From Cold to Warm

From Cold to Warm

By Chungdoo

Chapter 12

Shinji Ikari was in heaven. Or at least as close to heaven as one could get while still being alive. He let out contempt sigh as he looked down and saw Rei with a smile on her face; she had been smiling since he had proposed to her yesterday. So to say that Rei Ayanami, the once so-called emotionless girl had been smiling for a little less than 24 hours was a big thing.

Shinji quickly glanced over toward his alarm clock, 8:30 in the morning. He had no idea if he had school today, and to be honest he really did not care. He planned on spending the day with Rei anyway (not like it was that different from what he normally did). He was about to fall back asleep but his cell phone rang, disturbing the peace and quiet that had resided inside the room. Quickly so to not wake Rei, he picked up his phone.

"Hello?"

"Hello Shinji Ikari." The voice answered.

The voice stunned him, the last time he heard that voice…was inside his mind, it was Arael.

The Streets of Tokyo-3

Shinji Ikari walked down the streets leading to the address that Arael had given him. He was not that happy that he had to leave their bed. Misato had let Rei sleep in Shinji's bed the night he proposed, she had even left the house just in case they would "have a late night ;)" and Asuka was spending the weekend at Hikari's of course they had not done anything, the slept shirt-less in each others arms. He had to focus on sleeping again last night because he didn't there was no way he would get to sleep with the feel of her skin on his, her soft C cup brea…

Shinji had to stop himself because he was approaching the location where Arael was waiting for him and Shinji was sure that Arael would notice since Shinji's body was already beginning to react to where his mind was going.

As he approached the building where he was told to go he stopped to marvel at it. The building was run down, to the point where Shinji could not tell the difference between Rei's old apartment and this one. The building was practically falling apart, hardly habitable and when Shinji opened the main door he could have sworn he saw a rat run out. So Shinji slowly moved throughout the building toward room 105.Ready to run out if the building began to show signs that it was ready to collapse. As he approached the door to the room he stopped.

'Why do I have a feeling that everything is going to change once I open this door?' he thought as an indescribable feeling shook through his body. Taking a deep breath he slowly opened the door and walked inside.

Shinji's room

Rei Ayanami was now experiencing a feeling she could only describe as unpleasant. And that feeling was coldness.

'Why am I experiencing this' she asked herself.

She tried to snuggle closer to the boy who had been lying next to her when she went to sleep last night; she noticed that her body had not yet made contact with the boy. Frowning she opened her eyes to try and locate him. After not seeing him on the bed Rei sat up and looked around his room, nothing. She slowly walked out of bed and made her way toward the kitchen, hoping to find him cooking breakfast like he did every morning. But as Rei walked into the kitchen she did not see him. But she did see a meal on the table, by her usual seat. As she closer she noticed a note next to the plate that held the food, curious she picked it up.

Rei,

I had to leave early so I fixed you breakfast, I'm sorry, I know how much you enjoy it when we wake up next to one another, I'll explain later so for now please don't worry, I'll be back soon!

With love,

Shinji

Rei smiled as she pressed the note close to her chest, she was still a little disappointed that they could not wake up and eat breakfast together but it made her happy to know that Shinji loved her enough to fix breakfast just for her. She knew that he would have done the same thing for Misato or Asuka but that did not matter. Shinji had made this especially for her and it included some of her favorite fruit she had once mentioned to him. He had remembered everything, right down to her favorite drink.

'I love him' she thought to herself as she began to eat the breakfast meant for her and her alone.

Apartment 105

As Shinji walked inside he immediately saw a boy sitting on the couch in the living/dinning area. The boy had black hair, much like Shinji. The boy's body was also shaped much like his, except that the boy was a tad more muscular. His eyes were crimson red and reminded Shinji of Rei's. He was dressed in a white button down shirt and black pants. The boy's skin was pale, almost to the point of being considered albino. As he walked closer he could hear the boy humming the song "Ode to Joy" Shinji immediately recognized it because it was the same song he had listened two when he was depressed or just wanted to listen to music.

"Hello Shinji" the boy said as Shinji was about arms length from him.

"A.. Arael?" Shinji asked stunned.

"Yes it's me, surprised?"

"Yeah, I did not know that angel's could take human form."

"This is a special occasion, please take a seat."

"So why did you call me here?" Shinji asked sitting on the couch that was parallel (math word  ) to the one Arael was sitting on.

"When we first met, I told you we would meet again. I have been formulating a plan, a plan to punish the human's who have been attempting to become god. I am here to put that plan into action but I need your help to do that Shinji."

"w.. why me?"

"Because I believe in you Shinji Ikari, you have taught me that not every human is the same. That there is still good left on earth."

"What do you want me to do?" Shinji responded.

"It depends on how much you are willing to do Shinji Ikari," answered a voice not belonging to Arael, but to a white haired, red-eyed boy who had just entered the room.

"Your late Kaworu" Arael responded.

"My apologies." Kaworu answered sitting on the couch with Arael.

"Who are you?" Shinji asked the white haired kid.

"My name is Kaworu Nagisa, the 5th child at your service." Kaworu answered bowing to Shinji.

At NERV

Misato had been working on the mountain of paperwork that she had found on her desk after she had come back to work last night. She was not really surprised. Shinji had been absorbed inside his Eva unit and before that had his mind probed by an Angel. And on top of all that the 5th child had arrived. All the incidences had to be filled out as reports and handed into the commander. Misato sighed because she had spent almost all of last night filling out paper work and she was only half way done.

'Where's a beer when you need it'

Misato stopped working when she heard a knock on the door to her office.

'Oh God please come in, save me from this nightmare!!' she thought

"Come in" she said calmly.

As the door opened Kaji and Ritsuko walked in. and pulled up a chair.

" We thought we would come and talk to get your mind off of the load of paper work," Ritsuko said.

"I'm glad to see you Ritsuko, but why did you have to bring him?" Misato asked pointing to Kaji.

"Ouch that hurt." Kaji responded rubbing his chest where his heart was.

"Oh get over it!" she responded, rolling her eyes.

"So then what's new?" Ritsuko asked, deciding to change the subject.

"Shinji and Rei are engaged!!" Misato said smiling, like a proud parent.

"That's great." Ritsuko responded smiling.

A few months ago Ritsuko hated the blue haired girl. She felt that Rei was taking away Gendo's attention that rightfully belonged to her. But as time moved on and she saw the true Gendo Ikari, Ritsuko felt that Gendo had only been using Rei as a pawn in his game, just like he was using her. So Ritsuko began to like the girl and was even happy that she had found happiness with Shinji.

" Way to go Shinji, look's like I'm going to have to talk to the boy about the honeymoon!" Kaji answered.

"Don't you dare corrupt Shinji!!" Misato yelled, going into mother mode.

Kaji immediately looked guilty and looked over to Ritsuko to save him.

"Oh no, even I know better to not to get in the way of Misato when it comes to Shinji." Ritsuko said putting her hands up.

"Got that right." Misato answered through clenched teeth.

"Calm down Misato I'm only kidding." Kaji answered, trying again to change the subject before any physical harm was done to him.

"Yeah whatever." Misato said calming down.

"Come on Misato, let's all go out for a drink, our shifts are over anyway." Ritsuko said getting up from her seat.

"Fine by me!" Misato said cheerfully. Right now she really needed at beer.

Authors Note:

Well guys I have decided to take a different spin on the things that happened in the movie. Of course Third Impact won't be happening, sorry to ruin the ending for you guys . But I do plan on making it a good ending. But I won't know how I'm doing if you guys don't REPLY!!

P.S. I would like to thank lord Saturn for all his help and for replying!

P.P.S I would also like to thank all the others that have been replying to my story, it really means a lot!!