Derek's team were waiting for them when Sarah brought her granddaughters outside. The sun was rising, creating a new danger for all of them. Withought a word, they exchanged looks. Derek took his radio and reported in .
"Ma'am? We have them, they're alive." He could hear Racheal take a deep breath a release it.
"Thank you, Reese."
"You're welcome, Ma'am."
There was a crackling of the radio. "Reese?" A male voice called.
"Sir?"
"Tell Sarah to bring them back and take your team to Canyon Valley at the first sign of dark. There have been reports of Skynet activity there. A lot of electrical disturbances were interfering with our radios."
"Yes, Sir." Kyle looked sick to his stomach and took several deep breaths. Sarah met his eyes and she sensed the feel of despair and sadness. Destiny refused to look up at him. She knew what was coming.
Derek looked around. "We have our orders for later and its daylight. Let's go."
Destiny curled up in her bed, staring at her ceiling. She felt the air from her fan gently blow on her. It was dark out and had been for four hours. She knew Kyle was gone forever. Destiny sighed deeply. She hadn't said goodbye for fear of the gossip that would come. She regretted it. She was missing him and wishing she had had more time and had ignored those feelings of fear and shyness. He understood her pressure to fill the position that the future held for her, he understood the complications in her life and he was gone. She closed her eyes.
September 18, 2030
Destiny took a deep breath of the fall air and raced after her target. After 100 feet, she stopped and picked up a rock on the ground. She glanced at the rock before throwing it at the aerial HK. It hit the left wing and brought it down into a fiery mess. Destiny grinned and looked over at Kyle who was laughing too.
October 5th, 2030 10am
The tunnels were dark and quiet. Not a whisper of sound to be found. All were asleep or trying to. Destiny was sleeping unusually peacefully. Sarah on the other hand was having a difficult time keeping her eyes closed. Sarah and Destiny ran south down the tunnels. Sarah pushed Destiny along and kept looking back. The T-1000 was gaining on them. Sarah pushed Destiny though to the time displacement lab.
Sarah slapped the steel door and locked it. "It won't hold against it! It won't stop it!" Sarah looked down at the controls and back up at Destiny.
"I know."
In a flash of thunder and light, she was gone. Sarah woke up in a sweat and frantically looked around. Slowly getting up, Sarah made her way to the main part of the base. She looked up at the feed from the security cameras. Nothing unusual in any of them. She wandered into the conference room and lingered in the doorway. John was sitting at the table with his head in his hands.
"Rough night?"
John looked up. "You could say that."
"More work?" Sarah nodded to the stack of papers on the desk.
"Trying to pick a team." John sighed.
"What type of mission?" Sarah asked, coming into the room, hovering over the papers.
"Skynet is learning faster than before. We had time in another time and due to Destiny's …..appearances, they have more information quicker. I need to send a team back to help myself and you prepare. We need to know more faster too." Sarah nodded and sat down next to him.
October 6th, 2030
Destiny and Katya sat on the floor of the main control room, picking at each other since they were no longer allowed to be alone. Destiny turned and looked toward the conference room. She couldn't hear what was going on inside but with the look on John, Sarah and the three other people's faces, it didn't look pleasant. She could tell the serious looks on everyone's face meant a serious mission. John dismissed them and she and Katya watched the people leave. She recognized David Williams and Terry Roberts but she didn't know the woman among them other than her grandmother. John caught her curious look and went over to her.
"Who is she?" Destiny nodded toward the woman.
"You'll find out soon enough but I've got a big job for you first." He said and handed her a small clear box with a chip that looked like an old memory card for a digital camera in it.
October 28th, 2009
Destiny laid curled up on a concrete floor naked. The team sent back with her were scattered around. Slowly, everyone took a glance at the new surroundings. One of the soldiers handed Destiny a towel from the street and she covered herself. The fighters gave each other questioning looks and Destiny removed the clear box with the chip from underneath her tongue. "What do we do now?" David asked. "We need supplies, a hideout, guns, ammo, the works." The female fighter answered.
The group of four wandered on the streets to a few blocks over, earning some rather strange looks from the people of this time. One of the strangers pointed them in the direction of a homeless shelter and after another block, they discreetly went in. Since Destiny was the only one who was really clothed, the others used rags to cover themselves. The female fighter approached the approaching social worker, trying to form a story in her head.
"Miss, are you and your friends alright?" The worker asked when she came closer to Amy.
"Um, yes. We're alright. Our house burned in a fire and well, we were not able to um… save our clothes." Amy explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'll see if I can bring you some clothes"
The worker looked at the others and went to the back of the center, rummaging through donation boxes for clothes. Destiny came up to Amy and whispered to her.
"What's our story? Roommates?"
Amy shook her head. "No, I'll think of something. The worker came back with a hand full of clothes. She passed out them to David and Dylan and then to Amy and Destiny.
"Your daughter is beautiful, she looks just like you." She nodded from Amy to Destiny and back. Destiny looked as if she could punch the worker and Amy placed her arm around Destiny's shoulder and smiled.
"Thank you."
The worker smiled again and pointed to the backrooms. "You should be able to get dressed back there."
The four made their way to the back and Destiny shoved Amy's arm off her shoulder.
"Behave you little snot." Amy sneered.
After changing their clothes, the team managed to leave the room. "What now, Mom?" Destiny seethed.
"We need money. Can we rob a bank?" Williams asked.
"No, too risky." Amy answered. "I'll find another way."
Sarah sat on her bed and flipped through the newspaper for the job listings. She, John and Cameron had moved again. She had lost count on what number this move was but John always knew. He always counted how many times they had to pack up and move, where they had been and about how long they'd stay.
John came in to her room with a heavy box in tow. "Any luck?"
"No, not yet."
John sat the box down on the floor. "How long are we going to stay here?" John asked.
"As long as it takes. We'll get the IDs tomorrow, tell Cameron to start on a safe." John nodded and left the room.
The group stared at a empty house. It wasn't much but it was fully furnished since the previous tenants had been arrested for Meth use. It was small and quaint. Beige bricks and glasspane windows with blue shutters. It looked like a little family house someone would make for Barbie. Perfect cover for meth users and fugitives like a Connor. Amy signed the lease and Destiny went into the house and breathed a breath of fresh air. A sly smile fell across her face and she went to explore. First in the living room and then the kitchen around the corner. She saw the staircase and looked back to the group who were busy checking out the security systems. She smirked and climbed up to the attic. Destiny looked around and opened the window. Plotting, she started to climb out when a hand from behind pulled her back.
"Geez, Adams, you scared me."
Amy smirked. "Stay away from the windows."
"Why?" Destiny whined.
"You might get shot." Amy reasoned.
"But you said that they didn't know I was here." Destiny whined louder.
"They don't but it's still not safe." Amy said and left.
"No one is ever safe." Destiny muttered under her breath. Destiny peered out the window again.
