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Hello and welcome to my attempt at Fan Fiction for Evangelion. This is a revision of this story. There are only a few changes but the main plot has stayed the same.

 Anyway you know I don't own this otherwise I could do a better job.

Please don't go ballistic if the characters are a little OOC. This story takes place at least 4 years after EoE. Also it's my story and I'll do what ever I want with it. Now on with the story

Oh yea this takes place after a failed third impact when Shinji and the rest are 18 and just starting college. Here most everyone has returned to their human forms because they wanted to. (Lillith said that everyone could come back if they wanted to)

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Chapter 1: The College Life / A new friend

It had taken about eight months but eventually almost everyone had returned from the sea of LCL. Everyone remembered what he or she had seen and felt while part of the single entity at first but many of those memories where lost while reconstructing the world, which didn't take as long to rebuild this time as most of the damage was not of the cataclysmic scale of Second Impact. The survivors who had returned had left Tokyo-3 exactly as it was after Third Impact as a kind of memorial to what could have been. Shinji hadn't told anyone what had happened to him during the impact but in a sense he didn't really have to as he shared his consciousness with the whole of humanity. He had finished high school at Tokyo-2 High School where he attended classes, got stressed over school test and hung out with all his friends from junior high, except for Rei, no one seemed to think she existed anymore. After being accepted into Tokyo–2 University he decided to go there for premed and later become a doctor. Shinji now lead what could be called a normal life but still had occasional nightmares about Eva and everything else but even those were becoming few and far between.

Shinji had gotten up early that morning and went for an early morning jog. It had been just over four years since the Third Impact had occurred and most of the physical as well as mental scars had healed. It was all over now, no more Eva, no more Angels, no more father, and no more running away. Unless you knew who Shinji was he seemed like a normal young adult about to start the next stage of his life. It was August 24, 2020 and it was his first day of college. He had arrived the Sunday before at his dorm room for orientation. He was living in a hall called I-House or as it's official title was called International House. He had met some interesting people to say the least; one person unparticular was what people would consider strange. He was from America but spoke perfect Japanese and seemed to know more about Shinji that Shinji knew about him, all that Shinji really knew about him was his name and all he got of that was that he called himself Tucker.

One Week Earlier…

It was moving day and Shinji had just hauled the last box up to his new room and set it down on the bed and took a moment to just look at his new surroundings. He had been looking for about two minutes when Misato (She had turned into LCL before the explosion) and Asuka had entered to find Shinji just looking around.

"Not as good as your other room is it?" Misato asked smiling a little. Her little Shinji was growing up and leaving home. "So where is your roomie?"

"He's not coming here this year so right now I have a single. I don't mind it that much I'm sure that they'll find some one I don't plan to spend much time in here any way," Shinji said. It was true to, Shinji had already mapped out his schedule and if he got all the classes he wanted he would be carrying a 17-credit course load. "Well I have to get unpacked, I have a long week a head of me."

"Hey so do I but unlike you I moved into my room yesterday so I'm already unpacked." Asuka said. She had decided that since she was still young that she might go back to college and get a doctorate so she could flaunt how smart she was because she would be called Doctor twice over before she was 25.

"Yea I should know you made me carry all the heavy stuff up 4 flights of stairs," Shinji said.

"I know but it was worth it when you 'accidentally' walked in while I was changing wasn't it?" Asuka said with a slight smile, Shinji didn't blush but replayed the scene in his mind, she was right it had been worth it.

"Well then I guess I'll leave so you can get comfortable Shinji," Misato said. Then with a hug she left to go back to her apartment, her empty apartment. When she had returned the people at what was left of Nerv set her up with a job in law enforcement as the SWAT team director and gave her a salary on top of the one she got from the police, so she was sitting pretty well financially. Nerv also was paying for Shinji's and Asuka's schooling. Nerv still existed but was strictly regulated by the UN and was only allowed 5% of it's old budget and was pure research. But despite the budget cuts and UN regulation Nerve had quickly become the most profitable corporation in existence, beating out the computer technology company MicroMac.

It was a few hours later Shinji had stashed most of his stuff away and had met a few new people and was just sitting down to relaxed when a very loud sound emanated from next-door causing him to elevate about six inches off of his bed in a horizontal position. He knew that one of his neighbors was from America but he didn't know that he was here already. He didn't recognize the song but he knew it was way too loud and went to ask his neighbor if they would turn it down. (It was a song from pre-Second Impact called Eruption.) He walked up to the door and gave a knock, no one answered so he knocked again a little louder this time, still no replay so he opened the door and was almost thrown against the wall from the shear for of the sound.

"Excuse me…Excuse me…Excuse me…For the love of God would you please turn it down?" Shinji said not noticing that the occupant had already turned it down after he said 'for the love'.

"May I help you," asked the owner of the room "or do you just barge into anyone's room?"

"Uh no, I just was going to ask if you could turn it down a little," Shinji said. Then as an after thought he introduced himself. "Hi I'm Shinji Ikari I live next door."

He got up from his computer chair and walked over to shake Shinji's hand. Shinji noticed that when he stood up his computer began to shut down. Must have some sort of pressure switch in the chair. When he stood up he was about as tall as Shinji was and had a little better build.

"My name is Tucker nice to meet you," Tucker said giving a very firm handshake. "I'm here for computer science what are you here for?"

It was strange Shinji felt as though he couldn't hide anything from him yet he had just met him. "Premed," was all Shinji said.

"Sniffty. Hey wanna see something cool?" Tucker asked and turned to go back to his computer. As soon as he was facing it, his computer turned on and booted up. He showed Shinji his setup, which was a computer hooked to a monstrosity that he called a stereo. After that he offered Shinji something to drink and they talked for a few hours. Shinji found that Tucker was someone who listened easily and seemed to know more about Shinji that he had been told. Intrigued by this Shinji asked him how he seemed to know things about Shinji he hadn't been told, to which Tucker answered, "I have a good memory." By the time they had finished talking it was time for dinner so Shinji asked Tucker if he wanted to go but he declined. The rest of the week passed with out anything else unusual happening.

NOW…

Shinji had finished his run, taken a shower, ate breakfast and was walking back from the cafeteria when he saw Tucker emerge from his room. It was about 8:25 am and Shinji's first class was at 9:00 am. He said hi to Tucker but he just growled in response. Must not be a morning person Shinji thought. When he left for class at 8:50 he heard the muffled sounds of music coming from his neighbor's door.

"What an interesting person," Shinji said to himself as he walked out of the dorm and headed to his first class.

To be continued…

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There you have it. A little short but it is only the first chapter and I don't want to lose readers in a long drawn out chapter.

On a side note does any one know what Asuka went to College for in Germany? Also in response to a reviewer who said something about Asuka being a Doctor twice over before 25. one you have one PHD it gets easier to get more because you already have many courses out of the way.

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