Title: The Children In Middle Earth
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers up till the eleventh Angel in Eva, no event spoilers for LotR.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: The Eva pilots are transported into the world of Middle Earth and are looking for a way home, but some things have changed.
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever.
AN2: Another clarification, the events in this story occur between the great birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo and the beginning of the actual quest, when Frodo leaves the Shire, as described in The Fellowship of the Ring book, a period of 17 years. The Children arrive in ME three years after the party.
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"Can I hold her, Aunty Rei?" Danny asked.
Rei looked down at the two and a half year old then at her six month old daughter.
"Alright, Danny. But be careful and remember to support her head." Rei said, handing young Yui over to the boy, carefully keeping an eye on him.
The three older children had taken instantly to Yui. It was not uncommon to see one of the two and a half year olds standing watch over Yui's slumbering form. They would take ten minute shifts during Yui's midday nap. It was actually quite adorable to behold and they emulated the sentries they saw around the citadel, which boded well for their future in this generational war. If Yui fussed or anything was wrong, one of the children who was not standing the post would be sent off to find Shinji or Rei, or if they were unavailable, Asuka or Faramir.
While raising their children, the two couples had not gone on any major campaigns, or many scouting missions across the river, in the Ithilien. They had spent most of their time in Minas Tirith, either looking through books from the library or learning the other elements of leadership besides the military aspect. This instruction ranged from politics and diplomatic relations with neighbours to agricultural production and industrial priorities. Whenever not in instruction, they would spend a lot of time with the children, even when reading the books to get them home.
Despite this they still manage to get time to train, both themselves and their troops, who had been put under their most experienced and talented officer, and talk with the armour and weapon smiths along with other tradesmen and women who supplied their troops with needed supplies.
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Shinji blocked the overhand blow from his opponent, delivering a kick to the stomach of his adversary sending him sprawling. Shinji slipped into a guard position and glanced over his shoulder to Rei. Rei had blocked her opponent's attack with her knives, trapping the attacking blade between her two, and delivered a quick kick between the man's legs, causing him to drop to the ground in pain.
The next wave was approaching the married couple when a shout ripped through everyone's consciousness.
"Aunty Rei, Aunty Rei. There's something wrong with Yui." Danny screamed as her ran into the training yard as fast as his six year old legs would carry him.
Shinji and Rei quickly dismissed the Ranger's who had participated in the demonstration and the new recruits who were in awe that the couple in their late thirties, about thirty eight, could take out twelve Rangers, expecting more to come.
They ran into their living quarters, and raced to the side of their four year old daughter. Samantha, the children's nurse, was worriedly fussing and trying to keep Danny, Misato and Trowa out of the way. Shinji checked over Yui, as did a very worried Rei, while Misato and Trowa clung to each other as if it was the end of the world. Danny just stood there with a look of absolute despair on his face, he was the one who had formed the closest bond to Yui out of the children. They told each other everything.
"She's running a bad fever. We need to get a healer here." Rei said.
"Faramir! Get a Healer, quick." Shinji called when he saw his best friend and almost brother passing the room in the hallway.
Faramir took one look in the room before running to find a Healer.
********
Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Faramir, Samantha, Trowa, Misato and Danny stood watching the tiny casket lower into the ground. Most of the citadel's guards had also shown up, including Boromir and Denethor, Faramir's brother and father respectively, but they stood a short distance from the grieving extended family.
Yui had fought for over three months, writhing in agony as the heat of the fever alternated with amazingly intense cold spells while her body slowly rebelled and began to consume itself. In the end, it had not been whatever was ailing Yui that had caused her death; she had simply given up on living, just wanting to end the pain.
Her death had affected the entire keep, as everyone knew Yui and saw in her, and the other children, the families that they had and were willing to die to protect. No one was affected more that Shinji, Rei and, surprisingly, Danny. Danny remembered when she had died, as he was the only one present at the time. Yui had gathered them all together to say goodbye and it had been a sombre affair but she had wanted to say goodbye to Danny alone.
*Flashback*
"I'm sorry Danny." Yui said, her voice weak.
"Why are you sorry, Yui?" Danny replied, his voice a whisper.
"I'm sorry that I'm leaving you. Now you won't have anyone to tell you secrets to." Yui said, giving her sly grin that indicated that she had been teasing Danny, before breaking down into a coughing fit.
"You know what, Yui. I'm sorry too. I'm sorry that you will never get to grow up and marry the man of your dreams." Danny said.
"Is that a proposal? I didn't know you cared so much." Yui said, laughing softly but looking pale.
Danny took a second to realise that she was serious, that he was the man of her dreams.
"I would say it was, but you're mother would skin me like a rabbit." Danny said.
They both laughed until Yui started coughing again. Danny began to rise to get someone, but Yui stopped him.
"Just stay with me till I go." She pleaded.
*End Flashback*
Twenty minutes later, Yui's hand slipped out of Danny's and her eyes stared sightlessly. Danny gently closed her eyelids with his fingers and broke down crying.
Shinji's hand on his shoulder broke Danny out of his memory as he was lead away from Yui's grave.
"Does it ever get easier?" Danny asked quietly.
"The pain will fade, slowly but it will fade. You will never forget her, but you will eventually move on, carrying her in you heart." Shinji said, knowing way too much about this for his own comfort.
"This is the worst time of my life." Danny said.
"Mine too. No parent should ever have to outlive their child." Shinji said, leading Danny back to the Citadel.
********
The death of Yui Ikari was still hard to deal with, even almost four years after the event. For a long time, Rei had retreated to her old personality from Tokyo 3, quiet, introspective and hardly talking to anyone. It had finally been Shinji, who had taken Yui's death very hard himself, who had snapped her out of it and gotten Rei to talk about it, as it had been eating her up inside. Asuka had taken her grief out on the Orcs, performing some almost suicidal attacks when they had been on patrol, on one occasion she had completely abandoned her shield and had grabbed a second sword, wading through the largest concentration of Orcs and trying to do as much damage as possible with no regard for her own life.
Faramir, like Shinji, had grieved alone, letting the pain flow through and then wash out of them and then had proceeded to curb Asuka's suicidal behaviour. Trowa and Misato had clung to each other for emotional support more and more, but while they became closer to each other, they drifted further from Danny. Danny, totally alone in his grief for the girl he cared for most in the world who was also his best friend, had brooded for months, then he had taken up a sword and begun training. He trained every day, every waking hour, it was if he could keep the death of his loved ones at bay with the point of a sword.
Shinji looked out over the city, the pain in his heart still present but dulled by time and fogged by memory. It was almost time, he could feel it, and he knew that Rei and Asuka could feel it too. They were going home soon.
'Ironic really. We've been here for fourteen years.' He thought as he turned away from the window.
They had felt the pull for the last two days, and it was only a matter of hours before they would be gone. All the goodbyes had been said, with the pain and sorrow of parting. Shinji joined Asuka and Rei in their common room, and they made their way out of the back of the Citadel into the mountain pass behind Minas Tirith. They had left all their belongings in their rooms, knowing that they would not have them on the other side, even if they took them. The arrangements had been made for distributing their belongings. As they walked they spotted a small goat trail coming off the pass trail, which they followed to a small clearing. After a short wait, the mysterious lighting appeared, flashing pain through their bodies, like a physical manifestation of the emotional pain of their leaving, then the world disappeared in a blinding light.
********
Far to the North West, four young Hobbits were walking towards the Village of Bree, not knowing the dangers and adventures that were to face them.
********
Crossing the River Isen, his horse splashing in the running water, Boromir road with purpose. He had to reach Rivendell, he had to find out the meaning of his dream. What is Isildur's Bane?
********
Sitting in one of the many hidden caves in the Ithilien, Faramir silently mourned the loss of the love of his life, silently cursing war, the one she fought that made her go, and the one they had fought that made his miss her final parting from this world. Silent tears ran down his cheeks as his heart broke.
********
Misato, Trowa, Danny and Samantha, their nurse, rode south in the cart with their possessions. Shinji, Rei and Asuka had always prepared them for this day, the day that they would not be around. The family would settle in a small village, Trowa and Misato would marry, as would Danny and a local girl he would grow to love as much as he did Yui. As generations passed, the Ikari-Soyru family would prosper and eventually become one of the oldest and most respected families in the area. Family legend would tell of their ancestors who came to a city in the midst of war, and gave the people hope for a better tomorrow.
The End.
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers up till the eleventh Angel in Eva, no event spoilers for LotR.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: The Eva pilots are transported into the world of Middle Earth and are looking for a way home, but some things have changed.
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever.
AN2: Another clarification, the events in this story occur between the great birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo and the beginning of the actual quest, when Frodo leaves the Shire, as described in The Fellowship of the Ring book, a period of 17 years. The Children arrive in ME three years after the party.
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"Can I hold her, Aunty Rei?" Danny asked.
Rei looked down at the two and a half year old then at her six month old daughter.
"Alright, Danny. But be careful and remember to support her head." Rei said, handing young Yui over to the boy, carefully keeping an eye on him.
The three older children had taken instantly to Yui. It was not uncommon to see one of the two and a half year olds standing watch over Yui's slumbering form. They would take ten minute shifts during Yui's midday nap. It was actually quite adorable to behold and they emulated the sentries they saw around the citadel, which boded well for their future in this generational war. If Yui fussed or anything was wrong, one of the children who was not standing the post would be sent off to find Shinji or Rei, or if they were unavailable, Asuka or Faramir.
While raising their children, the two couples had not gone on any major campaigns, or many scouting missions across the river, in the Ithilien. They had spent most of their time in Minas Tirith, either looking through books from the library or learning the other elements of leadership besides the military aspect. This instruction ranged from politics and diplomatic relations with neighbours to agricultural production and industrial priorities. Whenever not in instruction, they would spend a lot of time with the children, even when reading the books to get them home.
Despite this they still manage to get time to train, both themselves and their troops, who had been put under their most experienced and talented officer, and talk with the armour and weapon smiths along with other tradesmen and women who supplied their troops with needed supplies.
********
Shinji blocked the overhand blow from his opponent, delivering a kick to the stomach of his adversary sending him sprawling. Shinji slipped into a guard position and glanced over his shoulder to Rei. Rei had blocked her opponent's attack with her knives, trapping the attacking blade between her two, and delivered a quick kick between the man's legs, causing him to drop to the ground in pain.
The next wave was approaching the married couple when a shout ripped through everyone's consciousness.
"Aunty Rei, Aunty Rei. There's something wrong with Yui." Danny screamed as her ran into the training yard as fast as his six year old legs would carry him.
Shinji and Rei quickly dismissed the Ranger's who had participated in the demonstration and the new recruits who were in awe that the couple in their late thirties, about thirty eight, could take out twelve Rangers, expecting more to come.
They ran into their living quarters, and raced to the side of their four year old daughter. Samantha, the children's nurse, was worriedly fussing and trying to keep Danny, Misato and Trowa out of the way. Shinji checked over Yui, as did a very worried Rei, while Misato and Trowa clung to each other as if it was the end of the world. Danny just stood there with a look of absolute despair on his face, he was the one who had formed the closest bond to Yui out of the children. They told each other everything.
"She's running a bad fever. We need to get a healer here." Rei said.
"Faramir! Get a Healer, quick." Shinji called when he saw his best friend and almost brother passing the room in the hallway.
Faramir took one look in the room before running to find a Healer.
********
Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Faramir, Samantha, Trowa, Misato and Danny stood watching the tiny casket lower into the ground. Most of the citadel's guards had also shown up, including Boromir and Denethor, Faramir's brother and father respectively, but they stood a short distance from the grieving extended family.
Yui had fought for over three months, writhing in agony as the heat of the fever alternated with amazingly intense cold spells while her body slowly rebelled and began to consume itself. In the end, it had not been whatever was ailing Yui that had caused her death; she had simply given up on living, just wanting to end the pain.
Her death had affected the entire keep, as everyone knew Yui and saw in her, and the other children, the families that they had and were willing to die to protect. No one was affected more that Shinji, Rei and, surprisingly, Danny. Danny remembered when she had died, as he was the only one present at the time. Yui had gathered them all together to say goodbye and it had been a sombre affair but she had wanted to say goodbye to Danny alone.
*Flashback*
"I'm sorry Danny." Yui said, her voice weak.
"Why are you sorry, Yui?" Danny replied, his voice a whisper.
"I'm sorry that I'm leaving you. Now you won't have anyone to tell you secrets to." Yui said, giving her sly grin that indicated that she had been teasing Danny, before breaking down into a coughing fit.
"You know what, Yui. I'm sorry too. I'm sorry that you will never get to grow up and marry the man of your dreams." Danny said.
"Is that a proposal? I didn't know you cared so much." Yui said, laughing softly but looking pale.
Danny took a second to realise that she was serious, that he was the man of her dreams.
"I would say it was, but you're mother would skin me like a rabbit." Danny said.
They both laughed until Yui started coughing again. Danny began to rise to get someone, but Yui stopped him.
"Just stay with me till I go." She pleaded.
*End Flashback*
Twenty minutes later, Yui's hand slipped out of Danny's and her eyes stared sightlessly. Danny gently closed her eyelids with his fingers and broke down crying.
Shinji's hand on his shoulder broke Danny out of his memory as he was lead away from Yui's grave.
"Does it ever get easier?" Danny asked quietly.
"The pain will fade, slowly but it will fade. You will never forget her, but you will eventually move on, carrying her in you heart." Shinji said, knowing way too much about this for his own comfort.
"This is the worst time of my life." Danny said.
"Mine too. No parent should ever have to outlive their child." Shinji said, leading Danny back to the Citadel.
********
The death of Yui Ikari was still hard to deal with, even almost four years after the event. For a long time, Rei had retreated to her old personality from Tokyo 3, quiet, introspective and hardly talking to anyone. It had finally been Shinji, who had taken Yui's death very hard himself, who had snapped her out of it and gotten Rei to talk about it, as it had been eating her up inside. Asuka had taken her grief out on the Orcs, performing some almost suicidal attacks when they had been on patrol, on one occasion she had completely abandoned her shield and had grabbed a second sword, wading through the largest concentration of Orcs and trying to do as much damage as possible with no regard for her own life.
Faramir, like Shinji, had grieved alone, letting the pain flow through and then wash out of them and then had proceeded to curb Asuka's suicidal behaviour. Trowa and Misato had clung to each other for emotional support more and more, but while they became closer to each other, they drifted further from Danny. Danny, totally alone in his grief for the girl he cared for most in the world who was also his best friend, had brooded for months, then he had taken up a sword and begun training. He trained every day, every waking hour, it was if he could keep the death of his loved ones at bay with the point of a sword.
Shinji looked out over the city, the pain in his heart still present but dulled by time and fogged by memory. It was almost time, he could feel it, and he knew that Rei and Asuka could feel it too. They were going home soon.
'Ironic really. We've been here for fourteen years.' He thought as he turned away from the window.
They had felt the pull for the last two days, and it was only a matter of hours before they would be gone. All the goodbyes had been said, with the pain and sorrow of parting. Shinji joined Asuka and Rei in their common room, and they made their way out of the back of the Citadel into the mountain pass behind Minas Tirith. They had left all their belongings in their rooms, knowing that they would not have them on the other side, even if they took them. The arrangements had been made for distributing their belongings. As they walked they spotted a small goat trail coming off the pass trail, which they followed to a small clearing. After a short wait, the mysterious lighting appeared, flashing pain through their bodies, like a physical manifestation of the emotional pain of their leaving, then the world disappeared in a blinding light.
********
Far to the North West, four young Hobbits were walking towards the Village of Bree, not knowing the dangers and adventures that were to face them.
********
Crossing the River Isen, his horse splashing in the running water, Boromir road with purpose. He had to reach Rivendell, he had to find out the meaning of his dream. What is Isildur's Bane?
********
Sitting in one of the many hidden caves in the Ithilien, Faramir silently mourned the loss of the love of his life, silently cursing war, the one she fought that made her go, and the one they had fought that made his miss her final parting from this world. Silent tears ran down his cheeks as his heart broke.
********
Misato, Trowa, Danny and Samantha, their nurse, rode south in the cart with their possessions. Shinji, Rei and Asuka had always prepared them for this day, the day that they would not be around. The family would settle in a small village, Trowa and Misato would marry, as would Danny and a local girl he would grow to love as much as he did Yui. As generations passed, the Ikari-Soyru family would prosper and eventually become one of the oldest and most respected families in the area. Family legend would tell of their ancestors who came to a city in the midst of war, and gave the people hope for a better tomorrow.
The End.