Ok here is the revised version. It is easier to read I think so tell me if it isn't, please. Ok hope you enjoy.
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Run. Run for gods sake. Come on legs keep going for a bit longer. Just keep going. Ok, think of it this way, if you don't run we are, meaning all of us, are going to be beaten up and killed, got that.
Oh now you work, must remember threaten legs to make them run.
Christ I'm mad, and I am I'm talking to my legs, you would if you were used as agent bait, practically, for a living. Old Merv, the Merovingian really, took me out years ago because I'm a fast runner, one of the fastest actually. I'm not like any of his other hired lot I'm a real human sort of but I'm not unplugged which is why they like chasing me so much I suppose. They want to find stuff out or just kill me but hey part of the fun right. Who am I kidding?
I'm running through the back streets of some city; Christ I don't even know which city I'm in anymore. God where are the twins? Two strong hands grip my shoulders and jerk me upwards I can't really resist this is the Twins coming to get me leaving the Agent chasing me to fall into the trap he's laid for them, it won't even hurt them really, more hurt the henchmen that have pissed him off.
"Hey Run how did it go?" one of them says no one can tell them apart twin generally works. You could call them my friends but people don't really get close around here in case he uses it against us.
"Good" I say "They seem to be finding it harder to find me I had to make three calls before they tapped the line"
"Well that means the system is working." the other says
"What system?" I ask.
"The one that was put in the other and you were sent to test" the first one looks at me "Do you ever get told anything other than call and when they come run?" I shake my head. It's true I'm just told to coax them then run them into the trap. I get in the back of the twins car, or one of their cars they do a big thing about cars trucks especially for some reason. I can feel myself falling asleep as the car starts as I always do. I really don't know why it always happens and I've given up trying to understand why now.
One of them must have carried me in because I woke up in my room, well it's be pushing it to call it a room I think of it as a box. I swear the Merv thinks I'm a pet, his wife of sorts defiantly thinks I am she even pats me on the head most of the time.
I look in the metal ceiling which acts like a mirror and see myself a skinny thing with long blonde hair that annoys the hell out of me and deep blue eyes. I think I'm just 16. I'm not all that sure about my age or when my birthday is so I put it as 1st of November. My age doesn't really matter I have been here since I was 11,(well looked about that) before that I can't remember anything they say they found me and I couldn't remember my own name, I don't think I've ever had a real name from when I can remember I used to have to play so many different people I've forgotten it if I had one. For the last three years I've been running basically so I've picked up the nick-names of Runner and Sprint and I don't really care it's practical but annoying.
I push the blankets away from me and lie there for a moment then swing my legs over the side of the bed. I've got to be careful after some of my 'runs' my body decides it doesn't like it and my legs refuse to work for awhile. I brace my feet against the floor slowly then stand up… for about a second before I fall, legs giving out beneath me.
"Shit" I say out loud and pull myself up by the arms onto my bed and grab the crutches at the end of it. Once I get outside I hobble over to the restaurant needing something to eat.
I don't mean to make entrances when I enter places, I really don't, I hate attention but I always seem to manage it somehow and today's no different. I can see that evil bouncer is planning something because he's looking at me. I decide to try and ignore him. I don't even look at him as I walk past but he snags one of my crutches causing me to trip and fall into a waiter who happens to be carrying a large jug of water which he pours all over me. Luckily not many people are eating at this time and I only get one evil glare from a couple of idiots. I hobble over to Persephone who looks at me sympathetically and use the innocent child look that works with all adults. She motions for one of the 'boys' to pick me up and follow her.
It's a couple of hours later and my legs have come back. I'm wandering around his mansion in our uniform of sorts, he has a thing about us wearing long coats usually dark but mines white because that's what Persephone likes for me. I decide to go into the city for a bit to wander. I take out my key and unlock the door then walk out into a back alley of the city. I wander, I admit it I like wandering and I also like annoying the police. I have fun with some of them, this consists of pissing them off then making them chase me. I succeeded in this and made them chase me. They never can keep up I turn down a back way them jump on a railing and slide down into a subway station. I walk in and look around. I jumped back as I saw a person appear from the…payphone. What the hell? I think I'm seeing things again. These people are all dressed in black, there are three now, two men and a woman. I walk out so that they can see me and the moment they did they had guns trained on me and somewhat surprised looks on their faces.
"I ain't going to fight you" I say "I just want to know where you came from"
"Nowhere kid" says the woman in a stern voice.
"Yes that's true seeing as I was standing right there" I say pointing behind me "and I saw you three appear out of that phone." The man who is standing closest to the woman takes off his sunglasses and looks hard at me. He has deep brown eyes, penetrating but strangely innocent.
He speaks calmly and quietly though "What are you?"
"Me" Being deliberately unhelpful.
"Her coding is not normal" he says to the others. What the hell? Coding…think you dipshit…oh bollocks I'm in serious trouble how does he know about the coding, wait how can he see it. Shut up and think straight.
"Who the hell are you?" I ask
"I am Morpheus" the other man says. Morpheus, oh shit the one person I'm supposed to stay away from and I'm talking to him.
"Ahh" I cry out something is trying to invade my head and it is fucking painful I feel my legs go from under me and I look at my hands they aren't mine. No, no not giving in I am me not them I am me. The pain is excruciating, I can't see anymore. "Help" I scream then there's an explosion of light and then darkness.
I'm underwater. I knew I am even before I open my eyes. I push upwards brake the surface then open my eyes and fall back again. The fields they weren't joking I look around in terrified and horrific wonder. I know what I have to do. I feel around the back of my head through my hair… hang on I'm not supposed to have any hair they said we don't have any here, concentrate on getting this thing out of you for now ponder that later. I pull at it, it hardly moves just causes loads of pain. A machine comes flying up to me and beeps then removes the bloody thing from my head. Thank god it's has gone. I sigh then fight back a small scream all of the other plugs are being pulled out. It hurts a lot. I lay against the side of the pod thing. It's over for a second, there's a sucking noise. Shit, all the goo and me are pulled down a large pipe. This is not fun. I'm spat out over a very large drop into freezing water.
Swim legs come on work don't give up on me now please. I'm talking to my legs again. Something grabs hold of me and pulls me up sharply. I must have passed out for a second there because I do not remember being brought into a metal room or people standing over me. It's the three that I saw at the subway and they're talking.
"I don't believe it" Morpheus says "She destroyed an agent it tried to take her over and she refused and destroyed it"
I did what? Hang on they're talking again.
"How did she become unplugged though?" asks the woman.
"The system must have thrown her out Trinity. The second in three months to unplug themselves" says Morpheus turning to her.
"How does she have hair?" the other man asks. Good man I'd like an answer to that too.
"Neo you said she wasn't normal when we were jacked in is this what you meant?" asks the woman who seems to be called Trinity.
"She doesn't have a normal code it isn't all green some of it is yellow like the programs I've seen. It looks like she part program" he says this slowly as if he's thinking this through as he is talking and is having trouble putting it into normal sentences "Maybe that's why she has hair."
They all look down at me at this point and finally notice I'm actually awake.
"How do you feel little one?" asks Morpheus putting a hand on my head.
"My name is Runner and I need to go back or he'll find out" I start to panic, he was going to kill me "I wasn't supposed to be unplugged not supposed to" I say again. They look at me as if I'm mad and I'm beginning to think I am. I shut my eyes to shut out their faces "Leave me alone please I'm not like you" l feel Morpheus take his hand off my head but someone else takes it. I look down and see that it is Trinity with Neo's over the top of it.
"We're all different here Runner" Trinity says calmly.
"But no one cares" says Neo smiling at me then at Trinity. There is definitely something going on between them I don't know how but I can just tell. I look at them and try a smile. I can't the fear is tearing me apart and I start to cry. I can't even remember the last time I cried. Trinity puts a hand carefully on my forehead.
"Hush" she strokes my head "Everything will be ok" I try to move my arms to wipe the tears away but they're too heavy, I panic I try to wiggle my toes and luckily they work. I try again to lift my arm and wipe the tears away but Trinity does it for me, she doesn't seem the affectionate type but I look up silently her thanking her. "Rest" she says and I shut my eyes trusting someone for the first time in a long while.
TBC
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