A/N and Disclaimer: I don't own the Eva characters, but I do own Klaus and
Azumi.
This is it, the last chapter! Enjoy and please review!
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Ritsuko blinked in shock, her hand slowly releasing Asuka's arm as she lost feeling in her body, and she fell the rest of the way to the ground, far below, bouncing off the Magi before landing at the bottom.
Shinji didn't care who shot Ritsuko at the moment, all he cared about was getting Asuka back on solid ground. With all his strength, he pulled Asuka over the ledge, and embraced her.
"I love you." She whispered, before passing out against him, no longer able to stand the pain.
"I love you too." He smiled, some how knowing she heard it.
A few feet away, Maya was shaking uncontrollably, a gun, still smoking, lay at her feet. Behind her, her former partners stood with their mouths slack. Neither believing her actions. She didn't quite believe it her self. She swallowed hard, before collapsing, Aoba caught her before she hit the floor.
Azumi watched all this with staggered breaths. She'd never seen anyone die before. That, and she had the bizarre feeling she knew the two people hugging at the edge.
Klaus sighed from his corner of the room, and started to leave, but froze a second later. He screamed something, and only Azumi noticed his alarm.
"The floor's disappearing. . ." she whispered.
"What?" Shinji whispered.
-Now that she is gone, it is only a matter of time before the NERV created by her ambitions vanishes as well. You must move quickly.-
If Asuka had been conscious she would have heard this, but it was only Azumi who received it.
"We have to get out of here." She shouted.
Shinji blinked. "You-I- you were in my class weren't you?"
At that second the entire room flickered. There and back, like an image popping in and out on a TV.
He shook this off and scooped Asuka into his arms, and followed Azumi and Klaus as they ran from Central Dogma.
Aoba and Hyuuga shook off their still settling shock at Maya and each grabbed one of her arms, carrying her out.
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A few other NERV workers joined the five as they fled the vanishing complex. A single tram sat outside the main building. It was the only thing that was not flickering. Seventeen people crowded in, watching as they ascended.
Maya was shaking and delirious. "Dr. Akagi. . .I'm so sorry. I- why did-." But her rantings were heard by no one.
As the last tram to ever leave NERV made its way to ground level, the pyramid disappeared, then the lake, the armor plates (which had just recently reappeared), all vanished completely. In a few moments, all that was left was a crater and memories.
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When Klaus and Shinji returned to the apartment shouldering Asuka, who was now half awake. Misato and Kaji moved to Shinji's side trying to ignore Klaus.
"What happened?"
"Ritsuko. . . She. . ." Asuka started, before Shinji silenced her. She was placed on the couch, where she remained sitting, rather than lay down.
"I can pop your shoulder back in." Klaus offered.
"Don't touch me!" she snarled. "They aren't just dislocated their broken."
"How can you-?"
"Shinji. . . Pop my knee back in."
"I don't think I can."
"I don't trust Klaus to do it, don't trust him period."
Klaus glanced at them, hearing his name but not knowing what was said.
"Then why'd you kiss him?"
She closed her eyes. "I don't know. Forget right now. Fix it."
"Not to ask stupid questions, but why didn't you take her straight to the hospital?" Kaji asked.
"That's not a stupid question. . ." Asuka muttered, and then winced. "Just fix me, and give me pain killers."
Shinji shook his head and turned to Kaji. "Help her."
Kaji nodded. "Asuka?"
She closed her eyes. "Thanks." She screamed as Kaji braced against the couch, and snapped her knee back in. "That hurt more then when. . ." She was close to passing out again.
As Kaji moved away, Klaus tried to move toward Asuka. Shinji shot up from where he sat at her side, and managed one of the few German words he knew. "Nein."
"Wass?"
"Nein!" He pushed Klaus away, and moved back to Asuka's side.
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2 weeks later
Asuka sat in the corner of the room, one leg in a cast, both arms splinted, and in a wheel chair. She was enjoying being waited on, but was beginning to feel deprived of the independence that was the core of her personality.
"Shinji?"
"What?"
"Get him out of here."
Shinji kissed her hair, then moved in front of her. "Huh?"
"Klaus. Get him out."
"I still don't understand it."
"What?" she asked.
"You kissed him. You still haven't given me a good reason why."
"I don't know my self." She closed her eyes. "Wheel me over there so I can yell at him."
Shinji smiled and kissed her. "Hell, if I spoke German, I'd do it my self."
"You can say enough."
He chuckled. "Sure, 'Nein', 'Gutten Tag', and 'Du dumbkopf' are enough huh?"
Asuka closed her eyes. "See, you learned something from me yelling at you all the time."
He shook his head a moment later, and wheeled her chair to the couch.
"Klaus."
"How are you feeling?"
She sighed. "Get the hell out of my house."
"What's going on? I thought you felt bad for me."
"I see you again, and I don't know what I'll do."
He blinked, not quite getting it.
"You're a perverted freak! You- you're screwing up my life. Heartless bastard, I don't even know why I thought you were even mildly attractive."
He stared at her. His mouth open as if he was trying to think of what to say.
"Out!"
"I don't have any money. . .what am I supposed to-?"
"Solve that on your own." She said bitterly.
"But I can't speak Japanese!"
"Well, that's YOUR problem, isn't it?"
Klaus sighed and bowed his head. He slowly got to his feet, and skulked out the door. Shinji kicked it closed before he was even fully out.
"Think I was too hard on him?" Asuka asked, half smiling.
"If you had been able to punch him, you wouldn't have been to hard on him."
Asuka shook her head. "Big jerk."
"Sorry."
"I'm a living rock."
"At least you didn't die. That's all I care about." He stopped felling Asuka's anger rise. "So much has changed, huh?"
"mm." She mumbled and agreement, and closed her eyes.
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1 month later
Azumi Suzuki stood in a hallway of her old school. She was slightly shocked to discover her old class no longer existed. She paced in the hall outside the dean's office. Her father leaned against a near by wall, his arms crossed. Both were happy life was once again as normal as possible
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Maya Ibiki had barely spoken since it had happened. Every so often, she'd break into sobs, and apologize for her actions for hours on end.
After placing her in the mental ward, Aoba and Hyuuga both went their separate ways. Both moving as far from Tokyo-3 as possible.
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"I hate crutches!"
"If you'd stop trying to run in them, maybe you'd be better off."
"Stop telling me what to do!" Asuka snapped, and swung one at Shinji's head as they walked to their car from the hospital.
"Ow! Asuka. . ."
She gave a mock sadistic smile. "Maybe they are good for something."
"Come on. Stop goofing around. I don't want you to get hurt again."
"You should know by now Shinji, I'm invincible!" She thrust her crutches skyward, and fell forward unable to stand on one leg.
"Invincible, huh?" he joked as he helped her up.
"That's not funny."
"Let's go. Kaji's cooking dinner, and Misato cleaned up the place."
"Nice to have her back, huh?"
"Place was way too empty with out her." Shinji agreed.
"All we need now is that stupid penguin, and it would be like old times. In a really creepy sort of way."
He massaged her back, as they stood on the sidewalk. "We should get together with Kensuke again."
"I wonder what Hikari is doing." She stopped. "Forget it, we can't see her."
Shinji bit his lip, and nodded. "Toji. . ."
"Sorry." She leaned against him. "You stupid stooges." She let go of one crutch and leaned against it, then ruffled his hair with her free hand. "Sans the pain and suffering, it was fun back then."
"Sans?" he questioned.
" It means with out. Damn it, learn another language." They kissed. "Lets go home."
-END-
The end, Yea! I wrote every thing after Ritsuko is shot about 6 times before I felt I got it as right as possible. This is the version I got the best feeling from. It seems sort of open for a sequel, no? But it seems as if it would be kind of bland if I did that. Thanks you reading!!
I will probably begin working on my other posted fic which has gone through more revisions than this one. Again, thanks for reading.
This is it, the last chapter! Enjoy and please review!
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Ritsuko blinked in shock, her hand slowly releasing Asuka's arm as she lost feeling in her body, and she fell the rest of the way to the ground, far below, bouncing off the Magi before landing at the bottom.
Shinji didn't care who shot Ritsuko at the moment, all he cared about was getting Asuka back on solid ground. With all his strength, he pulled Asuka over the ledge, and embraced her.
"I love you." She whispered, before passing out against him, no longer able to stand the pain.
"I love you too." He smiled, some how knowing she heard it.
A few feet away, Maya was shaking uncontrollably, a gun, still smoking, lay at her feet. Behind her, her former partners stood with their mouths slack. Neither believing her actions. She didn't quite believe it her self. She swallowed hard, before collapsing, Aoba caught her before she hit the floor.
Azumi watched all this with staggered breaths. She'd never seen anyone die before. That, and she had the bizarre feeling she knew the two people hugging at the edge.
Klaus sighed from his corner of the room, and started to leave, but froze a second later. He screamed something, and only Azumi noticed his alarm.
"The floor's disappearing. . ." she whispered.
"What?" Shinji whispered.
-Now that she is gone, it is only a matter of time before the NERV created by her ambitions vanishes as well. You must move quickly.-
If Asuka had been conscious she would have heard this, but it was only Azumi who received it.
"We have to get out of here." She shouted.
Shinji blinked. "You-I- you were in my class weren't you?"
At that second the entire room flickered. There and back, like an image popping in and out on a TV.
He shook this off and scooped Asuka into his arms, and followed Azumi and Klaus as they ran from Central Dogma.
Aoba and Hyuuga shook off their still settling shock at Maya and each grabbed one of her arms, carrying her out.
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A few other NERV workers joined the five as they fled the vanishing complex. A single tram sat outside the main building. It was the only thing that was not flickering. Seventeen people crowded in, watching as they ascended.
Maya was shaking and delirious. "Dr. Akagi. . .I'm so sorry. I- why did-." But her rantings were heard by no one.
As the last tram to ever leave NERV made its way to ground level, the pyramid disappeared, then the lake, the armor plates (which had just recently reappeared), all vanished completely. In a few moments, all that was left was a crater and memories.
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When Klaus and Shinji returned to the apartment shouldering Asuka, who was now half awake. Misato and Kaji moved to Shinji's side trying to ignore Klaus.
"What happened?"
"Ritsuko. . . She. . ." Asuka started, before Shinji silenced her. She was placed on the couch, where she remained sitting, rather than lay down.
"I can pop your shoulder back in." Klaus offered.
"Don't touch me!" she snarled. "They aren't just dislocated their broken."
"How can you-?"
"Shinji. . . Pop my knee back in."
"I don't think I can."
"I don't trust Klaus to do it, don't trust him period."
Klaus glanced at them, hearing his name but not knowing what was said.
"Then why'd you kiss him?"
She closed her eyes. "I don't know. Forget right now. Fix it."
"Not to ask stupid questions, but why didn't you take her straight to the hospital?" Kaji asked.
"That's not a stupid question. . ." Asuka muttered, and then winced. "Just fix me, and give me pain killers."
Shinji shook his head and turned to Kaji. "Help her."
Kaji nodded. "Asuka?"
She closed her eyes. "Thanks." She screamed as Kaji braced against the couch, and snapped her knee back in. "That hurt more then when. . ." She was close to passing out again.
As Kaji moved away, Klaus tried to move toward Asuka. Shinji shot up from where he sat at her side, and managed one of the few German words he knew. "Nein."
"Wass?"
"Nein!" He pushed Klaus away, and moved back to Asuka's side.
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2 weeks later
Asuka sat in the corner of the room, one leg in a cast, both arms splinted, and in a wheel chair. She was enjoying being waited on, but was beginning to feel deprived of the independence that was the core of her personality.
"Shinji?"
"What?"
"Get him out of here."
Shinji kissed her hair, then moved in front of her. "Huh?"
"Klaus. Get him out."
"I still don't understand it."
"What?" she asked.
"You kissed him. You still haven't given me a good reason why."
"I don't know my self." She closed her eyes. "Wheel me over there so I can yell at him."
Shinji smiled and kissed her. "Hell, if I spoke German, I'd do it my self."
"You can say enough."
He chuckled. "Sure, 'Nein', 'Gutten Tag', and 'Du dumbkopf' are enough huh?"
Asuka closed her eyes. "See, you learned something from me yelling at you all the time."
He shook his head a moment later, and wheeled her chair to the couch.
"Klaus."
"How are you feeling?"
She sighed. "Get the hell out of my house."
"What's going on? I thought you felt bad for me."
"I see you again, and I don't know what I'll do."
He blinked, not quite getting it.
"You're a perverted freak! You- you're screwing up my life. Heartless bastard, I don't even know why I thought you were even mildly attractive."
He stared at her. His mouth open as if he was trying to think of what to say.
"Out!"
"I don't have any money. . .what am I supposed to-?"
"Solve that on your own." She said bitterly.
"But I can't speak Japanese!"
"Well, that's YOUR problem, isn't it?"
Klaus sighed and bowed his head. He slowly got to his feet, and skulked out the door. Shinji kicked it closed before he was even fully out.
"Think I was too hard on him?" Asuka asked, half smiling.
"If you had been able to punch him, you wouldn't have been to hard on him."
Asuka shook her head. "Big jerk."
"Sorry."
"I'm a living rock."
"At least you didn't die. That's all I care about." He stopped felling Asuka's anger rise. "So much has changed, huh?"
"mm." She mumbled and agreement, and closed her eyes.
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1 month later
Azumi Suzuki stood in a hallway of her old school. She was slightly shocked to discover her old class no longer existed. She paced in the hall outside the dean's office. Her father leaned against a near by wall, his arms crossed. Both were happy life was once again as normal as possible
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Maya Ibiki had barely spoken since it had happened. Every so often, she'd break into sobs, and apologize for her actions for hours on end.
After placing her in the mental ward, Aoba and Hyuuga both went their separate ways. Both moving as far from Tokyo-3 as possible.
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"I hate crutches!"
"If you'd stop trying to run in them, maybe you'd be better off."
"Stop telling me what to do!" Asuka snapped, and swung one at Shinji's head as they walked to their car from the hospital.
"Ow! Asuka. . ."
She gave a mock sadistic smile. "Maybe they are good for something."
"Come on. Stop goofing around. I don't want you to get hurt again."
"You should know by now Shinji, I'm invincible!" She thrust her crutches skyward, and fell forward unable to stand on one leg.
"Invincible, huh?" he joked as he helped her up.
"That's not funny."
"Let's go. Kaji's cooking dinner, and Misato cleaned up the place."
"Nice to have her back, huh?"
"Place was way too empty with out her." Shinji agreed.
"All we need now is that stupid penguin, and it would be like old times. In a really creepy sort of way."
He massaged her back, as they stood on the sidewalk. "We should get together with Kensuke again."
"I wonder what Hikari is doing." She stopped. "Forget it, we can't see her."
Shinji bit his lip, and nodded. "Toji. . ."
"Sorry." She leaned against him. "You stupid stooges." She let go of one crutch and leaned against it, then ruffled his hair with her free hand. "Sans the pain and suffering, it was fun back then."
"Sans?" he questioned.
" It means with out. Damn it, learn another language." They kissed. "Lets go home."
-END-
The end, Yea! I wrote every thing after Ritsuko is shot about 6 times before I felt I got it as right as possible. This is the version I got the best feeling from. It seems sort of open for a sequel, no? But it seems as if it would be kind of bland if I did that. Thanks you reading!!
I will probably begin working on my other posted fic which has gone through more revisions than this one. Again, thanks for reading.