Who: Derek Reese, Marcus Wright, and brief appearance from Genisys! Sarah Connor. Then Dark Fate! Sarah Connor. What: More meeting and talking. Where: Derek and Kyle’s apartment, then back to Marcus’ apartment. When: Friday, January 4th, 2020. Spoiler Alert: Synopsis for Terminator Dark Fate briefly mentioned. Rating: PG 13, for kissing (Hey it's gonna happen!) and language. Status: Finished, Closed. Part III
Part III
Marcus looked up "It's hard to know exactly with John but sometimes you have to figure him out on your own; like he trusted me to find Kyle in Skynet a long time ago. It took a lot of arguing at first. "
“John was my CO and I trusted him with my life. John keeps to himself a lot. I think we are similar in that way.” Derek finally decided that he was oddly comfortable talking to this machine. That was starting to make him uncomfortable. Something came to mind. “What are you going to do if the other older Kyle comes back?” Derek asked curiously.
Marcus sighed "I haven't thought of a backup plan yet to be honest."
Derek smirked. “You are going to have to be thinking about it. I don’t believe that he will because he was killed protecting Sarah. But in some universe there has to be a possibility that Kyle lived.”
Marcus frowned "Yeah, I know. It's going to be complicated. But I'm not sure what little Kyle's going to think of me after all of this. Kyle knew me for only part of his life."
“It’s hard to say. The Reese guys are hard to read too. It runs in the family. I have a suspicion that my brother went to meet Sarah out of curiosity. I don’t blame him for it. It’s odd having a teenaged Sarah living here.” He mused.
Marcus nodded "It's just timeline differences are all here and every timeline will end up different
“Kyle used to carry a picture of Sarah with him that John gave him. He used to say it was his good luck charm. I said it was creepy. Then later I figured out why John gave him the picture. John always had a plan.” Derek explained.
“We all have to have a plan here. I do. I have to be prepared for my crazy ex-girlfriend coming back.” Derek added. Marcus sighed "Have any of us planned for any Skynet to come here?" Marcus frowned "I know a truce was formed in my timeline. But in other timelines, that may not be true."
“I don’t know how a computer could come here. But I have several plans put in place if and when it does. I also have plans in place for when more metal comes through. I have to admit you threw me off. But, if Kyle trusts you, then I think you’re worth something. Kyle doesn’t trust without reason to.” He nodded.
"Appreciate it. I mean you trusting me. That's what i meant. If any other bad metal decide to show up. "I'll give you a brief rundown if any of the terminators/Parnell from my timeline shows up "Let's just say I don't know how or why but Parnell almost killed everyone in my timeline just by deciding to play with something he knew nothing about.
Derek sighed. “Damn. That’s how it always happens. In my timeline it started out as a stupid chess program created by a computer programmer.” He nodded, going on his own tirade. “Please continue...”
"No…no…this is a serial killer that Skynet decided to join forces with. Thomas Parnell, a serial killer escaped from prison two days before his execution but the thing is he got away, Skynet got word and they decided to join forces, Parnell got hooked to Skynet and in exchange it gave him more power. Turns out the terminators we fought were X10 times worse! They ripped apart our men in tons of bloody ways, gory ways. Something only a serial killer knew about. But the more power Parnell got, he started to become Skynet. So Skynet fought back using its own terminators against Parnell's gory ones.”
“Skynet against Skynet...” He groaned. “But I know John. He would have taken every opportunity he could get for peace.” He got up and got them beers. Though he knew Kyle might be listening in too. He would check on that later. “Kyle is supposed to be asleep and Sarah is studying. She might come out if she overhears us discussing this though.” He warned. He nodded at Marcus to continue. Marcus sighed and nodded "I think she needs to know my timeline just in case a situation like this happens again if here or another timeline. The younger Sarah? But anyways, the woman who got Parnell and my body when we died named Dr. Serena, she found a way to fight off Skynet… Parnell's gory terminators. She offered John the opportunity to transfer his soul into a T-800. John was reluctant at first and talked it over with everyone including me. It just didn't sound that right to me, but it was a way to end the war in my timeline so John took it. So we watched as John did it and his human body died and John was now a T-800 who could think. I took the reins from the back way and led some soldiers to fight and hold off Parnell's bloody terminators.
Derek turned as he realized that the younger Sarah had been standing there listening the whole time. Derek smirked again, but didn’t say a word. He decided to see if Marcus would notice her. “John would never do that unless he had to. He hates metal like I do.” Derek added.
Marcus shrugged "I don't know why he gave me a chance then if he really hated metal as much as he said he did, but I'm not questioning him." He eyed the younger Sarah "Oh, so you've been listening in?" The half terminator eyed both of them. "My story's not a lie, I'm just telling things from what happened in my timeline."
“I don’t think that you are lying. But you are lucky that I didn’t shoot you.” Sarah replied after some silence. “John was a Terminator in my timeline too. But he tried to kill me and Kyle.” She explained.
"Another timeline? What happened that made John so screwed up as a T-800 in that one? He was good in mine. Something must of screwed up the timeline there too. He took a swig of the drink. I wish I could of stopped Skynet from breaking that truce they had in my timeline if this Skynet decided to screw up your timeline that bad. Look, I wish I could of done something to stop that."
Teenaged Sarah sauntered in and took a seat in between the two men. “Derek has heard this story but you haven’t. John was good in my timeline until Skynet infected him with some kind of Nanotechnology. It turned him into a terminator and changed the whole timeline.” She explained.
Marcus raised an eyebrow "Nanotechnology? That's a new one. That I’ve never heard of until now. So wait, everything that happened from our timeline etc. never happened after the timeline got screwed up? Sadly I shouldn't exist." "But that's not true right?"
Sarah laughed. “I try not to think about it. I’m not like other me either.”
Derek laughed. He couldn’t resist getting some teasing in there. This was all weird for him. “Does that mean that you are going to date her too?” He pointed at the younger Sarah and asked Marcus.
Marcus groaned "Sarah's more a teenager right now, it would be awkward and the age difference."
Sarah gave Derek a swat on the arm. “I didn’t need to know they were dating. I’m nineteen, thank you very much....and quite dateable.”
Derek smirked. “I think that Kyle still has eyes for you anyway. You should see the way he looks at you. I knew you were his type from the beginning.” Sarah couldn’t help but stare at Marcus now too. She realized that she was staring at him and looked down. “I miss Pops.” She admitted.
Marcus rubbed his neck "I know I'm not quite "pops" but the guy you knew or another model T-800 tried to kill all of us in our timeline."
“Pops was a reprogrammed T800 that rescued me when I was nine from another one that tried to kill me and my parents. He raised me, but he didn’t come through with me.” She explained. She turned to Marcus. “How old are you anyway?”
"It's complicated. I'm now 43. Marcus gritted his teeth "Long story. I don't look that old because I don't age."
Sarah gave him a perplexed look. “Pops aged. So I know Terminator models do age.”
“So you aren’t concerned about the age difference between you and the other Sarah? She has to be pushing sixty.” Derek pointed out.
"It's complicated... but I'm not sure. Perhaps I do. The only reason why i doubted it because I am able to regenerate my skin and organs She's closer to 43 than 19 is to a 43 year old. "To be honest, I never knew Blair's age either."
Derek shrugged. “I just try not to think about it. But if you are happy with her then I’m fine with it. Isn’t that the answer that you wanted?”
Marcus nodded "Yeah…”
“It’s weird for me but okay.” Sarah said added.
Derek finished his beer. ”I’m not saying that I completely trust you. You are still metal in my eyes. But at least you don’t have a chip running that brain in there. I’m watching you.”
Marcus raised an eyebrow "I know you are watching me, your family probably is too. I know, I got to earn your trust."
Derek nodded. “But some never do. Cameron never did. So don’t feel bad.” Sarah got up with a nod and left for her room. “Is there anything else that you wanted?” Derek asked.
Marcus nodded "Nope, thanks for agreeing to talk."
Marcus sighed "Say hi to Kyle for me."
“Sure I will. But, I think its ok for you to come visit him once in a while. If you aren’t too weird about the other Sarah being here, that is?” Derek finally said.
Marcus shrugged "It's fine with the other Sarah being around and yeah, I'll come see him to see how he's doing once in a while"
“I can’t speak for her, but I think she should be okay with it.” He nodded.
Back at Marcus’ apartment….older Sarah had fallen asleep on Marcus’ couch.
"Call me if something comes up, alright? " After Marcus had said his goodbyes to young Sarah, and Derek, he went back to his own apartment, unlocking the door, coming in, seeing older Sarah on the couch. He tries to find an extra blanket around the place and covers her as he sat in a chair next to her. "I'm back." Sarah suddenly sat up and shot her gun at him, the shot just barely missed his ear. “Aww fuck! Sorry Marcus. I didn’t realize that I fell asleep.” She quickly put it on safety and back in the holster. “Sorry... knee jerk reaction.” She put a hand on his cheek. “Are you okay”
Marcus winced. "No worries, Sarah, that's only the second time I've almost been shot today." "Yeah, I have Regeneration; I should be alright for now at least. Well make that three times."
“Well we’re lucky that you have regeneration. That might happen with me more than a few times.” She warned. “Did Derek shoot you too?”
"No worries, I've had it happen with your family in my timeline a lot of times, between Kyle and John. Derek? Almost, he seemed a little more leery of me. The younger Sarah almost did too "But the whole shooting thing isn't what i worry about, it's more how fast I heal."
“Oh God....sorry!” She moved her fingers lightly against his cheek. “Do I need to stitch you up?” She said studying it. “I expected Derek to be leery of you. He doesn’t trust or like anyone.” "He's okay, I kind of expected that from him. He's just trying to protect Kyle and young Sarah. "Well let's say the first to shoot was your younger other timeline self "He reminds me a bit of myself when I had to protect Kyle and star."
“I’d be careful around myself because she doesn’t miss. You are lucky I just grazed you.” She admitted. “What did you think of younger me?”
Marcus nodded "I can tell." "She's fast on her feet but the odd thing she told me about her timeline." "A huge chunk reminds me of the timeline I went through just John was a bad terminator. I was sad about that, if I knew in a timeline Skynet would try to ruin John like that, I'd... Marcus gritted his teeth.
Marcus sighed "I.. can't change it."
“But you can change your future that’s the only thing that isn’t set. You can spend it with me.” She leaned over and finally kissed him on the lips.
Marcus sat firm and let Sarah kiss him as he held her close, his lips on her own.
“I have been wanting to do that.” She whispered.
"You finally got it from me. No more waiting around for someone when we got each other."
“Exactly.” Sarah kissed him again, this time not so hesitantly. She was afraid to speak not wanting to ruin the moment. But it was always in the back of her mind, what if her Kyle came back? What would she do then?
Marcus held onto the moment, scared to think what would happen if his old girlfriend found he was alive, what would he do?" There were always questions lingering at the back of both of their minds.
“I think I had better get home. I forget that my John is still a teenager, and he’s still alive.” Sarah finally spoke up. Marcus nodded, thinking. "Right, you two take care of yourselves. I'll be around. You know where to find me. John's always welcome."
“Of course. You’re always welcome over at my place too. I just haven’t said anything to John yet about you.” She admitted. Sarah gave him