They both cocked their heads and listened. Trinity heard fighting and a gun going off. She turned to the sound but Neo grabbed her wrist before she could go anywhere. She looked at him and angrily flicked his grasp off.

"Trinity." His voice stopped her. "I don't know how long I can keep us here, in the Matrix. It takes a lot out of me. I have to act as the computer, I've loaded us up and now I must keep us running. It's very draining."

Her eyesight flickered and so did he. Suddenly she was back in the real world, sprawled on the cold, dark earth. She sat up quickly and looked at Neo, who was wrapped in the blanket a few feet from her.

"How'd you do that?" She whispered, curling her knees to her chest. He shrugged his shoulders as he crawled over to her and placed the blanket over her shoulders. She twisted around and looked at him, expecting an answer. He sighed.

"I really have no idea. I mean, I plug us in and do the work of a computer. I provide the simulation of the Matrix." He sighed again and Trinity noticed how tired he was. She grasped his head in her hands and smiled at him. His tired eyes looked into her and a sob caught in her throat. She placed his head on her lap and stroked his forehead.

"Sleep Neo." She said, trying desperately not to let the sob poke through her voice. Neo mumbled something that Trinity didn't catch but she smiled anyhow.

Neo fell asleep within seconds, this time leaving Trinity to think.

Her life had been turned upside down, ever since the Oracle had told her about her falling in love with the One. God, she could still remember the conversation...

"Hello Trinity." The Oracle's kind eyes surveyed the young girl in front of her. The Oracle knew of the hard life she had had, but she knew it was time to tell her. "You are here to...well you tell me."

17 year old Trinity was a hard girl. Her life had never been pretty and she had turned to computers at a very early age. She had wanted to hurt people as bad as they hurt her, so she had invented many viruses, hacked into and ruined computers, companies and learnt to fight. She was never mugged; they all knew her and knew that she could kick their asses. Then Morpheus contacted her. The Matrix.

"I am here to see you?" She attempted. She shook her head at herself. "No. Every new unplugged person sees you."

"Not quite dear." She replied, turning around and putting on some oven mitts and taking out some muffins from the oven. "Many decide not to see me."

"Oh." Trinity replied. The Oracle put the muffins down, took off the mitts and turned to Trinity, lighting a cigarette.

"Well, I will tell you this Trinity. You will meet the One." Trinity inwardly gasped. Everybody on the Neb knew about the One. That was what Morpheus lived for. To find the One. And she would meet him. "You will know he's the One Trinity."

"How?" She replied, scared of the answer. "I mean, I thought Morpheus would know."

"Trinity, Trinity, Trinity. You know why you are so afraid of trusting people?" The Oracle knew she had hit a nerve as Trinity stiffened in response. But she went on regardless. "You won't trust them. That is your problem. If you won't trust some one, how will they trust you?"

Trinity stood dumbfounded as The Oracle just read her like a book.

"How..." Trinity mumbled.

"You will not love some one; afraid of them hurting you, but all those boundaries you put up? Gone to dust as you meet the One." The Oracle gave a little laugh. "You will fall in love with him."

Trinity shook her head slightly and the tears that had been welling in her eyes fell. She looked down at the one man who had stripped away all the boundaries she had put up over her life, in a few weeks. God, it was hard. To love someone like Neo. He was special but he needed her, just as she needed him.

She tried to lay down without waking Neo, she knew how tired he was. Her eyes fluttered closed involuntarily and she struggled to keep them open. As her mind finally succumbed to sleep she shivered. But it wasn't with cold.

Here eyes darted across to where Tank sat at the computers, typing away furiously. He turned to her and asked what she wanted.

"A gun, god, I really don't care. And I need a laptop. I'm going to talk to him." She smiled and sat her head back. She felt a slight pain in the back of her head for a second and then nothing, as she found herself sitting at a small desk in an old, abandoned room in the 'Heart o' the City Hotel'. She picked up the phone and dialled.

"Cypher?"

"Yeah?"

"Is everything in place?"

"You weren't supposed to relieve me."

"I know, but I felt like taking your shift."

"You like him don't you, you like watching him?"

"Don't be ridiculous."

"We're going to kill him. Understand?"

"Morpheus believes he's the One."

"Do you?"

"Doesn't matter what I believe."

"You don't, do you?"

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Are you sure this line is clean?"

"Yeah, course I'm sure."

"I gotta go."

Click.

She jolted awake and immediately felt the presence of Neo was missed. She sat up quickly and glanced around in the darkness.

"Neo?" She whispered into the dark. It seemed to eat her words. She whipped her head around searching the darkness for any sign of Neo. She whispered more frantically. "Neo, where are you?"

After a few more seconds of searching, she gathered herself together and got up. She wandered a few feet until she figured that Neo probably wasn't that far away. Smiling at the thought, she sat down again and closed her eyes.

She tuned out the persistent thinking in her head and tried to hear all the sounds happening around her. Her breathing slowed gradually and she started to hear noises around her, she heard the mechanical whirrings of the human power plants far away, she heard the sound of thunder in the sky. Straining harder she heard the sound of someone approaching, Neo. The corners of her mouth curled up in a smile.

She waited till he was a few feet from her and her eyes flew open and stared at Neo.

"Jeez Trin, you made me jump." He replied, plopping down next to her and grabbing some of the blanket. She smiled at him and then frowned. Her stomach growled and she dry-wrenched. "Uh...I am so hungry. I never thought I would wish for a bowl of that horrid slop, but...no...still won't. I feel even worse thinking of eating that."

"Yeah I get that, but I'm hungry." He replied, shivering in the cold. "I really could go for a slop burger."

"No Neo, I mean..." She rolled over and vomited onto the ground. "Ah, I feel really queasy. I mean, I have never felt this sick before..."

Neo placed his arms around her shoulders and hugged her. "Maybe we should start to head towards Zion. We might meet Tank there and Morpheus too."

He smiled at her, trying to cheer her up. Her dark brown eyes stared at her and he knew that they would be okay. He was the...

"You hear that?" She whispered frantically shifting her body into a fighting pose, ready to jump up and fight. "Can you?"

"No..." He started to say to her, but as he listened closer, he heard the familiar rumble. He almost spat out the word. "Sentinels."

Neo stumbled up and grabbed Trinity's hand, dragging her up off the ground, and pulling her along. Tears caught in Trinity's eyes as she recalled all the times that the sentinels had attacked, all at terrible times in her life. She stumbled and Neo grasped her arm tighter. She chanced a look over her shoulder and cringed at the sight. A set of sentinels have flown into view.

"Neo." Trinity puffed out, tugging on his arm, pulling him towards the ruins of a building, jutting out of the ground. They ran behind it and cringed there, waiting for the sentinels.

With her back against the cold stone, she swung her head from side to side, looking for a way out of the situation. She tried to regulate her breathing but to no avail, her chest kept heaving, taking in deep, drawn out breaths.

Suddenly, a blurred body shot out of the ground, grabbed her around the mid-section, making her gasp in surprise.

Pulling Neo with her; she had forgotten to let go of his hand, her last thought before she succumbed to unconsciousness again was 'Hey Tank, long time no see'.