Fic Rec: Green Rain by Chaotic (Matrix)
Title: Green Rain
Author: Chaotic
Fandom: The Matrix
Pairing: Neo/Trinity, Switch/Apoc
Why you should read this story: Because it's backstory, and it's good, and mostly from the minor characters' POVs. All the things we never saw, things that shaped the characters . . . go. read. now.
Morpheus came to see us, when I was leaving. He saw all of us one by one, he had a crew vacancy just come up. He asked what I thought of the Prophecies, and I said I didn't know what I thought, I hadn't ever really thought. Then he asked me, what did I want. I said I wanted to be part of something. And he smiled, and said okay. And I left and assumed that was it. The Neb- they're hard asses. They all fight like they love it. Not just because they have to. They all have everything top notch. My programming is good, my hacking, and I'm cool with the guns, but I wasn't ever so great with the martial arts. I mean, not that much behind. But a bit. You know. But those guys haven't got gaps. They all do everything.
Then I got called in and told Morpheus wanted me. He'd picked me.
I don't think the others believed it. I know I didn't.
When I started, it wasn't the way I expected. I kind of felt lonely. The brothers were cool, and Cypher was friendly, but I guess the others were pretty busy. Switch scared me. I kind of annoy her. I get on her nerves. Apoc has this habit of saying "shut up Mouse" in a polite voice, and it used to really piss me off. And then one day he wasn't there at mess time, and so he didn't say it, and I didn't shut up. And Switch lost her temper. Trinity looked at her after a while and said, "Switch, leave it," and she did, but it was a bit late. She'd sort of said it by then. So I realized that Apoc was circuit breaking her temper and after that I made sure if Switch was there, and he wasn't, I went somewhere else. And then one day it happened.
You need to get that you can't have couples on ships. It's a rule. So those guys were just friends, that was all. Never anything more. As far as I knew. And you also need to get that the Woman- the Woman in the Red Dress- she isn't a program I ever shared at home. She isn't just anyone. But I was grateful to Apoc, and anyway, I was sick of being treated like a kid, when I can program someone like her. So I offered him to meet her. Spend some time with her. Quality time, if you get what I'm saying.
Switch went mental. I'd never seen anything like it. Apoc couldn't shut her up by talking this time, he tried but she wasn't listening, and then he just kissed her. Like full on kissing, right there. I thought I was going to die of embarrassment. When he stopped he was laughing, said to her, "you're still a nightmare," and then instead of chewing him out like I knew she would, she just started to laugh, too.
That was the day I realized the stories were right. This crew really are insane. Loco. The plugs are out, but the code's still falling.
Author: Chaotic
Fandom: The Matrix
Pairing: Neo/Trinity, Switch/Apoc
Why you should read this story: Because it's backstory, and it's good, and mostly from the minor characters' POVs. All the things we never saw, things that shaped the characters . . . go. read. now.
Morpheus came to see us, when I was leaving. He saw all of us one by one, he had a crew vacancy just come up. He asked what I thought of the Prophecies, and I said I didn't know what I thought, I hadn't ever really thought. Then he asked me, what did I want. I said I wanted to be part of something. And he smiled, and said okay. And I left and assumed that was it. The Neb- they're hard asses. They all fight like they love it. Not just because they have to. They all have everything top notch. My programming is good, my hacking, and I'm cool with the guns, but I wasn't ever so great with the martial arts. I mean, not that much behind. But a bit. You know. But those guys haven't got gaps. They all do everything.
Then I got called in and told Morpheus wanted me. He'd picked me.
I don't think the others believed it. I know I didn't.
When I started, it wasn't the way I expected. I kind of felt lonely. The brothers were cool, and Cypher was friendly, but I guess the others were pretty busy. Switch scared me. I kind of annoy her. I get on her nerves. Apoc has this habit of saying "shut up Mouse" in a polite voice, and it used to really piss me off. And then one day he wasn't there at mess time, and so he didn't say it, and I didn't shut up. And Switch lost her temper. Trinity looked at her after a while and said, "Switch, leave it," and she did, but it was a bit late. She'd sort of said it by then. So I realized that Apoc was circuit breaking her temper and after that I made sure if Switch was there, and he wasn't, I went somewhere else. And then one day it happened.
You need to get that you can't have couples on ships. It's a rule. So those guys were just friends, that was all. Never anything more. As far as I knew. And you also need to get that the Woman- the Woman in the Red Dress- she isn't a program I ever shared at home. She isn't just anyone. But I was grateful to Apoc, and anyway, I was sick of being treated like a kid, when I can program someone like her. So I offered him to meet her. Spend some time with her. Quality time, if you get what I'm saying.
Switch went mental. I'd never seen anything like it. Apoc couldn't shut her up by talking this time, he tried but she wasn't listening, and then he just kissed her. Like full on kissing, right there. I thought I was going to die of embarrassment. When he stopped he was laughing, said to her, "you're still a nightmare," and then instead of chewing him out like I knew she would, she just started to laugh, too.
That was the day I realized the stories were right. This crew really are insane. Loco. The plugs are out, but the code's still falling.