Hey everyone. I haven't written in a while, but inspiration just came to me in the middle of the night so I decided to write this. Basically, it's everything from Cypher's point of view.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Matrix. Some of it is based on the transcript of the 96 draft of the Matrix. Just about everything else aside from the dialogue from the movie I made up.

I sat in that fucking room for about 2 hours watching this guy, Neo. Sounds like neon. Like the lights. Haha. Well anyway I was watching him. The guy was pretty boring. I saw him leave work at 5:01 and catch the northbound Howard line and get off at Sheridan. He stopped at a 7-11. He bought a six pack of beer and a box of captain crunch. Damn I wanted some beer. All I had to drink was Dozer's shit, and though it was good shit, it was still shit as far as I was concerned. Real or not, a beer looked real good at the moment. I watched as he walked to his tiny apartment and helped his land-lady take out her garbage. I started wondering "Why are we interested in this loser?" Then I watched him hack into computers with amazing skill. He could get through just about any computer's mainframe effortlessly. "Oh." I thought. An hour or two later, he went to bed. I sat there watching him as he slept. It was so boring. I began to fall asleep myself.

"You wanted to see me, Mr. Reagan?" asked the agent in his monotone of a voice.

"Can you plug me back into the Matrix?" I asked the agent.

"I'm not sure." He said.

I looked at him with disappointment in my eyes. "Now what?" I thought. "What ship are you from?" he asked, clearly reading my mind.

"The Nebuchadnezzar." I replied.

"That is Morpheus's ship. Is it not?" He asked.

"It is." I said.

The agent silently sat there for a while as though in thought. Finally he said

"I suppose a deal can be made…"

I awoke from my sleep, hearing my phone ring. I picked it up.

"Hello?" I said.

"Is everything in place?" I heard Trinity ask on the other line.

Upon hearing her voice, I pressed a button that signaled to the agents to start tracing the line. I didn't want to hurt Trinity. Anyone but her. She was so beautiful. But I desperately wanted…no needed to get back into the Matrix. I couldn't take it anymore.

"You aren't supposed to relieve me." I said confused.

Honestly I was glad she had come to relieve me because I was so bored, but I knew she hadn't come to make me happy.

"I know, but I felt like taking a shift." She said.

The hell she did.

"You like him, don't you? You like watching him?" I said jealously.

"Don't be ridiculous." She said.

I don't know which one of us she was trying to convince, but I sure as hell wasn't convinced at all. I tried to reason with her.

"We're going to kill him. Do you understand?"

"Morpheus believes he is the one."

No shit. He'd been feeding us that bullshit for months just like he had with all the others before they died.

"Do you?" I asked.

"I…it doesn't matter what I believe." She answered me.

That's not what she was going to say originally.

"You don't do you?" I said.

I heard a tiny popping noise that told me the trace was complete. I wasn't the only one that heard it.

"Did you hear that?" She asked.

"What?" I said, attempting to play dumb.

"Are you sure this line is clean?" she asked.

Well not exactly, but that's not what I told her. All I said was

"Of course I'm sure."

"I better go." She said.

And with that, she hung up.

I exited the Matrix and, once back on the ship, went into my room, if you can call it that. All it was was a tiny little hole in the wall with a door. I fell asleep on that tiny little plank sticking out of the wall most considered a bed. Damn I hated this "real" world. It took me a long time to fall asleep on that thin little mattress. It was so uncomfortable. At least they could have given us decent beds so that on the rare occasion we found some time to sleep, we'd actually get to sleep. I tossed and turned and after what seemed like hours, I finally managed to fall asleep. I dreamed of the day I was "freed."

"This is your last chance." Morpheus said. "After this there is no going back. Take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

Curiosity getting the better of a 12 year-old version of me, I began to reach for the red pill. All of a sudden, Morpheus said

"Remember: all I am offering is the truth. Nothing more."

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" I wondered as I took the red capsule and gulped it down with the glass of water that was conveniently placed beside me.

The second I finished drinking down the water, Morpheus made a grin that strikingly reminded me of the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland. "Follow me." he said…

Sorry to leave you guys hanging there. I'll update pretty soon though. Please review everyone. Constructive criticism is welcome. However, "you suck" does not qualify as constructive. If you think this sucks this sucks, you have two options: 1) tell me how this story sucks so I can improve it next chapter or 2) not read it.