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The Real Reason
Chapter 4
'Shit.' Trinity sprinted along a back alley and round the corner to come face to face with yet another agent. She'd just got Agent Brown off her tail and now she was having to either fight or run away from Agent Smith.
Trinity prefered the latter.
Although she loved to fight, she wasn't really up to kicking agent's asses right now. Trinity did a back flip and kicked Smith in the face. He stumbled backwards, but regained his composure quicker than Trinity had anticipated.
He flipped over her head and grabbed a small pen knife out of is shoe, all in one foul swoop.
Before Trinity had realised what was happening he had an arm around her neck so she couldn't move, and the pen knife on the part of her neck that wasn't covered by his arm. Trinity, more prepared for this than he had anticipated, shifted her weight onto her other foot and used her other foot to kick him in the groin. Smith dropped the pen knife and his arm that was around Trinity's neck.
Trinity caught the pen knife by the blade, cutting her hand quite deeply in the process. With Smith still on the floor, Trinity took this as a chance to plunge the pen knife in his side.
She then ran towards an office block and skidded to a halt infront of a man that looked mortified.
Trinity inwardly laughed, 'I suppose it's not every day that you see a women run towards you in black leather attire and skid to a halt infront of you.' She thought to herself. Snapping herself out of her stupor she took a proper look at the man, he looked familiar but for some reason she couldn't put a name to the face. "Do I know you?" She asked the stranger.
"No, I think I would have remembered a woman like you." The man said with a small smile. Trinity smiled back and walked away. 'Why does he look so damn familiar?' She thought to herself as she turned off a small street and walked towards a large apartment block.
Trinity pushed the door to Neo's apartment open with her good hand and stepped inside. Trinity adjusted to the light and then looked around Neo's apartment. It was dark, and not particulaly tidy. There was a dark green couch near the middle of the room, a bookcase near the door, and over by the far wall was his computer. 'Ah, bingo.' She thought to herself as she made her way across the untidy room.
Trinity linked his computer with her own and looked through some of his files on the computer. He knew quite a lot about Morpheous, but didn't really know much about the truth, and had a small theory of what the Matrix was, very similar to the actual truth.
When she was finished hacking into his computer she stole a glance at the clock on the desk, she saw that it was only three pm, Matrix time, and Neo didn't get back from work until seven, at the earliest.
Trinity made her way through a door in the living room to a small, clustered kitchen. She looked through cupboards, and eventually found a small medical box. Opening it, she was pleased to see that it contained antiseptic wipes, a bandage and some tape. Doing as best as she could with one hand, Trinity dressed her wounded hand and set the medical box back in a cupboard near the oven.
She decided that Neo's apartment was too messy, and she knew that he wasn't going to tidy it any time soon.
She surprisingly found some cleaning supplies in a cupboard under the sink in his kitchen, so she started her work from the kitchen, through to the living room, the bathroom, and Neo's small bedroom, that occupied only a bed and a small wardobe. Trinity was also secretly glad that Neo's apartment was so untidy, as it gave her a chance to look through some of his possessions properly.
When Trinity was finished it was getting towards six pm, so she put the cleaning supplies away and headed back into the living room.
She found a notepad and pen near the phone and wrote a small note to Neo, which she then stuck to his computer's moniter.
With that finished Trinity realised that she had to get to the Heart 'O The City Hotel so that she could moniter Neo and email Choi and Dejour to see where they were. Luckily the hotel wasn't too far from Neo' apartment, just a block or two. Glancing at the clock she realised it was exactly seven pm, and Neo would be home at any minute. She sped down the stairs in double time, and bumped into someone in the foyer. It was the same man as before! "We seem to have a habit of bumping into each other today." Said the man, smiling slightly.
"So it would appear." Trinity said smiling back, it was then that she realised who it was, it was Neo.
"I didn't know you lived in the building." Neo said, making small talk, which was extremely unlike him.
"I don't, I was just... er ... visiting an old friend." Trinity said, trying to come up with a believable reason.
"Well, I'll see ya around, I guess." Neo said, giving Trinity a full smile this time.
"Yeah, see ya around." Trinity said, giving Neo a smile to match his own, while keeping her face calm, but underneath her heart was racing and someone had released a swarm of butterflies in her stomach, which was momentarily doing several back flips. 'Just walk away, and try and keep calm.' Trinity told herself, through her thoughts, as she walked away.
As soon as she got out of the front door to the building, she decided to sprint, mainly because she was nearly late and secondly to try and burn off some of the adreniline.
Ten minutes later, Heart 'O The City Hotel:
Trinity reached beside her laptop and picked up her cell phone. She dialed the numbers for Cypher's phone and waited for him to answer.
"Yeah." Cypher drawled, picking up the phone, knowing already that it was Trinity on the other end.
"Is everything in place?" Trinity asked, wasting no time by making small talk, like Cypher usually did.
"You weren't supposed to relieve me." Cypher told her, sounding a bit pissed off.
"I know, but I felt like taking your shift." Trinity lied, she daren't tell him that Morpheous had told her to take over his shift because Morpheous doesn't trust him.
"You like him, don't you? You like watching him." Cypher teased, although she knew, he wasn't teasing her.
"Don't be ridiculous." Trinity told him, mentally cursing to herself for not seeing that coming.
"We're going to kill him, do you understand that?" Cypher told her, hoping to wind her up, and to Trinity's surprise, it did, the thought of Neo dying made her shiver and get a strange sad feeling deep inside the core of her.
"Morpheous believes he is The One." She told Cypher, knowing full well that that never stopped the others from dying, the other 'supposed One's'.
"Do you?" Cypher asked, intrigued. "Shit, he has me there. Do I think he is The One? If it does will I be admitting what the Oracle told me!' Shetoldherself. But the only answer she could come up with was a simple one that would piss Cypher off.
"It doesn't matter what I believe." She told him, although what she said was, in truth, extremely wrong indeed.
"You don't, do you?" Cypher asked her, secretly hoping that she didn't. There was a small beep as Cypher finished, but it was enough to worry Trinity enough to ask Cypher about it.
"Did you hear that?" Trinity asked, completely changing the subject to a, momentarily, much more important one.
"Hear what?" Cypher asked, knowing full well what Trinity had heard, but he wasn't about to tell her what it was.
"Are you sure this line is clean?" Trinity asked, it wouldn't matter what Cypher's answer was, she wouldn't believe him anyway.
"Yeah, 'course I'm sure." Cypher said. 'Yeh, like hell you are.' Trinity thought to herself as she told him that she had better go, and with that she disconnected.