Chapter 1310

They're Gone

Cameron listened as she moved back up towards the main bedroom of the Owner's Suite. She thought she could hear John making love to Holly. She wanted to rush forward and stop them. She did not. She promised Holly 'one time' with John for taking her virginity from her. Cameron now wondered if to be a true virgin was worth the price. Sheila and Hanna still needed to collect as well. She knew it would not be just sex with any of them, it would be love. She made them love her and she made them love John. This was all on her.

She soundlessly moved up to peek around the corner into the bedroom. She stopped. Did she want to 'see' this so that the image would forever be burned into her mind? The images of when she caught John after he spent the night out with Riley forever haunted her thoughts. She always saw that smirk on his face as he went up the stairs. It was as if he'd spit in her face when he did that. He rubbed it in her face.

Cameron could hear a rhythmic sound. That must be John 'pounding away' on Holly's chassis. It could be Holly on top of John. She wondered if Holly would face forward or backwards. She figured it would be forwards so she could look at John as he filled her with his essence. He could also fondle her and she could bend down to kiss him.

She'd done it in both directions when she was in control of Holly's chassis earlier. John liked it when she faced him so he could fondle Holly's voluptuous breasts. By sharing the file with Holly, she 'taught' her what to do and what John liked.

The rhythmic noise stopped. Cameron knew what that meant. John finished. It was done. Cameron thought about going back and getting Hanna so she could get her turn out of the way. She would allow Sheila her turn when she saw her again. Since the 'cat was out of the bag', she decided to have Claire and Jesse visit John before they left tomorrow. At this point, what difference did it make?

"That felt great, Holly." John said.

"That is what I learned earlier by having it done to me." Holly said. "I hope I did it the same."

"Whatever you just did was perfect." John said. "I never experienced anything quite like that."

Cameron felt a slight glitch impulse start. She was able to suppress it. She needed to pay the piper. She was the one who made the promise. She was the one who stripped the virginity away from the Metal girls. It appeared that greed did have consequences.

What was done was done.

Everything came with a price.

Nothing was free.

Gail took her shower. She could hear Jan and Summer playing in the bubble bath whirlpool tub and knew they were having fun. She wanted to have fun too. She decided to finish up and get out of the shower. She turned off the water and reached for her towel. She dried herself off and stepped out of the shower. Normally she would dry outside the shower but this shower was huge. All of the showers were very large in these luxury suites. She thought it would be nice if they were this large at the base.

She stood naked and faced the girls as she retrieved her bath robe. She put it on. She thought about getting some more comfortable clothes to wear.

From the bubbles of the whirlpool tub, Jan and Summer both watched Gail dry off and put her robe on. Jan wondered how she was going to look when she became a teenager. They all knew what Summer was going to look like. Metal Summer was a total knock out. Everyone thought she was prettier than Cameron.

Gail walked past the girls.

"I need to obtain additional clothing." Gail said.

Jan wondered what for.

"Just wear the robe like Holly did." Jan said. "It is more fun that way."

Gail wanted to have fun.

"OK." Gail said.

Summer wanted Gail to feel at ease.

"It will be like a sleepover for us girls." Summer said. "We will all have fun."

Gail almost told Summer she would only be a 'girl' for one more night. She caught herself at the last second. She decided to keep it simple.

"I want to have fun." Gail said.

Summer thought maybe it was time to get out of the tub so they could play some games with Gail and maybe start on a movie.

"I'm going to get out." Summer said.

Jan thought it was time too.

"I have been in here a long time." Jan said. "My fingers are starting to get wrinkled."

Summer stood up and stepped out. Her towel was right by the tub.

She heard Jan stand up. She looked over and saw that Jan really was naked. She thought she would wear her underwear if nothing else.

"Where is your towel?" Summer asked.

Jan looked over at the rack full of plush towels. She'd been in a hurry to get in the tub.

"I didn't get one." Jan said.

Summer handed Jan her towel.

"Here, use this one." Summer said.

Summer was in her swimsuit.

Gail hurried back into the bathroom.

"Let me get everything for everyone." Gail said. "It is my job to take care of both of you."

Gail took a towel off the rack and handed it to Jan.

"Thanks." Jan said.

Gail thought maybe she should get their bed clothes for them.

"I will bring your bed clothes here." Gail said.

Summer and Jan finish drying off.

They both thought of drying the other one off but didn't mention it.

Sheila disinfected Mary again and checked the piercings. She made sure the second ring was also Terminator tight.

"You're good to go." Sheila said.

Mary rotated to the side so she could see herself in a full length mirror. She examined herself and her new jewelry.

Laura and Leticia watched her.

"Can I see them?" Laura asked.

Mary thought Laura would get to see them a lot.

"Go ahead." Mary said. "You both can look."

Mary felt very good about herself right now.

Sheila wanted to install a set on Laura or Leticia.

Mary let Laura and Leticia get a good look.

"Who wants to go next?" Sheila asked.

Laura and Sheila looked at the three sets of rings Sheila laid out earlier.

Laura looked at Mary. She was still a little 'pain leery'.

"How bad did it hurt?" Laura asked.

Mary felt pretty good right now.

"There was an initial sharp intense pain." Mary said. "It passed quickly. It made me feel so alive. It was beautiful."

Mary did not tell Laura the one she did hurt more because she went slower. That was OK. The pain was gone and it was a special moment for both of them.

Ally watched the whole thing. She was still impressed that Laura was able to finish without any physical stimulation other than what she'd done to Mary. She wondered if it was the act of the actual piercing or hearing Mary let out a little yelp and knowing she was the one who caused that pain and where it was at. Maybe it was both.

Sheila could see Laura was thinking about it. She did not want to 'lose' her.

"I have the pain medication." Sheila said. "Let me inject you now so it can get to work. You won't feel a thing that way. They will be completely numb, everything there will be."

Laura looked at Mary again. Sheila put one foot up on the bed next to Mary so Laura could look at her again.

Leticia looked at Mary and Sheila.

"I'll do it." Leticia said.

Sheila was even more pleased to hear that.

"Let me get out the pain medication." Sheila said.

Sheila reached in the bag and brought out the medication and a syringe.

Leticia looked at Sheila. She wanted to feel 'alive'.

"I won't need it." Leticia said. "Let me try one first anyway."

Sheila smiled and went to put the medication away.

"Wait!" Laura said. "Give me the medication before you do Leticia. I'll do it too. I just don't want to feel it."

Ally watched Sheila. She could see how excited she was. She did have to admit this was pretty Hot to be a part of.

Young Allison and Anna watched as everything seemed to fall apart in a few seconds.

Everything else was spectacular enough but it was when Cam went down they knew she was seconds from being lost.

"Everyone, help Cam." Young Allison said.

It seemed like an hour passed. It was only a second.

"Why isn't the power off?" Young Allison asked. "Cut the power."

John Henry did. The building went dark but the portal still was energized somehow. It was drawing power from within itself some how. They must have damaged it earlier with the barrage of ordnance.

Cam was as surprised as everyone else was when everything started being sucked into the portal. It all happened so fast.

She heard Savannah's order to evacuate. She ushered Steve and Tom in front of her to exit the building.

The last thing Cam saw was that Cammy and Savannah were about to be sucked in as soon as the lathe went it. Her forward momentum stopped and she was pulled over backwards. She hit the floor hard and started to slide towards the portal. She wondered if she would be sucked in before Savannah and Cammy. She really wondered where she was going to end up at.

Steve and Tom were out of the building but being slowed by the pull of the void.

Tom grabbed on to the side of the door track frame and crushed the metal with his grip to make a handhold. He took Steve's arm.

"Grab her." Tom shouted.

Steve was able to grab Cam's ankle before she was sucked away.

The only trouble now was that none of them could move.

They heard the SUV slam into the lathe followed by a shower of sparks. They figured Cammy and Savannah were gone.

Tom felt the metal framework start to rip loose from the wall.

The two drones that were above them still seemed to be able to move. The power plants were at full capacity now. They both screamed under the strain.

Tom was surprised as one dropped right down on top of him. He realized it was trying to assist him. He quickly transferred his grip from the half torn off metal door frame to a hold on the drone.

The drone started to pull the three of them away when it began to slow and then stop. It was stuck. The engines screamed at full power. The drone could only hold its own. The second drone dropped down in back of it and began to push it. The five machines slowly moved away from the every growing vortex.

Cam could feel her gear being ripped off of her as Steve held her ankle. She tried to look back to see what happened to Cammy and Savannah. Once the SUV hit the lathe it seemed like they were finished. All she saw were sparks.

As Cam was slowly drug away from the building she realized she was only wearing her pants, socks and shoes at this point everything else was gone. It was literally torn off of her by the pull of the vortex.

As soon as she was almost out of the building the lead drone angled off to the side to try and cut the pull of the portal with the building as a block or shield from the suction.

In a few more seconds she could stand.

"We need to go back for Cammy and Savannah." Cam said.

Steve still held her.

"They're gone." Steve said.

Cammy struggled.

"They're gone, Cam." Tom said.

Cam looked back in the building. She did not see them. She only saw the vortex grow bigger and stronger. It was clearly out of control.

Young Allison watched in horror from the body cams and drone cams. It was all in inferred or other scan spectrums.

She heard the news about Savannah and Cammy. It was not what she wanted to hear. She needed to keep it together.

"Get the other drones airborne and evacuate all our troops." Young Allison said. "Get our people out of there."

Anna sent out the command.

"Everyone is withdrawing." Anna said. "We only lost Cammy and Savannah."

Young Allison needed to concentrate. Cameron told her there would be loses at times. She needed to stick with the task.

"Is all the power off?" Young Allison asked.

Anna double checked.

"It was off in the first few seconds." Anna said. "Whatever is happening is happening on the 'other side' of that portal. It appears to be out of control."

Young Allison thought the building would start to be sucked in soon. She wondered if there was any way to stop this thing.

She quickly checked with CamNet on her 'personal package'.

It was still a ways out.

"DAMN." Young Allison said.

Anna could see Young Allison was frustrated and angry.

"We don't know much yet as to what's happening." Anna said.

Young Allison was not about to wait around and find out.

"Have CamNet prepare for a temporal mission." Young Allison said. "This is not going to happen. Not this way. Not like this."

John Henry could not understand what was happening or how. Something must have happened with the power surge. He'd cut the power almost as soon as the power surge occurred. It seemed to have no effect. Maybe all the ordnance they unloaded onto the void caused some effect there wherever it was and this was the result once the portal was opened again.

He saw the heroic efforts of the Terminators as they assisted each other along with the two drones that helped them. They all could have been pulled in.

John Henry was aware Young Allison was up to something but he did not know what. Then he heard her call for CamNet to prepare for a temporal mission.

It did not look good for Cammy and Savannah right now.

Claire awoke. She did not know why. She reached over and felt the comforting form of Jesse. She could not really explain it but Jesse was special to her. She made her feel things no other human female could make her feel. She always delivered in bed and never stopped until there was a finish.

Claire thought about the people she'd been with over the years.

There were about six guys she didn't even know that had been with her at parties when she was either drunk or drugged or both. Then there been a dozen females over the years prior to her marriage. Her marriage - that was something her parents 'made' her do. They wanted to 'cure' her 'confusion' about her body and its function. There was no confusion. It was what she wanted. The married years were the dull years. Paul gave her two beautiful daughters so she could not complain about that. The funny part about that was it was not 'two daughters' but one daughter and at least 'five version' of the other daughter. Then there were the cyborgs of her daughters….

Jesse stirred. Claire looked at her firm tight body in the gloom of the darkness. She knew that body had been through a lot. Jesse was with dozens of females and even more men. Most of those took her by force in her early years as a girl. She did not want to think about that. She knew Vanna suffered the same fate and her daughter too. Allison was lucky. It was never more than one man at a time when she was taken.

Claire may not have had a gun to the side of her head or a knife to her throat but she was too incapacitated to prevent herself from having her pants pulled off and her underwear pushed off to the side. She even missed it when her virginity was was actually taken from her. She didn't wake up until the guy was about to finish. Even then she could not really even move. The second guy took her then too. She was so sore afterwards.

Claire was startled when Jesse spoke.

"Am I 'good enough'?" Jesse asked.

Claire wondered why Jesse even asked that.

"What?" Claire asked.

Jesse wanted to know if her past was a problem.

"Am I 'good enough' for you?" Jesse asked.

Claire touched Jesse's cheek and gave her a kiss.

"Yes." Claire said. "You are everything I have ever wanted."

Jesse remembered other women and even some men telling her that. It always ended in disaster.

"I've heard that before." Jesse said.

Claire understood. Things often did not work out as anticipated.

"I have too." Claire said. "Things change and people change."

Jesse knew she was different now. Cameron changed her by believing in her. Savannah changed her too.

"I've changed." Jesse said.

Claire knew she wasn't who she was before either.

"I've changed too." Claire said.

Jesse thought of what she'd made a few other females do to 'prove their love' to her. Two of them did it themselves in front of her. The other ones she needed to 'help'. They were hesitant to 'prove' their love.

"I would have asked something from you before to prove you love me." Jesse said.

Claire remembered the mutilations Jesse told her she thrived on. It was very graphic and life altering.

"You told me." Claire said.

Jesse wondered why she hurt people like that. She felt bad about it now.

"I won't ever do that to you." Jesse said.

Claire wanted Jesse to know she was committed to her.

"I am yours." Claire said.

Jesse smiled. That was good enough now. She wanted to be able to keep Claire happy to keep her around. One thing worried her.

"Are you going to be with John?" Jesse asked.

Claire knew that was going to happen. She'd promised Cameron a baby for John and her. She planned to deliver.

"Yes." Claire said. "I will do as Cameron has asked me."

Jesse thought it was deeper than that now.

"I heard you speak with Hanna." Jesse said.

Claire knew what this was about now.

"That was a private conversation." Claire said.

Jesse used to play by her own rules. She was trying to be a team player now.

"I don't always follow the rules." Jesse said.

Claire could think of a few things she should not have done.

"I guess we all bend them at times." Claire said.

Jesse knew no male ever satisfied Claire in bed.

"Hanna told you how beautiful it was for John to share with Cameron in her chassis." Jesse said.

Claire really wanted to finish once with a male. Just to see what it was like or if it was different. The empty 'used' feeling she was left with previously always bothered her.

"Yes." Claire said. "I wanted to know if John could really 'deliver'."

Jesse asked Sheila about the encounter with John and Cameron in her chassis.

"Sheila told me the same thing. He can." Jesse said.

Claire wanted that experience. She was not afraid to say it.

"I need to try it at least once." Claire said. "I need to be satisfied by a man at least one time. I want to make sure it's not me."

Jesse wanted what Sheila described. It sounded beautiful.

"We will both find out." Jesse said.

Claire wanted to protect her daughter. The fear Cameron expressed to her was real. People could die if they were pegged as 'Metal Lovers'.

"Maybe if I please him, my Allison and Savannah won't need to share his bed in the future." Claire said. "The anti-Metal people may still try and assassinated him. They may kill those around him too. I want to protect others too."

Jesse didn't want anyone hurt. She would try and protect all of them.

"We can do it together." Jesse said.

Claire was aware the threat of death was real.

"Even if it means we are killed?" Claire asked.

Jesse often thought of suicide when she was younger. She remembered one time in a Scavenger camp when she'd just been abused for two days straight. She could hardly even walk after that. She'd passed out at some point and because she was not crying and screaming with pain anymore they left. She found a revolver in a pile of clothes they left behind. There were five fired casings in it and one live round. She spun the cylinder and closed it. She held it to the side of her head and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. She pulled the trigger again. Nothing happened. She wondered what she was doing. She'd been through the assaults half a dozen times already. She could get through this too. Was there a point to living? The next words were tied to the past but they slipped out anyway.

"How long do you want to live anyway?" Jesse asked.

Claire held a secret she needed to tell Jesse.

"Hopefully long enough to have my baby." Claire said.

The words took a few seconds to sink in.

"What?" Jesse asked.

Claire told Jesse her secret.

"I'm pregnant." Claire said.

Jesse was a little confused. She'd seen the way males looked at Claire.

"Who is the father?" Jesse asked.

Claire could tell Jesse was worried.

"John." Claire said. "It is Allison's baby. Cameron implanted it in me like she did before."

This was news to Jesse.

"Does anyone know this?" Jesse asked. "Does Allison know?"

Claire was afraid she'd said too much.

"You need to keep it a secret for now. Only the Metal girls know." Claire said. "That is why they scan me every time they get close to me."

This was great news. Jesse wanted to be a mother and now she could have the chance with Claire.

"I want you to keep it." Jesse said. "I want that baby for us."

Claire knew this was not her baby.

"Allison will need it." Claire said. "It is her baby. I can't take my daughter's baby from her."

Jesse was ready now to be a mother. Working with Precious confirmed that.

"I want it for us." Jesse said. "It can be our baby."

Claire wanted to make Jesse happy.

"I don't know." Claire said. "I promised Allison before to have her baby for her."

Jesse wanted her to reconsider.

"What about us?" Jesse asked.

Claire would like her own baby.

"When I am with John after I have Allison's baby, I will have my own. That one will be for us."

Jesse's eyes lit up.

"Do you promise?" Jesse asked.

"I promise." Claire said. "We will have a baby to raise as our own."

Jesse thought about the internal conflicts she faced before.

"I wanted to ask my mother before to help me but I never did." Jesse said. "I can't ask Young Jesse to give up a child, her child. Seeing Riley with Precious and hearing Savannah cry at night before shows me how special it is."

Claire wondered how the relationship between Jesse and Savannah started.

"Is that when you were first with Savannah?" Claire asked.

Jesse remembered all the times Savannah made herself available to her as a very young teenager. It took all of her will to resist Savannah then.

"Savannah wanted to be with me before she was with Young Jesse." Jesse said. "I was afraid Cameron or Vanna would kill me."

Claire thought that sounded like a real threat.

"Do you mean that as a figure of speech?" Claire asked.

Jesse was sure if Cameron did not snap her neck. Vanna would shoot her dead. Actually Vanna would probably have used a knife to make it personal.

"No. I mean kill me for real." Jesse said. "Vanna warned me to stay away from Savannah several times. I never did anything inappropriate."

Claire knew they were active.

"How did it happen?" Claire asked.

Jesse remembered waking up and Cameron was in her room. It was clear that Cameron had been crying.

"Cameron told me Savannah needed HER Jesse." Jesse said. "Cameron used to hear Savannah cry at night too. Cameron made it clear it was OK for me to comfort Savannah to help her."

"Would you have been with her if Cameron hadn't 'approved it'?" Claire asked.

"I'm sure I would have been at some point." Jesse said. "The next time Savannah came to me I held her in my arms all night."

"You didn't do anything?" Claire asked.

Jesse remembered back on that first time with Savannah.

"Not until the next day. In the morning she touched me." Jesse said. "It was her kiss that did it. It was a kiss that begged for love and understanding. I kissed her back slow, soft and tender. It was beautiful. I could feel her hunger for me."

Claire experienced almost the same thing.

"She kissed me like that in Cameron's future." Claire said. "We were both very pregnant at that time. It was a kiss like I never experienced before. It was like you said."

"Savannah is very special." Jesse said. "We made love after the kiss for the first time. I don't think I was ever the same after that. I knew that there was real love and real beauty in the world. I knew that someone wanted to share with ME because it was ME. Not what I could offer or provide for THEM but for the person I was – am."

Claire felt the same way. The words she often heard just slipped out.

"We have all been 'touched' by the 'Chosen One'." Claire said.

Jesse felt a chill go down her spine.

"I honestly believe that." Jesse said. "If anything ever happened to Savannah it would kill me."

Claire felt goose bumps on her skin.

"It would kill me too." Claire said.

Jesse felt something.

"It would kill all of us and probably kill the Resistance too." Jesse said.

Something gripped Claire from inside.

"Savannah is in danger." Claire said.

Jesse sat up.

"I feel it too." Jesse said.

Claire felt things change inside her.

"I think we were just both touched by Savannah somehow." Claire said.

Jesse got up.

"Something has happened." Jesse said.

Claire got up too.

"Let's go find out." Claire said.

"Let's go." Jesse said.

They both took off and headed for the Control Center. They were both naked. It was doubtful because of the panic that gripped them that they even knew it at this point. Even if they did, they would not care. Savannah was the only thing that mattered.