Through Your Eyes

Chapter One

First Sight

In the darkness of her bedroom a young woman lay unsleeping as memories of the previous day flooded her mind. "Why did I follow?" she said to no one in particular. Her eyes starring lifelessly at the ceiling above her as they began to play again in her mind's eye…

She had thought she had lost the two boys as they ran towards the hills that lay just outside the city limits. She was leading the others to the evacuation shelter when she saw the two of them standing in the alley. She could tell by their jesters they where arguing, but over the screaming of the sirens and the panicked voices of the other students as they made their way to the disaster shelters, she couldn't hear them. Moving towards the two boys she started to call out to them moments before they turned and ran off, pausing a moment she took it as her responsibility and ran off after the two boys.

It was all she could keep up with them, she knew Touji was an athlete but and no idea that Kensake was in suck good shape. More then once she had lost track of the boys only to see the two climb over a wall or hop a fence. As the hillside grew in the distance she began to realize where the two boys where heading. Now here she was running the last few yards left between her and the boys who where looking into the city from half way up the hillside.

In the distance she could hear the thunderous claps of the Eva's automatic rifle as it sent volley after volley at the angel. "No! What are you doing!" echoed the exasperated cries from Kensake as she turned to see the Eva toppling backwards with the shards of its now broken weapon filling the air as the angel began it's counter attack. All thought of reprimanding the boys left her mind as she watched the battle in front of her.

Moving the last few steps to her classmates she watched as the side of a building rolled up like window blinds revealing a new rifle. Her breath frozen in her chest as she watched the Eva reach for it moments before the angel lashed out at the building it was using for cover slicing it into pieces. Her eyes locked on the sparking cable that had once been attached to the back of the Eva now wiping around like an out of control water hose. Her blood running cold as the Eva stumbled a few steps before the angel wrapped an angry reddish tentacle around its ankle. The blood draining from her face as the angel tossed the Eva into the air like a rag doll. Her eyes following as it began to fall its massive shadow slowly encompassing her and the two boys.

She barely had any time to react as insect took over forcing her into crouching position arms protecting her head in a futile attempt to shield her from any harm the giant would do. The ground around shook and rumbled as dust filled the air caused by the impact of such a massive thing hitting the hill side. Shaking and coughing in the dust she slowly looked around seeing the purple-black armor of the Eva all around her. Looking up she could see the Eva looking at her as the last of the dust cleared away, slowly standing she could see the two boys who where just as frightened as she was on the other side of the massive purple armored finger of the Eva.

"Why isn't he moving?" asked Touji.

"He can't! He can't move because of us." Replied Kensake

She jumped startled when the large white cylinder emerged from the back of the Eva stopping moments before high pressure jets of a reddish liquid sprayed into the air. Her eyes watching mesmerized as a hatch opened about mid way up and the angry voice of a women filled the air… "Get in, NOW!" She was off and moving before she realized what she was doing, climbing over the massive hand before grabbing onto the step rope and climbing as fast as she could.

Once inside she was surprised to see it was piloted by a child no older then herself. In fact it was the very same boy she had shown around the school just a few days before. He had been such a timid thing she was surprised he didn't jump out of his skin when the first ball rang starling him. Now he was sitting here piloting a machine of war, protecting the thousands that lived in the city. One after another the two boys climbed into cylinder the hatch closing behind them.

With the hatch closed it suddenly when pitch dark as all light from the outside world was cut off. In the darkness she could fell herself moving downward quickly as the chamber descended back into the Eva. As soon as it came to a stop they were bathed in a soft red light that seemed to come from everywhere at once. As she looked around trying to get adjusted to the strange place she found herself in she could hear the opening of a metal door moments before a wave of a reddish liquid washed over her. It happened so fast she didn't stop breathing but kept going finding she could now breathe only with more effort.

The three of them looked around as the walls of the chamber flashed a hue of colors before revealing the world outside. Her eyes moving to a small window that seemed to open from nowhere as people began talking, their voices coming from it…

"There's noise in the nerve interconnect!"

"Of course you've let foreign bodies into the entry plug, their noise in the nerve connections!"

"Shinji retreat to the b 4 entrance. Retreat for now…" Came the women's voice from earlier.

She looked over his shoulder as he flexed and unflexed his right hand as if trying to make his decision.

"She said to retreat. Hey new kid retreat." Came Toujis' voice.

She suddenly felt as if part of her shoulder had moved moments before one of the other female voices filled the plug…

"The progressive knifes been engaged!"

"No Shinji retreat get out of there!"

She could fell could fell her arm reach up over her shoulder and grasp at something as her hand closed. The slight humming vibration in her hand and the boys chanting filling her ears as she looked on…

"I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away…"

She watched as the numbers clicked away dropping below a minuet as the boy cried out and the giant suddenly began moving forward towards the approaching angel, sliding down the side of the hill as it went. The terrible fiery pain assaulting her as the angels' tentacles pierced through the Eva. Her own arms felt like they where moving as the progressive knife clenched in both hands was pushed into the red core of the angel causing sparks to fly as it buried its' self deeper and deeper into it's victim.

She watched mesmerized fighting back the pain she felt in her chest as a voice counted of the last few seconds before the chamber went dark and everything around her stopped. It was in that last instant that everything changed around her. She found herself standing at a train station watch as a man walked away from her as a light rain fell. "Daddy, why are you sending me away? Come back don't leave me!" she could fell herself say as the figure disappeared around the corner tears welling up in her eyes.

A flash of white passed over her and she found herself standing on a catwalk looking up at plate glass windows high above her. "Why am I here? Is this all you wanted from me?" came the words from her lips.

"I called you because I have a use for you." Replied a man she didn't recognize.

Her eyes moved to the girl who lay on the ground that she did recognize as Rei Ayanami. She was covered bandages and her arms was in a cast, her other arm had an I.V. connected to it with the other end hooked to a bag hanging form a tipped over gurney.

"Why do you have to be so cold…" she felt herself say.

With the passing of light she found herself back in the "plug" the images fresh in her mind, the feelings she felt burned into her soul. It was in that last second she could see and hear the angels core crack before both giants suddenly stopped. Both kept standing by their subsequent pushing against each other. In the dim light she could fell the once fiery pain now a burning ache.

It was hard to tell how long they had been there before everything started up again. A few times she had the sensation of being picked up and moved but shook it off as her imagination, only giving it her attention when the chamber came back to life before beginning to move upwards. As the liquid drained away and the hatch open they were greeted by a group of armed guards and where quickly removed and carried away. The last thing she saw was medical personal pulling the boy from the machine and putting him on to a stretcher.

Hours passed as she was interrogated about why she was there and what she had seen. Even after Kensake and Touji had been picked up by their respective parents she was keep there. As doctors poked and prodded her paying close attention to the fist sided bruises over her right side front and back.

It was late into the night when her father had come to final pick her. She was so tried after the day's events that she could barely keep awake as her father gave her a talking to about had happened. Asking what she thought she was doing and such. When she got home she could see her bed side clock that read 4:38 a.m and see gave a thank you sigh that she didn't have school today.

As she climbed into the bath she couldn't help but sniff her hand for the umpteenth time since getting out of the giant mecha. "Why does it smell like blood." she thought as she let the soothing fell of the hot water sink into her bones.

After finishing her bath she stood in front of her full body mirror looking at herself. She was a pretty girl around 5'3 or so. Her once coltish legs had taken on a more feminine look, giving way to her women's hips and slender mid drift. Her fingers traced over the two apple sided bruises over her ribs and when she turned to the side she could see a matching pair on her back at the same level. Sighing she finished dressing and climbed into bed.

Now here she was as first trickle of sun light peeking into her room as the previous days memories finished playing in her mind again. Only this time the sleeper had finally found her and as night came to a close so did her eyes, as Hikari Horaki descended into the world of dreams.

In his office Gendo Ikari and second commander read the report of the battle with the third angel and the results of the interrogations of the children that had been allowed into the Eva's plug. His lips crawling into an evil smile as he read the report on the girl know as Hikari Horaki…

That's it for the first chapter. I know I haven't written in a while but with school and all I haven't had time. Hope you enjoyed this one, and for those that are wondering yes I will have new chapter coming about every week or so maybe sooner if I have time.

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