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Neo was unplugged by Tank. Tank. This surprised him, hell who was he kidding, and it scared the shit out of him.
"Where's Trinity?" He asked with an exasperated voice as he looked over to the chair next to him. She wasn't there- still his heart kept beating fast.
"Chill," Tank said with a hand on his shoulder. "She made it out. She made it out screaming the hell out of you but she made it out. I'd had to be you right now."
Neo moaned and placed his head in his hands, trying to still his rapidly beating heart.
"Shit." He sputtered as he dragged himself to the mess hall. He knew she was there, she could hear her yelling from all the way in the core.
He took a deep breath before opening the door (one needed to do so before consulting with someone as powerful as her) and was greeted by the slush they ate every morning. It gathered in his hair and dripped down to the overturned bowl that landed with a clank on the floor.
"What was that for?" He asked, still stunned that his lover had thrown something at him.
"Leaving me with a psycho," was his response.
"That's no reason to throw poison at me!"
"It's not poison, it's-"
"I know what it is," he said, holding his hand to stop her. He walked towards her carefully, picking up the bowl from the floor. He closed the gap and attempted to hug her, but was shaken off.
"Don't hug me when I hate you."
"You can't hate me, I'm too damn cute." That earned him yet another bowl of mush in his face. Yet this time, when he was wiping it from his face, she kissed him. Then slapped him. Then kissed him again. "Would you make up your mind please?" He asked clutching his cheek.
"Sorry. The girl…" she started. "She's unlike anything we've ever seen. There's nothing special about her, yet everything's wrong about her." She brushed hair from his eyes and wiped her hands on his shirt. "I pulled out my gun and she didn't even flinch. She ran away."
She turned to sit down; throwing the bowl she took from Neo's hands into the sink.
"Well maybe she's in a gang or something. In the Matrix we kind of look like gangsters-" he stopped when he saw Trinity smiling.
"What?"
"You just called me a gangster."
Neo rolled his eyes and continued, "Maybe we should talk to Morpheus. He would probably know what to do. Maybe she's some malfunctioned computer program or something."
Trinity shook her head. "No, she was real. She's human. She just has this something… she's got what you have, what I have. It's like she belongs in here, in the real world rather then the Matrix. But that's not possible." She made a sound of frustration and leaned back in the chair.
"You look sexy when you do that," Neo said.
"Shut up Neo, I'm thinking."
"Ok."
Trinity stayed in that chair for a long time. Neo soon grew tired of standing and sat on the chair, eying her expectantly.
"You got anything?" he said after a while.
"No. Let's go talk to Morpheus."
They found Morpheus in the core, leaning over Tank's shoulder and watching the codes.
"Morpheus, can we talk to you?" Trinity asked.
"Shut up," Tank hissed. It was a sign that something on the screen was more important then what they had to say. So both Neo and Trinity leaned over to see what was exciting the two so much.
"You see that?" Morpheus asked them while pointing to a code running rapidly down the screen. They both nodded. "What is that?"
It was a simple question. Simple enough for The One and one of the best hackers in the world to answer but not even they could answer it.
"It looks like an agent," Neo said, straining to see.
"No… it's too big, too fast." Trinity countered.
"The pattern's the same." Neo contradicted back.
"Whatever it is, it can't be good," Tank said. That ended the conversation.
"Morpheus," Trinity said as she cleared her throat, "Neo and I were um… in the Matrix today and we found a strange girl."
Morpheus whipped around. "Why were you in the Matrix without notifying me?"
"You were sleeping?" Neo managed to get out. It was meant to
be a statement but ended up coming out as an uncertainty.
"That was completely absurd! Do you know you could've been killed Trinity?" He
asked her, turning to her. "Neo can't always watch out for you one of these
days if you're not careful-"
"We found a girl," Trinity began over Morpheus with a glare. He may be the commanding officer but he had no right to embarrass her in front of her comrades. "And she was odd. I felt it, Neo felt it too. She was different. She leaked… oozed the real world."
"How so?"
"I don't know… it was like she had been unplugged or something… it's hard to explain, it's just a feeling…"
Morpheus looked disturbed. "Impossible. Go back, find her, do everything in your power to find what's different about her."
"Now?" Trinity was surprised. Morpheus never did things this spontaneous. Going into the Matrix required careful planning.
"Now," he said nodding, "Neo will take care of you."
It was a contradiction of what he had said earlier but he was in such a rush to get them going, she didn't notice.
"But… Morpheus-" Neo started.
"Just go, quick. We don't know what this is; we don't want to waste time."
He shoved them into their seats and his face was the last thing they saw as they were plugged in.
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