Suddenly It Was Over
By: Justin Green
Disclaimer: Of course I do not own any of the Evangelion charcters. If I did own them
then the series would not have become the great series we all know it as. ^_^
Suddenly it was over.
Everything that was happening to the world stopped and he awoke. He opened his eyes to a dark
sky scattered with clouds and stars. Shinji felt the warm sand on his arms as he lay there
hearing the sounds of waves crashing upon shore.
'Where am I?'
'What happened?'
His head turned and he saw a sea of red. The blood red sea from where Lillith/Rei had bled into
the waters. He blinked and as if reading his thoughts he saw Rei floating just above the see
looking at him just as she had on the first day he arrived in Tokyo-3. For once since he woke
up he felt at ease to just see her there. He blinked again and she was gone along with his
calmness.
Shinji finally noticed the other person on the beach. Asuka was wearing her plugsuit and
lying just as Shinji had been. He did not even try to understand how she could still be
alive; he just started to crawl towards her.
Then he saw the bandages. She was bandaged just as Rei seemed to always be. One bandage
over the eye and some on the arm. It reminded him of Rei and as he thought of Rei he thought
of third impact. He thought of everything that had happened. He thought of how Misato died
because of his cowardice. He thought of how the Eva series skewered themselves and how his
Eva went through a somewhat mock crucifixion. How Rei took him and Unit 01 inside of her.
He thought of how comfortable it was with Rei and how peaceful it was to be near her. He then
thought of how that was all taken away from him because of the monster of Unit 01.
All the anger and hatred that had been building inside him began to raise to the surface, and
before he knew what he was doing he had straddled Asuka and was tightening his hands around
her throat nearly drawing blood at the fingernails. She opened her eyes and looked at him.
Shinji asked to Asuka in his mind 'Am I still an idiot!? Am I still a pervert!? Am I a coward!?'
She slowly reached her hand up. Shinji expected her to slap him again and he closed his eyes in
reflex. Then he felt her hand slowly run against his cheek and he opened his eyes in shock.
"I feel sick." Was all she said.
Shinji slowly loosened his grip. He got up and he ran. He couldn't be there. He had to get
away. He didn't care why Asuka was sick or what she was going to do. He just had to get away.
He ran along the beach with his feet pounding the sand. He kept running to the edge of what
remained of the city. He stopped running due to him being out of breath. He walked along the
edge of the city until he reached one of the hills that lined the outskirts of what used to be
Tokyo-3. At the top of the hill was a house right in front of the woods. For some strange
reason he knew that the house was a safe place. That he could hide away in this sanctuary. He
climbed to the top of the hill slowly and pulled aside the door. The house was in perfect
shape. He couldn't understand how it survived third impact, but he didn't care either. He
walked to the couch in the middle of the room and laid down upon it and fell asleep.
It was then that another person came into the room from another part of the house and a smile
came across her lips as she saw him.
**********
He tossed and turned in his sleep. The images of third impact still in his mind. He called
out in his sleep for the only person who was ever able to comfort him.
"Ayanami.... Ayanami...Rei..." he almost sobbed. He missed her so much that it hurt.
"Yes?" She said as the blue haired girl placed her hand on his.
Shinji jumped up in shock. "Ayanami!" he yelled. His eyes began to swell with tears of
happiness. She was back. His angel had returned to him. He couldn't contain his joy anymore
and wrapped his arms tightly around her as if he believed she would vanish forever if he let go.
Rei didn't know what to think at first as she felt Shinji embrace her tightly and a blush
spread across her face. It felt very pleasant to her. She cared deeply for Shinji whether
she showed it or not. She really just didn't know how to express her feelings that well. As
she continued to be held by Shinji, she did the only thing she could think of and wrapped her
arms around him as well.
They both stayed like that for another minute in the quite little house before Shinji's mind
finally caught up with him and he realized the position he was in. He let go of Rei and backed
away bowing and repeating "I'm so sorry Rei!" He stopped when he reached the edge of the couch
and placed his hands in his lap looking down.
"It is ok Shinji." She said addressing him by his first name as he had addressed her, already
missing his warm embrace.
"Um...Rei?" Shinji asked as he looked up at her beautiful face.
"Yes Shinji?" She asked, her crimson eyes staring deep into his dark blue ones.
"What has happened to the world?"
"Third impact has occured." She replied.
"I know that, but what does that mean? What is this world?!" He pleaded with her.
"This is the world as you wished it to be. You desired a world where you could live in peace
with those you cared for. This is that place although it is somewhat distorted. Third impact
was never able to complete because of Unit-01's separation from Lillith."
"But weren't you part of Lillith?"
"Yes I was, but I was mostly a small part of her conciousness. I did not have much control.
Plus as you can remember I was a little preoccupied with you."
"Oh yeah," Shinji said with a slight blush from the remeberance of being with Rei. Then
another question dawned on him. "What about Kaworu? He was there with us."
"And I am still here with you." Said the white haired boy as he stepped through a doorway.
"Good day Shinji. It is good to see you once more." He smiled at Shinji and looked kindly
at him with his eyes of red.
"Hello Tabris." Shinji said unsure of what to believe.
Kaworu continued to smile as he always seemed to "Please Shinji. I no longer go by that name.
Thanks to you and Ms. Ayanami I am no longer an angel. I am as human as the rest of the
populous."
"Rest of the populous?" Shinji asked with a pussled expression on his face and his brows
furrowed.
"Yes the rest of the populous as I was going to explain before I was interrupted." Rei told
Shinji as Kaworu just shrugged and smiled at her. "This is your world Shinji, and although
you often do not wish to be around people for fear of what they will think of you, you still
needed them to exist in this world for your sake and others."
"I think I am beginning to understand somewhat." Shinji told his two pale companions. "Oh no!
I forgot all about Asuka!" Shinji jumped off the couch. "She is still down there at the beach.
We need to go down and get her."
The group proceeded to rush out the door and head down to the beach with Shinji in the lead.
The sky had become darker than it was before and the stars shone bright in the sky.
When they reached halfway down the beach Shinji saw her there laying down on her stomach with a
trail of footprints leading behind her. It seemed as if she had tried to get up and walk only
to fail after barely making fifteen feet. 'You always were stubborn' Shinji thought to himself
as he dropped to his knees beside her with Rei and Kaworu stopping rght afterwards.
Rei rolled Asuka over onto her back and placed two fingers first at her neck and then at her
wrists. "She has a pulse, but it is very weak. We need to get her back to the house
immediately."
Shinji was about to pick Asuka up off the ground when Kaworu did it first. "You have done
enough work already. I'll carry her back."
Shinji nodded to him in agreement and they all headed back to the house.
*******
Once they had arrived back at the house they placed Asuka in a room and Rei proceeded to use
the medical knowledge she had gained over the many years in the hospital to do what she could
to help Asuka. Shinji and Kaworu sat in the main room in silence. Shinji stared at the tv
trying to understand why they would need a tv if the stations were all gone.
After about thirty minutes Rei came into the room to see Kaworu sleeping in a chair still
smiling 'How does he do that?' She looked towards Shinji who sat with his head down and
holding the cross that he had gotten from Misato and wrapped around his neck earlier. She
sat on the couch next to Shinji who looked up at her and smiled sweetly. 'And how does he
do that to me?' she thought as a pleasant sensation filled her at the sight of Shinji's smile.
"She will be ok. She just needs some rest. As do you." She said placing her hand on his
shoulder. "There is a room for you down the hall."
"What about you Rei?" He asked with concern in his voice.
"I will sleep as well Shinji. Do not worry about me." She told him in response.
"I can't help but worry about you Rei." He said as he got up and headed down the hall leaving
a blushing Rei sitting on the couch and his own face turning somewhat red as well when he
realised what he said. He reached the room and wasn't surprised at all to the fact that it
was an exact duplicate of the room he had in Misato's apartment. His thoughts drifted to his
young guardian for a while before sleep finally overcame him and he laid down for the night.
***************
Thus ends the first of my little continuation. I hope you ejoyed it as much as I did.
Please R & R ^_^ thank you.
By: Justin Green
Disclaimer: Of course I do not own any of the Evangelion charcters. If I did own them
then the series would not have become the great series we all know it as. ^_^
Suddenly it was over.
Everything that was happening to the world stopped and he awoke. He opened his eyes to a dark
sky scattered with clouds and stars. Shinji felt the warm sand on his arms as he lay there
hearing the sounds of waves crashing upon shore.
'Where am I?'
'What happened?'
His head turned and he saw a sea of red. The blood red sea from where Lillith/Rei had bled into
the waters. He blinked and as if reading his thoughts he saw Rei floating just above the see
looking at him just as she had on the first day he arrived in Tokyo-3. For once since he woke
up he felt at ease to just see her there. He blinked again and she was gone along with his
calmness.
Shinji finally noticed the other person on the beach. Asuka was wearing her plugsuit and
lying just as Shinji had been. He did not even try to understand how she could still be
alive; he just started to crawl towards her.
Then he saw the bandages. She was bandaged just as Rei seemed to always be. One bandage
over the eye and some on the arm. It reminded him of Rei and as he thought of Rei he thought
of third impact. He thought of everything that had happened. He thought of how Misato died
because of his cowardice. He thought of how the Eva series skewered themselves and how his
Eva went through a somewhat mock crucifixion. How Rei took him and Unit 01 inside of her.
He thought of how comfortable it was with Rei and how peaceful it was to be near her. He then
thought of how that was all taken away from him because of the monster of Unit 01.
All the anger and hatred that had been building inside him began to raise to the surface, and
before he knew what he was doing he had straddled Asuka and was tightening his hands around
her throat nearly drawing blood at the fingernails. She opened her eyes and looked at him.
Shinji asked to Asuka in his mind 'Am I still an idiot!? Am I still a pervert!? Am I a coward!?'
She slowly reached her hand up. Shinji expected her to slap him again and he closed his eyes in
reflex. Then he felt her hand slowly run against his cheek and he opened his eyes in shock.
"I feel sick." Was all she said.
Shinji slowly loosened his grip. He got up and he ran. He couldn't be there. He had to get
away. He didn't care why Asuka was sick or what she was going to do. He just had to get away.
He ran along the beach with his feet pounding the sand. He kept running to the edge of what
remained of the city. He stopped running due to him being out of breath. He walked along the
edge of the city until he reached one of the hills that lined the outskirts of what used to be
Tokyo-3. At the top of the hill was a house right in front of the woods. For some strange
reason he knew that the house was a safe place. That he could hide away in this sanctuary. He
climbed to the top of the hill slowly and pulled aside the door. The house was in perfect
shape. He couldn't understand how it survived third impact, but he didn't care either. He
walked to the couch in the middle of the room and laid down upon it and fell asleep.
It was then that another person came into the room from another part of the house and a smile
came across her lips as she saw him.
**********
He tossed and turned in his sleep. The images of third impact still in his mind. He called
out in his sleep for the only person who was ever able to comfort him.
"Ayanami.... Ayanami...Rei..." he almost sobbed. He missed her so much that it hurt.
"Yes?" She said as the blue haired girl placed her hand on his.
Shinji jumped up in shock. "Ayanami!" he yelled. His eyes began to swell with tears of
happiness. She was back. His angel had returned to him. He couldn't contain his joy anymore
and wrapped his arms tightly around her as if he believed she would vanish forever if he let go.
Rei didn't know what to think at first as she felt Shinji embrace her tightly and a blush
spread across her face. It felt very pleasant to her. She cared deeply for Shinji whether
she showed it or not. She really just didn't know how to express her feelings that well. As
she continued to be held by Shinji, she did the only thing she could think of and wrapped her
arms around him as well.
They both stayed like that for another minute in the quite little house before Shinji's mind
finally caught up with him and he realized the position he was in. He let go of Rei and backed
away bowing and repeating "I'm so sorry Rei!" He stopped when he reached the edge of the couch
and placed his hands in his lap looking down.
"It is ok Shinji." She said addressing him by his first name as he had addressed her, already
missing his warm embrace.
"Um...Rei?" Shinji asked as he looked up at her beautiful face.
"Yes Shinji?" She asked, her crimson eyes staring deep into his dark blue ones.
"What has happened to the world?"
"Third impact has occured." She replied.
"I know that, but what does that mean? What is this world?!" He pleaded with her.
"This is the world as you wished it to be. You desired a world where you could live in peace
with those you cared for. This is that place although it is somewhat distorted. Third impact
was never able to complete because of Unit-01's separation from Lillith."
"But weren't you part of Lillith?"
"Yes I was, but I was mostly a small part of her conciousness. I did not have much control.
Plus as you can remember I was a little preoccupied with you."
"Oh yeah," Shinji said with a slight blush from the remeberance of being with Rei. Then
another question dawned on him. "What about Kaworu? He was there with us."
"And I am still here with you." Said the white haired boy as he stepped through a doorway.
"Good day Shinji. It is good to see you once more." He smiled at Shinji and looked kindly
at him with his eyes of red.
"Hello Tabris." Shinji said unsure of what to believe.
Kaworu continued to smile as he always seemed to "Please Shinji. I no longer go by that name.
Thanks to you and Ms. Ayanami I am no longer an angel. I am as human as the rest of the
populous."
"Rest of the populous?" Shinji asked with a pussled expression on his face and his brows
furrowed.
"Yes the rest of the populous as I was going to explain before I was interrupted." Rei told
Shinji as Kaworu just shrugged and smiled at her. "This is your world Shinji, and although
you often do not wish to be around people for fear of what they will think of you, you still
needed them to exist in this world for your sake and others."
"I think I am beginning to understand somewhat." Shinji told his two pale companions. "Oh no!
I forgot all about Asuka!" Shinji jumped off the couch. "She is still down there at the beach.
We need to go down and get her."
The group proceeded to rush out the door and head down to the beach with Shinji in the lead.
The sky had become darker than it was before and the stars shone bright in the sky.
When they reached halfway down the beach Shinji saw her there laying down on her stomach with a
trail of footprints leading behind her. It seemed as if she had tried to get up and walk only
to fail after barely making fifteen feet. 'You always were stubborn' Shinji thought to himself
as he dropped to his knees beside her with Rei and Kaworu stopping rght afterwards.
Rei rolled Asuka over onto her back and placed two fingers first at her neck and then at her
wrists. "She has a pulse, but it is very weak. We need to get her back to the house
immediately."
Shinji was about to pick Asuka up off the ground when Kaworu did it first. "You have done
enough work already. I'll carry her back."
Shinji nodded to him in agreement and they all headed back to the house.
*******
Once they had arrived back at the house they placed Asuka in a room and Rei proceeded to use
the medical knowledge she had gained over the many years in the hospital to do what she could
to help Asuka. Shinji and Kaworu sat in the main room in silence. Shinji stared at the tv
trying to understand why they would need a tv if the stations were all gone.
After about thirty minutes Rei came into the room to see Kaworu sleeping in a chair still
smiling 'How does he do that?' She looked towards Shinji who sat with his head down and
holding the cross that he had gotten from Misato and wrapped around his neck earlier. She
sat on the couch next to Shinji who looked up at her and smiled sweetly. 'And how does he
do that to me?' she thought as a pleasant sensation filled her at the sight of Shinji's smile.
"She will be ok. She just needs some rest. As do you." She said placing her hand on his
shoulder. "There is a room for you down the hall."
"What about you Rei?" He asked with concern in his voice.
"I will sleep as well Shinji. Do not worry about me." She told him in response.
"I can't help but worry about you Rei." He said as he got up and headed down the hall leaving
a blushing Rei sitting on the couch and his own face turning somewhat red as well when he
realised what he said. He reached the room and wasn't surprised at all to the fact that it
was an exact duplicate of the room he had in Misato's apartment. His thoughts drifted to his
young guardian for a while before sleep finally overcame him and he laid down for the night.
***************
Thus ends the first of my little continuation. I hope you ejoyed it as much as I did.
Please R & R ^_^ thank you.