Oh, my lovelies companions, thanks for your reviews!!!
Answers:
Black Garnet: I'm glad you liked Hypno. Don't worry, just a few chapters and you'll know how he looks like.
Solia: You're aren't quite wrong about Hypno, he really is attracted by Trinity in some kind of way, but this "relation" will become clearer in the next chapters.
Chapter9: Attraction?
The teenage girl soon reached Trinity, running trough her body as if the woman were a ghost, and continued to shoot worried looks behind her.
Do you remember who you were? A little cute slip of a girl caught in an
unfitting life...
His voice. It was deep, beautiful, but irritating. She didn't want to listen, but she was forced to. Oh, how she hated that voice... how she hated him.
You hate me? Really?
He laughed, amused. Fantastic. She was like an open book for him, just to be read.
The sound of sudden gunshots distracted her. Wordless, Trinity turned again and started to chase after her younger herself, when another person unfortunately appeared in the tableaux. It was just a guy in a midnight walk, one of the billions unplugged people who ignored the truth, a quiet poor guy who in that moment didn't realize the near danger, just because of the fact he didn't know he himself was that danger.
As his eyes locked with the girl's ones, he froze. His body started to spasm, bright code spreading trough his body like a swarm of static, his features deforming and transforming. The young Trinity froze on her spot, her face twitching with fear, then, hesitantly, she raised her gun toward him. As the guy had almost completely morphed into an agent, she shot. One, two three... she couldn't count. He fell heavily to the ground with a choked scream of pain, blood pouring from several holes on his midsection.
At that point, Trinity would have turned away without giving another look and started running to the exit, to the half-safety of the real world. But the young Trinity no... she slowly approached the corpse and kneeled at his side, then her shivering hand reached for the wounds, until it dipped slightly into a dense bloodstain. Blood on her hands...
Stop it...
Trinity regained the full memory of that painful event. It had been one of her first run in the Matrix, when she wasn't used yet to do what she had to. Everyone had told her it would have been like that... hell, she had known it even before. And still, she couldn't help thinking about the people she had killed... murdered.
It wasn't fair. People just wanted to live in a world they believed real, a world that meant something to them, live for their families. They were innocent. They weren't enemy, but at the same time they were.
"We are in the middle of a war. And, because of it, even innocent people die." Morpheus had told her, after she had questioned him about how she felt.
As soon as she had got out of the Matrix, she had scrambled out from her chair and she had run to her cabin, totally ignoring her crew-mates, who had care not to disturb her.
She had curled on her bed, wrapping tightly around her trembling body, images of death torturing and taunting her mind, ripping her heart. Trinity had stared at her hands and examined them, turning them over and over again, her eyes looking for something she wouldn't find. There was no blood on her hands... oh no, there was... then she could see it, in her soul... and she would never be able to cancel it. Never.
As she had felt something hot and wet fall on her hands she had realized she was crying, sobs were racking her body. She didn't know how long she cried that night.
I did it because it was necessary... I'm not a cold-blooded assassin...
Really? Then why you touched the blood? You wanted to feel it on your hands... and you did...
No... it was just...
Your instinct has hardened trough so many years... now you're cold, heartless, terrifying... you like the taste of blood... just like me...
Stop! Stop it! I don't want to hear you!
Silence. Trinity didn't hear his voice anymore, nor his breathing. There was just that horrible sensation of dark and cold... and blood.
Neo was extremely pissed. Not only that bastard had taken Trinity, but it seemed they had disappeared from the face of the world. Well, he had scanned all the codes in the city without finding them.
Damn it, were the hell is he?! Maybe in Alaska? He thought sarcastically, due to anger within him. He forced himself to calm down, since he was now standing on the sidewalk of a crowded street, and people were glancing at him curiously because of his grim expression. Yet, fuck them.
Ok, stop a moment... you just aren't thinking calmly and rationally... from when I beat that agent up to when Hypno got her there are just a few minutes... so, before I came, the program had to go somewhere safe, that he knew well, where he had already been...
Something slipped quickly between his legs, getting his attention. A little mouse, that kept on running trough the people until it reached a grating on the ground. Neo's eyes fixed on the manhole cover. The sewers... oh God, how could I be so blind?! Maybe he's somewhere underground and I'm walking on it! Probably there was an entrance to the sewers near the Oracle's building...
Filled with new hope, Neo took flight again, actually forgetting he was in the middle of groups of people who pointed at him with shocked yells. He didn't realize anything, too concerned about Trinity to care.
Trinity's eyes snapped open, relief filling her heart as she finally woke up from the old, almost lost memory she had been forced to remember. Her gulping breaths and her too fats heartbeats were the only noise she could heard in that moment, all due to the state she was in. HYpno still was in front of her, still too close. As her senses slowly recovered and connected back to reality, she realized she was now pressed against the wall, the program blocking her way. What she didn't realize, or at least she realized later, it was that she had been staring at him, watching as the silver glittering irides of his eyes gradually returned to their usual pitch black, melting with the pupils.
Maybe he's different... after all, I have never seen his real appearance... the Oracle said he doesn't have any... outside. But inside... who knows?
However, she really couldn't deny the colour change of his eyes was a unique and fascinating phenomenon to observe; the glossy, almost liquid-like black of the pupils slowly expanding and covering the shining metallic grey, the same way a stain of dark petroleum diffused itself on the pure and limpid surface of the sea, when a tanker wrecked.
The sea... she liked the sea. The different shades of blue and green, the white foam of the waves, the sound of its movement. Yet it was the Matrix. There were no seas from a very long time.
Once she had talked about this topic with Neo. He had been silent for a while, thinking.
It doesn't matter if the sea doesn't exist anymore... one day it will revive, this is a promise... he had told her finally. Until then I'll see it whenever I look into your eyes.
She had smiled and kissed him softly, even to mask the slight blush on her cheek and how she was pleasantly surprised at his words. Neo usually was a person of few words, but the times he spoke he always said things that reassured and comforted people, and she liked this part of his character.
She was snapped away from her thoughts as she heard again the disturbing noise of the hyenas eating. As if he had figured out her thoughts, Hypno turned to the four animals, that weren't too far.
"My dear pets, could you please move your party to that tunnel on the left? Our guest here is a little uncomfortable because of your meal."
Just a little? Trinity said to herself bitterly, as the hyenas looked up at him, then took hold of the mutilated body by the legs with their fangs and dragged it to the place he had mentioned, till they where out view. He shifted his attention back to her.
"Hyenas generally aren't so ferocious in killing and eating, you know. Actually, no animal is. But I have influenced them more than I expected..." He explained, smiling proudly. "I really like them... they are ugly, frightening, powerful... strangely attractive Like you. With the exceptions you're beautiful... and exciting."
Trinity just glared at him, but a hint of fear was playing within her. Where will this lead? She wondered anxiously.
"I'm pretty cool too..." he continued. "... you know... from an evil thing perspective."
That smirk again. God, how she wanted to wipe that hateful smirk off his face. If only she weren't so weak...
He suddenly snapped his fingers in front of her face, making her wince in surprise. Which made him laugh.
"Hey, I think you're too tense... relax."
Me? Relax in your company? she thought sarcastically, sending him another murderous glare. He sighed jokingly.
"Ok, don't worry, I'm going to lighten your mood shoving you this. See..."
What the hell is he going to do now?
Without warning, Hynpo took her right hand and, in one strap, he ripped the glove, much to her surprise and anger.
"Hey!"
He smiled at her and kissed the back of her hand, resting his damp lips on her candid skin for a few second, his nose inhaling.
"Uhm, I like your scent... it tastes leather... metal... blood." He said as he pulled away.
She glanced at him. "That was what would lighten my mood?"
He didn't answer. She was about to say something else, but what he did after made her eyes widen in shock and forget the rest. The black leather glove in his hands suddenly began to shine with green stripes, till it became a whole piece of glittering code. His fingers started to move elegantly on its surface, changing the order of the code to his will and making it fly in spirals around the object. Then, in a few seconds, the code dissolved and another thing appeared in the place of the glove. Something shining in the dark.
He brought it just in front of her flabbergasted blue eyes, which reflected on the thin blade of a knife. She swallowed. He grinned with a smug look on his face.
"I want to taste you..."
Before she had the chance to realize anything, he made a swift movement with his hand, and Trinity felt a sudden slight pain at her throat, then something liquid on her skin. Hypno lifted the knife, whose blade was now stained with her blood, and licked it, closing his eyes dramatically in "tasting". As he opened his eyes again, he noticed her shoot him a disgusted look. He grinned again, licking his lips.
"That's it..."
He leaned forward and brushed the small wound on her throat with his mouth, causing her to shudder, then he lifted his face and caught her lips in a fierce kiss. Trinity struggled against him, but it did no good, not when she could barely walk, so she just stood motionless, passively.
Well, she had to admit he was a good kisser, but she felt like as if she was beginning to lose her mind, and that wasn't a favourable sign.
He pressed her more against him, deepening the kiss, and that sent a jolt trough her body. Slowly, she started to kiss him back, which revealed an error, because she couldn't handle him. Trinity tried to withdraw, yet he had her in his iron grip. She was at his mercy.
Stop! Stop now!
Find it... your true nature... show it...
Chappie done at last! Sorry if it's a bit disturbing... please, review!
Merry Christmas!!!