A/N: Welcome back to the book for the characters I love to make suffer. I've been having a hard time creatively, and most of the time I can come up with an idea, but that's not happening right now. Anyway, I put this story together. I want you all to comment below what characters you would want to see more fics of, or any new characters you would like me to try and write. This is just a suggestion, so you don't have to do it!! I am writing for John Connor, but the teenage version of him, since he was around 10 in Judgment Day, and I think that would be a little weird for me to write. I didn't feel comfortable writing it myself. happy reading -nico *******************************************
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
One thing about my mom is that she always plans ahead.
Nothing Sarah could have done could have prepared her for this. They were back on the road, John, Cameron, Derek, and she. Looking over at the back seat, where Cameron and John were. Every few minutes, she would look back at the pair, wondering how they got to this point in their lives.
John was sound asleep, but the odd thing was that he had drops of sweat building up on his hairline, and he looked deathly pale in the moonlight that was illuminating the car. "What's wrong with him?" Derek asked, also looking back at his pale-looking nephew. " his temperature is elevated, he needs medical attention." Cameron answered, making everyone but the sound asleep John jump, forgetting that she didn't need sleep.
"alright here's what were going to do, Cameron you're going to be driving with me upfront while Derek you stay in the back with john we need to keep an eye on him to see if this is going to get worse while we're on the road and if it is then we'll bring him in." sarah ordered pulling off onto the shoulder of the thankfully dead road, the movement of the car was enough to pull john out of what could olny be described as a fever induced sleep.
"What's going on? why did we stop?" he asked, startled and in confusion as to why, all of a sudden, Derek was climbing into the backseat with him. " we're switching drivers, bud, are you feeling okay?" derek asked gently, like he would be with a frightened animal. " yeah, yeah, i'm fine just didn't know what we were doing" he answereed, shivering slightly as the cold air hit him from the door wincing as he repositioned himself to get more comfortable.
A few hours later, they reached a safe house that had been conveniently located near a small downtown area in a town none of them could pronounce.
They all climbed out of the car, minus John, who was still asleep on the cool car window, still looking worse for wear, but they all did escape death once again. Voting not to wake him up Derek picked the teen up ( he was lighter than he looked, which was concerning given his height) and started towards the front door as he felt John start waking up.
letting out a small whimper as he moved his abdomen, he opened his fevered blue/green eyes that were unfocused and looking past his mom. passing concerned looks, Derek and Sarah kept their eyes on the boy, waiting for him to tell Derek to put him down, and that he was fine as he'd been doing all night.
" you see them don't you? They're right there?!" John exclaimed trying to pick his head up off of Derek's chest pointing off into the distance, " honey see what? There's no one there. C'mon bring him inside now derek he's burning up bad." Sarah fretted feeling how hot her son's forehead was.
Placing him down on the couch only then did Derek see the blood coating his chest in the places John had been, " Sarah get in here! I think John's hurt!" Derek yelled while trying to wake John back up. Running in with Cameron hot on her heals, Sarah dropped onto her knees beside her hurt son. "He's hurt." Cameron stated in her gentle yet monotone voice. " no shit he's hurt!" Derek exclaimed Turing his attention back on John still trying to wake him up.
" gun shot wound on his abdomen, happened two days ago. It hasn't been taken care of, It's infected." She stated while trying to get closer to get more readings only to be pushed back by Sarah. " you will NOT get close to him I mean it! I don't care if you were sent to protect him but I know my son and what he needs. your just a machine who can't feel!" Sarah yelled nearing hysterics. Lifting up his shirt only then did they see the damage.
" we need to get his temperature down, teens can mange until it gets to 104 then we need to seek medical help." Camron stated but was ignored by both adults, " mom listen to her, it's not her fault it's mine. We were so busy trying not to die I guess I forgot " John mumbled feverishly looking from both his mom and uncle. "Alright hold him down derek, this is going to hurt a lot we need to clean and stich this up properly then keep an eye on him." Sarah ordered
Grabbing as many medical supplies as they could carry made way back to where John was. Infection, it kept playing in Sarah's head over and over again. Brushing his sweat soaked bangs back she once again felt the burning heat that was coming off of him. "Whats his temperature at Cameron?" Sarah demanded not taking her gaze off of her son. "It's at 102 and rising. The consequences could be fatal if we don't do this now." Cameron urged
Setting up the medical supplies in the order they would need them, Nodding to Derek he put his hand on top of John's shoulders and chest area while raising his shirt once again. Seeing the red raised skin where the infected wound was looked awful, getting some gauze and rubbing alcohol Sarah started cleaning. Breaking out of his fevered haze John tried jolting away from whatever was causing him pain, "stop! Stop! It hurts! stop! Please I'm sorry!" John cried out as his mom started cleaning the infected wound.
"Cameron where are we at?" Sarah asked through clenched teeth as the cries of her son were gettin louder. " temperature is still 102 but getting close to 103." She confirmed, there was nothing else Cameron could do but stand there and watch.
Continuing to try and arch his back while crying out pulled on everyone's heart strings, finishing with the cleaning Sarah then moved on to getting the needle she found sterile by putting it over a flame of the lighter she always carries.
By this point John was becoming delirious from both fever and pain, as the last stitch went through did he finally calm down sensing it was finally over. The rest of the night was spent trying to get his fever down, the highest it got was 102.6.
It was during Sarah's shift that they saw a bit of improvement, hearing footsteps she looked up and saw the last person ( well most human robot out there) she expected. " John's showing improvement, his fever is down to 101.0 . The fever should break anytime." Cameron explained looking fondly at the pair,
"Look I'm sorry for snapping earlier it's just I get so overprotective of him knowing there still things out there wanting to kill him. It's not fair to you or him and I'm sorry." Sarah apologized smiling sadly.
By morning John was awake and alert which was awesome! Still a bit weak but otherwise healthy enough to sit up without jarring his abdomen to much, " so you and mom made up huh? Great maybe next she'll let us talk WITHOUT listening, mom I know you're right there." He spoke loudly giving her attention.
The following days were all a cycle of the same stuff, keeping low, watching their backs the whole 9 yards, when it was time for John to get his stitches out boy did he complain about having to go back through the pain but it was worth it cause he got a bad ass scar.
every day is the same but that's what you get with the Connor family the same endless cycle. They may be a bit dysfunctional but at the end of the day they get the job done with some cuts and bruises. ******************************************* What's up!!! This is by far the longest fic I've ever written!! It did take me a few days but I got it done and that's all worth it when it comes to a good story, anyways I have one more draft in the works then I'll be caught up and will probably take a break for a while. I hope you all enjoyed!! Lemme know what you all would like to see next! -nico
