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Neo POV
I walk into Trin's roomto find her and Lightning both asleep lying next to each other. Trinity is on her back with one arm out and Runner, or whatever her name is now, is underneath the arm, as I look at it, curled up with her back to Trin's side. I can't help but smile but I was sent to wake them up.
"Trin?" I say softly touching her cheek with my hand. She stirs as does Runner, she is first to wake and sits up quickly nearly smacking me in the head. I lean back quickly. "Whoa calm, calm ok?" I smile at her. She nods and stands up and stretches.
"I'll leave you to wake my sister up and I know it can be difficult sometimes" she says walking towards the door "Oh can I get some slop before I start training?" I look at her wondering how she knew then just nod and she walks out. I look down at Trin who is looking back at me and smiling making me jump slightly.
"Hey" she stretches slightly. I sit on the bed next to her and brush some hair off her forehead.
"Hey" I say then kiss her gently. I'm still amazed how her kisses can make me feel, stronger better and more worthy. I don't think I can ever show her how much she means to me but I'm really going to try.
"Lightning and I are ok now" she says after a minute.
"Lightning?" How many names does this kid have?
"Yes, she doesn't like the name Aduro or whatever it is, so that's her nickname. It was what we used to call her because she was so quick"
"Ok" I look at her from the bed as she gets up and puts a jumper on "We have to help train her today" I say with a small smile on my face knowing it could be a very funny day.
"How do you think she'll do?" she asks turning to look at me.
"Well" I say taking a leap and wrapping my arms around her "If she's anything like her sister she goes to be more than fine" and she hits me lightly but it still hurts "Hey don't do that or I'll make her fight me"
"I know you wouldn't do that" she says walking out with me following "And anyway you aren't allowed to" she turns and smiles at me then walks to the core to meet Morpheus.
"Don't you want something to eat?" I ask as she walks away and she just shakes her head.
"Later" she calls over he shoulder "But don't let me stop you"
"See you in a minute then" I say and walk towards the mess hall, I unlike some others haven't eaten in twelve hours.
Lightning POV
I'm eating the lovely slop (please note sarcasm) when Neo walks in. He gives me a small smile before getting some of it for himself. I decide to confront him about him and my sister because I know she won't tell me.
"Neo?" he looks up "You and Trinity are a couple aren't you?" he narrows his eyes.
"How did you know?"
"Well apart from Trinity telling me, she told me all about it, I just noticed little things" he looks at me again. I think he can tell I'm lying slightly.
"If you knew why, exactly, did you ask?" he asks eyebrows raised.
"To see if you'd deny it or not" I look him in the eye and daring him to look away.
"I would never deny my love for your sister" his eyes are starting to bore into me "She means everything to me" he says quietly looking at his bowl. Well I wasn't expecting that and I suddenly feel guilty.
"I'm sorry if I offended you at all. I didn't mean to question your relationship at all, I'm sorry" I feel my cheeks redden and I look down. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look up into Neo's eyes and know I'm forgiven, I smile then get up and put my bowl away. I look at him and he sighs then puts his bowl away and walks out with me following. Once we get to the core I look around and then walk over to Tank tripping over several wires in the process. He's muttering to himself and I laugh.
"First sign of madness that" I say making him jump. He turns and grins at me.
"Hey hat-stealer, I hear you have a new name" I groan in frustration.
"Ahh I did not steal your goddamn hat you put it on my head and I walked off with it accidentally" he holds his hands up as if to ward me off.
"Jesus sisters are alike" he says "Ok, now what is your name?"
"Aduro" I say scowling slightly.
"You're supposed to like the name you choose" he says smiling sardonically at me.
"That's partly the point I didn't choose it Morpheus said it should be my name" I shrug "I don't mind it really"
"Lightning come here" Trinity is waving me over and I turn to go to her but Tank pulls me back.
"What?" I ask.
"Why did she call you Lightning?"
"Childhood nickname" I say and then walk over to where the others are standing. I look at them and they all grab me and put me in the chair. "Whoa hey" I say pouting making them smile.
"We'll leave you in Tank's capable hands" Trinity says smiling at me, my eyes widen and she laughs then whispers "If he tries anything like yesterday just let me know ok sis?" I grin.
"But I might just hit him this time" I say and she smiles.
"You're definitely my sister" she says grinning then tells me to relax as she slides the needle into the back of my head. It isn't like going into the construct it's weirder because I didn't even have to close my eyes and I could hear everything. I have to be awake for this apparently. I can't really turn my head much but I can hear Morpheus tell Tank to do the programs in the right order and in a fairly stern voice. I grinned at that and Tank sees.
"What you grinning at Little one?" he says walking over to me and looking down at me. "Remember I'm in charge of you today"
"You weregetting told off by Morpheus"
"That wasn't being told off I was being instructed" he turns back to the controls "Right now just relax. We have to go threw these" he waves some disks "Operational programs, very boring but hey" I see him slide the disk into the drive and I shut my eyes as he hits the load button. Shit it's amazing things are going through my entire body. I open my eyes and look at Tank.
"What the hell was that?"
"There's a hell of a lot more where that came from. Want to keep going?" he asks
"What do you think?" I say then shut my eyes again he laughs and I hear him put another disk in.
It is six hours later when Neo comes to see how we're doing. Six hours of processing information really quickly it's quite tiring.
"How is she doing?" he asks Tank.
"Doing good six hours straight" he says "Almost as good as you but we'll have to stop soon she's tiring quickly" and the monitor bleeps signalling I've finished that program. I open my eyes and look at the two of them who are obviously not aware I can hear them.
"How many she done?"
"8" he says looking for another disk.
"8?" he sounds shocked "In six hours?"
"Really 8 Tank" says the deep voice of Morpheus and he nods. Morpheus turns to me "How are you feeling?"
"Good" I say "Brain is a bit tired but I'm fine"
"Ok one more small program and you are going to go and sleep" he says and then turns to Tank the two of them deciding which one to do.
An hour later I walk back to my room and collapse onto the bed pulling the covers close around me and fall asleep very quickly.
Trinity POV
I look around the core and only find Neo looking at the screens. I watch him for a minute. What's keeping him so occupied?
"I'm looking for my family Trin" I smile and shake my head walking to him "You're not the only one who can sense people you know" he says as he turns and look at me. He opens his arms and I sit in his lap, well curl up holding his hand in both of mine as one wraps around me and the other continues to type.
"You've never told me about them." I say quietly "What were they like?"
"Well I am one of four, two older brothers and a younger sister" he says as he stops typing "That's my sister, Jenny" I look at the screen to see a thin bronzed young woman with long blonde hair walk hand in hand with another man. "My parents were workaholics really but spoilt us, well the others more than me. I was the odd one out in more ways than one as you'll see once you see the rest of them." He typed in another code and I see two tall rather muscular men both almost identical with tanned skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. "John and Toro. My parents are like that too. They thought I was a freak seeing as I was so good with computers and not blonde, they just kept me up to date with a decent model and left me alone, while they took the others to all their functions. I didn't care I hated those events but the others used to tease me about it." He looks at the two men and sighs "I wish I had the relationship you have and seemed to have had with your siblings" I make him face me.
"I cared about them I really did and still dobut I was really a loner then wanting to do my own thing. There was no one to do it so I knew that I had to look after them. Their faces were what was going through my mind as I picked between the red and blue. I almost took the blue because of them but I knew I had to find out so I took red and blocked out their faces. I never got very close to anyone after that because it took so much out of me leaving them and I didn't want it to happen again but I did of course but not as close I was close to Switch especially but never told never told her. I'm scared Neo." He looks at me confused and holds me with both hands hugging me to him.
"Why Trin?" he whispers into my hair.
"Because I love you so much I'm scared something will happen to you" I whisper. God why did I just tell him that. I bury my face in his shoulder my face is heating up and I really don't want to look at him. I'm not used to being embarrassed. I normally hit the person responsible but I can't hurt Neo even if I wanted to. I can hear him talking to me but I don't want to listen.
"Trin I know how you feel, I am the same. I couldn't do any of this without you. Trin please believe me" I look into his eyes and see he isn't lying or putting it on he's just as scared. What a pair we are? I lean towards him and just before our lips meet I whisper.
"Then we'll be scared together" then we kiss, they still amaze me the love behind them is... well you'll have to find out for yourself, i can't explain it.
"We'll be together through everything" he says after he brakes the kiss holding my face in his hand. I smile and nod leaning into him. After a minute he asks me a question. "Can I see your family?" I look at him weighing up whether I should or not."Well the rest of your family" he adds lamely.
"Ok" I said then lean forward and type in a code I know by heart and an image came into the screen. It should be good to see them again. "That's Ben" and we both look at my six foot four, dark haired, younger brother talking to a small child "That's his child" I pause "Jasmine. She's three now." Neo looks at me and I know he can read my face.
"She's named after you isn't she" he says quietly and I nod.
"They thought I died" I zoom out on Ben and type another coding in. It beeps for a second then shows my next brother, Danny. He looks a lot like me with the same eyes and hair but he's even taller then Ben being six footsix. "That's Danny he was the closest to Lightning and Ben to me Felix was close to Lightning as well as me" he's looking at something and curiosity got the better of me so I zoom in on it and it's a photo album one of us as kids. He's staring at a picture I know well it is one of all five of us only two weeks before I was unplugged. I'm holding onto Elle while Ben and Danny who were already bigger than me tried to pick me up with Felix as well.
"You look like a happy family" he says quietly looking at the photo too.
"We were I think as happy as we could be" I say with a half smile. "Now lets find Felix" I find him quickly he's in school I'm glad about I thought he might have left by now. He's grown a lot since I last saw him he's as tall and Ben I can see this when he stands up, he's got dark brown hair and is almost identical to Ben but has blue eyes like me instead of Ben's brown ones. "That's Felix" I lean back against Neo "He lives with Ben and his family."
"Oh" Neo continued to watch my brother as he walks out of the classroom and down the corridor, he greets a couple of girls kissing one on the cheek and wrapping his arms around her. I knew he had taken my 'death' the worst he and I were very close, I practically raised him for quite a lot of the time and he couldn't understand either. After a moment I ask the question I had been meaning to ask when I cam down here.
"How did my little sis do with the training today?" Neo looks up from the screen.
"Really good she did nine programs in 7 hours"
"That's almost as good as you" I say with a slight smile remembering watching him when I had a chance in that week that he was being trained. "Who'll be training her by the way?"
"I don't know Morpheus hasn't told us yet. It'll probably be you though"
"Might be" I wouldn't mind training my sister "Is she asleep now?" he nods then smiles.
"I almost considered carrying her back to her room, it seems that once she does a lot her legs start to give out" he looks at what I know must be a shocked face "She was ok after a minute though. Hey I wouldn't let anything hurt her" I smile sometimes he so caring it could almost be impossible.
"I think I might take her some food" I say trying to get up but he holds me to him "What are you doing?" I ask almost playfully, this is new me being playful.
"Holding you" he says with a beautiful smile "Can you keep me company 'til Morpheus comes? It's only 15 minutes" he makes something that I think is supposed to represent puppy's eyes or least a look to persuade me to stay but he can't really work it. I start to laugh and he looks hurt.
"I'm sorry but that was funny. Trust me don't try that look on anyone else because it would have the same reaction" he looks at me and I saw something new in his eyes. Mischief, oh Jesus why did I tell him that I was ticklish. I squirm as he started to tickle me and try to wriggle free. Mid way through our tickling match I discover, to my delight, where he was ticklish. I froze as did Neo when we hear laughter from behind us. We looked at each other then slowly turn around to see Morpheus laughing at us.
"Two of our best soldiers having a tickling contest that is something I never thought I'd see" he says smiling. Neo pulls me more securely onto his lap before letting me up.
"Sorry Morpheus" he says looking at his captain.
"It's ok" Morpheus smiles at us "You are allowed to have fun from time to time." I smile at him "Now you two go and get some sleep and could you take some food to Aduro or as I've heard now Lightning's room she didn't have a chance to eat before" Neo nods and walks out.
"Who is going to be training Lightning sir?" I ask and he looks at me.
"Trinity I thought that would be obvious you are, just do good and I'll have no sibling rivalry either" I smile.
"No I don't think that will happen" then follow Neo out of the room. I find him in the mess hall drawing off some of the food. He is really sweet like that. I get a glass of water and we walk together to Lightning's room. When we walk in she's managed to wriggle out of her blankets and is as a result was shivering. I place the cup on the side then I pull the covers up around her and she immediately grabs onto them and curls into a ball. I smile at that knowing I did exactly the same.
"You know you do that" Neo says quietly wrapping his arms round me from behind and putting his head on mine.
"Yeah" I lean back on him. He has that affect on me he just makes me not act like…well like the cold person I was before he came, the soldier in me now I'm just me. "Wait how do you know that?" I say turning in his arms confused. He blushes slightly and tries to smile.
"Umm…don't kill me but I come and wake you a lot you know" I nod "I used to go early and watch you sleep for a bit beforehand. You look so beautiful when you sleep, you do all the time but you just look calm at peace" he says and smiled slightly more confidently at me "Hope you don't mind" I nearly had tears in my eyes…I said nearly I can still control my emotions up to a point around him but it is harder. I can't say anything so I just kiss him and he kisses me back with the same passion. After we brake apart he whispers "I think that means I'm forgiven" and I nod before he kisses me again. I hear a groan from behind me and what sounds like someone pulling a blanket over their head and saying
"Go to your own bloody room, it's nice to see your both happy but go be happy somewhere else" I laugh and turn to look at Lightning who had her back to us and the covers over her head. I step out of Neo's embrace and pull the blankets down a bit. I laugh again as she's fast asleep again.
"Come on lets do what my sister told us" I take his hand and walk out and along to my room. I'm nervous, I want to ask him in to sleep next to me keep me warm and…ok brain stop right there. I look at him as we stop outside my room. I smile at him and he smiles kissing me softly before turning to go to his room. Right tonight is the night I catch hold his hand. He looks at me with an unreadable expression. I pull on his hand and he, of course, follows me into my room. He seems suddenly nervous but happy at the same time.
"Neo I…" my sentence trails off as he looks at me with the eyes had captured me a long time ago. Those eyes understood and he takes off his boots and his jumper. He raises his eyebrows in a question 'Are you sure?' I just follow his example. He takes my hands in his then gently kisses me.
"Trin do you want to sleep?" he asks and I nod not knowing what to say. He smiles "I'm not used to you like this" he says and laughs I hit him gently "Well I'm not." He looks at me serious again "You want me to go in first"
"Yes" I said finding my voice "And I'm not used to you like this either" he laughed. He sat on the bed and I sit down beside him.
"What now?" he asks.
"Uh…sleep" I say he shrugs and pulls the blankets back on the bed then looks at me again and I nod he gets underneath and I get in after him. We lie facing each other and just looking for a long time. Out of nowhere he pulls me to him I smile and turn over so that my back faces him. I curl up my back against his chest. He draws the blankets tight around us then kisses me on the side of my head.
"I love you"
"I love you too" I say grabbing his hand and linking his fingers with mine "Goodnight Neo"
"Night Trin" he whispers and kisses my neck. I fell asleep within a couple of minutes at the most.
TBC
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