Off to Chapter two now. Hope that those who are reading this enjoy. Yes I did change the title due to author's error. My bad

Chapter 2: 22 on the table

"I still do not see how this accusation is preferably directed towards me."

Dr. Ikari leaned forward in his chair, staring into the flat screen monitor that had risen out his desk. "I am not making accusations, however as head of SEELE you should have had a better knowledge of what you had acquired."

Deputy Commander Kozo Fuyutsuki stood to the left side of Ikari, hands behind his back and staring down at the Ikari. The visor equipted face of Keel Lorenz was "staring" back at Ikari through the monitor. Fuyutsuki belived that if he could see the eyes of Lorenz, those eyes would show some signs of worry. No surprise as the discovery of the fith child, Kaworu Nagisa being the 17th angel Tabris was on the part of SEELE. They just could not wait for the Instramentality project to go its course. They were so close to Third Impact, but at least the angel in Central Dogma was not Adam. Shame on SEELE though.

"In my opinion, I believe that the patient are the winners and the impatient are the losers in life." Ikari replied.

Lorenz sighed heavily. "What does that have to do with your accusations of prior knowledge of knowing the true indenity of the fifth child as Tabris?"

"Stop trying to avoid the question. Maybe you did or did not know of the child's identity. I just want a definite answer." Ikari folded his hands together in that all too familiar way as he continued to lock gazes with Lorenz.

Lorenz shook his head. "Dr. Ikari, we only intend for the Human Instramentality project to go on its course. We have no intention of-"

"You have no intention of dilibveratly speeding the project up." Ikari finished. "Just thought we would send you the fifth child who can instentaniously set level at any setting he wants. To think it was only until the child had an AT field and used Eva-02 as a puppet did we then become aware."

"Can we please end this? Had the other members been here, we would have such a problem on our hands."

"Yes, I can hear all of them go on and on about how we almost suffered a Third Impact."Ikari remarked.

"At least Adam was secure and the Angel did not get within close contact of it. Let us just leave this whole thing at that. The incident was close but luckly did not occur."

"Very well then. Just remember how lucky we were had the angel not have encountered Adam."

Lorenz rupped his chin. "Of course Ikari. We are grateful that Adam weas not touched and Third Impact did not happen. Let us all keep that imn mind. However both of our trusts are feeling. Just as you got the 17th angel from us some how, SEELE too saw the extent of our trust in you drain with EVA-01 became fully developed and going berserk three times. Just remember that. Just remember that faith has boundries and one should be wise not to cross such boundries. "

The vido image then faded out and the screen turned black. As the screen went back into the desk, Fuyusuki had no idea the conversation would end so suddenly. Meetings with either just Lorenz or the entire mass of SEELE sometimes took nearly the whole day. It seemed as though Lorenz did know something and just did not want to spill such information. Did they really know about the fifth child being the 17th angel? Also, did they know of Lilith, not Adam, being in Central Dogma?

Suddenly, Ikari broke through Fuyusuki's deep thought. "That is what I respect the most about Lorenz."

"Exactly what is that?" Fuyusuki asked.

"He always knew how to play the game." Ikari let out a grunt. "Yet even I know a few shortcuts."

Fuyusuki pondered the statement. A game? Was this whole thing a game to Ikari? Maybe Fuyussuki sould of reported him. "The only thing I worry about is if Lorenz finds out where the real Adam is and that the thing in Central Dogma is not Adam."

Ikari spun his chair around and got up, locking gazes with Fuyusuki. "I am very much aware of that. I do intend for the Instrmentality project to go on." Ikari then cracked the knuckles of his right hand. "You know…for the sake of humanity."

Fuyusuki cleared his throat before talking back to Ikari. "Of course and I am still sure with the project. However-"

"However?" Ikari interupted. "Are you backing out now? You tried that eleven years ago and you have been loyal to me ever since. I doubt getting out of this whole mess could result in something not on a good part for you."

Another of Ikari's orders. Fuyusuki could not resist once again. He failed to get out of this hell eleven years ago. Now the race was almost over and like Ikari said, you can not quit when the finish line was right in front of you. Damn Ikari. "No turning back now. I just wanted to now when we can do this."

Ikari adjusted the glasses on his face. "Tommorow."

Fuyusuki felt his skin suddenly break into a cold sweat. "Tommorw?"

"Any thoughts?"

Fuyusuki shook his head. "None to say." But in his head, the fear and excitement was building.

Ikari took out a cell phone from his jacket pocket and quickly hit some buttons. "Perfect. I better inform the new Rei."

The new Rei. That being who was the key to unlocked the door. That creature who looked like Yui. Fuyusuki paid no attention to what Kiari was saying. All he could think of was how much that Rei child looked like Yui. Yet when he thought of Yui, that day back in 2004 when she became part of the system occurred. After that, everything came to pass. For that reason Fuyusuki hated Ikari. He hated Ikari for not letting his egotism get his wife eradicated from the physical world. All the while, Fuyusuki never got out: he was trapped from the very beginning.

Ikari shut off his phone a minute later and put it on his desk. "Everything is in place. You and me will head to Central Dogma by noon. I hope you will come."

"Of course." Fuyusuki replied.

"That is one of the reasons I deteste Dr. Ikari." The voice of SEELE 2 stated from the darkness that was around Lorenz as he sat at his desk. "He believes we do not know that that thing in Central Dogma is not Adam! That fool."

"Well we have not directly mentioned it to him." SEELE 5 stated. "The plan was to just watch from a distance and make sure that he got everything done."

SEELE 3 then butted in. "But you heard what he said. He was going to start the project tommorow without our concent. Thank good for those bugs we put in a week ago. We need to take action now."

"Patience my colleges." Lorenx said. "Even though the angel in Central Dogma is Lilith and we now have an idea where the real Adam is, we sould see where this goes."

SEELE 7 then stated, "Are you sure of that? Such actions could bring about some disaster if you fail."

Lorenz tapped his eye visor. "Do not worry gentlemen. The Instramentality project will succed and if NERV does fail, we will take actions. I may be blind, but I know what true light is."

Sorry for the dealy of chapter. Well, I hope you like this chapter as well. The sotry will start to kick up by Chapter 3.