Title: Death
Author: Kenora Hazel Saul
Disclaimer: I own none of the Matrix!
A/N: Here's Chapter 7. Enjoy!
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Neo stood on the top of the Agents' building, there was no sign of Trinity anywhere; he couldn't sense her anywhere. Tank couldn't locate her anywhere either.
Cool raindrops fell on his face, like angel's tears. Dark shades masked his eyes from the dim sunlight. Neo closed his eyes and felt nothing, without Trinity at his side. He was empty, she was his strength.
Cooling twilight air breezed past his face as Neo gazed out onto the artificial beauty that was the Matrix. Modern architecture, yielded such beauty, and boundless horizons that stretched to the end of the earth. Where was she?
*~*~*~*~*~*
Leather squeaked as Trinity rolled over in the white hospital bed. She slowly opened her eyes, and tried to move. Finding that she couldn't. Quickly surveying her surroundings, she was trapped. In a white clinical room that reeked of bleach.
The last thing that she remembered was watching Neo fighting three Agents, and then nothing.
The doorknob creaked open, a silver sphere circling until it clicked and opened.
Trinity gasped when she saw who it was. How? She looked at the person in shock.
*~*~*~*~*~*
"Damn it Neo, we don't how to find something that isn't there!" Morpheus roared.
"She didn't disappear, she was kidnapped, isn't there something you can do in this kind of situation?" Neo yelled back.
"Zion has been contacted, and I'm sure they will have a solution to this problem soon." Morpheus quietly said, bowing his head in silence. Offering up a prayer that Trinity be kept safe and found quickly.
"Trinity is not a problem, am I the only one who cares if she's found. Damn it." Neo pushed past Morpheus and stormed down the hall to the sleeping quarters.
*~*~*~*~*
"My plan is going exactly as it should," Delilah congratulated herself. "It's time to make my move." Moving silently down the corridor of the sleeping quarters, she approached the door that led to Neo's private domain.
Opening the door silently, she approached the bed, looking down on his dark head with unadulterated desire. She itched to climb under the covers with him, to be with him, in the fullest sense of the word.
He shifted in his troubled sleep. His eyebrows arched and then furrowed in confusion. He was obviously dreaming, Delilah wished she could see into his mind.
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"I will not stand by she dies." Neo said to a cloaked figure.
"There's nothing you can do, she will die and there's nothing you can do about it. So why bother trying," the voice mocked him.
"Because I love her, damn it." Neo's eyes glowed with absolute confidence in his vow.
"As time passes, her life will fade, as surely as the grains of the hourglass flow. Her life ebbs away, and she will die at the hand of another."
"What does that mean? Who will kill her?" Neo pleaded with the darkness.
"You knew someone before and that person has returned in the form of another." The cryptic voice said as it floated away on the breeze.
Neo stood in the shadows of darkness. Lost, alone and confused. Knowing that every second that passed was a knell affirming her inevitable death.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo sat up suddenly and right into Delilah's arms.
"Shhhh," she crooned. Wrapping her arms around him, she soothed him. Secretly thrilled to have a chance to be this close to him.
Neo sat there, rigid like a stone. Trinity was going to die, and there was nothing he could do about it.
He had to stop it. He had to try. He had to believe in their love, it had saved him, and it would save Trinity.
*~*~*~*~*
"Sweet Sweet Trinity." Cypher crooned mockingly. Looking at the angel in leather tied to the bed.
"How? You're dead." Trinity looked aghast at the revelation that he was alive.
"No need for you to know. Let's just celebrate the fact that we're together again and we will be forever."
"What'd you mean?" Trinity looked around the room, looking for an escape.
"I made a deal." Cypher looked pretty pleased with himself.
"With who, that bitch Delilah?" Trinity cursed, her eyes glowing spheres of blazing cobalt.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo sat on his bed, head in his hands. Delilah sat beside him, rubbing his back softly. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Yeah, find Trinity for me." He sighed in despair.
Delilah's emerald eyes glinted dangerously. That'll never happen, she thought. "If only I could," she said aloud.
"Let's go eat, and see if Morpheus has heard anything from Zion." He walked out of the room, with Delilah on his feet, her hand on his back.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Mouse and Tank were eating and talking to Morpheus. They fell silent when Neo walked in with Delilah.
"What's going on?" Neo asked.
"We have some news." Morpheus said quietly.
"Well tell me what it is?"
"Cypher's body has disappeared from the mausoleum." Morpheus looked disturbed.
"What does that have to do with Trinity?" Neo was baffled.
"If he's alive, and in the Matrix, then wherever he is, we can't trace him. Especially if he took Trinity." Morpheus concluded.
"Why would Cypher rise from the dead and kidnap Trinity?" Neo asked.
"Someone with a motive who didn't want to do it themselves, someone who want to separate the two of you." Morpheus said.
"But who would do such a thing? Nobody I can think of, would have such a motive." Neo was convinced of that.
"Are you sure?" Morpheus asked.
"Yeah." Neo hurriedly replied. "Now how we can find him or her?"
Delilah backed away from the group. How had they uncovered so much of her plan, obviously she'd underestimated them.
Neo couldn't think of anyone with a motive, so she was safe there for now. But she had to get Trinity out of the way once and for all.
*~*~*~*~*
Trinity had convinced Cypher to untie her. She had to get out of here. But how?
She heard footsteps. Running over to the bed, she curled up and pretended to be asleep.
Cypher entered the room carrying a tray of food and whistling.
He leaned over to check on Trinity and got a kick in the face. She whirled away and ran out of the room. Down a maze of hallways with many doors.
"Where the hell am I?" she ran to a blue door and kicked it opened. She was in an alley behind a Chinese restaurant.
She zigzagged down the road, until she came to a payphone.
*~*~*~*~*
Tank who was watching the screen and wearing his headset, lazily closed his eyes and then opened them.
Staring at the screen, he saw a code that looked like Trinity's. He saw that she was running from something and near a payphone.
"Neo," he yelled. "I found her."
Neo ran down the hallway. "Where?"
"She's near the old hotel, Heart o' the Valley," Tank answered.
"I'm going in." Neo ran to his chair. Delilah ran into the room. "You're going to need backup." She ran to her chair.
Morpheus plugged them both in. "Good luck."
*~*~*~*~*
Trinity rang the Operator and got no answer. "Damn it." She saw Cypher coming around the corner. Ditching the phone, she hightailed it around the corner and out of his sight.
Neo and Delilah ran out of the abandoned building. Neo dialed Tank. "Where is she?"
"Running towards the old subway station, you know which one." He hung up and started sprinting.
"Damn it Trinity, I didn't want it come to this, don't make me shoot you." Cypher taunted her as he walked down the stairs of the subway station.
Hiding in the shadows, Trinity watched him ascend the stairs, coming closer and closer to her.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo and Delilah were running up the subway tunnel towards the platform. Neo could hear Cypher's whiny voice taunting Trinity.
They stopped at the corner. Neo saw Trinity hiding around the corner. Cypher was on the opposite side of her. She was right in the middle.
Neo stepped out. "Cypher put the gun down."
Cypher froze in his tracks. "Oh look, its your loverboy." He cocked the gun, ready to fire at any second.
Trinity stared at Neo, drinking him in. She was so hungry for him, to look and to touch. She stepped out and started running towards him. "Neo." Her love shining for all to see.
"Nooooo," Cypher yelled. He switched his aim from Neo to Trinity. He pulled the trigger.
The bullet hit Trinity in the back on her left side. She fell, her arms outstretched towards Neo, hitting the ground with a cold empty thud.
Delilah watched it all happen from the shadows. She couldn't reveal herself, Cypher would give her away. Besides Neo would kill him now to avenge Trinity.
Neo raced to Trinity's side and turned her over gently, holding her in his arms. Blood dribbled out of her mouth.
Tremblingly she put a hand to his mouth. "I love you so much, don't forget me." She closed her eyes, and her hand fell to the ground.
*~*~*~*~*
Author: Kenora Hazel Saul
Disclaimer: I own none of the Matrix!
A/N: Here's Chapter 7. Enjoy!
*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo stood on the top of the Agents' building, there was no sign of Trinity anywhere; he couldn't sense her anywhere. Tank couldn't locate her anywhere either.
Cool raindrops fell on his face, like angel's tears. Dark shades masked his eyes from the dim sunlight. Neo closed his eyes and felt nothing, without Trinity at his side. He was empty, she was his strength.
Cooling twilight air breezed past his face as Neo gazed out onto the artificial beauty that was the Matrix. Modern architecture, yielded such beauty, and boundless horizons that stretched to the end of the earth. Where was she?
*~*~*~*~*~*
Leather squeaked as Trinity rolled over in the white hospital bed. She slowly opened her eyes, and tried to move. Finding that she couldn't. Quickly surveying her surroundings, she was trapped. In a white clinical room that reeked of bleach.
The last thing that she remembered was watching Neo fighting three Agents, and then nothing.
The doorknob creaked open, a silver sphere circling until it clicked and opened.
Trinity gasped when she saw who it was. How? She looked at the person in shock.
*~*~*~*~*~*
"Damn it Neo, we don't how to find something that isn't there!" Morpheus roared.
"She didn't disappear, she was kidnapped, isn't there something you can do in this kind of situation?" Neo yelled back.
"Zion has been contacted, and I'm sure they will have a solution to this problem soon." Morpheus quietly said, bowing his head in silence. Offering up a prayer that Trinity be kept safe and found quickly.
"Trinity is not a problem, am I the only one who cares if she's found. Damn it." Neo pushed past Morpheus and stormed down the hall to the sleeping quarters.
*~*~*~*~*
"My plan is going exactly as it should," Delilah congratulated herself. "It's time to make my move." Moving silently down the corridor of the sleeping quarters, she approached the door that led to Neo's private domain.
Opening the door silently, she approached the bed, looking down on his dark head with unadulterated desire. She itched to climb under the covers with him, to be with him, in the fullest sense of the word.
He shifted in his troubled sleep. His eyebrows arched and then furrowed in confusion. He was obviously dreaming, Delilah wished she could see into his mind.
~
"I will not stand by she dies." Neo said to a cloaked figure.
"There's nothing you can do, she will die and there's nothing you can do about it. So why bother trying," the voice mocked him.
"Because I love her, damn it." Neo's eyes glowed with absolute confidence in his vow.
"As time passes, her life will fade, as surely as the grains of the hourglass flow. Her life ebbs away, and she will die at the hand of another."
"What does that mean? Who will kill her?" Neo pleaded with the darkness.
"You knew someone before and that person has returned in the form of another." The cryptic voice said as it floated away on the breeze.
Neo stood in the shadows of darkness. Lost, alone and confused. Knowing that every second that passed was a knell affirming her inevitable death.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo sat up suddenly and right into Delilah's arms.
"Shhhh," she crooned. Wrapping her arms around him, she soothed him. Secretly thrilled to have a chance to be this close to him.
Neo sat there, rigid like a stone. Trinity was going to die, and there was nothing he could do about it.
He had to stop it. He had to try. He had to believe in their love, it had saved him, and it would save Trinity.
*~*~*~*~*
"Sweet Sweet Trinity." Cypher crooned mockingly. Looking at the angel in leather tied to the bed.
"How? You're dead." Trinity looked aghast at the revelation that he was alive.
"No need for you to know. Let's just celebrate the fact that we're together again and we will be forever."
"What'd you mean?" Trinity looked around the room, looking for an escape.
"I made a deal." Cypher looked pretty pleased with himself.
"With who, that bitch Delilah?" Trinity cursed, her eyes glowing spheres of blazing cobalt.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo sat on his bed, head in his hands. Delilah sat beside him, rubbing his back softly. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Yeah, find Trinity for me." He sighed in despair.
Delilah's emerald eyes glinted dangerously. That'll never happen, she thought. "If only I could," she said aloud.
"Let's go eat, and see if Morpheus has heard anything from Zion." He walked out of the room, with Delilah on his feet, her hand on his back.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Mouse and Tank were eating and talking to Morpheus. They fell silent when Neo walked in with Delilah.
"What's going on?" Neo asked.
"We have some news." Morpheus said quietly.
"Well tell me what it is?"
"Cypher's body has disappeared from the mausoleum." Morpheus looked disturbed.
"What does that have to do with Trinity?" Neo was baffled.
"If he's alive, and in the Matrix, then wherever he is, we can't trace him. Especially if he took Trinity." Morpheus concluded.
"Why would Cypher rise from the dead and kidnap Trinity?" Neo asked.
"Someone with a motive who didn't want to do it themselves, someone who want to separate the two of you." Morpheus said.
"But who would do such a thing? Nobody I can think of, would have such a motive." Neo was convinced of that.
"Are you sure?" Morpheus asked.
"Yeah." Neo hurriedly replied. "Now how we can find him or her?"
Delilah backed away from the group. How had they uncovered so much of her plan, obviously she'd underestimated them.
Neo couldn't think of anyone with a motive, so she was safe there for now. But she had to get Trinity out of the way once and for all.
*~*~*~*~*
Trinity had convinced Cypher to untie her. She had to get out of here. But how?
She heard footsteps. Running over to the bed, she curled up and pretended to be asleep.
Cypher entered the room carrying a tray of food and whistling.
He leaned over to check on Trinity and got a kick in the face. She whirled away and ran out of the room. Down a maze of hallways with many doors.
"Where the hell am I?" she ran to a blue door and kicked it opened. She was in an alley behind a Chinese restaurant.
She zigzagged down the road, until she came to a payphone.
*~*~*~*~*
Tank who was watching the screen and wearing his headset, lazily closed his eyes and then opened them.
Staring at the screen, he saw a code that looked like Trinity's. He saw that she was running from something and near a payphone.
"Neo," he yelled. "I found her."
Neo ran down the hallway. "Where?"
"She's near the old hotel, Heart o' the Valley," Tank answered.
"I'm going in." Neo ran to his chair. Delilah ran into the room. "You're going to need backup." She ran to her chair.
Morpheus plugged them both in. "Good luck."
*~*~*~*~*
Trinity rang the Operator and got no answer. "Damn it." She saw Cypher coming around the corner. Ditching the phone, she hightailed it around the corner and out of his sight.
Neo and Delilah ran out of the abandoned building. Neo dialed Tank. "Where is she?"
"Running towards the old subway station, you know which one." He hung up and started sprinting.
"Damn it Trinity, I didn't want it come to this, don't make me shoot you." Cypher taunted her as he walked down the stairs of the subway station.
Hiding in the shadows, Trinity watched him ascend the stairs, coming closer and closer to her.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Neo and Delilah were running up the subway tunnel towards the platform. Neo could hear Cypher's whiny voice taunting Trinity.
They stopped at the corner. Neo saw Trinity hiding around the corner. Cypher was on the opposite side of her. She was right in the middle.
Neo stepped out. "Cypher put the gun down."
Cypher froze in his tracks. "Oh look, its your loverboy." He cocked the gun, ready to fire at any second.
Trinity stared at Neo, drinking him in. She was so hungry for him, to look and to touch. She stepped out and started running towards him. "Neo." Her love shining for all to see.
"Nooooo," Cypher yelled. He switched his aim from Neo to Trinity. He pulled the trigger.
The bullet hit Trinity in the back on her left side. She fell, her arms outstretched towards Neo, hitting the ground with a cold empty thud.
Delilah watched it all happen from the shadows. She couldn't reveal herself, Cypher would give her away. Besides Neo would kill him now to avenge Trinity.
Neo raced to Trinity's side and turned her over gently, holding her in his arms. Blood dribbled out of her mouth.
Tremblingly she put a hand to his mouth. "I love you so much, don't forget me." She closed her eyes, and her hand fell to the ground.
*~*~*~*~*