Happily Ever After
Neo looked at his children playing in the Matrix. It was kind of sad that they could not really play in the real world. He wondered what Burn was doing at the moment but put it out of his mind. They were not on the best terms lately because of his dreams. They had been happening for years now, ever since Trinity's death. Burn was sick of being a third wheel as she so charmingly put it. Especially to a dead women.
He turned his thoughts to his children, who's black hair shone in the sunlight. He sadly realized they looked nothing like their mother, they had a much stronger resemblance to the mother that would have been. If she had not been a crazy pshyco.
He signed and forced a smile as his youngest daughter Jenelle came up and showed him the lizard she had caught. He went throught the motions of amazement, but he was not really there. He kept falshing back to his past, and Trinity. How she had been when he first met her. God, she had been beautiful, and so full of life and attitude.
To bad she had not stayed like that. He remembered her repeatedly saving him. He remembered how he had fely when she had leaned so close to him that night at the club. He remembered, before facing the agent in the subway, the look in his eyes. And, he remembered her telling his dead body she loved him, and the feel of her lips. He had honestly loved her, to bad they had never consummated their love.
She was not ready for it in the beginning, and when she was ready, she had already changed. She was nol onger the woman he loved. So, after he rejected her, she made herself believe it had happened anyway. She believed this so strongly that she had honestly believed that she was pregnant with his child. To bad it had not been true, then he would at least have been living proof of who she had been. A memory of a love that could never be forgotten or over ridden.
Not that he had not tried, he tried with all his heart to really love Burn. But he could not, she just happened to be there at the right time, wanting him. He had hoped it would snap Trinity back to reality. But it had only driven her farther into insanity.
Now he ahd three children to show his unfaithful love to Trinity. The love that had driven her to her death. She had begged to see him in the end. He had come too, unknown to everyone, even her. He watched her in the night while she slept.
But he had never come to her in her waking hours and he blamed himself for her death. He thought that if he had come she may have had a chance to be salvaged. But after his affair with Burn she had honestly become pregnant and he could not face Trinity. So his own cowardice had killed Trinity.
That was when the tears started streaming down his face. He felt someone climb up into his lap and looked into the face of his oldest son, Jerry. Jerry was fice and was the ultimate punishment. He looked so much like Trinity it was almost unbearable. His children were his punishment for being unfatihfulo.
He hugged Jerry to him, and his son returned the hug, telling his daddy that everything was okay and that he loved him. Neo told his son that he loved him to, then he dropped to his kneew and hugged Jerry, gathering Jenelle and Jodie close also.
Neo did not know how long they stayed there on the ground., but when he looked up he saw it was getting dark and time to go home. So the children went to the phone and went home one by one ending with Neo.
***********************************Later That Day*******************************
After coming home and tucking his children in, he went in to find Burn in their room. She looked incredibly angry, why she was angry he was unsure of. She stormed towards him, almost immediatly after he entered the room. Asking him where he had been and why he had the children out so late.
He took a breath and calmly explained that he had taken the children to the Matrix to play and that he had lost track of time. She calmed down slightly and turned back towards the window, which had a great view of their ruined world.
She was silent then, as she had been for the past month and he finally knew that it was time. He breathed deeply and steeled himself. Then he told her that he wanted a divorce. She turned to him with tears in her eyes, saying that she knew this would come, back when she had tricked him with marriage. She knew she had just been an affair and she was not prepared to settle for that. But she guessed that he was right, they were not meant to be together adn neither of them were happy.
So Neo gave her one last hug and left a sobbing Burn to soothe herself. He figured she ould find another lost soul to love her. He then smiled and was finally happy again.
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