UNEXPECTED LIVES 3
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Eva or it's characters.
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Ritsuko had called everyone to her office. The group has consisted of Shinji, Maya, Misato and Asuka, who had insisted on coming. When they arrived, both Shinji and Maya noticed that Ritsuko hadn't changed her clothes, her hair was a bit mussed and she had bags under her eyes.
"Ritsuko are you okay? You look like you've been up all night." Misato commented.
"I'm fine, Misato." the blond said as she took another swig of her coffee, tossing and adding it to the small pile in the corner. "And I have. Everyone come in, what I have to tell you isn't going to be quick."
The quartet entered the room, closed the door, and huddled themselves around her computer.
"So, what's wrong, sempai?" Maya asked. "Your call sounded urgent."
"It is." she said as she stretched a little to work the kinks out of her back, legs, arms, and neck. "As some of you know, I gave Maya a medical exam yesterday after she suddenly felt strangely ill. I had to have the hospital confirm my results."
"And?" Asuka asked.
"She's pregnant."
Eyes bugged out, jaws dropped. It was so quiet you could have dropped a cookie crumb on a carpet and heard it.
"And to make things more interesting, I took a blood sample from Shinji, on a hunch, which reveals that he's the father." Ritsuko added.
Eyes and jaws were stock still, but this time, Shinji had fallen to the ground, hard.
"I'm pregnant?" Maya asked in shock.
"And I'm the father?" Shinji asked, equally shocked as he tried to stand.
"I knew it! You two were doing it in the Eva the whole month!" Asuka shouted.
"I doubt it's possible she had sex with Shinji." Ritsuko stated.
"Why not?" Misato finally managed to get her voice box working.
"Because she's still a virgin!" she said calmly, but with emphasis on 'virgin'.
Everyone's jaw, including Maya's, dropped.
"WHAT?" they all chorused.
"The medical examination report indicated that Maya hasn't had any physical contact of that sort."
"But...she's pregnant." Misato said, still shocked.
"Yes."
"And Shinji's the father?" Asuka asked, also shocked.
"Yes."
"Does this make any sense to anyone?" Shinji asked.
"NO!" Misato/Asuka/Maya shouted.
"As near as I can figure, this has something to do with your time spent inside Unit 01, when you were both turned into LCL." Ritsuko said as she brought up the special illustrations she had made.
"But how is that possible?" Maya asked, clearly not seeing where this was going.
"I've been going over the data, and this is the scenario as best I can determine."
She brought up a computer model on her computer. It was a rather abstract representation of two people of indeterminate sex. They were colored blue and surrounded by a large greenish circle.
"Here's my theory." Ritsuko said as she pressed a button on the remote and moved to the next screen. It showed the two human figures change color to a slightly greenish/blue color and start to slowly expand, bit by bit. As if they were slowly coming apart. "When both Shinji and Maya were absorbed into Unit 01, they were transformed into LCL. As a result, their basic DNA remained fairly separate from the Eva."
"But you still couldn't isolate it enough to bring them back for an entire month." Misato said.
"Yes. The reason for that was because the difference between human DNA and LCL had become so close in parallel that we couldn't have separated it before. However," she said as the screen changed to show the greenish/blue pixels from each figure start to overlap slightly. "Given that the both of them were in the LCL for an entire month, their 'less-contained' DNA, shall we say, started to intermingle." she brought up another screen which showed the two abstract figures again, with a time frame in the corner that indicated 'Day 30', meaning the end of the month they had been in Eva. This time the image showed both figures as different colors, and reconstituting. The figure on the right was now solid blue, the figure on the left was red.
This was done in order to clearly identify what happened next.
What caught everyone's attention was the fact that some of the red was reemerging with the blue and some of the blue was reemerging with the red.
"So...what your saying is that...when Shinji and Maya changed back from LCL, some of their DNA got...merged...with the other..." Asuka started to say.
"What I believe she's trying to say is, that Maya got some of Shinji's DNA when they were brought back, and as a result...she's pregnant with his kid." Misato finished for her.
"That's the dumbed down version, but yes. When the pair started to reconstruct their physical forms, the DNA that was closest to the larger concentration of DNA, was pulled towards it, regardless of whether or not they belonged to the right person."
"But does that also mean that Shinji got some of Maya's?" Misato asked.
"Yes."
"So...is he pregnant too?" Asuka asked offhandedly.
Shinji lost his footing and fell down on his rear end again.
"Not exactly. Because a woman's genetic makeup is slightly different than that of a man's, any, shall we say, foreign DNA that is integrated into her body, will be considered a candidate for impregnation and result in the woman being pregnant."
"You can't prove that!" Asuka shouted, obviously irritated at what sounded like a bad sci-fi plotline.
"I think the proof is in the pudding, so to speak." Ritsuko said.
Misato looked at Maya and Shinji. She looked closely and then noticed something she hadn't before. She moved closer to them and stared both of them in the eyes.
"Oh...my...god." the purple-haired woman cried.
"What?" Shinji asked, worried now that she was also panicked.
"Shinji...have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"Huh? What does that mean?" the boy asked.
"Maya...you too."
"Ma'am, what?" the tech asked.
"Guy's, I think you'd better look in the mirror, particularly at your eyes."
The pair got up and looked in the mirror together that was on the other end of Ritsuko's office. Sure enough, their eye colors had changed just as Misato said.
Shinji's right eye was now brown and his left one still blue, while Maya's right eye was now blue and her left one still brown.
The pair kept at their image, then at each other, and then back to their image again.
"So...the only thing that happened to Shinji was he got his eye color changed?" Asuka asked.
"Well, I don't think he's pregnant, but we should be sure." Ritsuko said as she took out a syringe to draw blood from him, again.
"This is ridiculous!" Asuka groaned as the blond poked Shinji's arm once more.
"Welcome to NERV." Misato replied as she placed a hand on the redhead's shoulder.
The analysis took nearly twenty minutes, as Ritsuko knew what had to be done and knew precisely what to look for this time.
"Well, the good news is that Shinji isn't pregnant. But Maya is." she said.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god." Maya paced around the room, trying to figure out what to do next.
"Maya, what's wrong?" Shinji asked.
"What's wrong? What's Wrong! I'm pregnant, Shinji! Pregnant with Your Child! What the hell am I going to do?"
"We'll figure something out."
"What? What will we figure out, Shinji? The rumors are going to fly over this. It's bad enough that people are already talking about us when we got out of Eva, but when this gets out, people will think I seduced you or something. They'll brand me a pedophile or a rapist! Oh, god!" she cried as she suddenly ran out of the room, nearly knocking over the sub-commander in the process.
"What the..Lt. Ibuki?" the aged man said in surprise as the young tech ran past her.
"Maya, wait up!" Shinji shouted as he burned rubber trying to catch up, and nearly ran over the 60+ year old man. "Sorry, sir!"
Kouzou Fuyutsuki watched the boy run off and then turned his head to Dr Akagi's office where he saw the three women just sitting and staring at the door.
"Do I want to know, or should I not ask?" he questioned the women.
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Shinji eventually found Maya in the garden in the Geofront. He was amazed that a woman who spent a considerable amount of time behind a computer work station could run so fast. He moved towards Maya and took her hand.
"Maya, look at me."
She raised her head to look at him, tears in her eyes as she had been crying rather hard.
"We'll work this out. Together. Alright?" he said reassuringly.
Maya at this point was conflicted and confused, but also in awe of what Shinji was now telling her.
"Together?"
"Yes, Maya-chan. Together. If you want." he said, never letting go of her hands.
Inside she smiled at the boys maturity and compassion. He was willing to help her through this, and that was hard to believe since he had just found out what the situation was.
"But what are you going to do, Shinji? This really is my problem, not yours." she said.
"Well, maybe I should move in with you." he suggested.
"Move in? With me?"
"To help take care of you and the baby."
She said nothing, her eyes widening as though she didn't really understand.
"Maya, this is my problem too. It's my child remember? I don't know what happened inside the Eva for that month, but I know you wouldn't have taken advantage of me. I know you wouldn't rape me, so stop worrying about that. I believe Dr Akagi's theory and I can't argue with her data, so I'm not upset at you. Especially since this is probably my fault." he said, looking down as his grip on her hands started to loosen.
"Yours?" she asked, confused.
"Well, if I'd been a better pilot, if I hadn't quit when I did I would have been there right from the start of the battle with the Angel. It probably wouldn't have gotten into the Geofront, where you were and you wouldn't have gotten into the Eva and...all this would never have happened."
Maya looked back at Shinji with some fear. She knew there might be some truth to that, but she would have been totally distraught as well if it had been her inside the Eva that nearly ripped her friend apart. That was why Shinji had left in the first place, only to come back when Asuka and Rei were taking a serious beating by the 14th.
"You know I don't blame you for that Shinji-kun." Maya smiled. "I'm not ashamed of this," she said, gently touching her stomach. "I'm actually..."
"Glad that it's my child?" he finished her sentence.
"Yes." she said, amazed that he knew what she was going to say again. "How did you..."
"I just knew." he said. "Maybe it's a side effect of what happened to us inside Eva. Maybe when our DNA got traded we also..."
"Got some brain cells traded as well which makes us know what the other person is going to say?" she finished for him.
"I can't think of anything else. Can you?" he asked with a smile, getting only a small shake of her head. "Maya, I don't know if that's what actually happened, or what. But somehow you and I are connected. And not just by this baby."
"I know. I was wondering about that when I left your apartment yesterday." she smiled. Then a thought struck her. "Wait. What did you mean 'If you want'?" she asked in regards to his nearly-forgotten statement.
Shinji looked at her a little guiltily. "Before, I wasn't sure if you wanted to have this baby after finding out how you got it or that it came from me. I wasn't sure then, but I am now. You want to have this child, don't you, Maya-chan?"
The young woman smiled warmly at the boy. "Yes, Shinji-kun. I want to have this child. I want to have...your child."
"Ours." he corrected her, tightening his hands around hers.
"Ours." she repeated. "It's just a lot to take in all at once, you know. Finding out that I'm pregnant, that you're the father, all because of some strange Eva/LCL accident neither of us truly understand. But I'm sure of it, Shinji-kun. I know you better than I've ever known you before. You know what I'm going to say before I can finish. You know my likes and dislikes."
"Romance novels and bloodshed." he respectively answered her query.
"I know your birth date without reading your file." she said.
"We have the same blood-type." he said.
"You saw your mother die when you were four."
"You haven't called your parents this month."
They stopped and just looked into each others eyes. Maya suddenly blushed.
"Shinji!"
"It's true. You really are very pretty." he said blushing fiercely as well.
Maya leaned forward and kissed Shinji lightly on the lips. The boy pilot reciprocated her touch with his own, gently caressing her cheek as he did.
"You're a good, kind, brave, selfless person Shinji-kun. That's why I'm proud to have this baby." Maya whispered as she pulled the boy into a warm embrace.
"You are too, Maya-chan. And smarter than I'll ever be." Shinji replied as he snuggled into her arms, wrapping his own around her body.
"It will be an amazing child. Your soul, my brains..."
"You're looks." he added.
"Thank you." she said with a smile. "So, my apartment is a single. But it should be big enough for two people."
"I'd love to, Maya-chan."
The pair stayed in each others arms for a while, unconcerned with trivial things like school, or work, or any rumors that would follow them after word of this got out.
They were happy and, at a time like this, with the Angels still coming, they knew they would be able to fight harder and better now that they had something to fight for. Not only each other, but the one that was on it's way.
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Author's Notes:
Hope everyone enjoyed the third chapter to this story. I don't know if or when I'll be able to update this. I might just leave it. I could, since I've got other projects going right now.
I hope the explanation was to everyone's liking, and understanding. I admit that it does sound like a sci-fi movie plot, from the movie Supernova, which I haven't seen in years. Maybe I subconsciously got the idea from that movie, but, who knows.
Anyway, I'm just glad I got this finished. It's been a rough night, what with my computer acting up and such. And please read my other stories.
Read and Review. So long!