Thanks to one of my reviewers, I've decided to take a new twist with this
story. But then again, that's nothing new. And one guy actually gave me a
grammar grade for my story. Now that is something new. I actually have
something to say to that person. If you don't like how I write, then why
did you read? And besides, the preview of my story isn't supposed to be
long. Most of my previews are like that.
Chapter 19: Humanity
To say that Maya and the others were surprised would be a very big understatement. All three of them were just gaping for several seconds before any of them could even utter a word.
"Could you please repeat that?" Shinji asked.
"My name is Layla Evans," the girl said again, "I'm sure you know my dad, Ryan Evans.
"Uh, are you human or an Angel?" Maya asked.
"I'm an Angel," said Layla, "and I'm certainly the cutest. Well, maybe my big sister Rei is cutter, but than again that's preference."
"Okay," said Asuka, "What's going on?"
"I just wanted to get to know Mom," said Layla.
"Mom?"
"Yeah. Dad said that he was going to marry you, if you agreed that is."
"Of course I'd marry him! But, you're an Angel?"
"Yeah. All of us are. And you're going to be my real mom." Layla quickly covered her mouth.
In another plane of existence, Evans beat himself on the forehead.
"She could never keep her mouth shut," he said.
"Well, she does represent humanity," Kaworu reminded his father.
"Yes. And that's going to be something that haunts me for the rest of my days."
"She won't be that annoying. At least not as bad as Rei."
"Don't remind me."
"Oops," said Layla, "I wasn't supposed to say anything."
Maya and the pilots blinked for a few seconds.
"Wait," Asuka said, breaking the silence, "You're saying you're Maya and Evans' unborn daughter?"
"Well, since I kind of spilled it, I don't see any reason to hide it. Yup. I am."
"But how is that possible?" Maya asked. She also placed a hand on her stomach.
"Well, I'm more of a projection," said Layla, "I mean, my soul and mind are still growing in you but I've projected myself so I can get to know all of you before I am born."
"Are you saying that you'll remember all this when you are born?" Shinji asked.
"Of course." Layla threw a smile at him and kind of danced around. "That's why I'm here."
"There is that too," said Shinji, "Why are you here?"
"Well, aren't you perceptive? At least enough to figure out you loved Asuka after Dad hinted it a hundred times."
Shinji started blushing.
"What! Evans knew Shinji liked me before me? What doesn't he know!"
"He is an Angel," said Maya, "Now Layla, I don't mean to be rude but why are you here?"
"Oh, I just wanted to come down. I really didn't have much to do up there so I kept bugging Dad until he let me come down. Now come on! We have a generator to fix!"
Layla sped off into the power plant.
"Wait!" said Maya, "I still need to get some medicine!"
Two seconds later Layla ran back.
"Oops. Sorry. We'll get that first and then go fix the power plant."
She then sped off into the pharmacy.
"She's fast," said Shinji.
The two women nodded. A few seconds later she reappeared with a bag filled with containers of pills and fluids.
"I think this is all you'll need," said Layla, "You can look over it while we're working on that generator."
"How did you do that so quickly?" asked Maya.
"Oh, I am an Angel," Layla said with a big smile, "I've always wanted to come to Earth, and now I finally get the chance."
"I am going to kill her when I get down there," said Evans, "She does not know when to shut up!"
Kaworu looked down with amusement. This was certainly getting rather interesting.
"Now I get to spend some time with family!"
"That's kind of nice," said Maya, "Come on. Let's go down."
Layla ran up and walked next to Maya. Shinji and Asuka were right behind them.
"So," said Maya, "Does Ryan have any more things I don't know about him?"
"That's a tough question," said Layla. At the moment she had a completely innocent face.
"Oh crap!" screamed Evans, "This is not good!"
"It's that look, isn't it?" said Kaworu, "It's the one she has on before she does something to embarrass one of us."
"Yeah, and who do you think it'll be?"
"Tough luck Father."
"Daddy was always really kind to us," said Layla, "When Lilith, well, I guess it's Rei now, gave birth to humanity, he was rather thrilled. And that's how I kind of came into being."
"You represent humanity," said Maya.
"Right. Anyways, he watched over us as we grew up and also watched over humanity. He was at first disappointed at all the pointless wars humanity fought, but he also saw humanity's potential. But that kind of changed when he saw you."
"Me? What did I do?"
"You captured his heart," Layla said simply, "Before he saw you he didn't really take too much of an interest in how humanity grew. But he fell in love with you and set out to ensure that humanity would survive. But of course humans many times turn down help and when they tried to control Father he fought back."
"The Second Impact."
"Yeah. But he ensured that humanity would have the ability to fight against the coming darkness and the other Angels."
"The coming darkness?"
"Oops," said Layla, "I really do need to control myself more. Sorry, I can't say anything more about it. But you'll find out more about it later."
"She's not doing too badly," Kaworu tried.
"I should have made her wait," said Evans.
"The generator is in this room," said Maya.
They had walked down several floors and entered a massive chamber.
"Uh, where do we start?" Shinji asked.
Maya accessed a control panel.
"The problem's here," she pointed at a blinking red light, "It seems there's a jam and we need to clean out one of the pipes so the nanites can move properly through."
"So much for the wonders of new technology," said Asuka.
"This system is still a prototype," said Maya, "There are some bugs in it."
Evans was now relaxing.
"I think Layla will be okay," he admitted, "If she learns how to keep her mouth shut."
"Maybe you should tell her that," said Kaworu.
"Maybe I will."
Evans took out a palm pilot and sent another email. It would be interesting to see how Layla would react.
Maya had looked over the medicine Layla had grabbed and didn't find anything missing that she would need. She also found some birth control pills but didn't show them to Asuka or Shinji. She didn't want to suggest anything and didn't want Asuka to blow up at Layla. Now she had to get to work. She climbed up to the pipes and found that the three kids had managed to unscrew most of the screws. The last one fell and they slowly pulled the pipe section out. The pipe was large enough to allow one of them to stand up straight in it but fortunately there was a metal connector that ran through the entire pipe that allowed them to roll it out of the way.
"Wow," said Asuka, "There's a lot of buildup in here. Shinji, come up here and give me a hand."
Shinji brought up two hoses that connected to the machine and nearly gasped when he saw the clog. The entire pipe was basically plugged.
"Are you sure you three can do it alone?" Maya asked.
"Don't worry," said Asuka, "This is nothing compared to what Shinji had to clean at Misato's."
She threw a wink to Shinji and took one of the hoses. Layla then finished attaching the tanks of the cleaning fluid and gave them a thumps-up. The two pilots turned on the hoses and started soaking the buildup. At first they didn't seem to make any progress but slowly the buildup started to crack.
"What is this stuff?" Asuka asked.
"It's basically condensation from the flow of the nanites," Maya answered, "though I was surprised that it built up to this degree so quickly."
Asuka and Shinji continued to spray away. Then, Asuka came up with a naughty thought. She suddenly turned her hose on Shinji and soaked him.
"Hey! What are you doing!"
Asuka burst out into laughter. "Having some fun! Maya said that this stuff is harmless to humans and that there's enough of it to fill Lake Michigan!"
"Cut it out!"
Shinji then turned his hose on Asuka and blasted her on full power. Asuka was caught unprepared and nearly lost her balance. However, she regained her footing and quickly retaliated. Maya saw them and smiled. Then she remembered something rather amusing regarding the chemicals.
"Asuka! Shinji! That chemical is designed to break down inorganic and artificial materials!" she yelled.
"So?" said Shinji.
"What's the problem?" Asuka added.
"That means your clothes as well!"
The two pilots stopped hosing each other and looked down at their clothes. Indeed, parts of their shirts and pants had disappeared and more were disappearing by the second. Asuka screamed and jumped down. Fortunately for Shinji, most of the upper part of his pants remained and he looked like he was wearing shorts. Also, the sleeves on his shirt were gone, as was most of the collar and front. He simply cast aside the remains of his shirt. Asuka was a rather different situation. Most of her top was gone and she only had her bra left. Her pants were at least in better condition than Shinji's.
"Asuka, there's some clothes in my car," said Maya, "Go out and put on a shirt."
Asuka ran out.
"Shinji, I'm afraid that I don't have any boys clothes," Maya said apologetically.
"That's okay," said Shinji.
Asuka ran to the car and opened it. She found Maya's suitcase of clothes and pulled it out. She found a clean shirt inside and quickly put it on. Her cheeks were slightly red at the thought of Shinji nearly seeing her topless. Well, that was something far in the future as far as she was concerned. Better not to worry about it yet. She came back in and saw Shinji still standing above in front of the pipe. He was back at spraying and without a shirt. Asuka then saw the remains of Shinji's shirt. She climbed back up and joined him. She looked at Shinji and saw his well- toned muscles. The sight of them caused her to blush again.
"I think the two lovebirds are awakening their true feelings for each other," Layla whispered to Maya.
"Is that why you got those birth control pills?"
"That was a joke," said Layla, "You know, they two love each other but they're still afraid to proceed. I think we should try setting them up."
"But how do we know they'll take the chances we give them?"
"You're a NERV technician," said Layla, "Couldn't you rig some sort of video surveillance system in the apartment?"
"That's possible," said Maya, "All right. I'll try it. You're amazingly mature. It kind of feels weird talking to you when you're also in my stomach."
"I know," Layla said with a grin, "but I am your daughter so you'd expect me to be as smart as you."
Maya smiled in return and went back to monitoring the progress the two pilots were making.
"You forgive Layla yet?" Kaworu asked.
"That's the eighth time you've asked me," said Evans, "I'm not going to forgive her until I actually get to return to Earth."
A tall teenager walked up behind Evans and Kaworu. She looked as if she was around sixteen or seventeen.
"I assume that Lillium hasn't done too much damage," she said.
"No Sachiel, Layla hasn't done more damage than what we expected. By the way, what is your human name going to be?"
"Sarah. Though I still see no point in changing our names once we're down there."
"To fit in better," said Evans, "I doubt other people will want to call us by our true names, the names that brought so much fear."
"Humanity brought it upon themselves," Sachiel said.
"Do not be to judgmental regarding my children."
Rei appeared and walked over to Evans.
"So how do you think Layla is doing?" Evans asked her.
"Hopefully she'll learn to keep her mouth shut," said Rei, "She's making me feel old."
"We're all old," said Evans, "We were the first living things of this world."
"So what do you plan on doing to Layla for not keeping her mouth shut?" Sachiel asked anxiously.
"Do all of you want me to kill her or something?"
"She's going to blab about all of us," said Kaworu, "I would say yes, in the end we all will want to kill her. Or humiliate her badly."
Asuka and Shinji managed to clean out the first section of the massive pipe. Now they had to clean the central part they had taken out of the line. It was ridiculously thick with buildup and both of them were tired from having to clean the first section.
"Hey!"
The two looked down and saw Layla waving at them.
"Time for lunch!"
Shinji jumped down instead of climbing down the ladder and landed on his feet. Asuka looked down and took a deep breath.
"Shinji, why did you jump down like that?" she asked.
"Because I can," said Shinji, "It was kind of fun."
"I think I'll climb down," said Asuka.
She walked over to the ladder and started to climb down. She suddenly lost her footing and nearly fell. Actually, she did fall but ended up landing on Shinji.
"Ouch."
Asuka tried to get up but the two were literally entangled and stuck. Layla walked over and helped the two up.
"Did you really have to do that?" Shinji asked.
"I didn't mean to!" said Asuka, "I don't even know how I lost my footing."
"So Shinji," said Layla, "Dad told me that your AT-Field could manifest physically. Can you show me?"
"Uh, I don't know," said Shinji, "I'm not sure I can do it again."
"Oh come on," said Asuka, "Don't be such a wimp. I'm sure you can."
"Asuka, I really don't remember how I did it before."
Layla popped up from behind them and the two pilots jumped.
"It takes practice," she said, "I could show you how to tap into your AT- Field again, if you want me to."
"I don't know. It kind of seems strange to have all this power inside of me."
Shinji was suddenly lifted off of the ground.
"Hey!"
Layla giggled but kept him in the air.
"Put me down!" Shinji demanded.
"You can break my AT-Field," said Layla, "Just try."
Shinji frowned. He remembered vaguely what Evans had taught him but doubted he remembered enough to stop Layla.
"Don't be so negative," said Layla.
Shinji looked at her. It was almost like she could read his mind. He breathed deep and emptied his mind. Suddenly he fell onto the ground and Layla nearly got thrown back. She shifted her feet and managed to regain her balance.
"Wow," she said, "Dad said you were powerful. But I didn't know you were that strong."
Asuka was standing at his side and asking whether he was okay or not. Shinji convinced her that he was and finally she let him go, though reluctantly.
"This is going to be interesting, living with you," said Layla.
Shinji could only nod his agreement.
End of Chapter 19
I am tired and I'm surprised I was able to write this much. It'll take a while for the next chapter to be posted.
Z98
Chapter 19: Humanity
To say that Maya and the others were surprised would be a very big understatement. All three of them were just gaping for several seconds before any of them could even utter a word.
"Could you please repeat that?" Shinji asked.
"My name is Layla Evans," the girl said again, "I'm sure you know my dad, Ryan Evans.
"Uh, are you human or an Angel?" Maya asked.
"I'm an Angel," said Layla, "and I'm certainly the cutest. Well, maybe my big sister Rei is cutter, but than again that's preference."
"Okay," said Asuka, "What's going on?"
"I just wanted to get to know Mom," said Layla.
"Mom?"
"Yeah. Dad said that he was going to marry you, if you agreed that is."
"Of course I'd marry him! But, you're an Angel?"
"Yeah. All of us are. And you're going to be my real mom." Layla quickly covered her mouth.
In another plane of existence, Evans beat himself on the forehead.
"She could never keep her mouth shut," he said.
"Well, she does represent humanity," Kaworu reminded his father.
"Yes. And that's going to be something that haunts me for the rest of my days."
"She won't be that annoying. At least not as bad as Rei."
"Don't remind me."
"Oops," said Layla, "I wasn't supposed to say anything."
Maya and the pilots blinked for a few seconds.
"Wait," Asuka said, breaking the silence, "You're saying you're Maya and Evans' unborn daughter?"
"Well, since I kind of spilled it, I don't see any reason to hide it. Yup. I am."
"But how is that possible?" Maya asked. She also placed a hand on her stomach.
"Well, I'm more of a projection," said Layla, "I mean, my soul and mind are still growing in you but I've projected myself so I can get to know all of you before I am born."
"Are you saying that you'll remember all this when you are born?" Shinji asked.
"Of course." Layla threw a smile at him and kind of danced around. "That's why I'm here."
"There is that too," said Shinji, "Why are you here?"
"Well, aren't you perceptive? At least enough to figure out you loved Asuka after Dad hinted it a hundred times."
Shinji started blushing.
"What! Evans knew Shinji liked me before me? What doesn't he know!"
"He is an Angel," said Maya, "Now Layla, I don't mean to be rude but why are you here?"
"Oh, I just wanted to come down. I really didn't have much to do up there so I kept bugging Dad until he let me come down. Now come on! We have a generator to fix!"
Layla sped off into the power plant.
"Wait!" said Maya, "I still need to get some medicine!"
Two seconds later Layla ran back.
"Oops. Sorry. We'll get that first and then go fix the power plant."
She then sped off into the pharmacy.
"She's fast," said Shinji.
The two women nodded. A few seconds later she reappeared with a bag filled with containers of pills and fluids.
"I think this is all you'll need," said Layla, "You can look over it while we're working on that generator."
"How did you do that so quickly?" asked Maya.
"Oh, I am an Angel," Layla said with a big smile, "I've always wanted to come to Earth, and now I finally get the chance."
"I am going to kill her when I get down there," said Evans, "She does not know when to shut up!"
Kaworu looked down with amusement. This was certainly getting rather interesting.
"Now I get to spend some time with family!"
"That's kind of nice," said Maya, "Come on. Let's go down."
Layla ran up and walked next to Maya. Shinji and Asuka were right behind them.
"So," said Maya, "Does Ryan have any more things I don't know about him?"
"That's a tough question," said Layla. At the moment she had a completely innocent face.
"Oh crap!" screamed Evans, "This is not good!"
"It's that look, isn't it?" said Kaworu, "It's the one she has on before she does something to embarrass one of us."
"Yeah, and who do you think it'll be?"
"Tough luck Father."
"Daddy was always really kind to us," said Layla, "When Lilith, well, I guess it's Rei now, gave birth to humanity, he was rather thrilled. And that's how I kind of came into being."
"You represent humanity," said Maya.
"Right. Anyways, he watched over us as we grew up and also watched over humanity. He was at first disappointed at all the pointless wars humanity fought, but he also saw humanity's potential. But that kind of changed when he saw you."
"Me? What did I do?"
"You captured his heart," Layla said simply, "Before he saw you he didn't really take too much of an interest in how humanity grew. But he fell in love with you and set out to ensure that humanity would survive. But of course humans many times turn down help and when they tried to control Father he fought back."
"The Second Impact."
"Yeah. But he ensured that humanity would have the ability to fight against the coming darkness and the other Angels."
"The coming darkness?"
"Oops," said Layla, "I really do need to control myself more. Sorry, I can't say anything more about it. But you'll find out more about it later."
"She's not doing too badly," Kaworu tried.
"I should have made her wait," said Evans.
"The generator is in this room," said Maya.
They had walked down several floors and entered a massive chamber.
"Uh, where do we start?" Shinji asked.
Maya accessed a control panel.
"The problem's here," she pointed at a blinking red light, "It seems there's a jam and we need to clean out one of the pipes so the nanites can move properly through."
"So much for the wonders of new technology," said Asuka.
"This system is still a prototype," said Maya, "There are some bugs in it."
Evans was now relaxing.
"I think Layla will be okay," he admitted, "If she learns how to keep her mouth shut."
"Maybe you should tell her that," said Kaworu.
"Maybe I will."
Evans took out a palm pilot and sent another email. It would be interesting to see how Layla would react.
Maya had looked over the medicine Layla had grabbed and didn't find anything missing that she would need. She also found some birth control pills but didn't show them to Asuka or Shinji. She didn't want to suggest anything and didn't want Asuka to blow up at Layla. Now she had to get to work. She climbed up to the pipes and found that the three kids had managed to unscrew most of the screws. The last one fell and they slowly pulled the pipe section out. The pipe was large enough to allow one of them to stand up straight in it but fortunately there was a metal connector that ran through the entire pipe that allowed them to roll it out of the way.
"Wow," said Asuka, "There's a lot of buildup in here. Shinji, come up here and give me a hand."
Shinji brought up two hoses that connected to the machine and nearly gasped when he saw the clog. The entire pipe was basically plugged.
"Are you sure you three can do it alone?" Maya asked.
"Don't worry," said Asuka, "This is nothing compared to what Shinji had to clean at Misato's."
She threw a wink to Shinji and took one of the hoses. Layla then finished attaching the tanks of the cleaning fluid and gave them a thumps-up. The two pilots turned on the hoses and started soaking the buildup. At first they didn't seem to make any progress but slowly the buildup started to crack.
"What is this stuff?" Asuka asked.
"It's basically condensation from the flow of the nanites," Maya answered, "though I was surprised that it built up to this degree so quickly."
Asuka and Shinji continued to spray away. Then, Asuka came up with a naughty thought. She suddenly turned her hose on Shinji and soaked him.
"Hey! What are you doing!"
Asuka burst out into laughter. "Having some fun! Maya said that this stuff is harmless to humans and that there's enough of it to fill Lake Michigan!"
"Cut it out!"
Shinji then turned his hose on Asuka and blasted her on full power. Asuka was caught unprepared and nearly lost her balance. However, she regained her footing and quickly retaliated. Maya saw them and smiled. Then she remembered something rather amusing regarding the chemicals.
"Asuka! Shinji! That chemical is designed to break down inorganic and artificial materials!" she yelled.
"So?" said Shinji.
"What's the problem?" Asuka added.
"That means your clothes as well!"
The two pilots stopped hosing each other and looked down at their clothes. Indeed, parts of their shirts and pants had disappeared and more were disappearing by the second. Asuka screamed and jumped down. Fortunately for Shinji, most of the upper part of his pants remained and he looked like he was wearing shorts. Also, the sleeves on his shirt were gone, as was most of the collar and front. He simply cast aside the remains of his shirt. Asuka was a rather different situation. Most of her top was gone and she only had her bra left. Her pants were at least in better condition than Shinji's.
"Asuka, there's some clothes in my car," said Maya, "Go out and put on a shirt."
Asuka ran out.
"Shinji, I'm afraid that I don't have any boys clothes," Maya said apologetically.
"That's okay," said Shinji.
Asuka ran to the car and opened it. She found Maya's suitcase of clothes and pulled it out. She found a clean shirt inside and quickly put it on. Her cheeks were slightly red at the thought of Shinji nearly seeing her topless. Well, that was something far in the future as far as she was concerned. Better not to worry about it yet. She came back in and saw Shinji still standing above in front of the pipe. He was back at spraying and without a shirt. Asuka then saw the remains of Shinji's shirt. She climbed back up and joined him. She looked at Shinji and saw his well- toned muscles. The sight of them caused her to blush again.
"I think the two lovebirds are awakening their true feelings for each other," Layla whispered to Maya.
"Is that why you got those birth control pills?"
"That was a joke," said Layla, "You know, they two love each other but they're still afraid to proceed. I think we should try setting them up."
"But how do we know they'll take the chances we give them?"
"You're a NERV technician," said Layla, "Couldn't you rig some sort of video surveillance system in the apartment?"
"That's possible," said Maya, "All right. I'll try it. You're amazingly mature. It kind of feels weird talking to you when you're also in my stomach."
"I know," Layla said with a grin, "but I am your daughter so you'd expect me to be as smart as you."
Maya smiled in return and went back to monitoring the progress the two pilots were making.
"You forgive Layla yet?" Kaworu asked.
"That's the eighth time you've asked me," said Evans, "I'm not going to forgive her until I actually get to return to Earth."
A tall teenager walked up behind Evans and Kaworu. She looked as if she was around sixteen or seventeen.
"I assume that Lillium hasn't done too much damage," she said.
"No Sachiel, Layla hasn't done more damage than what we expected. By the way, what is your human name going to be?"
"Sarah. Though I still see no point in changing our names once we're down there."
"To fit in better," said Evans, "I doubt other people will want to call us by our true names, the names that brought so much fear."
"Humanity brought it upon themselves," Sachiel said.
"Do not be to judgmental regarding my children."
Rei appeared and walked over to Evans.
"So how do you think Layla is doing?" Evans asked her.
"Hopefully she'll learn to keep her mouth shut," said Rei, "She's making me feel old."
"We're all old," said Evans, "We were the first living things of this world."
"So what do you plan on doing to Layla for not keeping her mouth shut?" Sachiel asked anxiously.
"Do all of you want me to kill her or something?"
"She's going to blab about all of us," said Kaworu, "I would say yes, in the end we all will want to kill her. Or humiliate her badly."
Asuka and Shinji managed to clean out the first section of the massive pipe. Now they had to clean the central part they had taken out of the line. It was ridiculously thick with buildup and both of them were tired from having to clean the first section.
"Hey!"
The two looked down and saw Layla waving at them.
"Time for lunch!"
Shinji jumped down instead of climbing down the ladder and landed on his feet. Asuka looked down and took a deep breath.
"Shinji, why did you jump down like that?" she asked.
"Because I can," said Shinji, "It was kind of fun."
"I think I'll climb down," said Asuka.
She walked over to the ladder and started to climb down. She suddenly lost her footing and nearly fell. Actually, she did fall but ended up landing on Shinji.
"Ouch."
Asuka tried to get up but the two were literally entangled and stuck. Layla walked over and helped the two up.
"Did you really have to do that?" Shinji asked.
"I didn't mean to!" said Asuka, "I don't even know how I lost my footing."
"So Shinji," said Layla, "Dad told me that your AT-Field could manifest physically. Can you show me?"
"Uh, I don't know," said Shinji, "I'm not sure I can do it again."
"Oh come on," said Asuka, "Don't be such a wimp. I'm sure you can."
"Asuka, I really don't remember how I did it before."
Layla popped up from behind them and the two pilots jumped.
"It takes practice," she said, "I could show you how to tap into your AT- Field again, if you want me to."
"I don't know. It kind of seems strange to have all this power inside of me."
Shinji was suddenly lifted off of the ground.
"Hey!"
Layla giggled but kept him in the air.
"Put me down!" Shinji demanded.
"You can break my AT-Field," said Layla, "Just try."
Shinji frowned. He remembered vaguely what Evans had taught him but doubted he remembered enough to stop Layla.
"Don't be so negative," said Layla.
Shinji looked at her. It was almost like she could read his mind. He breathed deep and emptied his mind. Suddenly he fell onto the ground and Layla nearly got thrown back. She shifted her feet and managed to regain her balance.
"Wow," she said, "Dad said you were powerful. But I didn't know you were that strong."
Asuka was standing at his side and asking whether he was okay or not. Shinji convinced her that he was and finally she let him go, though reluctantly.
"This is going to be interesting, living with you," said Layla.
Shinji could only nod his agreement.
End of Chapter 19
I am tired and I'm surprised I was able to write this much. It'll take a while for the next chapter to be posted.
Z98