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Epilogue
Cameron's Relocation
"Epilogue"
He awoke to the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks.
For a moment, John wondered where he was, then the memories of the previous day returned to him and he smiled. The towel beneath him was warm but the sand remained cool beneath. The sun was warm, but a gentle breeze caressed his body, which led him to guess it was early in the morning. They had slept undisturbed for many hours, it seemed. John reached out to touch Cameron, who he knew to be lying inches away. But his hand closed on her towel and nothing else.
“Cam?”
A sudden bright flash caused John to jerk his eyes open and sit up. He took a moment to adjust to the sun glare before looking down at Cameron’s towel, only to find that she wasn’t there. He looked around and discovered that he was the only one on the beach, with the exception of a girl who seemed to be floating in the sea. It took him a moment before he realised that the girl was floating upside down and that she had brown hair.
Cameron?
John leapt to his feet and raced into the sea, quickly swimming towards Cameron as she began sinking into the depths. By the time he reached her, she had already submerged and was lying on the seabed. John took a deep breath and dived to the bottom, where she lay naked, and apparently asleep. He wrapped his arms around her and kicked off from a rock, using the momentum to struggle to the surface. It took longer than he would like, and by the time his head broke the surface, John was gasping for breath.
With more than a little difficulty, John brought her to the beach and dragged her onto her towel. He collapsed beside her, exhausted with the effort of carrying her all that way. As John recovered from his exertion, Cameron twitched slightly, her eyes moving beneath their lids.
>Rebooting…
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>All systems fully functioning; emergency time displacement successful.
Cameron found that bit of information puzzling, which only added to her annoyance that she was not dead. It seemed her suffering was not yet over, that she had been sent to yet another time to suffer different horrors. Yet, there was something comfortingly familiar about her current location.
“Hey, you awake?”
>Analysing… 99.7% voice match confirmed: John Connor.
Cameron’s eyes snapped open to see John looking down at her, a frown on his face. At first she thought her memory archives were simply playing back an old recording, but a quick check of her systems countered this theory. John gave her a sharp tap on the forehead, which served to provide physical proof of what she was seeing.
“Would you mind telling me why I just had to save you from rusting at the bottom of the ocean?”
She could hear him speaking, but she knew it couldn’t be true, it was impossible. But once again her systems cast aside her doubt by providing the current date: August 12th 2008.
“What’s wrong? You got seaweed stuck in your ears or something?”
John smiled and playfully tickled her ears, causing Cameron to involuntarily giggle. Then she realised; the T-Infinity’s destruction had caused a feedback that sent her hurtling across time, back to this moment. And because of its paradoxical nature, all that the T-Infinity changed will be forever forgotten, as if none of it ever happened. But it did happen, to Cameron.
She could still remember the heart-breaking horror of having to watch John die, and it brought tears to her eyes. John looked on with concern and gently ran his hand over her face, brushing aside the droplets.
“Hey, what is it? Cameron? What’s the matter?”
She just stared up at him, her eyes searching his face, committing his features to memory. Cameron couldn’t believe that, after all of her suffering, she was granted the very thing she thought she’d lost.
“John!”
Cameron launched herself at John and wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tightly, not willing to ever let go. John was startled by her behaviour, but gave her a comforting squeeze and kissed her on the neck.
“I’m here… but not for long if you keep squeezing the life out of me.”
Cameron suddenly let go for fear of smothering him to death and instead pulled John into a passionate kiss that lasted for what seemed like an eternity. John was baffled by her strange behaviour, and could only wonder what was going on in her chip.
“Wow, your acting like you haven’t seen me in years, what’s up?”
Cameron was on the verge of telling him everything, but then she decided he’d be better off not knowing. She just beamed at him, tears of joy now welling in her eyes as she stroked his hair and gave him a tender kiss.
“It’s nothing, I just… just a bad dream.”
“That must’ve been one hell of a nightmare then.”
They kissed again and Cameron buried her face in his shoulder, holding him close as pure bliss swept through her body, erasing all memory of 2011. John caressed her strands and wondered how he could be so lucky as to have found such a unique soul. But then, unbidden, a question popped up in his mind.
“Err, Cameron?”
“Hmm?”
“Not that I’m complaining or anything, but where are your clothes?”
Cameron laughed before leaning back onto the towel and gazing up into John’s eyes. They lay there, silently watching each other, neither wanting to blink and lose sight of the other for a second. Cameron felt completely content, having finally made peace with the world. But there was one thing she needed to say; something Cameron felt she needed to express before another calamity befell them.
“I love you, John.”
“I love you too, Cam.”
Having never been separated from Cameron in the first place, John never saw the need to turn his vengeful eyes towards Ellison and all of the chaos that came about as a result never occurred. In fact, through Derek, Ellison would become a powerful ally one day, and would be held amongst those that John held in high regard. John would never lose his mother in that hopeless gunfight, Ethan would have no need to blow himself up, and the world would carry on as it always did, until the inevitable Judgment Day. But even that would be less daunting, as John would never be alone during his struggles. Cameron would always be there to protect him, to aid him, and to love him.
For that was her purpose, her only desire. Cameron would stay with John up to the very end, and then she too would fade away, her soul joining his in that everlasting twilight.
Here endeth the Cameron Trilogy
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