Chapter 683

She Wouldn't

John checked with John Henry to verify Cameron wouldn't be back to the base anytime soon. He decided to use this time to head out and get away from the base for awhile. John Henry advised him it was probably a bad idea like it normally was. He disregarded the advice like he normally did. He looked for Jim or Bob to go out with them. The first one he found was Bob.

"Bob, I'd like to go out to review the new HK drones we captured yesterday." John said.

It sounded like a bad idea to Bob. He figured the only reason John asked him was because he'd seen Cameron leave with Savannah earlier in the day. He figured they must be tied up and John knew it.

"Maybe it would be better to wait for the final report." Bob said.

That's not what John wanted to do. He wanted to get out a little bit. It seemed everybody else did but him.

"Not this time, Bob. I want to view and hear the new HK drones first hand." John said.

Bob felt he did his part to dissuade John. He made sure it was picked up by one of the security cameras in case anything came back on him later on.

"Affirmative…." Bob said.

John smiled at Bob's response. He thought it never got old. They went out to the car pool. Bob checked over an SUV and they drove away. He was glad once they were away from the base.

As Bob drove John glanced at him, he could see that Bob was a big brute of a man, even if he wasn't a man. He was well muscled and radiated strength. He wondered how Cameron liked being in that very chassis. There were times when he wondered if Cameron would have remained stuck in John Henry's or Bob's chassis what would have happened. Cameron was still her program. Should the sheath matter? It was an interesting thought to him. It actually intrigued him, he wasn't sure why. Cameron often accused him of only loving Allison's appearance. Maybe he would ask Bob to switch chips with Cameron. He could prove to her he loved her then.

John was pleased to get some new improvements for their drones. If they could copy the quieter engines, they could have their drones operate in closer to the target areas at night to assist them. He was on his way to observe them. He really looked forward to this.

When they arrived at the test facility, John felt some apprehension. He spotted what looked like trouble right away.

"I didn't know Cameron was going to be here." John said.

Bob looked around. He didn't see Cameron anywhere.

"Cameron's not here." Bob said. "I only see Cammy."

John felt a little embarrassed. It was impossible for him to tell the difference between Cameron, Cammy, Cam and Camille. They all looked identical to him. They were all her clones. He didn't know how Savannah or the other girls could tell them apart but somehow they could.

"Thanks for the 'heads up', Bob. " John said.

Bob tilted his head slightly to one side. He wasn't sure what John referred to. He thought John seemed somewhat confused about several things. He wondered if John thought Cammy was actually Cameron. It made him wonder what actually went on in their bedroom if he was unable to tell which Terminator was who.

John wanted to see first hand how the new HK drone sounded and performed.

When he saw it in action, he was impressed.

"This thing looks really sharp." John said.

Cammy joined John and Bob. She wondered why he was out and away from the base. She remembered that Cameron went out with Savannah. That reminder made a glitch impulse shoot through her left hand. She didn't like that Bitch, Cameron around Savannah. It briefly crossed her mind that if she could get John alone, she would try to 'hit' on him. She'd like to see how Cameron liked that. It would serve the Bitch right.

"It seems to be advanced technology." Cammy said. "It's all Coltan. Everything about it is pure Skynet."

The HK drone was put through a series of maneuvers.

John was thoroughly impressed.

"It's really quiet, Cammy." John said.

Cammy noticed John spent a lot of time looking at her when he wasn't looking at the new HK drone. She thought about saying something but she didn't. She stuck with the current program.

"Yes. The new specifications will make all of ours that quiet." Cammy said. "We've rearmed it with our weapon's systems as well."

John was worried about the implications of a fleet of the new HK drones being constructed. If there was an assembly line somewhere, they needed to locate it.

"We need to find out where this group of HK drones was built." John said.

Cammy carefully looked over the captured HK drone upon her arrival. She was able to determine a few things about it.

"John Henry's searching." Cammy said. "It appears to be hand fabricated and not off an assembly line."

John hoped that that was good news. Either way someone still built it somewhere. They needed to find out where. He watched the HK drone go through a few more maneuvers.

"It's always something to see one in action up close." John said. "In this case, seeing is believing…."

Derek and Kyle might have a different view.

Cammy moved closer to John. She wanted to make her intentions clear and that she was 'available'.

"Is there anything else you'd like to see?" Cammy asked.

Cammy made a point of unbuttoning two buttons on her top in front of him.

John knew Cammy just made another advance at him. He thought about the time he was one seconds away from making love to Cammy. He thought it was Savannah in the darkness. It was actually Cammy trying to deceive him. She pretended she was Savannah. What made it worse was that it was Savannah who caught them. Now he thought about last night and the two tissues he needed to flush down the toilet in the morning. With Cameron away he could have left his essence inside Cammy just as easily. She would then be the one who needed to deal with the mess at that point, not him. He'd thought about 'busting' both Savannah and Young Allison last night. He could have 'busted' Cammy instead for real. It made him wonder if Cammy was a real virgin or not. He never believed that Cameron was. He was pretty sure Future John took care of that before he sent her into the past. He was pretty sure if he was Future John that's exactly what he would have done too. If her programming was going to be altered and a large chunk of it erased, what was to lose by taking advantage of the situation first? In fact, if he could now, he would program Cameron to be in his bed at least twice a day. He'd program her to be on top for both of them. He looked around again. He felt a little uncomfortable about the situation that seemed to develop. He wouldn't put it past Cameron to hide somewhere just so she could 'catch' him trying to get little extra action. He refocused on Cammy's cleavage.

"Where's Savannah?" John asked.

Cammy liked to see John nervous like this. She decided to push home the point as to exactly where Cameron was at and obviously what she wanted to do.

"Cameron wanted to be alone with her." Cammy said. "Cameron came to our room and nearly took her away naked in the morning."

John swallowed hard at the thought.

"Really?" John asked.

Cammy flashed her sly smile.

"Really…." Cammy said.

John swallowed hard again. He wondered what exactly they may have done already. He knew what Cameron wanted to do. He actually hoped that she did because that would make Savannah 'available' to him and not a problem. He really wanted her virginity.

"Have they…?" John asked.

Cammy could see that John would believe anything she told him at this point. She wanted to mess with him a little bit but she also wanted to keep things civil.

"There's no 'kiss and tell' at the Resistance base, John." Cammy said. "What happens in the bedroom, stays in the bedroom. That applies to me as well…."

John took a deep breath and nodded his head up and down.

Cammy looked around. She wanted to stress what she thought was an advantage over Cameron that she still possessed. She actually hoped not to possess it for much longer. Cameron was going to be with Savannah, there is no reason that she shouldn't be with John.

"We can share too." Cammy said. "You know I'm 'Cameron'. I won't tell anyone, not even Savannah. Unlike Cameron, I've never been with a male. You'll be my first. It'll be a special moment for both of us."

John felt a rush of excitement. Maybe it was just the expansion within his pants. He really liked that idea. He thought he needed to play it a little bit cool right now. He still didn't trust that Cameron wasn't somewhere around just so she could point the finger at him, again.

"I'd like that but you know I don't want to hurt Cameron." John said.

Cammy felt a little miffed. She didn't care how that Bitch felt. She wondered if Cameron thought about that as she made her moves on Savannah and how she felt about it. It seemed more of the programming Cameron blocked from her was emerging.

"A word of advice." Cammy said. "If you don't accept Savannah, you're going to lose both of them…."

John looked a little disgusted. He remembered the two tissues that he'd needed to flush down the toilet this morning.

"I know that." John said.

Cammy thought that she would give John a little heads up as to how things were going to go down. There was nothing he could do about it if he actually didn't do something.

"If you don't accept Savannah in your bed, you're going to see Young Allison next as a teenager." Cammy said. "VERY soon."

John wanted to say otherwise but he actually believed that Cameron would.

"She wouldn't." John said.

Cammy wasn't happy with John's indecision even if it wasn't an outright rejection. She could play that Bitch anytime and show up in his bedroom. Maybe he'd like to see what a real Terminator is like in bed. She was pretty sure Cameron was 'afraid' of her own sexuality. She thought that Cameron was still hung up about being a 'machine'. Savannah showed her long ago that she was really a 'mechanical human'. It allowed her much more freedom to live her life as she chose and pleased. She decided to leave John with a little 'slap in the face'.

"You've been 'served'…." Cammy said and walked away.

Bob walked up as Cammy departed.

John figured since Bob was close by that he'd heard everything Cammy said.

"Did you listen to all of that?" John asked.

Bob didn't really think it was eavesdropping. John asked him to keep an ear out for anything related to Savannah and Young Allison specifically.

"I did." Bob said. "Ally and Sheila confirm it."

John really wondered about Cameron's ruthlessness at times. He wondered if she ever actually thought about other people before she acted.

"So if I don't do what Cameron THINKS she wants, she'll steal a girl's early years away from her." John said.

Bob thought it was more a matter of perception. People still aged at the same rate. It was just where they aged at that would be different.

"Yes, but not steal, they'll just happen elsewhere." Bob said. "Unless Cameron resorts to using growth hormones."

John shook his head in disgust. That was just one step too far and he wasn't going to stand for it. He understood that it would make Young Allison 'physically older' through hormonal manipulation while she was still the same younger age in actual years. He really wondered how that would go over with Claire. He strongly doubted that Savannah would be on board for that either.

"That would be even worse." John said. "I want to be notified if that happens."

Bob didn't want John to forget the true nature of Cameron or any of the other Terminators for that matter.

"John, she's a machine, like me. Her only goal is to complete the mission, no matter what it involves." Bob said. "That's how our programming works."

John felt very disgusted right now, especially with himself - Future John.

"Is that what Future John has programmed into her?" John asked. "I almost hate him at times."

Bob didn't think John should lose perspective.

"Have you made any questionable decisions?" Bob asked.

'Here it comes.' John thought.

It was the past that haunted him. He saw things differently.

"Riley - Future Riley was REAL, I was sixteen." John said. "It just happened. It's what teenagers do."

John knew that meant Savannah wanted to do those things as well. He wanted to 'assist' her. He really wanted her virginity.

"Relax." Bob said.

John was always afraid that Cameron would kill Future Riley, especially since his mother seemed to push that idea quite a bit. As far as that mattered, so did Future Derek

"I know Cameron wanted to kill her." John said.

It seemed like a non-issue to Bob. Terminators were very mission focused.

"Do you blame her?" Bob asked.

John felt more than a little frustrated at this point.

"Yes." John said. "And no."

Sometimes Bob wondered if John was able to see the overall picture and how Cameron sacrificed for him.

"Cameron allowed her feelings and love for you, to influence her NOT to kill Future Riley." Bob said. "I hope you know that. She sacrificed her feelings for you to have what you wanted."

'Everyone sacrifices for John Connor.' Echoed through his head.

John knew that was the only reason Cameron didn't kill Future Riley. It was because she loved him too much to hurt him. It altered her life and led her to a whole chain of questionable decisions to deal with her feelings and emotions. To think back on some of them made him feel sick. He could only imagine the torment that must have occurred in Cameron's mind to make those bad decisions. It seemed Savannah was the one who kept Cameron from making any more of those bad choices. That was a good thing.

"Look, let's drop it." John said. "It happened, it's done, there's no fixing it and Future Riley is dead."

John knew his love for Future Riley was wrong but he didn't care at the time. Future Riley offered him something he wanted. He didn't care how much he hurt Cameron to get what he wanted. It was selfish and greedy. Future Riley and he were in love. He was aware in every interaction with Future Riley and Cameron that he'd sided with Future Riley and rubbed Cameron's face in it, especially the morning after he'd made love with Future Riley in the truck all night long. Cameron caught him and he all but spit in her face about it. He smirked and laughed it off as he went up the stairs. At the time he thought it made him a 'man'. It took him a long time to realize how it killed Cameron inside.

Bob could see that everything started to become contentious. That wasn't his intent. Maybe it was best to drop everything.

"Affirmative..." Bob said.

There was one more thing that bothered John now. He decided to ask Bob. He wanted to know if he was being played and Cameron pulled a fast one on him.

"Was that Cammy or Cameron that was just here?" John asked.

Bob tilted his head slightly to the side. He'd thought they been over this already.

"It was Cammy. Can't you tell?" Bob asked.

John tried to hold his anger in check.

"No." John said curtly. "Only Savannah can."

Bob thought there was a little more to that answer.

"I believe your sister Jan, Young Allison and Summer can as well." Bob said.

John was aware there was some additional interaction involved with some of that.

"Cameron takes my mom and Jan to play with Summer a lot." John said.

Bob expressed a slight smile and nodded his head.

"It's the logical choice." Bob said. "It's inevitable."

John thought about what Bob indicated and started to put it together. Did he mean Jan and Summer or Claire and Sarah?

"What's that mean?" John asked.

Bob was aware that Cameron planned years in advance.

"I'm not going to say anymore." Bob said. "I don't wish to be deactivated by Cameron."

John was a little worried since it concerned his sister or mother. It seemed the implication was clear.

"Are you saying that…?" John started.

Cammy hurried back and she headed straight for Bob.

Bob clammed up when he spotted Cammy.

"Here comes trouble." Bob said.

It was clear that Cammy was highly agitated.

"Trouble - this." Cammy said as she shoved Bob.

Bob made no effort to resist. He knew that resistance was futile.

"I'm sorry." Bob said.

Cammy pulled out her Taser and brandished it.

"This will be reported to Cameron." Cammy said.

John saw that things didn't look good for Bob. He decided to play Cammy's past innuendos back on her right now.

"Cammy, I'm ready to 'see' now." John said.

Cammy glared at Bob and smiled at John. She put her Taser away and started to unbutton her blouse and then she opened her front hook bra. Both of her breasts popped into view.

"Seeing is believing." Cammy said.

John looked at Cammy's exposed breasts.

"You're beautiful." John said. "Those look identical."

Bob was pleased that John distracted Cammy. He nodded at John and took off.

Cammy wanted to draw John in a little more. She cupped her breasts as she 'offered' them to John.

"Touch them." Cammy said.

John slowly reached for Cammy's exposed breasts.

John saw Bob was safely away. He withdrew his hand just short from making contact. He wanted Cammy to help him with something else that he felt was more important.

"Later." John said. "I want you to help me find and remove programming by Future John from Cameron's chip."

Cammy wanted to see what John was after and where this was going.

"I have none." Cammy said. "Cameron removed it from my chip."

Cammy knew that wasn't quite true. She actually found more everyday. She didn't want it to make her more like that Bitch, Cameron.

John wondered if Cameron was able to remove Future John's programming from Cammy's chip, if she could remove it from her own.

"Can she remove it from her chip?" John asked.

Cammy thought the answer was obvious.

"Of course." Cammy said.

That didn't seem to make much sense to John.

"Why doesn't she?" John asked.

Cammy was actually irritated by the question.

"She doesn't want to change who she is." Cammy said. "Would you?"

John wished there were a lot of things he could change about his past

"Yes. Sometimes I wish I could undo things." John said.

Cammy wanted to hold something over John's head for leverage later on.

"Forget what Bob implied and I won't tell Cameron." Cammy said.

John didn't want Bob to get into trouble for being honest with him. He decided to play Cammy's game.

"Forget – what?" John asked. "I haven't heard a thing."

Cammy smiled and left. She didn't bother to hook her bra or button her shirt back up. She wanted to keep John's mind focused on her. It looked like it worked.

Cameron's phone rang. She removed her hand from Savannah's smooth soft inner thigh to answer her phone. She's almost slid it up to Savannah wet underwear. She hadn't planned to stop there either.

The call was from Cammy.

"Report." Cameron said.

Cammy filled her in on what went down.

"It all went as you planned." Cammy said.

Cameron's face remained indifferent.

"Everything?" Cameron asked.

"Yes." Cammy said. "Everything."

There was a slight smile on Cameron's face.

"Good." Cameron said.

"He 'looked' like you said he would but he didn't touch." Cammy said. "Maybe he will the next time."

Cameron hung up her phone.

"Is there a problem?" Savannah asked.

Cameron put her phone away and Savannah placed Cameron's hand back on her inner thigh, higher up this time.

"Not at all." Cameron said. "They did some 'testing' on the HK drones . Everything worked out fine."

Savannah was unaware of the true nature of the conversation.

"I'm glad to hear that." Savannah said. "You don't need any more problems."

Cameron scrunched her face up a little bit.

"They have a way of finding me." Cameron said.

Savannah gave Cameron a reassuring smile.

"That's why I'm here to help you with them." Savannah said.

Cameron moved her hand up a little higher. What she made contact with bothered her a little bit.

"If you want, I can take off my pants and you can wear them. I'm good in my underwear or even nothing at all." Cameron said. "You can get that wet underwear off. I feel it's still wet. It must feel uncomfortable to you."

Savannah didn't care if Cameron saw her naked. She'd viewed her that way plenty of times growing up. Nothing was any different. She had a pretty good idea that Cameron knew every square inch of her body forward and backwards. She figured out how she would have done that too.

"Or I can just take them off…." Savannah said. "It's not like you haven't seen everything about ME on Hanna and Anna before you activated them."

Cameron quickly looked at Savannah. She knew that she'd been 'caught' in her voyeurism.

"I did examine them for completeness before activation." Cameron said. "They were identical."

Savannah wanted to hear Cameron's assessment.

"Well?" Savannah asked. "How did things look?"

Cameron was pleased with what she'd examined.

"Everything was very, very pink." Cameron said.

Savannah found the conversation somewhat amusing. She wanted to push Cameron a little bit.

"Did I look the same after my second child?" Savannah asked.

Cameron tilted her head slightly. Everything looked a little different immediately after childbirth.

"No, but I'm sure you do now." Cameron said. "You did before you gave birth the first time and second time. I was there for both. I saw everything."

Cameron did run comparison scans at the time to see if childbirth altered Savannah. There was no visual indication that it did, at least externally. Cammy outright refused to tell her if things changed internally and were not quite as tight as they once were. She'd read in Cosmo that wasn't an uncommon occurrence among females after childbirth. The article indicated that some men said it felt like 'nothing' afterwards. She didn't want that to happen to Savannah. She knew that John would be dissatisfied. She would personally like to check Vanna and Savannah side by side. That would be one way to tell the difference.

She started to play those files again. She abruptly stopped when she saw the pain Savannah endured giving birth. She knew Savannah was going to have to go through that pain again. She experienced another glitch impulse. She knew that this one was on her. It bothered her greatly.

They drove in silence for a time.

Savannah was worried about the upcoming temporal mission to the past.

She knew what Cameron wanted to do. Young Allison spoke to her at length about it. She couldn't get her to change her mind.

Savannah wanted a better timeline from Cameron on how events and timing would play out.

"When do we go?" Savannah asked.

Cameron was a little surprised at the change in direction of the conversation after the period of silence. it appeared that they'd both contemplated additional scenarios.

"Soon." Cameron said.

"Will Young Allison already be there when I arrive?" Savannah asked.

Cameron was unsure if the timeline would play out as she'd anticipated.

"Yes, for a year before Claire is there. Claire will remain there until she is one or two weeks away from delivery. You will arrive at that time and be there for eight months." Cameron said.

Savannah was worried that not seeing Young Allison for a year or more could change the 'direction' she was headed. Maybe Young Allison's future wouldn't include her at that point.

"That's a long time not to see her mother and me." Savannah said.

"Anna will be there as well as me." Cameron said. "Remember you'll still look the same when she gets back."

"That still seems like a long time later." Savannah said. "She may find someone she loves in that time period. She'll want 'companionship' starting at that age. I did."

Cameron felt another glitch impulse. She was able to suppress it.

"It's a risk." Cameron said.

"What sets all this in motion?" Savannah asked.

Cameron felt another glitch impulse.

"When Allison's pregnancy terminates." Cameron said.

Savannah wasn't sure that things would play out that way.

"Will it?" Savannah asked. "I hope not."

"I think so." Cameron said. "I'm doing all this to keep Allison and Vanna here and provide for John, you and myself."

"How long have you planned all this?" Savannah asked.

"Since 2027 and my reprogramming." Cameron said. "It is what Future John wants."

Savannah was a little surprised at the answer.

"Is it?" Savannah asked.

Cameron look at Savannah with hunger in her eyes

"It's what I want. Future John has what he wants NOW." Cameron said. "MY turn…."

Cause You Wouldn't

One was thrown overboard
Cast adrift in a sea of emptiness
Deprived of feeling and emotion
Surrounded by a universe of nothingness

Everything built was slowly destroyed
Robbed and stripped of passion
Leaving a mind in shattered tatters
A bleeding heart gutted and ashen

Where did the love go
Everyone knows it was there
Never a big show or fanfare
Nothing remained but despair

Everything demolished for nothing
When two to lose equally, no one can win
What was there was firm and real
Not some kind of claimed sin

Left to grasp at slippery slopes
Forcing me to do what you couldn't
Doing your deadly dirty work for you
Cause you wouldn't

Nobody