Disclaimer: Yeah... Eva isn't mine, as you all know... neither is My Immortal, that's Evanescence property...

Second part... same story, different character... enjoy... (yes, I love making them suffer)

Nara Starr

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Dreams of Reality

Part II: Asuka

/I'm so tired of being here

Suppressed by all my childish fears/

He entered the room and just stared at her in silence as he always did... She looked so out of place in that huge room, with the fluids and apparatus stuck to her arms like a strange creature... an experiment that had just gone out wrong...

"Asuka"

/And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave

Cuz' you're presence still lingers here,

and it won't leave me alone/

He stepped right up to her and sat down on the only chair in the room... his chair, as he was the only one that came to visit her...

"Hey Asuka... It's me, Shinji... I just came by, you know... to tell you about what's been going on... at home..."

The nurses had told him that it was no use talking to her, as she was completely closed out of life... but still he came to visit every day... still he stayed in her room for hours, holding her hand and talking to her, hope shining in his pained eyes...

/These wounds won't seem to heal,

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase/

"Well... Misato is still in rehab after her alcohol intoxication so I'm living alone right now... Yesterday was Rei's funeral... she killed herself about three days ago. Dad was there... he looked really depressed... Hikari called during the week, she wanted to know if you where better... She told me that pen-pen got sick, he swallowed the plastic cap of a bottle, but he's fine now..."

/When you cry I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I've held your hand through all of this years

But you still have all of me/

Her eyes moved under her eyelids in a desperate way... she was having another nightmare... He held her hand tightly and caressed her face with his free hand... it was the only thing he could do for her...

"Asuka... please wake up, I miss you. Leave all of those nightmares behind, come back here... with me... you can't go on like this, you have to wake up... please... you have to fight on... wake up Asuka please!... I need you..."

/You used to captivate me by your resonating light

But now I'm' bound by the life you left behind/

A doctor had once told him he couldn't go on like that... he had to forget her, as she was lost beyond his grasp... but he had just smiled bitterly and stared at him in silence... such cold eyes... full of resentment and pain...

"I can't give up... not now... I've already lost 2 of my friends, I'm not losing her too..."

/Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams

Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me/

He left the hospital by nightfall, he had to go to work...

"I'll come by tomorrow, I promise... Asuka, you have to come back... I know you will, I know... no matter what everyone thinks, I still believe in you..."

/This wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase/

That night, death visited the hospital in the way of a nightmare... She ran, trying desperately to wake up... but it was too late for her... too late...

"Shinji!"

/When you cry I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I've held your hand through all of this years

But you still have... all of me.../

He arrived to the hospital as usual, but today everything would change... The room was empty, the nurse told him all about the accident... how she had stood up and ripped the apparatus off her arms, fear rising in her... how she had ran out of her room screaming hysterically... how the nurses and doctors had tried to stop her and how she had fought them off one by one... and finally... how she had slipped and fell off the stairs, screaming his name out loud... She had broken her neck... she was dead...

/I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone

And though you're still with me

I've been alone all along/

He skipped work that day... it was just too much...
"I'm alone now... totally alone... I lost her... it's my fault..."

/When you cry I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I've held your hand through all of this years

But you still have... all of me.../

He observed the moon with bitterness, the same moon that had seen Rei die... the same moon that had visited him every night since the first one had passed away... and suddenly it seemed to him that someone was there with him... someone he knew well, someone he missed too...

"Shinji"

Nothing but an illusion, nothing but a whisper of the wind... they where all gone...

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Nara: Comments?

Trunks: O-o

Lyserg: T-T

Bakura: O-OU

Nara: Is that all you can say?

Kaworu: Why do you have to be so cruel?

Nara: (shrugs) dunno... that's just me...

Last part coming... hope you enjoy it...