Trinity glanced at the code flowing down the screen one last time before
jacking in. No one was looking, so she allowed herself the luxury of a
small smile. This coppertop fascinated her, but she was not about to let
anyone else know that. Anyway, if they asked her what amused her, she
would have difficulty in explaining it.
He was asleep.
Stretched out in front of his computer, music beating in his ears. Asleep to both his non-reality and reality. And they would wake him. More correctly, she would.
Tonight was when they would begin the contact. When discussing who would do it, most of the others had been adamant it would be her task. After all physical attraction was probably the quickest way to catch the attention of such a loner.
Her smile widened slightly as she remembered the discussion around the mess table. Mouse had been convinced Neo, well, went for the guys, and had been as quick to say so. He'd even suggested that Cypher really should be the one to take tonight's mission. Switch in her sarcastic way started berating him, that just because someone lived alone and didn't need to bring someone home every other night did not make them gay. It just meant they were past being a hormone crazed teenager.
Dozer, ever thoughtful, interjected that he had just been alone so long, wrapped up in his computer world that he had forgotten about socialising in any respect.
Apoc agreed. He too had been unplugged late, though not as much as this target, and explained that the search for truth, for the answer to the question became the only thing necessary in life. Sex or even companionship didn't seem so important any more. Any social interaction just became an irritation, a distraction. That's why someone really stunning needed to go in and rouse him, he ended, grinning at Trinity.
It had looked as if Switch was going to slap him, but before anything like that could happen, Morpheus came in to hand out new orders. Trinity was left feeling slightly disturbed by the whole discussion.
She stopped smiling then. She knew that she would fall in love with this man if he was the One, if the prophecy was true. She was not even sure about that, though she still had more faith in it than the rest of the crew, bar Morpheus. They found it hard to go on believing after having seen the other possibilities dying. She believed more because she had not loved them.
Now she was losing her belief. She did not know if she was capable of love. She had become so hard, afraid of feeling anything much for anyone in case she was hurt. Perhaps waiting for someone, for a fairy tale prince, had stopped her from acknowledging true emotions. Perhaps it was the loss of so many crewmembers through their belief that they were something they were not. Perhaps she really just was the ice queen, that the other soldiers didn't know that she knew they called her.
Anyway, she was worried she wouldn't be able to love the one. And if it was this man, so isolated and awkward, she didn't know how she would be attracted to him. She was fascinated, but to be able to love him would require some warmth on his part.
He's also asleep sexually.
Morpheus came up behind her. "Are you ready?"
She turned and nodded. She knew what to do.
With your message waken him to consciousness.
With your words waken him to reality.
With your appearance waken him to you.
"You know what you're gonna do Trin?" Tank asked.
"Yes, jack me in."
Wake up, Neo...
He was asleep.
Stretched out in front of his computer, music beating in his ears. Asleep to both his non-reality and reality. And they would wake him. More correctly, she would.
Tonight was when they would begin the contact. When discussing who would do it, most of the others had been adamant it would be her task. After all physical attraction was probably the quickest way to catch the attention of such a loner.
Her smile widened slightly as she remembered the discussion around the mess table. Mouse had been convinced Neo, well, went for the guys, and had been as quick to say so. He'd even suggested that Cypher really should be the one to take tonight's mission. Switch in her sarcastic way started berating him, that just because someone lived alone and didn't need to bring someone home every other night did not make them gay. It just meant they were past being a hormone crazed teenager.
Dozer, ever thoughtful, interjected that he had just been alone so long, wrapped up in his computer world that he had forgotten about socialising in any respect.
Apoc agreed. He too had been unplugged late, though not as much as this target, and explained that the search for truth, for the answer to the question became the only thing necessary in life. Sex or even companionship didn't seem so important any more. Any social interaction just became an irritation, a distraction. That's why someone really stunning needed to go in and rouse him, he ended, grinning at Trinity.
It had looked as if Switch was going to slap him, but before anything like that could happen, Morpheus came in to hand out new orders. Trinity was left feeling slightly disturbed by the whole discussion.
She stopped smiling then. She knew that she would fall in love with this man if he was the One, if the prophecy was true. She was not even sure about that, though she still had more faith in it than the rest of the crew, bar Morpheus. They found it hard to go on believing after having seen the other possibilities dying. She believed more because she had not loved them.
Now she was losing her belief. She did not know if she was capable of love. She had become so hard, afraid of feeling anything much for anyone in case she was hurt. Perhaps waiting for someone, for a fairy tale prince, had stopped her from acknowledging true emotions. Perhaps it was the loss of so many crewmembers through their belief that they were something they were not. Perhaps she really just was the ice queen, that the other soldiers didn't know that she knew they called her.
Anyway, she was worried she wouldn't be able to love the one. And if it was this man, so isolated and awkward, she didn't know how she would be attracted to him. She was fascinated, but to be able to love him would require some warmth on his part.
He's also asleep sexually.
Morpheus came up behind her. "Are you ready?"
She turned and nodded. She knew what to do.
With your message waken him to consciousness.
With your words waken him to reality.
With your appearance waken him to you.
"You know what you're gonna do Trin?" Tank asked.
"Yes, jack me in."
Wake up, Neo...