Ch.141

We met up with Derek and Charley after Sarah called Derek. We went to burn Cameron and John pulled his stunt. When Cameron gave him back the gun, I spoke into his mind and told him that he's the John I know now, the one whose lost that innocence in himself and from it one day he will find resolve and strength to do what all others cannot. We got an off the grid motel room for the night and the next day Sarah, Cameron and I got a place while I sent Derek to watch John at school.

I suggested he taser a janitor and go undercover. In the end the janitor had a bad fall and broke his ankle, poor guy. We got a place from a very pregnant landlord who wanted a few days to clean out the junk, but Sarah said we'd take it because she's apparently expecting as well and we may need a nursery. She asked if we were married and I told her no, but we were closer than most couples.

She asked if Cameron was mine and I shook my head. "No, she and John have a different father. Their uncle will be staying with us but beyond that, it gets dysfunctional. Sadly Kyle, John and Cameron's father, died in a war years ago before John was born. You'll no doubt meet John and Derek later."

I searched the place for exits, tactical retreats and possible ways of extraction if necessary while Sarah made small talk. I found Cameron touching the woman's stomach and used telekinesis to pull her hand back. Cameron looked to me and I just watched her wearily. After the landlord left, I asked the metal. "We're you planning on ripping it out of her?"

She noticed my hand on my gun and spoke. "No, just feeling."

I frowned and she told Sarah before looking to me. "I count fourteen tactical exits and extraction points or entrances. You?"

I grunted. "Seventeen. The basement can be retrofitted with a shock mine to blow an exit then there's the chimney with a preset rope and auto pulley for quick extraction."

Cameron asked. "And the third I missed?"

I point to a wall. "It's weak there and yet braced. I can punch through with telekinesis and there's a quick path to the back alleyway where an extraction car can be placed, gassed and filled with go bags if necessary."

Sarah asked if that was all and I nodded while Cameron told her that for every plan I'm known to have ten improvised ones so it's likely there are more I'm not saying for lack of trust in her. I walked away saying I'd clean up and make sure the house was secure and mapped for John and her. An hour later a survivor came in wounded and badly injured. He told us about a man and started to die so I healed him when Sarah told me to. I put him on the couch and told her he'd need blood and mine is normally near acidic to normal humans because of several factors the first of which is that my body's platelets attack and destroy anything now them until they can fight back which is why the nanites in the serum were for her.

She asked about her and I told her. "You took the serum last night and you've been feverish all day despite how well you're hiding it. I'll make a hospital run and get supplies for a transfusion."

I passed her my laser magnum and she nodded before telling me to get funnions and salsa since she's carry my child. I stopped and asked if she didn't want it. She said she just wished I'd told her sooner or given her a choice of contraceptives. I grunted and told her she wasn't complaining before. She said she hadn't thought she could get pregnant after what the doctors said when she got checked up after John.

I shrugged. "I only knew it was a remote possibility. John calculated that it would be one in ten million chances even if the woman was ovulating and capable. Apparently my genetics make it extremely remote and difficult for special cases under lab conditions let alone outside of it. Though I should've said something sooner, you're right. Still, it's far from being too late to change your mind if this isn't what you want or are prepared to deal with."

She pulled me down and kissed me so I lifted her up by her ass while she felt my response to her kiss. She said that's how we got into this position and I had a mission to do. I set her down and grunted. "Watch the metal bitch. She's changing, adapting and becoming more like us. I don't want you or John to start relaxing around her just because she acts human, not for one second."

She agreed and I left, heading to the hospital and returning with several bags of universal O positive, a stand, tons of medicines, bandages and medical supplies of all kinds. Seeing the prenatal vitamins, Sarah took them and headed to the bathroom with them, a pregnancy stick and a pack of abortion pills saying she'd let me know what she decides. I patched up the guy more as I hadn't totally healed him.

He got the blood transfusions he needed and I left him sleeping there while I headed to check out his issues with Greenway at the Palto nuclear reactor power plant. Cameron came with me so our new guest didn't wake up and freak seeing a metal. We got jobs as janitors and kept an eye on Greenway. I talked to him at the bar after work and learned his story before telling him I agreed with him that I'd rather be safe than sorry for creating a new Chernobyl and wiping out half of LA.

That night I told Sarah, Derek and Zack Ward, the new guy, everything along with the fact that Greenway was concerned over safety issues. Zack told us he was going to be impersonated to start a meltdown and the team sent to stop the T-888 was killed by it. I told him they were turning the reactor on tomorrow so we'd watch his place tonight and deal with the T-888 if it comes for him.

I tossed Sarah the laser magnum. "Take the metal girl and second watch. I'll take Lt.Ward as a second pair of eyes and call when he tires."

Derek agreed and I left with Ward only to be stopped by Sarah at the door. She handed me the abortion pills and told me she didn't want them. I put my hand over her stomach and kissed her forehead because she'd been puking half the day and didn't want to share her bad breath. It was no more than an hour after we arrived that the metal arrived looking to kill the real Greenway.

I stopped it outside his place and Ward pulled it's chip before we left without much of a noise. Cameron melted it to slag and I hacked the chip, finding the stash house and pulling the cash, diamonds and any connection to us just like I had Sarkissian's place with the three hundred grand he'd gotten for the Turk. A couple days later Cromartie took Charley's wife on their way out of town to go into hiding.

Sarah and I went while I told Derek and Zack to stay and keep an eye on John and the metal. I gave Derek my laser magnum and we headed out to what was most definitely a trap. We picked up Charley and found the trap. As soon as I saw Charley's wife alive, I told Sarah it was a trap for us before telling her to cut her loose because the bomb there was fake but the one outside on the cell tower was real and the moment we elude to it or she calls John the metal will blow the tower and go after him.

She cut the woman loose and I went outside to see Cromartie about to wreck the jeep. I threw him back with telekinesis caught him physically, slamming him down and popping his chip out with telekinesis. He shut down and I grabbed the thermite bag, tossing him in a ditch and melting all of him.

They came out and I tossed Sarah the chip. "I'll hack and destroy it later. Give me a minute to disable the real bomb and pack up the frequency transponder he was waiting to listen to your calls in to get the password."

She nodded and I finished my work before we left, picking up their truck and parting ways on the road after I gave them both guns and cash. I told them to keep their heads low, stay off the grid and always aim for the right eye if it's metal. They thanked us and Sarah told them it wasn't a problem this time. She saw Cromartie was fully vaporized so we left.

John was relieved to see that Cromartie's chip was all that remained of him, but a few days later Cameron went off the deep end while Sarah and I were with Kacy, our pregnant landlord with apparently a cop baby daddy. Kacy was fine and we stayed with her over night even after meeting Trevor. He asked a few questions about our baby and Sarah told him we'd just gotten confirmation the day we moved in.