A/N: Woo. I do not own Evangelion. I do not own the plot, nor do I own the characters. I have taken liberties with many things, as you will notice. Hopefully this will not upset you, or influence how much you enjoy it. The song that is quotes is sung by Rufus Wainright. I do not own the song, the lyrics or anything that has to do with it.

I do believe that is everything. Now please, enjoy nn

The fifth Eva unit was nearly destroyed during transportation. An angel attacked. We managed to salvage both the Eva, and the pilot. The young man, however is in critical condition. He is currently being tended to in the hospital.

A brunette stopped a nurse walking out of a room, enquiring about the person inside of it. After a very short conversation, the nurse nodded and the teen was allowed in. Inside the room was a woman with purple hair whom the brunette could only assume was Misato.

"Good day, Ms. Misato." She said, bowing.

"Please, no miss. It's depressing." Misato mumbled, waving her hand. "And you would be?"

"Adrian. Adrian Bellview." The girl said with a nod of her head and a small smile.

"This fine young man would be Aida Kensuke. He was… wounded on the way here. I trust you will be quite capable of looking after him?" The woman enquired, fidgeting with her slinky black dress, "I have to er… meet someone."

"I most certainly can, Major." Adrian smiled that smile again, her lilac eyes sparkling.

"Thank you very much." Misato said with a nod and a large grin. And with that, the responsible adult left the room.

Adrian moved the chair from against the wall to the window before seating herself. She admired the wonderful garden that kind people had aided in planting. She felt sorry for Aida, who looked as if he would have pain doing anything for the next while. Bandages wrapped themselves around his head and chest, with some most likely finding their way to his legs. A cast made sure that his right wrist was unusable, until it healed.

"Poor guy." She joked aloud to herself. She chuckled and turned back to the window, humming a quiet, sad tune. She tucked her long chestnut brown hair behind her ear before she bent down to fix her boot and tighten the laces, all the while humming to herself.

"She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throat and she cut your hair, and from your lips, she drew the hallelujah." Aida spoke the words as she hummed the tune.

"You know it!" She exclaimed happily. Then remembering her manners, she stood and smoothed out her black, skintight t-shirt and bowed.

"I am Adrian Bellview. Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Aida." She spoke softly, in a voice that seemed as though it had never seen any unhappiness.

"Oh, um… you can call me Kensuke. Everyone does." He stammered, blushing. Adrian merely smiled and walked over, picking up his glasses from the table on the way there. She stood at his bedside, offering him the seeing devices as if they were to seal a peace treaty of some sorts. Upon adjusting them on his face, he looked up at the girl and gasped. Dark brown hair framed an almost sickly pale face. Freckles dusted her rosy cheeks and her pale pink lips were curved with a smile.

"What's it like, to be in an Eva?" She asked as if she were a curious seven year old.

"It's, I… it's… umm… like sitting in a computer chair? I guess. You're connected to the uh, nerve system. Y'know, so you don't total the damn thing. Like, anything that happens to the Eva kind of happens to you, to a much lesser degree of course, but the pain is still there. Sometimes, they are difficult to pilot them. One of my friends thinks that it is because they have a mind of their own." He stammered through an explanation he felt was entirely half assed.

"It must have hurt a lot. What happened to you, I mean." She spoke softly. Kensuke avoided her gaze.

"Why do you think the angles are here? When do they usually show up?" She changed the subject, obviously sensing how awkward he felt to talk about it. He didn't much like to say he lost control of the damn thing.

"Anytime. They show up anytime they feel like. There's no pattern. It could be three in the morning or eight at night. As for why they're here… I… I don't know." He looked away, obsessively smoothing the blankets. He couldn't tell her why they were here. He was under quite strict orders that she was not to know.

Thankfully, Ritsuko saved him. An angel of mercy, for the moment.

"Adrian. We need you. Right away." The blond woman spoke hurriedly.

"It was nice meeting you. I will see you later, Kensuke." She smiled as she stood, regarding Ritsuko with a seriousness that threw the young man off.

"Show me where I am to go." She said as she walked past the blonde woman. Ritsuko merely gave Kensuke a puzzled look before following the seventeen year old.

Misato met her at the entrance, looking rather peeved and frazzled. Instead of greeting the girl, she grabbed Adrians arm and pulled her along as she explained everything.

"Listen to me, and you listen closely. We don't have time to repeat anything." The Captain said, pulling Adrian into an elevator and pressing the button for the eighteenth floor harder than what was necessary. "As soon as we get down there, you will be shoved into something called an 'entry plug'. That will be put into the Eva, unit oh-five for the time being, where the tube will fill with a liquid. It's okay to breathe it in, no harm done." The doors dinged as the opened and Misato pulled the poor girl along like a child would her doll. " As soon as you are in there, the nerve system gets connected, so don't do anything stupid. Your weapon is a sword, strictly for that Eva only. When you arrive above ground, be ready for anything. Did you get that all?"

"I guess… I'll just go with the flow." She grinned and gave the woman a half smile before hopping into the entry plug. Misato merely groaned and held her head in her hand. Adrian panicked when the fluid flooded the plug, but only for a few moments. When the Eva was launched her stomach lurched, not ready for the sudden jolt. And the moment the sunlight hit her eyes, all she could see was the enemy. And it stared back.

Adrian shouted and grabbed its head with her left hand, squeezing. The bizarre looking creature grabbed the Evas arm and pulled, tearing it at the elbow. Adrian shouted various things, pulling the massive weapon form its sheath on her back and swept it in a large semi circle, nicking the Angel and drawing its strange blood. Angered, the Angel grabbed the sharp blade, pulling it from Adrians grip. Her lilac eyes widened when she realized what was going to happen. Apparently, so did unit oh-five.

Unable to control the massive machine as it leapt towards the Angel, Adrian tearfully begged it to listen, jerking the control on either side of her in a futile effort to regain control. When the blood and entrails started to fly, Adrian turned to Misato.

"Please Major Katsuragi… please…" She sobbed, "Please just make it all stop! MISATO!" She screamed, her voice echoing through the headquarters. Misato desperately shouted orders for another Eva to be sent up to retain unit oh-five, to have all the sensory systems cut off, anything to stop her from suffering. They all watched in horror as the Angel made on last attempt to gain control by ramming the bloodied hilt of the sword directly into the Evas stomach. It broke through the armor, burying itself into the soft flesh that lay underneath. Angered instead of weakened, the bloodthirsty Eva feasted on.

And Adrian watched in horror, her gentle lilac eyes wide, blood running from her nose and onto her shirt. Something tightened around her neck. Around the Evas neck. Her vision blurred and thought raced frantically though her mind. What's happening? Why do I hurt? Why is it doing this? What are Angels? What are…

She woke up three days later in the hospital.

"She was terrified. You can't let her back in that thing!"

"I know how you feel, but we need all the people we can get."

"Why her? Can't you find someone else?"

" What if it had been someone else? Would you be acting this way?"

Voices. What were they talking about? They seemed like they were angry upset words. Her eyes swam in and out of focus. Her throat ached and her stomach felt empty. She tried to move her hand to cover her eyes. Something was far too bright fo her liking. Oh? Something is blocking out the light? A person? Yes! Misato? Why yes. Yes it is.

"Adrian?"

A mumbled response. "Are you okay?"

"Just dandy. All I need is a bluebird on my shoulder." She choked out, her voice raspy and wounded.

"Right." Misato replied. She didn't have the patience for witty retorts.

"I feel numb, okay? I can't see straight and nothing seems to be responding."

"That should change soon. I have to leave. Kensuke is here. He will keep you company and take you home later today." And with that their purple haired Captain departed. Adrian turned her head, the only motor function she could control at the moment and smiled at Kensuke.

"Didn't think I'd be seeing you again like this." She smiled. Amazing, he though. She can smile after what had happened to her. And knowing from his experience it wasn't pleasant, he had to admire her courage.

He chuckled nervously and ran a hand through his dirty blond hair. He suddenly felt glad that she couldn't see well, for his cheeks had turned a lovely shade of pink. "Yeah. Who'dve thought it." He joked, and instantly felt lame. But she still laughed. A light laugh that floated on the surprisingly warm fall air. Her laughter quietly faded and her smile disappeared.

"Kensuke? What happened to me? Why can't I move?" She sounded close to tears. And oh! How his heart ached.

"You don't remember what your Eva did to that thing?" Kensuke asked, surprised.

"I… I do." She turned her head away from him, "But I don't know why I can't move."

Kensuke felt his eyebrow twitch. He couldn't believe that no one had informed her of what she had been doing to herself in her state. "Adrian, you um… they had to restrain you so that you uh… didn't… hurt yourself, anymore. When you were sleeping, I assume you had a nightmare, or something. It was two days ago, I was still in the hospital. You woke me up too. You were screaming, clawing at your arms. Crying. There was a lot of blood. They said some of it came from agitating your wounds, your nose, and what you were doing to yourself. You got up and started throwing things too." He finished off his speech by taking a deep breath and looking at her. Crystalline tears fell from her eyes.

"Oh Adrian, I didn't mean to upset you. I really didn't!" He exclaimed, swooping down to his knees at her bedside. Adrian merely shook her head and wept.

Once again she woke up in the hospital. Same day, but later on in the afternoon, close to dinnertime. The room had a dark blue tinge to it, an almost serene feel. Kensuke walked back into the room just then, a bottle of water in hand.

"They say you can go home now. They'll be down in a moment to get you ready." He smiled, trying to be reassuring.

"Kensuke… where are you staying?" she asked, catching the nineteen year old off guard.

"I, uh… have been staying in a hotel. They… haven't found me an apartment yet." He stammered, once again feeling like a dolt.

"If you would like, you could stay with me. Of course, NERV will have to properly equip the place, but I do believe that it is large enough to hold you and the rest of the pilots when they arrive." She spoke softly and smoothly, despite her ravaged throat.

"I… I would like that very much." He smiled and sat down beside her bed.

"Thank you, Kensuke."