It has been a while since the last update but I had some work to do.


Chapter 6

Motel's room, night

After speaking with John about Sarah Connor, his general mother a legend that has fascinated him for a long time Kyle decided it was time to gather some funds he left the room leaving John alone.

John was tired but there was nothing he could do to sleep, despite his tiredness his mind was thinking very heavy about everything that had happened and he had learned in the past day, he was thinking about what happened in Zeira's basement, how he defended Cameron how he risked everything for her, he finally had to admit to himself that she is very important to him, he couldn't longer run from the truth that he was in love, she was right he loves her despite trying to deny it fight it for months, doing everything not to think about her as anything more than a machine and now he had learned that all his suspicions about her begin different that she had emotions were truth.

Now the question was if she loved him, he now knew she was capable of feeling emotions but she herself didn't know about that, 'it's possible she loves me but she doesn't even know or understand it, I should try to speak with her about those felling she most probably has' he realized now that his pas actions must have hurt her, also he now was sure that she was jealous of Riley without knowing that she was, 'She may be physically taught but emotionally she's vulnerable that's why her hand is twitching she's upset that she doesn't understand herself anymore, she thinks that she's a threat to him and that's why she gave me the detonator'.

He was so deep in thought that he didn't hear the subject of his thoughts enter the room, he was back in the real world when he heard her say in her typical monotone "I haven't detected any threats, you should sleep you tired".

"Cameron, I can't sleep after everything that happened, and what I learned"

"That's understandable you have been under much stress, you should rest"

"Cameron, how do you feel?"

"I'm operating at one hundred percent"

"That's not what I mean, I wonder what you feel about what happened today"

"You should rest" she tried to avoid answering his question.

"Cameron, stop avoiding the question and answer me, how do you feel?"

"You said yourself some time ago, I'm a machine, I cannot feel" her tone was slightly insecure and her left hand slightly twitched, John noticed that.

"I was wrong! And I can see that you feel"

"That's not possible John, I…" he interrupted her.

"And what if you have them but don't know about them, once you told me that you feel sensations like the wind going through your toes? What if you can feel more than just sensations what if you can also feel emotions?" she was about to respond but he stopped her, "Before you tell me that that's impossible let me ask one question. Do you feel sometimes something that you simply don't understand where it comes from?"

Cameron was processing everything that John just said, 'Could it be that I can feel emotions not just sensations as I thought before? And if that's the truth what would this mean for me and John, would he be mad?'

"Please Cameron, tell me the truth"

She thought about it and concluded that she would tell him the truth "Yes John, I can feel things that have an unknown origin, but I don't know what they are"

"That's fine Cameron, just tell me in which situations you have those feelings"

"Before in the basement when you took my hand, I feel the warmth through my body when you placed yourself between me and T-1001 I felt uncomfortable at the beginning but then I had a pleasurable feeling and felt even warmer than before"

"Good, and when I treated you badly or when I was with Riley, how did you feel?"

"I had a bad feeling; it was uncomfortable when I saw you with Riley the termination command flashed constantly on my HUD, and I had to override it"

He got on his feet and embraced her lightly she seemed paralyzed for a moment before returning the gesture when they hugged her CPU registered again warmth feeling going through her body.

John slowly retired from the embrace looked into her eyes and said "I'm sorry Cameron for everything I did before, for treating you badly for pushing you away from me, and not trying to help you when I should have"

"John" her voice was soft but shaky "I should be sorry for lying to you and saying that you couldn't be trusted anymore. John, I trust you, but the others didn't trust you after you saved me… I still think that you shouldn't put yourself at risk for me you are too important…"

"Cameron everybody says that…"

"But I thank you John for what you did for me then, later when Riley was killed you protected me from your family, and today when you went against the liquid metal terminator to save me again which by the way was stupid, and you put yourself in very big danger right there" John wanted to interrupt but she continued "But at the same time it gave me a good feeling. Thank you, John," she gave him a peck on his cheek, it felt like something she should do.

John was standing mouth open staring at her with wide-open eyes and his cheeks flushing red meanwhile she gave him a smile that she gave when they meet for the first time in 1999.

Resistance cell safehouse, L.A. night

After leaving the motel Kyle went to buy a cheeseburger, he was tired after all this day, but he needed to contact the local resistance cell, he needed funds and some weapons if they were going to Oregon to start their anti-Kaliba operations there. He also wanted all the information about their progress in the L.A. area and their future operations.

He also hoped that Connor and Cameron would speak with each other meanwhile he was there gathering resources.

He was now standing in front of the door to the safehouse he knocked on the door 3 times and after a moment a man with brown hair in his forties opened the door and asked for the password.

Kyle answered and the man pulled the door open for him, after entering the salon of the safe house he was greeted by five resistance fighters sent back by general Connor so they could help stop Skynet with their knowledge and experience from the future.

One of the men in his fifties finally said "Welcome to the past colonel Reese, I see that Connor has finally had enough of your presence" Kyle grinned at him.

"Not as much as your sergeant Larson"

"I see you haven't changed a bit colonel"

"Oh, at least I'm still young"

"I might seem old, but I feel younger than you Kyle".

"Sure, old man"

"Let's get to business because I'm sure that you're not here to cheat so what do you want?"

"Let's say that money doesn't grow on trees I need a few toys to take care of some problems on our way"

"Understood, what else?"

"How are things going?"

"Well, it isn't perfect since the majority of our men are either in Oregon or Washington, but we still managed to get some tin cans and grays, there's ale a lot of real food so I can't say that I want to go back to where we came from"

"Well, the future we came from is no longer accessible to us even if we had our own TDE, so you don't have to worry about it, that also reminds me, we need new IDs"

"Connor has already ordered us to prepare four ids, one for himself another for Cameron, one for his mother and of course, yours" a man went to the safe and retrieved the ids, and give them to Kyle, "as for the money you'll wait until the morning we have in a secure location together with the guns"

"Well then, now we must discuss our future plans, as you know I'm going with the general and co-commander to join our forces in Oregon of course Sarah Connor will also be there"

The man grinned at Kyle "You know, I always wondered why the general gave you her photo"

"He gave it to bring me luck"

"Sure, anyway we planning to defend the folk that has been targeted by the Skynet from the other timeline thanks to Sarah Connor's diary we know about the attacks that will take place in the next seventh months. Good that our Skynet couldn't finish its TDE before we captured it and destroyed Skynet itself"

"Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't probably be there right now"

"What do you mean?"

"That time travel creates a big mess," Kyle said

"As long as we stop Skynet, I don't have a problem with that"

"Well, we should start making some plans for the future, before we return from Oregon you should gather as much intel as possible, try to lunch some small actions against grays, and don't get in any trouble you can't come from on your own"

"Yes, sir!" Larson responded to Kyle

"Don't do that"

"Well while you are waiting you can find a place to sleep"

"Good idea, it's been a long day" Kyle responded.

Kyle went into one of the rooms and found a place to sleep, he hoped that everything went smooth tomorrow, and they were on their way also hoping that he finally had an opportunity to meet the famous Sarah Connor.

Motel room, L.A. night

John and Cameron spent at least three hours speaking with each other about her feelings and the ways to help her in growing up since emotionally she was very young and inexperienced. Soon John fell asleep.

As John lay sleeping in the bed Cameron was processing everything that they talked about and analyzed the feelings she had registered in the past trying to understand them, with help of John she was able to understand already some emotions like proudness she felt when he defended her from Weaver, she was proud of him also when she felt the same for herself when he said to her that the cyborgs got a point for not being cruel.

She also understood the negative emotion of jealousy, she finally knew why she seemed Riley as a threat, she knew now that she felt threatened by the blonde and finally, on her own, she understood that the emotion that fuels her with warmth must be love, she loves John, she's sure of that now more than ever but she's afraid to say it to him, how would he react, she was sure that she loved him but wasn't sure that he felt the same way for her. Humans say that actions speak more than words and John's actions spoke that he loved her, but she wasn't sure.

While she was thinking, John, started to toss in bed having a nightmare, she felt discomfort at seeing him like this, so she decided to comfort him.

She came to his side and put her hand on his head and started stroking his hair, it worked and relaxed slightly then she said to him "I'm here with you John, everything will be fine".

He relaxed completely and she felt also instantly better.

Then she got on the bed too to lay beside him and decided to enter her maintenance mode.