Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fifty Moments Between Mistakes and Eternity
By BrokenChosenofEva

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Title: Sweetly Harmless
Prompt: set 50-C / prompts 031-040
Word Count: 950+
Rating: T
Summary: Fifty words, fifty memories. Fifty moments between Hikari and Kensuke. Following the two through the original series and my "Returned" AU, other AUs possible.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion

Notes: Tasermon's Partner, you are the best!

Part 4 of 5 for "Fifty Moments Between Horaki and Aida"

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031. Sweet
"That's very sweet of you, Ken," Hikari turned and placed the flowers on the counter, planning to dig out an old vase to put them in later, and turned back to the man at her door and gesturing him in, "Dinner's almost ready, did you bring the movie?" Kensuke stepped in and smiled, holding up -of course- an action film.

032. Calling
"NERV got the ping, so Asuka and Touji should be waiting at Terra's Cafe when we get there," at Kensuke's words Hikari stood with their newborn in her arms, calling back into the ship for their older child to get changed, "I'll make sure Mari actually gets dressed, let me know when we get the clearance to land," This would prove to be an adventure, Kensuke knew, as Asuka and Shinji didn't know he and Hikari had another child while they roamed the stars, but it would be a welcome call home.

033. Nightmare
Sometimes Hikari would wake up choking on a scream or sobbing, nightmare-twisted memories of the massive terrorist attack on Tokyo-3 clouding her awareness until one of her sisters -and later Kensuke- pulled her close and gently hushed her, calmly reminding Hikari that she was safe, patiently waiting for the crying to calm even as tears of their own fell from their tightly shut eyes.

034. Flat
Kensuke could not believe his eyes as he watched Hikari step out of her room and down the hall, the conservative dress was stunning on her in a way that caught his breath and stilled his heart, and without thinking he voiced the first thought on his mind, "If beautiful was a punch, I'd be knocked flat," which had his cheeks a flaming red as she giggled nearly uncontrollably.

035. Superstar
Hikari blinked, listening as she walked up to the door of their apartment as the faint sound of music filtered out, and opening the door she was greeted by the sound of a current popular song playing and nearly drowned out by the enthusiastic calls of her and Kensuke's five-year-old daughter attempting to out-sing the superstar on the radio with a toy microphone in her little hands, their seven-year-old son trying to look put-upon but obviously enjoying it and awaiting his turn if the matching toy mike in his hand was any indication.

036. Spider Web
The shriek behind him started what felt like years from his life, and Kensuke whipped around with the flashlight only to find Hikari swatting at a cobweb hanging from one of the rafters in their attic.

037. Haunted
Once a year Kensuke would sit on his balcony, a beer in one hand and a sheet of names in the other, and for every dead friend on that piece of paper he would take a drink, savoring the memories each name recalled for a few minutes before saying the next name, always reading the same name last and pouring a single shot of saké to go with it; the haunted look in his eyes from all the names before this one was matched by the haunted look in Hikari's eyes at just this one name, Touji.

038. Rich
Though Hikari knew her job at her café and Kensuke's salary as a Sub-Commander meant a very cushy income, she never thought of them as rich like other people did; money didn't mean much to her like it might have once in her life, not when she could look into the smiling faces of her children and husband and feel that they alone made her the richest woman on Earth.

039. Everybody
Having all their friends over for the New Years party was both a massive blessing and stressful, for while they loved all of them neither of them like crowds; the value in the collection of people was in being surrounded by those friends, and not in how many were with them at the same time; they'd have felt happy even if only one person arrived to celebrate with them.

040. Meant No Harm
Kensuke kept his derisive comments to himself while Misato negotiated with the Anti-Humanity terrorists on the Main Display, scoffing internally at the claim that they meant no harm, recalling what they'd done years ago in Tokyo-3 that resulted in hundreds of deaths, including Touji's; Misato was the calm rock in their command duo for this, as he wouldn't have given the group holding Tokyo-2's city council hostage anything more than his middle finger and a bullet.

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A/N: Prompt 032. Calling ties in with Prompt 035. Doctor over in my Asuka/Touji challenge.

Just to point out: Whenever the clip implies or points out that they are in the future, any children with them really are the age said or implied. Hikari and Kensuke, despite having watched their children, grandchildren, and so on grow old and die while they live on locked in their thirties, still have children. They believe that the joy of children outweighs the heartache of losing them. They would rather have known them and lost them, than never know them at all. Asuka and Shinji also still have kids, but far rarer than Hikari and Kensuke do, as the loss for them is much more painful in their minds than in the other couple's.