The Real Reason

Chapter 3

"He works for a programming company, he's been searching for Morpheous for a couple of years. I don't know why Morpheous thinks he is the One though." Switch answered as she got up from her bench and walked over to the sink. "You can come with me if you want, and find out a bit more." Switch answered washing her bowl and cup up. For some reason the idea appealed to Trinity and she agreed.

Trinity and Switch walked down to the core together and relieved Morpheous of looking at the green raindrop code that is the Matrix. "We'll take over now Morpheous, anything we should know before you go?" Switch asked as she sat herself down in a chair in front of the screens.

"No, he's just been doing the usual, no agents are onto him yet, but he's fallen alseep in front of the computer, again." Morpheous told Switch, not noticing Trinity behind him.

"He'll have one hell of sore neck tomorrow morning." Trinity stated making Morpheous jump a little.

"Trinity, what are you doing down here?" Morpheous asked, surprised that Trinity was up and functioning.

"I couldn't sleep, so I went down to the Mess Hall, where I found Switch, she's been telling me how you think you've found the One." Trinity stated simply.

"I don't think Trinity, I know." This response was typical of Morpheous.

"So what makes you think that?" Trinity asked, interested in hearing Morpheous' answer.

"The Oracle." Morpheous stated. Trinity didn't need to ask anymore, she knew what the Oracle had said, but Trinity was the only one who would trully know whether Neo was the One or not. But Morpheous didn't know that, and if it was up to Trinity, he wouldn't find out at all.

"Are you alright Trinity, you've paled considerably, do you need to go and rest for a while?" Morpheous asked, but Trinity simply nodded and went to take a seat beside Switch and stared at the screens. Morpheous left her to it, knowing that she would still be grieving the lose of Dagger.

'Wow, he's hot!' Trinity thought to herself, but she quickly brushed these thoughts aside when she remembered that she had just lost Dagger, she had also decided when she was trying to get to sleep, that she would not love anyone else, despite what Dagger had said, she just couldn't, she knew that if she did she would be hurt again and she didn't want to go through that pain again. While thinking about this Switch had asked her a question, but she was so out of it she hadn't heard.

"Earth to Trinity?" Switch said, waving a hand in front of Trinity's face. Trinity snapped out of her daze and looked at Switch.

"Sorry Switch, what did you say?" Trinity asked, while making a mental note not to go into a daze again, as it was unlike her to go off into a daydream.

"Would you mind taking over for a little while, I'm feeling a bit rough, but it's Cypher's shift soon, but until then could you keep an eye on Neo for me?" Switch said, rather weakly.

"Of course, you go back to your cabin and I'll stay here and watch Neo, it's not like I'm going to get any sleep anyway." Trinity said, smiling slightly at her friend. Switch thanked her and headed off towards her cabin.

Around 5 hours later.

"Trinity, what are you doing down here? I thought this was meant to be Switch's shift?" Cypher said walking into the cockpit.

"Switch was feeling a bit rough so I told her I would take her shift for her, I can take yours as well if you want, I'm not tired, and I can't sleep anyway." Trinity said, as a bad feeling settled into her stomach as it always did when Cypher was around.

"Are you sure? You sure you don't want me to keep you company or anything?" Cypher drawled, secretly wanting her to say she wanted him to stay.

"I'm positive, and I'd rather be alone if you don't mind?" Trinity said, growing more and more uncomfortable around Cypher. With that said Cypher left her to it, silently cursing himself for being stupid enough to think she would want him to stay.

"God, he gives me the creeps!" Trinity thought to herself as Cypher left the cockpit. Thinking no more of it Trinity settled back down and saw on the screens that Neo was just starting to wake up. "I told you so." She said to herself as Neo started to rub his neck, trying to stop his neck from hurting so much. She watched him closely as he rushed around getting ready for work, already knowing he was going to be late.

Around half and hour later.

Trinity watched as Neo got sent to Mr Rhineheart's office, but got her attention taken away from the screen by Morpheous, who had sat down next to her. "I want to be able to free him in less than a week." Morpheous told her as she turned her attention to him.

"Less than a week?" Trinity asked, slightly surprised. "How long have you been watching him?"

"About a month, and I do realise that he is slightly older than we tend to go for, but that's just a small factor in it." Morpheous told her.

"Do you want me to send Choi and DeJour over there after he's got back from work?" Trinity asked, hoping she'd get to play a small part.

"Yes, but I need you to go over there now and hack into his computer to find out what he already knows, then when he returns from work send Choi and DeJour over there, and get them to take him to a club, which is where I need you to meet him." Morpheous told her.

"Me? Why me?" Trinity asked, she wasn't complaining, but she was slightly shocked.

"Switch is ill, I don't really trust Cypher, Apoc is looking after Switch, and as you know, Mouse is too young. So that just leaves you." Morpheous explained to her, hoping that she wouldn't mind going back in after yesterday's events.

"Okay, plug me in and I'll go." Trinity told him, Morpheous was slightly shocked, but knew that she would never disobey an order. Trinity walked over to her chair and got herself comfortable, Morpheous then plugged her in and sent her into the Matrix.