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Even though my muscles throbbed in pain, I still tried to run from the NERV headquarters to Misato's house. It isn't just to tell her about the Angel but to talk to her about me and my father. I have to know why she hates me so much. It isn't everyday that I've got the courage to speak out. I feel that this is the right time. It's a matter of now or never.
Outside Misato's door, I took a while to catch my breath. Summoning all my courage, I knocked at the door "M-Misato?"
Misato opened the door. She didn't ask me to come in, instead she just stared at me. Maybe thinking if she's going to talk to me or not. "Can we talk?" I asked. Without a word, she let me in. she sat on the couch and began to gulp down beer.
"Go ahead." Two words that made my heart jump. I'm really nervous. Now I know what Shinji feels when he talks to his father.
"I – I want to know..." my knees are shaking and I feel like a stone is blocking my throat. "W – why do you h – hate me?" stabs of icicles pierced my heart as she gave me her cold, sharp glance.
"You came from the NERV clinic just to ask that?" she gulped down another shot without removing her eyes from me. Lost for words, I just nodded in response.
"I hate you because you make me remember two persons in my dark past that I hate most in this world." Stunned at her reason, I just stared at her to listen. "They cheated on me. My father, your father, men."
"My father loves you. He always tell me that."
"He just made you believe! If he loves me, he should have told me the truth!" Misato's blood is racing in her head. Just thinking of Masaki makes her red with anger. "He should have returned for me a long time ago! He should have given me the love that I need all these years. He should have returned that I didn't have to be alone!"
"But there has to be a reason!" I reasoned out.
"Listen here kid." Misato gripped me from my jaw. "Stay away from me."
"But mom..."
"Say that word again and I'll make my hand appear on your face." My mother doesn't want me to call her mom? What kind of a mother is she?
"But you're my mother..." and a hard hand slapped on my face.
It's too bad that I can't shout my feelings out, of how confused I am and how angry I am at the NERV for failing to save my father from the Angels. I should be the one angry not her. If she isn't my mother, I could say all those things. But the bond between us tells me that I should just keep quiet and let those painful words hit me. Maybe this just my destiny...written for me in stone.
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Serena stranded herself in the house. NERV couldn't go on an operation because the Evangelions were being fixed for the damages they got. After the argument with Misato, Serena was out of the mood and would just be contented in playing her video games or just eating her favorite foods. Once in a while, Rei and Shinji would visit her and they would hang around the house eating stuffs from Serena's ref or play video games with one another. They are really a lot of help for Sere to forget her personal problems.
"You seem sad Sere?" Rei asked.
"No. No I'm not."
"Is that a hand marked on your face?" Asuka took a closer look, with a voice that sounds mocking.
"It is. Where did you get that Serena?" Shinji asked. Serena turned sadly into another direction and answered "No, I got this from myself. I slapped myself for being stupid." She smiled as she spoke but with sadness in her eyes. Even though her friends didn't notice, the sadness, not only in her eyes, but also in her heart will remain until she finds the answers to her questions and the comfort in her soul.
One week after, the Evangelions are already doing well. The Evangelion pilots are starting with the synchro-rate testing and other check-up to make sure that they go well in their next operation.
Misato is thinking. She kept thinking about her argument with Serena. It seems like her conscience is bugging her for being rude to her own daughter. While thinking, her feet led her to Serena's room in the NERV HQ. She was surprised but just let herself to be carried away. She looked around the room. She noticed its gloom. She never thought that the pilots' room is like this.
Beside Serena's bed, she saw a picture of a man that is very familiar to her. "Masaki..." she unconsciously went near it and stared at it. This time, her emotions were not of hate. This time, she wants to speak, to ask, to communicate with the man in the photograph.
"Don't be afraid Misato, tell me..." a voice just came from nowhere. Misato turned around and looked around the room. There is no one with her. "Misato..." the voice is familiar. She just couldn't remember exactly whose voice was it.
"Show yourself or else...!" Misato held out her gun and looked around the room. "How can you kill me? I'm already dead." The voice answered.
Misato started with a gasp. "Masaki..."
"Yes, it is I." Misato started for the door. She turned the knob but found out that it was locked. "No! No don't do this to me! Let me out!"
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The Angel was at attack again. Even without Misato giving the orders, Ritsuko was there to give them. She's worried about where Misato is but just turned her attention to the Angel. The Evangelions were launched and NERV is counting much on them to finish this Angel off. They had no exact idea to how they would do it but Ritsuko told them that Serena had a plan.
The pilots tried to catch the Angel. Even just a hit will do but the Angel keeps on disappearing and hitting them instead. "This Angel is crazy!" Asuka screamed. "Serena's father did have a very good job huh?" Rei grinned as she manipulated the robot to avoid the attacks.
Serena didn't reply. She's thinking of the hard decision that she's about to make. To defeat this angel, to end her sufferings that seems to have no end.
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"Get me out of here Masaki!" Misato ordered the invisible one.
"First, I want you to watch this." A very bright light filled the room. So bright that Misato has to cover her eyes from it. When she opened her eyes, she's no longer in Serena' room but in room, which she recognizes as her father's office. In front of her, are the people that she hated most.
"Calm down and just listen." The voice spoke in her ears. She obeyed and just watched and listened to the conversation.
"You can't do that to your own daughter!" Misato recognized it as Masaki 15 years ago. He seems angry.
"Trust me Masaki." Mr. Katsuragi started. "It's for her benefit."
"Benefit? Sir, she's only fourteen!"
"I know, I know. I have to get the embryo from her body and set it in a special incubator for preparation for a year and it will be ready for growth for 9 months in another incubator. She'll be born exactly right after the Impact." Mr. Katsuragi explained. "I want you to take care of it and watch its birth."
"Sir, I can't."
"Listen here," the elder went near Masaki and spoke in a low voice as if what he's going to say is a top secret. "The second impact is coming and I don't know if I'll ever survive. I need that child to be with Misato and to be the sixth children of the NERV. You have to raise the child until it reaches her 14th year. Send her to an organization called NERV. Misato will be there."
Masaki looked stunned. "Y-you know all these things sir? I-I don't understand a thing. What's NERV?"
"There are things that I can't tell you. You'll understand when time comes. Just do what I tell you. I know that you will be able to raise the child properly. I want you to do it because you have a special mission in her life."
"But—but the impact... we may not survive..."
"Trust me."
Misato was surprised but before she could react, there was another flashing of light and another scene came into view. There in front of her are Masaki and what she recognized as the 8-year old Serena.
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