AJ-JC's Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles FanFic.
Title: The Journey of John Connor.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything Terminator.
Summary: Continue when Born To Run finished, what will have to confront John Connor?
Authors Note: The first, I sorry for the late. When finished exams I take a week of holidays and did a travel. Later I had a little hard with this chapter, and in some moments i was writting more the fifth than this.
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Chapter 4: A new Friend.
Kyle, Derek, Alison and Savannah sitting in a table of the dining room eating. While Savannah, Alison and Derek were immersed in a discussion, Kyle seemed lost in thought.
"We have to get him out of that damn bunker"
"We know Savannah, but there's no way it comes out, there are times that he don't even talk to anyone" answered Alison, denoting some concern in her voice.
"Kyle, he'll listen you, the guy's always talking to you. It's true that the matter gets worse, in the past two weeks I've seen him once out of that damn place, looks like his damn Fortress of Solitude" said Derek, who took a look of all indicating that they hadn't understood what he spoke.
"Fortress of what?" Alison asked.
"The Fortress of Superman, you're too young to know."
"Either you're too old" Alison answered and laughed, prompting laughter from those present itself except Derek, who frowned.
"I will talk with him, but i duno if it'll work" Kyle said quietly as he rose from the table with the intention to leave the room.
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Way to The Fortress, as some soldiers and civilians on base called the bunker left by Sarah Connor for her son, although obviously that detail wasn't released publicly, Kyle was merely spinning the John's issue.
It was true that John had been imprisoned in the fortress. Since the day it was opened, just over a month, he spent more and more time there.
He ate there, slept there, and spent entire days locked up in there. In the last week he hadn't crossed the door even once.
Also didn't help that only Kyle, Derek, Savannah and Alison had free access by request of John, who had asked permission to Kyle for this. Kyle now repented of having allowed.
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Lost in thought Kyle came to the door of the fortress, which had two guards 24 hours a day to prevent anyone to enter and didn't have to close the blast door.
Across the hall, which held all the doors closed but the one they had prepared to be the office, Kyle came to the bottom and turn right approached the lab door, where John spent most of the time.
By the time John had practically dominated the entire system of security and access. And at that point he had already prepared the system to recognize Kyle and access most of the rooms.
Only the private room and the command center had kept to himself.
Upon entering the door Kyle directed to the laboratory one, where John used to be.
The laboratories were technical workshops, the only difference were the measures of isolation and security as in chemical laboratories and interrogation rooms. Each laboratory had a computer monitoring room with separate work area by a glass wall and shielded.
Entering the lab what he saw through the glass froze him, John was sitting with his head down in front of a metal table on which lay the body of the terminator, he was silent staring at nothing, suffering.
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Kyle was aware of what tormented John, he still remembered the day he discovered three weeks ago.
Knowing that John had the body of a terminator exactly like Alison in the laboratory, and that terminator, was the famous Cameron. The reason why he leap in time,
was hard for Kyle, who spent three days without wanting to see or talk to John.
Although to him was inconceivable that a terminator could be good and not say having feelings, Kyle attempted to understand John and support him.
But the true was that John was beginning to lose hope, going away from people.
Seeing it Kyle feared the worst: that John would lost control and did something crazy.
Kyle went through the door entering the laboratory and slowly approached John putting his right hand on John's shoulder.
The young man looked up and then Kyle saw it, John had been crying.
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An hour had passed when Kyle and John left the laboratory they found an unexpected visitor on the labs door.
There at the door, barely two feet away stood a tall woman with red hair to her shoulders.
"Hello ." saluted the woman with a mysterious smile on her face.
"Weaver" was the only thing John was able to say at that moment. John didn't expected that, he was totally surprised.
Why are her here? Would she found John Henry? Would she come to tell me that he is totally lost? thought John, just then he remembered his companion.
"Kyle, this is Catherine Weaver." "I present you Sergeant Kyle Resse "
"Weaver? So she's the Savannah's mother?" Kyle said, the disbelief could be read in his eyes.
The facial expression of the terminator varies slightly, showing some joy on hearing that name, which John realized.
"Not exactly, but you could say so." John said looking at Kyle, after which they turn to their visitor.
"Savannah is here, she's alright. My mother took care of her."
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Kyle was lost in the conversation so he decided to talk.
"Sorry to be inappropriate, but John can you explain what happen here?" He asked, his gaze between question and demand.
"She is a T-1001, a Mimetic Poly-Alloy terminator. Metal liquid for us to understand." When finished talking John could see Kyle's face changed.
"be quiet, she's on our side" he said to reassure him, to which the expression of Kyle relaxated.
"She was in the past, took the place of Savannah's mother after she died with his father in a plane crash, building an AI to fight against Skynet."
"You remember the terminator I told you had taken the chip of Cameron? His name is John Henry, and he is that AI."
" She came forward following John Henry, who used a TDE to travel to the future for unknown reasons. I came with her to recover Cameron."
Weaver couldn't believe what was seeing, nearly 2 months ago she had left a startled John Connor in the middle of L.A without knowing what to do.
And now he had won the confidence of the base commander, and told him about Cameron and his origin in the past.
Maybe this guy, has more of the General Connor than I thought. She thought.
"It's true , and I think you would like to know I've found John Henry, and I think it's time that you know."
"What do you mean?" John asked surprised.
"I've come to take you to John Henry, as you asked me." she answered seriously.
There was an uncomfortable pause for a few seconds until John spoke.
"Kyle, I have to go with she. I hope you understand," he said, looking at Kyle but seing him thoughtful with a straight face John feared the worst.
"I understand, but if you go somewhere i'll go with you." John couldn't believe what he heard, but prior to answering Kyle was going.
"I'll call Derek, I'll be back." Kyle said coming running down the hall.
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John and Weaver stayed alone, whereupon John offered her go to the office where they could wait more comfortable.
Soon as they entered the office Weaver talked. "Is Savannah all right?" asked, to which John would swear that he saw a certain prejudice.
"Yes, when we go, Ellison and my mother took care of her, my mother trained her. Shortly after arriving here I found her." John answered, and that time he saw as the expression of the terminator change to the information received.
Moments later they heard Kyle's voice calling, "In the office," replied John screaming.
Kyle appeared through the door, followed by Derek, Allison, and Savannah.
When john see them two, glanced at Kyle who quickly understood.
"don't look at me, I told them not to come, but try to halt two women instigated by curiosity." Kyle said smiling.
"It's something I don't recommend you John" Savannah said, laughing as she entered the office, a moment later completely stopped looking at the figure that she once had called his mother.
The tension was evident even to Derek and Allison, they didn't knew who was the woman and why the reaction of Savannah. Although both could say that she was very similar to Savannah.
Before anyone could speak Savannah turned out, stoped at the door and took a moment to talk.
"John, I really hope that the reason why is she here are good news, but I don't want to see her. Forgive me." And then she walked quickly down the hall.
Allison looked around briefly and left behind Savannah.
The four present looked for a moment until Derek broke the silence.
"Well, why have you called?"
"Derek, this is Catherine." John deep breath before continuing.
"I know this isn't going to like you, but I have to go with her, it's extremely important."
Derek didn't know what to say, John had called to tell that he left? The young man had just arrived to their lives, but he had come to like him and would miss him.
"And I'm going with him, he will not leave him alone." Kyle said when John finished.
That hit Derek like a bucket of cold water.
"Wait a second!" The whole tone of Derek rose as he spoke.
"can someone explain to me what this is all about?"
"Derek, I promise that when we return I will tell you everything, but for now I can only ask you to trust me" said John seriously looking into the eyes of the older Resse.
Derek didn't know what to do or say, but for some strange reason he trusted John. "Okay, but better you two return over one-piece" He said seriously but with a little smile.
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Half an hour later John and Kyle where out the door of the tunnel accompanied by Weaver who was on head.
Both wore a plasma rifle with reluctance, because them were two of the last three remaining at the base, but they did under Derek direct request to let them get their asses out of the base.
Likewise Kyle carried a bag of food and water, since Weaver adviced that where whey go it wouldn't be.
They had walked for nearly half an hour when one spoke for the first time.
"And where we go if I may ask?" John asked the stoic terminator in front of him.
"To Long Beach "
"Long Beach? That is south and we're going north," said John.
"So it is , but we wont walk more than 30 km. At 800 meters I have a vehicle"
John and Kyle looked surprised, a little smile on Kyle's face.
John wasn't so happy, and soon showed his doubts.
"Don't skynet forces detect us more easily if we go in a vehicle?" he wondered.
"No, John Henry has gained access to the Skynet's satellites network and already designed a route that will keep us away from the Skynet satellites or forces."
"And don't Skynet realize the access?
"No , John Henry has the same code base that Skynet, the code that Myles Dyson created Cyberdine, their systems don't recognize it as an intrusion."
"I see, then what we expect? lets go" John said with some authority that surprised hisself.
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Two hours later the three were in the vehicle, an old Ford Escape that didn't seem to be in very good condition but worked witch in a post-apocalyptic world was enough.
Weaver was driving, while behind were John and Kyle, the silence allowed John to hear the sound of car tires rolling over rubble and ruins.
The distance was 30 km, but the journey they carried was almost double, during which John saw only destruction.
As they approached their destination John was getting nervous. He didn't knew what to expect,or exactly where they was going.
Suddenly the jeep stopped abruptly "We have come," Weaver said leaving the vehicle without even waiting for her companions.
John and Kyle looked each other for a few seconds before leaving the vehicle quickly each one side, to catch up with Weaver who was waiting just 5 meters away.
"Where exactly are we?" John asked, looking around and seeing no more than ruins, in the background he could hear the sea.
"A little one kilometer of the Seal Beach Naval Base, a base of Skynet." answered the terminator.
"And what makes John Henry so close to a base of Skynet?
"He needed access to the network of Skynet, and this area contains remnants of former military facilities with access to the network.
Apart from certain materials and tools needed that only in a Skynet installation can be found. "
"And how time ago you found him?." John asked very seriously.
"One week after the last time we saw" Weaver answered with a small smile. The guy is smarter than it looks, I hope he's also with John Henry. she think for herself.
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The three walked for ten minutes in the rubble after hide the jeep beneath the ruins.
Kyle and John were speaking almost in whispers.
"John, do you think this has been a good idea?"
"What do you mean?"
"We are 30 km from the base, 1 km from a Skynet's base, with a terminator on the way to meet with another."
"I'm sorry I got you into all this Kyle, but John Henry took Cameron's chip and at least I have to know what has happened and if there is any way to recover her."
"I understand, and I'm with you, but don't let your guard down. It could be a trap."
"If she wanted us dead believe me we'd be dead already, so I don't think it's a trap."
"And if they're looking to capture you alive?"
"Then we're screwed" John answered with a smile before continuing.
"Kyle, my mother always taught me to not trust anyone. But I've learned that doesn't mean distrust of everything." John said leaving Kyle analyzing their words.
"Maybe I wouldn't put my life in her hands." said looking Weaver. "But I trust her or we wouldn't be here." John said, giving the conversation terminated when he see Kyle nod.
Although it was not her intention, Weaver, who was a few yards ahead, could hear all the conversation and couldn't hide a smile. This guy never ceases to amaze me. She thought when she get to the hidden entrance.
The three entered through a hole three feet in the wreckage, crawling through the hole at 20 meters turned to the right and saw that some light could be seen 5 meters ahead.
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Meanwhile, on the base Derek was sitting in his office staring at the wall, when suddenly the door rang.
"Enter" Derek said, watching as the door opened and Savannah entered.
"I wanted to apologize for before." Savannah said embarrassed.
"It's all right. We all have our things," replied the soldier with a soft smile.
"Thank you" replied the young woman turning to get stopped at the door. "By the way where are John or Kyle? Also want to apologize to them"
"They aren't here, they went with that woman. Something that John had to do or something like that he told me." Derek noticed the expression of Savannah to hear that.
"What happens? Who is this woman?"
"Ask John when he comes back," answered Savannah trying to avoid the gaze of the soldier.
If John hadn't told the truth his reason must had, but seeing Derek the soldier so concerned about his brother made her hesitate.
"To hell with John!. That damn bunker not mean he have to be in charge. Although everything he said is true." Derek said loudly, almost shouting.
Savannah wasn't expecting it and didn't know what to say or do, so she did the only thing possible. "Sorry," said outgoing quickly looking at the ground.
Derek was stunned a few seconds. "You idiot Resse" he said before walking out the door.
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Savannah walked quickly to her room, which was the old John's since he had moved to the fortress. Nothing else turn a corner she found herself face to face with Jason.
"Hey, slow down. Why such a hurry?" Jason asked, who couldn't dodge her and bump.
"Nothing," answered Savannah, but seeing the face of doubt on the soldier speak again, "Excuse me." said and continued her way quickly.
Great education. thought Jason before continuing his way to the dining room.
On reaching the room he saw Allison talking to Derek, right at that moment the sergeant left the room passing without a simple greeting.
Jason approached the table where was sat Allison, who gret hm with a smile.
"Is something wrong?" Jason asked intrigued.
"I duno, Derek was a little stunned, asked me if I knew where's Savannah" replied the girl.
"I think something has happened, because I saw her and was not very happy"
"That's odd ..." Allison said staring at his companion.
"you think there is something between them?" Jason asked with a small smile.
Allison automatically burst out laughing, leaving a stunned Jason assessing whether what he had said was a joke.
"I don't think man" she replied laughing, just being able to continue when stopped laughing, "but who knows, maybe Derek has finally matured. We'll have to keep an eye in case"
"I feel like a porter gossiping about the sergeant" suddenly said the soldier who else stopped laughing.
"It's what we are" Allison finished rising up and beating Jason in the back.
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John had just come out of the hole, behind Kyle did the same while John looked around.
They were in some sort of basement, full of rubble and dirt but he could tell that someone had prepared a bit.
John and Kyle followed their guide through a door at the back of the room, meaning through a staircase down what looked like two or three floors, and there they stopped.
"Behind this door is John Henry, I must warn you that the body he uses will be known by you, but I hope you would control." She seriously looking at John, realizing the young Resse holding the gun firmly twist and talk to him.
"You wont need that in there I promise." She couldn't hide a certain smile of satisfaction to see the face of the soldier's resignation.
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The three entered through the door, John looked around the room and see it was nothing but a huge workshop.
Several bodies of different models of Terminators lay on the ground, and some just completely torn off.
In the background, a figure was standing in front of several computers attached to them by a cable. He was working on something on a table, but John couldn't see what it was.
When approached the figure spoke, "Hello Ms. Weaver. it's a pleasure" said getting out of the darkness in which he was.
John felt as the blood froze when he saw Cromartie in front of him he had to resist the urge to flee or use the rifle he had stepping forward and shaking hands in front of the cyborg.
"A pleasure John Henry." managed to say after a few seconds while he didn't look away from the cyborg. It was the same body, but he could see it was another being.
John turned to Weaver, who had a smile of satisfaction. "So the Cormartie's body ended in your hands. Ellison lied to us in the face."
"Don't you have in mind, I asked him" said the terminator who had occupied a place between the two Johns, leaving Kyle to about 3 meters from John without knowing what to do or say, or even what he was seeing.
"I would like you two speak, that you two understand each other and coperate is the only chance to stop Skynet," the cyborg said looking between John and the AI.
"No," said John seriously staring into the eyes of the most lethal killing machine that he knew. "Not without first tell me what happened to Cameron"
John observed the reaction of the two cybors and what he saw was the last thing he expected. Both cyborgs looked and smiled.
"Cameron is fine , she continue in the interior of this chip, I sorry if i have caused you damage by taking the chip." John Henry said, and though John hardly trust him he felt he was telling the truth.
"As in the chip, you mean stored?" Asked John, his face showing some concern.
"It's complex to explain, but you could say so. The problem is that both need a chip to exist, so I come here.
In the past month, using the expertise of Cameron on her model I have created a chip as like the original. "
There, being alone with two machines, Kyle understood that John didn't care what they might be, but values them as individuals.
Seeing as John's face brightened when he heard he had a chip for 'download' Cameron understood that for John Cameron really was not a cyborg, but the girl he wanted.
Complicated? sure. Crazy? without hesitation. But it was clear that that boy before him, who was smiling for the first time in weeks, had something special.
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"Ms. Weaver please can you leave us alone?"
Weaver seemed somewhat annoyed by the request of John Henry, but decided to accept the that she had created him, but he must act for himself if they wanted to stop Skynet.
"Okay, I'll be in the room next door." she said turning to John and Kyle. "Sergeant Resse, if you don't mean please join me, let the two talk."
Kyle looked to John on a moment of doubt. When he saw that John nodded with a small smile, decided to accompany the terminator.
Kyle and Weaver left for an opening to the right of the room, leaving John alone with John Henry.
"This seems a bad idea to , but I think if we'll work together we must trust each other." the terminator said, waiting a few seconds to John process everything.
"I like that you do the transfer the two new chip. On the table are the two chips, and the computer is ready to do so, just connect one each on it's port."
Extremely surprising John, not only was he giving him a chance to catch Cameron's chip, but was requesting that manage the process, putting his life in his hands.
"I will," said John seriously staring at the cyborg.
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John Henry lay down on the table, turning his head so that John had easy access to the chip.
John stood for a few seconds before the scene, in his life only two machines had left extract their chip, Uncle Bob and Cameron. And now John Henry ...
" you need instructions?" Asked the cyborg seeing the young man still.
"No, I was just thinking. And you can call me John." John said as he took an cut instrument.
John conducted the entire procedure to remove the chip as he had already mastered.
Seing the last remnants of life leaving the cyborg while extracting the chip, chip Cameron, he recalled the first time he had that chip in his hand;
The beautiful and peaceful she was lying in that bed, the touch of her hair when he stroke it after entering the chip, the look she had to wake up.
He knew at the time that he loved her, and yet attemptred to hide it after the accident, damaging not only himself but her. He then didn't knew, but not anymore.
And in that moment, with Cameron's chip in his hand, before the body once of Cromartie and then John Henry, John made a promise: 'I'll bring you back' said staring at the chip.
John approached the computer, connected the three chips in their respective locations and actived the transfer process. he sat down to wait watching the screen yhay was showing progress as well as lines and lines of code.
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Meanwhile, Kyle spent most uncomfortable minutes of his life sitting against the wall a few meters of a liquid metal terminator as John had described it.
"I can ask you a question?" Kyle wondered tired of silence prevailed.
"Absolutely," replied the terminator kindly.
"Why help us?"
"I'll be honest . The Skynet's sole purpose is the control, and given that he's a machine and is governed by logical reasoning he came to the conclusion that
is easier to control an inhabited world, so the logical consequence of the objective of Skynet to control everything is the destruction of everything, and because it have no conscience or moral, all is valid.
When one becomes aware and stop being a slave can choose, and some of us didn't share his reasoning so we decided to fight it. "
Kyle didn't knew what to say, in three weeks he had passed to consider all the machines his enemy to discover that John was in love with one, and now he was talking to one without problem.
In three weeks his life was turned crazy.
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30 minutes had passed since he had started the process when John, who was half asleep on the table saw on the screen the message 'Completed'.
He followed the instructions John Henry had given him: Disconnect the 3-chip and insert the new chip one in John Henry.
One minute later John Henry came back to life, looking around and recognizing John instantly. "It seems that everything went well," he said with a smile.
"I'm glad," said John, taking a step back so that the cyborg could leave the table.
John Henry stood up and went straight to the table where he found the two chips, grabbed the second new chip, which was supposed Cameron was in, and put it in a plastic bag. "I think this belongs to you," he said handing it to John.
"No, it don't belong to me but to Cameron, but thank you very much." replied the young man. "What will happen now with the old chip?" wondered looking at the table.
"If you don't mean i'll keep it a while until is satisfied that no error occurred and take the opportunity to study it further." John Henry said, taking the chip and stored it in the pocket of his jacket.
John only nodded, his mind fully occupied with the object he held in his right hand, which contained Cameron. After staring at it for a few seconds he keep it in the pocket of his jacket, or better said Kyle.
After that they both went in search of and Kyle Weaver, who were in a room no more than 10 square meters each on a wall.
On seeing them Kyle get up and directed to John quickly. "Everything okay?" asked quietly.
"Yes, perfect." John replied with a smile.
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"Well, now what?" asked John to the two cyborgs standing in front of the door.
"I think you'd better return to your base, but you ought to spend the night here and rest.
John Henry still has to finish some things here, when done we will meet you and we will decide what action to take. " Weaver said seriously, looking between John Henry and the two humans.
"that simple? We go and we hope you decide to come?" asked John with a look not happy.
"As I said, John Henry still needs time here. On the other hand, you don't have any rank or command and don't know how people would respond " Weaver replied coldly, seeing the fulfillment in the eyes of John.
"As far as I'm the command John have authority on the Zeira base." Kyle said, surprising everyone present, not only for what he had said but also for the first time to participate in the conversation.
"Kyle I ..." John didn't know what to say, and before the words come he was interrupted.
"I think that makes you Staff Sergeant or Sergeant First , congratulations," said John Henry receiving has a strange look from Weaver and a smile from the two humans.
"I don't think that is so, but thanks John Henry." John answered, laughing.
"Sorry to be so cold , but I think you two should rest for tomorrow to return to base. In the morning i'll go with you to the car." Weaver said leaving the room
"Thank you and see you tomorrow" said John, waiting for John Henry to left the room leaving the two soldiers alone.
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After six hours of sleep even on the ground John was better as ever. For a long time he didn't slept so much and his thanked it.
Kyle had arranged supplies for several days, and the result of a single day trip was they could eat without limit.
After ate they say bye to John Henry, who was very nice like allways. Even Kyle said goodbye.
Weaver was the opposite, cold like morning air of the mountain. A simple goodbye when John tore the engine of the vehicle ready to go.
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John and Kyle were good guidelines, but they weren't machines. What Weaver did like an easy and sage road even with the detour, to them became almost an odyssey through the ruins of the city.
Roads cut, debris blocking the flow, shortcuts, which proved to be huge detours. Nearly three hours of travel they were even halfway.
"We should have asked for a GPS" joked John trying to soften the situation. Being exposed so long wasn't a good idea, and they both knew.
"Or we could have brought her, it was included" Kyle replied, causing both laughed.
John was surprised that Kyle had taken everything so well, being almost a day with two machines almost locked in a cave.
Maybe if there were more people like Kyle everything would be different, thought John as they crossed more and more ruins.
Suddenly they were surprised by an explosion that sent the jeep 5 meters through the air against the remnants of a building.
They had been as entertaining between jokes and each one in his thoughts that none was aware of HK approaching them from behind at high speed until the projectile reached them.
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END
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Well here the chapter 4. Sorry for the late.
I had a little hard writting some parts of this chapter, and in some cases it don't convince me alot.
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The next is nearly 50% so I hope the next week i'll publish it. At late the monday of the next week(19).
I think on end this part of the story with the chapter 6, then I'll take a litle time(one or two weeks) to develop more the next part of another six chapters. I know where the story goes, but must think how in detail.
