Chapter 507

If It Happens

Cameron, Cammy and Hanna all looked in the back of the panel truck. There were what looked like police sketches of some of them. There was one of Cameron and one of Mrs. Weaver that looked sort of like Vanna or Savannah. There was another of what must be Sarah.

"At least they don't have photos of us." Hanna said.

Cameron knew right away that this was deep rooted trouble. Someone was after them specifically. They'd all been targeted. She'd tried to prevent this very thing. It may have worked to an extent. It appeared the descriptions were based on survivors or eye witnesses to some of the past events.

"John Henry and my servers scrub all feeds anywhere we've ever been." Cameron said. "Those drawings look like information based on when we first time traveled into this timeline from 1999 and a younger Mrs. Weaver, the human one."

There appeared to be a crude rendering of Derek and Jesse as well, both of those could be anyone. The closest sketch was of Cameron.

This was something that Cameron feared. She'd made herself the target instead of John and Sarah. This was always a risk and the others warned her about this. It was her job to protect John. It might entail a few sacrifices along the way. She called Holly immediately.

Holly was a little surprised to get the call.

Cameron skipped the pleasantries and got right down to business.

"Holly, double the watch on both Allisons, Summer and Claire." Cameron said. "There are to be at least two Terminators for each one if you go out."

Holly was immediately worried about Allison. This sounded like a specific threat.

"Is there a problem?" Holly asked.

Cameron wasn't sure how wide spread the search would be. The Young family was somewhat isolated in Palmdale. That seemed like a good thing at this point. They again there was a directed attack against 'Isabel' when she was in Palmdale that even yielded a daytime HK drone strike. She didn't want to panic everyone.

"No, it is a precaution." Cameron said. "Sheila and Hanna will be back soon. I'm sending both of them at once."

Holly knew how Allison and Claire looked at Jesse. They would do the same with Sheila. Sheila didn't have any inhibitions or a moral compass.

"Sheila will be there too?" Holly asked.

Cameron wondered what that question was about. This was about protecting the Young girls, all of them. She wanted more Metal there as well.

"Yes." Cameron said. "Ally will join you as well as another Terminator."

Holly developed another bad 'feeling'. Claire and Allison were attracted to females. There was about to be an influx of them into the Young residence. The Detail for the Young family was almost always male Terminators. They never were a sexual threat or issue. The female Terminators were all a different story. They were always ready for some female action.

"Is it a female Terminator?" Holly asked.

Cameron didn't care for the tone of the conversation. It irritated her. Maybe that was because of the nature of the threat she'd uncovered.

"Yes." Cameron said and hung up.

Holly knew that everything she'd just heard was bad news….

"OK." Holly said to nobody.

She was worried greatly now about the threat of some unspecified attack and additional female competition.

Cameron looked through everything else that was in the panel truck. There were few additional clues to anything.

Two more of their group arrived and awaited Cameron's instructions.

"Hanna, meet up with Sheila and then go back to the Young residence now." Cameron said. "I will inform Sheila of her new mission. Ally will join you later with the new Terminator I've Resequenced. I'll have to get her chip ready."

Hanna was a little confused to the rapid change in plans.

"Where are you going?" Hanna asked Cameron.

Cameron needed to find out the extent of this new threat. It put all of the principle members of the Resistance in danger.

"I'm going to get some answers." Cameron said.

John listened to the com traffic and watched the body cam footage. He was sure some of it was blocked from him so far. He didn't know of the conversation between Cameron and Holly. He wasn't sure what Cameron found exactly. He needed better information.

"Cameron, what is it?" John asked. "What did you find or uncover?"

Cameron didn't want to discuss it. It was more of a visual thing. She also knew that Savannah was about to leave the base. That needed to be halted.

"I'll show you. It is something that must be seen." Cameron said. "Have Savannah wait there for Cammy. She's not to leave before Cammy returns. Tell her I said so."

John wondered what all this was about. Things seemed to be going in their favor until a few minutes ago. He knew that Cam cut her mission short. She would be back soon and the manned drone could go back up unmanned if necessary. It was a drone after all.

"Cam is on her way back now as well." John Henry said.

That was welcome news to Cameron. She wanted her two clones with both Vanna and Savannah. There was a new threat. It involved both of them. Cam and Cammy were 'her' for all practical purposes.

"Good." Cameron said. "They are to remain together at all times."

This was a significant threat. The more she thought about it, the more it worried her. In fact, the threat almost proved fatal earlier for Savannah and Cammy.

Cameron spoke with Cammy. She was worried about Savannah.

"I want Cam and you with Savannah and Vanna." Cameron said. "I don't like this. If you go out, take extra Metal."

Cameron called Camille and told her more Metal was on the way and to be extra careful. She wasn't going to take any chances with Young Jesse either. One of the sketches indicated an Asian female.

Camille was disturbed by the news. She wondered what else was in the works for Young Jesse.

"Are you sending 'anything else' for Young Jesse?" Camille asked.

Cameron didn't like how close together Savannah was pregnant the second time. She didn't like how young she was the first time either. She wanted the girls to be healthy to sustain their reproductive capability longer and with the best results. She wanted healthy mothers and healthy children.

"I will soon, not yet. I want her body to be at one hundred percent." Cameron said. "It has to be what she wants too, not just for me or you."

Young Jesse asked Camille each month when she could reproduce again. She wanted to provide for Jesse what she promised her. She didn't like the delays.

"It's for your Jesse." Camille said. "She keeps asking me. She's ready."

Cameron was pleased to hear that. Jesse would be provided for and then Young Jesse could produce for John and her.

"Thank you. That's good news." Cameron said. "Watch everyone's back. I will make sure you have everything you need."

Cameron liked it when a plan came together.

Now she needed to refocus on the current events.

Cameron wasn't happy about all the events of the evening. Her plans to hit a different target were disrupted. The new evidence she'd found was even more disturbing.

It appeared someone was after them specifically. She would get to the bottom of this and terminate everyone involved. She would eradicate the threat once and for all.

There was a lot on Cameron's mind as she neared the base. She began to question her actions since she made the temporal jump to 2007. Maybe she'd taken the wrong approach. Every Allison Young and every Savannah Weaver was at risk now. That was her doing. She did get one call on the way back that pleased her.

Cameron walked into the Command Center. She wordlessly handed John the drawings.

John was going to ask her how she was and how everything went but he could see she wasn't in a talkative mood yet. He'd give it a few minutes.

John looked at the sketches. He noticed that someone was missing. He thought it was someone important.

"Beautiful." John said. "They didn't have one of me? I would think there would be."

Cameron was pleased and puzzled by that when she searched the panel truck.

"I didn't find one, I looked twice." Cameron said. "I don't know if that's good or bad."

Sarah and Kyle looked at the sketches.

"Where is this coming from now?" Sarah asked. "Where did this information come from to begin with?"

John Henry looked at the sketches. They indicated how everyone looked years ago.

"That's unknown at this time." John Henry said. "These people are from the recent Skynet temporal transfers. They appear to be working with some old information from 2007 or so, maybe even some from 1999 for Cameron, Sarah and Mrs. Weaver."

Kyle saw this a little deeper. What about his family? Derek and he requested a 'hands off' approach to them. This could all turn bad real fast.

"Where are they getting this old information from?" Kyle asked. "Is there any danger for Derek's and our younger selves, my family?"

John Henry knew the Reese Detail was always in the background and in the shadows.

"That's unknown at this time." John Henry said. "We have Metal with them all the time. Cameron has already sent extra."

Derek and Riley got wind of what went down. They both arrived in the Command Center. They'd heard most of the discussion.

Riley looked at the sketches. She felt her own concerns.

"What about me?" Riley asked. "What about my family?"

Cameron reached out and touched Riley's cheek and smiled. She treated everyone the same.

"They've been covered as long as Jesse's family has been covered." Cameron said. "I take care of all our team members. I don't leave anyone behind. I help everyone I can."

There was a moment of stunned silence.

Cameron went up even 'higher' in everyone's book.

Riley loved Cameron even more. She owed so much to her and now she owed her more. Cameron always took care of her. She provided for her.

"You did that for ME?" Riley asked. "It's because of you that Derek and I are going to have a baby too."

Riley reached out and hugged Cameron. Derek did as well.

"I appreciate everything." Derek said. "We appreciate everything, Cameron. I really mean that."

Cameron smiled at them. It hid her true feelings. She was sorry that both Future Derek and Future Riley died. She never would have killed either one of them herself. She would have allowed John to have what made him happy and the girl he loved more than her. That was Future Riley.

She felt a glitch impulse when she remembered how John smirked at her when he went up the stairs after she caught him with Future Riley the first time they'd made love. It still stung.

Cameron gathered herself and faced her 'family'. There were more important issues to deal with right now than the past.

"We fight together or die alone." Cameron said. "I will terminate every Skynet myself."

Cameron knew the more of Skynet and its illegitimate offspring she terminated herself, the safer John was. He wouldn't be seen as a threat.

She'd made herself the target, not John. She'd done it to protect him.

Cameron set down the specific item the damaged female Terminator tried to take away. It was the very thing that cost her, her existence as she tried to protect it.

She looked at John, Derek, Kyle and Sarah.

"This is 'a Skynet'. It's an infant." Cameron said. "Once John Henry finds out everything we can about it, Sarah is going to help me terminate it."

Savannah informed Cameron about Sarah's desire as she drove back to the Resistance base. Savannah wanted a 'real' report from her as to her condition and damage.

Sarah was speechless at first. She'd wanted to hurt Skynet for a long time. She took Kyle's hand. Future Kyle was dead because of Skynet.

"Kyle, it will be you and me." Sarah said to Cameron. "We'll do it together."

Cameron planned to have it up and running in one of the storerooms as that happened. She wanted Skynet to know who terminated it.

"It will be active and isolated so it knows who we are." Cameron said. "Only we will know the fate if this version of Skynet. How this one is terminated will never be known to the outside world."

John was amazed at how Cameron always seemed to give everyone what they wanted, everyone except herself…. He also knew if Cameron gave herself what she truly 'wanted' it wouldn't be him. It would be someone who ALWAYS showed her love, caring and compassion. Someone who didn't make fun of her and get her 'destroyed'. Someone who would die in her place or even perish with her, that wasn't him. It was Savannah.

He wondered if he should act first. If he didn't, Cameron would leave with Savannah for the past at some point. If he moved on Savannah now he would be able to have both of them. It looked like any choice he made was going to be a 'bad' one for him. Cameron told him thousands of times it was what she wanted for him. Maybe it was time to 'harvest' Savannah. He really wanted her virginity.

John Henry knew he needed to act. He was not sure what the best approach was or what the 'reaction' was going to be. This was about the future and it was happening now.

John Henry quietly spoke with Cameron when they were alone.

"I have some security feeds I'd like to review with you." John Henry said.

Cameron was more concerned about the recent developments.

"Later." Cameron said. "I don't have time for that now. It seems unimportant."

John Henry tried to be diplomatic.

"I wouldn't mention it unless it was important to you." John Henry said. "It is about what you think you want."

Cameron already knew what she would see. Savannah was honest with her already. She'd spoken with her on the way back to the base. That was why she could trust Savannah over all others.

"It's not what I WANT." Cameron said. "It's what is, what will be, what MUST be. I WANT John protected."

John Henry didn't know what Cameron knew. Savannah went through CamNet.

"Let me review it with you." John Henry said. "In case…."

Cameron would do anything for Savannah. She already saw that Savannah would do that for her more than once. She wanted that same protection for John. Savannah would save John's life.

"I love, Savannah." Cameron said. "There will be no 'in case'…."

John Henry was surprised. Maybe CamNet told her. She was in his system.

"You know?" John Henry asked.

Cameron saw it as the best of both worlds.

"I know everything." Cameron said. "Once Savannah 'bonds' with John, I'll bond with Savannah as well. It's what I want."

John Henry felt there would be one problem.

"What will happen to Cammy?" John Henry asked.

Cameron already knew what would happen. Cammy knew it too. She was 'her' after all.

"Once I've bonded with Savannah, Cammy will become part of my program and cease to exist." Cameron said. "Her chassis with be reprogrammed with the Future Allison programming from Ally. She can become 'Future Ally', 'Fusion' or 'Allure'."

"Have you done this before?" John Henry asked.

Cameron felt a lot of frustration over that question. It was something she'd asked herself millions of times.

"I probably have." Cameron said. "I'm afraid I have done a lot of things…. I don't remember any of them. I only find fragments…."

Jesse came over to where Cameron was with John Henry.

"Excuse me." Jesse interrupted.

Cameron already knew what Jesse came to 'offer'.

"Yes, Jesse?" Cameron asked.

Jesse knew of the prisoner and that help was in short supply.

"I know you sent Sheila and Hanna away." Jesse said. "Do you need my help?"

Jesse knew they needed answers from the captured Gray.

"I do." Cameron said. "But I'm not going to ask you to do that. That's not you anymore. You're better than that now."

Jesse wished that was true. The darkness still lurked inside of her. It would always be there.

"I can still find the 'old Jesse' if you need her." Jesse said. "She will forever be inside of me."

Cameron pulled Jesse close and kissed her cheek.

"I like you how you are now, better." Cameron said.

"Thank you, love." Jesse said and turned to leave.

Cameron motioned for John Henry to turn off his audio.

"Jesse, if Savannah wants to get to 'know you better' and that's what you want as well…." Cameron said. "Remember Savannah loves Young Jesse…. You ARE that same Young Jesse too only older."

Jesse knew there was a lot of water under the bridge. She would never hurt Cameron.

"I WAS her. I don't want to cause any problems for YOU or anyone." Jesse said. "I love Savannah and you too much to hurt either of you."

Cameron wanted Savannah to have more human contact. She'd watched her in both futures and Savannah was always happier when she was with the human females.

"Savannah misses HER Jesse sometimes…." Cameron said. "I want her with humans too. Allison isn't near and has other obligations to fill."

"If it happens, it happens." Jesse said. "I won't stop it anymore. I have every other time with much difficulty…. Savannah has 'knocked'. She's begun to knock more often."

Cameron gave Jesse another hug.

"Answer the knock, open the door. Help her." Cameron said. "Help yourself."

Jesse smiled and left.

Cameron smiled as Jesse walked away….

She wanted to make sure Savannah felt loved and could share her love and feel love. She never wanted Savannah to feel lonely, unloved or unwanted. She never wanted Savannah to feel like she did - does….

Cameron wanted as much love for Savannah as possible.

'Everyone sacrifices for Savannah Connor.' Cameron thought.

If It Happens

How much control
Does anyone really have
Can feelings for another calve
Or do they only halve

The fall is usually the greatest
For the one who is at the top
It's only when they hit the bottom
That the fall will actually stop

People are merely puppets
Who actually pulls the strings
When hearts and minds should sing
Instead everything stings

The kaleidoscope of life
Keeps things in a jumble
Everything begins to crumble
Yet very few seem humble

Is there ever any real focus
Through lifes cloudy lens
Maybe it all comes down to
If it happens it happens

Nobody