Title: Love shows, even when you don't see.
Pairing: Slash (you have been warned) Mouse/Neo
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or the setting. Hell, if I owned Mouse and Neo would I be writing this?
Neo lay one his back, staring at the plain, dark ceiling. His head hurt. His chest was aching, the headache, he could explain, perhaps it may have had something to do with the metal plug socket on the back of his head. The chest ache was harder to explain.
He went silently over everything he'd eaten in the past 24 hours, that sloppy gruel stuff, worst that would do was heartburn or indigestion, and it didn't feel like either of these things. What had happened that day? Not much, he woke up, had gruel, trained, had some more gruel, worked on the upkeep of the ship and now he was in bed. Would that have caused the uncomfortable feeling weighting his upper torso? It was almost stifling. Then he had a thought, something's missing here, I want something. But what? Was it that he missed his old life, in the Matrix? Kind of, but that was all a lie, this was what life really was, this was what he had chosen to live like, no, that wasn't it. Did he have a crush on Trinity? Not really, she was a nice enough woman, but even though she was the only woman he was likely to encounter in a long time, he just couldn't like her like that. Which was bad, as she obviously liked him like that, but what could he do?
The heavy steel door slid open slowly with a quite grating noise. Neo looked round to the source of the noise, but didn't stand up. A small figure stepped into the room noiselessly and quietly shut the door behind him. Neo closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. The figure made it's was across the floor and stood by Neo's side for a second. Neo opened his eyes and stared up at Mouse through new eyes.
"Hi Mouse," he said awkwardly, his stomach twisted itself in knots.
"Hey Neo, I was just, wondering…" Mouse flushed bright red and shuffled his feet "how that new programme was going for you."
Neo smiled and sat up, even sitting down, his face was almost level with Mouse's, he'd never thought how sweet Mouse was when he blushed. "Fine" he said, gazing into Mouse's face. Mouse looked up and their eyes caught contact for a second, before Mouse blushed harder and frowned at his feet. Neo reached out his hand, confused as to what he was doing for a second, he brushed Mouse's cheek with his fingers, he looked up, startled, but didn't look away.
Before he could think about his actions, Neo leaned forward and pressed his lips to the younger mans. Mouse froze, rooted to the spot, it took him a second to reciprocate, but he did eventually and with vigour.
Mouse lay in Neo's arms, staring at his face lovingly as he slept, and wondered what the strange warmth he was experiencing in his chest was. It wasn't something that he'd eaten………….
The End