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Chapter 21: New Home
"You're back to school," Sarah announced as John slurped his spaghetti sauce. He choked, coughing as he covered his mouth, turning away from the table.
"Are you kidding mom?" John gasped after he recovered "I've missed school for like 2 days, 'missing' or so the term may be for me at school right now. Some of the ones with the bizarre minds may think I'm already dead! The school couldn't even contact us for like TWO whole days mom and suddenly I appear out of nowhere and announced I'm back? That's not cool at all, mom!"
"You're still going John. You have to," Sarah said, not bothering her son's objection.
"But mom, the world ends in four years! Rather than sitting in class and acting like a good little boy learning the thinking and history of Shakespeare, I should be practicing with John, now that he or rather I am back from the future. He can teach me stuffs about being a leader!" John stammered over the awkwardness of addressing someone else at the dinner table, enjoying the spaghetti as 'I'.
"You're going to school!" Sarah was persistent in this. "I have to—"
"Mom this is great!" Future John interrupted, "It hit the right spot after surviving for so long on staled and molded bread,"
"Really?" Sarah asked, trying not to sound genuinely pleased, keeping her cool posture.
"Yeah, are you kidding? This can't be the same cooking I tasted and commenting it sucks before Judgment day!" Future John grinned, finishing the last of his spaghetti. "Is there more?"
Sarah seemed happy at her son, asking for more, as normally, there would be plenty left with everyone at the table insisting they would blow up if they had anymore ('forgetting' to add --of her horrible cooking at the end) "Yeah, of course," Sarah took his plate and filled it up with spaghetti and Future John eagerly consumed the rest.
John watched as the future him ate the spaghetti he himself would classify as 'not the best'. John wondered if the Future him praised his mom's cooking to divert her attention or did he genuinely enjoyed it.
If it was to bail him out, John could never thank him and pity him more than he already did.
Future John slopped down the spaghetti and when there was half a plate left, he stopped, glancing at Cameron, gesturing at the plate.
Cameron, who was sitting at the couch, talking to Carter, shook her head politely, rejecting his offer of the 'delicious gourmet' spaghetti.
"Who'll do the dishes?" Sarah eyed the people at the table hopefully.
"I will!" Future John said, standing up to keep all the dishes and brought them into the sink. He started washing before Sarah could follow him into the kitchen.
"You sure you still remember how to wash the dishes?" Sarah asked suspiciously.
"Yeah mom! Sure why not, I helped you wash the dishes all the time before Judgment day," Future John shrugged as he picked up a plate and started soaping it.
"Really? You sure aren't helping out nowadays," Sarah jerked her head to John who was sitting at the table, not noticing he was glancing at Cameron and Carter, green with envy.
"Maybe because John is too caught up with staring at Cameron than help you with the dishes," Future John smirked, glancing at John who was, true enough, stealing worried glances at Cameron and Carter.
Sarah resisted a worried frown.
Future John, noticing his mom uneasiness, assured "I still remember how to wash the dishes mom, promise, I won't break any thing,"
"Okay then. I'll leave you with the dishes." Sarah left the kitchen.
Later, John went to have his bathe while Sarah and Derek went to the city to pick up some stuff to fill the refrigerator. Cameron joined Future John in the kitchen while Carter stayed in the front yard of the house, keeping guard in the cool atmosphere out there.
"John, need any help?" Cameron asked him, casually brushing the back of his neck as she walked past him. Future John blinked for a while before turning to her, smiling.
"No thanks. I'm having fun," Future John grinned, holding up his soapy palm, blowing a bubble at her. Cameron flinched as it burst in front of her. They laughed together for a moment before coming to an erupt stop. "Never had this in the future, we hardly had any soap. But you managed to smell great all the time." Future John gazed into the soapy sink, seemingly in a daze.
Cameron let this bitter time of thinking about the unexpected and pathetic future past. "Damn Skynet," Future John cursed, trying to hold back his tears. Then he turned to her, giving her a smile "But then again, if it wasn't for that bastard, I wouldn't have you," Future John gazed lovingly at Cameron for a while. She smiled, letting his comment pass.
"I haven't had any chance to ask you," Cameron paused "How had life been? Seriously," She fingered his scarred cheek gently.
"Without you?" Future John frowned. Cameron remained silent but he took that as consent. "Like hell. There's nothing more I can say about it. Everything stopped when you went,"
Cameron gazed into Future John's eyes. Cameron realized it had melted from the ferocious glare to a soft gaze. In the future, John always wore this mask when he was faced by machines that attempt to assassinate him or faced by his subordinates. But he couldn't help but tear it down in the presence of Cameron and only with her alone.
Cameron noticed no matter how soft his emerald eyes is to her, deep down, she (Even as a machine) is able to sense the burden on him. The him who experienced the stress and difficulty of being the future leader of mankind but not the John which currently only concentrated on how hard his life is now with all the pressure given to him by mainly Sarah.
"What's wrong?" Future John asked, frowning.
"Nothing," Cameron blinked, going back to state of a blank expression.
"Well, I think there's something else," Future John said, scrubbing the plate.
"There is," Cameron paused "Why did you not request to share a room with me?"
Future John chuckled at her question "Is that why you rejected my offer of the spaghetti at dinner? You're mad at me?"
"No," Cameron replied bluntly, pausing before adding "I want to know,"
"Anyway, it's really because I want to spend more time with mom, I really missed her a lot. You should understand, Cameron. What happened to her before judgment day," Future John explained darkly.
"I do understand John," Cameron gave him a small smile.
"I'll bring you back with me, then we'll have hell loads of fun, forget about judgment day ever happening and instead, thank skynet for bringing us together, wouldn't that be great?" Future John gave her a promising smile.
Cameron's smile disappeared, leaving no trace of it as she fell into a slight daze.
"Cam?"
"Yes, okay," Cameron replied quickly.
"You'd better go back to the room, I suggest you sleep to regain full power in your CPU," Future John suggested.
"Okay, I'll do that, you too," Cameron said, stroking his cheek one last time before she left the kitchen.
"After I have a long satisfying bathe with soap!" Future John shouted mischievously after her.
Cameron went to the bathroom after picking up her towel from Sarah's room, where all the towels are and a jacket and track pants that Sarah said was for her.
She went into the bathroom, slipping off her clothes. She stepped into the bath cubical, turning down the heat to save warm water for Future John.
Cameron went into bathe mode; where her CPU would automatically send signals to her body to do the normal routine. Cameron's mind, if she had one, was somewhere else. She was thinking if she should cut off her mission halfway and leave with Future John back to the future? It's him who ordered her to protect the younger him and now he asked her to abandon it, so maybe she should oblige like how she's so good at…
She spent the rest of her shower time to think about this, finishing it; she stopped out of the bath cubical.
Cameron took out a soft grey jacket that fitted her nicely. She put on her bra and then zipping her jacket to her chest, revealing part of her upper chest then after, she wore her pants; she walked out of the bathroom, meeting Future John who was there outside.
"You took extra long you'd know?" Future John commented, grinning.
"I took approximately 9 minutes and 4 seconds," Cameron objected.
"You used to take 3 minutes and 38 seconds at most. I remembered, in the future," He grinned slyly. Cameron chuckled softly, walking past him, giving a quick kiss goodnight on his lips.
Future John kissed back eagerly. When she pulled away, he made no objections as he went into the bathroom. Cameron went to the room she now shared with the 'no cares no worries' John, instead of in the future where she shared one with the John with so much stress and burden but one thing they both had in common was that Cameron do have a funny thing happening in her when she's near either of them.
Is it love?
Cameron really does not know.
But she does know she'll die for any one of them any day….
To be continued…
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