Dementors

Neo shivered he could see his breath as he leaned back against Smith, this should have been impossible. In the Matrix's green on black code, he could see the huge, all black, raggedly robed...things that loomed over them, but he couldn't see them in his regular sight. He had to admit it fucking terrified him, him, the One, the guy who could make the Matrix do whatever the Hell he wanted.

Images kept flashing in his mind over and over again - the first image of his mom screaming in agony as both her and their first house burned to almost nothing. Second, his dad's face bloody, twisted and filled with glass, dead, as he, then in highschool, cowered too terrified to move in the car accident that logically should've killed him too. Lastly, the pain as Smith was, reluctantly, shooting him to death in the Heart O' the City Hotel.

It was hard at the moment to remember why they'd gone to England. The reason to do...absolutely nothing and relax without either Smith's copies, his own captain, the dark-skinned Morpheus or anyone else interferring. At least, that'd been their hope, until they'd exited this pine forest and found themselves near the edge of a huge lake. Seconds after it'd started getting really cold and misty, then those things had appeared. Smith had told him to try making a firewall to keep the things out, it hadn't worked so he'd taken it down.

Behind him, the bright-blue eyed, six-hundred year old exiled Agent was whimpering, "No, no.", over and over again, like the baby he'd never been. If anything the fact this was scaring Smith, who was never afraid of any A.I. or exiled program because with all his copies who could beat Smith ?, was just making his own terror worse.

Neo found himself on the ground, sharp stones digging into his palms as he nearly blacked-out. There was a creepy rattling sound all around them now and he just wanted it to go away. Suddenly, something bright-silver was circling around himself and Smith, no, it was two things.

Two animals made of 'starlight' - one was a giant stag and the other was a...ferret ? Where were they coming from ? His vision flickered violently into and out of the code, in the glimpse he got he'd never seen any code like the 'animals' before, but somehow it was driving the things away.

Sighed in relief as the mist disappeared, but as it did so did the 'animals'. Just as suddenly the two boys he and Smith had rescued a few years ago were racing towards them; except that the boys were fully grown men now. Both the pale-skinned, blond who'd questioned Smith and the tan-skinned, black-haired man were slightly taller and more muscled, more importantly though they looked far wiser than before.

One thing though...why were they wearing robes that were even weirder than his cassock had been ? The gray-eyed blond was wearing a pair of long silver-green robes with a striking snake embroidered on it, while the bright-green eyed brunette was wearing long red-gold robes with a roaring lion.

Both of the men walked up to them, the black-haired man smiled and chuckled, "Fancy meeting you guys here. Right, Draco ?"

Draco nodded, but stayed silent this time. Despite the fact that he felt like crap right then, he couldn't help laughing. Smith replied, dryly, "Of course, we only happen to be in the middle of nowhere. What'd you think Neo is this a good spot for a rest ?"

"Oh, it's terrific, I'm dying with excitement, can't you tell ?"

Draco smirked, "Yes, because you look so excited that you're just bursting with joy. Harry do we have any chocolate for Neo and Smith ?"

Chocolate ? Why would they want chocolate now ? Oh, wait wasn't there something about chocolate and endorphins ? When Smith had first told him that because of Smith's drawl he'd thought that Smith had said, "...and dolphins.", before laughing his ass off.

Hey...wait a minute, Draco and Harry remembered them ? He'd thought they would've forgotten all about them by now.

Harry nodded, and the fringe that coverd his forehead swayed to reveal a lightning-bolt shaped scar, as he dug into a robe pocket to produce what looked like two, dark-chocolate colored, miniature...frogs ?

Found himself exclaiming/questioning, "You want us to eat frogs ?! Ah, thanks, but no thanks."

Smith had turned beside him to look at the frogs and murmured, "Well, I haven't seen those before."

"Wait, wait, everybody stop what you're doing ! There's something the mighty ex-Agent Smith hasn't seen ? Bah, that's impossible, what have you done with my Smith ? He's too arrogant to admit he hasn't seen everything."

Draco answered, holding a-a frog out to him, "Really, we swear they are chocolate and they're perfectly safe to eat. Harry and I have been eating them for years and you don't see us bouncing around like frogs. As for Smith, maybe somebody poly-juiced him, doesn't look like he'd taste bad really."

He'll be the first to admit it, he screamed like a little girl when the frog started moving. The frog also distracted him until the 'taste' part where he gave Draco a very confused look because it sounded like something out of those, very, odd books of mom's that dad'd let him read after she died.

Still, despite everything on this day of weirdness, he accepted the frog and, making sure not to look it in the eye because then he'd feel guilty forever, he ate it. When Smith had eaten his, Draco and Harry helped them up.

Harry held out a tanned hand to him, "Thanks for saving us all those years ago, Neo, Smith. I'm Harry, Harry Potter.", and he shook it.

Neo couldn't help but smile, "Don't worry about, I'm just glad you guys were here to return the favour. Neo, Neo...Anderson."

Smith, they pretended Smith had a first name which was 'Adrian', and Draco had done the same as himself and Harry. The pairs separated never to meet again, but never forgetting how they'd saved each others lives. In fact, when Draco and Harry adopted their first son, they called him Albus Neo Potter, while their second son was called Severus Adrian Malfoy.

Author's Note: Anybody feel nice enough to review ?