Voiceover by Destiny.

"A wise man once said, "There is no Fate but what we make for ourselves." Honestly, I wish I could believe that. We tell our children they can be whoever they choose to be. There is no Fate or guidelines to follow. The hard truth is there is a Fate and she is cold, unwilling to change and she is unmerciful. She is the one that sneaks up behind us to kick us in the ass. She is the unseen giver of Pandora's Box. She is the one who gives us our Destiny and she is thebîtch who chains us to it."

Destiny woke the next day sometime in the early evening. She noticed a patch of skin on her left arm was burning. Assuming she had just hit it on the bed sometime while she was sleeping, she shrugged it off and got up. She changed her clothing and left her room. Instead of going right to where her parents were, she went left to the "suburbs" of the camp where most of the fighters and civilians lived. She had gone out of the secure sector of the camp and went a few hundred feet till she read a painted wall that said "Hang in there, Baby." "How cheesy is that?"Destiny wondered to herself. She noticed out of the corner of her eye, a presence moved up next to her and looked at the same picture.

"I painted that when I was 15." The man said.

"Never knew you were an artist, Reese." …

"I had lots of free time after the bombs fell… Kyle and I were the only ones here for a month after Judgment Day." Derek said.

"Your parents?" Destiny started to ask when Derek answered her.

"They were executed two weeks after Judgment Day, covered Kyle's eyes and ears, when I forgot to cover and close my own." He walked back to where Kyle was sleeping and sat down next to him. Destiny looked horrified and quickly walked away from that part of the camp onto the right wing of it."How In the world could anyone live with memories like that?"She asked herself. She didn't think that she was drawing attention to herself but the constant looks as the passed by people and their whispering she heard behind her told everything. They knew who she was. It bugged her deeply because it meant that she'd never have friends who loved her for her and not because of John. Destiny glanced down and shook her head as she turned a corner bumping into another teenage girl about her age, only alittle taller.

The girl smiled at Destiny when she caught her look of shock. "Boo." She said.

Destiny smirked and playfully slapped Katya's shoulder. "What did Mom and Dad send you down here for this time?" Destiny asked.

Katya grinned and answered her. "To get you as usual."

Destiny looked confused and asked "How'd they know I was here?"

"You'd better ask Dad that one." Katya said and lead her sister back the way she came.

Within a few minutes they and arrived at the entrance of the secure and waited while another K-9 unit came up to them and sniffed Katya's hand when she reached down to pet it. The other dog started to sniff Destiny's boots and she bent down to its level. The Shepherd met her eyes and tilted its head some. It whined and pawed her knee. Destiny smiled and scratched its ears. The fighter holding its leash pulled back on it some to get the dog under control.

The dog whined again and Destiny whispered. "I know how you feel." The dog barked. Destiny stood back up and went over to her sister who was waiting on the other side of the entrance.

"What is it with you and animals?" Katya asked. Destiny shrugged and answered.

"They understand me, more so than any human I've ever met."

John was waiting for them inside the main room in the secure bunker. He was going over statistics from overseas when he saw them come in. "Why were you outside the secure section, Destiny? John asked her.

"How did you know where I was?" Destiny asked angrily as the conclusion to her question was forming in her mind.

"Never mind that. Now, answer my question."

"I have more freedom out there then I do here."

"In what sense?!" John asked suddenly shouting.

"Out there, I can have friends that like me for me and not for you. Out there, I can be like any other person. I get to be a person! I get to be somewhere where you can't see me, where you can't lock me up in a room or tunnel for the next 16 years like the last, trying to protect me from being shot because I'm supposed to do something that you don't even have the decency to tell me what it is!" Destiny yelled at the top of her lunges.

John fumed and slapped her across the face. "Get to your room." John seethed.

Destiny stood still for a minute in shock or fear then took off to the right and went running down the tunnels to her bedroom. She burst through her door and immediately started to grab her things. She packed her ammo and C4 in her small rucksack and then she began loading the pipebombs she had been making during the times she was grounded. She hoisted it over her left shoulder, holding back her tears. She went over to her bed and ducked down to crawl underneath it. She pulled a flap on the wall under her bed and a chunk of the wall eased down, revealing a Colt M4A1. She took the gun and lifted the wall back up then crawled back out from under the bed, gently easing the gun down on her bed. She checked it and made sure it was loaded before she slung it over her right arm and walked to leave her room. Sarah appeared in her doorway as she went to it.

She looked at her and without a word moved to get around her when Sarah cut her off. Destiny tried again, moving to the left this time and again Sarah cut her off.

"Where you going?" She asked her.

"Nowhere" Destiny mumbled.

"If you're going nowhere then you don't need these."Sarah said as she took Destiny's gun and supplies and sat them down.

Destiny backed up some to let Sarah and as soon as she cleared the doorway, Destiny bolted toward the door. Sarah looped her right arm around Destiny's waist and pulled her back. "Nice try, Kiddo but not quite fast enough. Why didn't Audrey stop the metal from smacking you around?" Sarah asked her noticing she was acting rather timid.

"How did….?" Destiny started to ask when Sarah brushed the hair covering her cheek.

"I saw it ….. Where was Audrey? Why didn't she help you?"

"Because... because Daddy slapped me…. and I destroyed Audrey." Sarah nodded and pulled Destiny out into the tunnels by her clothing. "Come on, I think we need to have a chat with your father." Sarah said and pulled Destiny along the tunnel.

Destiny dug her heels into the floor, trying to stop herself. "No, I can't! I'm not allowed to leave my room." Destiny whined.

"Oh, he won't get a chance to tear into you before I tear into him." Sarah said firmly and continued to pull Destiny back to the main part of the noticed Destiny coming down the tunnel and went to confront her when he saw Sarah.

"She supposed to be in her room."

John said glaring at Destiny whom he assumed went crying to Sarah. " I know but we need to talk about her and why on earth you slapped her. Sarah said steadily raising her voice.

"I have the right to punish my own child." John said angrily.

"Yes..." Sarah started. "You have the right to punish her and if you had taken her to her room and grounded her or bent her over your knee and spanked her that would've been fine but you slapped her. That, John isn't suitable. Tempting , yes. However I've been tempted several times to slap you. doesn't mean I did it. "

Racheal took that moment to step in and pull Destiny aside and take her down one of the tunnels.

"I think it's best if we had a talk." Racheal said soothingly.

Destiny nodded and proceeded to follow her mother.

"You know, before you turned 16 everything was different." Racheal said. "You never left the secure sector of the camp, Skynet didn't send out machines to kill you because they never knew you existed. John was a lot calmer, he didn't worry as much. Everyone was happy."

"But I was miserable." Destiny spoke up.

Racheal nodded. "You were unhappy with being locked away and hidden. I can understand that."

"I was locked in my room for 16 years, how can you understand that?" Destiny persued.

"Because I helped make that decision. Because we had no other choice and thanks to the past few months, we've failed."

"What?" Destiny asked getting mildly angry.

"In another future, John sent a terminator back in time to help. It was later destroyed but the machine gave us insight into the future. It told us things about the war, things to come and about family. The machine told that we would have three children, a boy and two girls. It said that the youngest girl was a key to winning the war against the machines."

"Me?" Destiny asked slowly, absorbing her mother's story.

"Yes, A ' Destiny Sarah Connor, born on March 21st, 2014.' The machine warned that Skynet would try to kill you before you were born and it did. Skynet sent a terminator to kill me in 2011 after Judgment Day. It caught me and just about killed me. It was only while I was recovering from the fight that I was told that I had miscarried." Racheal tried to laugh. "I didn't even know I was pregnant. After the surgery we found out the fetus was male. I guess Skynet either didn't know about the other two children or it was trying to eliminate all possible future threats, I really don't know. Your father and I decided that the next time we would try again, we would not tell anyone at all that I was expecting and well, I wouldn't show my face during the times that I was noticeably pregnant. Luckily when I found out I was pregnant with Katya, Skynet never found me and no one knew she existed."

"What about me?" Destiny asked curiously.

"With you we did the same because we knew Skynet would be after you. I stayed hidden as usual. Most of the pregnancy I stayed in a separate base from John to be extra careful. Everything was fine until I went into labor. You were breached and we couldn't turn you. Someone was sent for John and extra medical help. Didn't matter, you were born feet first by the time everyone got there anyway. I think someone blurted out what it was about as they went for help. As you know the only thing that spreads more than disease is gossip. Within a week, everyone knew. One of the members of the camp was later captured and tortured in a camp, he spilled his guts to Skynet that you had been born and were alive and well. Skynet knew that all of us as a family would be together so it sent out a new terminator every week to kill you, John, Katya and me. We had to move so much, it made my head spin. John became obsessed with keeping everyone safe after your brother and it only got worse after you were born. Right now, he has to deal with the fact that he has to send his father back in time and he knows it will kill him. He waited his whole life to meet and be with him, now he has to
give him up."

"So, me sneaking out and taking off didn't help it any huh?"

"No, He's already lost one child, he has to lose his father in about a week and his reckless daughter is going to get herself killed one of these days."