-cm- The Matrix Revolutions -2003- 1080p Bluray... -

Claire.

He pressed play.

He closed the media player. He did not reply to the text. -CM- The Matrix Revolutions -2003- 1080p BluRay...

The opening chords of Juno Reactor’s "Navras" thrummed through his cheap headphones, transforming his cramped studio apartment into the Dock of Zion. Rain—pixel-perfect, 1080p rain—lashed against the Neo’s leather coat as he stared down the hovering Sentinel. Leo didn't see Keanu Reeves. He saw himself. Or rather, who he could be.

For a long moment, Leo stared at the paused frame. He could reply. He could offer to come get it. He could step back into the old loop—the argument, the reconciliation, the slow drift toward another goodbye. Claire

Instead, he looked at the file name. -CM- . He’d never known what the tag meant. Some old release group, probably. But tonight, his brain rewrote it. Choice Made.

And for the first time in three years, Leo stepped out of his apartment into the real rain, and he did not look back at the glow of the screen. He did not reply to the text

He paused the movie. Neo was mid-air, fist cocked back against a Sentinel. Frozen. Perfect.