She slowly got up out of bed. She had never felt such pain in her whole exsistance. She sat up and put her throbbing head in her hands. Her stomach was also doing flip flops and it wasn't good.
"Oh God." She groaned.
A few moments later The Oracle came into the room with some orange juice and two aspirin. Agent Higgins looked up at the old woman.
"Looks like you had a hell of a night young lady." Her mother said.
She didn't say a word. She took the aspirin and OJ. Her whole body ached, especially the left side of face, it was pounding. She looked at the mirror across from the bed and realized she had a black eye from the bar fight the night before.
"Oh shit!" Agent Higgins said as she looked at her reflection.
The Oracle touched the side of her daughter's face gently examining her black eye closer.
"Yep, looks like you got a shiner there kiddo. That's okay, you'll be as good as new." And with that the old woman put her hand on her child's face.
The instant The Oracle's hand touched her eye, healing green code repaired the damage. A few moments later she removed her hand from the Agent's face and she was as good as new.
"Much better. Black eyes on young ladies are not very attractive." Her mother said with a smile.
"Who brought me home last night?" She asked.
"I did." Said a male voice.
She turned to look in the doorway to find a very attractive man dressed all in black with olive colored skin, short dark hair and the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen. He was about an inch shorter than she was but he had a smile that could even make the hardest of female programs melt. She wondered if he too was a program, because he was way too beautiful to be human.
"Uh, thanks." Was all she could say.
"This is Phoenix. He's from the Isis. Phoenix, this is my daughter Agent Higgins." The Oracle said.
"Nice to meet you." He said.
Even his tone was enough to make her knees buckle. But she had regain her composure, she was an Agent of the system after all and there was no way in hell she was going to go ga ga over a hot human male again. As far as she was concerned she had sworn off human men for good.
"Nice to meet you too." She answered in an emotionless tone.
She reached for her sunglasses, put them on and put her earpiece back in place. She looked at Phoenix but he still continued to smile at her with those warm brown eyes of his.
"I was wondering if you wouldn't mind having dinner with me tonight?" He asked.
Before Agent Higgins could say anything The Oracle piped up.
"She'd love too." The old woman answered for her.
She looked at her mother in shock.
"Okay, I'll pick you up at seven." He said and then he walked out the door.
She turned to her mother.
"Mom! What the hell did you just do?"
The Oracle put her hand on her shoulder and began to speak.
"Listen sweety, I know it hurts that you lost your first love but you have to step outside of your box and take a chance. Besides, he's kinda cute."
A few moments later Phoenix popped his head back in the doorway.
"Do you like Moroccan food?" He asked.
"Yes, she does." The Oracle answered for her.
"Mom!" The Agent was annoyed. "Yes, Moroccan will be great." She finished with a slight smile.
"Okay see you tonight then." He said.
And then he disappeared just as quickly as he appeared. She looked to her mother once again.
"Mom?"
"Yes sweety?"
"Did you just set me up on a date with that human?"
The Oracle just smiled at her and walked out of the room and didn't give her daughter an answer.
"Oh shit. She did." She said out loud to herself.
Phoenix was walking down the street, a few seconds later he pulled out a silver flip phone and dialed the operator.
"Operator." Said the voice on the other end.
"I need an exit." He said.
"Okay, just walk a block down and you'll see a pay phone."
He walked to where the operator told him to go and walked right up to the ringing cell phone. He picked it up and disappeared into a mass of green light.
He opened his eyes and was greeted by Sparks.
"Welcome back. You see anything interesting in the Matrix?" Sparks asked.
"Well I did meet this girl..." Phoenix started to say.
"Okay, was she hot?" The operator asked.
"You could say she was unique." He answered with a grin.
"Unique? Dude, when a guy says that, it means she's really fat or a total buttahface."
"Oh no, she wasn't either of those things. If she was I would not be plugging myself back in to take her to dinner tonight." Phoenix told him.
"Are you gonna score with this chick?" Sparks asked.
"Dude! Is everything all about sex with you? She seems like a nice girl. I like her and I possibly want to get to know her better."
"Phoenix, my man, you are a total pussy."
"Fuck you Sparks."
And with that Phoenix walked off leaving Sparks alone. The operator looked around, he was finally alone and then he switched the screen. Instead of green code it was a classic Jenna Jameson porn film.
"Now that's what I'm talkin' about." Sparks said with a grin on his face.
Phoenix was alone in his quarters laying on his bed with a smile on his face. He could not help but think about the pretty red haired Agent and he looked forward to their first date. He counted down the hours, minutes and the seconds until he would see her again.