I take it all back. I am home. Zion is where I'm meant to be. I love Cas.
Life with her is so fun. I stepped of the Gnosis to be greeted by hundreds
of people I didn't know. Jacob's family were there, as were the rest of the
crews'. I looked around the crowded dock to find a face that wanted me, but
I couldn't find anyone who seemed interested in me. News of me and of my
escape had made its way back to Zion already, so by now it was old news. I
didn't want to trouble Jacob again, but he took me to Cas' cabin. Number
359. As I knocked on the door two young children, fighting over each other
to get to me first, greeted me.
"Daddy! Uncle Tank!" They shouted, but as soon as the door was opened they stopped in their tracks.
"Who are you?" The boy asked bluntly, in that rude but sweet way kids have.
"My name's Rebecca, I've just come back off the Neb. I assume that's where your daddy and uncle are?"
"Yeah, they're the greatest!"
"I miss daddy," whispered the girl, "I thought you was him."
"Oh I'm really sorry, but when I spoke to him he told me to send his love. You're very lucky to have him for a Daddy. He cares about you a lot." Of course Dozer had never said anything like that, but what else was I supposed to say to them?
"Okay kids, leave our visitor alone! Who is it?" A voice called from inside the cabin.
"Erm, my name's Rebecca." I called back. "I'm looking for Cas. Dozer sent me. He said that she might look after me."
"Well come in! I'm Cas, and the kids are Dozer's and mine, as you've probably guessed."
As I step over the threshold I see a pretty woman smiling at me from a small table. Another woman is with her, holding hands with a man.
"Hi, so you must be the girl who was rescued from Zero-One." Says Cas. "I assume that Dozer sent you, he was never one for letting people struggle through. Always wants to help, even if it means volunteering me! This is my sister-in-law, Zee." She gestures to the other woman. "And this is Link, her boyfriend." She gestures to the man.
These people are so kind. They welcome me as though I'm family, and seem genuinely interested in my welfare.
"Well thank you so much for offering me a place to stay. You can't imagine how much it means to me."
"It's absolutely no problem," says Cas "but I tell you what we need to do. We need to give you a new name. You've probably noticed that we have unusual names. Well it started as hacker aliases, but now we all get new names to show that we aren't the people we were in the Matrix, if you get what I mean."
"Oh, thank you! You know, I've been thinking how my name doesn't feel right. Rebecca sort of belongs to another person, who didn't really exist."
"Well I reckon we should call you Majesty, Maggie for short." Suggests Cas. "You have that air of pride around you, despite what you've been through. It would suit you."
So that settles it. My new name is Maggie. I live in Zion, the last free city of people on the Earth. I have never been happier. Also I've worked out what was going on with my vision of Neo. It didn't make any sense at the time, I mean, how could Neo speak to me from the future? Well as it must have been a glitch in the Matrix it must have been made by my mind. I knew subconsciously that the world I could see wasn't real. My mind had hacked into the Matrix, causing disruptions and making me hallucinate. I suppose it might just be coincidence that it was Neo I saw, or maybe its one of those weird sixth sense things. I don't suppose that matters.
I know that because of Link. He's just finished his operator training, so he's a bit of a computer boffin. I told him what I had seen and that's his diagnosis, if you will. I don't really care personally, at the end of the day what I saw got me out and I'm grateful for that, but it never happened so I might as well forget about it.
I'm home. That's all I need to know.
I was at Cas' when the news came through. There has been a tragedy on the Neb. Cypher turned on us. Mouse was shot in the Matrix. The Agents captured Morpheus, and Cypher shot Dozer and Tank. He then unplugged Apoc and Switch. Tank was injured badly. Dozer is dead. The Neb has lost everyone except Neo and Trinity. It is up to them to save Morpheus. Tank is coming home for treatment. We have no idea how to break the news to the children. I am in denial.
Tank didn't make it. Every day the war escalates out of control. Link has left to operate the Neb. There is just the three of us women now, and we are goin to protect each other to the end. We are all we have left for each other. Just Cas, Zee, the kids and myself.
"Daddy! Uncle Tank!" They shouted, but as soon as the door was opened they stopped in their tracks.
"Who are you?" The boy asked bluntly, in that rude but sweet way kids have.
"My name's Rebecca, I've just come back off the Neb. I assume that's where your daddy and uncle are?"
"Yeah, they're the greatest!"
"I miss daddy," whispered the girl, "I thought you was him."
"Oh I'm really sorry, but when I spoke to him he told me to send his love. You're very lucky to have him for a Daddy. He cares about you a lot." Of course Dozer had never said anything like that, but what else was I supposed to say to them?
"Okay kids, leave our visitor alone! Who is it?" A voice called from inside the cabin.
"Erm, my name's Rebecca." I called back. "I'm looking for Cas. Dozer sent me. He said that she might look after me."
"Well come in! I'm Cas, and the kids are Dozer's and mine, as you've probably guessed."
As I step over the threshold I see a pretty woman smiling at me from a small table. Another woman is with her, holding hands with a man.
"Hi, so you must be the girl who was rescued from Zero-One." Says Cas. "I assume that Dozer sent you, he was never one for letting people struggle through. Always wants to help, even if it means volunteering me! This is my sister-in-law, Zee." She gestures to the other woman. "And this is Link, her boyfriend." She gestures to the man.
These people are so kind. They welcome me as though I'm family, and seem genuinely interested in my welfare.
"Well thank you so much for offering me a place to stay. You can't imagine how much it means to me."
"It's absolutely no problem," says Cas "but I tell you what we need to do. We need to give you a new name. You've probably noticed that we have unusual names. Well it started as hacker aliases, but now we all get new names to show that we aren't the people we were in the Matrix, if you get what I mean."
"Oh, thank you! You know, I've been thinking how my name doesn't feel right. Rebecca sort of belongs to another person, who didn't really exist."
"Well I reckon we should call you Majesty, Maggie for short." Suggests Cas. "You have that air of pride around you, despite what you've been through. It would suit you."
So that settles it. My new name is Maggie. I live in Zion, the last free city of people on the Earth. I have never been happier. Also I've worked out what was going on with my vision of Neo. It didn't make any sense at the time, I mean, how could Neo speak to me from the future? Well as it must have been a glitch in the Matrix it must have been made by my mind. I knew subconsciously that the world I could see wasn't real. My mind had hacked into the Matrix, causing disruptions and making me hallucinate. I suppose it might just be coincidence that it was Neo I saw, or maybe its one of those weird sixth sense things. I don't suppose that matters.
I know that because of Link. He's just finished his operator training, so he's a bit of a computer boffin. I told him what I had seen and that's his diagnosis, if you will. I don't really care personally, at the end of the day what I saw got me out and I'm grateful for that, but it never happened so I might as well forget about it.
I'm home. That's all I need to know.
I was at Cas' when the news came through. There has been a tragedy on the Neb. Cypher turned on us. Mouse was shot in the Matrix. The Agents captured Morpheus, and Cypher shot Dozer and Tank. He then unplugged Apoc and Switch. Tank was injured badly. Dozer is dead. The Neb has lost everyone except Neo and Trinity. It is up to them to save Morpheus. Tank is coming home for treatment. We have no idea how to break the news to the children. I am in denial.
Tank didn't make it. Every day the war escalates out of control. Link has left to operate the Neb. There is just the three of us women now, and we are goin to protect each other to the end. We are all we have left for each other. Just Cas, Zee, the kids and myself.