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"BLOOD PATTERN BLUE! AT FIELD CONFIRMED!!." Maya yelled to her superiors. "Shinji and Unit 01 are following its decent and will catch up with it shortly."

Shinji's mind was in extreme turmoil. In just a few days, Kawrou had bypassed all of Shinji's mental barriers. All his defenses and was able to talk to the real Shinji. Asuka had only done that once, and it wasn't easy. Shinji didn't care about his past and didn't care about who he really was, but an Angel?!?! He could not believe that. Then he saw him.......
"KAWROU!!!!! You betrayed my trust!!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT KAWROU?!?!!?."
"I'm sorry Shinji but this is what I must do, You Lilum would never understand this....." The albino said as he continued his decent.
Shinji then felt a excruciating pain in his chest as he realized that Eva Unit 02 had attacked him. "Asuka?!?!?!?!"
"No this is me controlling it. Eva's came from adam and so did I. Thats why I could synchronies so easily with them. I don't need to be inside the plug as long as the soul of the Eva is not dominant and its soul has gone into hiding." Kawrou explained.
Shinji fought back and stabbed his Prog knife through Unit 02's neck and this stalemate of sort lasted a while The 17th angel Tabris, formerly known as Kawrou watched. Shinji's Prog knife was sent flying into Kawrou when it was stopped by the orange glow of a AT field.
"You have a AT Field?!?!" Shinji asked dumfounded.
"Yes that it what you Lilum call it."
The drop towards Terminal Dogma was at a end as all communications and monitoring of the Angel and Eva went it a halt in Central Dogma. Both Eva's crashed down on the ground. Kawrou looks on with a face of sadness. I Kawrou thought as he approached the White Giant.
Shinji had his hands full with Unit 02 but saw Kawrou float towards the giant. " Kawrou no!!!!"
Tabris approached the crucified being and images flashed into his head. "LILITH!?! I understand know, the lilum....." He turned around to see the purple Eva approach him. It reached out and grabbed the 17th angel only leaving his head exposed as if to kill him....... but he didn't.
"Shinji, you should survive, not me. You are the better man. Live on, be a good man. I truly wish that all of this could have been avoided but it could not. You gave meaning to my life Shinji Ikari. Thank you"
With that only silence consumed all. Shinji looked at his hand, wanting to squeeze, but also not wanting. With this he could save the world, save Asuka........ but kill his only true friend...... He stared at the smiling boy, so willingly accepting his own demise. Shinji pictured his father being squeezed in his palm and with that he tightened his grip, and the sickening sound of bones crushing was all that could be heard. Shinji came to the realization that he had not killed his father, but his best friend. He killed Kawrou. Kawrou. Kawrou. He smiled all the way to his death. Even as he body was crushed he never let his eye contact with Shinji go. He was gone.

The Eva was being washed off with the huge sprinkler system, and his Eva's hand covered in blood. The blood of a innocent as Shinji would have put it.
Asuka had ran as fast as she could over to HQ as soon as she received the phone call about the last angel. She hadn't asked, she really didn't care until she started running. He was facing it alone, and she had no idea what it could do, If he has fighting it, If he was loosing, If he was winning, If it was dead, If he was dead......... She had never cared about anyone like this before in her life. Now that she found someone to care for, she'd be damned if she was going to let them go.
She arrived to see a crying Shinji curled up in a ball outside of NERV HQ. She approached the sobbing boy and was shocked. She had never seen Shinji like this before. He was broken. Tears ran down his cheek and he pressed his hand on his forehead trying to release some of his sorrow.
"Shinji?......." Asuka asked with deep concern in her voice. Shinji immediately perked up, his eyes full of pain focused on the only other person he had opened up to.
"Asuka......." He felt arms around him, they were so comforting to him, like his mother had done as a child. He sobbed on her shoulder "Asuka please don't leave me, please, please please don't leave me." He sobbed not being able to control his words. " I killed him....... He was my best friend, he listened to me, I could open up to him like I could with you, I had a guy to talk to," He sobs were getting worse. "And I killed him, He was and angel....... Why did he have to be an angel?!?!?" He screamed with so much hurt in his voice.
Asuka was at a loss for words. She knew the only person whom Shinji had become accustomed to was....... Kawrou.
"Asuka?" He had calmed down enough to be able to talk with out sobbing.
"Shinji, I'm here and I will never leave you, I promise." Asuka responded.
"Asuka....... I love you." Shinji said feeling he had to say that now before something happened to her like everyone else he cared about....
Asuka was at a loss for words, He had actually said it, she was afraid he would never say those words, that he just wanted her until he was happy and would leave her like everyone else had........ She cursed herself for ever thinking about Shinji like that.
"I love you too Shinji, Lets go home......"
"Home........."

Shinji laid in his bed, a sleeping redhead next to him and he pictured Kawrou in his minds eye. Holding him in his Eva's hand. "You gave meaning to my life Shinji Ikari. Thank you" His last words ringing in his head. Knowing that, was the only thing that let Shinji Ikari have peaceful rest.

(A/N- I've been getting reviews about my grammatical errors. I'm not surprised seeing as I've never done this before and I can't spell for my life and I suck with grammar. I just happen to have a good imagination. Well If anyone would like to help me out as a pre-reader, it would be appreciated, and thanks for the offer by Sutsurike Deafu.)