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His eyes slowly cracked open. His left arm is asleep. He smiles remembering the beautiful redhead on his arm. It was still quite early. His smile quickly faded as images of the past few days flashed before his eyes. The stinging feeling of crying without tears burned his eyes. It quickly ended though when he hard a happy greeting from his sleeping partner.
"Hi" She had said slightly sleepy, but with a radiant smile. Even with all that had happened, he smiled truly and greeted her back.
"Hi" he had said and in that moment all his pain went away. Love can do that to you He thought to himself. "You want anything to eat?" He asked her.
"No, I'm comfortable just the way I am." She answered keeping that smile. The last thing he needs it to worry about me. He can't know about the dreams.... Her smile dropped a bit as she remembered the horrifying imaged of her in her Eva getting impaled by many spears, She quickly realized the frown and hid her face so he couldn't see. Shinji, not as slow as he was once before, caught the frown and proceeded with questioning.
"What's wrong Asuka?"
Damn it he saw She thought to herself, quickly perking up and answered "Nothing at all, just thinking." Shinji's face seemed stern and serious.
"Asuka, recently you have helped me greatly, the only reason I'm not a self-pity wreck right now is because, you keep me sane, happy, you have made me feel what all people in the world desire..... love." Asuka was for lack of a better word surprised. She never expected him so say anything like that after his ordeal, but he continued. "I've seen your many sides, I've seen your true smiles and your fake ones, something's wrong and you WILL tell me and I WILL be here for you" He put his hand onto hers and interlocked their fingers, "now and forever" Damn that sounded so corny He thought giving a bit of an embarrassed face. Asuka giggled at this realizing how corny, yet sweet his speech was. She spoke up,
"Its just that, after all that happened to you, that last thing I would want would be for you to cheer ME up!" She said seeming a bit guilty.
"Just tell me Asuka" He looked at her in the eyes and quickly but passionately kissed her. She smiled happily and said,
"Fine...." Her facial expression quickly darkened as she prepared to explain her dreams. "well, I've been having dreams, well more like night mares about my Eva. I'm fighting what looks like about 8 or 9 angels, all at once. They all look the same, and all have this odd huge blade. I beat all but one. The last one throws the blade at me and I put up my A.T field and stopped it, but it turned into one of those spears, you know, the one that saved me from......."
"You don't have to remember that day, please, just continue." Shinji said knowing what day she was thinking about. Asuka inhaled a deep breath and continued,
"Well it got through my field and hit me in the face......... right through the eye......." AT this point she was tearing up a bit. "I reached up calling for you, but I was met with only The rest of the spears......."
"That's enough Asuka, don't say anymore." Shinji said after hearing enough. He started to hold her tightly after she continued to cry.
"I'm sorry you have to bear my burden-" She was cut off but his lips pressed against hers. After they parted her tears were gone and a smile was all that was left,
"Its an honor that I am the one that you come to with your burdens." He said, smiling as well. Nothing else was said, as they laid down in each others embrace and drifted back into sleep.

Meanwhile, another set of eyes open in a hospital bed......
"Rei, its time," The voice of Gendo Ikari said. "Time to do what you were created for."
What I was created for...... up until now all I did was for him........now, Shinji..... Rei got out of bed and followed Gendo into the lower arenas of NERV. I now realize I am no ones doll, he thinks I don't remember anything..... She thought to herself as they approached the white Goliath.
"Soon Rei, soon it will happen."

As he said that, Troops from the JSSDF Aproached NERV HQ and prepared for an attack. A phone rang that awoke the two sleeping pilots.
"Hello?........yeah...........well be there as soon as we can," Misato said hanging up the phone. "Kids get up, we need you down at NERV NOW!!!!" She screams immediately snapping the children back to reality. They hopped into the car, and drove up, unaware of the disaster they would unwillingly create........