Chapter 232

Even More

Holly and Cameron figured that they'd been away long enough. It was enough time for whatever was going to happen, to happen.

Cameron was unsure what Allison would do. She thought she knew what would happen. She felt this would prove Allison's love for Holly one way or the other, definitively.

Hanna waited for them to return. She held the tether in her hand. She also had a big smile on her face.

Holly did not like what she saw. She assumed the worst.

"I don't want it." Holly said. "I don't want to see and feel Allison with you. I don't care if you are me and we are the same. It's not the same thing."

Hanna wanted Holly to know the truth.

"Actually you do, trust me and trust yourself." Hanna said. "Allison loves you, Holly. Trust that love."

Holly reluctantly allowed Hanna to tether with her to transfer the data.

Cameron hooked them up. She watched a range of expressions and emotions flash across Holly's face. She wondered what all Holly actually experienced. It did not look pleasant in any way.

Holly burst out crying.

Cameron witnessed enough. She unhooked the two.

"I told you that you would want this data." Hanna said. "I really don't know how anything could be clearer."

Holly wiped her tears away.

"Thank you, Hanna." Holly said.

Holly gave Hanna a long and firm hug.

"Thank Allison." Hanna said.

Holly was very unsure of herself but there was a question that needed an answer.

"I don't want to ask but I need to ask." Holly said. "If she would have...?"

Hanna was not sure if that was a fair question.

"I AM you." Hanna said. "I love her too, just as you do. I would have. It would have been interesting to see if it was the 'same' in a different chassis and sheath."

Holly was glad nothing happened but she knew Hanna would be one she would need to watch. Holly knew Hanna or Cameron could take Allison from her.

She wanted to express her love to Allison for her decision. She was aware it must have been very hard for Allison to not be with 'two' of the women she loved, all in 'one' neat package.

Holly left in search of Allison….

John and Jesse returned.

Jesse was disappointed. She really wanted to be with John. She'd been ready to 'start him up'. She knew if she would have had the opportunity to do that, things would have escalated.

Bob looked at Gail who followed them in the background. He wondered what happened.

John walked up to Bob.

Bob was ready with his report. It was a short one.

"There is nothing new to report." Bob said.

This seemed like a dead end for now to John. If there was some better indication of what anything was it might be different. There wasn't any indication at all. It was time to pull out.

"We will leave two Terminators here with the M60 and M79. The drone will also stay for now." John said. "We don't know if these events are to draw us out into the open or if something else is about to happen."

Bob was displeased with the whole thing. He would rather make a 'statement'.

"I still say we send the satchel charges back next time with the Thermite and acid, just to let them know we are thinking of them. There are cattle here. I can stuff it all inside one and throw it into the bubble." Bob said. "That should make their day."

John still believed this could be a 'friendly'. He did not want to hurt anyone if they were trying to reach their group.

"No. I don't want to risk hurting Duplicate Cameron or 'a Cameron' or Mrs. Weaver." John said. "It could be River as well from her future. We already took down one possible 'Cameron'. In hindsight we should have tried to capture it. I am afraid we made a mistake."

Bob did not think so. That Liquid Metal 'thing' was dangerous.

"How would we have done that?" Bob asked. "We had no way to capture it. It was going to 'absorb' Allison, whatever that meant. It looked terminal, for Allison. It was NOT Cameron. Our duty was to protect you and Allison."

"What if that really was 'Cameron' or a part of Duplicate Cameron from the future the girls were sent to?" John asked. "Somehow it was related to Cameron in some way. It was like it was only a partial copy of Cameron's memories or programming. Maybe Duplicate Cameron was damaged and that was what the repair was. Maybe she came back first to see if it worked before the Duplicate set of girls tried to come back. What if that is them now? I'm not going to kill them."

Since they found the original Cameron, it seemed it didn't make a difference.

"We have Cameron now. It does not matter." Bob said. "You have, WE have the real Cameron. More importantly, no one was killed or injured."

The whole incident still bothered John. The more he thought of it, the more he was afraid it was some version of 'Cameron', even if it wasn't her. He was sure it must have come in contact with Cameron in some manner at some point. He was also sure it shared with him somehow in some way. It wasn't sex but more on a mental level.

What was done was done. They couldn't go back and 'fix' it.

There was no use crying over spilt milk. John decided it was time to move on.

"The four of us that came out together will return. We will leave the other two Terminators, Frank and Mel here." John said. "I don't know what this is about but I don't feel it is a threat."

Bob didn't have that same feeling but John was the boss.

"Affirmative." Bob said.

Bob would rather not take chances. John's safety was the most important thing.

Vanna was worried about what Cameron planned to do. She attempted to try to create some kind of Human Terminator or Terminator replacement for humans and try to have a Terminator control a human or become a 'human'.

Vanna knew this was all in Cameron's quest of feeling 'not good enough' from when John chose Future Riley over her. She knew Cameron felt if John did it once that he could do it again. Cameron wanted human females at John side after Judgment Day. What would be better than Cameron in a human body? She needed to find out more but do it clandestinely. She did not want to end up with Cameron's chip in her brain. She worried that if she made waves she would get swallowed in Cameron's sea of experimentation.

Jim followed the man they tracked with the van.

"After we're done with this clown, we need to go back and see what that other place was all about." Derek said.

Kyle worried about whoever was in the trunk.

"There is a potential hostage too." Kyle said. "We will check the package when we stop this guy."

Jim did not want the person in the trunk to cause them to act too early. They wanted to see where the future Gray was about to lead them.

"We need to see where he goes." Jim said. "The person in the trunk may be dead already."

Kyle wasn't so sure.

"Why would the guy check on them if he knew they were dead?" Kyle asked.

Derek saw the logic in that too.

"If they were already dead he wouldn't need to check." Derek said. "It's a good bet the person in the trunk is the female who owns the car."

Jim could see the brothers were distracted with the captive.

"If we don't need to shoot him, I can beat a confession out of him." Jim said.

Kyle winced a little with that thought. He'd seen Cameron 'work' on future Grays before. It was very violent and bloody. Maybe the worst part of it was that when she was done it was as if nothing happened. She went back to being 'herself' again.

He'd asked her about it later on. He reflected on that conversation:

"You don't seem bothered by that." Kyle said.

Cameron smiled at him.

"Bothered by what?" Cameron asked.

"That man you beat to a pulp." Kyle said.

Cameron frowned.

"I needed to wash blood spots out of my clothes later on." Cameron said. "I bothered me they could have been ruined."

Kyle could see she missed the point.

"I meant about the process to extract the information." Kyle said.

"It was very foolish of him not to tell me sooner." Cameron said. "He brought all that down on himself. He wanted me to snap his neck."

"Maybe that would have been better." Kyle said.

"Then we would not have gotten the information." Cameron said. "That was the whole purpose of the interrogation."

"Never mind, I shouldn't have brought it up." Kyle said.

Cameron smiled at him and walked away.

"He's pulling over again." Jim said

Kyle shook his head to clear it. He didn't want to see or hear that again. He would try to make sure the future Gray talked fast.

Derek worried the prisoner was a female.

"I want to get the prisoner out of the trunk." Derek said. "If he goes in another building, I want to move."

He was aware that Grays didn't treat captured females any better that Scavengers did. The only difference was the Grays let them live after they were done with them so they could go to work in a work camp. Once they were there some of the prisoners would further abuse them. That includes captured Scavengers, Tunnel Rats and some in the Resistance who felt they were about to die so it didn't matter what they did.

Kyle decided to back his brother's play.

"I've got your back, bro." Kyle said.

Jim frowned. He thought this was all necessary.

The man took the package and entered the back of another building.

Jim pulled up in along side of the car.

Kyle bailed of the front.

Derek opened the sliding side door. His M4 was ready.

"This is probably going to mess up the stock." Derek said.

Kyle looked in the front of the car. It wasn't locked.

"Wait." Kyle said. "I can pop the trunk from here."

He did and the trunk opened.

Derek already slung his M4. He lifted the bound, blindfolded and gagged figure out of the back of the trunk.

It was a female.

He set her in the van from the side door and climbed in.

Kyle slammed the trunk closed and closed the sliding door on the side of the van. He got back in the front and Jim took off. Kyle kept his M4 ready in case the man came out.

They made a clean get away.

"Is she alive?" Kyle asked.

"Yes." Derek said.

He removed the gag but left her blindfolded and bound. They didn't know what they were dealing with.

Jim drove around the block and came up behind the car again. He remained in the distance so they weren't spotted. The man came out of the building with a different box and got back in the car. He did not check on the prisoner this time.

Jim stayed with him as he pulled away and went back into the traffic. That left them with two separate locations to revisit and the man they still followed. Now they needed to figure out who the prisoner was.

Holly found Allison.

Holly stood and stared at her for a long moment without Allison seeing her. She saw how beautiful Allison was. She loved Allison even more now than ever.

Holly walked up to Allison and gave her a big hug.

"Thank You, Allison." Holly said.

The looks on both their faces said it all.

"I know Hanna is you but it is not 'YOU'." Allison said. "I love you just the way you are, Holly. I see why John did not want Isabel even though it was 'Cameron'. It's not the same. I need to apologize to John about that. I was a real Bitch to him about it. I was wrong and need to tell him that. Sometimes you never understand something until it happens to you, then you KNOW."

Allison's words touched Holly deeply. She wanted to make her feelings and position clear to Allison.

"Allison, I want to be with you always." Holly said. "I know you are committed to Vanna and have Jesse. I accept that. I want to be there also with you – you alone. I only want YOU and no one else."

Holly was afraid of what was coming next. They all KNEW it NEEDED to happen.

Allison needed to point out what the future dictated.

"And what about when I am at John side?" Allison asked. "As you know I MUST be one day."

Holly would do her duty and she would still be there for Allison.

"Then I will be there with you." Holly said. "It is our duty and destiny to protect John, the Resistance and the future. I will help protect both of you and your offspring."

Allison was aware how things 'happened' with people in close proximity to each other over an extended period of time. Sometimes things just happened. She wanted to make sure Holly understood what could happen with her and John.

"What if he wants to be with you?" Allison asked.

Holly was hard wired to respond to John if he asked for sexual comfort. Cameron did that to all the female Terminators.

"I have all the programming to please him." Holly said. "I will allow him to do as he desires. I will do what pleases BOTH of you. I will do whatever I have to do to keep you, Allison."

Allison worried about Holly's feelings.

"What about you?" Allison asked.

Holly tried to down play her response or 'feelings'.

"Everyone sacrifices for John Connor." Holly said. "I am a machine. It is my function to do as programmed or instructed."

Allison almost laughed but did not want to be rude.

"We both know that is not true any longer. You are an individual now." Allison said. "You may do as you choose with whoever you choose."

The choice was easy for Holly.

"I choose you." Holly said.

Allison pointed out the obvious.

"And if Cameron was 'available'?" Allison asked.

That seemed like a 'loaded' question to Holly.

"We all have our weakness and Achilles' heel." Holly said. "That is not a fair question to ask ANYONE."

Allison smiled. She knew the question was unfair.

"And how, it is so true." Allison said. "We all fail on THAT one."

Holly was still elated that Allison chose her over Hanna.

"I want to thank you again for thinking about ME." Holly said. "I don't know if you know how much that means to me and how special that is to me."

Allison felt a little guilty about things sometimes but felt they were justified.

"I always think about you, Holly. I know you are different from the other Terminators. You are special." Allison said. "I know when I'm with Vanna or Jesse that it hurts you. I don't mean to do that but they are part on my life as John will be. I know you understand it even if you don't like it. It's our destiny."

Holly looked at Allison and unbuttoned two buttons on her top. Everything inside bulged out a little more than normal.

"Indeed." Holly said. "But you have to know I love you even more now."

Holly and Allison shared a long deep loving kiss.

Allison looked at Holly and closed the door to her room.

"Prove it." Allison said.

'Rockaway Beach' by the 'Ramones', soon drifted through the walls of the house.

More Precious Than Gold

You are so wonderful
I know you have been told
So vibrant and happy
Attractive and far from old

Intelligent and smart
Your mind is very bold
A deep inner warmth
Your heart is never cold

To see inside you is transfixing
A wonderful person to behold
A feeling long ago suppressed
Has grow inside to unfold

Everything about you is special
A priceless diamond never to be sold
One thing is for very certain
You should never be controlled

Your being is to worship
A feeling has taken hold
You are to be cherished
You are more precious than gold

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