Ask

Disclaimer: The song is recorded by Celine Dion. I own not the Matrix or any characters mentioned.

Ask

She was a little girl once. Hard to believe but true, although her childhood was rapidly outgrown and replaced by her discovery of the computer world.

Used to be that I believed in something.

But she was once a little girl. Not so different from others girls her age. Other than the fact that she displayed an unusual adult beauty. He could see her as a little girl, growing up, wishing to be a fairy princess who would find her Prince Charming.

Used to be that I believed in love.

She'd grown up.

It's been a long time since I've had that feeling

She'd become the Trinity they'd known and grown to love. Hard. Cold. Aloof even. And maybe a little bitchy.

I could love someone.

I could trust someone.

Beneath her cold façade, her heart had lain still, within a chamber of ice. No one could touch her, she would touch no one.

I said I'd never let nobody near my heart again darlin'.

I said I'd never let nobody in.

Until him. A simple request. A single word would melt her heart, free her soul.

But if you asked me to.

I just might change my mind.

And let you in my life forever.

And, in spite of herself, she wanted him to.

If you asked me to.

I just might give my heart.

And stay here in your arms forever.

If you asked me to.

If you asked me to.

She remembered the first time she watched him. The longing hope that uncontrollably surged every time she read and re-read that scrolling code. She'd spent her days and nights there, when she could, unknowingly becoming as dependent as was possible for her on this man.

The first time she laid eyes on him. In the matrix. He was.amazing. She'd never even met him before that, and yet she felt that she'd known him all her life.

Somehow ever since I've been around you.

Can't go back to being on my own.

Mixed feeling rushed back with the memory of his resurrection. Her confessed love.

He'd taken her into his heart, and she to him. And despite their dreary surroundings, with each other, they were home, here, in each other's arms.

Can't help feeling darling since I've found you.

That I've found my home.

That I'm finally home.

Memories of now forgotten promises, these that she had clung to all her life reminded her in a flash of her constant statement that she would never love. That her heart needed to fly alone. Free.

I said I'd never let nobody get too close to me darling.

I said I needed, needed to be free.

Staring into his deep pools of chocolate brown, she could have wept at the beauty of it all. She needed to be sure, needed to know he needed her like she did him. Needed to know he wanted her, wanted her love.

But if you asked me to.

I just might change my mind.

And let you in my life forever.

If you asked me to.

She needed to trust him before she could surrender her heart. If it hadn't already surrendered for her. Trust. She had to know, had to trust him not to break her heart.

I just might give my heart.

And stay here in your arms forever.

If you asked me to.

If you....

Her breath came slowly. "Ask me."

Asked me to, I will give my world to you baby.

I need you now.

Ask me to and I'll do anything for you baby, for you baby.

"Love me."

Her tears washed away all the pain, the sorrow. His love melted the ice, and her heart beat. And she loved. Him. The One.

If you asked me to.

I'd let you in my life forever.

If you asked me to....

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