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This little drabble takes place during the very last fight between Neo and Smith in Revolutions after Trinity has died. Needless to say, this'll probably be a bit sad…
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I first felt her when I hit the water. When I was ready to give up. I was screaming inside. Screaming for everything I had lost and everything I was going to lose. There was no way to win. I knew that. He was too strong, too determined. But then she was there.
Get up, I heard her say. Fight, Neo. Fight.
Her voice broke through my turmoil and brought me back. I spit and saw blood. But I got up and faced my opponent. I was going to die either way. It was better to die trying than to die by giving up. To die for the good. I knew that I wanted to die, wanted to be back with her. Needed to be back with her. There was no way I could live now.
I felt her presence around me, feeding my hunger for vengeance and victory. She surrounded me, wrapping my aching body in her new wings.
You can do it, she said to me. Do what you have to do. I'm here.
And I did. I fought back against Smith. I know I startled him; he wasn't expecting me to come at him like I did. But he killed her. In a roundabout kind of way, he killed her. Took her away from me. She should have been there in the flesh, fighting beside me. She wasn't, though, and it was his fault. My misery was replaced with searing anger. I had nothing to live for now. That is, after all, the worst kind of enemy…a man who has nothing to live for.
From that point until the end I didn't feel any emotion. I had already accepted my fate. Already knew what was going to happen to me. I didn't care. I just wanted it to end. And still she was there, just behind me, whispering encouragement into my nearly deaf ears. She gave me strength I didn't know I had. She was gone and yet she was still there. I didn't question what was happening. I just grasped onto her voice in my head, her stunning strength flowing through my veins.
You know how to end this, so end it! End the war and come back to me!
All these words were more feelings than anything, but I knew she was speaking to me through those feelings. Her emotion drove me on. Her love, her anger, her pain, her frustration, her defeat, her solid resignation…it all filled me, replaced what I had lost.
And then it was over. I don't know how I did it. Everything was dark. And then I saw her. She was floating above me, holding out a hand. Her skin was glowing, illuminated by an inner light that shone around her. An angel. My angel. My Trinity.
Come with me…
I took that hand, the hand I knew so well. I grasped it firmly and let her pull me upwards.
It's over now, Neo. We're free.
She and I faded into that light coming down from above and never had I ever felt so blissful.
Free…
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