Okay, so this is my first Matrix fan fic (that i ever put up and that wasn't terribly bad...I think anyways) and I'd love your advice and such. Constructive criticism please. If you have any complaints or comments, don't be horribly rude. I accept bad reviews but only if you aren't a jerk. Anyway, I really hope you guys like it!

Oh yes, I don't own anything here. Warner, Wachowski, Copyrights. yada, yada, yada- You all get it.

Neo woke in pitch blackness. He was sitting up; now afraid he had woken the love of his life, Trinity, for the fourth time this week. Although it wasn't his fault… he couldn't control the dreams he had. He looked over at Trinity. He obviously hadn't woken her if she kept her soft, even breathing; unlike Neo's fast and heavy breaths. Well, since I'm up… he thought as he carefully lifted himself over Trinity and stepped onto the cold, metal ground. He walked across the room to the crib where his young daughter started to cry. He lifted up the girl and lightly bounced her, hushing her at the same time. Neo realized that his second-long yelp and the darkness of the room had woken the light sleeper up. He couldn't blame her for waking up for she was only a one and a half years old. He turned on a faint light that produced a soft blue glow that seemed to have calmed the baby down. After several minutes, she was fast asleep just like she had been before. He set her back down in the crib and carefully turned the wheel on the door, trying to be as silent as possible. He leaned against the closed door for a minute, squeezing his eyes shut. He covered his eyes with his hands, rubbing them awake, thinking about the dream he had –his lover and child's death caused by the machines of the war. Neo sighed and stood up straight, heading towards the mess hall.

He grabbed a mug from the cabinet and held it under the faucet, waiting for the clear liquid to come out. He went to sit down at the table when the wheel of the door squeaked and spun open. Trinity walked through the door with their baby cuddling with her light blue shirt against her chest. She greeted him with a 'hi' and he returned it with a smile that quickly faded. He was obviously still too upset to talk… even with her. Neo set the mug down onto the table and took the baby from Trinity as she reached into the back of one cabinet to reach for the dry baby formula. While she was mixing the formula with warm water, Neo was holding the baby on his lap, mindlessly playing her dark hair while thinking of a way to tell Trinity about his nightmare. He had decided that even if he didn't want to talk much about it, she could only help him feel better. And of course, she did. He had told her the story: the machines were after him, her, and the baby. Trinity was running behind Neo with the child when the sentinels caught up to them and took Trinity and the baby with their metallic tentacles, but left Neo to run. Except what frightened him the most was that he had not seen what happened to them. He had only heard their screams as they were being taken away.

When he had finished telling her about the dream, she wiped the worried look off her face to put on a reassuring smile. "Neo," she said to him using her quiet but confident voice. "You have to stop worrying yourself. Lily and I will be fine." Neo only nodded and looked down at Lily on his lap.

- - - -

He had never truly known their reason to name the baby Lily. While Trinity was pregnant, they hadn't been sure of what names would suit their daughter –or son for as little as they had known at the time. But when the doctor had told them it was a girl and cleaned her up, wrapped her in a faded pink blanket and handed her to Trinity, she looked into the baby's bright blue eyes she whispered 'Lily' and they decided on that.

Neo had never expected to have children –or child for now…- but he or anyone else ever dared to call Lily a 'mistake' or an 'accident'. Truthfully, he had been terrified of what would happen to him, Trinity, and the baby until the council had agreed to let all three be aboard the ship after Lily and Trinity were settled in Zion for at least three months.

It had come as a surprise to everyone when they found out she was pregnant. First of all, Neo wasn't one hundred percent sure if they could conceive or not and no matter how close they were, he never felt comfortable asking her questions like those. He still remembered exactly how she told him the news, too. It was several days after they left Zion. Apparently, Trinity had taken some home-pregnancy tests from Cas, one of their close friends and also a mother of two children-Dozer's children. She had decided to use them on the ship soon… when she had enough courage. Neo noticed Trinity had been acting strangely. When he had asked her about it, she had simply stated that it was nothing and would kiss him gently on his lips. Neo hadn't been convinced but he trusted her enough to believe what she had told him. The following day they had changed in their room. Trinity went to the bathrooms to take a shower as she figured it would be enough time for the pregnancy test to work.

He clearly remembered her walking back into the room. She couldn't hide her emotions this time. Neo could see the look on her face –the sad, fearful look that broke his heart. He didn't immediately ask her what was wrong but instead stood from the bed and walked over to hug her tightly. He rubbed her back in soothing circular motions as he asked her what was wrong. Not five seconds later, his undershirt was wet with her tears. Suddenly feeling like the worst man alive by making her cry like that, he continued rubbing her back but now started to hush her and whisper to her. "It's okay, Trin," he would say. Her sobs quieted down and she then pulled back just far enough so she could see his face. She shook her head so lightly, she wasn't even sure if he could see it. But she went on. Her voice cracked as she started speaking but she knew he would have to find out sooner or later.

"Umm… Neo… I" This is a lot worse than I thought. "I'm pregnant… Neo." She bit down on her lip. This was a well known habit of hers when she was nervous. She felt the calm rubbing on her back stop. Trinity was so nervous she held her breath until Neo showed one sign that he hadn't been petrified right there. For just another moment, Neo was silent. He had then taken a deep breath and spoke to her. "Oh. Well, umm." He paused for a moment then spoke more confidently. "We'll get through it. Don't worry. We'll get through it." He repeated. He took her hands and led her to the bed. They both lied down together, Trinity still crying silently. Neo still held her hand but let the other slide up to her burning cheeks. Lifting his head, he pressed his lips softly against hers. He had purposefully kept theirs together longer than necessary in attempt to help her know he was truly okay with it. It worked, for the most part, and she calmed down a lot. He lifted his lips from hers and touched the skin from beneath her undershirt. He put his lips to the skin right above her belly button. He kissed her stomach in such a way that they both knew Neo wanted to have a baby more than anyone else did.

- - - -

As Neo was still deep in his thoughts, he started to think about the slowness in the Matrix. They haven't had any word from the Oracle, meaning they couldn't do anything to help end the war. Of course, they still had gone into the Matrix a few times a week to keep things under control with agents and to keep their eyes locked on one particular person who may be ready to be unplugged. Aside from the fact that the ending of the war wasn't being helped, days off from the Matrix were always relieving; especially for Neo and Trinity. They had known it was awful to leave Lily with their operator while he had to focus on the three of them in the Matrix. Usually they weren't in for too long but when they were, it wasn't good. But they could easily make it up to Lily by simply playing with her for just a few minutes. Neo was still organizing his thoughts when he was interrupted.

"Neo." He looked up, surprised by the tone of Trinity's voice. It wasn't urgent or irritated nor was it calm, but somewhere in between all three. He had then realized that Lily's bottle was ready to be fed to her. He didn't know how many times she had said his name before he answered with a low 'sorry'.

The room was silent –with little interruptions from Lily's cooing in between her sips of formula- until Morpheus came in.

"You three are up early." Morpheus said.

Trinity looked up at Morpheus, fixing himself breakfast at the counter and replied by only saying "Likewise."

Morpheus heard the coldness in her voice, and by her tone he decided to say nothing else. As he walked back to the metal table and benches with his bowl and spork, he smiled back at Lily and took a seat at the other end of the bench Trinity was sitting on. He had begun chewing on his food when he thought of the news he had received just a half hour before. After he swallowed, he spoke up. "We'll be arriving in Zion about four hours from now. The council has to speak to you." Neo immediately looked up to see who he was talking to but only found Morpheus to be looking down into his food and Trinity wondering the same thing as Neo.

"And by 'you', you mean…?" he asked.

"Both of you actually."

"What? Why?" asked Trinity, just as confused as Neo was.

"Not sure." And at that Morpheus left it. He got up, washed his dishes, and exited the other way, fast enough so that by the time they had something to say he would already be out of the room.

A/N: (...again...yeah, you'll be seeing a lot of these!) Continued? Yes it is. Please review. It always makes my day (and makes me all happy and fuzzy inside!) and when I'm warm and fuzzy, it makes me want to upload again. Plus, it puts me in a good mood.