I just want to say a few things. Firstly, thanks for putting up with my snails pace updating, I know you want to read more, and I do wish I had the time to write as much as I can, but I cant. The exams are in about two months, I have a few weeks Easter holiday, which will be spent revising, but I will try to write another chapter or two then, which I will update steadily, not when I write them, so you will have the story evenly over the next few months. Oh, boy, I cant wait till its over!!!

Right, the second thing I want to say is about my reviews I have received after posting the last chapter. I need to say thank you to EVERYONE who reviewed, as they are all appreciated.

GreyElvenWarrior, ill try to post as much as possible, but it wont be soon. It will be steadily, though, so you wont get two chapters together, and then have to wait two months for the next. Yeah, I do check my grammar and spelling, and have a read through, but sometimes, like with the last chapter, I didn't have a lot of time to do that, and just wanted to know if there was anything I missed out. So thanks for assuring me there wernt.

EmyLyii, oh, well, I don't really like Lock that much, I felt that he had to be in the same position, cus it would make him even grumpier. Plus, he was already head of security, I doubt that they would be able to premote him much higher, and I doubt with all of this 'if it were up to me, I'd…' stuff, he'd be made a councillor.

Kal Torak, oh, I am glad you liked it so much, its always brilliant to get a review like that!!! yes, I like writing grumpy Lock, its fun!!! You better wait till the chapter after this, there is a very Lockish Lock there, and you will hate him! Thank you so much for all your help.

kurtcobain01, thanks for your review, I hope everything is going okay, and I hope you are up to your expectations… ;)

Agent Brown, yes, thank you for your review as well. Like you say, an author has to accept constructive criticism, and I want to say thanks for pointing out that some people may believe this story to be a self insert or a Mary Sue, however, I assure you it is neither. The name for Sapphire came a long time before I became a member here, and it only shares my pen name because my other choices were taken, and I really like that name. I'm going to put a note at the beginning of the first chapter about this, when I have the time. I now ask you to take a look at the previous reviews that I have received, and to at least have a little try at reading the story and seeing if you like it yourself, like I think most of my other readers do. Don't worry, I don't hold grudges, and if what I've heard from a friend and fellow author is true, your apology is accepted, as I've also heard you haven't been in a very good mood lately (actually, I have to agree with you with some of the fictions that have been posted recently.) So yes, thanks for the review.

Da Buffster, yep, Max. I got his autograph!!! Oh and about the writers block, I also advise a very good nights sleep, after a bit of thought over the bits and pieces of the story, whilst listening to a 'Matrix' soundtrack! And thanks for the help with where to start this chapter, you are a real help!

Angel-Of-Lightness, ahh, don't worry, I'm not. Well, at least thanks to your and everyones support, so a big thanks to you. anyway, the chapter is up, and I can tell you that the next chapter is actually written down already in my notebook, so it shouldn't take that long to write it fully! And thanks so much for you support with the pop idol thing, I'll tell you how I did at the end of the reviews.

GreyElvenWarrior, thanks for your review for where I should start this chapter, really came in handy. Don't worry if you think you wernt any help, because you were, everyone said I should start after the meeting, but I wanted to write a few things that went on in there, so I came up with this!

Kal Torak, yep, thanks for your support for support, like I said to Angel-Of-Lightness, I'll tell you about Pop Idol below, after the reviews. Oh, and thanks for your advice for where to start this chapter, you are a real help!

richard the pedantic, thanks so much for the review. I think you did remember the authors note correctly, but don't worry, I figured out what to do. And you will be seeing more of Lock, and of the graves. And I think I have I similar problem to you- I want to say something original to all the great people who reviewed me, but I seem to come up with nothing new. Oh well, if you find a magic cure, give me some! (Oh, and I've heard you've been very rude to certain agent in your last review. Tut, tut, that's not nice… :))

leeloo-dalas-multipass84, ahh, don't worry, I love you reviewers all the same! And I know what you mean about school… anyway, best of luck, and I hope I have the courage to get through these exams!

And I also want to say thanks to 'Andromeda', or known here as 'Roland/Spark', for providing me with much needed Revolutions screencaps from her site, which has a lot of goodies (this is in my profile, its really good, and really good quality)

Right now, POP IDOL!!!!! Prizes were given out to the best group and singer of both the junior and senior part of the school. Not many of the seniors entered, I was only one of about nine senior performances, and I got the prize for the best single singer!!!!! So thanks to everyone for your support, I won! I won! So thanks to everyone!!!

Sapphire was sitting on her bed in her small room deep in thought. She hadn't noticed that it had been at least three hours since she had came into the room, three hours since she had even last moved from her small huddled foetal like position on her bed. Her eyes just stared off into the distance ahead of her, her feet slowly rocking her back and forth as she replayed the days past events in her mind. Of walking out of the ship and seeing the Dock for the first time, of Commander Lock's comments about her as if she were not even there, of the Councils hard and gruelling questioning of her and her captain, half of which were unnecessary.

"So, you claim to be Neo and Trinity's daughter, is that right?"

"Council, my newest crew member here did not claim anyth-"

"Captain Morpheus, the question was directed to Sapphire, not yourself. Will you please remain quiet until you are addressed, I'm sure she can answer as well as anyone. Well? Is that correct?"

She faulted "Um, no…. Like Mor-, er, my captain said, I didn't claim anything. I never even mentioned those two individuals to anyone."

The council murmured amongst each other for a few seconds before the speaker addressed Morpheus.

"In your communication with us this morning, you said you had 'found Neo and Trinity's daughter'. This girl appears not to even know whom Neo or Trinity are. How can you put this forward to us with this insubstantial evidence?"

"Councillors, why ask a girl who has lived all her life in the matrix, born after their deaths, if she was the daughter of our saviours?" Sandman cried allowed, outraged at basically the stupidity of their questions.

"Morpheus, you know very well that we rarely allow non-ranking crew members into unrelated council meetings, and we will certainly not tolerate a non-ranking crew member to speak out of line. Can you please ask him to leave."

"Excuse me, this 'non-ranking crew member' is sitting right in front of you. Yes, I am leaving, I don't need an escort, I can see where the door is. And you might try to at least try to pretend that Sapphire is here as well, its not as if…" his voice was completely muffled out as two officers half dragged him, half carried him out of the hall. The main speaker turned to glare at Morpheus again.

"Councillors, my ship medic asked me if she could run some tests on Sapphire's blood. The results showed that she is genetically Neo and Trinity's daughter."

"And why did your medic want to run some tests on her blood in the first place?"

Another tear silently rolled down her cheek as she continued to wonder lost in her memories. She moved her arms from around her folded legs and wrapped them around her shoulders, trying to imitate the sensation of being hugged. No walm relief came. In the end, she just gave up, and slowly lied down on the small bed, knees still tucked up to her chin. For the first time in three hours, she closed her eyes, and prayed for sleep to come and answer her problems.

Rabbit had anxiously climbed out of his room on the floor above and approached the huge metal elevator apprehensively. He quickly looked either side of the great metal doors, and was pleased to find another, slightly smaller door one leading to a set of stairs. He opened it, hesitating as it squeaked loudly which made him cringe at the thought of waking anybody, especially Niobe. It was customary to place newly unplugged crewmembers on the same dormitory level as their captain. However, Captain Niobe's room just happened to be one of the rooms right next door to the floor access point, meaning that getting to the floor below without waking her required a miracle. Especially as the doors seemed to never have been introduced to WD-40 in their lives.

Some how, due probably to his small size, Rabbit managed to climb down the stairs with relative ease, and in just a few short minutes, he was walking down the main corridor of Sapphire's level overlooking the vast depths of Zion.

The reason he was wondering alone out of bed past curfew was that he had been forbidden to actually attend the council meeting that had occurred earlier during the day. Apparently he wasn't old enough. Wasn't classed as an adult yet. They didn't care that he knew some information that could help in whatever their wizened little minds were putting together. They didn't care that he was a friend, that she might need his company. Still, Niobe had talked to him as they had come out of the meeting, claiming that he should be thankful that he wasn't there, as it was incredibly boring. Rabbit didn't care if it was boring or if it was the most interesting thing in the world, his friend was being interrogated, and he wanted to help her, give her support. Which was exactly what he was going down to her room to do.

He remembered with a little grin the image of Sandman being dragged out of the council chamber half way through the meeting. His feet were almost an inch of the floor (which was quite impressive for someone who is 5'11") as he was kicking and fighting with all his might, trying to find an opportunity to get away from the two officers holding him. They didn't budge as they just kept on carrying him as if he was nothing but a sack of potatoes, which did not please Sandman one little bit, who just decided to give up in the end.

Rabbit remembered the look on Sandman's face as he came back from the stockade a few hours later, lead by the same officers who had dragged him all the way there. He was not very happy at all, having been giving another hour-long lecture by Lock, reinforcing his hatred of the man. Rabbit did not know of the history between the two, but he did know that it wasn't pleasantest, and Sandman had used every opportunity to voice his hatred of the man, which actually got quite annoying sometimes...

Rabbit approached what he just barely recognised as Sapphire's door, and knocked softly, before pushing the door open. He was just about to say 'hi' to Sapphire, when he realised it wasn't her that was standing alone in her small room with a tray in their hands.

Sandman looked up as he heard the door open quietly, revealing one of Niobe's newest unplugged. He frowned as he regarded the young man, wondering if he was just there to give his support to Sapphire or something else. He himself had come to give his own support, and to bring her dinner, which he was certain that she had not even considered going down to get. He also considered the situation to be a good time to complain to her about Deadbolt's treatment of him.

Rabbit's hopeful eyes dropped as he recognised the other crewmember, but then turned into curiosity as he regarded the other mans appearance. A small tray lay in his hands, a bowl and cup balanced on top of it, both of which containing some or other form of liquid.

"Where is she?"

Sapphire slowly looked up from the controls she was sitting at as the radio suddenly cut off, horror in her eyes. However, she didn't know why she was so horrified. She just knew. Knew that it was mandatory that she went… somewhere. No, she didn't know. It was just in her. It was the only thing that she needed to do, that she had to do, that she was programmed to do. It was the only thing in her mind, a command.

She jumped of her chair, and scrambled away from the small pilots cabin, eyes quickly scanning the walls and any alcoves desperately looking for something that Sapphire didn't know, a fact that hadn't even occurred in her head. Something caught her eye as she ran, and she quickly grabbed it. All she could tell was that it was large and heavy, but at the speed she was running at she had no idea what she was she was holding, nor its use. She was inside a body that had a purpose of its own, a mind that felt only strong emotion, of which she was just a prisoner, caught up in the action.

She quickly climbed down a set of stairs, careful not to drop the instrument in her hand and ran to the next, sheer dread filling her now as she started to descend again. She came to a stop at the end of these stairs, and was rooted to the spot with the terror of what was in front of her.

A man, several metres away from Sapphire. Deep red, almost black blood running, pouring down his mangled face, as he looked at her with pure hate in his eyes. But that wasn't what choked Sapphire so horribly. It was who was in front of the man, with her arms bound behind her back, that made her heart stop completely. A knife was at her throat and a look of pure terror that had never before been seen on her face, preying with her eyes.

Trinity. Her mother.

"Mr Anderson. I see you are as predictable in this world as you are in the other."

Sapphire's eyes opened suddenly, wrenching her away from the dream world, her mouth open in a silent scream. Her head bashed against the hard stone that had been used as her pillow. She started to pick herself up fearfully, and turned round facing the great slab of rock. She lifted a finger up tentatively and slowly started to trace some engraved letters, her tears silently flowing down her face again as she regarded the lost remains of reality.

TRINITY & NEO

I am so sorry! I have only just realised that I didn't remove all of my thought/corrections before I posted this chapter! I have just rectified this. Now, please, if you see any square brackets anywhere, with or without anything in it, please tell me about it, preferably via email. They are not meant to be there. I use those when I'm not sure of something to write. I always go through my chapters and remove them, but for some reason, this didn't happen this time. it shouldn't happen in future, but if it does, please tell me!