(A/N: This takes place right after End ends. I try to be as accurate as I can. However, I don't actually own the thing , so there might be a few errors. If you spot any, please tell me, and I'll try to correct it. There is one thing I did on purpose- in the movie, Asuka is covered in bandages at the end. This didn't make any sense to me, so I ignored it. I hope you don't mind. Anyway, on with the story. Don't forget to reveiw, please!)
The Red sea and the infinite beach were all that remained.
Shinji let himself fall back onto the sand. He closed his eyes and covered his ears. But the red cast still made it's way through his eyelids and he could still hear the awful waves. He could still hear Asuka breathing.
After a moment, he heard her sit up.
"Shinji." she said. "What happened?"
He didn't answer, but he did open his eyes and look at her. Her back was to him, but he could see her flaming hair, and the unsteady motion of her back as she breathed. Her left arm was hanging at a very odd angle, but she didn't seem to notice.
Suddenly, she stood up, looking all around across the barren landscape. When her eyes fell on him, he was able to see her face. She looked like a lost little girl, with frightened tears in her eyes. He looked away, and she called his name again. He covered his face with his hands.
She looked back across the shore. She thought she could see something in the distance, but she wasn't sure.
"Shinji." she said yet again. "Was that Third Impact? Is everyone dead?' When he stayed silent, her voice reached a hysterical pitch- "Shinji! What happened? God, what happened? Where are we? Where is everyone? Answer me!"
He sat up and glared at her. "I don't know."
She half sat, half fell, back to the sandy ground again, and put her haed between her knees.
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An indeterminable amount of time later (there was no sun left to gauge the hours), Asuka raised her head.
"Shinji, we should try to find someone. We can't be the only ones left. At the very least, we need to find some food."
Of course, he said nothing.
She stood up unsteadily, and began to walk inland (if such a thing as inland existed anymore), towards whatever it was she had thought she'd spotted earlier. She couldn't feel anything in her left arm, but she felt the weight of it on her shoulder. She tried not to think about it. Those damned SEELE Eva's had cut the arm off her Unit 02, and there had been no NERV to cut the synch ratio between them.
She wondered whether she was dead or not.
Her mother was supposed to have protected her.
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When Asuka had walked a good ways, she noticed that Shinji was still in his origianal spot. She turned back and called to him. It was bad enough without being completely alone.
To her mild surprise, he got up and followed after her, no doubt thinking the same thing.
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