"I know that it must come as some surprise to you, Harregale, but I believe you are ready to see the Oracle." Morpheus smiled at the girl reassuringly. She had been into the Matrix twice since having completed her re-training and neither time had she failed. It didn't matter that she wouldn't go in without Trinity, to the captain all that mattered was she no longer ran without thinking. She looked him over with a skeptical eye.

"You, want to put me, into the Matrix. And you want me to see the Oracle again? Sir, are you sure you're feeling well?" Morpheus smiled, Neo raising a hand to his mouth to smother his laughter and Link had to face the other way. Harregale looked up at Trinity who hadn't even smiled. She did raise an eyebrow and slightly shrug her shoulder, indicating that Morpheus never really acted quite normally.

"Yes, I want you to see the Oracle now that I feel you're ready. Trinity and I shall accompany you, Neo and Link will provide the support here. I don't believe we should have any trouble." He smiled again. "The Oracle will…"

"Tell me everything I need to know. I know, my old captain told me." She nods, the sadness and guilt normally evident when she spoke of her time before the Neb missing. "If everyone thinks I'm ready I'll go." She shrugs and the others know that 'everyone' consisted only of Trinity, it had since the beginning and it would until the end, or until the others gained her trust. The crew moved into position, Morpheus, Trinity and Harregale ready to be jacked in. the captain was readied first and as Link approached the girl to plug her in, he noticed she was watching Trinity and the One. They smiled slightly at each other, exchanged a soft kiss and then he plugged her in. The girl looked at Link with questions in her eyes.

"When you're older, ok?" He says teasingly, she pokes her tongue out at him, which proves his point. With a wave he inserts the spike and they appear in the Matrix, Trinity and Morpheus in their all black clothes, Arre with her deep purple top, a cluster of roses, fake but beautiful, pinning her hair back from her face. She smiles at the others.

"Let's go talk to the Oracle shall we?" They nodded, filing out of the small room, leaving the ringing phone unanswered. Neo and Trinity hung back, following Morpheus and Harregale as they walked towards the house of the Oracle.

"No car huh?"

"No need." The girl shrugged, uneasy. She turned to Trinity.

"Does she ever give good news?"

"Sometimes. She told me I'd love the One, and that's good."

"Not at the time it wasn't." She pursed her lips, how was she going to get over this fear? "Neo?"

"She never has good news for me, part of being the One I guess." The girl gave a half-hearted laugh, looking around her with nervous eyes. Trinity began to tense up. Her eyes caught Neo's and the silent message passed between them, 'she's going to run', 'I know'. But it was after the visit and the cookie that it happened.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The house was clean, the other waiting in another room.

"How have things been with Morpheus and the others, honey?" The woman asked, pulling a tray of cookies out of the oven.

"Good, I don't trust them but I'll do what I have to to keep them safe."

"You never did believe it was just a game, did you?" The girl shakes her head. "Smart kid, a little too smart. But you have a question for me, don't you?"

"Did he really have to leave me Oracle?" The tears flicker in her eyes, the question repeated in them.

"Honey, you know I can't tell you that any way you want to hear it. He went because it was time. You went because it was your time. Do you know how long it's been?"

"108 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes. Since he died atleast. I made sure that there was a record of how long I was out for." The woman smiled.

"I think you miss him a bit too much."

"He was my other half, how can I not miss him?" She was slightly angry, teeth beginning to set on edge.

"You need to find your brother, and I can tell you, it isn't going to be pretty when you do."

"I know. It's too late for him isn't it?" The woman nodded.

"But it will be your choice what happens to him. There is a man you must save, he will help find others who will be very important and he must be freed tonight or it will all be too late. You have a tough choice honey. You have to chose what's more important, your Matrix family, or the family that can see you in both worlds."

"I don't like the sound of that at all."

"I know, take a cookie, it'll make you feel better." The girl tilted her head to the side.

"You don't say that to the others."

"A change is as good as a holiday, honey, and Lord knows I don't get any of those." They both laughed, the girl taking a big bite from her chosen cookie. "There you go. I'll leave it up to you to get the others to him, they'd just try to leave you behind otherwise." She smiled,

"Ok, I'll look out for…" She paused, blinked and looked at the woman. "Did you do that?"

"Do what, honey?"

"Nothing, it's alright." She smiled. "I better go, we have a few things to do." The woman nodded, taking a moment to talk to Trinity.

"You watch her, honey, she's going to need you and if you've found that boy, she's going to need him too. I hate giving bad news to good people, you know I do. And for once I didn't have the heart to tell someone. She doesn't know what's waiting for her and I'm to blame."

"We'll protect her, you only tell us what we need to hear." The women smiled slightly.

"You tell your man I don't have any news for him, no news is good news you know." She smiled again, the four leaving quietly, this time taking a car to their exit. The streets were lined with buildings that reached to the sky, the tops so high you couldn't see them out the closed window. She gasped, the building that moved past them at a crawl since the traffic was at a standstill. A moment later she was clambering over Trinity, who swore, opening the door and running towards the entrance to the building.

"Go after her, Neo!" Morpheus said, "Trinity and I will get out and track her."

"No, I'm going with Neo,"

"Alright, we'll all go." He quickly told Link what was happening, the trio following the girl on foot quickly. They caught her, she was standing in the alley, watching the doorway.

"What do you think you're doing?" Trinity demanded.

"There's a man, he's near the top floor, he's in a cream suit and is surrounded by glass. He's thinking about the Matrix and about how fake the world is. We have to get him out."

"How do you know all this?

"I saw it at the Oracles house as I eat my cookie." The woman looked to Neo, who shrugged almost indiscernibly.

"How do we get in?"

"Pretend I'm sick, that my parents work there…" The rest of the plan flowed so quickly the Operator almost fell off his chair when he got the requests from his captain.

"Everything you need is the shop down the road, it's all there and I didn't put anything there!" They took advantage of that, and within a few minutes they were standing out the front of the glass building, ready to go into the unknown, Link having nothing to give them except blueprints and the names of some employees that had a girl the same age as Harregale.