Author's Notes: Thank You for your review's and suggestions I love you guys...sniffs ya'll are my inspiration...sniffs and if it wasn't for you all I'd have been writing all these stories with no one to share them with...and I wouldn't have gotten any better, It was a lot worse when I first started off lol. Sorry for not posting another chapter sooner, been busy with work...
Oh I tried to go in-depth with the mind set of the agents, I don't know whether they actually have these kinds of thoughts or feelings they didn't show any in the movie except for Agent Smith's but he was a virus thingie.
They couldn't leave the matrix because of the fact that they were Vampires, they were dead they had no body outside the Matrix, so they took refuge in LA in a hotel near the airport, just in case they needed to make a break for it. They rented out a room for two after their new operator Jinx made a reservation for them.
Sam was laying on a bed propped up, Slash sat on the end of the bed, Spike sat perched on the dresser, Trinity moved as far away from Slash as she could, take a seat at a table, with Neo across from her and Morpheus paced the room.
"So supposed all this crap your telling me is true, Why now? Why not sooner, why did he have to choose now..." Slash demanded.
Morpheus stopped pacing to look at her, "For two reasons, One of them was because your closer to remembering the truth now that you found the one who infected...Sired you, they don't want you to have your memory back, because then you could be as dangerous as Neo...and the second reason is because of Neo, if you were to remember and take our side in the fight, and fight along side the one, it could have devastating consequences for them, they want to eliminate that threat, before you remember."
"That makes sense, for Amnesiacs seeing a person from their past, depending on the person, actually makes them start to remember, Which makes me wonder if you've met this guy before, why would they send him after you again, he might make you remember..." Sam said.
"Maybe they figure he won't give you time to remember," Trinity replied.
Slash now was quiet staring at an interesting spot on the spotless blue carpet.
"Slash love?" Spike said looking at her oddly.
"Huh?" she said snapping her head up.
"You all right?" Spike asked cautiously.
"Yeah still trying to remember and still coming up short..." Slash said tiredly.
"Don't try to remember," Morpheus told her, "Let it come to you on its own..."
"Maybe you should get some sleep..." Neo suggested.
Slash looked at him, searching for a witty stingingly sarcastic reply but came up short, she was exhausted. She got up off the bed and plopped on the other bed practically falling onto it, as soon as her head hit the pillow she was asleep.
Morpheus looked at Trinity then Neo, before saying, "You should all sleep, we will be back,"
Neo pulled out his phone, "Jinx an exit please..." he said hanging up knowing full and well there was a hard line in the room.
"If someone calls on that phone and tells you to run...don't ask questions just do it, we will be back," Morpheus said.
The phone began to ring, and Morpheus nodded to Neo for him to go, Neo in turn gestured for Trinity to go first, she nodded and picked up the phone, disappearing, Next Went Neo then Morpheus.
"Well If that wasn't odd..."Spike muttered, laying down on the bed next to the sleeping Slash. Spike was obviously more exhausted than he knew, because when he woke up the sun was almost down and Slash was nowhere to be found.
Slash had climbed out the balcony window and up to the roof. She let her hair down and let the wind blow through it. She began pacing there was something, Something she wasn't getting, she knew what they told her but she wasn't making the connection with her memory. It sounded familiar, vaguely...but she couldn't...remember.
"Sam?" Spike said rolling over, "Sam?!"
"¿Que?" he answered groggily.
"Where's Slash?" Spike asked.
"I don't know, she was sleeping right next to you," Sam replied in slight annoyance at his ability to loose a person, Sam sat up as did Spike.
"Was, mate, the key word being, was..." Spike replied.
"If you knew her, then you'd probably be able to guess where she was...So take a guess, because I can," Sam snapped.
"If I knew I wouldn't be asking you," Spike replied.
"You don't know because your a stupid Gringo," Sam said getting up out of the bed, his wound had healed most of the way.
He walked out onto the balcony and looked up, then he climbed up to the roof.
"Mamí? You okay?" Sam asked.
She nodded, "I was just thinking...it's easier to think when your not surrounded by walls, They confine your brain you know? I just wish I could go higher, I still feel trapped...Maybe stand on top of an airplane...that might work,"
"I doubt it," Sam smiled evenly.
"I don't" Slash replied absent-mindedly.
"I don't like him..." Sam said slowly.
"I know you don't..." Slash replied.
"I don't know why...he just bothers me," Sam continued.
"Jack hated him," Slash stated.
"No, Jack resented him, he was jealous..." Sam paused a second unsure if he should keep going, but he did anyway, "He loved you...Slash...You had to have known."
Slash now stared at him blankly.
"You did, did you?" Sam said in slightly realization, then he sighed in slight aggravation with Jack, "I told him so many times to say something but he was just so damned stubborn..."
Slash blinked, her stare still...indifferent, a blank mask.
"We argued," she stated in detached voice, signifying that her brain wasn't in the same place as her body, "The last thing we did was argue...and it was my fault...I intended to come back but then all this happened...and by the time I came back, it was too late."
"Slash don't," Sam sighed knowing what was coming next.
"If I'd been there..." Sam cut her off.
"You would have died, Come on you need to eat," Sam said gesturing with his head for her to follow him back down.
"I'm not hungry," she said curtly.
"I don't give a damn," Sam smiled, "You're going to eat anyway, I guess we'll grab the gringo, too."
She laughed softly, she'd go she'd watch but that was about all. She followed him back down to the room, were they found Spike sitting on the edge of the bed glaring, but his glare was directed toward Sam.
"Quit pouting Gringo, come on, we're going to get food," Sam said walking passed Spike and out the door.
Spike despite the intense need he felt to hit Sam in the face, got up and followed Pausing in the doorway waiting for Slash. Slash stood just outside of the mouth of the alley, where both Sam and Spike were feeding. Of course their styles totally differed from one and other. They started out the same, both sweet talking some poor hapless female into the alley with them, but then that's were their styles changed. Sam was actually somewhat nicer than Spike was to his victim, well at least the victim thought he was nicer. Sam mesmerized the woman, she stood in a trance and didn't even cry out when he bit her. Once the warm thick nectar was drained out of her completely Sam muttered a single word in Latin and the bite marks disappeared. A glamour spell.
Spike on the other hand was brutal, he liked to make his victims scream, and this particular woman did a lot of that. Though they were just outside a club in LA, no one paid any attention to a screaming woman, they were used to it. Spike slammed the woman into the wall, and she began whimpering just a bit, but she began screaming as soon as he vamped out. Which annoyed Spike to no end because it wasn't a scream in pain it was a hysterical scream. Spike just waited calmly figuring she'd stop soon enough. She did stop after a good five minutes, Slash figured she screamed her vocal cords raw. But the woman resumed Screaming...she'd just ran out of breath. Spike finally clamped his hand over her mouth, at the same time her head slamming roughly into the wall knocking her unconscious...
"Oops," he muttered then shrugged.
Sam only shook his head.
"Slash...hungry?" Spike asked.
"No," she replied.
"I told you, you were going to eat...and you are," Sam said carefully.
There was a long silence, too long. Sam made his way to the mouth of the alley, to check on her but he found her walking away. Sam babbled uselessly in Spanish to Slash. Slash ignored him completely and kept walking. Sam wasn't sure if he'd made her mad or what, but he intended to find out.
Spike dropped the bloodless corpse and moved around Sam to go after Slash, but not before casting him a look that could either be read, as, 'Now look what you did,' or an amused 'Who's the stupid one now bitch!' Sam wasn't sure which one it was meant to be if not both but Sam only narrowed his eyes. Then Spike smiled, and turned around.
Slash had made her way up to the top of another building and perched herself calmly on the edge like a angelic gargoyle. Her face was turned down to the ground where Sam stood leaning against the building, unaware she was up there looking down on him.
"I'm not mad at him, but if I stayed he would've made me eat," she stated, to Spike as he approached her from behind.
"But something is bothering you," Spike replied perching next to her, dangling his feet over the edge of the building, as she turned to look at him.
"No I'm fine," she replied.
Spike pushed a few strands of her hair behind her ear, then firmly gripped her chin holding her gaze, "Don't lie to me."
She pulled away from Spike, and turned away looking back down at Sam, "I'm not ly..." she started but stopped feeling Spike's eyes boring through her skull. She avoided looking at him her eyes staring deliberately at the street below. She blinked a moment seeing a black car pull up and stop directly in front of the entrance to the building.
"Slash...What the..." Spike started but she cut him off standing up.
"Look," she said.
A tall man in a suit stepped out of the car cracking his neck, and adjusting his ear pierce. He walked straight toward Sam.
"Sa..." Slash started to yell a warning to him but Spike covered her mouth and pulled her away from the edge.
"Shh," Spike hissed, as she struggled for him to let her go, when he finally did, mainly because he couldn't hold anymore she rushed over to the side to find that Sam was fine...meaning the guy had entered the building.
"Jump," Spike told her quietly.
She looked at him oddly for a second and did just that, landing gracefully beside, Sam followed by Spike.
"Dios Mio!" Sam exclaimed in slight surprise, "Couldn't use the ladder?"
"We don't have time, just come on," Spike growled lifting the manhole cover which was located in the middle of the empty boulevard and gesturing for them to get in.
Slash didn't hesitate, something about that guy scared the hell out of her and she felt the need to run. Sam followed after her then Spike. He replaced the manhole cover.
"That looked like the guy that..." Sam's voice trailed off, "But I don't think he's the same one."
"He's not," Spike said simply, "But he's the same thing...We have to get moving."
Sam wasn't about to argue with that, in fact Sam didn't say anything at all, he just started walking and the other two followed.
Agent Jackson mentally growled,
"I've lost the infected ones." He said into his ear piece.
He figured Agent Brown was going to be rather upset with him since he had volunteered himself to go on Agent Brown's behalf, and had lost such inferior creatures. He face remained emotionless, cold and calm as he moved back to his car to search for them. He doubted he would find them again, they knew he was there. These creatures maybe inferior but they weren't stupid...well 'these' particular ones weren't stupid, most were. Agent Brown didn't realize that these one's used logic and one knew how to cheat the matrix, Agent Brown had told him, one used what the trapped minds would call 'Magic.' That should've been a clue to Agent Brown that they weren't your average infected ones, but he insisted that they were going to be easy to catch...'Then why hasn't he catch them yet?' Agent Jackson thought.
The vampire trio stopped at a manhole, the three looked at each other. Spike gestured with his head for Slash to go up first. She removed the manhole cover and a hand reached down as if to help her up. She took the hand and yanked it down into the sewer and released the ladder letting herself fall onto the 'Stranger'.
"Last time I try to help you," Neo Grumbled from beneath her.
"Neo!" Trinity peered down into the hole.
"I'm okay," he called back, as Slash moved off of him.
"Oops..." she said nonchalantly, heading for the ladder again climbing out. She looked directly at Trinity and said rather bluntly, "Your an idiot."
"Excuse me?" she demanded crossing her arms and raising a single eyebrow above her dark glasses.
"If you see your boyfriend yanked into a hole, Why the bloody hell would you stick your head in it?" Spike answered her joining the group.
"Not the smartest thing in the world..." Sam finished.
Trinity's eyes narrowed.
"And while we're on the subject of stupid things...Why the hell are you wearing sunglasses...it's dark out..." Slashed sighed, "Poor child..."
"I'm not a child..." Trinity snapped.
"If you say so...Where to oh fearless leaders?" Slash asked flatly.
"How did you know?" Morpheus asked suddenly.
"Know what?" Slash looked at him cocking his head to the side.
"That he was an Agent...that you should run..." Morpheus clarified.
"I felt like I should've been running," Slash shrugged.
Morpheus nodded, "That was Agent Jackson...Not Agent Brown...but still he was after you...Quick thinking on your behalf Spike."
"You think I stayed alive this long being a sodding idiot?" he asked.
Neo laughed a little and muttered under his breath, "A fool's luck."
Spike whirled around and narrowed his eyes smiling coldly, "Watch yourself boy..." For a second he realized he sounded like Angelus.
Neo took off his sunglasses and put them in his jacket, and glared intently at Spike. Spike met his glare with one of his own, Slash was afraid Spike would hit him, or visa-versa. She put herself in between the two, and grabbed them both by there clothing, lifted them up slightly.
"One more display of testosterone, and I'll put you both in the hospital, we don't need to see you two play the 'Who has the bigger balls?' game okay?" Slash said gripping them tightly, she was actually choking Neo.
That was what caused Trinity to protest, because she agreed with the demon woman on all other accounts.
"Put Neo down, your choking him," Trinity snapped.
Slashed dropped them both, "Oops...I forgot he needed to breathe...Sorry,"
Neo's eyes narrowed even farther, and in anger he actually threw a punch at the woman, one of those punches that was swift and deliberate, and meant to take a person out of the game completely. Slash didn't think she just reacted, she side stepped his punch and grabbed his fist and flipped him to the ground, at the same time with her free hand she pulled a gun from his jacket and aimed it at his head. All this happened within a five second span, leaving the others staring in awe.
"Damn..." Trinity finally said, "Not many people can keep up with Neo, when he does stuff like that much less match him...I see potential Ice Pick saw in you..."
"Just reacted," Slash shrugged almost defensively, tossing the gun beside Neo.
Neo rubbed his head also shocked, shocked that he'd let his anger get the best of him, and shock that he'd ended up with his own gun being pointed at him.
"That was pretty impressive," Morpheus nodded.
Neo got up off the ground in the process scooping up his gun and he went to walk away but Sam held up a hand, and muttered something in Latin and Neo ran into a magical barrier.
"Don't do that again," Sam warned him then let him go.
Before Neo left he paused, "So we've got a spellcaster, an Ex-Rebel with amnesia who obviously can hold her own, and one who talks a good game but doesn't have shit to back it up...tell me how is that helpful?"
"Your girlfriend isn't dead now is she?" Spike asked.
"What?" Neo cocked his head to the side without turning around.
"The next time Slash wants to kill your girlfriend I'll let her," Spike said shrugging.
It was true, Spike had kept Slash from killing Trinity, even if he did so reluctantly.
"I'm sure if she really wanted to kill her..." Neo started but Sam cut her off.
"No, she wouldn't have...there's a Sire-fledgling bond I mean they grow out of it most of the time, but it takes time, and even then, if the Sire is really pissed...then the fledgling will listen..." Sam told him, "She never listened to Jack...he'd try but she'd ignore him completely...like that time at the all you can eat Buffet...wasn't one person left alive in that place..."
"Yeah we got ripped off...it wasn't all you can eat...once they were all dead...then what? There was no more so its not really all you can eat now is it..." Slash demanded, laughing a little at the thought.
"You guys...are sick..." Trinity muttered, "We've got some friends of ours we'd like you to meet..."