Here's chapter two!
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Disclaimer: If I owned Reboot, we wouldn't have ended with that damn cliffhanger, alright? Alright.
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Theme #2: Love
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He wasn't sure when their friendship had deepened into love, actually. Matrix wondered about it sometimes, when they were between Games and had enough downtime to sit and smell the daisy wheels.
It had just…happened. They were compiling up to adulthood, with no one else to depend on but each other and Frisket. They had fought long and hard, side-by-side, battling Users and the occasional virus…and somewhere in the middle of that Matrix realized that even if they never found their way back home to Mainframe, it wouldn't be quite so bad.
As long as he and AndrAIa were together…Matrix felt like they could take on the whole Net, just the two of them.
Matrix asked AndrAIa about it once. He'd asked her when she thought they had passed the border between being friends and being more. She'd laughed.
"I passed that way a long time ago, lover," AndrAIa had said, smiling that beautiful smile of hers, "I wouldn't have followed you out of the Game for anything less."
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