Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (6/10)
Title: Soldier
Genre: Television
Series: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters: Cameron Philips, Derek Reese
Spoilers: 2x14-The Good Wound
Rating: PG
Summary: Derek doesn't understand how she let this happen.
Author's Note: This was written for 10_quotes.
Word Count: 500
Crossposted: scc_fic
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Quote: To Kill a Mockingbird-"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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Derek didn't like hospitals. She didn't need to be a body chemistry reading cyborg to recognize that simple fact. His eyes slid around the tableau in the hallway without stopping, he bit his bottom lip repeatedly, and his fists clenched and unclenched; all without conscious effort on his part.
Cameron found it easy to diagnose his conflict with this place. In their time, places this clean and sterile could only mean it was Skynet territory. The resistance had no need for hospitals, not when their main way of dealing with illness and disease was to sever the weak link.
"How did this happen?"
Derek's sudden question surprised Cameron, more from the fact that he'd chosen to speak to her than his curiosity over the circumstances. They sat next to each other in the hallway, directly across from Riley's hospital room where John was even now trying to get answers to that very question.
She took her time before speaking, drawing up different conclusions and disregarding them until she'd found one that she felt Derek would accept. "I don't know."
Derek's head swung back to her, incredulity spreading across his face. "You don't know?"
Cameron nodded. "Her actions do not match the parameters."
Derek stopped fidgeting and turned his entire body until he could look her in the face. "Explain."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Cameron said quietly, her eyes glazing over as she went over her thoughts. "I ran a program, inserted all variables and situations, and this was never a result. Her actions and her situation do not match. Conclusion, she's lying about something, a variable large enough to shift the entire result matrix."
Cameron's eyes sharpened as she finished her train of thought and turned to Derek. His eyes were wide and somewhat wary as he spoke to her. "Sometimes I forget what you are; not completely, but enough."
Cameron tilted her head and thought of all the implications of his simple admission. "You shouldn't do that."
"Don't I know it," Derek scoffed lightly. He turned his face from her, deliberately, and gestured to the room across from them. "So she's lying."
"Yes. I tried to inform John, he was recalcitrant, however."
Derek's lips quirked, just a tiny bit. "Recalcitrant, huh?"
"Obstinate, headstrong, stubborn-"
"I know what it means, metal," Derek replied sharply, standing and moving to the door, glaring in at John who remained oblivious to his protectors. "What do we do about this?"
Cameron remained silent, unsure of the reaction that Derek wanted and unwilling to provoke another altercation.
"I want you to watch Riley. See what game she's playing and what John has to do with it," Derek said suddenly, turning to stare down at her.
"I don't take orders from you, Lieutenant Reese."
"General Connor isn't here, and someone needs to be giving them." He paused and considered her. "Will you follow me?"
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Review, please.
Genre: Television
Series: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters: Cameron Philips, Derek Reese
Spoilers: 2x14-The Good Wound
Rating: PG
Summary: Derek doesn't understand how she let this happen.
Author's Note: This was written for 10_quotes.
Word Count: 500
Crossposted: scc_fic
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Quote: To Kill a Mockingbird-"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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Derek didn't like hospitals. She didn't need to be a body chemistry reading cyborg to recognize that simple fact. His eyes slid around the tableau in the hallway without stopping, he bit his bottom lip repeatedly, and his fists clenched and unclenched; all without conscious effort on his part.
Cameron found it easy to diagnose his conflict with this place. In their time, places this clean and sterile could only mean it was Skynet territory. The resistance had no need for hospitals, not when their main way of dealing with illness and disease was to sever the weak link.
"How did this happen?"
Derek's sudden question surprised Cameron, more from the fact that he'd chosen to speak to her than his curiosity over the circumstances. They sat next to each other in the hallway, directly across from Riley's hospital room where John was even now trying to get answers to that very question.
She took her time before speaking, drawing up different conclusions and disregarding them until she'd found one that she felt Derek would accept. "I don't know."
Derek's head swung back to her, incredulity spreading across his face. "You don't know?"
Cameron nodded. "Her actions do not match the parameters."
Derek stopped fidgeting and turned his entire body until he could look her in the face. "Explain."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Cameron said quietly, her eyes glazing over as she went over her thoughts. "I ran a program, inserted all variables and situations, and this was never a result. Her actions and her situation do not match. Conclusion, she's lying about something, a variable large enough to shift the entire result matrix."
Cameron's eyes sharpened as she finished her train of thought and turned to Derek. His eyes were wide and somewhat wary as he spoke to her. "Sometimes I forget what you are; not completely, but enough."
Cameron tilted her head and thought of all the implications of his simple admission. "You shouldn't do that."
"Don't I know it," Derek scoffed lightly. He turned his face from her, deliberately, and gestured to the room across from them. "So she's lying."
"Yes. I tried to inform John, he was recalcitrant, however."
Derek's lips quirked, just a tiny bit. "Recalcitrant, huh?"
"Obstinate, headstrong, stubborn-"
"I know what it means, metal," Derek replied sharply, standing and moving to the door, glaring in at John who remained oblivious to his protectors. "What do we do about this?"
Cameron remained silent, unsure of the reaction that Derek wanted and unwilling to provoke another altercation.
"I want you to watch Riley. See what game she's playing and what John has to do with it," Derek said suddenly, turning to stare down at her.
"I don't take orders from you, Lieutenant Reese."
"General Connor isn't here, and someone needs to be giving them." He paused and considered her. "Will you follow me?"
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Review, please.