It's official - this story will be a trilogy. Which is good, because I
adore trilogies! This section of the trilogy is slightly shorter than the
first section, but the third section, which, I think, is the best of the
three, will be quite long. So look forward to that! And I know that was a
lot of commas... Hope you like this chapter!
Chapter 7 - Discoveries
Neo kicked the window outside the shop in, and clambered through, still holding Asha protectively. The phone was already ringing. He paused - how was he going to do this? He grabbed Asha's hand, and used it to pick up the phone, and he held it to her ear. Thankfully, she vanished, and the phone fell to the ground. He hung it up, and waited for his turn to come. The phone rang again. He picked it up, opened his eyes, and was back on the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus had already lifted Asha from the chair and was carrying her to the medical bay. Neo leapt to his feet and followed, his arm round Trinity.
"Are you all right?" he asked. Trinity shook her head.
"Why?" she said, "She's just a kid. Why does she have to go through this?"
Neo wrapped his arms round her. "She's not just any kid," he said, "She's smart, and she can look after herself. She's going to be fine."
"How do you know that?" she asked, "We don't even know what's wrong with her."
"We don't," said Neo, "And I can't promise she'll be fine. But we can hope that she will be."
Trinity followed Morpheus to the medical bay, Neo right behind her. They watched as he looked at her carefully, checking her pulse and brain activity. Finally he stood upright again. "She's OK," he said, "She's just completely exhausted. She must have had some great physical shock, and her brain just switched off. Did she tell you what happened, Neo?" he said, turning to him.
"Yeah," said Neo, "He said Agent Smith tried to turn her into him, or something."
"Did you see her vital statistics when the screen went all weird?" said Falcon, "Her pulse went right up, but then got weaker and weaker, and her brain activity almost stopped. Also, her temperature went right down. It was like she was dying."
"Her body is trying to recover from the shock," said Morpheus, "There's nothing more we can do, but wait, and hope she'll fight."
*****
Asha opened her eyes. To her surprise, she was back on the Nebuchadnezzar, in the medical bay. She racked her brains as to what had happened - she'd been on the roof, when suddenly she'd passed out. How did she get back here? She supposed that Neo had brought her.
"Asha," said a voice to her right. She turned and saw Morpheus, looking very relieved. "Are you all right?"
"I'm feeling fine," said Asha, "Why are you here? What time is it?"
"Its just after midnight," he said, "You've been unconscious for over twelve hours."
"Twelve hours?"
"Yes. Neo brought you back here, and you were in a very weak condition. I'm here because as the evening came, your condition was steadily worsening, and we were worried that you wouldn't make it. But suddenly you improved, and now you're awake."
Asha thought back to that courtyard. All those Agent Smiths. And what had nearly happened... She shivered. She hadn't seen the Matrix: Revolutions, so she didn't know for sure what Agent Smith's ultimate plan had been when he'd taken over that guy's body, but she knew for sure that it couldn't have been good.
"I should go and wake Neo and Trinity," said Morpheus, "I only managed to persuade them to go to bed when I promised them I'd fetch them if there was the slightest change in your condition, for better or for worse." He got to his feet and started to walk away, when Asha thought of something.
"Hey, Morpheus," she called.
"Yes?" he said, pausing on his way to the door.
"Um... How did you know that I was the second hope?"
Morpheus looked at her. He seemed to be thinking. Finally he walked back to Asha's bed, and sat down next to it. He sat in silence, seeming to be lost in thought. Asha waited, not quite sure whether he was actually going to tell her.
"Do you remember when I told Neo that he was the One?" he asked suddenly, making Asha jump slightly.
"Yes," she said, "On the Nebuchadnezzar, right?"
"Yes. Do you remember that I told him about a man before him, who could remake the Matrix as he saw it?"
"Yeah. And it was prophesied that he would return and end the war-"
"Yes. But the fact that concerns you is that you are a direct descendant to him."
Asha blinked. "I am?"
"Yes. He had a girlfriend in the Matrix before he was unplugged. Now, it was prophesied that the first daughter descended from him would be the second hope. Just before he was unplugged, his girlfriend became pregnant. She had a son, and he had a son, and he had a daughter. And that is- you."
"Why didn't he choose her to be freed, then?" asked Asha.
"Couldn't find her in the time given, I suppose," said Morpheus, shrugging, "We'll never know. We were watching you for some time. As soon as we were alerted to the fact that he had a female descendant."
"Why did you wait so long to contact me, then?" she asked.
"We were going to wait until you were twenty," said Morpheus, "But the agents became aware of your existence, and decided that you had to be eliminated. That's why you were unplugged slightly early."
Suddenly Neo and Trinity ran in, closely followed by Tank and Falcon. "Asha!" said Neo.
"We told you to come and wake us!" said Trinity, slapping Morpheus' head.
"We were having a little chat," said Morpheus, "Telling her about her heritage."
"D'you mean-"
"Yes," said Morpheus, "She knows now."
Asha was scarcely listening. She was looking at Neo's eyes. Dark brown, thoughtful, and a hint of something deeper.
Her eyes.
*****
Within a couple of days Asha had recovered enough to be able to move around the ship, but if she did too much her chest would start hurting. So she was spending her time overseeing Falcon's training.
Falcon opened his eyes. He'd had to take his training in two days, being completely exhausted after 8 combat training disks. Now he'd finished.
"That was weird," he said, "Now I know how to fight like Neo!"
"Not exactly like Neo," reminded Asha.
"Can I go to that training program and fight Morpheus?" he asked.
Asha glanced at the control deck. "He's busy," she said, "But you can fight me."
"No way," said Falcon, "I've seen you fighting those agents, you show no mercy whatsoever!"
"Aw, come on," said Asha, "You're not scared, are you?"
"Yes," said Falcon, without a moment's hesitation.
Asha laughed. "Wow, I love being the second hope. Guys are scared of me!"
"They weren't before?"
"Not as much."
"More fool them."
"Come oooon," whined Asha, "I'm boooored, I won't hurt you." He looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Much."
"All right," said Falcon. Neo came in.
"What gives?" he asked.
"Can you load us up?" asked Asha, settling herself down into one of the chairs, "Falcon says that he'll fight me."
Neo looked at him with raised eyebrows. "Rather you than me."
* * * * *
"Feeble," said Asha, "I beat you rotten."
"Well, you're a prophesied hope with the half the same powers as Neo," said Falcon. After a moment he added "Plus, I wasn't expecting you to start tickling me."
"No-one ever does. How do you think I defeated those agents?"
Since Falcon had got used to the fact that the Matrix was real, he had opened up a lot more, and he and Asha often stayed up late chatting about their lives before they were unplugged. Morpheus took advantage of this by making them take the night watch.
"You're chatting anyway," he said, "You may as well do it while the rest of us get some sleep."
Asha found that she could talk more easily about what had happened to her with Falcon than with Neo or Trinity. In turn, Falcon told her about his life.
"I always loved computers," he said one night, while they were watching the code of the Matrix. Asha had learnt how to look through the code and see what was happening in the Matrix. She'd started giving Falcon lessons. "I got my first one when I was twelve. My dad showed me his when I was eight, and I was hooked immediately. I saved up all my pocket money for four years and bought my own one. My older brother had some friends and one of them introduced me to hacking. At first I was just hacking into companies, finding out stock prices and stuff. Kids stuff."
"Kids stuff?" said Asha, "I couldn't have done that in a million years."
"Yeah, well, you didn't have a screwed up childhood. My dad was an alcoholic. My mum was depressed. My brother was a druggie, and - well, you know what sort of friends he had."
"Wow," said Asha. She didn't know what to say. She could see in his face how difficult this was for him to tell her. "So how old were you by then?" she said, hastily changing the subject.
"Um..." he said, thinking hard, "It's so difficult recalling that life. It seems a million years ago."
Asha nodded.
"I guess I was fourteen when I started hacking companies. But I got bored. All I was doing was finding out stocks, and all I could do with that information was sell it on. Good for extra pocket money, I was able to buy a new computer, but other than that...
"When I was about fifteen, two things happened. One, I saved up enough money through hacking, and I ran away from home."
"You ran away?" blurted out Asha, "Why?"
Falcon looked at her skeptically. "You were listening about my home life, right?"
"Right," said Asha, turning red, "Sorry, I should've-"
"Its OK," said Falcon, "Yeah, I ran away. I sold my computer, I took all the money I had and ran away to London. Streets paved with gold, right? I ended up in some grotty flat which had more wildlife in the kitchen than London Zoo."
"Ick," said Asha, again wishing that she could be more articulate.
"Yeah."
"But you mentioned two things?"
"Yeah. I realised that company hacking was boring. I started cracking the big boys. MI5, KGB, CIA..."
"JK Rowling..."
"That?" said Falcon, "Oh yeah, I was bored one evening."
"Whoa," said Asha, "When I'm bored I drink vanilla coke and go on fanfiction. You find out major plotlines."
"Yeah. Well, I still did a bit of company hacking to earn money, and soon I was able to buy a bigger flat without mould. I also decided to start helping out companies defend their information. I mean, it was getting a little easy, and I didn't care. I was doing it for the thrill."
"I saw on your file."
"I have a file?" said Falcon, sounding impressed, "Cool..."
He looked at the computer screens, where the green symbols were falling, always falling. They made Asha get dizzy if she looked at them for too long. "So what am I looking at here?" he asked.
"Oh, you know," said Asha, "Blonde, brunette, redhead..."
Falcon laughed. "Could really do with some of that drink Dozer makes, huh?"
"Why? The engine greasy? Your head feeling a bit swollen?"
"Well, maybe my greasy engine is a bit swollen, or my swollen head is a bit greasy..."
By now Asha was in fits of giggles. This amazed her. She hadn't had vanilla coke in days, yet here she was, clutching her sides. But then again, she could get hyper if she wanted to without vanilla coke. Falcon was watching her giggle with mild surprise mingled with fear of this insane girl, snorting and spluttering in front of him. "It wasn't even that funny," he said.
"I know," said Asha, finally being able to draw breath, "I'm just hyper."
Neo came out of his room. Asha nearly laughed when she saw his hair mussed up, looking even more vacant than he had in 'Bill and Ted'.
"What are you doing awake, Neo?" she asked, "We're doing fine."
"It's-" began Neo, but stopped himself. "Nothing. I was awake anyway, so I thought that I'd let you get some sleep."
"Did you have another bad dream?" she asked. Neo didn't answer. Falcon had jumped to his feet when Neo came in - he was still slightly in awe of the system anomaly, no matter how scruffy his hair looked - and Neo sat down in the vacated seat.
"Go and get some sleep," said Neo, "We're going to see the Oracle tomorrow."
Falcon shot an intrigued look at Asha. Asha, however, felt worried. Neo was having dreams, she just knew it. They could be really important. She headed to leave, but as she did, she felt into Neo's mind. She could feel a mixture of confusion, anxiety, and fear. This, however, wasn't the most important thing, the thing that nearly made Asha gasp out loud.
The fear was of Asha.
*****
Now that's a moment for a DURN DURN DURN if there ever was one!
Kit19 - I'm cold too... why can't it snow at least? Stupid country.
Theshiz - Last year at Christmas it snowed only a little, but I insisted on going out and building a snowman. Which I did - it was only about fifteen centimetres tall, but the essence was there...
Elektra, Becca and Claire - The penguins will never stay away, until all 882 of the identical pieces of Aztec gold are returned and the blood repaid...
Sci-Freak GrodySpork - Yes. Interested. That's a good way of putting it.
Mako - Yes, another evil, evil cliffie. I do like cliffies, though. I have no idea why. Yes I do - it makes me want to write more chapters.
Im a Brandybuck - I'm trying not to turn into him, but it's becoming harder every day... *shudder*
Gone-to-jarmadanga - That's a terrible plotline! I mean - Fiji? He OBVIOUSLY wants to take her to Mauritius!
Alocin - That's a really good idea for a sign! We should have produced some before the Matrix: Reloaded... And it is difficult to make Smithy win in fics, so I just try to make it so that he doesn't lose outright. Because Smithy is incredibly cool, albeit creepy and mean.
Artemis - That's OK! Even if you didn't like my story, I wouldn't mind. It's not for everyone. For example, my sister hates it with a burning vengeance... she says that it's cheesy. I don't deny that it's cheesy in places, but some people LIKE cheese. And no, I probably won't ever guess which ones are yours... damn.
Huntress - No, he just doesn't trust David. Think about it - the only time Neo's ever met David, he was shot a couple of seconds later. No one really trusts David - not even Asha, entirely. Neo just thinks that Asha's being tricked.
MollyJean - Sorry it was short. This chapter was slightly longer.
Luna - Look who died in Revs? Hmm, where do I start? Uhh... the guy who played Ugluk in the Two Towers, other people who were there for interesting angsty plotlines, and I won't mention anyone else in case someone's reading this callout who hasn't seen it yet.
T'Lorie - Well, that's just it - has he changed? Or was he not completely evil before? Hmm...
Deity of Sorrow - Well, if that's not a reason to update, I don't know what is...
Jack Cole - I'll try and look as soon as I can, but when I go online to update these stories it'll be my only chance to go online before Christmas. Sorry.
Speaking of which, have a merry Christmas, y'all!
Chapter 7 - Discoveries
Neo kicked the window outside the shop in, and clambered through, still holding Asha protectively. The phone was already ringing. He paused - how was he going to do this? He grabbed Asha's hand, and used it to pick up the phone, and he held it to her ear. Thankfully, she vanished, and the phone fell to the ground. He hung it up, and waited for his turn to come. The phone rang again. He picked it up, opened his eyes, and was back on the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus had already lifted Asha from the chair and was carrying her to the medical bay. Neo leapt to his feet and followed, his arm round Trinity.
"Are you all right?" he asked. Trinity shook her head.
"Why?" she said, "She's just a kid. Why does she have to go through this?"
Neo wrapped his arms round her. "She's not just any kid," he said, "She's smart, and she can look after herself. She's going to be fine."
"How do you know that?" she asked, "We don't even know what's wrong with her."
"We don't," said Neo, "And I can't promise she'll be fine. But we can hope that she will be."
Trinity followed Morpheus to the medical bay, Neo right behind her. They watched as he looked at her carefully, checking her pulse and brain activity. Finally he stood upright again. "She's OK," he said, "She's just completely exhausted. She must have had some great physical shock, and her brain just switched off. Did she tell you what happened, Neo?" he said, turning to him.
"Yeah," said Neo, "He said Agent Smith tried to turn her into him, or something."
"Did you see her vital statistics when the screen went all weird?" said Falcon, "Her pulse went right up, but then got weaker and weaker, and her brain activity almost stopped. Also, her temperature went right down. It was like she was dying."
"Her body is trying to recover from the shock," said Morpheus, "There's nothing more we can do, but wait, and hope she'll fight."
*****
Asha opened her eyes. To her surprise, she was back on the Nebuchadnezzar, in the medical bay. She racked her brains as to what had happened - she'd been on the roof, when suddenly she'd passed out. How did she get back here? She supposed that Neo had brought her.
"Asha," said a voice to her right. She turned and saw Morpheus, looking very relieved. "Are you all right?"
"I'm feeling fine," said Asha, "Why are you here? What time is it?"
"Its just after midnight," he said, "You've been unconscious for over twelve hours."
"Twelve hours?"
"Yes. Neo brought you back here, and you were in a very weak condition. I'm here because as the evening came, your condition was steadily worsening, and we were worried that you wouldn't make it. But suddenly you improved, and now you're awake."
Asha thought back to that courtyard. All those Agent Smiths. And what had nearly happened... She shivered. She hadn't seen the Matrix: Revolutions, so she didn't know for sure what Agent Smith's ultimate plan had been when he'd taken over that guy's body, but she knew for sure that it couldn't have been good.
"I should go and wake Neo and Trinity," said Morpheus, "I only managed to persuade them to go to bed when I promised them I'd fetch them if there was the slightest change in your condition, for better or for worse." He got to his feet and started to walk away, when Asha thought of something.
"Hey, Morpheus," she called.
"Yes?" he said, pausing on his way to the door.
"Um... How did you know that I was the second hope?"
Morpheus looked at her. He seemed to be thinking. Finally he walked back to Asha's bed, and sat down next to it. He sat in silence, seeming to be lost in thought. Asha waited, not quite sure whether he was actually going to tell her.
"Do you remember when I told Neo that he was the One?" he asked suddenly, making Asha jump slightly.
"Yes," she said, "On the Nebuchadnezzar, right?"
"Yes. Do you remember that I told him about a man before him, who could remake the Matrix as he saw it?"
"Yeah. And it was prophesied that he would return and end the war-"
"Yes. But the fact that concerns you is that you are a direct descendant to him."
Asha blinked. "I am?"
"Yes. He had a girlfriend in the Matrix before he was unplugged. Now, it was prophesied that the first daughter descended from him would be the second hope. Just before he was unplugged, his girlfriend became pregnant. She had a son, and he had a son, and he had a daughter. And that is- you."
"Why didn't he choose her to be freed, then?" asked Asha.
"Couldn't find her in the time given, I suppose," said Morpheus, shrugging, "We'll never know. We were watching you for some time. As soon as we were alerted to the fact that he had a female descendant."
"Why did you wait so long to contact me, then?" she asked.
"We were going to wait until you were twenty," said Morpheus, "But the agents became aware of your existence, and decided that you had to be eliminated. That's why you were unplugged slightly early."
Suddenly Neo and Trinity ran in, closely followed by Tank and Falcon. "Asha!" said Neo.
"We told you to come and wake us!" said Trinity, slapping Morpheus' head.
"We were having a little chat," said Morpheus, "Telling her about her heritage."
"D'you mean-"
"Yes," said Morpheus, "She knows now."
Asha was scarcely listening. She was looking at Neo's eyes. Dark brown, thoughtful, and a hint of something deeper.
Her eyes.
*****
Within a couple of days Asha had recovered enough to be able to move around the ship, but if she did too much her chest would start hurting. So she was spending her time overseeing Falcon's training.
Falcon opened his eyes. He'd had to take his training in two days, being completely exhausted after 8 combat training disks. Now he'd finished.
"That was weird," he said, "Now I know how to fight like Neo!"
"Not exactly like Neo," reminded Asha.
"Can I go to that training program and fight Morpheus?" he asked.
Asha glanced at the control deck. "He's busy," she said, "But you can fight me."
"No way," said Falcon, "I've seen you fighting those agents, you show no mercy whatsoever!"
"Aw, come on," said Asha, "You're not scared, are you?"
"Yes," said Falcon, without a moment's hesitation.
Asha laughed. "Wow, I love being the second hope. Guys are scared of me!"
"They weren't before?"
"Not as much."
"More fool them."
"Come oooon," whined Asha, "I'm boooored, I won't hurt you." He looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Much."
"All right," said Falcon. Neo came in.
"What gives?" he asked.
"Can you load us up?" asked Asha, settling herself down into one of the chairs, "Falcon says that he'll fight me."
Neo looked at him with raised eyebrows. "Rather you than me."
* * * * *
"Feeble," said Asha, "I beat you rotten."
"Well, you're a prophesied hope with the half the same powers as Neo," said Falcon. After a moment he added "Plus, I wasn't expecting you to start tickling me."
"No-one ever does. How do you think I defeated those agents?"
Since Falcon had got used to the fact that the Matrix was real, he had opened up a lot more, and he and Asha often stayed up late chatting about their lives before they were unplugged. Morpheus took advantage of this by making them take the night watch.
"You're chatting anyway," he said, "You may as well do it while the rest of us get some sleep."
Asha found that she could talk more easily about what had happened to her with Falcon than with Neo or Trinity. In turn, Falcon told her about his life.
"I always loved computers," he said one night, while they were watching the code of the Matrix. Asha had learnt how to look through the code and see what was happening in the Matrix. She'd started giving Falcon lessons. "I got my first one when I was twelve. My dad showed me his when I was eight, and I was hooked immediately. I saved up all my pocket money for four years and bought my own one. My older brother had some friends and one of them introduced me to hacking. At first I was just hacking into companies, finding out stock prices and stuff. Kids stuff."
"Kids stuff?" said Asha, "I couldn't have done that in a million years."
"Yeah, well, you didn't have a screwed up childhood. My dad was an alcoholic. My mum was depressed. My brother was a druggie, and - well, you know what sort of friends he had."
"Wow," said Asha. She didn't know what to say. She could see in his face how difficult this was for him to tell her. "So how old were you by then?" she said, hastily changing the subject.
"Um..." he said, thinking hard, "It's so difficult recalling that life. It seems a million years ago."
Asha nodded.
"I guess I was fourteen when I started hacking companies. But I got bored. All I was doing was finding out stocks, and all I could do with that information was sell it on. Good for extra pocket money, I was able to buy a new computer, but other than that...
"When I was about fifteen, two things happened. One, I saved up enough money through hacking, and I ran away from home."
"You ran away?" blurted out Asha, "Why?"
Falcon looked at her skeptically. "You were listening about my home life, right?"
"Right," said Asha, turning red, "Sorry, I should've-"
"Its OK," said Falcon, "Yeah, I ran away. I sold my computer, I took all the money I had and ran away to London. Streets paved with gold, right? I ended up in some grotty flat which had more wildlife in the kitchen than London Zoo."
"Ick," said Asha, again wishing that she could be more articulate.
"Yeah."
"But you mentioned two things?"
"Yeah. I realised that company hacking was boring. I started cracking the big boys. MI5, KGB, CIA..."
"JK Rowling..."
"That?" said Falcon, "Oh yeah, I was bored one evening."
"Whoa," said Asha, "When I'm bored I drink vanilla coke and go on fanfiction. You find out major plotlines."
"Yeah. Well, I still did a bit of company hacking to earn money, and soon I was able to buy a bigger flat without mould. I also decided to start helping out companies defend their information. I mean, it was getting a little easy, and I didn't care. I was doing it for the thrill."
"I saw on your file."
"I have a file?" said Falcon, sounding impressed, "Cool..."
He looked at the computer screens, where the green symbols were falling, always falling. They made Asha get dizzy if she looked at them for too long. "So what am I looking at here?" he asked.
"Oh, you know," said Asha, "Blonde, brunette, redhead..."
Falcon laughed. "Could really do with some of that drink Dozer makes, huh?"
"Why? The engine greasy? Your head feeling a bit swollen?"
"Well, maybe my greasy engine is a bit swollen, or my swollen head is a bit greasy..."
By now Asha was in fits of giggles. This amazed her. She hadn't had vanilla coke in days, yet here she was, clutching her sides. But then again, she could get hyper if she wanted to without vanilla coke. Falcon was watching her giggle with mild surprise mingled with fear of this insane girl, snorting and spluttering in front of him. "It wasn't even that funny," he said.
"I know," said Asha, finally being able to draw breath, "I'm just hyper."
Neo came out of his room. Asha nearly laughed when she saw his hair mussed up, looking even more vacant than he had in 'Bill and Ted'.
"What are you doing awake, Neo?" she asked, "We're doing fine."
"It's-" began Neo, but stopped himself. "Nothing. I was awake anyway, so I thought that I'd let you get some sleep."
"Did you have another bad dream?" she asked. Neo didn't answer. Falcon had jumped to his feet when Neo came in - he was still slightly in awe of the system anomaly, no matter how scruffy his hair looked - and Neo sat down in the vacated seat.
"Go and get some sleep," said Neo, "We're going to see the Oracle tomorrow."
Falcon shot an intrigued look at Asha. Asha, however, felt worried. Neo was having dreams, she just knew it. They could be really important. She headed to leave, but as she did, she felt into Neo's mind. She could feel a mixture of confusion, anxiety, and fear. This, however, wasn't the most important thing, the thing that nearly made Asha gasp out loud.
The fear was of Asha.
*****
Now that's a moment for a DURN DURN DURN if there ever was one!
Kit19 - I'm cold too... why can't it snow at least? Stupid country.
Theshiz - Last year at Christmas it snowed only a little, but I insisted on going out and building a snowman. Which I did - it was only about fifteen centimetres tall, but the essence was there...
Elektra, Becca and Claire - The penguins will never stay away, until all 882 of the identical pieces of Aztec gold are returned and the blood repaid...
Sci-Freak GrodySpork - Yes. Interested. That's a good way of putting it.
Mako - Yes, another evil, evil cliffie. I do like cliffies, though. I have no idea why. Yes I do - it makes me want to write more chapters.
Im a Brandybuck - I'm trying not to turn into him, but it's becoming harder every day... *shudder*
Gone-to-jarmadanga - That's a terrible plotline! I mean - Fiji? He OBVIOUSLY wants to take her to Mauritius!
Alocin - That's a really good idea for a sign! We should have produced some before the Matrix: Reloaded... And it is difficult to make Smithy win in fics, so I just try to make it so that he doesn't lose outright. Because Smithy is incredibly cool, albeit creepy and mean.
Artemis - That's OK! Even if you didn't like my story, I wouldn't mind. It's not for everyone. For example, my sister hates it with a burning vengeance... she says that it's cheesy. I don't deny that it's cheesy in places, but some people LIKE cheese. And no, I probably won't ever guess which ones are yours... damn.
Huntress - No, he just doesn't trust David. Think about it - the only time Neo's ever met David, he was shot a couple of seconds later. No one really trusts David - not even Asha, entirely. Neo just thinks that Asha's being tricked.
MollyJean - Sorry it was short. This chapter was slightly longer.
Luna - Look who died in Revs? Hmm, where do I start? Uhh... the guy who played Ugluk in the Two Towers, other people who were there for interesting angsty plotlines, and I won't mention anyone else in case someone's reading this callout who hasn't seen it yet.
T'Lorie - Well, that's just it - has he changed? Or was he not completely evil before? Hmm...
Deity of Sorrow - Well, if that's not a reason to update, I don't know what is...
Jack Cole - I'll try and look as soon as I can, but when I go online to update these stories it'll be my only chance to go online before Christmas. Sorry.
Speaking of which, have a merry Christmas, y'all!