Disclaimer: Matrix not mine!
The second half of this chapter was highly inspirated by Marilyn Manson´s new album I´m listening at the moment, hehehe…
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„Interest rate, I have to calculate the interest rate….and the insurance premium…damn!!" Neo/Teo growled and rummaged through various suitcases which belonged to the strange woman, Trinity, who he shared his room with.
"There has to be some paper somewhere and a pencil!" he growled again and opened a small black leather bag.
Oooops, that was a beauty case.
Just as he was about to put the offending item away (Teo Landerson never ever would disturb a woman's privacy!), something awful familiar hit his eye.
Without further thoughts he pulled the thing out of its case and weighted it in his hands. What the hell was that? And why did he feel that it had to be something important? It felt smooth and cold in his hands. Teo sat down on his bed and propped his chin in one hand while eyeing the object and trying to remember.
**
"We didn't expect that she would react…like this!" One said, his voice clearly expressing both confusion and frustration.
"No, we didn't!" Two agreed and steered the VW beetle they had without hesitation confiscated from Jürgen onto the city's main street.
"Can you sense her?" Two asked his twin worried.
One closed his eyes and looked terribly concentrated. After a minute he let out a frustrated sigh.
"She doesn't let me in, I fear that she does not want to be found!"
"Excellent, really excellent!!" Two grumbled.
It was going to be a long night!
**
Felice cursed as she drove through the city.
Men all were chauvinistic pigs!
She snorted.
The irony!!
Off all One and Two, who wanted to murder every man who only dared to look at her, her husbands those prime examples of fidelity…
Aaargh!
The wind tousled her hair as she steered the small cabriolet round a corner, into the darker parts of the city and away from the bar where her cousin Julia…
No she couldn't think about that right now!
She needed a drink and a distraction.
At the corners of her mind she felt a light tugging. It was One, looking for her location. Angrily she closed the connection and shut him out.
Served him right!
She parked her car and entered another pub where she seated herself at the bar and ordered Southern Comfort with Coke.
Felice sighed and took the first sip of her drink, and then she settled for watching soccer on TV, like most of the guests.
Gradually she calmed down a bit.
And just as she was about to order her second drink, some one tapped her on the shoulder.
"Feli, Sweetheart! What a nice surprise!"
She turned around and looked straight into a pair of familiar brown eyes.
**
Neo woke up out of his trance and blinked.
Where was he?
And why was he wearing a suit?
He eyed his surroundings. A bedroom. And the bags and suitcases belonged to Trinity. But where was she? And everyone else?
He blinked again.
Then he noticed that he clutched something in his right hand.
Neo clearly was confused.
Why was he here, sitting on a foreign bed, wearing an uncomfortable suit and for god's sake….holding Trinity's lady shaver in his hands??
He got up to find Morpheus.
**
In the meantime Felice and Tom had switched from Southern Comfort to Tequila.
"Okay, lemme repeat thiss…you´vve found your hussband chheating on ya…right?" Tom said his tongue already heavy from the alcohol.
"Rrright!! That bastard!" Felice hiccupped and reached for the salt.
Tom laid an arm around her shoulder.
"I…always knew him wassnn´t the rightoneforyousweetheartiam!"
"Bastard!!" Felice sniffed and reached for the bottle.
"But now…don´ttt worry Cherie, I'm gonna beathimintoabloodypulpthatasshole…"
"Bastard!!" Felice cursed. She felt herself sober up already.
Damn that virus powers! They hindered you to get drunk properly!
"Know what your prwoblem is Sweetie? You have toeliminatyourproblems…"
"What did you say??" Felice was suddenly wide awake.
Tom patted her back affectionately. Then he pulled himself together and looked at her with clear eyes.
"I said that you have to eliminate your problem. Visualize your target and then…eliminate it!" he aimed at one of the empty bottles and pretended to shoot it with his finger. Felice felt herself get tense. Eliminate the problem?
"Eliminate…"
"That's what I said Honey…look I can help you, you know…you could move into my apartment!"
She didn't listen anymore to his babbling.
"Eliminate?!"
"Of course it takes a while till a divorce…"
Felice got up from her stool and grabbed her purse.
"Eliminate!! That's it!! Bye Tom, have to go, see you later!!" she said and stomped out of the little pub.
Who said that the Twins were her problem?
"Eliminate the target?" Felice thought grimly.
Run for your life Julia!!
**
Trinity and Niobe were standing in the entrance hall as Felice came home. They looked at her critically.
Felice smiled.
"Is everything alright with you?" Trinity asked cautiously.
"Sure…" Felice purred and took off her coat.
"Maria, please prepare one of the guest rooms for me!" she said to the maid who took her coat.
Niobe and Trinity shared a confused look.
"Ahem…Feli?" Niobe asked.
Felice raised her eyebrows. Niobe never called her "Feli".
"Yes?"
"You aren't going to commit terribly revenge, are you?"
"Me?? Of course not!" Felice still smiled innocently.
Silence.
"Are they home yet?" she finally asked.
"Noooo…look should we go up to my room and have a drink??" Trinity asked.
"No thank you, I think I'm going to bed now! Good night!" and with that she left.
"I have a bad feeling about that…" Niobe confessed.
"Me too!"
**
Felice took a hot bubble bath and tried to relax. Then she changed into her pyjama and switched the TV on.
Half an hour later she heard a door squeaking.
Felice turned the TV off and tiptoed to the door.
She saw that it was Julia as she peeked through the keyhole.
Perfect!
She waited another few minutes to be safe and left her room. Then she sneaked into the attic. That had been her secret place as child. Everything that wasn't needed anymore was stowed away there.
A paradise for a child with an active imagination!
She didn't switch on the light. Too risky!
Felice tiptoed around till she found what she was looking for.
The trunk with the carnival costumes!
She rummaged through it and pulled out what she needed.
A long, grey-white tattered ghost costume.
And chains.
Lots of rusty old chains.
She changed into the costume and adorned her arms and legs with chains.
Then she winded a plastic snake around her neck.
She glanced at her reflection in the mirror.
Wonderful!
And now the masterpiece.
She phased.
Perfectly perfect.
And scary!
She smiled at her reflection.
Ah, those wonderful fangs!
And those red gleaming eyes!
If that wouldn't scare her to death….
**
Felice smirked and floated through the floor, silently humming the tune from Marilyn Manson's "Doll degga buzz zigety zag" which suited her current mood perfectly. Ah yes, perfectly perfect! She floated through the dark and empty corridor on the north side of the second floor where the rooms of her beloved cousins were, determined to play a little bit Poltergeists.
She reached Julia's door and listened intently for any sounds that indicated that her dear beloved cousin was still awake.
Nothing.
She floated into the room.
There, huddled onto her bed Julia lay and snored slightly.
Felice grinned. Now how best to begin?
She looked up and almost screamed out.
Horrible!
Disgusting!
Scary!
Justin Timberlake!
Felice shuddered and floated through the window. From the outside, she pressed her face against the window, bared her fangs and opened her gleaming eyes as wide as possible. Then she scratched with half-solid fingernails over the window pane.
*Screeech*
Something stirred in the small bed.
*Screeeeech*
"Uaaaarrghhhh" she moaned experimentally and rattled with the chains.
Now a small and nervous looking figure sat up. Outside was full moon this night and Julia had her curtains closed. That meant she had to get up to see what was on the outside.
*Screeeeech*
Now she could hear the light sounds of cautious footsteps.
Then someone slowly, very slowly opened the curtain a hands breadth.
Felice opened her mouth for a quiet scream and pressed her face harder onto the glass.
But only for a second till she was sure that the bitch really had seen her. But not long enough to recognize her face. Then she let herself quickly sink out of sight.
A small cry and some noises told her that the "target" had fled back to bed and pulled the covers over her head.
She waited five minutes and then floated back into Julia's room.
From throughout the floor right under her bed.
Felice smiled devilishly.
She grasped one of the bed's legs and shook it.
Hard.
The shivering and quivering bundle stopped moving. And apparently breathing too.
Silence.
Felice let out a long and scary sigh.
Mhh, sigh? What about breathing down her neck? But that could wait…
Finally two hands appeared on the edge of the bed and a tousled and sweating blonde curly head glanced frightened under the bed.
Up to that moment, Felice already had let herself sink through the floor, so that only her head with the serpent like hair could still be seen.
She smiled at her terrified cousin and let out another scary moan. Then she let herself completely sink through the floor.
It was deadly silent for approximately ten seconds.
Then Julia's scream teared the silence away and woke up the whole floor.
"Heeelllllp!!!! There's…there´s…there's a ghost under my bed!!!" and some hysterically sobbing.
One floor beneath, Felice smiled as she heard the doors of several rooms open and the footsteps and the questions of confused and worried relatives.
She floated back to her room.
"Doll degga buzz buzz zigety zag, doll degga buzz buzz zigety zag….." she hummed.
She decided to do the same she had advised the Twins to do.
She would get herself a hobby.
It was called "Julia".
**
"Are you sure that she isn't planning something…evil?" Niobe asked worriedly.
"Felice? No, she wouldn't! Felice is and always was a very sensible person! She wouldn't dare…." Trinity defended her school time friend.
"Heeellllp!!! There's…there´s…there´s a ghost under my bed!" a scream interrupted Trinity's little speech.
Niobe gave her the "I've told you so"-look.
Trinity sighed.
"And it wants to eat me!!!"
**
Will Neo really recover?
And will the lady shaver of doom appear again?
Do the Twins still wear their riddiculous "party outfits" while driving through the city and searching Felice?
And will Felice ever forgive them?
Will Julia die of a heart attack?
Or will she go insane?
Will Tom give up the love of his life that easily?
And where the hell does he come from that suddenly?
Will Morpheus ever return out of his plot hole?
And will we see him be bullied around by Niobe?
Who wants to see the girls in dirndls at Sandra´s wedding?
Hold up your hands (aka leave a review!) and I promise, I´ll do my very best!