Chapter 24

Smith opened his eyes, he was once again the real world. He had almost forgot what it was like to be in human shell since the last time but he knew he had to not act suspicious this time or his cover would be blown. The first face he saw was Charmaine, a black woman who was the operator of the ship.

"Hey Talon you okay?" Charmiane asked.

"We are fine." Smith responded.

"We?"

"Uh I mean I am fine ... that is."

'Shit!' Smith thought. He almost slipped. He had to be very careful about that from now on. He had remember not to refer to himself as 'we' but 'I' from now on.

"Your brain waves were going apeshit earlier. I think you better see Doc."

"Okay."

Smith rose from his chair and felt a little disoriented, he was lost but so he didn't look like a fool he turned left. Charmaine called out.

"Sick Bay is to the right! You've on this damned ship for awhile now and you all of sudden get lost and can't find your mutha fuckin' way? What drugs did you take when you were in the matrix? Shit!"

As Smith walked to Sick Bay, Charmaine shook her head and laughed silently.

"I swear, that boy just ain't right sometimes." She said to herself.

Smith just kind of laughed it off and turned right just Charmaine told him to do. Once he arrived in Sick Bay, he saw Indigo. He wanted to run to her and hold her in his arms and tell how much he had missed her. He just stood there for a moment taking her in, even in the real world she looked beautiful. She looked more beautiful now at this moment than the day they met. But yet he noticed some faint bruising on her body from the beating Cutter had given her.He had become concerned and hoped that their baby was not harmed in any way. She was lying on the table for her ultra sound. Finally, Doc looked in his direction.

"Ah, hello Talon." Doc said.

"Hello." He answered.

He looked at Indigo. Indigo met his glance, there was something familiar about Talon's eyes, they were almost like Smith's when he looked at her back in the matrix. But she dismissed the idea from her head immediately when Talon approached the both of them.

"So what can I do for you?" Doc asked.

"Charmaine wanted me to see you. She was concerned with my last visit into the matrix."

"Oh I see."

Just then Smith looked at the screen on the ultra sound machine. He could see his child for the first time and a slight smile crossed his face. Indigo noticed his reaction and thought it was quite strange yet pleasant. It had been the first time that anyone, with the exception of Onyx and Doc would be fascinated with her condition. Smith watched as the baby moved on the screen with interest. Finally Doc spoke up getting his attention.

"Earth to Talon."

"Oh I'm sorry Doc. I was a little distracted."

"Yeah it's pretty cool isn't it?" Indigo chimed in.

Smith turned to face her.

"Yes ... very cool." He nodded.

Indigo could feel the baby move more than usual. The activity in stomach increased when Talon walked in the room. It wasn't alarm that she was feeling but more like a comfort. For soe strange reason Talon didn't pose a threat. Little did she know that it was really Smith who was in the room with her.

"So how far along are you?" Smith asked.

"I would say about a month now." She told him.

He wanted to put his hand on her belly and feel their child move, but he thought better of it. Just then the security guards came in. She turned to face him once more.

"Well I have to go." She said as she motioned to the guards.

The guards shackled her and led her out. She turned to face Smith again who obviously had a look of concern on his face.

"I'll be okay." She reassured him.

His first instinct was to fight them, but he knew that if he did that, all hell would break loose and he couldn't risk Indigo getting hurt. So he watched as the guards took her out of the room and escorted her to her holding cell. As she and the guards walked she wondered why Talon was so nice to her and why he was so interested in the baby. She thought about the look in his eyes when he saw her. It was like he had known her before even though they had never really sat down and talked in the past. Why now? And then she had a thought.

'Could it be?'

'No, it can't be.'

'He couldn't do that anymore.'

'But what if he did?'

'Okay Indigo! You're losing your mind girlfriend, stop it! It's the hormones fucking with your head!'

These were the thoughts that were running through her head, maybe her mind was playing tricks on her because she missed Smith so much and maybe it was wishful thinking on her part. Who knew? All she knew is that she still loved him very much.

Back in Sick Bay Doc was running some tests on Smith aka Talon. Doc took out hypospray. Smith turned around quickly.

"Uh, what's that for?" Smith asked nervously.

"This is just to help you relax Talon."

"What if I don't want to relax."

"Now why in the hell would you not want to relax?"

"I uh don't know."

Smith remembered the last time he was first in the matrix. He had stabbed and killed the last doctor and thought about doing the same thing to Doc but he thought better of it. If he didn't want to have his cover blown he would have to comply with the human. So he let Doc hit him with hypospray and he was knocked out on the examination table. The doctor proceeded to hook him up to a CAT SCAN device and read his brain waves. What Doc saw was quite out of the ordinary for even a human. And then Doc saw something that got his attention. Talon's brain waves were higher than that of a normal operative and it only meant one thing.

"Oh my fucking God." Was all he could say.