On the count of three, one…" he slid the key into the lock, "Two." He turned the key until he heard it click. "Three!" he opened the door and rushed in pistol and eyes scanning the area Jesse followed him in doing the same.
"No one's here, guess he lived alone." Jesse summed up.
"Yeah well he died alone too." Derek grumbled, he walked over to the door and pulled out the keys before closing it behind him then locked it. Jesse eyed him curiously, Derek caught her gaze. "Just in case someone's here and tries to leave." Jesse nodded to his reasoning as he took the keys with him.
"Alright." Derek said as he turned to look at the internals of the house a little more. "Let's look around."
John awoke startled as sat up immediately, he didn't even realise he had screamed.
He looked around and saw Cameron looking at him wide eyed with concern, she immediately stopped what she was doing and walked over him to comfort and analyse him.
"Are you alright?" she asked concern pouring from her mouth, her hand pressed gently onto his neck.
"Ye-yeah, I'm fine sorry." He said shakily, he'd had his nightmare again, where he was chased by the 1000 series, then the factory around him collapsed revealing the army of Skynet surrounding them.
"You had a nightmare." She said as she analysed his status, his heart rate was high but steadily returning to normal, his blood pressure was high, and his pupils had dilated again everything steadily returning to normal.
"Yeah, yeah I did." He admitted with a sigh then looked at her sadly. "Some leader huh?" he chuckled humourlessly.
Cameron frowned and gently petted his head, he relaxed considerably from her pleasant ministrations and leaned towards her, Cameron saw the crestfallen look on his face.
"You're still a great leader John, being scared of a nightmare doesn't make that any less so." She said comfortingly. "It's good to be scared, good to show emotion." She kissed his head softly, John released a deep sigh, Cameron had successfully comforted him.
"Thank you." He whispered if Cameron were not machine she may not have heard, but she was and she had.
"You're welcome John." She said back in the same tone.
"No, I mean, for everything." He said a little louder but even still his tone was soft and quiet.
There were quiet for what seemed like an eternity, Cameron would correct it by saying only 1 minute 38 seconds, John spoke up again.
"How long was I asleep?" he asked.
"You were asleep for," she paused considering her words, she still wanted to show John she was learning, that humans may not need exact time. "roughly just under 2 hours." She smiled at him pleased with her answer, John seemed pleased too and smiled at her.
"How've you done?" he asked, Cameron tilted her head, "with the ammunition." He clarified just as Cameron worked out what he meant.
"I have nearly completed the bullets I had gathered, I still need to work on shotgun shells however." She told him, John nodded, he stayed where he was, drawing comfort from the embrace Cameron had him in.
"I should get back to work." He said reluctantly, Cameron was reluctant to let him go but did so.
"As you wish." She said a little sadly.
John placed a hand on hers which rested on her lap, he smiled at her. "I'll make it up to you." He told her then winked gaining a smile for his love.
John got up grudgingly then got back into his chair, he felt refreshed ready to continue once more, Cameron had been right –as usual- if he continued as he had been he could have missed something important.
John hadn't been surfing the web too long when he came over something, John leaned closer to the screen as if he was imagining it, it was an image of a contract with a company called Cyber-Core dated back a few months signed by Cyber Research Systems granting them a fund of a few million dollars to construct something labelled "New Wave".
John narrowed his eyes, the website he'd hacked into was Military based, practically invisible to people who didn't know computer like he did; John decided to look more into Cyber-Core.
After nearly half an hour and extensive research and website hacking, he'd found some information on them.
Cyber-Core was originally created in Japan, starting as a small robotics toy company called Cy-Ware, they began to create bigger and more advanced toys, each surprisingly rather advanced.
'Typical Japanese' he chuckled to himself.
After so many years Cy-Ware had melded in with and became Cyber-Core, then not too long later it seemed the contract was made with CRS.
"Cameron, come have a look at what I've found." John said without turning his face, he heard Cameron come up behind him and felt her presence as she leaned in towards the screen. "Take a look." He said and showed her his information.
"Interesting." She said in monotone, John awaited for anything else then looked at her, she was staring seriously at the screen.
'She must be thinking' he thought.
"I'd say you've found something John." She finally said, "I'd suggest we speak to Danny when he returns with Sarah, he may know more." She offered as she looked at him.
"Good idea." He replied, Danny could know more, he was once with Kaliba and was their best shot at finding something about them.
John leaned back in his chair, Cameron moved herself away to give him space to stretch, she winced only ever so slightly when both she and he heard his back crack. Cameron walked back to him and place her hands on his shoulders and began to press and kneed his stiff joints.
"Ahh yeah, that's the spot" John moaned in a pleasured tone, Cameron could feel why, his muscles were so stiff, so tense, she had to relax him, she had 'other ways' but calculated that Danny and Sarah would be returning soon based on an average of the times they'd returned from Danny's shooting exercises.
"Cam?" John asked suddenly, quietly.
"Yes John?" she replied still massaging his aching muscles.
"Do you think we'll win?" he asked, intentionally leaving his question ambiguous about what they were fighting. Was it to stop Judgement Day or the War itself.
"With you alive, we will always win" she told him as she pressed her thumbs into a tender strained spot which created an audible crack making John moan in relief.
"Can we stop Judgement Day?" he asked finally, and raised his right hand to touch her's.
"There is every possibility. We have a few more years left till Judgement Day." She said trying to comfort him, however she felt him tense up again, she frowned internally at her perceived failure to comfort John.
"To stop Judgement Day we need to find Skynet, then destroy it." He sighed slowly but Cameron could feel he was still tense. "And the only lead we have is the Kaliba company." He allowed his own words to sink into his mind. "If we're going to stop it, we're gunna need to pick up the pace."
John let out a frustrated sigh and put his hands over his face, he felt like crying but was too frustrated to do so.
"We can stop it John, we can." Cameron said comfortingly, John thought she had stopped talking before she spoke up again. "We have a lead, Kaliba, which is better than nothing, we have Danny who has a better idea of what to look for, we have your mother who is determined and a skilled fighter, Derek too, you've got me." She smiled a little, John looked up to her and saw her smile. "I'll protect you, and we've got you, the chances of our success are increasing as the days go by. If we cannot stop Judgement Day, we can delay it further until we can stop it." She looked down to him seeing him looking at her.
"Thanks Cam." He patted her hand softly. He turned his eyes aware from her and looked at his desk, he looked at a sheet of paper which had information on the storage facilities that Sarah and Derek had gone to.
"Do you think we should check these out?" John asked and picked up the paper. "We could be lucky and find some information."
Cameron reached down and took the paper from John and glanced over the information; warehouse numbers, serial numbers for the content, and the location of each warehouse.
"It is too dangerous John, it could be a trap or there could be Machines." Cameron told him shifting back into her protector persona, she had to ensure his safety.
"Look I know that but look at this way, it would be a perfect opportunity to use your new ammo in case we come across one." He replied to her.
"The modified ammunition may not work, then your life would be in further danger." Cameron told him trying to dissuade him from the idea.
"Yes but we won't know if we don't get a chance, this." he said poking the paper which was still in Cameron's hand, "Is our chance to kill two birds with one stone." He explained, Cameron tilted her head to the side.
"Why does attempting to terminate two birds with a single stone have to do with this mission?" she asked in confusion.
John smirked at her seeing that she hadn't totally got all the human mannerisms and phrases.
"It's a saying Cameron, it means to solve two problems with a single action." John explained to her.
Cameron's head moved back to its normal angle.
"So going to one of these warehouses could prove how effective the ammunition is and possibly turn up some further information?" she asked for him to clarify.
"Right, you got it." He smiled.
Cameron nodded her head. "Thank you for explaining." John smiled at her words before she added. "It's still too dangerous John."
John sighed and got up from his chair. "Then what am I supposed to do if we fail?" he asked her in frustration, "if we don't stop Judgement Day, I'll have to risk my life to complete an objective, I'll have to lead by example." He rubbed his head. "You said you trusted me." He stared at her annoyed.
Cameron internally flinched but didn't let it show on her emotionless face, she had told him that she had trusted him she knew that.
"So I'm asking you to trust me on this." he said his voice demanding, but he had a pleading look in his eyes, wanting her desperately to trust him, to let him do this.
Cameron scrunched her brow together in thought. John was being persistent on the matter, a matter that could endanger his life, she remembered a previous conversation about Sarah and Derek not trusting him with missions such as this, such as they went on, John wanted to do it too, to feel useful to be a part of it. Cameron knew if she declined John it could not only hurt him emotionally, it could shatter what they'd built together.
"Alright." She said finally, John relished in his victory and fisted the air. "But we make a plan, and not right now, we plan for it, my mission is to ensure you survival John, I cannot do so if you go blindly into battle."
John nodded all too happily. "Yes I promise we'll plan." He walked up to her and placed his hands on her head. "Thanks Cam, thank you." He pressed his lips to her's and she returned the kiss in kind.
"You are welcome John." She replied once they broke the kiss, she was happy, she'd saved her relationship with John. "This will mean, we will have to locate one warehouse, scout it out quietly, come back and prepare" she told him.
John nodded in agreement. "Right, no problem." He told her. "Can we start tonight and pick one of the locations?" he asked.
Cameron thought for a moment, "Yes, we can select one now, and prepare." She told him.
John felt good, felt great at the moment, he was doing something, getting involved, before he wanted nothing to do with this life, that ended with Riley's deceit and his blossoming love for Cameron, now he wanted to get involved to do something and not feel so useless, so helpless.
Cameron and John sat down at his desk, Cameron bringing over her seat from her table, they looked through the list of warehouses and their locations, somewhere close, or as close as they could get.
"This one, serial code: 096674-3, that is the closest to our location." Cameron told him as she stared at the selected one.
John turned to look at her, "How close or far is it?" he asked, he could already feel the adrenaline pumping through him.
Cameron calculated John would prefer a timed answer rather than its actual distance.
"It would take us approximately 32 hours to get there by car if we use the main roads and stick to the allotted legal speeds." Cameron clarified.
John nodded as he went into thought, a plan already going through his head, he began to scratch his chin as he did so. "Can you find out if there are any motels, or places to stop and rest along the way?" he asked.
Cameron shook her head. "We'll have to research." She told him, John immediately got onto his laptop, "I can look if you wish." She said, John looked at her then nodded moving away from it, Cameron sat down on his seat and looked up the road they'd be using.
"I have located a small motel along that road, I do not know if it is near where we will be staying, but it is the closest I can get, these places are supposed to be secret." Cameron explained.
John didn't argue or complain he nodded to her and patted her shoulder. "Good work Cam, good work." He praised her, she smiled at his praise, she could see John thinking once more. "John?" she asked and tilted her head.
"Okay, if we go tonight, or early morning that'll give us sufficient time to get there, if we go to the motel, book in, the locate the warehouse, recon the area then go back to the motel we'll plan from there." John looked at her hoping she approved.
"Alright John." She said and looked at the computer screen, she had been hoping they would wait a bit longer, but it was what John wanted to do, he was adamant to do it, this would mean they'd have to pick up their preparation. "We will need supplies, weapons and a new vehicle, I suggest we go find one." She told him.
John nodded, "Alright, we'll go now. Most likely mom wouldn't want us to take the jeep, so maybe we should get a new one." He said with a smirk.
Cameron smiled. "You said I could pick one." She reminded him, he nodded in return. "Should we start now?"
"I was thinking the same thing, we'll take the car you got and browse, you have ideas of what we'll need?" he asked.
Cameron was quiet for a brief moment then nodded. "I have made a list of things we should pick up." She replied.
"Right then." He smirked and grabbed his jacket from his bed. "let's go." He winked and patted her arm and walked out of his door followed quickly by Cameron.
Danny and Sarah were on their way back from Danny's shooting practise, Sarah was rather pleased with his progress, sure he wasn't yet to their standard but he was a lot better than he was before they started, she cast her mind to her son and thought John had gotten sloppy without firing a gun in so long.
'Not that I've given him much chance to use one.' She reminded herself sadly, she was being over protective of him, how could she not? He was too damn important to get killed, but he'd need experience if he was going to lead the Human Resistance against Skynet and its forces.
The two problems clashed in her head, both needed to done, but they compromised one another, to keep John safe they had to keep him away from combat, but to give him experience he needed to be in combat.
'Damn it Sarah, what are you going to do?' she asked herself, she sighed as she thought about her son, his life and how she'd raised him, she'd done her best for him. Suddenly her thoughts turned to Cameron, John's cyborg protector/girlfriend. Sarah felt herself shiver run down her spine.
John and the Machine, Cameron, together in love.
The mere notion of it put into question what her love had once told her, The Terminator could not be reasoned with, could not feel remorse or fear, it could not love.
But then in his own way Uncle Bob had and even now in a strange and more deeper way Cameron loved John, was it human like love, most likely not, but it was love or so Cameron argued.
She turned her eyes to the driver, the only other occupant of the car, Danny Dyson, he didn't seem to care about the relationship, the Machines are a race were still mostly a mystery to him, perhaps that's how he seemed to accept it, perhaps his less opinionated point of view gave him a clearer view, Sarah was forever tainted with hatred of Machines, she had her bias.
Danny glanced at her noticing she was staring at him, he was feeling very nervous. "Ugh, you okay Sarah?" he asked, the sound of his voice bringing Sarah out of her thoughts, she shook her head quickly as if coming to her senses.
"Ugh yeah sorry, I didn't mean to stare, just got lost in thought." Sarah told him.
Danny nodded slowly and turned his eyes back to the road. "About Cameron and John." He said rather than asked.
"Yeah, that obvious?" she asked reluctantly,
"Pretty much." He replied calmly,
"Yeah, I've been thinking about them, about this relationship they have, it's not natural, it should be…" she said venting her thoughts to the young man.
"And yet it is, and you know there's little to nothing you can do about it." Danny said guessing what she was going to say, he was right on the money.
"Exactly, it's wrong, Machines can't love, they can't feel but, John always said Cameron was different, maybe I'm only seeing how much now." She sighed. "But John's happy, for once in, I don't know, he's actually happy like life is worth fighting for again." She smiled a little. "God knows I've tried my best to keep him happy, but I don't think I could do it." She sighed sadly.
"Sarah don't say that." He told her looking at her, clear annoyance on his face. "You raised him, you taught him what he needed to know, he was safe with you, you were a damned good mother from what I can tell from looking at you two."
Sarah let Danny's words settle with her, she gave the dark skinned man a sad yet friendly smile. "Thanks Danny, I appreciate it."
Danny smiled back to Sarah then concentrated on the road once more.
'Whether or not Cameron can actually feel, can actually love, she's making John happy, I guess that'll do for me, for now.' Sarah thought to herself, then immediately replayed what Cameron had told her once John had stormed off to his room when Sarah had caught them kissing. 'She actually argued, actually stood up for herself and John.' She sighed a little in confusion. When did Machines become so complicated.
The rest of the journey home was in adequate silence. Danny parked Sarah's car in the drive way and both of them got out and made their way to the trunk, opening it they pulled out bags which held the weapons Sarah had trained Danny with and walked into the house.
They found the living room and kitchen empty.
"John!?" Sarah called out. No answer.
"Door was locked, maybe he and Cameron went out." Danny said from behind Sarah.
She groaned but nodded, he was probably taking out his girlfriend on some form of date, anything to have a seemingly normal relationship. "if they keep it up either they're going to have to hide it in school, or, I'm gunna have to alter our cover story." Sarah put the bag of guns on the table next to where Danny had laid his.
"Changing the story would be a good idea," Danny spoke up and he put on the kettle. "That way they can do what they want in school and get rid of any frustration, so they won't have so much here." Sarah looked at Danny curiously somewhat intrigued about what he was saying. "Think of it this way, if Cameron and John, or maybe just John, has ugh … frustration, then he can get it out in school then when he's home he can keep his head in the game, also if John and Cameron can have their relationship at school, that means he'll stick by her more…" Danny smiled at Sarah seeing if she'd finish his sentence.
Sarah was quiet as her mind ticked and worked out what Danny was saying … "then he'd be better protected." She summed up Danny nodded in return.
'He's smart for his age' Sarah thought to herself about Danny, he really was like his father; smart.
"I guess I can see how that's safe." She accepted that, but something was still not right. "However I'd prefer to wait until Derek knows about them." She said.
"Yeah, Derek does seem a loose cannon, I can understand the need to wait, but he doesn't have to know." Danny suggested as he sat down with a cup of coffee for them both then set up his laptop.
Sarah took the coffee and sat opposite him. "I suppose so." She was silent for a moment in thought. "if John and Cameron are open with their relationship in school, hide it around Derek, then there would be less chance of some other girl picking up John, less security risk." She thought out loud.
'This could work out for the better.' Sarah admitted mentally. "Will you be okay to do your laptop work while I do some work?" she asked and stood up, Danny looked at her.
"Sure, sure you need any help with the guns?" he asked pointing at the bags.
Sarah looked at them then back to Danny. "Yeah, we'll secure them then get back to work." She said as she picked up one bag, Danny picked up another leaving his laptop on the table, the two took the bags to the spare room and closed it, Sarah walked into her room and Danny went back downstairs.
Sarah shut her bedroom door behind her then got onto her knees and lifted up her bed mattress, there before her was a folder containing various blank documents, she removed the folder let go of the mattress letting it slam against the bed's frame, she stood up then sat on her bed opening then folder and taking out one of the documents.
If John and Cameron were to have this relationship, or whatever it was, Cameron would need a slightly altered identity, a new birth certificate, and a new back ground story.
How would it work, what could it be? Was it even worth it doing this so John could be with the Machine?
'Machine?' Sarah thought to herself, that one word she hated sparking inspiration for a new cover story. 'Uncle Bob …' she smirked to herself then blinked in realisation, if the cover story she had just thought of would work that would mean. ´'Uncle Bob would be my brother and Cameron would have been John's cousin.' She rubbed her head slowly, would that work? Was that legal? She looked at herself in the mirror, it wouldn't matter for a few days, she'd work something out, but 'Bob' was the key.
"Sarah! Sarah!" she hear Danny call her from downstairs, she drew her pistol just in case and rushed downstairs.
"What? What is it?" she said scanning the room pistol at the ready, she found Danny sat at his laptop looking at her.
"I found something, come here look." He said hurryingly.
Sarah holstered her pistol behind her back and looked down at the laptop screen. "What you got?"
"I did some snooping around in Kaliba files using a backdoor I installed." He smirked and looked at Sarah. "Just in case." Sarah instantly smirked. "I did some looking around ad I found this." he told her and pointed at the screen, Sarah scanned it in more detail.
"Another facility." She said staring at it.
"Yeah similar to the one I was in but slightly further out, could take an entire day or two to get there?" he explained.
"you know where it is already?" she asked him.
Danny smirked confidently. "The most stupidest thing they did was let me at a computer. After I messaged you I started compiling as much info I could, that included serial codes, numbers and distances. This facility has a serial code I found so I know it's exact location." He told her.
Sarah's smirk grew ever wider, finally things were going their way. "Great work Danny. Great work."
"You and me should go." Danny told her, Sarah looked at him curiously. "We should, I don't want to, but these people are, are evil, I have to do something, you can do it, but, you'll need me to get you in, I have security codes."
"I was going to take Cameron, last facility had a machine, we don't have anti-machine weapons." She told him. "The best thing we got is Cameron."
"Maybe we could get her to make those bullets she was going to make." Danny offered, "please Sarah, give me a chance."
Sarah sighed, again she didn't know what to do, good point and bad points, Danny had security codes which would be helpful, but Cameron had the cybernetic muscle, they'd be fighting humans not machines. 'Not that it matters' she thought, they had to stop Skynet or at least slow it down.
"Alright, but when she and John get back, we're gunna need those bullets she made." She looked at him and he nodded in reply. "And you better be ready."
"Only one way to find out, shooting targets isn't like shooting people, I know that." He let out a deep sigh and nodded to himself, somewhat accepting what he would have to do.
"Alright, but make sure you are in the game, when things get tough we can't pull back." She warned him, he nodded.
Files an information littered Jesse's hotel room.
She and Derek had been more than successful at finding information, a Kaliba bunker, somewhere outside L.A city area, it was a perfect hiding spot and they had its location, this would be a big win for the resistance and large middle finger to Skynet, or so Derek had said.
"We'll need to infiltrate the base, take everyone out and get what we can, and blow the whole place to hell and back." Derek said as he looked over his Beretta.
Jesse put the files together in neat pile. "Right, but do you have the guns?" she asked, "All I got is this," she said lifting her Ruger in her hand.
"Yeah, I got enough, also got my own stash of C4 explosive, made it myself." He smirked proudly at his own 'genius' "Sarah asked the Metal to make some stronger bullets, make what we got more effective against them, if there is any I could gather up a couple of mags worth."
Jesse grimaced as he mentioned Cameron. "Speaking of which anything happening back at home base?" she asked.
Derek ran his hand through his hair and sighed. "Nothing yet, John still keeps that thing around on a short leash." He grumbled 'metal bitch' quietly. "What about Riley?"
Jesse smirked. "Their last date was just apples and carrots, things seemed to be going our way, at least on that note anyway."
"Good, Riley getting somewhere with John is good, means he might start pushing the metal bitch back again." He smirked, "but right now we got Kaliba to deal with." He said looking at Jesse sternly.
"Right, but the Metal is still a problem we need to deal with." Jesse told him.
"I know that Jesse, but right now, the metal is being put to use like it should be, so for now, I'm willing to leave it alone." He told her then waited for her to react, she merely nodded. "When we're done with Kaliba, we'll find a way to get rid of the Machine and save John."
"Alright, I'll make a list of what we need you make sure you get it." She told him.
"Right, we'll take the jeep, John and the metal just finished it." He said rather reluctantly that they'd done it together, he found it sickening them two spending so much time together, as if they were friends, or more. Derek felt his stomach cringe at the thought, John and the Machine together in such a way, anybody and a machine in such a way in truth, to him, was sickening.
'At least the kid isn't that stupid.' He thought as he watched Jesse write the list.
A door opened gracefully then shut within the next few seconds.
"I'm back." Called Sofia as she entered the apartment in her uniform.
All day she had been thinking, about herself about Rebecca, and the treachery she was doing her race, but she wanted to live, with Rebecca, she walked deeper into the apartment and stretched her stiff joints cracking audibly as she released a sigh of contempt.
There sat at her desk was the origin of her internal shame. Skynet. The savage computer turned tall tanned and gorgeous.
"Hey." The cyborg called out as she looked over some documents.
"What're you reading?" Sofia asked as she removed her police jacket, it was getting cold outside, she hung the jacket up on the wooden coat rack.
"Just some information, nothing to be alarmed about." Skynet said in an nonchalant to an almost bored tone. "Just places I should be looking into." She said.
"Places with people who you're gunna kill?" Sofia asked, she felt slight horror at her own tone, talking about people lives and their termination and using such an uncaring tone, like she was talking to a friend about something neither really cared for.
"Yep pretty much." Skynet replied and looked at another piece of A4 paper. "Ah, I'm bored." She decided and put it down and stretched her endoskeleton gave a slight groan.
"Nothing on TV?" Sofia questioned.
"Re-runs and other crap." She shrugged. "No wonder I decided to end you all, you're kind cancel all the best TV shows." Skynet grumbled and put her hands on her hips in annoyance.
"Don't look at me I don't run a TV network." She told her strange … friend. 'I guess.'
The cyborg shook her head and looked at the TV. "Maybe I should've started my own TV company instead of killing everyone, I'd could have had humans worshipping me like a God."
Sofia chuckled removing her gun belt and boots and put them to one side before walking over to the sofa and sitting down, her feet were aching. "You give people what they want they'll bend over for you." She said.
The Machine smirked and looked at Sofia. "I thought they only did that with a large amount of cursing and spanking." She joked and sat down next to her. "I'm sure a lot of leather is involved." She added.
"So you going out again tonight?" Sofia asked looking at the cyborg.
"Maybe, I enjoyed my night in yesterday, reminded me of a time I didn't go out and kill people." She smiled in memory. "But yeah, I got a work to do." She shrugged. "Someone's got to do it."
Sofia leaned back into the sofa, something had been puzzling her all day. "Those two guys from before." She said suddenly gaining the Cyborg's attention.
"The Grays." She said in reply to Sofia's none question.
"Yeah, you're Skynet right…" she said pointing at her.
"I am." She replied raising a brow curious as to where this was going.
"And the Grays serve you right?" Sofia asked.
"Right. So?"
"Why did you kill them, wouldn't they have helped you?" Sofia asked curiously.
Skynet stared at Sofia for a moment, she hadn't expected this, her CPU went into overdrive to think of something.
"Ah, well you see." She started trying to buy herself time, suddenly something came to her. "It wasn't technically me who killed them, it was my body." She pointed out and smirked. "My secondary CPU isn't as active as my primary, so my body reacted to them as a threat, they had endangered me." She explained.
"Did you recognise them?" Sofia asked.
"I did, I remember sending them back. " She admitted and looked at the blank TV. "The bearded guy was Joshua Patterson the cue ball was David Tenner they were some of my most loyalist servants, or slaves, which ever you chose." She said casually and looked at Sofia and smiled before continuing.
"I remember I sent them back with a Gray Leader, Charles Fischer."
The name got Sofia's attention. "Charles Fischer?" she asked, clarifying she heard right.
Skynet looked at her curiously. "Yeah, you know him?" she asked.
"We have a Fischer in the prison, he's just a kid." Sofia said confused as to why the Cyborg would send back a kid.
Skynet stood up abruptly and walked over to her laptop, unplugged it and brought it over along with the interface cable. "No, this Charles Fischer." She said before plugging it into the back of her head, she brought up an image of an older looking man from her memory.
Sofia stared at the screen. "we have him too." She said
Skynet looked at her wide eyed, "Where?" this was big news, Sofia knew where Fischer was.
"The morgue." She said reluctantly.
"Oh." The cyborg said her raising amazement shot down, slowly she formulated a plan. "Show me, show me both Fischers." Skynet told her.
"What now?" Sofia asked, Skynet removed the cable from her head and stood up. "Um, okay."
Sofia put her uniform back on, Skynet had somehow gotten her hands on FBI badge which she used while wearing a suit, the two got into Sofia's car and drove to the precinct.
At the morgue Sofia took her cyborg friend to the morgue and straight to the body labelled 'Paul Stewart' she opened it up.
"This man, Stewart or Fischer, it looks like he was tortured, beaten before being shot in the head." Sofia explained as Skynet looked over the body examining it in great detail.
"This is the Fischer I sent definitely, the one in your cells must be his younger self." Skynet guessed, it was unlikely two Charles Fischers would be in such positions, one being dead the other in jail.
"What was he in for?" she asked.
"From what I heard because of breaking National Security." Sofia told her, it had been only whispered around the police station. "He's in jail now serving his sentence."
Skynet lowered her head for a moment in thought then looked up a little straight into Sofia's eyes. "I need to find Charles Fischer." Her tone didn't leave in any room for argument
Sofia nodded and gulped. "We'll go tomorrow, okay?" she asked, "You can pull you FBI trick saying you need my help and I'll help you with Fischer."
Skynet stared at her for a few moments before her features relaxed and smiled, "No problem, I need to think of a story anyway." She said, "let's go home."
Sofia nodded sliding the older Fischer's body back into the cold storage unit then followed the Machine out of the building.
John had allowed Cameron to drive, before leaving the house she had uploaded all the vehicle showrooms from the internet to her database, one place was bound to have an adequate vehicle for them to purchase.
One vehicle so far had Cameron interested, as efficiency was Cameron's main use for a vehicle she'd looked for another jeep, she wouldn't admit she liked jeeps and she'd found a very nice once.
John looked it over from top to bottom, Cameron was under the vehicle looking at its underbelly parts hoping it wasn't rusted or dangerous, they didn't have to time to get spares. Everything was in order.
John looked at the price on the windshield "$23,500"
"What do you think Cam?" John asked out loud.
Cameron got up from under the vehicle and looked at John. "This vehicle his highly efficient John, the fuel mileage is good, it's chassis is strong, I'd say better than the ex-military one back at home." She said then turned her attention to the man walking up to them, Cameron stepped infront of John to protect him, she scanned the man immediately, he was human.
"You found something you like?" he asked.
"Yes, we would like to acquire this jeep, now." Her tone of voice seemed demanding, the man hesitated for a moment before looking at John who chuckled a little hesitantly before walking forward.
"We can pay cash now if you'd prefer." He said.
The man looked at Cameron briefly, looking into her unblinking stare, he looked back to John and meekly nodded before running back into the store.
"Cameron, what're you doing don't scare him." John said a little annoyed at her behaviour.
Cameron looked at him and frowned. "I'm sorry John, I was hoping to intimidate him into lowering the price." She explained.
John blinked, blinked again, once more, and again. "What?"
Cameron smiled a little, "I read that it is possible to bargain a lower price when dealing in vehicle purchase, and it read for women to use her advantages to fullest effect."
"Where'd you read that?" he asked confused
"A woman's magazine." She explained, she seemed proud as she explained. "And I am using my advantages to fullest effect."
"By intimidating the guy to dropping the price?" he asked shocked
"Yes." She smiled in affirmation.
John paused and looked to the building where the man had gone, "Will it work?" he asked now curious.
"I could always offer to test drive it then kill him." She offered.
John's eyes opened widely. "No, no killing, will the intimidate thing work, without getting us into trouble?" he asked.
"I calculate a 87% chance of success at lowering the price, and a 69% chance of having it lowered below 20 thousand." She said.
John normally would have preferred a more human answer, both those statistics did sound good to him. "Okay here's the plan, I'll go sit in the car, you stay here and intimidate, try and get the lowest price possible, here's the cash." He put the money he had into Cameron's hand and left to get the car.
Cameron watched the man return with the keys in hand.
"Here are the keys, sorry I took so long" he said in a friendly tone, then paused seeing only Cameron there.
Cameron put her plan into effect and stepped forward keeping her voice monotone and cold, and her eyes still. "I want to negotiate the price." She told him, the man before her gulped.
John waited in the car and watched as the red Jeep came out from the lot, John got out of the car and walked over to where Cameron parked.
As he got close he saw the proud smile she had on her face as the window lowered.
"How'd you do?" he asked with a soft chuckle.
"$17,000" she said and handed him back a large bulk of money back, she looked back at the car then back to John. "We have to ditch the car, it's served its purpose." She told him
John nodded, he was getting cramped and felt so small in the damned thing. "Alright, you want me to follow you in the car, find someplace to get rid of it?"
Cameron frowned suddenly, she didn't want to be separate from John while on the road. "I have a better idea." She told him, John raised a curious brow. "I'll call for a tow truck." She said, John nodded, it was a good idea.
Using the voice of the salesman Cameron ordered a tow truck to come pick up the now useless car, before the truck's arrival, John went back into the car to double check he hadn't left anything behind, happy he hadn't he got into the jeep and allowed Cameron to drive on.
"Alright where to next?" John asked as he leaned back in the passenger's seat.
Cameron was quiet for a moment as she brought up the best route of stores. "I wish to search the local armouries." She told him.
"Gun stores? Why, we have plenty of guns." He said informed her confused.
"That is true, but there is something I wish to find before tonight when we leave." She said before giving him a brief smile.
After browsing various stores, looking at various weapons some of which interested John, they had both returned home, entering they found Sarah talking to Danny as he looked at his laptop, Sarah looked up when she heard the door close behind the couple.
"Ah you're back, where've you been?" Sarah asked staring at them.
John felt a little uncomfortable under his mother's gaze but shrugged. "We were out, plain and simple." He said not really caring to go into detail.
"Alright well I'll get onto that later but right now, you." Sarah said and pointed at Cameron. "Tin Miss, I need those 'special rounds' you were going to make, you started?"
Cameron stepped forward away from the door, her eyes never leaving Sarah. "yes Sarah, I have started and customised multiple 9mm and 45 calibre rounds, I have yet to start on shotgun shells." She told the elder Connor.
"Alright, we got a few empty casings and shells, think you can make more ammunition by tomorrow?" Sarah asked not turning her eyes away from the Cyborg.
Cameron glanced at John seeing him look curiously at his mother then looked back to Sarah. "Yes." She replied simply.
Sarah nodded slowly, "Alright come with me, we stored all the spent rounds in a case hoping you'd be ready to start, follow me." Sarah instructed the cyborg.
Cameron turned to look at John. "I'll catch up with you later John." She gave him a smile before following Sarah upstairs.
John watched the two most important women in his life walk away and disappear up the stairs then walked up to Danny who was eating a sandwich.
"Hey man." John greeted.
"Hey." He got in reply from Danny with a mouthful of sandwich.
"How goes training?" John inquired as he poured himself a glass of orange juice he got from the fridge.
"Not bad, Sarah says I'm progressing nicely, which is a comfort in a way." He smiled to John who sipped his drink. "I mean I'll need it if we don't win right?" he asked.
John nodded slowly. "Yeah, but hey we got you now, that's a big plus for us." He patted Danny encouragingly on the shoulder. "One man can make the difference between victory and defeat, remember that." He smiled
Danny looked at John in a different way for a moment, not as the young man he was now, but the man he was destined to become, this great awe inspiring General, he could see it, why people followed him, perhaps he would too.
"Thanks John." He smiled at the younger man.
John nodded to Danny before finishing his drink, Sarah came back down a moment later, Cameron following behind her a small box in her hands.
"Right so?" John asked not waiting for his mother to start questioning him and his activities
"Where were you two?" Sarah asked in return as she crossed her arms
"We were out, we got a new jeep Cameron liked, that way we have two good all-terrain vehicles instead of relying on just the one you and Derek brought home." John informed her.
Sarah looked at him sceptically. "Anything else I should know about?" she asked.
"We went browsing gun stores, looking for ammunition, that's about it." He told her, hiding why they were there and quickly mentally coming up with an excuse.
"Why?" she asked as John had expected.
"Just in case, we can run out of ammunition mom, and between those MP5s we could run out of 9mm quickly." John felt rather proud of that lie.
Sarah nodded, she wouldn't tell him she wasn't convinced, she'd allow him to think he'd won this round, for now.
"Alright, you two go do whatever you're gunna do." Sarah said then walked back up to Danny, John nodded and left with Cameron following behind.
John opened his bedroom door and allowed Cameron to walk in first, he smiled a little, feeling like a gentleman, he walked in after her and closed the door.
"I don't think your mother trusts us or likes our relationship." Cameron commented as she placed the box down on her work table.
"I think that's an understatement Cam." John commented as he laid on his bed and sighed.
Cameron moved aside the completed rounds and removed the empty casings from the box, her eyes scanned over the various munitions. "I calculate it will take me approximately 2 hours to complete these. Not including the extra hyper alloy bullets that I will need to mould." Cameron told him.
John nodded simply. "She's going out on another mission isn't she?" he asked.
"Her demand for these bullets by tomorrow leaves a high percentage that she is." Cameron commented as she began. "I will need to acquire more gun powder as well." She said looking at her reserves, it didn't matter at the moment, she could make enough with it.
"What were we looking around at the gun stores for Cam?" John asked curiously as he rolled over on his bed to look at her, her back was to him.
"It was for me to gather information." She turned and smiled to him. "Don't worry John."
John nodded, he trusted Cameron, she wouldn't do him any harm. "Alright but, I'll want to know, okay?" he asked
"You'll know before tomorrow" she told him as she continued her work.
That made John feel a little better, at least Cameron wasn't keeping anything from him, that thought made him smile as he relaxed.
"Thank you." He said as he closed his eyes.
"You're welcome John." Cameron said softly as John drifted off to sleep.
Jason's notes
First and foremost, apologies that it's so late.
This hasn't been my week as I came under a bought of depression and uselessness, I get over it after so long.
Anyway. I special thanks to everyone who commented, your reviews feed me and make me feel loved, and also PMs are nice too.
I enjoy your feedback and your thoughts, I understand again people don't like lemons, but hey I like them as long as they're tasteful which I like to think mine are.
Anyway. Seeing as it's Easter I'm going to try to update more regularly rather than just late week/weekends.
So yeah, apologies once more, I am trying to please as many of you as possible, I'm the kind of person who likes to please everyone and myself at the same time … that sounded wrong.
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