Title: Beyond Words: Black Balloon

Author: ScullyAsTrinity

Rating: G

Characters: Neo, Trinity

Category: Angst, Romance

Summary: Behind every great man, there is an even greater woman. Neo's ode to Trinity.

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I find it wholly impossible that I am the One, that I can even exist without you existing. For once, I'm beginning to put this into perspective; I'm beginning to realize just what part you play in my life. You're the same as me.

You are my everything.

You are the reason I live, the reason I get up every morning. You are the reason that I don't regret being on his ship. It is for you that I fight this war. It is for you and you only that I dream, that I sigh, that I cry. It is positively amazing what you create within me and all of the things I can be because you are there. You are there, in my mind, on your knees praying for our survival to an imaginary god.

It is for you that I am frightened. I have heard the stories countless times. The stories about you. How many men you have killed, how many men who have loved you and failed to win your love in return. A thousand of them could never reach you, how could I have been the one? I have heard of your emotional detachment, your commitment to your job and your endless desire to fight. When you would stand, they would fall. They still do.

Lift me up, as you now do. Lift me up so I can see. Lift me up so I can see the angels. I will fall without you here, they will fall without you here. My everything.

Some would call it amazing what I see in you. What you see in me. What they see in us when we are together. People can read the loneliness is my eyes when I am left without you. The longing is there the second you are gone from my presence and I can feel you yearning for me just as I yearn for me.

You're a facet to my existence, and to the existence of everyone in Zion. I rely on you, which means they rely on you. If I was without, if I was lost, it would be without you. Everything would fall. The cause would be lost if you were not here to sustain me. I hate to even speculate about the gaping hole that would be left in me. You fill the empty places in me just as I do you.

Could I manage to breathe without your breath? See without your eyes? Speak without your lips? Could I possibly fight without your courage?

As you live for me, I live for you. We together live for Zion. As the fate of the world rests beneath me, it spins beneath you. And together we will fight. We fight as One.

I don't know exactly know how to thank you, but I know-

I'll become what you became to me.