Neon Genesis Evangelion:
The Genesis Crisis
Prologue
Asuka opened her eyes. Above her was a ceiling, cold and harsh looking, although something about it seemed familiar. Asuka turned her head from side to side, noticing that her neck was very stiff, trying to survey the room she was in.
The whole room looked cold and sterile, just like the ceiling had. She noticed a lot of mechanical equipment to her left, as they continued making regular beeping noises. She wondered what they were for. Then she realised that the equipment was hooked up to her, seeing various wires stretching from the equipment to small circular patches all over her body. In a panic she pulled the patches off her skin, worried as to what they were doing on her. The machinery besides her began making a constant noise and the odd patterns which had been repeating themselves over and over on the screen became a flat line. This noise irritated Asuka immensely, she swiped clumsily at the equipment, her weakened body was unable to do very much. Seeing this did nothing she reached over and grabbed the top of the rack of equipment, she pulled on it hard. The equipment rack hit the ground with the sound of various screens shattering and casings cracking. She breathed heavily, trying to recover from her exertion. The noise stopped, so she focused on her next move, getting out of the bed.
She pushed herself up into a sitting position in the bed and swung her legs out of the bed. She shivered slightly as her bare feet touched the cold floor. She noticed that another tube seemed to be attached to her wrist, even more worrying to her was that it seemed to be sticking into her skin. She traced the tube back to its origin, which was a clear bag full with a clear liquid hanging from a metal stand. This worried her even more and she quickly grabbed hold of the tube sticking into her wrist and pulled on it as hard as she could. She winced in pain slightly as the tube slid out, allowing a small trickle of blood to escape from the hole in her wrist. She clamped her other hand over the wound, trying to stem the blood flow, but the bleeding seemed to have stopped as soon as it started. Once that small incident was over with Asuka returned to getting out of bed. As she was preparing to push herself up out of bed her eyes fell on something on the table by her bed. She reached over to the table and picked up the scrap of paper. It was folded in half with 'Asuka' written on it. She shrugged and opened up the piece of paper. A lot of writing was inside. She began reading it.
'Asuka,
I don't know how to say this, so I'm just going to say it. I love you Asuka, and I realise now that I always have. The last few days have been very odd, and I hope I come through all this so I can tell this to you in person. You've been there for me Asuka, you probably didn't realise it, I didn't realise it until a little while ago, but just the fact that you were there meant I could go on living. I wish I could have sat by your side until you woke, so that I could be the first thing you saw, but I have an important job to do, and I don't know how everything is going to turn out. I hope you get this letter, and I hope even more that you feel the same way Asuka. But for now just remember Asuka, I love you. I love you always, and forever.
Shinji'
Asuka stared at the letter, and then read it again. She couldn't remember very much, but she could remember that she was Asuka. She probably could have figured that out from the letter being by her bed, but she knew that she was Asuka as soon as she read the name. One thing she couldn't remember was who Shinji was. It seemed obvious from the letter that it was someone she had known for a long while, and had been close to. Maybe they had been friends, and that their relationship had progressed further than mere friendship. Maybe they had already been in a relationship, before whatever had happened to her had happened. One thing she realised about the letter was that it was most definitely heartfelt. It was clear to her that Shinji was truly and deeply in love with her. She smiled, without knowing why. She felt a warm feeling grow deep inside her.
'Had we been in a relationship before?' Asuka thought. She found it hard to ignore the feeling growing inside her. Asuka clutched the letter in her hand, pushed herself up out of the bed and walked across the cold floor to the room's door. Now that she had completed her task of getting out of bed she started out to complete her next task, to find Shinji.