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Fourth Impact Chapter 24: Alone
"Maybe if you paid more attention, this wouldn't happen."
Takoru looked up at Lilliko. "If I paid more attention-" he cut himself off. He found it hard not to flirt with her. But he found it just as hard to get up once she hit him, so he was torn. "-then I would get bored so easily." He saved.
She backed away from him and he sprung to his feet. He looked over at the metal beam he had hit, then at the girl standing next to him. "Well, he's gotten away." Lilliko pouted.
"Ah well," said Takoru. "It's no fun without Misa-chan anyway."
"They let her out today." Lilliko told him. He glanced at her. She nodded. "She's fine, only she can't pilot anymore because of Adam."
Suddenly she perked up. "Hey! I think I know where' my brother's going. If we hurry we can still catch him."
Takoru sat down, exhausted. "You Angels and your stupid S2 engines. Do you ever get tired?"
Lilliko sat down next to him. "We don't get tired easily. I, however, have a short attention span."
He nodded. He looked at his watch. "Oh. Have to get to football practice, or my friends will kill me. See you tonight for study?"
She nodded as he got up.
"You've been hanging out with Ayanami, haven't you." Tekazu accused him as they walked into the field. "I can just see it in your smile."
"What?" Takoru demanded. "What do you have against Lilli-chan?" His teammates gasped.
"Lilli-chan?" Tekazu asked. "You're not."
"No, we're not." Takoru said. "I just like her, that's all." His teammates exchanged glances. "Look, if you have something to tell me, tell me."
"You aren't spending any time with us anymore." Tekazu told him. "It was bad enough with Ikari, but now, we only see you at practice. She must have put some sort of spell on you, or mind-control."
"I'm sorry, but-" Tekazu cut him off.
"We want you to stop seeing that.that Angel."
Unbeknownst to them, Lilliko was watching from the benches above the field. She had come to cheer Takoru on, but when she heard Tekazu, she froze in fear.
"We want you to stop seeing that.that Angel." Her eyes widened, and she ran off before she could hear Takoru's reply.
She got home and locked herself in her room. "Don't worry," she told herself. "He'll stand up to them. I know that he likes me, so it will be all right."
She could hear her parents shout that they were leaving. They had planned to eat out with the Asuka and Shinji, to catch up on old times without having the kids around. So she would be alone with Adamu and Takoru.
"He won't listen to them." She told herself. She had really been looking forward to this night, where she would have Takoru all to her self, and might finally be able to get her feelings for him worked out.
Then her phone rang. She picked it up. "Lilli-chan?" asked Takoru.
"Yes?" she said, trying to hide the trembling in her voice.
"I'm sorry, but I won't be able to come over tonight-" She snarled. He had betrayed her.
"Fine!" she shouted into the phone. "I know how much you value your old friends over me. I understand, I'm just an Angel. I don't deserve your company." She slammed the phone down and began to cry.
Adamu picked the lock on her door and entered her room. "Lilliko?"
She waved for him to leave. "Go away, Adamu."
"What's wrong?" he asked her. She waved at him again.
"You wouldn't understand. You don't understand anything."
"Apparently I don't, but you're upset, and I don't like to see you like this."
"Then go away!" she used her AT field to push him out the door, locking it.
He stared at the door, wondering what had gotten her so upset. Then, shaking his head, he returned to his own room.
"I'm alone." She whispered into the darkness. "No one cares. Takoru just views me as another Angel, a thing to play with when he's bored. Mother and Father don't understand at all, and neither does Adamu. Why did I have to be born into this stupid family? Why am I the only one with human emotions, and I have to have this damn Angel body?"
She pounded a fist against her core, only managing to hurt her fist. "Damn it!"
She curled up as if to hide herself. "Alone." She shut her eyes.
"I don't want to be alone." the darkness didn't answer, the room silent except for her soft sobbing. "I don't want to be left alone."
Adamu could hear her crying through the wall that their rooms shared. He could hear her muttering, though he couldn't make out the words. He knew what she was saying, though. She had a deep phobia of being alone, of being isolated. Usually it was all right if he was around, but he knew that this time he couldn't help.
"I do not understand what happened to her. But I know someone who will understand."
He got up and ran out of the house, making his way across the city to the house that Misato lived in. He rang the doorbell.
She opened the door, her eyes bleary as if she had been sleeping. "What is it, Adamu-kun?" she asked.
"Something's wrong with Lilliko." She was immediately awake.
"Wrong as in." he frowned, unsure of what to say.
"Takoru." He said finally. "He was supposed to show up today for study," Misato nodded, "but he had to do something else." Misato blinked. "Lilliko took it badly."
"Why couldn't you help?" she asked. "This must be a major emotional crisis."
He sighed. "Misato, I know less about romance than a dead fish." Cold fish is more like it, though Misato.
"I won't argue with you there." She said aloud. "What about your parents?"
"Misato, my father hasn't felt pain or sadness since Ikari-san popped his head off, and my mother still doesn't know the difference between love and sex." (AN: what did you expect? It /is/ Rei we're talking about)
She grabbed his hand. "Come with me." she said, dragging him into the night.
"Why?" he asked. He couldn't help, he had no idea what to do.
"Because I'm not dragging seventy-five kilograms of struggling football team captain through the streets at night all by myself."
They got to Takoru's house and rang the doorbell. Hikari appeared. "What are you two doing wandering the streets at this hour?" she asked. Misato gulped. Out with Adamu, at night, alone.she could just picture how they must look.
"There's something wrong with Lilliko." Misato told her. "We need to borrow Takoru."
Hikari blinked, then nodded. She summoned her son, then watched as Adamu grabbed hold of the boy and started dragging him away.
"Don't expect him back until morning." Misato told her. "No, we're not going to allow them to do anything intimate, but we'll need him for a while."
She ran off. Hikari stared after them for a moment. "I'd better not find out that my son's living in sin." (AN: had to put that in.)
"Let go of me!" Takoru said.
"Only if you'll go into Lilliko's room by yourself." Misato told him. His eyes widened.
"What?" she nodded.
"Lilliko's hurt, and it's partly your fault." She told him. "Now you're going to go in there and find out what's wrong, and fix it."
"But-" Then it hit him. The things she had said.
He struggled out of Adamu's grip and ran to the Ayanami house. Adamu pulled open the door and the three of them ran up to Lilliko's room. The door was locked once again, and the sound of crying filled the air. Adamu picked the lock again and shoved Takoru inside.
He shut the door and turned to Misato. "How long do we keep them in there?" he asked.
"Until the moaning starts. Then we have to separate them." He stared at her. "Just kidding! I know Takoru better than that. Just keep them in their until the crying stops, then let them know that there's still people in the house."
He peered at her. "How do you know all of this?" she grinned.
"Television. My mother still has some old videos of the sitcoms that she liked."
Inside the room Takoru sat down nervously beside Lilliko. "Lilli-chan-"
"Don't call me that." She spluttered.
"Lilliko, I'm sorry about not coming tonight,"
"It's not that." She told him. "And you're not sorry, are you. I'm just an Angel after all."
"I never said that-"
"Not in so many words, no." she said bitterly. "I can tell that you were thinking it, though. But that's all right. You go spend your time with your friends, and leave me alone."
"Lilliko," he grabbed her chin and turned her head to face him. Her red eyes gleamed in the dark, "I want to spend time with you."
"Stop trying to flirt with me." she told him. "I know what you want."
"Do you?" he asked. "I want to be with you, to have you by my side. To plot against your brother with you, to make jokes and argue with you. I'm sorry about tonight, I promised my friends that I would-"
"Your friends." She hissed. "Your friends, not me. I'm not one of your friends."
"Lilliko," he told her firmly, "you are one of my friends. No matter what you think, I do like you, a lot." Her eyes widened. He pondered his admission. It was true, he concluded, but was this the best time?
However, his mouth, like the mouth of every Suzuhara male, went on without his brain. "I don't know if you feel the same way, but I think that I like you as more than just a friend."
"Is that why you're always flirting with all the girls?" she asked, turning away. He blinked.
"Lilliko, the only person I've flirted with is you." he told her. "And don't bring up Misato, she's like a sister to me, and I've never even tried for her."
She turned to him, their faces millimeters apart. He grinned. "You know," he whispered, "if this were a movie or a tv show, then right now we would stare at each other, look into each other's eyes, and kiss." She growled.
"You try anything and I'll kill you." she said. They continued to stare at one another.
"You know I'm no good with words." He told her. "If I try and tell you verbally I'm going to screw it up." She continued to glare at him. "And I know that you're going to hit me when I say something stupid, and that would really ruin the moment."
"Would you stop fooling around for a second?" she demanded. "That really hurt, you know. This afternoon hurt."
"Look on the bright side," he replied, "if this afternoon hadn't happened, then I would never have admitted how I felt to you. Or to myself."
She blinked, gaping at him. He decided that she looked silly with her mouth open and clamped his lips on hers. If she's going to kill me, he thought, it's worth it.
He pulled back, waiting for painful death to claim him. "You idiot!" she exclaimed. "I'm trying to make you feel guilty for what happened."
"And I'm trying to distract you." he told her. "Wallowing in self-pity isn't healthy, you know. Bitter people are no fun at all." He grinned at her. "Besides, you're a good kisser."
She glared at him for a moment longer, then gave in. "You idiot." She repeated, leaning against him.
"Do mind if I not say it right now?" he asked. "We'd probably be up all night listening to me make hash out of the language if you insist on it." She rolled her eyes.
He disengaged from her. "I'd better go now, or my mother will give me her 'living in sin' speech." He opened the door to find Misato leaning in an awkward pose, her head pressed to where the door had been. She yelped and jumped back. He sweatdropped.
He felt something grab his sleeve. He turned around to find Lilliko smiling shyly at him. "Could you stay?" she asked. His eyes widened. "Just, stay here, for the night."
"Go on," Misato ordered, pushing Takoru back inside. "We promised your mother that you wouldn't be back until morning. I'd hate to disappoint her." The door slammed shut.
Lilliko giggled. "Thank you, Takoru-chan. I just didn't want to be alone."
(AN: No, no lemon, for several reasons. 1: They're 15. Too young. 2: I'm 15. Too young. 3: I don't actually know how old Layra-chan is, but her mind can't be older than 6- Whack! -okay, 6 1/2. Too immature.)
"Well, that worked out fine." Misato said proudly. She turned to Adamu. "Thank you for your help."
"I should be thanking you." he replied. She nodded.
"Yes you should." There was an awkward silence. "So?"
"What?" She gave him an exasperated wave.
"Forget it." She said, and stormed out of the house, leaving Adamu staring after her.
"What?"
AN: I've been wanting to do that Takoru/Lilliko scene for a while. Now all I have to do is kill off some more of the Chosen and get Adamu and Misato together. And I need to deal with Samantha and Dai-syo and Ariline. I can't just have a random Eva/Angel lying around.
And for those of you who actually understood the disclaimer and were not just reading it, remember: 1337 + 666 = 2003
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Fourth Impact Chapter 24: Alone
"Maybe if you paid more attention, this wouldn't happen."
Takoru looked up at Lilliko. "If I paid more attention-" he cut himself off. He found it hard not to flirt with her. But he found it just as hard to get up once she hit him, so he was torn. "-then I would get bored so easily." He saved.
She backed away from him and he sprung to his feet. He looked over at the metal beam he had hit, then at the girl standing next to him. "Well, he's gotten away." Lilliko pouted.
"Ah well," said Takoru. "It's no fun without Misa-chan anyway."
"They let her out today." Lilliko told him. He glanced at her. She nodded. "She's fine, only she can't pilot anymore because of Adam."
Suddenly she perked up. "Hey! I think I know where' my brother's going. If we hurry we can still catch him."
Takoru sat down, exhausted. "You Angels and your stupid S2 engines. Do you ever get tired?"
Lilliko sat down next to him. "We don't get tired easily. I, however, have a short attention span."
He nodded. He looked at his watch. "Oh. Have to get to football practice, or my friends will kill me. See you tonight for study?"
She nodded as he got up.
"You've been hanging out with Ayanami, haven't you." Tekazu accused him as they walked into the field. "I can just see it in your smile."
"What?" Takoru demanded. "What do you have against Lilli-chan?" His teammates gasped.
"Lilli-chan?" Tekazu asked. "You're not."
"No, we're not." Takoru said. "I just like her, that's all." His teammates exchanged glances. "Look, if you have something to tell me, tell me."
"You aren't spending any time with us anymore." Tekazu told him. "It was bad enough with Ikari, but now, we only see you at practice. She must have put some sort of spell on you, or mind-control."
"I'm sorry, but-" Tekazu cut him off.
"We want you to stop seeing that.that Angel."
Unbeknownst to them, Lilliko was watching from the benches above the field. She had come to cheer Takoru on, but when she heard Tekazu, she froze in fear.
"We want you to stop seeing that.that Angel." Her eyes widened, and she ran off before she could hear Takoru's reply.
She got home and locked herself in her room. "Don't worry," she told herself. "He'll stand up to them. I know that he likes me, so it will be all right."
She could hear her parents shout that they were leaving. They had planned to eat out with the Asuka and Shinji, to catch up on old times without having the kids around. So she would be alone with Adamu and Takoru.
"He won't listen to them." She told herself. She had really been looking forward to this night, where she would have Takoru all to her self, and might finally be able to get her feelings for him worked out.
Then her phone rang. She picked it up. "Lilli-chan?" asked Takoru.
"Yes?" she said, trying to hide the trembling in her voice.
"I'm sorry, but I won't be able to come over tonight-" She snarled. He had betrayed her.
"Fine!" she shouted into the phone. "I know how much you value your old friends over me. I understand, I'm just an Angel. I don't deserve your company." She slammed the phone down and began to cry.
Adamu picked the lock on her door and entered her room. "Lilliko?"
She waved for him to leave. "Go away, Adamu."
"What's wrong?" he asked her. She waved at him again.
"You wouldn't understand. You don't understand anything."
"Apparently I don't, but you're upset, and I don't like to see you like this."
"Then go away!" she used her AT field to push him out the door, locking it.
He stared at the door, wondering what had gotten her so upset. Then, shaking his head, he returned to his own room.
"I'm alone." She whispered into the darkness. "No one cares. Takoru just views me as another Angel, a thing to play with when he's bored. Mother and Father don't understand at all, and neither does Adamu. Why did I have to be born into this stupid family? Why am I the only one with human emotions, and I have to have this damn Angel body?"
She pounded a fist against her core, only managing to hurt her fist. "Damn it!"
She curled up as if to hide herself. "Alone." She shut her eyes.
"I don't want to be alone." the darkness didn't answer, the room silent except for her soft sobbing. "I don't want to be left alone."
Adamu could hear her crying through the wall that their rooms shared. He could hear her muttering, though he couldn't make out the words. He knew what she was saying, though. She had a deep phobia of being alone, of being isolated. Usually it was all right if he was around, but he knew that this time he couldn't help.
"I do not understand what happened to her. But I know someone who will understand."
He got up and ran out of the house, making his way across the city to the house that Misato lived in. He rang the doorbell.
She opened the door, her eyes bleary as if she had been sleeping. "What is it, Adamu-kun?" she asked.
"Something's wrong with Lilliko." She was immediately awake.
"Wrong as in." he frowned, unsure of what to say.
"Takoru." He said finally. "He was supposed to show up today for study," Misato nodded, "but he had to do something else." Misato blinked. "Lilliko took it badly."
"Why couldn't you help?" she asked. "This must be a major emotional crisis."
He sighed. "Misato, I know less about romance than a dead fish." Cold fish is more like it, though Misato.
"I won't argue with you there." She said aloud. "What about your parents?"
"Misato, my father hasn't felt pain or sadness since Ikari-san popped his head off, and my mother still doesn't know the difference between love and sex." (AN: what did you expect? It /is/ Rei we're talking about)
She grabbed his hand. "Come with me." she said, dragging him into the night.
"Why?" he asked. He couldn't help, he had no idea what to do.
"Because I'm not dragging seventy-five kilograms of struggling football team captain through the streets at night all by myself."
They got to Takoru's house and rang the doorbell. Hikari appeared. "What are you two doing wandering the streets at this hour?" she asked. Misato gulped. Out with Adamu, at night, alone.she could just picture how they must look.
"There's something wrong with Lilliko." Misato told her. "We need to borrow Takoru."
Hikari blinked, then nodded. She summoned her son, then watched as Adamu grabbed hold of the boy and started dragging him away.
"Don't expect him back until morning." Misato told her. "No, we're not going to allow them to do anything intimate, but we'll need him for a while."
She ran off. Hikari stared after them for a moment. "I'd better not find out that my son's living in sin." (AN: had to put that in.)
"Let go of me!" Takoru said.
"Only if you'll go into Lilliko's room by yourself." Misato told him. His eyes widened.
"What?" she nodded.
"Lilliko's hurt, and it's partly your fault." She told him. "Now you're going to go in there and find out what's wrong, and fix it."
"But-" Then it hit him. The things she had said.
He struggled out of Adamu's grip and ran to the Ayanami house. Adamu pulled open the door and the three of them ran up to Lilliko's room. The door was locked once again, and the sound of crying filled the air. Adamu picked the lock again and shoved Takoru inside.
He shut the door and turned to Misato. "How long do we keep them in there?" he asked.
"Until the moaning starts. Then we have to separate them." He stared at her. "Just kidding! I know Takoru better than that. Just keep them in their until the crying stops, then let them know that there's still people in the house."
He peered at her. "How do you know all of this?" she grinned.
"Television. My mother still has some old videos of the sitcoms that she liked."
Inside the room Takoru sat down nervously beside Lilliko. "Lilli-chan-"
"Don't call me that." She spluttered.
"Lilliko, I'm sorry about not coming tonight,"
"It's not that." She told him. "And you're not sorry, are you. I'm just an Angel after all."
"I never said that-"
"Not in so many words, no." she said bitterly. "I can tell that you were thinking it, though. But that's all right. You go spend your time with your friends, and leave me alone."
"Lilliko," he grabbed her chin and turned her head to face him. Her red eyes gleamed in the dark, "I want to spend time with you."
"Stop trying to flirt with me." she told him. "I know what you want."
"Do you?" he asked. "I want to be with you, to have you by my side. To plot against your brother with you, to make jokes and argue with you. I'm sorry about tonight, I promised my friends that I would-"
"Your friends." She hissed. "Your friends, not me. I'm not one of your friends."
"Lilliko," he told her firmly, "you are one of my friends. No matter what you think, I do like you, a lot." Her eyes widened. He pondered his admission. It was true, he concluded, but was this the best time?
However, his mouth, like the mouth of every Suzuhara male, went on without his brain. "I don't know if you feel the same way, but I think that I like you as more than just a friend."
"Is that why you're always flirting with all the girls?" she asked, turning away. He blinked.
"Lilliko, the only person I've flirted with is you." he told her. "And don't bring up Misato, she's like a sister to me, and I've never even tried for her."
She turned to him, their faces millimeters apart. He grinned. "You know," he whispered, "if this were a movie or a tv show, then right now we would stare at each other, look into each other's eyes, and kiss." She growled.
"You try anything and I'll kill you." she said. They continued to stare at one another.
"You know I'm no good with words." He told her. "If I try and tell you verbally I'm going to screw it up." She continued to glare at him. "And I know that you're going to hit me when I say something stupid, and that would really ruin the moment."
"Would you stop fooling around for a second?" she demanded. "That really hurt, you know. This afternoon hurt."
"Look on the bright side," he replied, "if this afternoon hadn't happened, then I would never have admitted how I felt to you. Or to myself."
She blinked, gaping at him. He decided that she looked silly with her mouth open and clamped his lips on hers. If she's going to kill me, he thought, it's worth it.
He pulled back, waiting for painful death to claim him. "You idiot!" she exclaimed. "I'm trying to make you feel guilty for what happened."
"And I'm trying to distract you." he told her. "Wallowing in self-pity isn't healthy, you know. Bitter people are no fun at all." He grinned at her. "Besides, you're a good kisser."
She glared at him for a moment longer, then gave in. "You idiot." She repeated, leaning against him.
"Do mind if I not say it right now?" he asked. "We'd probably be up all night listening to me make hash out of the language if you insist on it." She rolled her eyes.
He disengaged from her. "I'd better go now, or my mother will give me her 'living in sin' speech." He opened the door to find Misato leaning in an awkward pose, her head pressed to where the door had been. She yelped and jumped back. He sweatdropped.
He felt something grab his sleeve. He turned around to find Lilliko smiling shyly at him. "Could you stay?" she asked. His eyes widened. "Just, stay here, for the night."
"Go on," Misato ordered, pushing Takoru back inside. "We promised your mother that you wouldn't be back until morning. I'd hate to disappoint her." The door slammed shut.
Lilliko giggled. "Thank you, Takoru-chan. I just didn't want to be alone."
(AN: No, no lemon, for several reasons. 1: They're 15. Too young. 2: I'm 15. Too young. 3: I don't actually know how old Layra-chan is, but her mind can't be older than 6- Whack! -okay, 6 1/2. Too immature.)
"Well, that worked out fine." Misato said proudly. She turned to Adamu. "Thank you for your help."
"I should be thanking you." he replied. She nodded.
"Yes you should." There was an awkward silence. "So?"
"What?" She gave him an exasperated wave.
"Forget it." She said, and stormed out of the house, leaving Adamu staring after her.
"What?"
AN: I've been wanting to do that Takoru/Lilliko scene for a while. Now all I have to do is kill off some more of the Chosen and get Adamu and Misato together. And I need to deal with Samantha and Dai-syo and Ariline. I can't just have a random Eva/Angel lying around.
And for those of you who actually understood the disclaimer and were not just reading it, remember: 1337 + 666 = 2003