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Title: tomorrow is counting on me to learn my lessons today by Hecate
Fandom: Terminator Salvation
Character/Pairing: John Connor
John Connor/Terminator, Kate Brewster/John Connor
Summary: "He lost his heart."
Warning: depression, passive suicidal intentions, sex and masturbation
Word Count: 1083
Why I Rec This Fic: Johns despair feels very real, and I really like the writing style.

They find a graveyard of metal, skeletons shot to pieces, arms and legs; and they stop and stare.
"Elephants," Kyle says and John remembers this from the time before Skynet took control. Elephant bones and memories of TV documentaries showing how they wander off to die, and it scares him that Terminators act like living creatures.
"Junkyard," Barnes says and the knot inside of John's stomach disappears.
"Yes," he says out loud and they search through the pieces for something they can use.

Title: How to Change the World Without Even Trying by DeCarabas
Fandom: Terminator 2
Character/Pairing: John Conner
John Conner&Sarah Conner
Summary: For the prompt: "C'mon, kid, didn't you know your mom was crazy?"
Word Count: 1332
Why I Rec This Fic: Johns childhood must have been – a lot. I like this small glimps about the adjusting period after he and his mother got seperated, and he is confronted with the „normal“ world.

When the foster family finds the Bowie knife under his pillow, he winds up placed with a different couple, and just in time for school. That's a trip. In some ways it's interesting (his mother had never thought history was a vital part of his education, except for those parts of history that haven't actually happened yet), but in most ways, it seems about as useful as those Nintendo games. And everyone else seems to think there is something deeply, deeply wrong with his reactions to both - the school, the games.
It's a whole new world. (Which, coincidentally, is a song in a recent movie that everyone but him knows about, and this is another reason that something is deeply, deeply wrong with him.)

Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning by indiefic
Fandom: Terminator 2
Character/Pairing: Sarah Connor & John Connor,
Sarah Connor
Summary: "Of all the painful lessons Sarah struggled to teach her son, the ones she hadn’t intended him to learn were the ones that burned the most."
Word Count: 1482
Why I Rec This Fic: I really like stories about people who love their children deeply and are “good“ couragous heroic people but deeply fail their children one way or another (Star Wars and Leia/Han/Luke&Ben Solo, Supernatural etc), I like the tension there.

Terminator Genisys (2015)

Title: always say yes by livii for The_Kings_Scribe
Fandom: Terminator Genisys (2015)
Character/Pairing: Sarah Connor & Pops
Sarah Connor, Pops
Summary: "Yes, I care for Sarah Connor," he says. "Yes, I will always care for Sarah Connor."
Word Count: 1260
Why I Rec This Fic: Really heartwarming, Killer robo dads are a stample of the Terminator mythos so its nice to find a fic I like about that.

He puts a hand on her head and pats it; she smiles into his shirt, because it's the sort of pat you'd give a puppy, or an obedient small child.
"My orders are clear," he says. "I will not harm Sarah Connor. Leaving would harm Sarah Connor. I will not leave."
She looks up, startled.
"Is this not correct for comfort?" he says, and pauses his hand in the air, mid-pat.
"It's just fine, Pops," she says, and he resumes the motion, up-and-down, up-and-down, perfectly precise.

Title: Too many hands to untie by evarosen
Fandom: Terminator Genisys (2015)
Character/Pairing: John Connor/Kyle Reese
John Connor, Kyle Reese
Summary: "When Kyle was a child, John used to help him with his uniform. Then he never really lost the habit.
(or, you did see John's completely unnecessary assistance with Kyle's vest, right?)"
Word Count: 1297
Why I Rec This Fic: Look the whole Connor family is a beautiful tragic mess of (time travle-y) feels, no one gets to have the kind of relationship they want to have with the other, and I was convinced Kyle Reese had a crush on John Connor since the first movie.

Title: Old as Your Omens by stars_inthe_sky for Unforgotten
Fandom: Terminator Genisys (2015)
Character/Pairing: Sarah Connor
John Connor & Sarah Connor
Summary: "Sometimes, Sarah thinks Skynet is raising them all."
Word Count: 2556
Why I Rec This Fic: One of the amazing things about the Terminator movies is how centerd their mythos is around a female character, its still underrepresented in action movies – at the same time Sarah Conner is one of the characters who as a person is extremly chaught in „fate“/a role – stories about characters taking back the narrative are something dear to my heart and it really fits the themes of canon with this fandom.

After that night, she thinks about John more. She doesn’t share anything of him with Pops—he has records on a military leader and tactical genius and can parrot secondhand tales of a near-mythical creature, but he knows nothing about the person underneath: the kid who will grow up in battle, the teenager who will watch the world end, the man who will breathe life back into it.
So Sarah wonders, and she makes up her own answers. He’ll like pancakes. He’ll favor Glocks. He’ll share her same taste in music. She’ll always shoot straighter, but he’ll be faster. And he’ll understand why she does what she does, what they were both raised to do, because there are roughly five billion people counting on them to do it. They move in a straight line, after all, even if time doesn’t. You just go, and you don’t look back.