I'm Sorry
It was dark. Very dark, in fact. For a moment Smith didn't know where he was. Then the wind blew, the cold wind. And Smith found him standing in that apartment building.
Where was Kat?
He first thought. He turned his head, and started walking towards her room. He opened the door gently, careful not to wake her if she was asleep. But he found nothing.
Then a black cat jumped onto the couch, and meowed at Smith.
Smith tilted his head.
"Hello." He said.
He walked up to the black cat and patted it on the head.
"Maybe you could help me. I'm looking for my cat." He said.
The cat ran through his hand, and purred. It almost made Smith smile.
He got up, with the cat following, he looked down at his foot, and smiled at the cat. The two walked down the stairs.
It wasn't until Smith stepped outside, that he realized he wasn't wearing his sunglasses. His put his hand over his eyes to block the sun. The cat rubbed against his leg, and purred.
But Smith shrugged it off, and continued walking down the street. And Half way he stopped.
"Where are my copies?" Smith asked out loud.
Then he looked around.
The entire city deserted. No one, no one! Only Smith, Smith and that cat. Smith started backing up to the wall, his mouth dropping open. There was no one in the entire city. Every human just gone. Was the Mainframe looking for him? Was there a glitch?
Then the cat jumped into his arm, and purred. He looked down at the cat, and patted it on the head.
"We need to find my Kat." He said strongly.
The cat purred, and jumped out of his arms.
He looked around frantically. He needed to find his Kat, he needed to see her, make sure she was safe, and get them both out of here. He started running down the street.
"There he is."
"He's running again."
"He always runs."
Smith turned to his right. Agents, Johnson, Thompson, and Jackson. They just stood there, emotionless, together in a trio. Just like Smith once did with Jones and Brown.
Those Agents, those upgrades...His replacements. Those he wouldn't understand the concept of love, even if he tried to tell them. And Smith knew he was once just like them.
The Agents titled their heads together.
"What are you waiting for?" Johnson asked.
"Start running." Jackson said.
"You always run." Thompson said.
"We won't stop you."
Smith stood his ground, and stared at them with the hatred he stared at with Mr. Anderson. He stood straight like an Agent, and nodded his head down, like an Agent. He wanted them to know they were nothing compared to him.
"Always running, Smith." Johnson said again.
"I'm not." Smith replied.
"Yes you are." The Agents said together.
"I'm fulfilling my purpose." He said.
"Your purpose was as an Agent. But you're not that anymore." Johnson said.
"It was being an Agent that kept me from my true purpose!" Smith yelled.
"Does she fit into your purpose?" Johnson asked.
Smith raised an eyebrow, and didn't know what to say. The cat began to hiss at the Agents across the street.
Then there was screaming.
Smith looked over.
"Kat?" He asked in fear.
"Go to her, run to her. Run like you always do." Johnson said.
Smith would have done anything to choke Agent Johnson, but Kat began screaming again. Smith closed his eyes, and ran as fast as he could to her.
He wouldn't let her go. He wouldn' t allow her to be harmed. He would stop her screaming, and hold her. He would heal any wounds she bared.
He just kept running to her, with the black cat following.
He ran into a park, almost throwing the gate open that enclosed it. It was a park with only swings, and surrounded by buildings. The place where Neo would soon speak with the Oracle.
The crows began screeching, and flying away. Flying to the sky, flying, and flying. Smith looked through them and his eyes widened.
"Mr. Anderson!" Smith called.
There Neo stood in the center of that place. He held in the air with one hand, Kat by the neck.
"Smith!" She called to him for help, and the cat hissed.
Neo laughed, and held her neck tighter, killing her in moments.
"No!" Smith yelled.
He froze in shock, as Neo began laughing, and flying to him with the crows. Neo just laughed, and grabbed Smith by the neck, and lifting him into the air.
She was dead. She was dead. She was dead.
And Smith just closed his eyes. He failed her.
"Kat!"
Smith rolled onto the floor of the apartment building. He started panting for air, and holding his neck.
It was the serum taking affect.
He realized he had a nightmare, and started coughing for air.
He rolled to his side. He remembered his Kat, what he did to her. He closed his eyes. He was sorry, he was so sorry. But it had to be this way, he knew it had to be this way.
He started sweating, he knew he had a fever.
Smith shrugged it off. No serum could do this to him. No serum was going to kill him. No serum was going to take away everything he had worked for. He wasn't going to allow this to take him.
The serum could not kill him, but it was coming close.
"Kat..."
He just remembered Kat. He tried not to, he tried to block away the fevers and the nightmares, block away the memories of her. Throw it all always, it was all gone now, she was gone.
Then Smith saw a shoe come to face. He looked up to see five copies staring down at him. One bent down and picked up his sunglasses on the floor. The others stared at him, not sure what to do.
Smith started shaking, and he wrapped his arms around himself. He said nothing, as they just stood there and stared.
She opened her eyes.
"How could you do this to me!?"
Kat jumped, and panted looking at everyone around her. She stared, hatred in her eyes at everyone. They did this, they took her away from him!
"Kat!" Trevor called, and opened his arms ready to hug her.
"Get away from me, Virus!" She yelled, and slapped him. "All of you get away!" She yelled.
"Kat?" Trevor asked, rubbing his neck.
She started panting, finding it was becoming harder to breath. Then everything started to go black.
"Smith..." She whispered, and fainted.
She opened her eyes again.
She was in the medical bay, laying on a cold medical table, with a moniter above her head showing her beating heart. She breathed with her mouth open looking around.
"You okay?" Halo came in.
She didn't say anything.
"You've been jacked in so long, you know, with no food or water, you just collasped." Halo explained.
She turned away from him, sitting up.
"Kat?" Halo stepped closer.
"Virus..." She hissed at him.
Halo lowered his head and left.
Kat sat there for a moment, her eyes closed, trying to remember what it was like with Smith holding her. Before the screaming and the yelling. Before the pain he had just caused her. But she knew it wasn't him. She saw it in those eyes, even behind those sunglasses.
She started feeling dizzy, yes being Jacked in so long made her weaker. She knew Smith would hold her up if he was here.
"Kat...?"
She looked up, and her mouth dropped down.
"Smokeswind!" She yelled in concern.
On the next medical table, just a few feet away, Smokeswind lay, with cables all around him.
He looked horrible, his eyes red, and his chest heaving. But he still smiled at her. She walked over to him, putting her hand in his.
"What happened?" She asked.
"Smith...Smith hit me." He said.
Kat looked down.
"Hey, it's okay." Smokeswind tried cheering her up.
Kat saw, Smith was still the murderer he once was. Smith hurt her. Smith beat her. Smith hurt Smokeswind. Smith held her. Smith loved her.
"You really do love him...Don't you?" Smokeswind asked, just above a whisper. His voice weak from the pain.
"Yes..." She looked up at him.
"How?" Smokeswind shook his head.
"I...I don't know..." She said, her eyes tearing up.
"Kat...He's Smith."
"I know...I just...I just..." She started shaking her head.
"Kat, I'm sorry for what I've done." Smokeswind said.
"What?"
"That stuff...The serum I injected into Smith...It's going to kill him."
Kat's heart skipped a beat. She started sqeezing Smokeswind's hand tighter, just standing still.
"No..." She whispered.
Smith, dead? No! No!
Smith killed. Smith killed again and again. Smith was going to destroy the world, including her. But... But Smith had done so much for her. Those beatings and screams he gave her, lies and she knew it. He was Smith, he couldn't die...He couldn't... He wasn't.
"He won't." She said simply.
He was Smith, and she knew he wasn't going to die.
"Trevor lied to me, Kat! Trevor did all this!" Smokeswind pleaded. "Please...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
Tears started rolling down Smith's cheek.
"It's okay...It's okay..." That was all Kat said, before running up the stairs.
"Smokeswind isn't going to make it, you know, Kat? I'm not going to tell him that of course. But he's got too much internal bleeding, a collasped lung. Smith hit him hard in the chest. At least that didn't happened to you."
Trevor stood in the cockpit alone. His back turned to Kat, who stood in the doorway. He only stared off into the Desert of the Real, smiling. He spoke with no sadness for Smokeswind, nothing.
"Virus." Kat said.
"Don't talk like that machine!" Trevor demanded, turning to her.
"Bastard." She said.
Trevor smiled, walking closer to her.
"This whole thing must have been tramatizing to you. Good thing I saved you." Trevor grabbed her hand.
"You weren't the one Jacked-in. And now Smokeswind must pay for your lies." Kat said strongly.
"But you are safe."
He pushed her to the wall.
"I saved you, Kat. I saved my little Kitty again." He whispered.
Then she punched him in the gut.
"I don't belong to you murderer! You don't own me liar!" Kat said, slapping him again.
"Kat!" Trevor yelled grabbing her.
"Do you know what I learned from Smith!?" She screamed, punching him in the chin.
Trevor fell back.
"You killed him, Trevor! You killed Smokeswind and Smith!" She screamed, even though she knew Smith was going to live. "You egomaniac, thinking you could win me over by saving me!? I don't need to be saved!"
She kicked him in the side.
"Do you know why? Why? Why? Because it is Smith that owns me, Trevor, not you." She said, immitating Smith's voice.
"What!?"
"I love him." She said.
"No, you're mine!"
He grabbed her face, and forced her to kiss him.
"Get off me, foul creature. You disgusting Virus!" She punched him again, then again, and again, and again...
Trevor fell to the floor, and he wouldn't get up until tomorrow.
She started crying in her bed after that for hours. The machines were digging, coming to kill her, and Smith wouldn't be there to protect her.
He wouldn't be here to hold her, and wipe her tears away. He wouldn't be there telling her it will be okay. He was gone, he casted her aside for her own good. She knew this would happen. She knew it was inevitable.
Kat's world was crashing down, and she had to go through it alone.
Smokeswind was about to die, Zion was about to die, Neo was about to die, even her, and smith was not with her, and he didn't want her.
But she couldn't do it alone.
She cried herself to sleep.
When she awoke, they were at Zion. She didn't say anything as everyone passed her by. As doctors carried Smokeswind out of the ship to the hospital. As Trevor walked by her with a black eye. She just stood by the Jack- in station, and watched everyone leave her.
Then everyone was gone, out into Zion while the ship recharged and prepared for the coming Sentinels. And she set the Jack- In station for half an hour. Then she grabbed the plug, and pushed it into the back of her neck, and she fell to the ground, but her mind in the Matrix.
She had half an hour, then the Jack- in Station would unplug her automatically.
She ran to him. She couldn't do this alone, she couldn't.
"Smith!" She called to him, running up the stairs of the apartment building.
Then she stopped, dead in her tracks. The entire floor, filled with copies. They all stared, cold, blank stared at her. Then turned in disgust.
"It is her." They echoed among themselves.
"Smith?" She stood there waiting for him.
Then he came for her.
"Kat!?" He yelled almost in anger.
"Smith!" She ran to him for a hug.
He stopped her and grabbed her arms.
"What are you doing here!?" He screamed.
She didn't say anything, and only looked at him.
"No, you can't be here!"
"Smith...I can't do this." She fell into his arms.
She wanted him to hold her. She wanted him to love her.
But he pushed her away.
"No! Kat, leave this place! Now!" He screamed.
"Smith, I can't do this, please!" She cried, her eyes tearing up.
"No, Kat!"
She grabbed him.
"Smokeswind is dying! The Sentinels are coming! Trevor is trying to molest me! The world is over, Smith! I just want to be with you!" She pleaded for him.
She wanted him to kiss her, brush the hair out of her eyes. Love her, and let her stay.
"No, Kat." He said, and pushed her off again.
She froze, and stared at him, tears coming from her eyes. And Smith saw her crying rain.
He didn't mean for this to hurt so much. He didn't want her to hurt. He loved her. But he just...He couldn't.
She grabbed him again, just one last time, trying to embrace him.
"Smith, you feel like you have a fever..." She said with concern.
"Just the serum." He said void of emotion.
"Oh, god..." She burried her head in his chest.
And the copies stared.
"Kat, go away." He said, quietly.
"I love you..." She cried.
"He's here, Kat. I have to go. Kat, Mr. Anderson is here. I have to fight him." He whispered in her ear.
"No! Stop fighting Neo! You'll kill yourselves!"
He loved her. He didn't want her to cry. He didn't want to leave her like this. He just had to. This was the life he had chosen. And it was a life without her. He looked down at her hand, and saw the ring he gave her. He closed his eyes, and held her hand.
"Kat, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Listen to me. I'm going to be fine. I'm going to live. I promise. I promise. I promise." He whispered, before pushing her away.
"Smith..." She cried.
But Smith walked away, going to fight Mr. Anderson.
"No!" She cried.
She started running after him, but the copies grabbed her by the arms.
"Let go of me! Please!" She begged.
But they just stood there, keeping her still while she cried. She stopped struggling soon. Then she watched as all the copies left, and the ones holding her left with them. They all walked down the stairs, slowly, all staring at her without saying a word.
She just stood there, soon in an empty room, crying. And Smith wasn't coming back.
She walked slowly to the window, and saw what Smith was talking about. There Neo stood, and Smith started walking towards him, crows flying away with him.
"Mr. Anderson, did you get my package?" Smith asked in a cold voice.
"Yeah." Neo replied.
"Good, surprised to see me?"
"No."
Kat turned away, crying. And then she stood there helpless, and watched them fight. All the copies fighting as one, Smith being lost with the many. Neo grabbing a pole, and fighting the copies.
It was too much for Kat to bear. And as Neo flew up into the sky, leaving Smith behind, she ran away as fast as she could.
He wasn't going to take her back. And she stood in the park, where Neo and Smith fought, until she was Jacked-out.
Even then she started running out the doors of the ship, into the doomed city that was Zion.
"Where are you going!?" Haler asked, walking back into the ship.
But she kept running. Running away from her ship, running from the war, and the plan to stop the Sentinels with the EMPs, away from her only connection with Smith. She ran to her home in Zion, the cold, small room.
And as she heard the armies being made, the men screaming, the people building shells, ships taking of, and the APUs being prepped, she just laid in her bed and cried.
But Smith never heard her.
He walked back up the stairs, to find no Kat. He looked down.
"I'm sorry."
Then he walked away from the copies, up another floor to be alone. He stood in a room, and just stared.
It had to be this way.
In only hours he was going to copy the Oracle, and he and Mr.Anderson would have one more battle. Then everything would be his...Everything, accept Kat.
He looked up. At least, he would have to live for Kat. He promised.
He promised...
Next Chapter: You Promised
(The Chosen Shadow wrote this chapter completely for this story; I thank you for it too. Truly, wonderful job, excellent, you always seem to exceed my expectations =D
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It was dark. Very dark, in fact. For a moment Smith didn't know where he was. Then the wind blew, the cold wind. And Smith found him standing in that apartment building.
Where was Kat?
He first thought. He turned his head, and started walking towards her room. He opened the door gently, careful not to wake her if she was asleep. But he found nothing.
Then a black cat jumped onto the couch, and meowed at Smith.
Smith tilted his head.
"Hello." He said.
He walked up to the black cat and patted it on the head.
"Maybe you could help me. I'm looking for my cat." He said.
The cat ran through his hand, and purred. It almost made Smith smile.
He got up, with the cat following, he looked down at his foot, and smiled at the cat. The two walked down the stairs.
It wasn't until Smith stepped outside, that he realized he wasn't wearing his sunglasses. His put his hand over his eyes to block the sun. The cat rubbed against his leg, and purred.
But Smith shrugged it off, and continued walking down the street. And Half way he stopped.
"Where are my copies?" Smith asked out loud.
Then he looked around.
The entire city deserted. No one, no one! Only Smith, Smith and that cat. Smith started backing up to the wall, his mouth dropping open. There was no one in the entire city. Every human just gone. Was the Mainframe looking for him? Was there a glitch?
Then the cat jumped into his arm, and purred. He looked down at the cat, and patted it on the head.
"We need to find my Kat." He said strongly.
The cat purred, and jumped out of his arms.
He looked around frantically. He needed to find his Kat, he needed to see her, make sure she was safe, and get them both out of here. He started running down the street.
"There he is."
"He's running again."
"He always runs."
Smith turned to his right. Agents, Johnson, Thompson, and Jackson. They just stood there, emotionless, together in a trio. Just like Smith once did with Jones and Brown.
Those Agents, those upgrades...His replacements. Those he wouldn't understand the concept of love, even if he tried to tell them. And Smith knew he was once just like them.
The Agents titled their heads together.
"What are you waiting for?" Johnson asked.
"Start running." Jackson said.
"You always run." Thompson said.
"We won't stop you."
Smith stood his ground, and stared at them with the hatred he stared at with Mr. Anderson. He stood straight like an Agent, and nodded his head down, like an Agent. He wanted them to know they were nothing compared to him.
"Always running, Smith." Johnson said again.
"I'm not." Smith replied.
"Yes you are." The Agents said together.
"I'm fulfilling my purpose." He said.
"Your purpose was as an Agent. But you're not that anymore." Johnson said.
"It was being an Agent that kept me from my true purpose!" Smith yelled.
"Does she fit into your purpose?" Johnson asked.
Smith raised an eyebrow, and didn't know what to say. The cat began to hiss at the Agents across the street.
Then there was screaming.
Smith looked over.
"Kat?" He asked in fear.
"Go to her, run to her. Run like you always do." Johnson said.
Smith would have done anything to choke Agent Johnson, but Kat began screaming again. Smith closed his eyes, and ran as fast as he could to her.
He wouldn't let her go. He wouldn' t allow her to be harmed. He would stop her screaming, and hold her. He would heal any wounds she bared.
He just kept running to her, with the black cat following.
He ran into a park, almost throwing the gate open that enclosed it. It was a park with only swings, and surrounded by buildings. The place where Neo would soon speak with the Oracle.
The crows began screeching, and flying away. Flying to the sky, flying, and flying. Smith looked through them and his eyes widened.
"Mr. Anderson!" Smith called.
There Neo stood in the center of that place. He held in the air with one hand, Kat by the neck.
"Smith!" She called to him for help, and the cat hissed.
Neo laughed, and held her neck tighter, killing her in moments.
"No!" Smith yelled.
He froze in shock, as Neo began laughing, and flying to him with the crows. Neo just laughed, and grabbed Smith by the neck, and lifting him into the air.
She was dead. She was dead. She was dead.
And Smith just closed his eyes. He failed her.
"Kat!"
Smith rolled onto the floor of the apartment building. He started panting for air, and holding his neck.
It was the serum taking affect.
He realized he had a nightmare, and started coughing for air.
He rolled to his side. He remembered his Kat, what he did to her. He closed his eyes. He was sorry, he was so sorry. But it had to be this way, he knew it had to be this way.
He started sweating, he knew he had a fever.
Smith shrugged it off. No serum could do this to him. No serum was going to kill him. No serum was going to take away everything he had worked for. He wasn't going to allow this to take him.
The serum could not kill him, but it was coming close.
"Kat..."
He just remembered Kat. He tried not to, he tried to block away the fevers and the nightmares, block away the memories of her. Throw it all always, it was all gone now, she was gone.
Then Smith saw a shoe come to face. He looked up to see five copies staring down at him. One bent down and picked up his sunglasses on the floor. The others stared at him, not sure what to do.
Smith started shaking, and he wrapped his arms around himself. He said nothing, as they just stood there and stared.
She opened her eyes.
"How could you do this to me!?"
Kat jumped, and panted looking at everyone around her. She stared, hatred in her eyes at everyone. They did this, they took her away from him!
"Kat!" Trevor called, and opened his arms ready to hug her.
"Get away from me, Virus!" She yelled, and slapped him. "All of you get away!" She yelled.
"Kat?" Trevor asked, rubbing his neck.
She started panting, finding it was becoming harder to breath. Then everything started to go black.
"Smith..." She whispered, and fainted.
She opened her eyes again.
She was in the medical bay, laying on a cold medical table, with a moniter above her head showing her beating heart. She breathed with her mouth open looking around.
"You okay?" Halo came in.
She didn't say anything.
"You've been jacked in so long, you know, with no food or water, you just collasped." Halo explained.
She turned away from him, sitting up.
"Kat?" Halo stepped closer.
"Virus..." She hissed at him.
Halo lowered his head and left.
Kat sat there for a moment, her eyes closed, trying to remember what it was like with Smith holding her. Before the screaming and the yelling. Before the pain he had just caused her. But she knew it wasn't him. She saw it in those eyes, even behind those sunglasses.
She started feeling dizzy, yes being Jacked in so long made her weaker. She knew Smith would hold her up if he was here.
"Kat...?"
She looked up, and her mouth dropped down.
"Smokeswind!" She yelled in concern.
On the next medical table, just a few feet away, Smokeswind lay, with cables all around him.
He looked horrible, his eyes red, and his chest heaving. But he still smiled at her. She walked over to him, putting her hand in his.
"What happened?" She asked.
"Smith...Smith hit me." He said.
Kat looked down.
"Hey, it's okay." Smokeswind tried cheering her up.
Kat saw, Smith was still the murderer he once was. Smith hurt her. Smith beat her. Smith hurt Smokeswind. Smith held her. Smith loved her.
"You really do love him...Don't you?" Smokeswind asked, just above a whisper. His voice weak from the pain.
"Yes..." She looked up at him.
"How?" Smokeswind shook his head.
"I...I don't know..." She said, her eyes tearing up.
"Kat...He's Smith."
"I know...I just...I just..." She started shaking her head.
"Kat, I'm sorry for what I've done." Smokeswind said.
"What?"
"That stuff...The serum I injected into Smith...It's going to kill him."
Kat's heart skipped a beat. She started sqeezing Smokeswind's hand tighter, just standing still.
"No..." She whispered.
Smith, dead? No! No!
Smith killed. Smith killed again and again. Smith was going to destroy the world, including her. But... But Smith had done so much for her. Those beatings and screams he gave her, lies and she knew it. He was Smith, he couldn't die...He couldn't... He wasn't.
"He won't." She said simply.
He was Smith, and she knew he wasn't going to die.
"Trevor lied to me, Kat! Trevor did all this!" Smokeswind pleaded. "Please...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
Tears started rolling down Smith's cheek.
"It's okay...It's okay..." That was all Kat said, before running up the stairs.
"Smokeswind isn't going to make it, you know, Kat? I'm not going to tell him that of course. But he's got too much internal bleeding, a collasped lung. Smith hit him hard in the chest. At least that didn't happened to you."
Trevor stood in the cockpit alone. His back turned to Kat, who stood in the doorway. He only stared off into the Desert of the Real, smiling. He spoke with no sadness for Smokeswind, nothing.
"Virus." Kat said.
"Don't talk like that machine!" Trevor demanded, turning to her.
"Bastard." She said.
Trevor smiled, walking closer to her.
"This whole thing must have been tramatizing to you. Good thing I saved you." Trevor grabbed her hand.
"You weren't the one Jacked-in. And now Smokeswind must pay for your lies." Kat said strongly.
"But you are safe."
He pushed her to the wall.
"I saved you, Kat. I saved my little Kitty again." He whispered.
Then she punched him in the gut.
"I don't belong to you murderer! You don't own me liar!" Kat said, slapping him again.
"Kat!" Trevor yelled grabbing her.
"Do you know what I learned from Smith!?" She screamed, punching him in the chin.
Trevor fell back.
"You killed him, Trevor! You killed Smokeswind and Smith!" She screamed, even though she knew Smith was going to live. "You egomaniac, thinking you could win me over by saving me!? I don't need to be saved!"
She kicked him in the side.
"Do you know why? Why? Why? Because it is Smith that owns me, Trevor, not you." She said, immitating Smith's voice.
"What!?"
"I love him." She said.
"No, you're mine!"
He grabbed her face, and forced her to kiss him.
"Get off me, foul creature. You disgusting Virus!" She punched him again, then again, and again, and again...
Trevor fell to the floor, and he wouldn't get up until tomorrow.
She started crying in her bed after that for hours. The machines were digging, coming to kill her, and Smith wouldn't be there to protect her.
He wouldn't be here to hold her, and wipe her tears away. He wouldn't be there telling her it will be okay. He was gone, he casted her aside for her own good. She knew this would happen. She knew it was inevitable.
Kat's world was crashing down, and she had to go through it alone.
Smokeswind was about to die, Zion was about to die, Neo was about to die, even her, and smith was not with her, and he didn't want her.
But she couldn't do it alone.
She cried herself to sleep.
When she awoke, they were at Zion. She didn't say anything as everyone passed her by. As doctors carried Smokeswind out of the ship to the hospital. As Trevor walked by her with a black eye. She just stood by the Jack- in station, and watched everyone leave her.
Then everyone was gone, out into Zion while the ship recharged and prepared for the coming Sentinels. And she set the Jack- In station for half an hour. Then she grabbed the plug, and pushed it into the back of her neck, and she fell to the ground, but her mind in the Matrix.
She had half an hour, then the Jack- in Station would unplug her automatically.
She ran to him. She couldn't do this alone, she couldn't.
"Smith!" She called to him, running up the stairs of the apartment building.
Then she stopped, dead in her tracks. The entire floor, filled with copies. They all stared, cold, blank stared at her. Then turned in disgust.
"It is her." They echoed among themselves.
"Smith?" She stood there waiting for him.
Then he came for her.
"Kat!?" He yelled almost in anger.
"Smith!" She ran to him for a hug.
He stopped her and grabbed her arms.
"What are you doing here!?" He screamed.
She didn't say anything, and only looked at him.
"No, you can't be here!"
"Smith...I can't do this." She fell into his arms.
She wanted him to hold her. She wanted him to love her.
But he pushed her away.
"No! Kat, leave this place! Now!" He screamed.
"Smith, I can't do this, please!" She cried, her eyes tearing up.
"No, Kat!"
She grabbed him.
"Smokeswind is dying! The Sentinels are coming! Trevor is trying to molest me! The world is over, Smith! I just want to be with you!" She pleaded for him.
She wanted him to kiss her, brush the hair out of her eyes. Love her, and let her stay.
"No, Kat." He said, and pushed her off again.
She froze, and stared at him, tears coming from her eyes. And Smith saw her crying rain.
He didn't mean for this to hurt so much. He didn't want her to hurt. He loved her. But he just...He couldn't.
She grabbed him again, just one last time, trying to embrace him.
"Smith, you feel like you have a fever..." She said with concern.
"Just the serum." He said void of emotion.
"Oh, god..." She burried her head in his chest.
And the copies stared.
"Kat, go away." He said, quietly.
"I love you..." She cried.
"He's here, Kat. I have to go. Kat, Mr. Anderson is here. I have to fight him." He whispered in her ear.
"No! Stop fighting Neo! You'll kill yourselves!"
He loved her. He didn't want her to cry. He didn't want to leave her like this. He just had to. This was the life he had chosen. And it was a life without her. He looked down at her hand, and saw the ring he gave her. He closed his eyes, and held her hand.
"Kat, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Listen to me. I'm going to be fine. I'm going to live. I promise. I promise. I promise." He whispered, before pushing her away.
"Smith..." She cried.
But Smith walked away, going to fight Mr. Anderson.
"No!" She cried.
She started running after him, but the copies grabbed her by the arms.
"Let go of me! Please!" She begged.
But they just stood there, keeping her still while she cried. She stopped struggling soon. Then she watched as all the copies left, and the ones holding her left with them. They all walked down the stairs, slowly, all staring at her without saying a word.
She just stood there, soon in an empty room, crying. And Smith wasn't coming back.
She walked slowly to the window, and saw what Smith was talking about. There Neo stood, and Smith started walking towards him, crows flying away with him.
"Mr. Anderson, did you get my package?" Smith asked in a cold voice.
"Yeah." Neo replied.
"Good, surprised to see me?"
"No."
Kat turned away, crying. And then she stood there helpless, and watched them fight. All the copies fighting as one, Smith being lost with the many. Neo grabbing a pole, and fighting the copies.
It was too much for Kat to bear. And as Neo flew up into the sky, leaving Smith behind, she ran away as fast as she could.
He wasn't going to take her back. And she stood in the park, where Neo and Smith fought, until she was Jacked-out.
Even then she started running out the doors of the ship, into the doomed city that was Zion.
"Where are you going!?" Haler asked, walking back into the ship.
But she kept running. Running away from her ship, running from the war, and the plan to stop the Sentinels with the EMPs, away from her only connection with Smith. She ran to her home in Zion, the cold, small room.
And as she heard the armies being made, the men screaming, the people building shells, ships taking of, and the APUs being prepped, she just laid in her bed and cried.
But Smith never heard her.
He walked back up the stairs, to find no Kat. He looked down.
"I'm sorry."
Then he walked away from the copies, up another floor to be alone. He stood in a room, and just stared.
It had to be this way.
In only hours he was going to copy the Oracle, and he and Mr.Anderson would have one more battle. Then everything would be his...Everything, accept Kat.
He looked up. At least, he would have to live for Kat. He promised.
He promised...
Next Chapter: You Promised
(The Chosen Shadow wrote this chapter completely for this story; I thank you for it too. Truly, wonderful job, excellent, you always seem to exceed my expectations =D
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