Ch 36
In the morning, Kaede got up and went into the bathroom to change. In the other bed, John was sleeping, tucked under Cameron's arm, his head on her shoulder. Cameron was lying awake. "morning," Kaede said quietly.
"John was having a nightmare. This soothed him," Cameron replied softly.
"Ya do good fer him lass." She went in got cleaned up and changed. It was 8:30. Leaving them in bed, Kaede went and got some breakfast for them, then drove out to see what their house looked like.
Coming up to the house, she noted police tape on the front door and the shed. She drove on by, expecting something like this. Getting back to the hotel, Kaede called Mrs. Weaver.
John Henry's voice came on. "Hello Kaede."
"Hello, John Henry. I have news fer Mrs. Weaver. Seems Kaliba has their home plate in Poland. Trying at find out where exactly. Let'er know fer me if ya would."
"I will do that. Thank you for calling." *click*
Terminators, they never say goodbye. Kaede put her phone away.
Going inside, John was still asleep and half wrapped around Cameron. "He's still sleepin?" Kaede asked.
"Yes. It as been nine and a half hours."
"Kin ya git him up so he can eat while the food's still hot?" Kaede asked.
In Sarah's voice, Cameron loudly asked, "JOHN, what are you doing with Tin Miss!"
John's eyes snapped open to see his hand cupping Cameron's breast. He recoiled off the bed, fell to the floor with a THUMP, then shot to his feet, looking confused and embarrassed.
Kaede laughed. "Mornin John!"
"What…. Where…" John asked, looking around.
"Relax John, Sarah's not here," Cameron said, grinning at him, as she got up.
"I brought breakfast, time ta eat," Kaede told him.
John frowned at Kaede. "That wasn't funny," he stated.
"Aye, it was," Kaede replied in a giggle. Her phone rang again. She let them go over to get something to eat and pulled her phone out. "Kaede."
"Agent Aldridge here. We may have something for you. Yesterday, Sarah Connor was picked up. The detective who interviewed her called me after her initial questioning. She mentioned Kaliba was building Sky Net."
"I want to talk to her. Where is she?"
"County lockup, I'll met you there, say eleven?" he asked.
"Aye. My official being here paperwork should be arriving round that time. If ya got a fax number there, I'll call it in so I kin hand it right to ya."
"Good, I'll see you there," he said and hung up.
Munching on his breakfast sandwich, John looked over at her. Kaede told him, "I'm meetin an FBI guy in a while. We're going to talk ta yer mom."
John perked up. "Where is she, is she all right?"
"She ain't in a hospital, so that's a good sign," Kaede told him. "I'll let ya know more when I git back. Fore that, breakfast first."
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For once, Kaede was glad her behemoth-mobile had GPS and road maps on the center screen. She was irritated at the car telling her where to go, turn by turn. And why couldn't that voice be a nice manly voice?
She found the prison and showed the guard her badge and explained why she was here. He let her in to park in the 'visitors' lot. It the main office, Agent Aldridge was there with his partner, Agent Beck. Agent Alridge eyed her.
"Dame Kaede?"
"Aye, Lad. Done sneakin round and huntin, so I doft me wig an contacts."
He led her over to the fax machine. Kaede called Mr. Smith and told the secretary the fax number.
While they waited for Kaede's paperwork, Agent Beck asked, "You came all the way from Britain looking for this Kaliba group?"
"Aye lad. These are bad people. I need ta find the top leaders an stop'em."
"You think Sarah Connor is involved with them?" Beck asked.
"Nay, but she might know someone who is."
The fax machine beeped and began printing out papers. Kaede motioned to them. "This what ya need, Agent Aldridge?" she asked.
He waited until all six papers were printed, then looked them over. He nodded. "This verifies you are here working for the British government on the Kaliba case, and any entity attached to them. We are to give you assistance." With a nod he added, "We shall."
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Kaede walked into the female portion of the prison with a female guard, Agent Aldridge and his partner Agent Beck. The guard opened Sarah's cell door. "In here," the guard announced.
Lying on her bed, Sarah sat up as Kaede entered her cell. The men and the guard staying just outside. Eyeing Kaede, Sarah asked, "What are you doing here?"
Kaede grinned. "Been a bad girl, have ya? So why'd ya go an race round town bangin inta stuff?"
Sarah glowered at her, then eyed the agents briefly.
"What kin ya tell me bout Kaliba?" Kaede asked.
"Shouldn't I have a lawyer if I'm being questioned?" Sarah asked in a heavy tone.
"I'm nay American law enforcement," Kaede replied. "Wit me, ya got no rights. Now, what do ya know bout Kaliba?"
"You won't believe me," Sarah grumbled.
"Lass, I kin believe alot. I know ya burned up a terminator. Leaving the skin on was a dumb thing ta do. Fleein was worse. So, tell me bout Kaliba."
Sarah was surprised Kaede would say that here. "Kaliba is the one making Sky Net."
Beck let out a snort. "Mrs. Kikumura, She's crazy ..."
"Did ya inspect the remains in that pit in the shed?" Kaede asked him in a hard tone.
"We didn't have to," Beck retorted. "She was caught with guns and explosives in her vehicle. She was ID'd as an escaped mental patient and known terrorist."
"So ya didn't bother searchin'er house or shed where the fire was, that what yer tellin me?" Kaede asked. "Ya never looked in that pit ta find bits of steel, coltan, copper, carbonized silicone that was left from the thermite fire there? An here I thought the FBI were investigators."
Both men stiffened. "We knew who we had," Aldridge stated.
"Nay, an yay still doan," Kaede told them. "I looked at tapes from the nut house she was in. Someone came in killin, an tried ta kill Sarah. Someone that was bullet proof. Sarah did manage to escape death. The bank that blew up, Sarah was locked inside the vault. Ya tell me how one robs a bank by demanding ta be locked in the vault. They was tryin to escape another terminator, ya blockheads. We learned that Cyberdyne was indeed makin a malevolent AI. I also found that as far as a true trial, Sarah has yet ta have one. A doctor ordered her kept as a mental patient for 'observation'. Ya wanna show me the Judge who ordered her put away an when her trail was? I looked and didn find any."
"Regardless, Sarah Connor was caught with illegal explosives and firearms," Beck stated.
"Ain't sayin she's innocent or very smart, but maybe ya oughta look inta WHY she's so freaked out fore ya just put'er away an fergit'er?" Kaede asked.
"Sarah Connor is a criminal," Agent Beck stated.
Aldridge blanked briefly, then said, "Dame Kaede, do you know something about Sarah Connor?"
"Some. Either of ya know about Savannah Weaver's attempted kidnapping?"
"Catherine Weaver's daughter. Yes, we know of it. Savannah turned up safe. We have the perp on video from the Weaver's security camera."
Kaede explained the events. "Got a call from Weaver's AI, John Henry. He told me a man came and shot Savannah's teacher, and was looking fer her ..." Kaede told them of the events, her arriving, this 'perp' trying to shoot her, Sarah's arrival and discovering the 'perp' was a terminator, a human shaped AI machine. "Not only did Sarah destroy me evidence, she got freaked on hearin sirens and took off runnin. Aye, she ain't very smart, but she had no bad intent."
"You were there?" Aldridge asked. "Why didn't you report it?"
"At the time I was hidin an huntin, tryin ta stay below the radar," Kaede explained. "I've been talkin ta Weaver and John Henry. I'm sure now, Kaliba is the one behind this Sky Net thing. Zeira, Weaver's company, is the only other one with a true workin AI. Kaliba has been attackin Zeira, most likely to stop Zeira's research. I have nay proof yet, but I'm sure the attempt on Savannah was ta git leverage on her mother, Zeira's CEO. They used an infiltratin machine ta do it. Wasn't a human perp that killed Savannah's teacher, it was a human shaped machine. Kaliba are bad people, gentlemen. A source in Poland uncovered what Kaiba is after. Control of all the major powers military networks through this Sky Net AI, including the nuclear arsenals. If they git that, what do ya think'ill happen next?"
Aldridge looked at Sarah, then back to Kaede. "You're saying Sarah was never formally committed?"
"That I could find? Nay."
"Have you found out anything about Mr. ass-gun Doe?"
Kaede grinned. "Aye, we'll talk later on'im. I'd like ta keep focused on what Sarah may know bout Kaliba while we're here."
"Yes, of course," Aldridge agreed.
Returning her attention to Sarah, Kaede gently said, "Yer were right. Kaliba is the one sending out these terminator things. They are planning an AI to take over the world's military. I need to know anything else you know about them. Although it may be small, maybe just an off encounter, or someone who didn't seem right. Maybe just an … electronic something that got stolen. I can't kill it unless I find it."
Sarah nodded. "There is a computer called the Turk that was stolen during a chess tournament. The guy who made it, Andy Goode, was shot and killed, the Turk ended up missing. A criminal named Sarcasian got it and sold it to the highest bidder. I don't know who that bidder was."
"That could be important," Kaede agreed. "Got a first name for this Sarcasian?"
"No."
"Any other names? Guys who worked for'em? Where he worked outta?" Kaede coaxed.
Sarah thought for a moment. "A bar, Tenth and Ocean View. I went there to bid on the Turk, but, well, it turned bad. It was a setup. No, I don't know any of his thugs."
"Anythin ya kin tell me, anything at all. We're talkin the world may be in danger here, lass," Kaede coached.
Sarah swallowed. "A while back, a man got into our house. He was wounded. Before he died, he wrote names on the wall in his own blood. Many of those people are dead now, assassinated. He was trying to warn us."
"Why warn you, Sarah?" Kaede asked.
"Because Sky Net wants to kill my son, John," she said with a hitch in her breath.
"Sarah, I will find John and keep him safe, OK? I'm going ta your house and copy those names down. Any who are still alive will get some protection if I gotta do it meself."
Sarah nodded. With a shrug she said, "I can't think of anything else."
"That's fine. And Sarah? Behave yerself. Doan go doin nothing else stupid, please."
That got a snort from Sarah, but Kaede had made her point. She faced Aldridge and said, "I'd be digging through files hard if I was you. I'm heading to Sarah's place. Ya comin?"
Before she left, Kaede told Sarah, "I'll make sure ya git a good lawyer, nay a public-pretender."
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Once they were out of the holding areas and headed for the door, Agent Aldridge asked, "Dame Kaede, you saw Sarah Connor at Weaver's house? You were there and you didn't turn her in?'
"I was using her ta help find Kaliba. Angry at'er? Sure, she burned up me evidence. It was evidence I needed."
"You were in her house," he accused.
"I was. The computer chip that made that thing work needed ta be pulled an studied," she replied. "I was workin me case, Lad. Whatever ya charge'er with is yer business, not mine. Mine is trakin down and endin Kaliba. I will do whatever it takes to find those bastards."
"So what about ass-gun guy?" he prodded.
"Me boss said he's nay the one we're lookin fer. Faical recognition didn pass. Nother agent got sent at Greece ta look fer'im. That's the other possible place he coulda gone."
Kaede got in her car, the Agents got in theirs. Going to the 'Baum' home, Aldridge stopped Kaede when she got out. "We need warrant to search this house."
"Nay, ya doan. I was Sarah's guest here so I kin tell ya, come on in!" Kaede said with a motion at the house.
"That is permission," Beck said.
Going up to the door, Kaede stopped. "Look at the tape," she said and pointed to a knot in the middle of it. "Someone was here already. Be careful." Kaede then untied one end. The door was locked, she reached inside and opened it.
Stepping slowly inside, Kaede led keeping a sharp eye out.
"Dame Kaede, do you have a gun?" Agent Aldridge asked as he pulled his.
"Doan need one. Sides, it's possible John came back," she told him. "Be cautious, not panicked."
Going into the kitchen, Kaede found a mess. Cupboards emptied onto the counter and floor, lower cabinets too. Someone was in here searching.
"I'll check upstairs," Beck said and slowly went up.
"I'm headed fer the basement fer those names," Kaede told Aldridge.
They found each room had every closet, drawer and cabinet had been emptied onto the floor. In the basement, Kaede found the wall with the names written in blood. The wall was scratched and dug up, debris from the wall below on the floor. There was nothing legible left.
Aldridge came down. "Find it?" he asked, then looked at the wall.
"Someone doan want us ta know what those names were. Whoever it was trashed the house was looking fer something." Kaede headed back up and went out to the shed. Here too, things were tossed about. Going over to the pit, she saw it had been cleaned out. She showed it to Aldridge.
"They didn't want samples taken from the pit here, either. Even the sand in the bottom's gone. I'd say that is positive proof Kaliba has agents here. Wouldn't ya say?" Kaede asked.
"How did they know?" Aldridge asked. "No one but police an fire crew were here."
"Either ya got a mole, er someone's listenin ta yer comms."
Aldridge frowned. "Then they know we got Sarah."
"Aye, Lad, ya better git'er protected now. If ya can't, I'll take her someplace no one'll find'er." Kaede told him.
Aldridge went out to his car.
Kaede walked around the house. On the back door, a window was broken. That was how they got in. Coming back around to the front, Beck was by their car with Aldridge. He looked at Kaede and said, "All the bedrooms were trashed, bathroom and linen closet too. Any idea what they were looking for?"
"That computer chip from that terminator," Kaede told them. "I got it. Doan go telling anyone that. It'll cause more bodies."
"Evidence against Kaliba," Aldridge said.
"Aye, and possibly useful information." She then frowned and said, "Then again, if they know I got it, they'll come fer it."
"And kill you to get it," Aldridge said in a hard tone.
Kaede let out a snort. "Not likely, lad. We'll also find out if ya got a mole. Call in and let it be known I got a computer chip from a Kaiba terminator. I'm heading out to a motel outta town ta go analyze it in peace."
Beck let out a dry chuckle. "Why not just stick a sign in the front saying, here I am?"
Kaede glanced at her car. "I already got one. Stay clear o me fer a while. I doan want ya gittin killed."
Aldridge watched Kaede go to her car. "She's crazy," he grumbled.
"Or suicidal," Beck agreed.
Aldridge turned to his partner. Quietly he said, "Well, we're supposed to watch her, right? We'll just do it from a little farther away."
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Kaede got back to the hotel and found John and Cameron in robes. "Ah! Finally havin a bit o fun?" she asked with a wide grin.
"No," John said defensively. "We just got out of the shower."
Kaede eyed him, "Botha ya? An ya behaved yourselves? How boring!"
"One at a time," John said with a slight blush.
"Ugh," Kaede grumbled at him. "All right, git dressed, we gotta find a new place outta town. We'll git lunch on the way."
John went in the bathroom to get dressed. Cameron got dressed in the room, not hurrying. "You found Sarah?" she asked.
"Aye, tell ya bout it when we're on our way."
John came out when Cameron was getting her shoes and socks on, still naked from the waist up. John stopped, stared, then turned around. "Cameron, could you put a shirt on?" he asked.
Cameron did, no bra.
Kaede went out first to get a look around, then said, "John, middle seat, Cameron, third seat. Get in an lie down on the seats."
They did as she asked. Once Kaede was leaving the parking lot, John asked, "Why are we like this?"
"Kaliba trashed yer house. Me thinks they was looking for that chip. You got it, right?" Kaede asked.
"I got it," John replied.
"They are following us," Cameron stated.
"Could well be," Kaede agreed. "As fer as how yer positioned, Cam, yer John's bullet shield. I kin stop anything from the front. Yer both laying down so no one knows yer with me." With a crooked grin, she added, "Sides, if ya start bouncing the car, it makes it hard ta steer."
"What about Mom?" John asked sternly, irritated at Kaede's teasing.
"She's in jail and at the moment, it's the safest place fer her ta be. She's unhurt," Kaede told him. "I'm gonna spring fer a lawyer fer her. If he's good, she'll git a much lighter sentence. If he's smart, he'll git her a pile o money in lawsuits. See John, yer Mom was never officially committed ta that nut house by a judge. They just kinda kept her."
"Really?" he asked, poking his head up.
"No rasin up!" Kaede scolded. "Lest Cameron's under ya."
"Will you stop that!" John cried.
"What?" Kaede asked innocently.
In the back, Cameron laughed.
Kaede found a good place to eat. They had real fish and skinny chips (French fries) and salt and English style vinegar to shower onto the fish. John got a burger and fries, Cameron didn't need nutrients. Taking a booth so Kaede could see the car and whoever came in the lot, the trio sat down.
John coughed at the vinegar smell. "You're really going to eat that?" he asked.
"Aye, it's good stuff," Kaede told him. Nowhere here sells black pudding er haggis. Best I kin git is fish an chips, though it ain't even wrapped properly."
"What do they put it in if not foam boxes?" John asked.
"When we run outta yesterday's newspaper, butcher paper," Kaede replied. "Steada filling the trash bin, we got kindling ta start a fire."
John stared at her. "You're kidding."
Kaede cast him a grin. "If ya think so, lad, come visit some time."
"I take it you have fireplaces and old iron wood stoves?" John asked.
"Plenty. At home there's the cookin hearth, the cistern fireplace and the warmin oven in the kitchen, a fireplace at each end of the dinning room, and one fireplace in each bedroom. We kin use wood or peat in all of-em," Kaede explained.
"Peat? You're talking the fertilizer stuff they put in gardens?" John asked.
"Nay, that's peat moss ya kin put in gardens, the stuff just under the top that's been dried out. Peat is deeper an looks much like dirt. Peat is the first stage o coal."
"It sounds like you live back in the medieval days," John said in a snort.
"Aye, that's when our place was built. Kitchen's never been upgraded, but we doan have utility bills," Kaede said with a wink.
"No electricity then?'
"Aye, we make our own."
"You live very efficiently," Cameron said.
"We try our best," Kaede agreed.
"With no utility bills, there is less information about you that's generally known. If you have no mortgage from a bank, then you can live virtually unknown to most," Cameron noted.
"Aye lass, the way we like it. Plus the pay we git ain't sucked away by bills, so there's more ta spend an save. It takes work, but it's worth it."
Kaede's explaining how she lived at home got Cameron thinking. Someplace like that would be safer for John.
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After lunch Kaede drove out to a motel outside the city and got two rooms. The one for John and Cameron, she had put out in the back side. Her room was on the road side. She then began to call defense lawyers for Sarah. Each secretary she talked to she explained it was for Sarah Connor, and Kaede had proof the woman wasn't crazy. She also hinted that Sarah may have a case to sue the government on wrongful incarceration. There were three that seemed interested.
Before she went to meet with these lawyers, she went to John and Cameron's room and gave them money to live on. Knowing there was a possibility of whoever came might find their room, Kaede told Cameron, "If someone ya doan know knocks at yer door, flee through the back wall inta the front rooms, then into another room, then back ta this side, and run out the back."
"Yes, evasive escape," Cameron agreed.
"Lest we find another one, that chip an ya are me proof terminators exist, so doan git yerself caught. I'll be back tonight. Room 14, if ya need something, call."
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On her way to see Douglas and Douglas, attorneys at law, Kaede got another call.
"Kaede."
Mrs. Weaver came on. "Did you ask Cameron, will you join us?"
"Aye lass, and got a surprise," Kaede told her.
"Were is she? I need her chip," Weaver said firmly.
"Nay, ya doan. Her chip ain't workin no more." Kaede replied.
"Is it destroyed? What happened to it?"
Kaede explained, "It's intact, but pretty much useless now. From what li'tle John has been able ta git from that terminator's chip that attacked Savannah, Cameron's chip works very differently. I doubt John Henry could use it."
"I needed that chip!" Weaver stated.
"Calm yerself, lass. When I find out what I need ta now off it, I'll git ya that terminator's chip."
"Kaede, John Henry was attacked over the internet. I need to get him mobile and fully into his terminator body."
"I ain't sayin ye ain't got a problem. I'm just sayin ye'll have ta wait yer turn."
*CLICK*
Kaede put her phone away. "She didn sound happy," she said with a bemused grin.
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The offices of Douglas and Douglas was decked out in tasteful finery. Just by walking in, Kaede knew these guys a hefty fee for their services. She didn't have to wait in the lobby long. The secretary, a busty blonde in a low cut dress, escorted her back to a wood paneled office where a silver haired gentleman in a tailored light gray suit sat behind his polished wood deck, his certificates on one wall, and a wall length book case of law books behind him. He wore a bright smile as he rose.
"Welcome, Dame Kaede Kikumura," he said happily, and bowed to her.
"Greetings Mr. Douglas," replied returning his bow." I have a problem I need your help with."
"Please, sit and tell me about it," he offered.
Kaede did, explaining she could find no commitment papers for Sarah Connor, and that through her investigations, Sarah was not crazy, not did she enter the bank that blew up with intentions of robbing it. She had video evidence from Prescardo on Sarah's 'escape', where she was fleeing for her life, and video evidence from the bank the shows she had herself locked in the vault. Mr. Douglas listened closely and wrote down a few notes. She also told him about this latest escapade of Sarah fleeing and getting caught with a car full of guns and some explosives.
Mr. Douglas put his elbows on his desk, folded his hands together and rested his chin on them. "This could be a very intriguing case," he admitted. "I know some about Sarah Connor. You know for sure that she was never formally committed by a proper judicial proceeding ?"
"Had me boss look, an I looked. There's no record of her ever being before a Judge," Kaede stated. "As I said, I also have proof Sarah is not crazy. I have pieces of one of these terminators and this Sky Net is being built by a group called Kaliba."
He nodded thoughtfully. "I will have to verify that, of course. I will also need ten thousand dollars to get started, and of course, go see Mrs. Connor myself."
Kaede picked up her phone. "Will a transfer from Bank o Scotland suit ya?"
"That will be fine." He wrote down his bank and account number and slid it over to her.
Kaede called her bank, and arraigned ten thousand pounds to be transferred in American dollars to his account. Once the was done, she said, "That is twenty thousand, four hundred dollars, by the latest exchange rate, if I'm correct. I'd like ya at git on it right away."
"I will indeed, Dame Kaede," he assured her. "May I have your phone number?"
Kaede wrote it down. "Please keep me posted on how yer doin."
"I will. Since there is a possible lawsuit in what you've been telling me, any proceeds after fees will go to Mrs. Connor."
"Aye lad, she's the one that got seriously wronged."
He smiled at her. He pulled a card out his suit and handed it to her. "Dame Kaede, it pleases me you are standing up for someone cannot stand up for themselves. Next Tuesday, please bring the evidence you have to my office. By then I will have any judicial proceedings that have to do with Sarah Connor."
"Thank you, Mr. Douglas."
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In the afternoon, Sarah was taken out of her cell to go see her lawyer. She went figuring it was some young lawyer pressing into being her defense attorney to do his 'public service' time.
She was led to a rom where a middle aged dark haired man sat with his briefcase. The guards closed the door on their way out.
"Sarah Connor?" the man asked.
"Yes," she said dryly.
"I am Samuel Douglas from Douglas and Douglass, representative of my Father, Ethan Douglas, your defense attorney. I have a question, when was your commitment trial to put you in Prescardo?"
"I didn't have a trial," she told him.
"Then please explain, how did you end up there?"
"I was arrested for blowing up Cyberdyne. When questioned, I told them what happened and the fact they were making Sky Net, an AI that was going to get into the defense network and use nukes to blow up the world. A few detectives talked to me. I tried to convince them I was telling the truth. They also accused me of murdering Mr. Dyson, which was a lie. Cops that came in shooting shot him. He also had the detonator and blew the place up himself after I showed him a terminator to convince him what I was telling him about Sky Net was true. They called a doctor in, he spoke to me some, I told him the same thing. I was then put in a van and taken to Prescardo."
"Were you shown any paperwork saying you had been committed?"
"No, the doctor said I was. The only thing I got to see for paperwork was the routine that was read to me, then the papers to surrender my parental rights, which I was forced to sign."
"I see," Samuel said as he wrote something down. "So you never went to court or had a chance to defend yourself in a courtroom trail. Is that correct?"
"Yes."
"About this latest episode, when the fire trucks and police showed up at your house, why did you run?"
Sarah let out a snort. "I'm an escaped mental patient. I get arrested and I go straight back there."
"What about your son, John? You indicated he is in danger with FBI agents present?"
"Yes, Skt Net, or Kaliba is trying to find him and kill him."
"You told this to those agents?"
"I did."
"Did they give you any indication he would be found and put in protective custody?"
"Kaede said she'd find and protect him."
"Did the FBI agents indicate such."
"No."
"Have you been read your rights?"
"Yes."
Samuel wrote down some more notes and said, "Sarah, from this moment on, myself or my father will speak to any authorities for you. They are not allowed to question you unless one of us is present. Do not say anything or sign any forms or documents without us present and have read them first. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"That is all for now. I will go explain to the Warden here so he knows you have a law firm defending you." Samuel then reached over and shook her hand.
For the first time, Sarah felt like she was getting some justice.
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Returning to the motel, Kaede called John and Cameron's room.
"Hello?" a sleepy sounding John asked.
"It's Kaede lad, ya had dinner yet?"
"Ahh, yeah Cameron brought some."
"Ya been lookin at the tiny computer ya got?"
"Ah, some yeah. I found… some stuff."
"Ya both dressed? I wanna see what ya found. Doan wanna catch ya gittin some."
"Kaede! We aren't doing things like that!"
"Why not?"
*click*
Having tickled John's irritation button, Kaede made sure no one was in sight and went around back to their room. She knocked, Cameron answered the door and let her in.
Casting her irritated glances, John showed Kaede what he found in the terminator chip. There were commands and missions, videos of what the terminator did, but no information on where the current Sky Net or Kaliba was.
Damn.
"John, ya need that chip fer anything else?" Kaede asked.
"No. We should destroy it." he told her.
"Can't do that Lad, I still got use fer it," Kaede told him and pulled the chip from the socket. "Ya gotta remember, it ain't just yer family huntin Kaliba an Sky Net now. Plenty o people are workin on it."
Cameron spoke up. "Kaede, if that chip is activated at normal voltage, it will become active and warn Sky Net and other terminators."
"I have the laptop down to 2.5 volts to look at it," John added.
"I'll remember that. Anyone wander by taday?"
"No, we have not been discovered," Cameron stated.
Kaede pocketed the chip. "I went an got a real lawyer for Sarah taday. There's a few things wrong wit when she was put in the nut house. I'm sure her lawyers will be bringin that up. Got a couple more things ta do, then I'll git ya both someplace safe. No one'll be findin ya."
"What about Mom?" John asked.
"She's in jail and probably will be fer at least the next few months," Kaede told him. "Doan worry bout her. Worry bout yourselves."
"You have a safe house?" John asked.
Kaede grinned, "Aye, lad, a very safe house. Hid a few so far, haven't lost one yet. Ye'll even be able ta do what comes natural." she winked.
John cried, "Will you PLEASE stop with the sexual innuendoes?"
Kaede cast him a look of surprise. "I was talkin bout helpin wit chores. What were ya thinkin?"