"I don't know how I was ever attracted to him." Trinity practically yelled
the moment she and Neo enter their quarters.
"Me neither. Didn't the Oracle prophesize you loving the One?" Neo asked.
Trinity glared at him before responding.
"Yes, but that doesn't mean I didn't try to prove her wrong. Trinity the soldier would never feel, never mind love a man. I was always the tough, unfeeling person on the ship, but Ghost could just get under my skin and in a way that I liked. By having a relationship- if that's what you would call one-night stands every time we got back to Zion- with him, I thought I was proving the Oracle wrong. But then, one day, Morpheus came to me and asked me to watch over a new person he was thinking of unplugging. I agreed, and fell in love with the coding that was so distinctly Thomas A. Anderson's. I didn't really know how I felt about you, until I met you at the club."
"Yeah, me too. But I didn't know it then. All I knew was how enthralled I was. You mesmerized me."
"What mesmerized you?" Trinity asked, the hint of a smile playing over her smooth features.
"Three things, I know for certain took hold of me. Your silky voice tickling my ear, your body pressed close against mine and just, your body." Neo smiled.
"My body?"
"The whole package." Neo responded, moving to kiss her neck. Trinity, however, had other plans.
"So your saying, you were more interested in my body than me?" She asked, pushing Neo back.
"Trinity, I had never met you before, my life was turning upside down, and you were in a tight-fitting, leather outfit. Please, I'm a man, and I'm only human."
"Sure. That's what they always say." Trinity laughed, pulling Neo towards her.
"Uhhh, Morpheus? Niobe? I think I found something that may help us. Then again, getting it won't be fun." Link popped his head into the two-bed captains' quarters.
"What is it?"
"Well, there's this virus I've found inside the Matrix. Hidden. And well, it's being held and it's very well hidden. But it could help us greatly if we get it."
"What makes you say that Link?" Niobe inquired.
"Well, if taken from it's hiding place and then repatched into the system, we could destroy hundreds of thousands of Sentinel programs. Also, it could help shut down whole system areas of agents."
"So what your saying is that this virus works against the machines? Who would make such a thing inside the Matrix?" Niobe asked.
"I can think of someone." Morpheus quietly stated.
***
"Look, I don't want to do this either, but she is the only person-"
"Machine." Trinity interrupted.
"-Program that can help us." Neo finished.
"I will not allow you to be alone with that, that woman, dammit!" Trinity persisted, tears pricking at the back of her eyes.
"He won't be. Niobe, you and I will go in with him." Morpheus pointed out.
"Do you remember what the trade was last time?"
"Yes." Morpheus answered.
"Well, what makes you so certain she won't want something more this time?"
"We aren't. Trinity," Neo glanced at the others, a glance asking for privacy. When they were alone, Neo continued.
"I love you. Nothing will change that. But we need this virus, the coding for it, and in order to get it from Persephone, if I have to-"
"Stop. I know. But I can't help thinking she's taking you away from me."
"You'll never lose me. My heart is yours. Always."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"All right. Let's go- before I change my mind."
*** Morpheus approached the guards calmly.
"What do you want?" the shorter and fatter one asked.
"To see Persephone."
"And just why do you think we'll let you?" Shorty asked.
Neo stepped forward.
"Just tell her that Neo is here." The guards flicked glances before one left.
Trinity looked at Neo through her glasses, if he only knew how much this is eating me up. The guard came back, looking a little worse for the wear.
"Alright, but only leather girl and Neo can go in. You and the other woman are to stay here." Shorty answered.
"This way." The second goon motioned for Neo to step forward.
"So, to what do I owe this special treat?" Persephone purred once Trinity and Neo had entered.
"You have something we want." Trinity stated.
"A virus. One that attacks the machines and programs." Neo continued.
"And what do I get in return?" Persephone asked, her eyes bouncing from one to the other.
"What do you want?" Neo asked, trying to keep calm.
"Ooooh, I can just feel the storm raging inside of you by having to ask that question." Laughing Persephone strode toward the guards, "Leave us until I call for you."
"Now, let's see. I want a million things without a care for any of them. And yet, I do want to understand the love you two have. However, I do know that by asking for another sample will most likely get me killed, I'll choose something different." Persephone walked towards the pair.
Trinity stepped forward, her arm brushing against Neo's while her facial features expressed a "you touch him, I kill you" look. Persephone merely laughed at the sight.
"Woman. Trinity is it?" Trinity nodded slightly. "I do not wish to touch, nor kiss your man. However, I do want to see the fire between you that I only felt for a few seconds."
"What are you asking?" Neo demanded.
Persephone pushed open a pair of extremely decorated doors, revealing a plush bed, candles, and a few cameras surrounding the room. As the pair stepped forward, unsure of just what would happen here, Persephone stated,
"I want to see you love her. I want to understand."
Neo looked at the mirrored lenses that blocked out Trinity's blue eyes. The hand that gripped his was the only answer he got.
"Fine." Neo answered.
"All right then. I'll leave. The cameras are what I'll use to see." Persephone smiled seductively and left, closing the doors behind them.
"This is different. Not at all what I was expecting." Trinity deadpanned.
"Well, I think it's better than having to do this with her." Neo responded.
"Definitely." Trinity moved away to take off her glasses and her boots. She heard Neo do the same, but before she turned around, she felt his warm lips touching her neck.
"This isn't real." Trinity mumbled, turning her neck and body to push into him more.
"And yet, we don't have much choice."
"Let's just hope Link isn't watching.
"Oh, I know he is. He has to."
"Great, this will be the third time he's seen this."
"At least this time it's in coding." Neo stated, silencing the conversation with another kiss to her neck.
"Are all the cameras working?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Good. Leave. Now." Persephone turned to the men in the camera room, and watched them run out. Persephone sat down and after a few clicks of the keyboard, had the 7 cameras that were on in Trinity and Neo's room in front of her. A smile played on her lips at the site of Neo slowly unzipping Trinity's outfit.
"My God, are they getting it on in the Matrix? While on a mission?" Ghost asked, gripping the back of Grace's chair.
"Back off. Now." Link looked at Ghost, watching him retreat to his quarters before turning back to the screens.
"Why do you think they're doing that now?" Grace asked, eyes never leaving the screen.
"If there's one thing I know about Trinity and Neo, it's that they prefer to do this in reality, not their minds. Where it's real. Something must be up if they're doing it there."
"Call Morpheus."
"No. He doesn't need to know what they're up to." Link answered.
"Fine. I'll go get us some water. Try to give them a little privacy?" Grace asked, leaving her chair.
"It's just coding." Link responded with a shrug.
"Well, their heartbeats and brainwaves aren't. And I know you can read those from there." Grace nodded in the direction of Neo's chair, where his vital statistics had become faster.
"Fine. Five minute break, I'll stare off into space." Link concluded.
"Good. They don't need anyone prying in on them right now."
"This feels weird." Trinity mumbled.
"Try to ignore the cameras. The sooner this is done, the faster we get that virus." Neo responded, standing inches from her.
"Oh? So you don't want to do this?" Trinity allowed the edge in her voice to ring clear as she began to slowly zip up the front of her suit. Neo hadn't gone far before they stopped to adjust to the situation they were in.
"No. I mean yes. I mean.Look, you and I both know that we prefer this in the real world, but right now, doing this is what'll get us ahead of the machines. It's not that I don't want to do this, you know I do, it's just that it's harder since I know it's not real."
"Neo, I understand. All I said was that it feels weird to do this in front of, well, HER."
"She's not IN the room, that's a plus. Just silent cameras." Neo tilted his head to one said, a small smile playing at the sides of his lips.
"Joy, I'm being videotaped for the porn-loving men of the Matrix. I feel so much better now." Trinity drawled out sarcastically.
"Trin." Neo moved towards her. One step. Another step. Neo leaned his head down towards her ear. "Trinity," Neo breathed, his breath against her neck causing hairs to stand on end. "No more words." Trinity was about to object, fully enjoying their sparring of words when Neo's lips met her neck. Bracing herself against the table she had placed her glasses on earlier, Trinity allowed Neo to push her down slightly as his kisses became more intense, and moved upward. Sighing into his mouth, Trinity captured his lips with her own. Well, Persephone wanted a show. She's going to get one. Just to illustrate to her what she will never have.
Trinity deepened the kiss as she tangled one hand in Neo's hair, and moved the other down his chest, unbuttoning his jacket slowly. Neo pulled away from her long enough to allow the flowing garment to slip to the floor, revealing a tight black button up shirt underneath.
"So many buttons, so little time." Trinity whispered, licking playfully at Neo's ear.
Trinity's lips created a river of fire as her kisses slipped down his neck and then back up again, only to be met fiercely. Neo picked Trinity up enough for her to wrap her legs around his hips and proceeded to carry her to the bed.
Trinity pulled on each of Neo's buttons, quickening the pace as the need for skin on skin began to overpower them. Neo's hands found the zipper again and, upon allowing Trinity to slip off his shirt, almost tantalizingly slowly pulled the zipper down. Down between her breasts, down her abdomen, down to her navel and just below-where the zipper ended. Getting the outfit off of her was a chore neither of them wanted, but proved to be a great mood setter, for when their lips met finally afterward, the fire was burning all the brighter. Neo lost all sense of power and control in the sleek, ivory contours and curves that were so uniquely Trinity.
As the last remnants of clothes were shed, Trinity forgot about the cameras, forgot about the Matrix, forgot about the virus. She forgot everything but the reactions Neo was receiving from her. Hot, cool, soft, hard, wet and moist- all a crazy swirl of sensations. Neo moaned into her neck as she dragged her fingernails up his back, pulling him into her more. Neo quickened his movements as he felt Trinity begin to become controlled by the cravings of her body. Trinity arched her back and pulled Neo's lips down to hers at the same time, reveling in the fire he created by sliding his hand up her side to her neck.
Persephone smiled, amazed at the passion between the two despite being in the Matrix. She watched, shocked as Neo huskily called out Trinity's name as he climaxed and proceeded to collapse on top of her. The shock that these two tough fighters could be seen as gentle and passionate about one another was enough for Persephone to believe that maybe the machines were in the wrong. Watching Trinity stroke Neo's back as his breathing returned to normal was enough to prove that she had nothing she ever believed she had. No, this fighter, this freed slave, this human woman had more than she ever could have dreamed of. She had love, pure and free.
"Well, I think that went well." Trinity mumbled into Neo's ear. Neo slid off to the side of her, allowing himself to get caught up in the soft blankets. He pulled a few up far enough to cover himself before sliding closer to Trinity and proceeded to pull her thigh over his legs.
"Very well." Neo commented as he stroked her thigh.
"Oh no you don't. What we just did should be enough for her." Trinity gently scolded, trying to stop Neo's persistent movements.
"So? Does that mean we should stop?" Neo asked turning his brown eyes towards her blue ones.
Before she could comment however, Neo kissed her lightly on the lips and pulled her into his embrace. Something she willing allowed, sliding her hand over his chest and resting her head in the hollow of his shoulder.
A few minutes later, before either of them could fall asleep, the doors swung open, revealing Persephone's lithe body slinking in towards the bed. Neo made no move to hide their nakedness, nor did Trinity, knowing that Persephone had most likely seen that already.
"Thank you. I learned more than I thought I would today. Here's the key to an airport locker in the closest airport from here. Number 103. It was of my own personal choice. The virus is to be found in the form of a disk. It can be transported from the Matrix to the construct program of your head computer on your ship. Just carry it with you in your pocket. When you are put back into the construct, it will be there in your pocket. What you do with it from there is your own choice." Persephone smiled with a look that expressed sorrow. Who knew what she couldn't have because of the way the machines programmed her?
"Thank you." Neo nodded, smiling briefly.
Persephone nodded and left. Before closing the doors, she added, "The man that brought you up here, Rufus, he will wait for you to dress and will lead you back downstairs." The doors shut and Trinity hoped that would be the last time she ever had to look at Persephone's face.
"Me neither. Didn't the Oracle prophesize you loving the One?" Neo asked.
Trinity glared at him before responding.
"Yes, but that doesn't mean I didn't try to prove her wrong. Trinity the soldier would never feel, never mind love a man. I was always the tough, unfeeling person on the ship, but Ghost could just get under my skin and in a way that I liked. By having a relationship- if that's what you would call one-night stands every time we got back to Zion- with him, I thought I was proving the Oracle wrong. But then, one day, Morpheus came to me and asked me to watch over a new person he was thinking of unplugging. I agreed, and fell in love with the coding that was so distinctly Thomas A. Anderson's. I didn't really know how I felt about you, until I met you at the club."
"Yeah, me too. But I didn't know it then. All I knew was how enthralled I was. You mesmerized me."
"What mesmerized you?" Trinity asked, the hint of a smile playing over her smooth features.
"Three things, I know for certain took hold of me. Your silky voice tickling my ear, your body pressed close against mine and just, your body." Neo smiled.
"My body?"
"The whole package." Neo responded, moving to kiss her neck. Trinity, however, had other plans.
"So your saying, you were more interested in my body than me?" She asked, pushing Neo back.
"Trinity, I had never met you before, my life was turning upside down, and you were in a tight-fitting, leather outfit. Please, I'm a man, and I'm only human."
"Sure. That's what they always say." Trinity laughed, pulling Neo towards her.
"Uhhh, Morpheus? Niobe? I think I found something that may help us. Then again, getting it won't be fun." Link popped his head into the two-bed captains' quarters.
"What is it?"
"Well, there's this virus I've found inside the Matrix. Hidden. And well, it's being held and it's very well hidden. But it could help us greatly if we get it."
"What makes you say that Link?" Niobe inquired.
"Well, if taken from it's hiding place and then repatched into the system, we could destroy hundreds of thousands of Sentinel programs. Also, it could help shut down whole system areas of agents."
"So what your saying is that this virus works against the machines? Who would make such a thing inside the Matrix?" Niobe asked.
"I can think of someone." Morpheus quietly stated.
***
"Look, I don't want to do this either, but she is the only person-"
"Machine." Trinity interrupted.
"-Program that can help us." Neo finished.
"I will not allow you to be alone with that, that woman, dammit!" Trinity persisted, tears pricking at the back of her eyes.
"He won't be. Niobe, you and I will go in with him." Morpheus pointed out.
"Do you remember what the trade was last time?"
"Yes." Morpheus answered.
"Well, what makes you so certain she won't want something more this time?"
"We aren't. Trinity," Neo glanced at the others, a glance asking for privacy. When they were alone, Neo continued.
"I love you. Nothing will change that. But we need this virus, the coding for it, and in order to get it from Persephone, if I have to-"
"Stop. I know. But I can't help thinking she's taking you away from me."
"You'll never lose me. My heart is yours. Always."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"All right. Let's go- before I change my mind."
*** Morpheus approached the guards calmly.
"What do you want?" the shorter and fatter one asked.
"To see Persephone."
"And just why do you think we'll let you?" Shorty asked.
Neo stepped forward.
"Just tell her that Neo is here." The guards flicked glances before one left.
Trinity looked at Neo through her glasses, if he only knew how much this is eating me up. The guard came back, looking a little worse for the wear.
"Alright, but only leather girl and Neo can go in. You and the other woman are to stay here." Shorty answered.
"This way." The second goon motioned for Neo to step forward.
"So, to what do I owe this special treat?" Persephone purred once Trinity and Neo had entered.
"You have something we want." Trinity stated.
"A virus. One that attacks the machines and programs." Neo continued.
"And what do I get in return?" Persephone asked, her eyes bouncing from one to the other.
"What do you want?" Neo asked, trying to keep calm.
"Ooooh, I can just feel the storm raging inside of you by having to ask that question." Laughing Persephone strode toward the guards, "Leave us until I call for you."
"Now, let's see. I want a million things without a care for any of them. And yet, I do want to understand the love you two have. However, I do know that by asking for another sample will most likely get me killed, I'll choose something different." Persephone walked towards the pair.
Trinity stepped forward, her arm brushing against Neo's while her facial features expressed a "you touch him, I kill you" look. Persephone merely laughed at the sight.
"Woman. Trinity is it?" Trinity nodded slightly. "I do not wish to touch, nor kiss your man. However, I do want to see the fire between you that I only felt for a few seconds."
"What are you asking?" Neo demanded.
Persephone pushed open a pair of extremely decorated doors, revealing a plush bed, candles, and a few cameras surrounding the room. As the pair stepped forward, unsure of just what would happen here, Persephone stated,
"I want to see you love her. I want to understand."
Neo looked at the mirrored lenses that blocked out Trinity's blue eyes. The hand that gripped his was the only answer he got.
"Fine." Neo answered.
"All right then. I'll leave. The cameras are what I'll use to see." Persephone smiled seductively and left, closing the doors behind them.
"This is different. Not at all what I was expecting." Trinity deadpanned.
"Well, I think it's better than having to do this with her." Neo responded.
"Definitely." Trinity moved away to take off her glasses and her boots. She heard Neo do the same, but before she turned around, she felt his warm lips touching her neck.
"This isn't real." Trinity mumbled, turning her neck and body to push into him more.
"And yet, we don't have much choice."
"Let's just hope Link isn't watching.
"Oh, I know he is. He has to."
"Great, this will be the third time he's seen this."
"At least this time it's in coding." Neo stated, silencing the conversation with another kiss to her neck.
"Are all the cameras working?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Good. Leave. Now." Persephone turned to the men in the camera room, and watched them run out. Persephone sat down and after a few clicks of the keyboard, had the 7 cameras that were on in Trinity and Neo's room in front of her. A smile played on her lips at the site of Neo slowly unzipping Trinity's outfit.
"My God, are they getting it on in the Matrix? While on a mission?" Ghost asked, gripping the back of Grace's chair.
"Back off. Now." Link looked at Ghost, watching him retreat to his quarters before turning back to the screens.
"Why do you think they're doing that now?" Grace asked, eyes never leaving the screen.
"If there's one thing I know about Trinity and Neo, it's that they prefer to do this in reality, not their minds. Where it's real. Something must be up if they're doing it there."
"Call Morpheus."
"No. He doesn't need to know what they're up to." Link answered.
"Fine. I'll go get us some water. Try to give them a little privacy?" Grace asked, leaving her chair.
"It's just coding." Link responded with a shrug.
"Well, their heartbeats and brainwaves aren't. And I know you can read those from there." Grace nodded in the direction of Neo's chair, where his vital statistics had become faster.
"Fine. Five minute break, I'll stare off into space." Link concluded.
"Good. They don't need anyone prying in on them right now."
"This feels weird." Trinity mumbled.
"Try to ignore the cameras. The sooner this is done, the faster we get that virus." Neo responded, standing inches from her.
"Oh? So you don't want to do this?" Trinity allowed the edge in her voice to ring clear as she began to slowly zip up the front of her suit. Neo hadn't gone far before they stopped to adjust to the situation they were in.
"No. I mean yes. I mean.Look, you and I both know that we prefer this in the real world, but right now, doing this is what'll get us ahead of the machines. It's not that I don't want to do this, you know I do, it's just that it's harder since I know it's not real."
"Neo, I understand. All I said was that it feels weird to do this in front of, well, HER."
"She's not IN the room, that's a plus. Just silent cameras." Neo tilted his head to one said, a small smile playing at the sides of his lips.
"Joy, I'm being videotaped for the porn-loving men of the Matrix. I feel so much better now." Trinity drawled out sarcastically.
"Trin." Neo moved towards her. One step. Another step. Neo leaned his head down towards her ear. "Trinity," Neo breathed, his breath against her neck causing hairs to stand on end. "No more words." Trinity was about to object, fully enjoying their sparring of words when Neo's lips met her neck. Bracing herself against the table she had placed her glasses on earlier, Trinity allowed Neo to push her down slightly as his kisses became more intense, and moved upward. Sighing into his mouth, Trinity captured his lips with her own. Well, Persephone wanted a show. She's going to get one. Just to illustrate to her what she will never have.
Trinity deepened the kiss as she tangled one hand in Neo's hair, and moved the other down his chest, unbuttoning his jacket slowly. Neo pulled away from her long enough to allow the flowing garment to slip to the floor, revealing a tight black button up shirt underneath.
"So many buttons, so little time." Trinity whispered, licking playfully at Neo's ear.
Trinity's lips created a river of fire as her kisses slipped down his neck and then back up again, only to be met fiercely. Neo picked Trinity up enough for her to wrap her legs around his hips and proceeded to carry her to the bed.
Trinity pulled on each of Neo's buttons, quickening the pace as the need for skin on skin began to overpower them. Neo's hands found the zipper again and, upon allowing Trinity to slip off his shirt, almost tantalizingly slowly pulled the zipper down. Down between her breasts, down her abdomen, down to her navel and just below-where the zipper ended. Getting the outfit off of her was a chore neither of them wanted, but proved to be a great mood setter, for when their lips met finally afterward, the fire was burning all the brighter. Neo lost all sense of power and control in the sleek, ivory contours and curves that were so uniquely Trinity.
As the last remnants of clothes were shed, Trinity forgot about the cameras, forgot about the Matrix, forgot about the virus. She forgot everything but the reactions Neo was receiving from her. Hot, cool, soft, hard, wet and moist- all a crazy swirl of sensations. Neo moaned into her neck as she dragged her fingernails up his back, pulling him into her more. Neo quickened his movements as he felt Trinity begin to become controlled by the cravings of her body. Trinity arched her back and pulled Neo's lips down to hers at the same time, reveling in the fire he created by sliding his hand up her side to her neck.
Persephone smiled, amazed at the passion between the two despite being in the Matrix. She watched, shocked as Neo huskily called out Trinity's name as he climaxed and proceeded to collapse on top of her. The shock that these two tough fighters could be seen as gentle and passionate about one another was enough for Persephone to believe that maybe the machines were in the wrong. Watching Trinity stroke Neo's back as his breathing returned to normal was enough to prove that she had nothing she ever believed she had. No, this fighter, this freed slave, this human woman had more than she ever could have dreamed of. She had love, pure and free.
"Well, I think that went well." Trinity mumbled into Neo's ear. Neo slid off to the side of her, allowing himself to get caught up in the soft blankets. He pulled a few up far enough to cover himself before sliding closer to Trinity and proceeded to pull her thigh over his legs.
"Very well." Neo commented as he stroked her thigh.
"Oh no you don't. What we just did should be enough for her." Trinity gently scolded, trying to stop Neo's persistent movements.
"So? Does that mean we should stop?" Neo asked turning his brown eyes towards her blue ones.
Before she could comment however, Neo kissed her lightly on the lips and pulled her into his embrace. Something she willing allowed, sliding her hand over his chest and resting her head in the hollow of his shoulder.
A few minutes later, before either of them could fall asleep, the doors swung open, revealing Persephone's lithe body slinking in towards the bed. Neo made no move to hide their nakedness, nor did Trinity, knowing that Persephone had most likely seen that already.
"Thank you. I learned more than I thought I would today. Here's the key to an airport locker in the closest airport from here. Number 103. It was of my own personal choice. The virus is to be found in the form of a disk. It can be transported from the Matrix to the construct program of your head computer on your ship. Just carry it with you in your pocket. When you are put back into the construct, it will be there in your pocket. What you do with it from there is your own choice." Persephone smiled with a look that expressed sorrow. Who knew what she couldn't have because of the way the machines programmed her?
"Thank you." Neo nodded, smiling briefly.
Persephone nodded and left. Before closing the doors, she added, "The man that brought you up here, Rufus, he will wait for you to dress and will lead you back downstairs." The doors shut and Trinity hoped that would be the last time she ever had to look at Persephone's face.