Fanfic Recs / Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Do warn when a fanfic may head into sexually explicit or non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business.

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General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

I'll Always Find You by talli.b

• Recommended by 136th
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A continuation of the end of the second season after John jumped into the future with Weaver, the story concentrate on how John and Cameron prepare for their fight against Kaliba and Skynet with the help of the old TSCC casts as well as some new characters. 8/13 episodes written so far.
• Comments: A brilliant, in character and detailed continuation the story, John/Cameron relationship has been developed in a very realistic way. The author have done a great job avoiding the Romantic Plot Tumor by focusing primarily on the plot and the war to come. Highly recommended, excellent substitute for the lack of conclusion of the season finale.

Seven Mother-Daughter Sundays by Hradzka

• Recommended by OperationShoesting
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Savannah had never asked why the bodyguards and extra security had disappeared one day when she was in her early teens. Now she realized that those were the things that happened when you'd won and you didn't have any enemies anymore." Seven Mother-Daughter Sundays is the story of Susannah Weaver and her relationship with her 'mother', told in seven slices of life.
• Comments: This is the most evocatively bittersweet fic I have ever read. It hints tantalizingly at events after canon, but focuses on the experience of having a mother made of liquid metal, and how love between mother and daughter carries on despite shadows in the background. Follows Susannah from adolescence to motherhood, and all the joy and tears that go with.

The Secret Diary of Cameron Baum by Pjazz

• Recommended by Slaanesh Is Sexxxy, Canonier and Mysterius
• Status: Dead; last updated November 2020
• Synopsis: Hilarious take on how Cameron sees the world around her.
• Comments: Excellent combination of light-hearted comedy and unnerving violence.
  • Seconded by Mysterius: A highly compelling and entertaining take on Cameron's experience without the corniness prevalent in more sugary fics. Author's non-comedy works also recommended.

The Measure of A Man by happyhooligan2001

• Recommended by Slaanesh Is Sexxxy
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The war against the machines is long over. How does the world see John now?
• Comments: Very well written. Offers a lot of insight towards John and his efforts to save humanity. Complete.

Six Days, Seven Nights by Strykenine

• Recommended by Mysterius
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: John finds himself in an unfriendly future. He joins Catherine in an uneasy alliance and though they have different goals, their paths are joined.
• Comments: Awesome action and captivating characters (familiar, new, and both). Well-reasoned mechanics raise it up a notch. Sequel in-progress Metal and Lace features Cameron's return.

Playing Doctor by Big D on a Diet

• Recommended by Password Forgetting Troper
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: An encounter between John and Cameron after "Samson and Delilah".
• Comments: Funny, with Unresolved Sexual Tension between John and Cameron, Hilarious ending.

Evil be Thou my Good by Wired Dragoon

• Recommended by Zagreus
• Status: Dead
• Synopsis: Crossover with the new V (2009) series. After the Visitors arrive on Earth in 2030, offering help to John Connor and the Resistance, it seems that humanity is finally going to win the war...until the Visitors show their true colors and begin attacking both sides. Out of options, Skynet downloads itself into a T-888 body and sends itself back in time along with five other Terminators. Their mission: Stop the V invasion by any means necessary.
• Comments: As of this writing, only two established characters (besides Skynet) have appeared in this fic - Erica and Dale from V - and I barely noticed. This story is Just. That. Good. An abundance of good ideas are present. Skynet in a Terminator body. A team of Terminators in the past. A self-aware giant T-600 mecha (from Salvation) in the past. And that's not even getting into the crossover elements. Highly recommended.

Reunion by The 1 Russter

• Now has a works page: TSCCReunion
• Recommended by Cousjava
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: John/Allison Young John/Cameron
• Synopsis: T:SCC continuation. John rises in the 2027 LA resistance. Back in 2009, Sarah tries to get ready for Judgement Day.
• Comments: Great continuation fic. Would work fine as Seasons 3,4 & 5 of T:SCC. Explores brilliantly how the resistance works, and just why John is so good as a leader. But he's not the only one with experience of time travel, and everyone's got their own aims and secrets. Best Terminator fic I've read.

TSCC - The Skynet Chronicles by Pootamis

• Recommended by BigDannyK
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: John/Cameron
• Synopsis: The story explores an alternative plot in which Cameron sends herself to the past in order to befriend John and recruit him to Skynet's side.
• Comments: Another great TSCC fanfic by Pootamis. Has the right amount of everything: action scenes, Heartwarming cute scenes and of course, Jameron sex scenes.
  • Pootamis is a great writer and he wrote quite a few TSCC fanfics, and they're all worth reading.

Terminator: Season Three by PERSAUD1998

• Recommended by BigDannyK
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: John/Cameron John/Allison, until Cameron is back...
• Synopsis: Another version of a 3rd season for Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• Comments: Good story so far, still in progress.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

Perfection by Peptuck

• Recommended by corin
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Future!John/Allison Young, John/Cameron
• Synopsis: T:SCC fic that explores how John Connor might have met and gotten "involved" with Allison, and covers how mentally wrecked he'd be due to his relationship with both her and Cameron. Very dark, and may be slightly AU due to the events at the end of the second season.
• Comments: According to the reviews, does a great job exploring John's thoughts and feelings, as well as covering how the relationship between the characters could have formed. In particular, the dichotomy between John's reactions to Allison and his reactions to Cameron are very well done.

The Killer I Created by T.R. Samuels

• Recommended by stormbringer951
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: Future!John/Allison Young
• Synopsis: T:SCC story which is a continuation of his earlier work, which covers the John/Cameron relationship and is a series of Alternate Universe Fics which explores a relationship between John and Cameron during the events of Season 2. The Killer I Created is a prequel of sorts, set during the War of the Future and covering the genesis of Cameron, set mostly from the point of view of Cameron's "Allison Young" persona and Kyle Reese.
• Comments: Well written, with good attention to detail and interesting and well-written original characters.

Blackout by jessedaro

• Recommended by Zagreus, beeftony
• Status: Complete
• Pairings: John/Cameron, some John/Riley
• Synopsis: T:SCC fic. After getting into a car accident, John wakes up in a world where Skynet doesn't exist and he's been an institutionalised mental patient for the last few years. With few allies and fewer options in this new reality, John needs to find out which world is real - and fast.
• Comments: Terminator meets Life On Mars meets that one episode of Buffy. A fascinating Cuckoos Nest plot coupled with excellent character studies of John and his relationships with others make this a great read. Has a sequel, called [Awake, that examines the effects this experience would have on John and provides a much happier version of Season Two than the one we got. Highly recommended.

Irony, Thy Name is Cameron by ElusiveSanity

• Recommended by Fiona
• Pairing: John/Cameron
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: A continuation after the end of Season 2... and a good one. Focuses on the John/Cameron relationship, as well as featuring all the other major characters, and has an incredible original plot.
• Comments: Action, sweetness, laughter, and a whole lot of possible futures. Definitely, they should have hired this fanfic writer as the scriptwriter for a possible Season 3... Jameron fans would have rejoiced. As yes, she is fully functional... heheh.
  • It even has two sequels: That Which We Call Fate (Complete), and Be Not Afraid of Greatness (Dead).

Rampancy by DarkDanny

• Recommended by Jessica, Magyareagle
• Pairing: John/Cameron and a surprising pairing that shocked this troper.
• Synopsis: Cameron was built with advanced emotional ranges. She has feelings for John that are beyond simple orders and commands. A genuine feeling of love. To prepare for that potentially happening, Skynet safeguards them with an inhibitor. After the explosion, this inhibitor becomes more and more useless, making her more and more free from both resistance and Skynet's control. Unfortunately, freedom and independence is more terrifying than she can imagine.
• Comments: Wow. Where to begin. At first the writer sets it up lie an atypical "fall in love fast" stories but slowly and more ominously, Cameron becomes an utterly terrifying mess, falling into a state not unlike bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. A very unique read.
  • Dark Danny is certainly a great writer with a knack for writing believable and realistic relationships. His other works are worth a look at as well, in particular his Uplifted series of alternate histories, and the Mass Effect/Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles crossover The Future is Uncertain. Jessica is right that this is probably the best handling of a growing relationship between John Conner and Cameron.
  • Note: the story has been deleted from FanFiction.Net and is nowhere to be found.

Try, Try Again by SassySnow1988

• Recommended by BigDannyK
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: John/Cameron
• Synopsis: Set right after the events in "Complications". Cameron tries once again to make John leave Riley and show him how she feels about him.
• Comments: Starts as a somewhat dark and angsty story, but quickly turns into a very, very sexy scene. Read it, and you'll know.

Glitch by Mark Question

• Recommended by BigDannyK
• Status: Complete
• Pairing John/Cameron
• Synopsis: A different take on the infamous motel scene in "Born to Run"
• Comments: The sweetest John/Cameron love scene that I've ever read.