More Buffy stuff. Thinking about having something for each chapter. Tell me
what you think. A sad show to end, I loved it. Kinda like the Matrix
trilogy- it's over and I loved it.
Life's a song
You don't get to rehearse
And ev'ry single verse
Can make it that much worse
Still my friends
Don't know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for
All the joy
Life sends
Family
And friends
All the twists
And bends
Knowing that
It ends
Well that
Depends
On if they let you go
On if they know enough to know
That when you've bowed
You leave the crowd
There was no pain
No fear, no doubt
'Til they pulled me out
Of heaven
So that's my refrain
I live in hell
'Cause I've been expelled
From heaven
I think I was in heaven
"But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why."
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"Trinity, I- I'm thrown. Are you angry with me for bringing you back?"
"No. I just- are we still in the machine city?" Trinity paused, her eyes taking in more of her surroundings. "Neo, there's a sentinel-"
"I know. It seems to be helping me- probably to get me out of here. And yes, we're still in 01." Neo replied, his hand grasping Trinity's tightly.
"Can we fly?" Trinity asked. Before Neo could answer, the sentinel screeched again.
Neo turned to feel its claws grip his arm, pulling him up. Complying, Neo moved with it until he slid into his co-pilot's seat. Screeching again, the sentinel flew around, pulling Trinity's chair up. Trinity gasped when it wrapped its tentacles around her, but knew she had no strength- let along power- to fight. The sentinel placed her carefully in the seat before moving around, plugging some tentacles into various places.
"What is it doing?" Neo asked, turning towards where he heard Trinity breathing.
"I think- I think it am fixing the ship to fly. Neo, I need to rest, this is too much." Trinity breathed, losing her voice.
"Do you need to be in the med lab?" Neo asked softly.
"No, I can make it here. Just, let me rest."
And so he did. Jumping when the ship shuddered to life, Neo felt wind against his face as the ship began to fly. He hoped towards Zion, but he wasn't in a position to judge. The glass in front of him had shattered when they crashed, and Neo quietly told the sentinel not to fly too fast but to fly towards Zion. It replied with a screech.
~~*~~
"Sir, we have confirmation that the Logos is indeed flying towards Gate three. It's going unnaturally slow however."
"All right. Get Morpheus, Niobe and Link down to Gate three, stat. Call a doctor too. Make sure there are two beds ready in the med bay." Lock commanded.
"Yes sir."
~~*~~
"I never thought I'd see her again." Niobe commented as the Logos flew slowly down to the stable landing dock.
"I hope they're alive." Morpheus murmured back.
When the Logos landed, a collective gasp broke out upon seeing the ruined ship. The ramp opened, revealing a sentinel. Morpheus was the first to react, and moved forward. The sentinel screeched before flying back in. But before anyone could climb the ramp, the sentinel returned, carrying Trinity.
"Oh my God." Link whispered, watching the doctors load her onto a stretcher.
The sentinel waited to see her onto the stretcher before flying back into the ship. Returning with Neo, it slipped him out of its tentacles onto his feet.
"Thank you. You can go back now." Neo's answer was heard by all watching, and it was even more amazing when it listened to him. All eyes watched the sentinel screech for one last time before flying back out of Gate three.
~~*~~
Two weeks later
"How are you feeling Neo?" Morpheus asked gently.
One week in the med bay and the second week resting in his and Trinity's room, Neo's eyes had healed considerably. The doctors told him immediately what he already knew- he would never see again, but as the One, his healing was amazing. Neo had, over the last week, begun to notice that all of his remaining senses were heightened. He could hear the softest sounds far away, could touch an object and be shocked by the feeling. He could smell who was in the room before they spoke, and his sense of taste- not yet tested, was most likely phenomenal.
Neo had noticed one thing about his senses that had never been there before, and each day, he and Morpheus worked on it. Neo was shocked when he found that he could "see" things by sound from his heightened senses reverberating off of the objects. By stomping his foot, Neo was able to see the objects Morpheus placed on the floor, and to step around them, or even pick them up. The same action enabled him to see Morpheus' body, wherever it was.
"I'm okay. I found something out last night." Neo replied, sitting up in bed.
"Oh? What?"
"I found that if I drop water on my hand, I can see it perfectly, as if I'm not blind. It's the sound. But I also found that I could make my hearing heightened. I tried it for three hours last night. I can make it so that I don't always hear everything at 10,000 decibels or whatever. I can make them almost back to the normal hearing I had before I lost my sight." Neo informed.
"That's great. We were worried about how you'd be able to sleep."
"Yeah. Hey, how's Trinity?" Neo question. No longer wearing a blindfold, Neo's pink-scarred eyes- still brown, but unseeing- created an expression of worry.
"She'll be in the infirmary for a few more days before we bring her here. She died- and not just for a few seconds like before. You have to understand that her mind and body were physically and mentally dead for at least twenty minutes. She just recently was able to be warm without seven blankets. Now it's a waiting game to see how her mind is. I'm sorry if you want to be with her, but not right this second." Morpheus answered, sighing.
"I miss her."
"I know you do. Do you want to go for a walk? Get out of this room for a while?" Morpheus asked, moving towards the door.
"Sure. If it gets to be too much for my ears-"
"We'll come back, don't worry. Let's go." Morpheus opened the door, watching Neo slide on his boots.
~~*~~
"Wow, this place got destroyed, didn't it?" Neo inquired upon entering the dock.
"Yes. Can you see anything?" Morpheus asked nonchalantly.
"Sort of. There's too much sound for me to see everything. I'm only focusing on ten feet ahead of me right now."
"That's good enough. I don't want you to overwork your mind."
Before Neo could reply, he turned his head, listening.
"Kid's here. He just exited the elevator and is coming towards us." Neo informed his captain.
"How? With all this noise?" Morpheus turned to look at Neo's face, curious.
"I can smell him, and hear him. I've been focusing on smells and sounds of people too. I want to be able to know who everyone is as soon as possible." Neo replied.
"Here he comes." Morpheus sighed, turning with Neo to meet the boy.
"Neo! I heard what happened and I wanted to see you, but they wouldn't let me. I'm glad you're alive." Kid exclaimed upon reaching the pair.
Neo smiled softly before reaching out a hand. Kid immediately took it, smiling.
"I'm glad you are too. I heard about what you did. Good job."
"Thank you. I better run. Lock wanted me to give him an update on repairs to the dock. Bye." Kid smiled again before leaving.
"He turned out all right, didn't he?" Neo asked, turning back towards Morpheus.
"I think many of us did." Morpheus smiled, clamping a hand onto Neo's shoulder.
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Well, how about that? This is fun, writing in unknown territory. Weeeee! Review!
Life's a song
You don't get to rehearse
And ev'ry single verse
Can make it that much worse
Still my friends
Don't know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for
All the joy
Life sends
Family
And friends
All the twists
And bends
Knowing that
It ends
Well that
Depends
On if they let you go
On if they know enough to know
That when you've bowed
You leave the crowd
There was no pain
No fear, no doubt
'Til they pulled me out
Of heaven
So that's my refrain
I live in hell
'Cause I've been expelled
From heaven
I think I was in heaven
"But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why."
~~~~~~~~
"Trinity, I- I'm thrown. Are you angry with me for bringing you back?"
"No. I just- are we still in the machine city?" Trinity paused, her eyes taking in more of her surroundings. "Neo, there's a sentinel-"
"I know. It seems to be helping me- probably to get me out of here. And yes, we're still in 01." Neo replied, his hand grasping Trinity's tightly.
"Can we fly?" Trinity asked. Before Neo could answer, the sentinel screeched again.
Neo turned to feel its claws grip his arm, pulling him up. Complying, Neo moved with it until he slid into his co-pilot's seat. Screeching again, the sentinel flew around, pulling Trinity's chair up. Trinity gasped when it wrapped its tentacles around her, but knew she had no strength- let along power- to fight. The sentinel placed her carefully in the seat before moving around, plugging some tentacles into various places.
"What is it doing?" Neo asked, turning towards where he heard Trinity breathing.
"I think- I think it am fixing the ship to fly. Neo, I need to rest, this is too much." Trinity breathed, losing her voice.
"Do you need to be in the med lab?" Neo asked softly.
"No, I can make it here. Just, let me rest."
And so he did. Jumping when the ship shuddered to life, Neo felt wind against his face as the ship began to fly. He hoped towards Zion, but he wasn't in a position to judge. The glass in front of him had shattered when they crashed, and Neo quietly told the sentinel not to fly too fast but to fly towards Zion. It replied with a screech.
~~*~~
"Sir, we have confirmation that the Logos is indeed flying towards Gate three. It's going unnaturally slow however."
"All right. Get Morpheus, Niobe and Link down to Gate three, stat. Call a doctor too. Make sure there are two beds ready in the med bay." Lock commanded.
"Yes sir."
~~*~~
"I never thought I'd see her again." Niobe commented as the Logos flew slowly down to the stable landing dock.
"I hope they're alive." Morpheus murmured back.
When the Logos landed, a collective gasp broke out upon seeing the ruined ship. The ramp opened, revealing a sentinel. Morpheus was the first to react, and moved forward. The sentinel screeched before flying back in. But before anyone could climb the ramp, the sentinel returned, carrying Trinity.
"Oh my God." Link whispered, watching the doctors load her onto a stretcher.
The sentinel waited to see her onto the stretcher before flying back into the ship. Returning with Neo, it slipped him out of its tentacles onto his feet.
"Thank you. You can go back now." Neo's answer was heard by all watching, and it was even more amazing when it listened to him. All eyes watched the sentinel screech for one last time before flying back out of Gate three.
~~*~~
Two weeks later
"How are you feeling Neo?" Morpheus asked gently.
One week in the med bay and the second week resting in his and Trinity's room, Neo's eyes had healed considerably. The doctors told him immediately what he already knew- he would never see again, but as the One, his healing was amazing. Neo had, over the last week, begun to notice that all of his remaining senses were heightened. He could hear the softest sounds far away, could touch an object and be shocked by the feeling. He could smell who was in the room before they spoke, and his sense of taste- not yet tested, was most likely phenomenal.
Neo had noticed one thing about his senses that had never been there before, and each day, he and Morpheus worked on it. Neo was shocked when he found that he could "see" things by sound from his heightened senses reverberating off of the objects. By stomping his foot, Neo was able to see the objects Morpheus placed on the floor, and to step around them, or even pick them up. The same action enabled him to see Morpheus' body, wherever it was.
"I'm okay. I found something out last night." Neo replied, sitting up in bed.
"Oh? What?"
"I found that if I drop water on my hand, I can see it perfectly, as if I'm not blind. It's the sound. But I also found that I could make my hearing heightened. I tried it for three hours last night. I can make it so that I don't always hear everything at 10,000 decibels or whatever. I can make them almost back to the normal hearing I had before I lost my sight." Neo informed.
"That's great. We were worried about how you'd be able to sleep."
"Yeah. Hey, how's Trinity?" Neo question. No longer wearing a blindfold, Neo's pink-scarred eyes- still brown, but unseeing- created an expression of worry.
"She'll be in the infirmary for a few more days before we bring her here. She died- and not just for a few seconds like before. You have to understand that her mind and body were physically and mentally dead for at least twenty minutes. She just recently was able to be warm without seven blankets. Now it's a waiting game to see how her mind is. I'm sorry if you want to be with her, but not right this second." Morpheus answered, sighing.
"I miss her."
"I know you do. Do you want to go for a walk? Get out of this room for a while?" Morpheus asked, moving towards the door.
"Sure. If it gets to be too much for my ears-"
"We'll come back, don't worry. Let's go." Morpheus opened the door, watching Neo slide on his boots.
~~*~~
"Wow, this place got destroyed, didn't it?" Neo inquired upon entering the dock.
"Yes. Can you see anything?" Morpheus asked nonchalantly.
"Sort of. There's too much sound for me to see everything. I'm only focusing on ten feet ahead of me right now."
"That's good enough. I don't want you to overwork your mind."
Before Neo could reply, he turned his head, listening.
"Kid's here. He just exited the elevator and is coming towards us." Neo informed his captain.
"How? With all this noise?" Morpheus turned to look at Neo's face, curious.
"I can smell him, and hear him. I've been focusing on smells and sounds of people too. I want to be able to know who everyone is as soon as possible." Neo replied.
"Here he comes." Morpheus sighed, turning with Neo to meet the boy.
"Neo! I heard what happened and I wanted to see you, but they wouldn't let me. I'm glad you're alive." Kid exclaimed upon reaching the pair.
Neo smiled softly before reaching out a hand. Kid immediately took it, smiling.
"I'm glad you are too. I heard about what you did. Good job."
"Thank you. I better run. Lock wanted me to give him an update on repairs to the dock. Bye." Kid smiled again before leaving.
"He turned out all right, didn't he?" Neo asked, turning back towards Morpheus.
"I think many of us did." Morpheus smiled, clamping a hand onto Neo's shoulder.
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Well, how about that? This is fun, writing in unknown territory. Weeeee! Review!