Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fifty Moments Between Threat and Rebirth
By BrokenChosenofEva

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Title: Solved Classics
Prompt: set 50-b / prompts 021-030
Word Count: 900+
Rating: T
Summary: Fifty memories recalled, fifty thoughts shared, fifty glimpses into their lives. Asuka and Touji fought and lived side-by-side through the Angel War and beyond. Pimarily set in the "Angel" and "Not What You Bargained For" AUs, with the occassional "Immortal" AU mixed in.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion

Notes: And some more Asuka and Touji, enjoy.

Part 3 of the "One Hundred Moments" Asuka and Touji series.

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021. Solve
Touji and Mana had, between the two of them, managed to complete most of her math homework, but that was as far as Touji's knowledge went, and while he enjoyed being able to help his daughter solve the same problems he'd dealt with in high-school, he also didn't mind getting the same help now as he did back then, and so he leaned back and called into the adjoining kitchen, "Asuka, hun, mind helpin' Mana wit' her homework?"

022. Rest
This was nice, they both thought, minds mixing in the illusionary perfection of Instrumentality and floating through visions of possible pasts and futures, but a simple thought always drew them back from the temptation, "My family is missing me,", and so they slowly pulled back, drew into themselves and focused on self and here-and-now instead of other and could-be/should-be, and taking a last moment to enjoy the rest, they let go of the dream.

023. Soon
Asuka could feel it in her core, the faint pulse of other and soon-but-not-yet that told her the next Angel would be here any moment, so she waited in the EVA Cages next to Unit-One while she talked with Touji and Misato, telling them what her few Angelic memories told her about Armisael, and knowing the that this battle would cost her in some way she did not want to pay.

024. Listen
"Kyo, stop," at Asuka's commanding tone her six-year-old son frozen in place, turning his head just enough for his wide indigo eyes to focus on his mother, "What did I say this morning? Play fair, she's your sister, stop using your AT-Field to keep her from tagging you when you play."

025. Haze
Touji pushed through the haze of Arael's psychic assault, forcing Unit-One to reach out and shove Asuka, inside Unit-Two, out of the beam the Fifteenth Angel projected, accepting the torrent of hateful and broken memories that slammed through his mind while Asuka recovered and retrieved the Lance from its cradle, and sighed before blacking out once the Lance shattered Arael, content even in the pain of his violated mind that he had protected her.

026. Excite
As she slammed the stolen MP-EVA blade down into one of the monsters, Asuka reveled in the excitement, the rush, of battle; this is what she Piloted for, the praise and victory were only close secondary goals to physically beating her opponents into messy smears on the floor of the Geofront.

027. Verbal
As loud and brash as the two of them could be, neither Asuka nor Touji were particularly good at actually communicating verbally; one of the things Asuka loved about him was how he would do the little things, little actions that would show he cared even when they'd had an argument.

028. Fragment
Asuka looked at the pieces of mirror on the floor, glancing around the badly rattled apartment after that final battle with SEELE's MP-EVAs, and wondered if she would be as fragmented as her reflection in these broke shards if she didn't have the people around her to lean on that she did, and glad that she wasn't.

029. Inert
Touji looked into the darkened eyes of Unit-One before him -and knew that Unit-Two in the next cage was equally inert- equal parts glad it was over and at the same time missing the rush of combat; in the end he decided the peace was preferable.

030. Classic
He would be the first to tell others he wasn't a fan of classical music, but as he sat in the audience with his wife and listened to Mana play her solo Touji decided it had its charms, and that he might buy Asuka her own violin so she could play with the daughter at home since her last was never replaced after it was lost in the chaos of their Final Stand.

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A/N: Sorry this took so long, dear readers. I hope you all enjoy this installment of "Fifty Moments Between Threat and Rebirth".

Something I was asked in either "Fifty Moments Between Rain and Instrumentality" or "Fifty Moments Between Mistakes and Eternity" was how I get my Writer's Choice prompts. To answer that, I simply pick words I feel are what I want to use for the last Prompt(s).

As a short recap: The Suzuhara family is Asuka, Touji, and their daughter Mana and son Kyo. Asuka used to play the violin, and when Mana started into music she also picked up the instrument. Mana is a near mirror of her mother, though her hair is more auburn than red, and Kyo looks like his father aside from indigo eyes. Generally, when the children are mentioned, Asuka is the one from "Angel" and "I'm Needed: Redux".