Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Lure of Heaven
By BrokenChosenofEva

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Title: Mystical Lure
Prompt: set 7 / prompts 001-010
Word Count: 1k+
Rating: T
Summary: Set in my "I'm Needed: Redux" AU -based on chapter nine of "Collision: Love to Annoy"- though some occur in my "Not What You Bargained For" AU. Asuka was both Remiel and Lilith reborn, sister to Rei and mother to Tabris through their Angel heritage. Follow mother and son in these moments captured in memory.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The characters are more than likely going to be OoC [Out-of-Character] as this occurs in an AU [Alternate Universe], but I will still try to keep them as close to their 'original' selves as I can. [I really shouldn't have to say that, I put in the 'summary' that it's an AU. It should be obvious they won't be perfectly 'in-character'.]

Notes: I decided that I wanted to do a Fifty Sentence Challenge for Asuka and Kaworu after seeing the pic I'm using for the cover. Sorry for the spoilers, but I couldn't resist the plotbunnies backed-up by my muse, with evidence found in the chapter mentioned above.

Be sure to read the A/N at the end.

Part 1 of 5 for "The Lure of Heaven"

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001. Lure
The pull of the All-Father, his progenator, ADAM, was nearly too much for him; what kept Kaworu from responding to that instinctual urge for as long as he did was the presence of the All-Mother in Asuka -the woman obviously recognizing him on sight-, the redhead including him in the group easily and freely, her presence hiding the Lure of Completion offered by ADAM.

002. Bounce
Annoyed, it was a new feeling for the Nephilum teen and one he rapidly found he didn't enjoy, and it was focused on his jittery, bouncing knee as he waited impatiently for Asuka and Touji at the hospital while his Mother -though not biologically his mother, he still thought of and treated her as such- had her pre-natal appointment and ultrasound done; when they came out to him and shared the images of the baby girl, he found himself once again lost for words at the beauty he found in Humans, glad he had not initiated Third Impact.

003. Cursed
The nagging, penetrating need to find ADAM down in Terminal Dogma was a curse, one he would do anything to be rid of; it slowly ate away at his mind and self-control, and he fought against it to spend one more minute with his adoptive family.

004. Message
It was a simple message, but it struck a cold bolt of fear in her heart as she read it, dropping her phone on Touji's bed and hastily excusing herself to go find the teen Nephilum she'd begun to realize was almost a son to her before he could ruin the chance she'd fought Misato so hard to give him; it simply read, "I find myself at my end, and if you love me, find me in the Regeneration Cages and finish me before I can start."

005. Abyss
Instrumentality was a dark, cold abyss unlike any he could recall, even compared to his time in the Clone Tank before SEELE decanted him and sent him to NERV to fulfill his "purpose" of initiating Third Impact, and only the faint thread that drew him to the All-Mother -in the form of Asuka- kept him grounded and sane in the chaos of the varied realities that soon spread out before him.

006. Unreciprocated
For a time Kaworu could not understand why Shinji alternated between feeling uncomfortable at his confession and seeming to reject it, so he had gone to the one person he felt closest to and asked Asuka; the redhead had blinked at his open and blunt questions, then smiled, voice somehow older yet still her own as she spoke, "You have a unique outlook on relationships, little one, where you only see the light of our souls and love us for that beauty; you ignore physical attraction, focused only on loving and being loved; it's that innocence that too many of us lose as we age and begin looking for partners: Simple love for another, with no underlying connotations."

007. Descent
The fall to Terminal dogma was painful for her, not in a truly physical sense but an emotional one, Touji not far behind her while she chased and dueled Kaworu with all her might as Remiel, trying and failing over and over to reconcile the need to end him to save humanity with the concrete realization that he was her son and she didn't want to kill him.

008. Holiday
The trip to Okinawa was peaceful in a way Kaworu couldn't describe, the events of Third Impact and Instrumentality left months behind them and temporarily forgotten in favor of their simple holiday as family and friends.

009. Obsess
When ten-year-olds Shinji and Rei had grabbed his hands and practically dragged him to the flower shop, babbling as "normal" children their age were want to do, Kaworu realized he might have been obsessing over what to get Asuka for Mother's Day a tad too much if they had picked up on it and decided to "help" him in choosing the red and yellow roses.

010. Mystical
The connection they shared was difficult to describe to others, especially those who didn't know about Asuka and Kaworu's Angel natures; the link was almost mystical, in a way, a soul-touched sense of belonging and family, instinctively knowing their relation to each other.

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A/N: Hope you enjoyed these, dear readers.

Don't worry about telling which prompt is in the "IN:R" AU or the "NWYBF" AU, even I have trouble telling which. lol

Prompt 6 was a difficult one to write -and probably the biggest single prompt aside from my various "Collision" chapters-, as I wanted to get the wording just right to express my thoughts on the matter. A lot of writters portray Kaworu as being homosexual -whether he is or not is never explored in the series, and up for debate among fans- but I think he is more innocent than that. I think he loves like any young one, simple and clean, with no sexual context. He often comments on the purity or brilliance of Shinji's soul despite all the negative things he'd experienced up to that point, and I believe that shows my point that he is being honest and simply saying exactly what he means: Shinji is a point of light in a dark world, and Kaworu is drawn to that light.

I'll have four more sets of ten on the way.