Wow, my first fic! (So please don't be too mean when you review, lol!) I apologise for the constant switching between 1st and 3rd person narrative – 3rd person is just the random narrator, 1st person is one of my new characters.

Disclaimer: Believe me, if I owned anything from the Matrix, I'd be having a lot more fun than this…

Other disclaimer: I know now that I'm not the first person to give Neo siblings – but I thought of it on my own before I read other stories using the same idea.

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Trinity sat staring blankly at the familiar falling green symbols, not taking any of it in. Morpheus came in quietly, and set a cup down next to her. He looked over at Neo, still lying motionless in his chair, eyes flicking back and forth beneath his eyelids.

His statistics were still the same - the same as they had been for a week. And it was obvious from Trinity's vacant expression that there was still no sign of him. She exhaled deeply and massaged her forehead.

"You need some rest," said Morpheus, laying a comforting hand on her shoulder. But she only shook her head.

"Someone has to watch for him." Morpheus sighed with a half-smile.

"You know it doesn't have to be you." She looked at the floor. "I thought it was Link who didn't trust me."

She paused and looked at him for a few moments, then slowly got up. He smiled and sat down.

Trinity moved over to Neo, and scanned the screen above his head. She knew there would be no change, but it had become a force of habit. She picked up his hand and held it gently. Where are you?

OoO

His disappearance had been very mysterious. They had been contacted by the Oracle, who had news for Neo. Naturally, he had jacked in with Morpheus, keen to find out what was so important. Trinity had been unconcerned, and wasn't even around when it happened, but Link was operating and watched it all.

Neo had been in and out of the Oracle's apartment uneventfully, and he and Morpheus were just setting off when something very strange happened.

The code blurred, jumped slightly, and then gave over to random symbols; the screens flickered and wouldn't display anything properly – not that there would have been anything worth seeing if they /had/ started working correctly. The code was jumbled beyond recognition, and Link lost the two companions instantly.

He tried everything he knew to rectify the situation, but nothing worked.

"Trinity! Come here, you gotta see this!"

As it happened, she had only been in the next room, and was able to appear before he had finished his sentence.

"What is it? What's wrong?"

Link looked over at her.

"It's the code…something's seriously messed up over here…"

"Is it?" She came closer, and peered at the various monitors. "I don't see anything." Link looked back, to find that the code had indeed returned to normal.

"What…?"

"And look – there's Morpheus, right there." Link followed where she was pointing.

"Oh yeah." Trinity shook her head, and began to walk away. Link, however, was not so easily satisfied.

"Wait…" He scanned the screens another time, without success. "I don't get it. Where's Neo?"

OoO

Morpheus got himself to an exit independently, but when he woke up it was clear that he was not his normal self. His eyes were wide, his breathing heavy and his cheeks flushed from exhaustion. Link quickly strode over.

"Okay, what the hell just happened there?"

Morpheus looked up, his eyes misted over with confusion and horror. He was obviously in no fit state to talk about what had just taken place.

It took 5 hours until he was, and even then, the details he could recall were few and far between.

"Did Neo tell you what the Oracle had said to him?" Trinity asked. Morpheus paused, as if searching for memories from a decade ago.

"He said it was 'exactly what he needed to hear'." Trinity and Link exchanged glances. That could mean anything.

They spent about an hour asking similarly direct questions and getting similarly vague answers, and by the end they knew very little more than when they had begun. It was hopeless.

Once he had slept, however, Morpheus began to recover quickly, and within two days was enthusiastically helping in the search for Neo. But his memory did not return with his health, and it hadn't come to anything.

OoO

Trinity brushed a stray strand of hair out of Neo's face, and sighed. Where are you? She thought again. Where have you gone?

Suddenly Morpheus jolted in his chair. Trinity, startled, spun round.

Morpheus' eyes were disbelieving as he read something on the screen. Trinity ran over.

"What is it? What have you found?" Her eyes flashed across the Matrix code, but Morpheus pointed to a different, smaller screen, displaying a message.

'You aren't the only people looking for Neo, you know. No - there are two people in the Matrix who are also trying to find him. And as it so happens/I/ am try to find /them/. If you can bring them to me, I can help you recover Neo. You'll know who it is I am looking for.'

They stared, stunned, then slowly looked at eachother. Trinity was the first to speak.

"Who is it from?" Morpheus tried to open the right menu, but the screen flickered and complained, and could only come up with a name, obviously a hacker alias. It could tell them nothing about where the message was sent from, and when Morpheus tried to send a reply, hoping the address would be displayed in the outbox record, the computer only whined even more. All they had was the short message, and the name of the sender. The name was Haroeris.

Morpheus shook his head. It was not a name he had come across before, and the chances of tracking whoever it was down were pretty slim after the performance the computer had just given. But it was something.

Trinity shrugged.

"I guess all we have to do now is figure out who he wants to find." She pulled up another chair and began to think, but Morpheus was already typing. She looked up.

"What are you doing?"

"I think I know who he meant."

-O-O-O-

Trinity tapped her fingers on the keyboard, waiting for the website to load. They had better be here. If they're not, I'll………no. No - if they aren't, they probably just didn't get my message.

She had visited this hacker circle before, and knew most of the people relatively well. When she entered the chatroom under the name 'Red Queen', she got a few signs of recognition.

She wasn't kept waiting for long. Almost as soon as she was in, a window in the corner of the screen informed those present that 'FireoftheSky has entered the chatroom'. She smiled to herself. It was them.