Neo opened the roof door and walked in, all his senses alert. Trinity followed to his right, their arms brushing at every step. Neo pushed all thoughts non-Matrix related of her out of his mind and moved on. Floor 3, room 45 took time to get to, but with no problems. Neo was slightly suspicious, but decided that if anything, they were all in the room. Neo opened the door slowly, only to find four cops; Trinity dispatched two quickly while Neo killed the others before they had a chance to react to Trinity's gunshots.

Neo quickly picked the girl up out of the chair, not bothering to break the handcuffs, knowing time was against them the moment Trinity fired her first gunshot. They flew up the stairs, and once on the roof, Neo paused to rip the cuffs off. Before they had a chance to make the jump across, gunshots were heard, as was a cry of pain. Neo whipped around to see Devlan clutching her leg. Neo pushed the girl to Trinity and told her through clenched teeth to get out.

"No! Neo, come on!" Trinity fought back. But all too soon, shots fired at her caused her to jump across, the girl in her arms. Neo flattened himself to the rooftop and crawled over to Devlan, who was whimpering.

"Leave me here."

"No. I'm getting you out." Neo grabbed her into his arms and, upon standing and seeing the jump across blocked, jumped over the side and flew instead of landing. A block further, he landed softly but kept Devlan in his arms.

"Ho-how did you do that?" She asked, dumbfounded.

Before he could answer, a searing pain went through his arm, causing him to drop Devlan.

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"No, Neo! Tank, get him out of there!" Trinity yelled to him.

"I can't! He's got nothing to give me." Tank replied, knowing he couldn't do anything.

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"Hey! Give me my phone back you..."

The complaints of a passerby were drowned out as they turned into an agent.

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"Got him!"

"Tank, get me and Devlan an exit, fast!"

"Take the next building on your left, there's an alley, a door to the building on the right."

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Neo nodded, half carrying, half assisting Devlan as he ran, while his arm that was holding the phone screamed in pain. He turned down the alley and froze. Before Devlan could react, he turned around and pulled her to his chest, as four bullets were fired into his back.

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"NEO!" Trinity screamed as the shots hit him.

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Neo let go of Devlan, and as he sank to his knees, he swiveled around and waved his hand dissolving the agent's codes. He leaned forward in pain, closing his eyes as a tear slipped out. Upon hearing Devlan's yell for him to get up, he opened his eyes to look at the Matrix's green codes, and proceeded to change the codes so Devlan's wound would heal. Devlan stood up, and ran to Neo as he slowly began healing himself. In the back of his mind, he could hear Trinity pleading for him to survive. As consciousness began to slip further and further away, he locked onto one single sentence, "Don't die on me, I love you too much for you to." Trinity. How could he hear her on the ship? Ignoring the impossibility of it, he stood up, and finished healing himself. Neo picked the phone up and upon hearing Tank's shocked voice give him directions, quickly discarded it.

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Neo's eyes opened and he winced ever so slightly as the needle was pulled out of his head. He'd never adjust to that, ever. Before he could get out of the seat, Devlan walked over and hugged him.

"Thank you, for not leaving me." She told him when she let him go. Devlan smiled again and then proceeded to walk towards the medical ward to be checked out by Trish.

Neo winced as he too got up and gently pressed his hand against his chest, feeling the spot where less than five minutes ago, four bullets had lodged themselves.

"You should follow Devlan, just in case." Morpheus told him gently as he placed a hand on Neo's shoulder.

Neo nodded, and without even a look in Trinity's direction, began his slow walk to the "med lab" as he called it.