Title: Falling

Author: Kenora Hazel Saul

Rating: PG


Disclaimer: I own none of the Matrix.

A/N: And so begins Reloaded, this chapter coincides with the beginning of Reloaded. I won't be following the plot faithfully, some stuff will be different.

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Lying in the dark, wondering why she felt so weird. Trinity pondered her feelings of sheer happiness when she'd heard that Delilah had been snatched. It was wrong to be happy and yet she couldn't help herself.

Looking over at Neo, while he was sleeping the sleep of the dead. Which was good for him since he'd been sleeping badly lately. Perhaps having that witch off the ship had helped him to sleep better. She closed her eyes, her mind finally at peace.

Neo's brow furrowed in frustration as he rolled away from Trinity in his sleep.

~Glass breaking, Trinity covered in blood. Shooting guns at an Agent as she dropped quickly though the air. The Agent firing back at her. One shot fired hit her in the chest. It scorched through her insides, fiery pain ripped through her. Her eyes opened in recognition, she was going to die.~

Neo's eyes flew open. What had he just dreamt? What was going on? He looked over at Trinity, quietly he got out of bed.

Neo cradled a cup of cool brew, trying to sort through his dream and what it meant? Would he have to choose whether Trinity lived or died? He closed his eyes against such an actuality, he would never be able to survive without her?

"Neo." Her soft voice spoke him and pulled him out of his web of thoughts.

"Can't sleep?" Her eyes took in the haunted look in his eyes. "Wanna talk about it?"

"They're just dreams." Neo reassured himself, taking her hand. "I love you." He leaned across the table and kissed her softly. Savoring the feel of her lips, so alive. He couldn't imagine, kissing her in death. He would never survive…………never.

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A group of men and women stood in a dark room in a basement of an abandoned building.

A dark haired woman, Niobe, tossed a bunch of pictures on a table. "These are the last scans from the Osiris."

"That'd mean there are a quarter million Sentinels up there." Another woman spoke out.

"These can't be right?" a man protested.

"Why not, a sentinel for every man, woman, and child in Zion. That seems to be the thinking of a machine to me." Morpheus spoke loudly as he entered the room.

Trinity and Neo walked silently behind him. Taking their posts at the side of the door.

"Morpheus, glad you could make it," Niobe nodded.

"Captain Niobe," Morpheus replied.

"What are we going to do?" a voice spoke out.

"We are going to go back to Zion, exactly as Commander Locke has ordered us to." Niobe answered.

"Might I ask if there is anyone willing to remain behind, if the Oracle should choose to make contact?" Morpheus looked around the room.

Neo cocked his head to the side. He heard something upstairs, something unsettling. Moving slowly and stealthily, he made his way up the stairs.

Trinity looked after him, something about him just didn't seem right lately. She shook it off and tuned back into Morpheus's speech.

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Shattered glass lay on the ground, Neo looked down at the three Agents that were strewn on the ground like broken puppets. He focused on the ground, moving his hand and taking off with a force of energy.

Up through the clouds, he flew to the full moon.

A vision pounded at his mind. He held his head with his hands, trying to reduce the pain.

~Blue sky, piercing sunlight. "Neo, it's so beautiful."~

A blackness consumed him. His body began to fall. His mind shut down. The image of Trinity smiling at the sun and the blue sky consumed him. His vision couldn't come true.

His body gathered speed as it fell…………………down to the Matrix below.