AN: Whooo! I suspect this may be either the second or third to last chapter! My god, Ican't believe I've written all of this. I'll save the sappiness for the end. Typical Disclaimer: I don't own the Twins, The Matrix, Etc…I do however own the observatory!

Dedicated to…hrm….I think I'll dedicated this one to myself. ^_^

Chapter XXXIII: The Life Cycle

The Frenchman looks from me to my unconscious brother to Adrian.

"Set the boy aside. We have no use for him."

"What do you speak of? His code must be distributed." I replied, my voice edged with anger.

"Then kill him," mutters the Merovingian, glancing over several screens and attaching nodes to his face and neck.

"What?"

The man turns back to me, looking rather irritated, "What do you think happens to the code of those who die? It becomes redistributed and made into other things. All you need to do is kill him and be done with it."

That never quite occurred to me before. He gives me a look that plainly says I'm an idiot (and how can I disagree?) and turns back to the screen. I look over at the body of…well...the past of me.

As I look at him, I don't even think I can kill him. I don't think I have it in whatever heart I have…if I have one. I just stare at him…wordlessly.

Snapping me out of my reverie is the obnoxious nasal voice that I've heard too much of.

"The human's code is separated and is being transferred into his own shell so you may kill him as well. I leave you here. Do what you wish with them. Your brother will awake shortly. You have the key to the hotel. Good day."

He walks out, and I get the itchy feeling he knows I can't bring myself to kill Adrian…or even Neil. But regardless of that, this room unnerves me. I want to get out of here, but I have no clue how to haul three bodies out of a room, and I also have no clue where to take them. I swear under my breath.

One wakes up why I think, Neil's body slowly begins to materialize on the empty table.

"Two."

I turn immediately to him, "You're awake."

"We must kill them." His words are solid and flat, ruthless, if words can be that, "They are a threat to our continued existence. They must be eradicated."

"Wait, One, we must get them out here first. We do not like this place."

"Where will we go, Two? We have no place to go."

I ignore his words. I close my eyes and focus, glance through the code of the walls and the streets, looking for an empty place. An empty place near to here…or at least, something to that effect. Given the fact we can go through the backdoors to wherever we want, everywhere could be considered close. But close not just in location, but in feeling too. Feeling like I am, a source of sort of desperation combined with hopelessness and renewal. Such an impossible contradiction.

My senses focus on an observatory across the mega-city. It is empty now, and they even now close upon the telescope room, painted a solid white and the dome shaped ceiling interrupted only by the giant telescope that stretches throughout the space. It seems to mirror me, sort of empty yet filled with all that serves my purpose, however bleak and cold and…well...empty.

"We'll go to the observatory."

One looks at me like I have absolutely lost my mind. Then again I suppose he could be correct. But an insane man doesn't know when he is insane, does he?

"Have you gone mad, Two?"

"We could hardly argue either way,"

He rolls his eyes, "What shall we do with the humans?"

"Take them, of course." At my command, he reluctantly hurls the unconscious Neil onto his shoulder and holds him none too lightly. I pick up Adrian and hold him loosely in my arms, "Could you open the door?"

He digs the key out of his pocket and opens the door to the backdoors. There is an uncomfortable silence as we travel down the corridor, but we finally reach the door to the observatory.

He slides the key into the door and opens it, and the two of us enter. No more words are exchanged as we climb the steps to the telescope room, though I can hear One's confusion and doubt in his head. He opens the door (as my hands are currently occupied by Adrian's form) and ushers me in, closing it behind us.

One drops Neil into a chair without a car and the world and I place Adrian into the adjacent chair with quite a lot more care. We look at each other and then back to the unconscious humans who would be us. And us be them.

Neil and Adrian begin to stir. Adrian comes too first, his form sitting back. Neil wakes as well, and both of them are on their feet.

"Adrian," I announce, "I need to kill you."