Author's alert:
1. I don't own these characters but I love Neo and Trinity and their unique love story.
2. This story includes adult contents so, if you don't like sexual explicit topics, please forgive me, but choose another story.
3. More love than action in here (like in The Matrix Resurrections after all) so, if you don't like it, again, please forgive me, but choose another story.
3. Unfortunately I'm not a native English speaker, so, please be patient with both grammatical and syntax mistakes.
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ANOTHER CHANCE
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Set just after Trinity and Neo's reunion on the Mnemosyne in The Matrix Resurrections
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Chapter 1 - Choice
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Silence. Cold. Dim light.
Trinity inhales sharply and her blue eyes open. They hurt despite the dim light of the ship... she haven't used them in sixty years. Her muscles ache and goose bumps appear on her white skin as the cold of the ship wraps her body. After having been in a sort of warm womb for too many years she literally feels like a newborn, meeting the real world for the first time. The second one, honestly.
She's conscious of the many people looking at her, the members of the crew, but her eyes don't stop to watch them, immediately turning to find Neo's instead. Their hands reach out to meet halfway, holding each other.
It's the last memory of her previous life. Neo's hand holding hers... his lips kissing hers.
Now, it's like filling all the missing years just with that holding, it's like grabbing on to life again.
Standing up and facing him... it's surreal... and yet so real.
Trinity's hand finds Neo's cheek, his hand her shoulder. He moves his hand on her arm savouring the feeling of her skin under the tip of his own fingers. For years he did the same, moving his fingers on his own thighs in an attempt to perceive reality, to distinguish it from his so-called hallucinations. Now he knows she is real under his hand. Real and back in his arms.
Their foreheads touch as they breathe the same air. Every sense telling to their still incredulous minds they are really back together.
"I feel you" She whispers just an inch from his mouth.
"I love you" He whispers back, closing that little distance and lightly touching her lips with his in a soft kiss.
Sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste. It is not his senses making fool of him anymore, it is not an hallucination, nor a dream... it's another chance.
"Neo"
Bugs's voice takes him back to a reality in which there are not just the two of them holding each other. Years earlier it had been Morpheus's turn to break their kissing on a destroyed Nebuchadnezzar.
Trinity's eyes meet Ellster's as the young woman puts a heavy blanket on her shoulders. She thanks her despite her voice comes again just in a whisper and lets Neo wrapping the blanket tighter around her body.
"You need rest. And being checked," the young black woman says.
Probably she's the medic of the crew. No plugs on her arms so she's born in the real world. That means she can't understand that feeling. It's like awakening from a coma... everything looks surreal and unknown... everything aches... but sensations are pushed at a so high level that it's like being on stimulant drugs. Trinity's going through that for the second time and she saw it so many times in the people she took from the Matrix. Resting is the latest thing she wants now, no matter if she knows she needs it. She wants answers that surely can't come from a medical examination. But she knows it's both part of her recovery and the woman's job. She isn't going to make things difficult.
"Whoa. I can't believe you did what you just did," Trinity's blue eyes meet Bugs' deep and dark ones
"Actually I can't believe you can stand either. Anyway, welcome on the Mnemosyne" Bugs says resting one hand on Trinity's forearm.
There's something she likes in the young captain. Resolution, determination, obstinacy and smartness, now mixed with the astonishment and curiosity, so typical of the youth.
Trinity's lips lightly curl up but she doesn't answer and just nods. She isn't used to be compliant, but her body is just still too weak and tired to give way to her own stubbornness.
She lets Neo wrapping her waist and helping her. The last thing she wants is to collapse on the floor with so many eyes watching.
"Thank you, captain" Trinity says finally as she feels Neo tightening the grip on her waist at her almost imperceptible loss of balance.
"Thank you for risking your life for us" Neo says giving Bugs a grateful look.
"You saved mine ten years ago. I suppose we're even"
Bugs smiles and he smiles back.
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Trinity pulls Neo to herself as soon as he closes the door behind them, leaning for support on the metal door with her back. Her legs still too weak to support the weight of her body for a long time. She can feel the trembling of her muscles for the effort and the shivering of her skin at the attempt to regulate her body temperature... and yet it's irrelevant compared to the quivering of her body at Neo's touch.
She needs him like she needs breathing and if she's going to collapse, well, it's fine, till it's going to happen in his arms.
Her hand finds his nape as she gets his head down so she can reach his lips. Their mouths find each other again in a slow deep kiss. Again it's like erasing all the missing years with a kiss...
Their eyes meet as they change the angle of their kissing. He can get lost in the blue of her eyes... it does not matter if there are light wrinkles around them.
"You're so beautiful"
"I'm not" she replies softly, despite the smile which plays on her lips
He kisses her smile and his hand cups her cheek, caressing it with his thumb.
"You certainly are" he whispers staring into her eyes and finding her lips again as his hand moves on her nape feeling the cold plug on there.
"You did it again" she whispers on his lips as soon as they separate for breathing meeting his questioning look "you saved my life"
He gives her a serious piercing look, his dark eyes melting in the blue of hers.
"You did the same, long time ago" he whispers in that so low tone that every time is enough to send a shiver down her spine "but you didn't just save my life... you are my life, Trin"
Her eyes close at those words, incapable of containing anymore the overwhelming of her feelings and he embraces her even tighter as she kisses his mouth again, then hiding her face in the side of his neck losing herself in his smell. She needs to feel him with all her senses.
A knock on the door awakens them again from that moment and Neo feels Trinity's body leaning more on his own as her knees give up to weakness. No matter if she can even flying in the Matrix, now concentration isn't enough to keep her standing up in the real world. He leads her to the bed, helping her to sit down before opening the door.
"Sorry," Ellster gives Neo a sort of apologetic look as soon as she meets his gaze, then glancing to Trinity and turning in her hands what looks like a saline bag.
He just nods and lets her in.
He watches Trinity taking off the blanket from her shoulders and laying down on the bed. As much as she doesn't like to show signs of vulnerability or weakness, it isn't definitely something she can hide this time.
"I really can't believe you can stand up" the doctor says helping Trinity taking off her clothes to check the trophism of her muscles.
"There was a lot of people who didn't trust me... us... doing a lot of things" Trinity meets Neo's stare before giving to the young woman a warm smile which erases the shade of irritation in her voice.
"But I heard you showed everyone how wrong they were" she says with an admiring look.
Trinity doesn't reply nor complain as Ellster checks her and connects the drip to her arm.
"I don't know how it is possible but your muscles are not wasted. You've been 60 years in that pod and you aged 20 at most. In a couple of days you'll be back at kicking asses. The captain is so excited, I've never seen her like this"
Trinity laughs at her words.
"I remember another captain as excited as her. But this time I could be her mother "
Ellster chuckles in turn.
"There are some things in this world that will never change. Some things do change. Our general's motto"
"Niobe?" Trinity's eyes suddenly meet Neo's and he nods.
She doesn't say anything but he knows what is in her mind. 60 years. Her eyes darken and she just nods when Ellster says goodnight, letting them alone again.
And Neo doesn't press the subject in turn, just laying down near her, wrapping her shoulders with one arm like he always used to do as she finds her usual spot on his chest. They're still the same, it doesn't matter if it's 20 or 60 years after. And he just waits for her to relax in his arms letting go to sleep or to whatever drug is in her drip.
When Trinity wakes up Neo isn't there anymore. She feels like having slept a week straight... maybe it's what really happened. She feels stronger or at least both goose-bumps and the quivering have gone. Muscle soreness is still there instead, but it's something she can handle.
She closes her eyes again, knowing she won't be able to go back to sleep though, and she doesn't move as the door opens very slowly in a clear attempt to be quiet despite the little squeaking of the metal.
Neo enters from the hall, carrying a tray of food, then he sets it down on the nightstand.
...I don't remember you ever bringing me dinner...
Cypher's words resound in her mind for an instant as she remembers herself saving food for Neo and bringing it to his bedroom after a very hard training day. She remembers being close to him and just watching him, passed out on the bed... she remembers breathing in the scent of him before slowly pulling away.
She feels Neo's hand pulling the blanket over her shoulders and watching her before, in turn, moving to leave.
"Role reversed?" Trinity whispers with a teasing smile as Neo turns and smiles back to her, then taking the hand she stretches out toward him.
He sits down on the bed and kisses her softly caressing her arm. The way he looks at her is almost painful... like he's afraid she can disappear at any moment.
"I promised you once, and I still do... I'm never letting go" she whispers as their fingers intertwine and he finds her lips again. His arm sneaks behind her neck and he wraps her shoulders pulling her to himself in a tight hug.
If it isn't for the fear to hurt her he wouldn't let her go... literally this time.
"Um... my plugs hurt like hell" She whispers as he lets go of her and gives her a knowing look.
He helps her to turn belly-down, looking at the sheet still covering her naked body.
"Are you trying to peek?" She teases as he smiles.
His hand moves slowly from her shoulders to her lower back in what is a caring and careful move, not a sensual nor sexual one.
He uncovers her back as his eyes linger on the redness of the skin around her plugs, so in contrast with the white skin he knows so well. He can't understand the connection between them but he can feel her... her pain turning in his, deep down in his lower abdomen.
His hands move on the aching muscles of her back as she turns her head to watch him out of the corner of her eye.
"Remember this?" He asked with a smirk, putting a medical lotion on her skin and carefully massaging her back.
Her mouth opens in surprise and she inhales like to say something, but no sound exits at first.
"Actually, you shouldn't remember" she says as his smirk turns in a naughty smile.
"I do"
"You don't" Trinity tries as his hands moves down to the last plug on her vertebra, lingering on it and taking his time to pay particular attention to the skin all around it. One finger moves a little down though tracing the line between her buttocks and she inhales sharply at that move. It is not a pain moan anymore.
Neo's hand doesn't go further on that line but it cups her buttock giving it a light squeeze which goes beyond just caring and careful.
"I don't remember taking advantage of you on that time" she says with a mischievous look turning her head more to have a better view of Neo "I just rubbed the lotion on your back, buttocks and legs... like I was instructed to do" she specifies with a chuckle.
"Yeah, but enough to make me hard, you First Officer" he makes fool of her as she rolls her eyes "Did it make you wet rubbing me, ma'am " He teases whispering in her ear.
"Maybe," She teases in turn this time rolling in the bed to face him, exposing her breasts to his view with that move "Not as much as I'm now" she unexpectedly whispers pulling him down to her and finding his mouth.
Her tongue erases every thought in his mind and for a few minutes he completely gets lost in her taste, her touch, her smell. She finds the rim of his shirt and leaves his mouth just for the time enough to pull it over his head, then looking again for his lips.
"Trin, we can't" he tries coming back to his senses. No matter how much he wants her, he isn't going to do anything that can hurt her still hypersensitive body "You need to..."
"Everything I need is to be one with you again" She whispers an inch from his lips taking his face in her hands, not that he is going anywhere anyway.
Neo, please.
There is no way he can resist the combination of those two words in the same sentence when they come from her lips.
They kiss again as he carefully moves on top of her and between her legs. It is a deep slow kissing turning in lovemaking... slow, attentive, careful and deep and sensual at the same time.
He doesn't leave her eyes as he enters her, so slowly she can feel every inch of him and he of her. But he stops as soon as she gasps at that overwhelming feeling. She has underestimated her still too sensitive senses, every nervous fiber is pushed to the edge by the littler stimulus. Her eyes roll back and suddenly close in what can be both pain or extreme pleasure.
Her hand presses on his buttock at his attempt to pull out, keeping him exactly where he is, and her eyes open again.
"Don't even try"
His eyes meet the dilated pupils in the blue of hers and her teasing smile, despite her clear difficulty in breathing properly.
"Oh my-" she gasps again tilting her head back and arching her back under him, digging her nails in the flesh of his shoulders as he moves just an inch out, then slowly pushing in her again.
He smirks this time, meeting her eyes again as her fingers release the grip on his back.
"Do you need a safe word?" He teases with a naughty stare.
"God, I love you so much" she whispers instead on his mouth.
"It's 6 words" he makes fool of her as she smiles and slaps his shoulder lightly "If it's too much, I can stop. It's ok, love" he says this time in a serious and soft tone, caressing her cheek with his thumb and kissing her lips.
The way in which she takes his lip in hers, sucking hard on it is a clear enough answer.
"You must be kidding" she whispers as soon as she frees his lip just to push her tongue beyond it and in his mouth.
She's the one to take the lead even if she's trapped between his body and the mattress. And her body moving under him is everything he needs to go beyond his fears.
It doesn't take long to him to push her to the edge and her orgasm triggers his. Their eyes meet as pleasure explodes into them like a detonation and they clang even more to each other. He curses being on a hovercraft and having to muffle her moans against the side of his own neck.
He doesn't move, not that he can actually. Her legs still wrapped around his waist so he can't pull out.
She smiles against his mouth and he smiles in turn.
"Not bad for a ninety years old" He teases kissing her one more time as she holds back a smile and slaps his shoulder. She frees her legs from his but he can clearly feel them trembling anyway. She is surely going to have cramps, no matters if she thinks it's worth it.
Again and always... it's a matter of choice.
"Now... how can I explain to the captain why I can't stand up anymore?"
Neo smiles at Trinity's smile.
She is his choice. Yesterday and today and tomorrow.
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