"Are you two all right?" Morpheus asked the moment the pair was out.
"Yeah." Neo replied while Trinity nodded.
Trinity turned to Neo, "We need to talk." Before standing and leaving an open mouthed Morpheus to stare at her back. Neo quickly got up, following her out.
"Neo-" Morpheus began.
"I'll speak with you later." Neo cut him off as he left, then under his breath, "Much later."
Climbing down the ladder above Trinity, he slid into her room just after she entered and shut the door.
"I told you we shouldn't have confronted them, Neo! What the hell were you thinking?" Trinity began, her voice low.
"What, you thought you'd get out of two agents' grasp all by yourself?" He shot back.
"I can take care of myself."
"I could seriously tell. Which part more so? When you were thrown into the car or when he was holding a gun to your head?" Neo spat back, fury laced with his words.
"You son of a-" Trinity began, but was cut off.
"You finish that. Go ahead. I dare you." Neo took a step closer. Trinity backed up only to press against the back wall. Realizing she was out of space, Trinity raised her chin in a challenge.
Neo stopped a moment, and Trinity suddenly saw the fear and pain in his eyes attempting to be masked by the anger in them. He was so afraid for me that he's angry. The sudden realization broke something inside of Trinity, something she had been trying to keep locked up. She needed him, and more than she was willing to allow. Sighing in both surrender and frustration, Trinity moved slowly towards him, keeping their eyes locked. Reaching up, she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"God Neo, I'm so sorry." Trinity inhaled his scent as she buried her face in his neck.
Neo lowered his head to her shoulder as he wrapped his arms tightly around her. "I could've lost you in there. I was so afraid. And the fact that you didn't trust my abilities-"
"I trusted them, I just...I was afraid of you getting hurt. It doesn't matter how strong, fast or invulnerable you are in the Matrix, Neo, I'll still fear for your safety. I can't help it." Trinity pulled back to look into his eyes.
"I know. The same goes for me when it comes to you, and I know you probably don't like a person worrying over your safety, but you don't have much choice in the matter." Neo rested his forehead against hers.
"We're in this deep now, aren't we? Together." Trinity moved her head against his, brushing their noses together for a moment.
"I think so." Neo replied, his voice quiet, breath slightly ragged. Feeling her breath on his cheek for a moment before capturing her lips with his own, Neo expressed his fears physically.
Lowering his hands down to the small of her back, Neo pulled Trinity closer as she let out a soft whimper. Lips sliding under each others, hands trying desperately to feel the reality of the situation, Neo and Trinity both understood that their two separate lives would align and conjoin- no matter their feelings on the matter. Pulling softly on Neo's bottom lip, Trinity felt his tongue on her top lip before she pulled away. Neo looked at her slightly puzzled as she sat down on the bed and began to unbuckle her boots. Quickly sitting down next to her to take off his boots also, Neo was hit with a sudden thought, My God; this is going to be a totally different Trinity from what I'm used to. Before he could really think about the definite change in personality Trinity would undergo, her lips were on his, kissing away his thoughts.
Trinity slowly pushed Neo down onto the bed, a hand sliding down his torso. She knew she was in unknown territory. She had no clue what to do, and yet, one thing Neo had told her stuck in her head at the sudden wave of fear- "Let it be felt." Smiling at the thought, Trinity felt Neo's lips trail down her neck slowly. Kissing the hollow in her neck before finding a sensitive spot she hadn't even known about right above her collarbone, Trinity squirmed as Neo exploited the new knowledge. Kissing his temple, Trinity pulled his lips back to her own as her fingers grasped the hem of his tattered shirt.
Neo paused mid kiss as Trinity pulled the shirt over his head. Tossing the shirt to the floor, her fingers came to rest gently on the almost completely healed bruises. Neo looked down at them too for a moment before lifting her chin.
"I'll be fine."
Neo softly kissed her jaw before his own hands found the end of her shirt and slowly began to pull it up. As his fingers grazed against the taut skin of her abdomen, Trinity took a sudden gasp of air. Sliding his hands around to her back, he pushed the shirt up to her arms- where Trinity helped pull it off before almost letting out a laugh as Neo kissed the plugs above her breasts. Neo's hands fell to her waist as he brought his face back up to hers. Stopping mid kiss as he slid her pants down to her lower thighs, Trinity pushed them off before helping him follow suit with his own. As naked skin of one body pressed against naked skin of the other, all rational thoughts evaporated from both minds.
Fear of not being good was forgotten as they leaned into the others touch. A caress of the hip brought Neo into her, love practically dripping off of him in his sweat. Neither had noticed that the room was much warmer now than when they had first come in. Moving against each other in a perfect rhythm, an observer of this passionate act could say that two worlds were crashing into each other and melding perfectly in the process. Low moans mixed with stuttered gasps as the energy that the pair had felt coursing through their veins since Neo's resurrection exploded, sending them over the edge of oblivion.
"How are they doing?" Tank asked from his seat at the table in the mess hall.
"Well, I went by to see if they had ripped their heads off yet, but I didn't find them in Neo's room." Morpheus began. "But, I did hear some interesting sounds from Trinity's."
"Interesting as in punches?" Tank asked, concerned.
"Interesting as in moaning, and not the painful type either." Morpheus sat down opposite the operator, watching the expression on the others face.
"Oh." A pause, then it hit him. "Oh! Wow. Wait, you mean-?" Tank trailed off, getting a nod from Morpheus. "Oh my God. Trinity? And Neo? Holy shit. I- I think I need a drink..."
"Your brother's liquor is down in the engine room." Morpheus informed him as Tank got up to leave. As Tank paused at the door, Morpheus quickly apologized. "I'm sorry Tank, I didn't mean to-"
"It's okay. I know. It's just, you live with someone for your whole life and then one day, they're ripped from you. It's not fair, but it's war." Tank stated before leaving.
"Yes, it is." Morpheus answered after Tank had left.
Trinity awoke slowly, as if from a soft, dreamy haze. Stretching her arm out, she let it drop carefully onto Neo's bare chest. As she recalled the events of the night before, Trinity shifted her head, nudging it up against Neo's chin, and tried to stretch her legs, but only ended up pushing herself up against Neo even more- something that quickly woke him up. Smiling gently into his chest as she felt his heart rate speed up, Trinity slide a leg that was already precariously perched on Neo's thigh in between his legs.
Neo breathed softly into the mess of raven black hair. He never wanted to move, but knew that it was inevitable. Ha, look at me, quoting Smith. Shuddering at the thought, Neo felt Trinity look up in curiosity.
"You cold?"
"No. Just- remembering Smith. Some of the things he said." Neo replied softly, shifting his grip around the lithe –my God it's actually lithe! - form half on and half off of him.
"What'd he say?" Trinity asked, moving an arm to the right of his head to hold her own above his.
"You can't read what we say in coding?" Neo's face was incredulous- a typical reaction for someone so recently unplugged.
"No. We can see your reaction to something said, and even watch your mouth move, but we don't know what you're saying. Same thing as we can't hear a punch, or a gunshot. The coding doesn't emit sound, just sight." She explained automatically, as if she had memorized the answer from a sheet of paper.
"Oh, so say I scream at the top of my lungs. You don't read what I say from the coding?"
Trinity shook her head 'no'.
"Why not?"
"Because- it has something to do with how words and sound can't be written in three dimensional form and since that's not plausible, it can't be shown in the coding. I'm not really sure. I just know that you can't see or hear what you say. Just that you are in fact saying something because we can read your mouth moving." Trinity replied, shifting atop him slightly.
"Okay." Neo paused a moment, thinking. "Do you know what time it is?"
Trinity smiled gently at the change of topic before replying. "Early morning, roughly. We got back from the Matrix around eight, Matrix time. And we were awake here for slightly under an hour. Given that time, I usually wake up around seven. But I was exhausted-" Trinity stopped briefly at the grin that spread across Neo's face before continuing, "-afterwards, so we could've slept longer."
"You ever been exhausted before?" the question seemed to scream "sex", but Trinity pretended to think about it before responding.
"Physically? Yes, quite often." Pausing to watch his face fall slightly. "Mentally? Every other day." Again, a pause to watch the smile almost completely disappear. "Sexually? Never. At least, not until last night."
Neo couldn't keep the smile off of his face as he pulled Trinity down to touch his lips against hers. Kissing her softly, Neo trailed his fingers up her spine, causing her to arch into the touch. Sighing against her lips, Neo was suddenly brought back to reality when a sharp knock came at the door. Opening his mouth to speak, Neo quickly found Trinity placing a hand over him, silencing him.
Clearing her throat, Trinity called out, "What?"
"Trinity, it's another day in the real world, time to get up! Are you going to get Neo up too?" Tank called from the other side.
Trinity could almost hear the sarcasm in the question. "Yes, I'll get him up."
As the sound of Tank's boots faded away, Trinity turned her face back to Neo's.
"Time to get up."