"Pairing? Could you use a different word? That sounds awful."
Sarah first complained, then said with feigned disdain, "I'm not interested right now either. That guy might be handsome, but he's so full of himself. You can tell at a glance he's no good."
The elderly Terminator looked at Sarah speechlessly. Even though he had never been in love, he knew she felt differently about Andrew. He shook his head and quickly led her away. Whatever they had to discuss could wait.
Sarah and the elderly Terminator had spent years evading Skynet's pursuit and had plenty of hiding places around the city. Andrew brought the T800 along and followed them to an abandoned underground station.
Then the Battle Armor opened down the middle. Andrew stepped out and asked Sarah, whose eyes were shining, "Want to give it a try?"
"Can I?"
Sarah was delighted, but the elderly Terminator hurriedly pulled her back. She couldn't try this thing. If she did, what she had kept intact for over twenty years might be gone.
The elderly Terminator asked Andrew, "Are you really Kyle Reese?"
"Of course. The reason I know so much is that I already went back to '84 once. I met another Sarah there, who looked completely different from this one."
Andrew said, "After that, I intended to go to '97 to stop Judgment Day. But Skynet sent someone to '97 too, and our temporal disturbances collided. When I opened my eyes again, I was in this world.
"From the looks of it, this must be a Parallel World."
"A Parallel World? I suppose so."
The elderly Terminator nodded. His changes to history had caused a Parallel World to come into being.
Then the elderly Terminator pointed at the Battle Armor and asked, "What exactly is this? Skynet doesn't have