Hey people! Second chapter! Thank you for all the lovely reviews you gave. Made a newbie feel all nice n fuzzy! Anyway, on with the boring bits!
Disclaimer: they aren't mine, they're property of warner bros and larry and andy. grrr. I'll take them if they're offering but I doubt that's likely.
Rating: tame so PG I reckon.
Summary: trinity's thoughts the night she met neo in the club. Mirrors chapter one.
I'd been watching him for what felt like a lifetime…minutes ticking by as I scrutinised his every move. No one knew, no one even suspected that I would fall for him. And I hoped, I prayed that he wasn't the one. That the oracle was wrong. I didn't want Morpheus to find the saviour, didn't want to admit such feminine feelings as love, longing, lust. And yet I had a job to do. Still had to check him out, find out how much he wanted to know. So I hacked in.
I watched him…he tried to exit the program. How many people do that when they know you have control and can over ride everything they try to do. Makes me laugh sometimes. Not this time. I was concentrating too hard, hoping everything worked.
Follow the white rabbit
I knew it was going to plan. I saw Choi approach the door and exited the program, giving myself enough to get to the club and prepare to make my entrance. I knew I looked good as I approached him, his back turned to me. He must have sensed me, he turned slowly, almost as if he was afraid to see who was so interested in him. The music was terribly loud. I suppose that was good…it meant I had to get close to him to get my message across.
Hello Neo
I knew that would get him. Any hacker is automatically paranoid when someone recognises them by their alias in "the real world". He turned away from me. He was shocked, I could tell, but he hid it well. If I hadn't studied him for so long I might have seen him as anti-social as he turned his back on me, but I knew him. And it scared the hell out of me.
How do you know that name
Demanding. Challenging. I wanted him. Oh dear god I wanted him so much.
I stopped myself, regained my composure. He wouldn't have even seen my resolve flicker, I'm good at hiding my feelings quickly. They don't call me the ice queen back in the last city for nothing.
How do you know that name
Oh Neo, if only you knew how much I knew about you. How long I'd watched you. You'd have a million other questions. And yet there was so much I wanted to know…so many details that I wanted to be the only person in the world to experience. The idea of being that person made me smile. I wondered if he noticed.
I know a lot about you
I told him my name. I needed to give him a reference. Something to cling on to if we unplugged him. Something for him to recognise me for when I woke him up. I saw a flicker of recognition in his face, watched as the cogs turned and he put two and two together.
Trinity. The trinity? That cracked the IRS d-base?
Bingo kiddo. Oh but how little you know. Don't you see I'm so much more than that Neo? More than my computer would have you realise? I looked down, hiding the blush rising into my cheeks as I envisioned him finding out everything about me. Oh my…
That was a long time ago
Lets not focus on that my tone said. Lets think about now. About the future. About the future I didn't want to admit, and simultaneously was crying out for.
Jesus
That made me look up. I questioned him.
I just thought…um, you were a guy
He made me smile again. I'm sure he felt like a fool. And the slight warrior part of me was pleased. I liked the power I had over him.
Most guys do.
I moved in closer to him. I watched his body tense slightly. Was he scared? I didn't think so. Could he possibly be feeling the same way as me. The electric frissons running through my body. The heat in my cheeks.
Right now all I can tell you is that you're in danger. I brought you here to warn you.
Of what?
They're watching you, Neo.
Who is?
Please just listen.
And here I moved again. I was pressed against him. I could feel his arousal. He probably hoped that I couldn't, but I could. And it felt made me feel so…feminine. And I didn't care. Jesus what was happening to me? I whispered in his ear. I could feel his breathing quicken. Dammit Neo, don't do this now. I focused. I was primarily here for a reason. And that was what mattered.
I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.
I knew what we looked like to the rest of the club. I must have been holding on to him like a rampant hooker. And I loved it.
What is the Matrix?
The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you. And it will find you, if you want it to.
With that I pulled back. That was my speech done with. But as a moved away slightly it brought my lips in line with his. And oh god how much I wanted them. It would have taken the slightest movement to close that gap. I could feel him shiver in my grasp. My mind toyed with the thought for the minutest second and then tossed it aside. Besides the fact that I was trying so hard not to admit my feelings for this gentle stranger, I also had the underlying knowledge that Morpheus and the crew were probably watching. I wasn't giving Cypher that kind of ammunition.
And so I left…my hips swaying as I sashayed my way through the club. I knew we was watching and I felt a heat rise from my stomach to course through my body, the rush feeling so good inside. Jesus, Switch would be having a field day watching my vitals back on the ship…I was gone get so much shit. But he was worth it…it was everything and more that I had hoped for. And suddenly I wasn't scared anymore…