Chapter Four--Sharing a bed

As they entered the huge manison that Smith and Neo were for a while calling home, Smith found a couch and fell onto it. "Wherever we are, the days events are making machines tired and that's weird."

"Umm..." Neo suddenly looked embarassed and he looked down at the carpet.

"Hmm? What is it?"

"I thought you were going to sleep on the bed."

"No, you can have the bed, I'm okay down here." But this repsonse in no way calmed Neo down, "What's wrong?"

"This is going to sound stupid...but I was wondering if you'd come sleep in the bed...with me."

This request caught Smith off guard. "What?" he asked, voice light.

Neo turned away from him, "I knew it was stupid. Lets just act like I never said that--" but Smith reached out and grabbed Neo's arm.

"I'll share the bed with you." there was a pause for Smith to get how odd that sounded, "No, I mean, I'll be in the bed with you, but not with you--"

"Yaay! Slumber party!" Neo jumped and since Smith still had his arm on Neo, he moved too, but onto the floor.

"Oh gods." Smith mumbled into the carpet.

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Smith was sitting nervously in the bed, clicking channels on the remote while Neo was downstairs getting junk food for the party. "I swear we just came from a party...and I'm not quite fond of them anymore."

"Welcome to beyond television, where if you think it, its on the screen." the TV suddenly piped up and soon after, Smith saw he and Neo fighting on the screen. It was their last fight in the rain.

Suddenly though, Smith grabbed Neo's arms and pulled them behind his back, twisting them. "Give in, Mr. Anderson."

"Never!" Neo cried, but his face suddenly twisted in pain.

The real Smith, quite suprised jumped up, "THAT NEVER HAPPENED!"

"Why are you doing this to me? HATE ME!" the TV Smith screamed in the TV Neo's ear.

"We need each other to get out of here...we can't fight." TV Neo rasped out, still in pain. "And I think I just went deaf in one ear."

"Sorry, my bad, I'll make it better..." Smith purred and began lightly nibbling on the ear in which he had screamed.

Meanwhile, Smith was frozen in bed, nose bleeding when Neo came in. There was no need to change the channel, for it changed itself, obviously to what Neo was thinking about. Neo saw the television and laughed, "Hey, I was just thinking about that..."

Smith wiped his nose and turned to the TV. The sides of the screen were blurred, it was clearly a memory. It was a little girl's room and about 5 girls were sitting around, talking about things, but the voices were all muted. Then, a naked boy ran into the room, about 4 or 5 years old, and the girls screamed and went crazy, and the voices became unmuted. Neo burst out laughing. Suddenly, the screen went black.

"What on earth was that?" Smith asked.

"My sister had a slumber party once, but I ruined it by going streaking." Neo's eyes suddenly looked very old for a man that young. "Its almost impossible to believe their gone..."

"Gone?"

"Yeah. Suddenly died. No one knew the cause." Neo held out his hands, "Like they all slipped through my fingers like sand."

Smith looked away, knowing exactly how and why Neo's family died. Sometimes, when the agents were searching for the One, and the search had been boiled down to one group of friends or a whole family, agents literally unplugged those people from the Matrix. Sometimes they made it look like an accident, like house fires or car crashes, sudden incidents that the people of Zion would not notice as Agent activity.

"I'm tired." Neo said and slipped into the bed, next to Smith but not really touching him.

Smith picked up the remote and turned off the TV, then he turned off the light, "Good night," then he said very quietly so Neo couldn't hear, "Thomas."

But Neo did hear him.

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End of chapter whatever...j/k...chapter 4 XD

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Does the whole making up Neo's past make this an AU? I guess so...yeah.