Plan

Lucy blinked awake and pushed blond-hair out of her face, before crawling out of her bedroll. It was late morning and the sky was clear and bright as ever. Mina sat on the dirt at the fire re-heating breakfast, Gabrielle would dig herself out of her temporary grave soon enough.

'I see our boys are busy, I wonder how Jonathan and Vlad are taking this trip. They seemed excited to see the different constellations again, last night.'

Quincey and Arthur were splashing around in the stream with Jonathan as Vlad stood in the shade of a tree. Varcolac in human form lay on the bank watching the others have fun.

Dr. Seward and Prof. Van Helsing had started heading back to Quincey's ranch yesterday night, it would take two nights and a day to reach it. For the rest of them, they would be leaving in the early evening. It was so peaceful here, she didn't really want to leave.

End Dream

Persephone moaned in pain as she woke up and her ribs ached terribly where she'd been kicked. 'Of course, that damned ex-husband of mine would start kidnapping us. If only the Twins had been more loyal to me than Merv, this never would have happened...probably.'

She looked beside herself at Jack, while she was awake and only manacled, the blond man was still unconscious and not just manacled, but also shackled to the dark-gray stone wall.

How she wished that the others would come and find them, but, of course, that had been made as hard as possible. 'If only Varcolac and Vlad were here. Surely they could find us or Neo. I wonder is Neo still terrified of telling Smith how he feels ? The poor boy thinks it will never be returned.'

"Just like Quincy told me he felt with Arthur. It was so romantic when they finally got together wasn't it ? Oh how I wish we could see Neo and Smith's."

'That would be quite the thing, even better than Quincey and Arthur. I think Quincey and Neo are the same, they have remarkably similiar backgrounds being from middle-class families, they've both fallen in love with men who they're sure won't love them back and both of those men happen to be from 'fancier' sorts of backgrounds or, at least, look like it.'

"It would be quite a nice thought if everyone knew each other before we realized who we are. Persephone do you think they'll find us ? I mean if Neo and Smith worked together it would be an even better chance of their finding us than just Vlad and Varcolac."

All she did in response was nod and then the door opened to reveal her ex-husband. The graying-black haired program laughed, "If you are 'oping for your dear friends Quinzey 'nd Arthur to zave you, you should know zat Smith won't be around too much longer, zo Arthur is going to die. And vell, poor Quinzey and Neo von't know what zu do wizout zhem."

"Do you really think you can kill one of them without the other coming back ? Do you forget that we're in the Matrix and they happen to be major parts of it ? Your plan whatever it is isn't going to work."

The Merovingian walked and then leaned in to grab her face tightly and ask, "O vhyever not ? Ef I kill Smith and zan I 'ave zat Mason killed I get Neo all zu myzelf. Et soundz like a perfect plan."

In response, she slammed her forehead into his and growled, "It's a stupid plan and I will laugh when it gets you deleted."

Her ex-husband snarled, turned and stalked out to slam the door shut. Beside her Jack's chains quivered slightly, then the man burst out laughing, "Oh, oh I hope I get to see that. It would so worth it to see that jackass get ripped apart by everybody else. Do you know who that Mason guy is ?"

"No, you don't suppose he could be related to that Mason who was one of Quincey's ranch-hands do you ?"

Jack shrugged, "I don't know, but if that guy wants Neo and if Neo is Quincey... then since we got reincarnated, why couldn't that Roanoke guy who was jealous of Arthur be reincarnated too ? This could get bloody if everybody's going to be fighting over Quincey/Neo."

Sighed as she nodded before resting her head back against the wall. Finally, the door opened again and the food arrived. 'Our plan get out of here when my ex's plan fails and explodes spectacularly in his face.'