Ok this is going to be a semi-dark fic. That is all I can say. And please
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"Tears of Blood"
Chapter 10: The Letter
Shinji was at Rei's apartment. He didn't know what he was doing, but he knew he needed to see Rei. "She is not there Shinji." He heard Misato's voice. "What do you mean?" Misato reached the top of the stairs. "She was hurt again." 'I swear these kids get hurt every five minutes.' Shinji ran up to Misato. "What happened? Where is she?" "Calm down Shinji. She was walking home and someone grabbed her and took her into an alley. They. . .stabbed her in the back, but luckily missed all vital spots." "Where is she?" Misato put a hand on Shinji's shoulder. "She is in the hospital. Shinji listen to me. You do not have to worry. She is in room #409 just like last time." Shinji ran down the stairs before Misato could finish. "But Shinji. . . . . . . . ." Shinji was already down the stairs and running to the hospital.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- *Hospital room #409*
"Ayanami?" Shinji quietly whispered as he opened the door. "Where is she?" The doctor walked by and saw Shinji. "Can I help you son?" Shinji turned around. "Is Ayanami here?" The doctor looked confused. "Ayanami? Hmm oh! I know! Rei Ayanami. Bless her heart poor thing." Shinji had an angry look on his face, but the doctor did not notice. "What happened? Where is she?" The doctor was now concerned as Shinji was shaking violently. "Hey slow down! She is ok. She is in the examination room. We just wanted to make sure she is ok. She had some bleeding on the back of her head." Shinji started shaking more. "When will she be out? Can I see her?" the doctor shook his head. "I'm sorry son, but until we can be sure she is ok, we can't let anyone see her. She has been in here a lot so we don't want anyone coming in who may have a connection to all of these injuries. She also shows signs of amnesia. It is faint so it may only be brief, but when she was brought in, there was blood all over the back of her head like she had been tossed against something. It is amazing that she lived. Now why don't you go home and get some rest. You look like you need it. If you give me your phone number, I will call right when she gets out." 'This guy is very nice' Shinji thought. "No thank you. I will wait." Shinji went and sat down at a bench and waited. 'Poor boy. He must really care for her.' With that, the doctor walked away.
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'Where am I? I feel strange.' Rei woke up from the surgery. Her head had stopped bleeding, but it still hurt a lot. "What happened?" "A man brought you in. Do you know what happened?" Rei thought for a moment. 'A man brought me in? Was it Ikari? ' "I am unaware of what happened. What am I doing here?" The nurse sighed. "Miss Ayanami. Do you know where you are?" Rei shook her head. "Do you remember anything?" Rei shook her head. "What can you remember?" Rei thought. "I do not remember." "Do you now your name?" Rei nodded. "I am Rei Ayanami. Pilot of unit 01. The first child. I am not a doll." The nurse was confused. 'Unit one? Not a doll? What is she talking about. Well at least she knows her name.' The nurse left the room with a clipboard and Rei was alone again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- *Infirmary room #409*
Shinji walked in the room. "Ayanami?" Rei looked at the door. 'I recognize his face, but I am unsure of what his name is.' Shinji thought 'She might have amnesia, but I hope she will remember me.' "Do you remember me Ayanami?" Rei shook her head. "I do not know you and I wish for you to leave." Shinji stepped back. "It's me! Ikari? We pilot together?" Rei shook her head. 'Well I wonder if this will work.' "Do you remember the other day? When we kissed?" Rei's face turned to anger. 'He kissed me? I do not remember him. I do not think I like him very much.' "I wish for you to leave!" Shinji was now crying. She did not remember him and judging by her face, she hated him right now. He ran out of the room and pass Misato without even noticing her. "Shinji?" Misato ran into Rei's room. "Rei! What happened?" Rei looked at Misato. 'I remember her face, but again I remember no name.' "I do not know who you are." "What happened to Shinji Rei?" Rei was growing furious. "He said that we had. . .kissed the other day. I do not remember that and so he probably forced me to. I told him to leave." Misato whispered to herself "Oh god no!" Misato ran out of the room and after Shinji. "Shinji wait!" By the time Misato could get out of the hospital to try and find Shinji, he was already a mile away.
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'Rei doesn't remember me and she hates me.' Misato was at their house. 'Shinji she has amnesia. Did you forget? It isn't her fault.' "I hope he doesn't do anything stupid." When Shinji got to a cross section of the alley, he took a random path. He didn't care. "Hey punk. You picked the wrong day to come walking down here!" A bunch of strong looking guys came out of the shadows. 'Is one of these guys the one that hurt Rei? ' Shinji turned around to leave. "Where do you think you're going?" One of the guys grabbed Shinji's arm. The other one flipped out a pocket knife. "NO!" Shinji pulled free of the guy's arm and the other guy lunged at him with the knife. Shinji dodged the blow and came down on the guys elbow, breaking it in the process. Shinji grabbed the knife and ran. He found a dumpster and threw the knife in and kept running.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- *Hospital room #409: 2 weeks later*
Shinji was sitting in the chair next to Rei's bed. He knew he only had a small amount of time before she would wake up, so he was always gone before she woke up. He started to leave and was at the door when Rei woke up. She whispered "Ikari." Shinji was already out of the door and Misato walked up. SLAP! Misato smacked Shinji across the face and it left a red mark. "Misato what was that for?" Misato slapped him again. "The first one was for leaving and not coming back to the house. You scared me! The second was for Rei. How could you do that to her? You ran out and then you got yourself hurt again! You kids get hurt enough from the evas. Don't go getting hurt from other things to. Your side is all bloody to!" Shinji looked down and saw that when the guy lunged at him, the knife really did hit him. "And you're bruised everywhere. What happened?" Shinji thought. "I found the guys that hurt Rei." Misato was shocked to say the least. "Wait! There was more than one guy?" Shinji nodded. "There were three. I was walking down an alley when they approached me. One had a knife. I got it from him and threw it away. The next day, they found me again. They beat me up. I tried to run, but they cornered me. And why did you slap me for Rei. Why should she care if I go for a walk?" 'A walk? Shinji, you could have been killed!' "Shinji. . .Rei is awake." "What do you mean?" "Shinji, everyday for the past three days that you have seen her, you left. She knew you were there though. She wanted to tell you that she was sorry." Shinji was confused. "Sorry for what?" "For thinking you were the one that hurt her. You should have known that she didn't mean it. She loves you. Even if she doesn't know it, she really does love you. She just doesn't know what most of the emotions she feels are. We were talking once 'Which is ironic.' When you were out of the house. *"Rei you can tell me anything. And from now on, call me Misato. . .that is an order.'' "When I am around Ikari, I feel light. I feel like I have eaten butterflies and I feel dizzy. And when he mentions anything that relates to me or us together, I feel my face get warm." Misato chuckled. "That is a good thing Rei. That means you care for him. Rei even if you don't know it, I do. . .you love Shinji. I am not trying to tell you about your life or anything, but I can tell." Rei made a soft gasp. 'Do I? What is love? I am confused.'* Shiinji can't you see that? She really does love you!" Shinji busted into tears. He ran. He didn't know why, but he went to Ayanami's apartment. "I should clean it up for her. It is the least I can do as a sorry." Shinji started cleaning up and then realized that the only cleaning needed was some of the blood on the sheets because Rei had moved in with him and Misato in their new house. Rei was just getting up and out of the hospital bed. "Rei! You shouldn't be up yet." "I must see Ikari." Misato tried to get Rei to lay back down, but Rei was too strong. 'Wow. She is strong for her size.' Rei put on her school uniform and walked out of the hospital even though her back hurt a lot, and she had a major headache. She decided to go to her apartment even though she did not live there. She felt like she needed to go there for something. When she got to the stairs, she realized that it would prove more of a challenge then she had expected. Then, she heard something upstairs. Since she was the only one who lived in the apartment, she knew it was probably Shinji. 'I do not know why, but I know it is him.' Rei ran up the stairs as best as she could. She got to the door and opened it. She saw Shinji cleaning the now abandoned apartment. Rei closed the door. "Ikari. What are you doing here." Rei tried to hold in her pain as best as she could. Shinji turned around. "Ayanami? You remember me?" Rei nodded. "I am sorry." She ran up and held Shinji tightly. Shinji and Rei talked for a bit, but realized it was very dark now. They decided to keep the apartment for anytime they wanted to go some place that they could be alone. Shinji started to go out of the door, when Rei spoke up. "Where are you going? Do you not wish to stay with me?" Shinji said he could and they got an extra futon that Misato brought over. They told her they were keeping the apartment. Misato agreed and then left. In the middle of the night Shinji woke up to see Rei curled up next to him. Strangely, he did not think anything bad, and he did not get a nosebleed despite how little Rei wore when she went to sleep. Shinji watched her for a moment, but she woke up. "Why are you awake Ikari?" Shinji thought of something to say. "I uh I had a bad dream!" Shinji mentally kicked himself, as he knew how Rei might respond to that. "I am here Ikari." Shinji was right. They decided to stay up and talk for a while. Rei told him everything she remembered of when she was attacked. Rei leaned back onto Shinji, curled up and closed her eyes to go back to sleep. "It hurt Ikari." Shinji's eyes grew wide as he saw a tear roll down her cheek. It looked like blood. He did not know why, but whenever she did cry, which was close to never, it always looked like blood.
'Blood. . .Red. . .the color I hate. . . . . Unless Ikari is with me.'
Shinji pulled Rei closer to him and drifted to sleep. Now he knew what Misato meant. He knew that Rei really did love him. . . . . . .and he loved her.
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Shinji and Rei woke up. A letter was on the floor.
Shinji and Rei,
I know you think I was dying, but you were wrong. I am alive and well. I know you are at Rei's apartment. Your time will come.
Gendo
Somehow, Gendo found out that they were there. Shinji was angry and Rei was confused. Then, Shinji decided to make a plan. Unfortunately, Shinji knew that Misato could not help. So, he called Asuka. "Asuka you have to help us. You know what Gendo has been doing. Now is the time for us to end this all." "I would not normally help you baka, but this is a good cause, so I will help. "Thanks Asuka." Shinji hung the phone up and turned to Rei. "It will all be over soon."
Ok I know I said Gendo was dead, but he is NOT! There will be a twist! Ok now on the reviews TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK SHOULD HAPPEN! SHOULD GENDO DIE? IF YES, THEN THE FIC DIES. IF GENDO LIVES, THE FIC LIVES. What I mean is if Gendo dies, then I stop writing THIS fic. If he lives, I write more on this fic. THE REVIEWS MUST TELL ME WHAT YOU THINJK SHOULD HAPPEN!
Chapter 10: The Letter
Shinji was at Rei's apartment. He didn't know what he was doing, but he knew he needed to see Rei. "She is not there Shinji." He heard Misato's voice. "What do you mean?" Misato reached the top of the stairs. "She was hurt again." 'I swear these kids get hurt every five minutes.' Shinji ran up to Misato. "What happened? Where is she?" "Calm down Shinji. She was walking home and someone grabbed her and took her into an alley. They. . .stabbed her in the back, but luckily missed all vital spots." "Where is she?" Misato put a hand on Shinji's shoulder. "She is in the hospital. Shinji listen to me. You do not have to worry. She is in room #409 just like last time." Shinji ran down the stairs before Misato could finish. "But Shinji. . . . . . . . ." Shinji was already down the stairs and running to the hospital.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- *Hospital room #409*
"Ayanami?" Shinji quietly whispered as he opened the door. "Where is she?" The doctor walked by and saw Shinji. "Can I help you son?" Shinji turned around. "Is Ayanami here?" The doctor looked confused. "Ayanami? Hmm oh! I know! Rei Ayanami. Bless her heart poor thing." Shinji had an angry look on his face, but the doctor did not notice. "What happened? Where is she?" The doctor was now concerned as Shinji was shaking violently. "Hey slow down! She is ok. She is in the examination room. We just wanted to make sure she is ok. She had some bleeding on the back of her head." Shinji started shaking more. "When will she be out? Can I see her?" the doctor shook his head. "I'm sorry son, but until we can be sure she is ok, we can't let anyone see her. She has been in here a lot so we don't want anyone coming in who may have a connection to all of these injuries. She also shows signs of amnesia. It is faint so it may only be brief, but when she was brought in, there was blood all over the back of her head like she had been tossed against something. It is amazing that she lived. Now why don't you go home and get some rest. You look like you need it. If you give me your phone number, I will call right when she gets out." 'This guy is very nice' Shinji thought. "No thank you. I will wait." Shinji went and sat down at a bench and waited. 'Poor boy. He must really care for her.' With that, the doctor walked away.
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'Where am I? I feel strange.' Rei woke up from the surgery. Her head had stopped bleeding, but it still hurt a lot. "What happened?" "A man brought you in. Do you know what happened?" Rei thought for a moment. 'A man brought me in? Was it Ikari? ' "I am unaware of what happened. What am I doing here?" The nurse sighed. "Miss Ayanami. Do you know where you are?" Rei shook her head. "Do you remember anything?" Rei shook her head. "What can you remember?" Rei thought. "I do not remember." "Do you now your name?" Rei nodded. "I am Rei Ayanami. Pilot of unit 01. The first child. I am not a doll." The nurse was confused. 'Unit one? Not a doll? What is she talking about. Well at least she knows her name.' The nurse left the room with a clipboard and Rei was alone again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- *Infirmary room #409*
Shinji walked in the room. "Ayanami?" Rei looked at the door. 'I recognize his face, but I am unsure of what his name is.' Shinji thought 'She might have amnesia, but I hope she will remember me.' "Do you remember me Ayanami?" Rei shook her head. "I do not know you and I wish for you to leave." Shinji stepped back. "It's me! Ikari? We pilot together?" Rei shook her head. 'Well I wonder if this will work.' "Do you remember the other day? When we kissed?" Rei's face turned to anger. 'He kissed me? I do not remember him. I do not think I like him very much.' "I wish for you to leave!" Shinji was now crying. She did not remember him and judging by her face, she hated him right now. He ran out of the room and pass Misato without even noticing her. "Shinji?" Misato ran into Rei's room. "Rei! What happened?" Rei looked at Misato. 'I remember her face, but again I remember no name.' "I do not know who you are." "What happened to Shinji Rei?" Rei was growing furious. "He said that we had. . .kissed the other day. I do not remember that and so he probably forced me to. I told him to leave." Misato whispered to herself "Oh god no!" Misato ran out of the room and after Shinji. "Shinji wait!" By the time Misato could get out of the hospital to try and find Shinji, he was already a mile away.
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'Rei doesn't remember me and she hates me.' Misato was at their house. 'Shinji she has amnesia. Did you forget? It isn't her fault.' "I hope he doesn't do anything stupid." When Shinji got to a cross section of the alley, he took a random path. He didn't care. "Hey punk. You picked the wrong day to come walking down here!" A bunch of strong looking guys came out of the shadows. 'Is one of these guys the one that hurt Rei? ' Shinji turned around to leave. "Where do you think you're going?" One of the guys grabbed Shinji's arm. The other one flipped out a pocket knife. "NO!" Shinji pulled free of the guy's arm and the other guy lunged at him with the knife. Shinji dodged the blow and came down on the guys elbow, breaking it in the process. Shinji grabbed the knife and ran. He found a dumpster and threw the knife in and kept running.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- *Hospital room #409: 2 weeks later*
Shinji was sitting in the chair next to Rei's bed. He knew he only had a small amount of time before she would wake up, so he was always gone before she woke up. He started to leave and was at the door when Rei woke up. She whispered "Ikari." Shinji was already out of the door and Misato walked up. SLAP! Misato smacked Shinji across the face and it left a red mark. "Misato what was that for?" Misato slapped him again. "The first one was for leaving and not coming back to the house. You scared me! The second was for Rei. How could you do that to her? You ran out and then you got yourself hurt again! You kids get hurt enough from the evas. Don't go getting hurt from other things to. Your side is all bloody to!" Shinji looked down and saw that when the guy lunged at him, the knife really did hit him. "And you're bruised everywhere. What happened?" Shinji thought. "I found the guys that hurt Rei." Misato was shocked to say the least. "Wait! There was more than one guy?" Shinji nodded. "There were three. I was walking down an alley when they approached me. One had a knife. I got it from him and threw it away. The next day, they found me again. They beat me up. I tried to run, but they cornered me. And why did you slap me for Rei. Why should she care if I go for a walk?" 'A walk? Shinji, you could have been killed!' "Shinji. . .Rei is awake." "What do you mean?" "Shinji, everyday for the past three days that you have seen her, you left. She knew you were there though. She wanted to tell you that she was sorry." Shinji was confused. "Sorry for what?" "For thinking you were the one that hurt her. You should have known that she didn't mean it. She loves you. Even if she doesn't know it, she really does love you. She just doesn't know what most of the emotions she feels are. We were talking once 'Which is ironic.' When you were out of the house. *"Rei you can tell me anything. And from now on, call me Misato. . .that is an order.'' "When I am around Ikari, I feel light. I feel like I have eaten butterflies and I feel dizzy. And when he mentions anything that relates to me or us together, I feel my face get warm." Misato chuckled. "That is a good thing Rei. That means you care for him. Rei even if you don't know it, I do. . .you love Shinji. I am not trying to tell you about your life or anything, but I can tell." Rei made a soft gasp. 'Do I? What is love? I am confused.'* Shiinji can't you see that? She really does love you!" Shinji busted into tears. He ran. He didn't know why, but he went to Ayanami's apartment. "I should clean it up for her. It is the least I can do as a sorry." Shinji started cleaning up and then realized that the only cleaning needed was some of the blood on the sheets because Rei had moved in with him and Misato in their new house. Rei was just getting up and out of the hospital bed. "Rei! You shouldn't be up yet." "I must see Ikari." Misato tried to get Rei to lay back down, but Rei was too strong. 'Wow. She is strong for her size.' Rei put on her school uniform and walked out of the hospital even though her back hurt a lot, and she had a major headache. She decided to go to her apartment even though she did not live there. She felt like she needed to go there for something. When she got to the stairs, she realized that it would prove more of a challenge then she had expected. Then, she heard something upstairs. Since she was the only one who lived in the apartment, she knew it was probably Shinji. 'I do not know why, but I know it is him.' Rei ran up the stairs as best as she could. She got to the door and opened it. She saw Shinji cleaning the now abandoned apartment. Rei closed the door. "Ikari. What are you doing here." Rei tried to hold in her pain as best as she could. Shinji turned around. "Ayanami? You remember me?" Rei nodded. "I am sorry." She ran up and held Shinji tightly. Shinji and Rei talked for a bit, but realized it was very dark now. They decided to keep the apartment for anytime they wanted to go some place that they could be alone. Shinji started to go out of the door, when Rei spoke up. "Where are you going? Do you not wish to stay with me?" Shinji said he could and they got an extra futon that Misato brought over. They told her they were keeping the apartment. Misato agreed and then left. In the middle of the night Shinji woke up to see Rei curled up next to him. Strangely, he did not think anything bad, and he did not get a nosebleed despite how little Rei wore when she went to sleep. Shinji watched her for a moment, but she woke up. "Why are you awake Ikari?" Shinji thought of something to say. "I uh I had a bad dream!" Shinji mentally kicked himself, as he knew how Rei might respond to that. "I am here Ikari." Shinji was right. They decided to stay up and talk for a while. Rei told him everything she remembered of when she was attacked. Rei leaned back onto Shinji, curled up and closed her eyes to go back to sleep. "It hurt Ikari." Shinji's eyes grew wide as he saw a tear roll down her cheek. It looked like blood. He did not know why, but whenever she did cry, which was close to never, it always looked like blood.
'Blood. . .Red. . .the color I hate. . . . . Unless Ikari is with me.'
Shinji pulled Rei closer to him and drifted to sleep. Now he knew what Misato meant. He knew that Rei really did love him. . . . . . .and he loved her.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- *Next day*
Shinji and Rei woke up. A letter was on the floor.
Shinji and Rei,
I know you think I was dying, but you were wrong. I am alive and well. I know you are at Rei's apartment. Your time will come.
Gendo
Somehow, Gendo found out that they were there. Shinji was angry and Rei was confused. Then, Shinji decided to make a plan. Unfortunately, Shinji knew that Misato could not help. So, he called Asuka. "Asuka you have to help us. You know what Gendo has been doing. Now is the time for us to end this all." "I would not normally help you baka, but this is a good cause, so I will help. "Thanks Asuka." Shinji hung the phone up and turned to Rei. "It will all be over soon."
Ok I know I said Gendo was dead, but he is NOT! There will be a twist! Ok now on the reviews TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK SHOULD HAPPEN! SHOULD GENDO DIE? IF YES, THEN THE FIC DIES. IF GENDO LIVES, THE FIC LIVES. What I mean is if Gendo dies, then I stop writing THIS fic. If he lives, I write more on this fic. THE REVIEWS MUST TELL ME WHAT YOU THINJK SHOULD HAPPEN!