Hey so I know this story hasn't been updated in a while but the truth is I don't think this is a very popular story but I push on ahead anyway.
LOL I love how when my good buddies Veran and T.R. Sammuels do pregnancy storys people are cool with it but when I do one people want answers now.
Don't worry peeps it will be explained in due time.
Trust
Though the mid day sun was bright on the bare tundra of sand and ash the air was quite cold as the beaten planet slowly recovered from nuclear winter. Sarah walked with great care as she continued to stare at the back of Ryan Phillips as he Lead the way through the cold plain.
"I thought it wasn't safe to move around during the day" Sarah asked suspiciously.
"What do you think this is 2018? Skynet got cleaned out of this sector years ago" Ryan replied with a laugh shaking his head. "It wasted a huge amount of resorces with that sortie back there and I think it just signed it's toe tag with it."
Sarah watched him with a million thoughts swirling around in her head.
"It's not possible, it's just not possible. Metal doesn't have feelings and sure as hell doesn't have babies." Sarah thought as she stared a hole in the back of the young Captains head. "Maybe this is some sort of trick and it's leading me into one of those Death camps Derek and Kyle mentioned." Sarah pondered as she moved toward Ryan's blind side.
"Where are you taking me" Sarah asked sternly with authority.
"Where the hell do you think?" Ryan answered with a chuckle in his voice as he walked with no wasted movement that reminded Sarah eerily of Cameron. Sarah tensed up at his straight posture and meaning full steps.
"Why don't you tell me?" Sarah responded aggressively with mistrust laden in her voice. Ryan stopped in his place and tensed up.
"What the hell!" Ryan shot back at Sarah with a confused voice. "When did you pick up the bad attitude?" Ryan continued with a puzzled look on his face. Sarah was immediately reminded of John and his own face of confusion that she had became accustom to, it only put wood to the growing fire of Sarah's temper.
"When you refuse to tell me where we are going!" Sarah responded angrily. All the humor left Ryan's face as he looked Sarah in the eye.
"Can't tell you Just know that it's a safer place then where ever you had in mind" he responded turning back and started to walk away. Sarah didn't move.
"Not good enough" Sarah stated not giving an inch. Ryan stopped again sighing frustrated at her stubbornness.
"Look Lady, we have a hell of a long way to go today and I'm not in the mood for a bitch fit cause you have trust issues" Ryan replied with an edge. Sarah anger was pushed over the limit.
"Listen, I don't know what you are but I don't follow blindly and you don't call me lady!" Sarah countered with a harsh tone. Ryan tensed and turned toward Sarah with a cold expression on his face.
"What am I?" he said with a cold anger. Sarah immediately knew she struck a cord in him. Ryan walked toward Sarah hastily; Sarah didn't move a muscle holding her ground. Both were face to face and inches apart.
"You heard me, I won't follow a Machineto a slaughter house" Sarah spat in Ryan's face
"You listen to me bitch and you listen well because I'm gonna say this only once. I have orders from John Connor to bring any tunnel rat captured by the machines back to HQ, and I will follow those orders even if I have to drag you there by your hair." Ryan spat back. "As for me being metal, If you ever call me that again … Let's just say there was no order as to the condition I bring you back" Ryan looked Sarah dead in the eye. She saw burning hot rage in his eyes.
"So he doesn't like being called a machine huh" Sarah continued to stare down the young man. It felt as if she was looking into mirror. Just by the way there faces were contorted in anger was similar in many ways and it unnerved her more then a little. "He's taking me to John; my pride can't screw this up"
"Fine, take me to John" Sarah said walking past him. She stopped several steps trying to get her anger under control. She heard a long sigh of frustrated anger come from behind her and the sound of footsteps walk past her. Ryan continued on his way pretending not to care but walking slower then usual as not to be to far away from her. Despite her mistrust of the supposed Officer, Sarah couldn't help but grin a bit. It was such a John Connor thing to do.
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"So tell me about your family?" Sarah asked after taking swig of water from the canteen. It had been several hours since the big fight and both hadn't said much since. Ryan came back from behind a rock after telling her several moments before hand that he had to "shake the weasel".
Sarah didn't really trust him, but she might find out as little more about the man and what kind of back story he would give her.
"What do you care" Ryan said bitterly slinging the plasma rifle behind him. "I'm a machine, remember" Sarah gave him a glare
"Just trying to make nice" Sarah stated standing up and walking next to him. He turned his head toward her to which she gave him a small reassuring smile. Ryan sighed and turned his head forward to look ahead of him. There was silence for a while before he spoke.
"My old man is a … Officer in the Resistance same as me." He answered her as if choosing his words carefully.
"You're Mother, what's she?" Sarah asked in friendly tone. Ryan shot her a look of alarm
"What do you mean?"
"What does she do?" Sarah elaborated fixing him with a weird stare.
"Oh … uh … she's dead, she was a soldier and she was captured on a mission" he replied with a sad voice that made Sarah feel a twinge of guilt.
"I'm … sorry" Sarah said fighting the Sudden urge to pull him into an embrace.
"He's not John, he might not even be human. So cut it out." Sarah told herself as she lowered her head watching the ground.
"It's alright it was a while ago" Ryan smiled slightly as a way to reassure her that it was fine to talk about it.
"How did your father take it?" Sarah asked looking up with a maternal concern betraying her better judgment. Ryan however seemed to be lost in his own mind and didn't notice her tone.
"It nearly broke him .He became obsessed with the Metal Monster that took her; we searched three years." Ryan said dazed as if lost in the memory. Sarah's heart felt like someone had smashed it with a hammer.
"It nearly broke him" the words devastated her in a way only mothers can be.
"Did you find this "Metal Monster"?" Sarah asked not aware of the concern in her voice.
"It found us…" Ryan paused as if to find courage to continue.
"My dad moved on and got married to a Beautiful doctor, her name was Kate she loved him. She made us forget the pain for a while. They we're even going to have a baby. It was several days before her due date when It came back. I … uh was away from home at the time when it attacked." Ryan cut it off at that not saying anything else. Sarah didn't need to hear anymore as she knew what came next. Sarah felt warm tears spill over her eye lids as she could only imagine her boy's pain.
Sarah at that moment believed Ryan story. She had no proof or any idea how he even existed but his tearing eyes as he thought about Cameron was enough proof that he was no Terminator.
"It's my entire fault, I should have been there for him" she looked broken as she fell behind Ryan a bit. Sarah felt the entire weight of her failure on top of her as Cameron's words replied over and over in her head "Loneliness will be John's Life someday" Her boy Suffered and is alone and there was nothing she could do.
"Shit!!"
Sarah was brought back to her sad reality as she heard Ryan cuss.
"What?" Sarah asked looking at a cliff they just reached.
"Town" Ryan said taking a knee which Sarah took suite.
The town was medium sized and surprisingly well intact. It had a strange Norman Rockwell feel to it that made Sarah uneasy, and from Ryan's look he was not too delighted with the feel either.
"I thought you said that this area was clear?" Sarah asked confused.
"Look, just because there aren't machines don't mean that there still isn't danger …Sarah." Ryan responded pulling out a map. Sarah watched him look over the map for a moment.
"Damn!" Ryan sighed putting away the map.
"We've got go through it don't we?" Sarah asked. Ryan nodded while looking out at the town. Sarah watched him as he seemed to be studying the town hard. The sound of wiring caught Sarah's attention as she turned quickly but saw nothing. From the corner of her eye she saw Ryan's right eye glow blue as he watched the town.
"Jesus, he's a machine!" Sarah stayed frozen a moment looking for a weapon. She spotted his plasma rifle he had laid on the ground between them. In one fluid motion Sarah delivered a kick to the back of Ryan's knees sending him to the ground. Rolling she grabbed the rifle and pointed it at him.
"What the hell are you doing!!?" Ryan yelled with a hand raised.
"You lied to me!! You're a machine." Sarah accused pointing the rifle at his head.
"What are you talking about!?" Ryan yelled rolling on his knees. Sarah backed away some giving her some room.
"Your eye it glowed blue, I saw it." Sarah growled
"Yeah, and what it's a prosthetic!?" Ryan looked at Sarah for a moment before a realization came over him. "Holy shit, no clothes, no scars, and clean. You're not from this time are you?" Ryan almost laughed if not for the gun.
"No, I'm not but you won't live long enough to tell anyone" Sarah threatened
"Look, you are in the middle of no where in a different time. Plus I would put a month's ration that you don't know how to fire that thing." Ryan rationalized with Sarah standing slowly. Sarah gave him an aggressive look backing a way slowly.
"Trust me, I'll figure it out" Sarah responded not taking her eyes off him. She slowly inched her way toward the shattered town.
"Look I'll explain everything to you if you'll just give me the damn gun!" Ryan explained walking toward Sarah slowly with both hands up in front of him.
"I'm through with your stories!" Sarah said ruthlessly squeezing the trigger. However nothing happened, she tried again with the same results. Ryan gave a sly smile before snatching the weapon out of her hand.
"It has to be cocked, genius" he snorted shouldering the weapon. However Sarah had a back up plan. Grabbing Ryan by the shoulders she delivered a blow to his manhood with her knee. Ryan dropped to the floor in pain while Sarah took off in a sprint for the town.
Ryan lied there a moment collecting his thoughts, and his testicles. The young man stood finally after a minute using a bolder for support.
"Great how am I going to explain this one to the old man? Hey dad good news you know how you and mom always wondered what happened to grams well good news I found her! But the bad news is well… she kicked me in the balls and ran away. Perfect" Ryan shook his head grabbing his gear before slowly making his way toward the town.
"I didn't sign up for this" he sighed
Let's put it this way would he have
1.) showed concern for a basic tunnel rat by spooning with her to give body heat or given her extra clothing unless she was family?
2.) Told her about the painfull memories unless he knew who she was.
anyway yeah Cameron is missing.
Ryan's posthetics have a big and tragic twist to them as well.