Here's the second part of the visit to spa. What's in spa besides pools? It's hot and healthy. Right! Sauna! Our two lovebirds have to experience everything that this institution offers. Well … almost everything.
With this chapter our visit to wellness/spa is finished and new adventures await our heroes and their family/friends.
Chapter 26 – I Think I Like It Here
"So, John, can we go to the pool now?" Cameron's eyes inquisitively looked into John's green ones while her face shoved a small mischievous smirk. It's been more than five minutes since Sarah and Derek left them and after the first minute ticked off, John requested her to get off of his lap, stating as the reason that he'd never be able to get his hormones under control with her, seated on his lap. So she sat on her own lounger and looked at John expectantly.
John sighed relieved: "Yeah, Cam, we can go." He looked at her and saw her smirk. "It's entirely your fault that we had to wait here, you know." He complained not exactly seriously.
"I don't think so, John. We had to wait because you had some issues while I was ready to go all the time." Cameron deadpanned.
"Right! But you caused my so called issues." John wouldn't get himself beaten by his girlfriend. After a grin in her direction, he stood up and stretched his hand towards her: "Shall we?"
Cameron rose in a graceful fluidic motion and grabbed his hand smiling: "Are we really going to the kid's pool? Will they even let us get in there?"
"No, it was just an excuse to get mom and Derek out of the way." John smiled gently towards her. "We're going to the smaller, shallower pool so that you'll be able to stand."
"Oh! Better than pretending to be a baby." Cameron answered with satisfied tone.
"As if anyone would believe you to be a baby!" John chuckled and his eyes once again caressed Cameron's curvatures. "The hottest babe in the spa and a baby?" He shook his head resolutely. "Not a chance!"
"So you think I'm the hottest babe in here?" Cameron leaned towards him and briefly laid her head on his shoulder.
"Absolutely!" John was convinced that there was no one as beautiful as his girlfriend. Not just in here … in the world!
Cameron smiled at him thankfully and stretched to give him a gentle kiss on his cheek.
After they reached the smaller pool, which was much shallower than the one, Sarah and Derek went to, John noticed that the pool had a wide staircase on one side and he steered Cameron towards the wide stairs. He immediately stepped two steps down and turned towards Cameron: "Just take it slow, honey. One step at a time. Get acquainted with the feeling of being in the water first."
Cameron nodded a little stiffly. She had a strange feeling, looking at the water. She was convinced that she couldn't swim and being in the water really wasn't even near to qualify as one of her favorite activities. So she stepped down the first step hesitantly. She felt the water splashing around her ankles and wiggled her toes while looking down carefully. It was better than feeling the wind between them, like she did when she went to Mexico with John to get Cromartie's body. She looked up into John's eyes with a slight surprise in her face: "It's nice! I didn't expect it to be nice."
John smiled at her: "Hey, you are taking showers and you should know that water isn't your enemy. I even find it strange that you didn't know how it feels to be in the water before."
"I always shower most efficiently. I try to use very small amount of water. And I've never before stood in the water." Cameron explained while she looked at her wiggling toes again. She suddenly stepped down another and another step, so that the water now reached above her knees. It still felt pleasant and in the next moment she continued downstairs so that she was standing in the water, reaching above her waist, just under her breasts. She looked at John again: "I feel lighter in the water."
"Of course!" John smiled at her, noticing her shining eyes: "Your body displaces a certain amount of water and therefore you feel lighter in it than you are." She obviously enjoys it. Too bad we haven't tried it before. Before he could say anything more, Cameron let loose of his hand and began to slowly paddle through the water with both hands. Her face revealed her enjoyment and she smiled without really knowing what she was doing. It really felt good to be in the water.
John saw her smiling face and thought to himself that she looked heavenly beautiful in this moment. Breath suddenly caught in his throat and before he could say anything, Cameron lifted her face to look at him with a childlike glee: "Water has 31.5 degrees centigrade. It's warm. I like it!" She smiled wider and showed him her white teeth while still gently probing the resistance of the water against her movements with her hands.
Suddenly her eyes glinted with mischievousness and unexpectedly she splashed a considerable amount of water into John. She giggled at the sight of water, dripping from John's hair and astonished look on his face.
He was definitely surprised to see such behavior from Cameron. She almost never did such unexpected, playful things and his heart jumped as he saw her all too human behavior. She was grinning at him challenging and he couldn't help but grin back. "Just wait, my dear! You're so going to pay for it!" He threatened her with a smile, leaned forward while preparing to send a real tsunami in her direction.
Cameron noticed his intentions and squeaked in delight. She tried to turn around and run, but she miscalculated the necessary force to do it. So the inevitable happened and she slipped and fell face down into the water. Suddenly she was submerged and tried to paddle with her arms to get back to the surface but achieved just the opposite effect. She sank to the bottom of the pool. Damn! If this is so-called swimming, then I'm dropping the subject right now. It's not tight!
Before she could continue her thoughts, two arms grabbed her and lifted her out of the water. She spluttered the water and looked into John's slightly worried eyes. "Are you okay, Cam?" His voice was even more worried than his eyes.
After another spit of water, she combed her wet hair, hanging over her face, backwards and nodded: "I'm fine." After a small pause she continued: "But if this is swimming then I'm ready to forget it. I don't like it." She looked into John's eyes somehow accusingly.
John laughed softly at her: "No Cameron, this is not swimming. What you did is normally called drowning and after you almost drown you should be rescued by your prince charming. And you look simply adorable, just like a drowned poodle."
Cameron's good mood returned in an instant: "Oh, so you're my prince charming?" Then she grinned: "I can't look like a drowned poodle. I'm not a canine."
John nodded and his face closed in on hers "No, you're my Cameron".
"And how would you rescue me?" Cameron challenged him with satisfied smile upon her face.
"This is how." John kissed her on the lips.
After few moments in which they both lost themselves in emotions, their lips separated and Cameron asked: "Why would you think that you could rescue me this way?"
"Mouth to mouth respiration, honey." John grinned at her.
Suddenly Cameron understood and in a nanosecond she already forged a little plan. She smirked at him and let herself fall backwards with closed eyes. Weren't it for John's arms around her, she'd land in the water again. Even so, he had to strain himself to hold her dead weight. "Cam!" His worried voice caused her to grin evilly.
She opened one eye to peer at him: "I'm almost dead, John. You should revive me." She closed the eye again and went limp.
John instantly understood her game and grinned at her: "This is emergency case and extraordinary measures are required. John Connor to rescue!" In an instant he lifted her up so that he could crush his lips on hers. It took Cameron only a second to respond to his passion all too gladly and their tongues began to dance the eternal dance of love. Her arms embraced John and she eagerly pressed her body against his. Without really thinking she lifted her leg and encircled it around his waist. The passion grew by moments and she found herself almost lost in it.
Suddenly John broke the kiss and gently tried to extricate himself out of her iron grip. He saw confusion written all over her face and hurried to explain to her: "I'm sorry but this really isn't the best thing to do here in the pool in public. I'm beginning to have the same problems as before and we really wouldn't want to spoil any children in her, now would we?"
Cameron still looked at him in a mixture of anger, disappointment and confusion, but after his explanation her eyes flickered towards John's groin and she noticed that he was telling her the truth. So she looked back into his eyes and smiled: "Oh, that kind of problems again." She let him out of her embrace, but still held his hands. "Thank you for saving me John." She tilted her head and smiled at him wider.
John sighed relieved that she understood: "Now, we should really do what we are here to do – teach you how to swim."
Cameron suddenly looked worried and skeptical again: "Do you really think that you could teach me to swim?"
John nodded with conviction: "I most definitely do. Now, first you have to learn how to…"
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While Cameron and John finally got to the most important task of teaching Cameron how to swim, Derek and Sarah enjoyed themselves in the other section of the spa. Derek decided that he needed some training and was swimming the lengths of the big pool like a professional swimmer, without considering Sarah at all. She looked at him for a short while, but noticed that he was oblivious to her, so she shook her head with a sigh. She looked around and saw the whirlpool just nearby. Her eyes lit up and she smiled at the sight of an empty whirlpool. "That's something for me! Warm water, air bubbles and massages. Nice!" She strode to the whirlpool and entered it with a contempt sigh. The water was just below the point at which she'd call it hot and after she found a suitable position upon the raising air bubbles with a gentle massage jet stream caressing her back, she sighed again and closed her eyes.
She didn't even know how long she'd been in there, enjoying herself as she felt that someone entered the whirlpool. She opened her eyes to see Derek, who was just positioning himself next to her: "Enough of swimming? I thought you'd continue until tomorrow."
"He, he, very funny!" Derek wasn't thrilled but he smiled nevertheless: "I had to grab the opportunity. I've never been in the pool since my tenth year." He shrugged: "So I guess I have the right to exaggerate a bit."
Sarah smirk softened into compassionate smile: "Of course. I didn't mean it so harsh. It really must be nice to be able to enjoy such luxury again."
"Damn right, Sarah." Derek nodded and finally looked in her direction: "But it's not bad in here either. I might even get used to it."
Sarah suddenly asked: "Have you ever been in a whirlpool, Derek?"
For a second she thought he wouldn't even answer her, but then he shook his head: "No. Before the bombs fell I was too small and not interested in such things and after that …"
His voice trailed off and let her fill in the blanks. Sarah nodded in understanding: "Yeah, I can imagine that there were no such things in the future."
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Tim and Andrea were in the play area of the pool. With many interesting effects it was by far the most visited and crowded area. Soon after arriving there, Tim spotted a group of girls roughly his age and nudged Andrea: "Look over there. I just might get lucky today."
Andrea looked at the girls with slightly furrowed eyebrows and after a while her face relaxed: "You can certainly try." She smiled at him and turned around.
"Hey! Where are you going Andrea?" Tim thought that they'd both go to join the group, but after she obviously didn't want to go with him, he felt a little dejected.
"I'll find my own company. You're a big boy and will be all right." Andrea smirked at him. A few seconds before Tim saw the group, she noticed a young man at the edge of the pool, who was looking at her with clear interest and she decided to dump her brother for these two hours and find someone to keep her company while they were staying in the spa. And for such activities she definitely didn't need her brother around, as well as he didn't need her around for joining the girls he obviously decided to join.
Tim saw how her look turned towards a young man, who was still keeping eye contact with her and grinned: "Oh! I see what you mean." He bowed to her ear and whispered: "Just don't give that stallion any false hopes. We're due to go back home in three days."
Andrea looked at him in fake indignation: "Why would I give him any hopes at all. I just need some company." She smirked and nudged him with her elbow: "And that company most certainly isn't my brother."
Tim chuckled and nodded: "I'll see you then. Make it good little sis'."
Andrea chuckled too: "I will, I'm just worried for you, you clumsy oaf." She burst in giggles over her remark and turned away from Tim.
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Cameron was sitting at the edge of the pool with her feet gently splashing throgh the water and she smiled happily at John, who was sitting next to her. "Thank you John!"
"What for, Cam?" John turned to look at her with slight confusion written in his features.
"For showing me that water isn't my enemy." Cameron breathed and added: "And for teaching me to swim."
John just grinned broadly and bowed over to her to kiss her gently. "I told you I'd help you."
Indeed, in the last half an hour, Cameron managed to get over her uncomfortable feeling towards water and actually even learned how to float. To say that she now knew how to swim would be stretching the truth too far, but she actually managed to float in the water and she could not help but think that she was probably the first terminator to manage something like that.
Her train of thoughts was interrupted by John: "Cameron? Can you go to the sauna? They have quite a few saunas here and if you can, I'd like to go there … with you." He really didn't know if she could go in sauna.
Cameron had to retrieve the information about sauna and opened her mouth to star reciting what sauna meant, but realized before she launched into explanation that John simply asked her a question, not wanting to hear what the dictionary has to say about the topic. She contemplated if the heat up to 100 degrees centigrade would do any harm to her and came to the conclusion that she wouldn't be harmed in any way. So she looked at John's questioning eyes and nodded: "Sure, John, I can."
John's face broke in a contempt smile and he stood up, while offering her his hand: "Would you like to try it with me?"
"Of course, John." She answered sweetly while accepting his hand and getting up. She actually didn't need his help to get up, but found his gesture so cute that she had to smile at him.
After they reached the sauna area, John looked at the possibilities. The first one was the finish sauna with temperature of 110 degrees centigrade. "A little too hot for my taste." He murmured more to himself than to Cameron. But she heard him nevertheless and chimed in: "At this temperature you could experience slight problems with your cardiovascular system and I advise you not to go in there."
John grinned at her: "Well, I don't have any problems as of now, but thank you for your concern. I guess that the temperature of about 70 to 80 degrees would be more suitable. Let's find one." He tugged at her hand and continued towards the next door. "See? That's the right one."
Cameron looked at the plate beside the door: "What is aromatherapy, John?" She directed her inquisitive gaze towards John.
"I guess that they spice the air with some herbs which have positive influence to breathing organs." He so loved to explain things to her, especially after seeing the light in her eyes as she understood his explanation. Will she say her magic words?
Right on cue, she smiled at him: "Thank you for explaining." He couldn't help but smile at her and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Then he remembered that he forgot to tell her some basic rules for entering the sauna.
"Cameron, there are some basic rules about using the sauna." He began and saw how her look turned into her naïve inquisitive one. "First: no bathing suits are allowed in there. You have to be naked; you can only have the sheet not to wet the bank and a towel to dry yourself after taking a shower." He blushed at these words and suddenly realized what he got himself into with his desire to go to sauna with Cameron. It was his own fault that he brought himself into a situation where his hormones could get a better of him again. Gee, what a great idea, Connor! You had problems with her sitting in your lap in bikini. How are you going to manage seeing her naked? Huh?
He swallowed with difficulty and noticed Cameron's mischievous look. She squeezed his hand: "Completely naked? Are you sure? Will that not be a problem for you, John?" She had no problems with being naked. Shame wasn't something that she would really understand and for her it was the same being naked or clothed. But she saw the impact of her body on John before and she tried to run a scenario how would he react to her completely nude body. And she liked the outcome of that scenario, so her smile widened and became even more impish.
John inhaled deeply to chase the images of naked Cameron from his mind and decided that this time he'd win over his body. He looked at her with determination: "I am sure, Cam. And it will not be a problem for me." His eyes ran along Cameron's body: "Even though you look like a goddess."
Cameron's smile lost its impishness and she looked at him with bright eyes: "I'm a cyborg and not a goddess, John."
"Well … you are to me!" John nodded furiously. Then he went on with his explanation of the rules for sauna. After he was finished, he looked at Cameron, whose head was slightly tilted to the side and she was obviously listening to him carefully. He sighed, relieved that he obviously managed to explain everything to her. "We should go now to get our lockers, sheets and towels. I saw them at the entrance." He pulled her towards the locker rooms and entered the men's one, while Cameron went into women's department.
After a minute she emerged from the room, wrapped in the sheet she found in it and carrying the towel in her hand. John was already waiting for her and she could clearly see how his eyes glided along her form with admiration. She stretched her other arm towards him and he accepted it gladly and guided her towards the sauna, they found earlier. Strange! I allow myself being guided by a human. Even with my superior strength I allow him to direct me. But she knew that John was the only one allowed to guide her. She wouldn't allow it to anyone else. Definitely not!
After they reached the sauna, John first looked through the window in the door to see if there was anyone in and sighed satisfied: "No one is in there. We'll have it all for ourselves."
After they entered, Cameron immediately registered the high temperature: "It's 73.2 degrees centigrade in the height of my head in here." She informed John with a little frown. Was this really something that humans enjoyed? Why do they complain then when it's hot? She filed the paradox for later exploration and evaluation and possibly John's explanation.
John breathed deeply: "Yeah, nice hot." He hesitated a bit, but decided that it was not the time to be shy. He unwrapped himself from the sheet and laid it on the bank, forcing himself not to think of Cameron's body next to his. "I think we should put our heads together."
Cameron noticed the narrow banks and after seeing that John already chose his position, allowing her to lay down so that her head would be together with John's, she unceremoniously unwrapped her own sheet and extended it like John did his. "I agree. It's better for you to look away from me." Her voice was definitely slightly wicked. John risked a look into her direction, gasped slightly as he saw that she was already completely nude and forced himself to look only in her shining eyes. I'm lucky that it's dark in here. Otherwise she'd notice my red face. "Why would it be better to look away? I can't get enough of your appearance at all." He tried to counter, but his voice was quivering slightly. Not enough to be noticed by humans, but enough or Cameron.
She smiled at him: "You know why John. But nevertheless, I'm glad that you want to see me." She then tilted her head and her smile widened: "Why are you blushing John?"
Oh, damn! I forgot she can see in the dark! He shook his head: "You know why Cameron." Then he lay down and made himself comfortable. "In sauna, you're supposed to rest, Cam."
Cameron finally positioned herself facing away from John, but with their heads touching. She closed her eyes and sniffed quietly. She could smell different herbs and concluded that it was a pleasant aroma. It wouldn't have any positive influence on her breathing organs, for she had none, but she classified it as nice and she felt satisfied. She slowly even began to like the heat, the feeling of hot air on her skin. The paradox, she filed earlier has been resolved and she got her answer, without having to analyze it or ask John for clarification. She remembered how she experienced the water and felt almost the same feelings now. Bathing and sauna are nice and pleasant activities. It would be desirable to repeat them more often.
After a little more than ten minutes, John rose from his position and sat on the bank. His body was covered with sweat, but he felt very good. Relaxed and content. He dared to look at Cameron as she elegantly rose to sitting position too and without really thinking, his look fell on her perfect breasts. In a second he felt the impact of them on him and regretted to let his eyes wander so far. He snapped his look to her face and noticed her smiling lips. But he also noticed something else, something that actually shocked him. Cameron was sweating!
Almost subconsciously his hand touched her forehead and wiped away few sweat drops, trickling down her face. "Cameron? Are you sweating?" He stuttered. "I didn't know that you can. I mean … I haven't seen a machine sweating before." He immediately regretted to have called her a machine and cupped her cheek: "Sorry, I really didn't mean it the way it came out." He could swear that he saw a slight look of hurt, flashing across her face, but it disappeared so quickly that he wasn't sure if he'd seen it or not.
Cameron did feel a little hurt, but she knew that he didn't mean it like it came out and she leaned into his hand smiling: "I'm different, remember?"
John nodded and smiled relieved that she didn't resent him. "But why do you sweat? Is it necessary?"
"Why do humans sweat?" Cameron countered with her own question and looked at him expectantly.
John shrugged: "I think that it's to cool the body when it gets overheated."
Cameron nodded, satisfied with his knowledge. "Correct. And it's the same in my case. If my body gets too hot, I have to cool it and perspiring is the most natural process."
John's face suddenly got mischievous at her answer, especially upon hearing her say 'If my body gets too hot' "Well, you should be sweating all the time then." He winked at her.
Cameron looked at him in slight confusion, but slowly realized what he was trying to say and smiled at him impishly: "I guess it's one of advantages of being a cyborg then. Not sweating all the time." She moved closer to him while looking into his eyes: "However if my body is hot, I do sweat." She leaned into him, but before she could kiss him, John hurriedly stood up: "Time to go under the shower." He grabbed his sheet, wrapped the towel around his hips and stepped to the door. There he turned to her and saw her, still sitting there with slightly opened mouth and a clear frown on her face: "Coming with me?"
While shaking her head in disbelief, Cameron finally got up, deliberately making a show of it and grabbing her sheet and towel with no intent to wrap herself into any of them and stepped after him. She saw how his eyes flickered along her body again and smiled satisfied. She achieved what she wanted to.
John swallowed hard and turned to the door again: "OK, let's get under the shower." His eyes flickered towards her for a second again. "Separately!" He could see a clear pout appearing on Cameron's lips. She's seducing me! Oh man, I'm so screwed! What is she going to do with me? Maybe she's trying to give me a heart attack? Nah! He shook his head and directed them towards the showers.
TBC