TITLE: Neon Leviticus Evangelion

CHAPTER TITLE: Realisation

AUTHORESS: Lee the Ice Queen

RATING: PG 13, for swearing, will be put up if I get complaints, and stuff.

WARNING: OOC, please read first chapter for details.

DISCLAIMER: found in first chapter and I found out someone thought up the name Neon Leviticus Evangelion before me too, so I guess that isn't mine either, but hey I can claim umm… umm.. my teddy!

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Rei stared at the youth in front of her. His messy brown hair was spiked and he had deep blue eyes. He was still in his black and red plug suit, hair still dripping wet from the LCL. He caught up with her as she was going to take a shower.

"Hey! My name's Dan and I'm the pilot of the hunk of Eva that saved you butt back there!" he said cheerfully.

"Hello." Rei replied taken back by his forwardness, she tugged at her own plug suit embarrassed by it sticking to her body, obviously he wasn't.

"Yeah I got to admit, I'm a pretty good pilot. They used to call me Dan the Man back in America but I'm sure you area good pilot too. Just work on your timing skills." Dan said thoughtfully walking with Rei to the showers.

She smiled at him weakly. "Right…",  //I'm surprised he could fit in the hall with that big a head // she thought to herself desperately trying to look for an escape route from Dan, she spotted Kaji walking over to them.

"Hi Kaji!" she said cheerfully as he walked straight past her.

"Daniel! Just the guy I wanted to see." Kaji said holding out his hand to shake.

"Kaji?" Rei squeaked trying to get the older mans attention but Kaji had steered Dan down a hallway still talking to him.

// Well I got rid of Dan…// she thought to herself reasonably and went to take a shower.

Rei slowly got into the backseat of Kaji's car being careful not to break off anything that was hanging precariously by masking tape. Kaji still hadn't fixed his car, "Are we dropping Dan off?" she inquired noticing the boy was sitting in the front seat of the car.

"Nope!" Dan replied for Kaji as he started the car.

"Daniel is joining our happy family!" Kaji grinned at the girl.

"Great." Rei replied a little less than enthusiastic.

"So Rei how old are you?" Dan asked trying to make conversation after they had made their way out of the carpark.

Rei grimaced at the thought of talking to Dan, she wanted to tell him that he is not the "greatest and best" pilot but thought better of it because she didn't want to fight with him. "Fourteen."

"Me too. I guess all Eva pilots are fourteen aren't they?" Dan said as he watched the buildings pass his window oblivious to Rei's opinion of him.

"Yeah I suppose." She answered.

"So what do you think of our boss, that Dr Ikari?"

"Dr Ikari isn't our boss, Gendo Rukobungi is." Rei replied confused.

"I have to talk to you about that Rei . . . not now though " Kai said quietly as he drove.

"Oh did Rokubungi get fired?" Rei asked

"Not exactly." Kaji replied 

"Oh. So Dan?" Rei quickly changed the topic as she fiddled with her hair.

"Hmn?"

"Where did you come from?"

"America, my mom is terminally ill and it was hard for us to survive on government handouts, so I decided to become an Eva pilot, they moved me here and pay me well, they also take care of my mom heaps well as a kind of bonus I guess." He replied quietly.

Rei shut her mouth. // Oh crap! Well done bringing that up Rei! // She thought fiddling with her seatbelt. 

The rest of the car trip was in silence.

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"Rei, there's a time in everyone's life when we are hit by something that might shock us or hurt us or." Kaji said solemnly leaning against Rei's desk.

"Kaji just tell me what happened." Rei sighed, Dan had gone to take a shower and Kaji had led her into her room to tell her about something.

"We've lost Ikari, he is presumed dead." The words came out slowly and softly as if to put the least amount of hurt upon Rei's ears. 

"And who is he?" Rei asked confused.

"Don't pretend to be blind and deaf Rei, I know you know about Rokubungi marrying again." Kaji said sighing, this was hard for him, he hadn't expected to be the one to explain this to her.

"Since when was he married?" Rei asked in a shocked whisper.

"Two or three years ago, to the new Commander of Nerv, Dr Ikari."

"I have to go for a walk . . . " Rei replied shakily and dashed out of the room.

"Hey!" Dan yelped as Rei bumped into him.

"Sorry…" she said before quickly pushing past him and out the front door. Dan stared after her shocked.

The cool air enveloped Rei as soon as she stepped out into the street. She sucked it in gratefully and started to walk down the empty street a visible slant in her stride.

"I can't believe he's gone . . ." She whispered slowly to herself leaning against a light post. The cool wind was beginning to nip at her and it played with her hair whipping it around her. Something wet splattered against her exposed knee and she opened her eyes to look at it.

"Is this a tear?" she whispered. "Am I the one that's crying?"

Her eyes became flooded with salty tears and she slid down the post till she was seated on the hard concrete.

"Isn't this what I wanted?" she asked herself, staring at the palms of her hands which were catching the tears that were falling from her face.

The wind picked up and Rei hugged her body close. "Did I do this to him? Did I kill my last living relation?"

"No." said a male voice flatly.

Rei looked up to a blurred image of Dan. He held out a hand for her to take. She grabbed it and he hauled her up so forcefully that she fell up against him.

"Sorry." She said quietly and began to pull away.

"Don't worry about it, I'm stronger than I look . . . " Dan replied holding her, he placed one arm around her hips. Even in her distressed state Rei managed to suppress the urge to roll her eyes.  

"Kaji told me what happened and about your past." Dan said quietly.

"Oh . . . " Rei said matching his tone, she leant against him grateful for the support. 

"I may have a very large ego . . ." Dan started and Rei sniggered slightly at the comment.

"But I have a reasonable head on my shoulders and I know that what happened to your father had nothing to do with you. He treated you badly, now I'm not saying that's a good reason for him to die, just that you shouldn't go blaming yourself for what has happened. Don't go through what I went through."

"What happened with you?" Rei asked.

"I went home one day when I was five and noticed no one was home, usually dad was but I didn't take any notice and sat down to watch some cartoons. When mum came home she drove straight into the garage and screamed. I ran to see what the problem was and found dad dead in his car. He had blocked his exhaust and killed himself in his own car. I blamed myself for years later, until my mother was in the car crash that rendered her helpless. I can still remember what she said to me the day of the car crash, stop blaming yourself Daniel, you didn't do anything wrong. When I found out what happened with her I decided to take her advice . . . I don't want you to go through what I did."

"I'm sorry." Rei said

"Don't be I learned a lot from my parents and I'm glad for the time I had with them. Lets go home all right?" Dan replied.

"Okay, by the way what else did Kaji tell you?" Rei asked interested, she didn't want him telling Dan about any of her personal details.

"Something about women and a very large gulf, I had tuned off by then." Daniel said shrugging, Rei laughed.

They finally got home and Kaji was relieved to see them. He looked at Rei.

"How are you?" he asked, eye's filled with pain and pity. Just looking at him nearly made Rei break down.

"It hurts." She croaked fighting back new tears. "But . . . I'll be okay."

Kaji nodded. "Don't cry, you'll get through it." He said softly, he placed his hand under Rei's chin lifting up her head ever so slightly. "I know it." He added before kissing on her head softly.

"Get some rest."  

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In the next Chapter of Neon Leviticus Evangelion "Ikari, Shinji":

Yui: Shinji!! Are you okay?
 
He fell back into blackness. 
 
Yui: someone grab a doctor!
 

Shinji's eyes shot open as he heard his laptop collide with the floor.

"Mr. Ikari are you okay?" The teacher at the front asked he looked over the rim of his glasses.

"Yes sir." Shinji replied quietly picking up his laptop and placing it back on his desk. // School. // He reminded himself and went back to staring out the window.

Rei stared at Shinji bemused. // Who are you Shinji Ikari? // She thought to herself.

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School is the root of all hell, that's why this chap took a while to come out. DOOM ON SCHOOL!!! Ahem. Anyways. . . 

Thanks, as always guys (and girls), for supporting this story and me! I'm kinda losing faith in it, maybe cause this was a depressing chapter, and the feeling that this story is moving REALLY slow, is also something that's annoying me, so I really need to know what you guys think!

 Is it just me?

 Is it getting boring?

 Is it taking forever to get onto new things?

I NEED feedback.  @_@

THANKS EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED!!!

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Reviewer thanks:

Deep Blue Seraph: hehehe you'll find out what I did to gendo soon enough. Yeah I hope it stung too but I don't know, maybe I should write in that it hurt really REALLY BAD, since I have the power to do that and all…. Hahaha! I don't know if this was fast or not, but I'm half way through the next chapter if that's any consolation! Thanks for the review I hope you liked this chapter! ^_^

Brainiac144: thanks for the info, I went and checked out the site but found they didn't know who owned the name either! So I guess it's a mystery. . . .  Thanks for the review, I hope you enjoyed reading the story so far! ^_^

Shadow: Mwa ha ha ha!!! Yes, yes they are. . . .  soon enough! I don't want to make any promises about when she's going to be introduced (cause I usually end up breaking them) but I'll make an approximation . . . not next chapter but the chapter after!  I can't wait to write that part! Hope you liked this chapter! Thanks for the review! ^_^ 

Dayion: But you are sweet! "My little bit of free time is well spent so thankyou" - I bask in your compliments! Yes Gendo has left for good now, or has he? If I started seeing penguins I also would be extremely worried about my mental health! It's not that often that you see penguins in Australia. Don't work too hard! Thanks for the review and I hope you liked this chapter! ^_^

Lord Cirenmas: Yay, you enjoy my story - I'm happy! By the way can I ask what Cirenmas means? Thanks for the review; I hope you liked this chapter!! ^_^

Hououza: Yup I was trying to re-invent the cliffhanger; I didn't want to make it so predictable. I'm glad it worked on you! Yeah I find it so difficult now that I'm in yr 12 to update regularly. I try and update at least once a month, its especially hard since I have four fics, all running at once, which was a bad idea. Very bad idea. Oh well I'm a glutton for punishment! ^_^ Nice to hear for you again as always! Thanks for the review and I hope you liked this chapter! Take care! ^_^

Jonathan Shim: Wow, I didn't know that before. That's really interesting! I always thought spiders had skeletons. . . that's got me thinking now cause we did have this other spider that we thought was peanuts child that we named Jupiter. Maybe that's peanut. This is very confusing! @_@ Thanks for that info! It was really fascinating!!! Thanks for the review too! I hope you liked this chapter!

~ Lee the Ice Queen ~