Ah this chap is the morning after naturally. I was thinking about
skipping a week ahead but decided to thrash the idea since many of you like
detail. In case you didn't read the last set of notes I will be posting
during Christmas Break so keep the reviews coming in. SCHNELL! Or else I'll
feel abandoned and lonely! Christmas will probably suck for me so do me a
Christmas favor! View, THEN REVIEW! It's so easy. I don't even think you
have to be a member! Rei Ayanami is making her debut in this chap, it be a
short and sweet intro to her nothing big. Even though she my favorite anime
character of all time! Don't worry she won't steal the spotlight!(at least
not in this story) I don't know why everyone is so militant about shinji
and auska or shinji and rei! It could be Pen-Pen and Ritsuko for all I
care! And it may just happen! But you'll have to keep readin' and
reviewin' to find out! Anyways Random1337 is still my idol, I'm still a
lazy high school student(although I just got a job at Perkins! YAY! So
technically my dad can't call me a bum anymore! HAZZA!), and I still don't
own Evangelion, Gainax does. They could own me for all I know!
Changing Attitudes Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Reloaded
Asuka was groggy, she had a splitting headache the size of her Eva, and most naturally of all, she was pissed.
"Mein Gott, what in Himmel happened to me?" She turned on her side. The normally strawberry scent of herself hit. "Whew, I smell rancid!" She picked herself up slowly from the futon. She had no idea what time it was as she couldn't find her alarm clock for some reason. Every move she made seemed to only make her head feel like it was going to explode out of her skull.
'Ugh, what brought this all on?" she mentally whined. She remembered that something happened to her yesterday, something important. Her head was down in her hands as she moved across her room. The trip felt inexorable but finally reaching her where her door should be but forgetting it was closed, walked straight into it.
"Ahh sheisse!" she cried. "Errr," she threw the door open and immediately regretting it for the loud bang noise it made when it hit the frame. It only hurt her already hurting head more.
---
Shinji abruptly woke from his light sleep hearing a sudden, loud thud and crack. He split his eyes and just looked at his clock. '4:30AM, too early,' he swiped at the clock his hand from force of habit and knocked it across the room. He quickly slipped back into his dream world. "Rei" was all that was thought aloud before succumbing to the silence of sleep.
---
The shower had felt refreshing to her. She felt revitalized and the stink from earlier was gone. "She stretched every muscle in her body with one large, sweeping cat-like yawn and body stretch. This feeling of energy was great until she shipped the bathroom door open and moved into the hallway. Her ear pop was earth shattering to her.
'What did I do to deserve this,' she wailed with her head in her hands. "Ugh," she sighed. Without any logical reasoning she just lifted her head from downward position to just right to look at Shinji's door. She began gazing at it.
"What?" she had puzzled herself now. She stood there for what seemed like just a few seconds but she had actually been standing there for several minutes now. Thinking, trying to grasp what newfound importance Shinji's door suddenly had. It was on the tip of her mind but she just couldn't reach it. "Arrrghh, what am I doing?" she squealed. She tried, but she couldn't tear her eyes away from Shinji's door. She felt like she didn't have control over her body anymore as she began taking steps towards it, but she was becoming intrigued as to what laid there for her.
'What the hell do I want from that baka!' She instantly felt a pang in her gut that broke her away from her trance. She was now immediately in front of his door, her right hand was gently resting on the sliding indent. 'Weird, but I feel like I should doing something that has to do with him.' At this point she realized she was still only wearing a small, red towel and in front of Shinji's door. 'Whoa someone could really get the wrong idea from this!' Her body and mind panicked and she did a 180* turn and leapt back into her room. Unfortunately she did all this before realizing her door was closed.
---
A sinister man in a black command suit sitting in his chair in his dark office laughed.
"Gonna need a replay on that one," he chuckled.
---
After twenty minutes of reeling from the hit she just took combined with her massive headache, she had finally managed to struggle into her blue and white school uniform. But after her period of random curses in all sorts of languages her mind went back to the question she was trying to comprehend. Why did she go to Shinji's door like that? It just wasn't like her.
'Screw this, he probably is hiding something from me or is having a some hentai dream about my gorgeous body,' then her voice went soft. "Baka."
She moved past her door which was already open and looked from there at Shinji's door indent. She creeped as silently as she could towards his door and cracked it about an inch or two. He was asleep as far she could tell.
'After all that crap I put him through yesterday he's still here sleeping happy and contented.' She thought warmly. The corners of her mouth were upturned slightly. Then her mind sparked.
'Wait, what? What did I do to him through yesterday?' she thought concerned. She tried to sift through her various short-term memories but couldn't find nearly anything from the day before. 'Was bad,' was all her mind could come up with. She gritted her teeth at Shinji because she was beginning to get frustrated with herself and him. She knew he must have had something to do with it. Although it was true in general that she put him through a lot of her crap. Almost no days have passed since she moved in with him and Misato had she either not thrown insults at him for no reason or physically assaulted him. Although she never hit him too hard, she didn't really want him to get seriously hurt or anything. But in a few seconds her tensed up shoulders just relaxed and she could feel her anger melting away. 'Huh? Why can't I get mad at him now?'
"Rei," he murmured quietly from his sleep, but it did not go unnoticed.
'Rei? Rei! What the hell! What is that baka thinking about right now! I could kill him! Probably dreaming about what he's going to make that doll Wondergirl do for him next!' She was getting very angry but deep inside where she couldn't consciously notice it was a stab in her heart. But anger was not alone now, it was with an amount of fear.
'How dare he choose her over me! After all I've done for that baka.' She thought without thinking about it. She was currently too broadsided by her anger to notice it. She felt betrayed and didn't know what to do.
Not realizing that when she opened his door a ray of light shot from the living room into "Shinji's Lovely Suite" or so the sign said. It was dashed across his face and he started stirring and finally opened his eyes.
"Hmhm," he batted his eyes shut adjusting to the light then blinked, "Asuka?"
"Ehh!" she gasped and her mind shrieked. 'ALERT! We've been caught!' She shut the door quickly and sprinted into the kitchen.. 'What the hell is wrong with me!?' she repeated. She froze again and stared off into space. 'Well um,' her anger flared somewhat. "Well I'm not going to stay here so that pervert can try to take advantage of me!" She grabbed her books on the table where she had left them the day before and quickly glanced at the microwave clock. She turned towards the door and left the apartment with haste. But the moment she turned around from the door to the hallway she piled right into someone she didn't see before and the force from the impact threw both of them to the ground.
She was wearing a mid-length black dress and she had very vivacious purple hair and a telltale silver cross necklace, always worn by."Asuka?" the woman said holding her head.
"Misato!?" she replied shocked.
"Er.. What are you doing up? What are you doing out here?" she questioned. Though she was also very nervous. 'Oh my God does she know?!?' Then she looked over Asuka. She looked pretty frazzled and dazed. 'Her eyes are awfully twitchy.' The girl hadn't even dried her hair yet, Misato was getting suspicious as to where she was off to in such a rush at this time in the morning. 'She's definitely not going for a walk, it's five AM.'
Asuka realizing she didn't have any plausible answer fell to her usual back- up plan, a smart-ass retort.
"I could ask you the same thing Misato!"
It was on. Now they would see who cracked first.
"I'm your guardian so I don't have to explain myself," Misato boasted and folded her arms under her breasts. Asuka simply thinned her eyes into slits and glared at Misato. Realizing that this strategy would only work on Shinji, Misato quickly devised her self a new plan and created herself an alliby for it.
"I'll tell you if you tell me."
Now Asuka was interested. 'What the hell is she coming home for at five in the morning for? Where has she been all night!'
"You first," Asuka retorted. Asserting that she would not go first and that Misato would have to step up to the plate here. Misato gulped.
'I can't really tell her the truth about where I just came from! She'd murder me in my sleep!'
"I just got back from Nerv, I had the late shift," she lied. 'There, she couldn't possibly come up with anything to shoot that down. I am Nerv's Director of Operations after all.' She had a smirk on her brain so wide it was about to poke out of her ear. Misato was getting cocky.
"In THAT dress Miiisato?" Asuka jabbed, not believing it for a second.
"I felt like dressing nicely for once. So sue me," she asserted.
Asuka looked down at the ground in front of Misato's knees. 'Hmm, I don't really believe her, but if I put up too much of a fight it'll make me look too suspicious.'
"So where are you off to in such a hurry? I gave my answer, it's your turn." She said it with the coyest of smiles. The bump on Asuka's forehead where they had bumped together was getting redder. She fell back on another shady reply.
"I'm headed to school!" She said not realizing that she had just sent a spark through Misato's brain. "I decided to get an early start," she assured.
"Reeally? It's five AM Asuka, the school doesn't even open for another three hours." She was getting closer and closer between the crosshairs.
"I'm going to Hikari's first to hang out." She said finally. She picked herself up off the ground and dusted herself off while walking away.
"Oh, Asuka! Your books." Misato pointed to the ground in front of herself.
"Oh yah." She back walked a few steps to gather her books but tried to make it look like she wasn't rushing. Misato was starting lasers at Asuka, she was ready to strike.
"So, going in early to make up for skipping yesterday?" The hammer had hit the steel hot. Asuka remembered now, she watched TV most of yesterday. Asuka's mind was frozen and she knew she was screwed now. She spent the day with Pen-Pen yesterday.
'Pen-Pen? What the heck? Why would I spend the day with him?" Her mind was reeling.
"Uh," she stammered and slow raised her eyeballs up and they found Misato's unintentionally. Misato raised a brow and moved to a crouched position while she patiently awaited for an answer.
"Checkmate," she grinned. Misato always had a way of turning these battles in her favor. She was the queen of manipulation of these sorts.
"What do you want?" she hung her head in defeat.
"An explanation would be nice for starters."
"I don't have to explain myself to you!" Asuka's anger flared.
"I can suspend your piloting privileges if you don't."
"You wouldn't." Asuka snarled.
"I would."
"You can't!" she yelled.
"I can!" She said with an upbeat smile. "I can and I will."
"You fight dirty Misato."
"Yea I know. Life sucks then you die. Get over it. Now, on with your explanation."
Shinji woke up abruptly again. He could hear Asuka and Misato arguing. 'Arrg, they're so loud.'
"Thank God we don't have any neighbors." He sighed. They're arguing was annoying the crap out of him and he couldn't help falling in and out sleep every few seconds, an irritating mix. He needed to put a stop to this one. "I wonder what it's about this time." He got up and traveled outside of his room and to the apartment door.
"I can't remember what happened yesterday!" Asuka clamored.
"Well try!"
He could barely stay conscious otherwise he would noticed all he was wearing was his boxers. As he opened the door his mission of peace fell through. What with the falling in and out of sleep, by the time he got outside he couldn't remember why he was there. The two ladies in front of him stopped their bickering and looked up at him in silence, they stared at him as if they expected him to say something important.
Shinji was stumbling around in his mind for what seemed like a minute. He couldn't remember what he was here for. The stares were prompting him to talk, he had to say something. And old saying came to mind, 'Think before you speak Shinji.' The silence became too much for the poor boy and he snapped.
"So, um.. how did your date with Kaji go last night Misato?" Misato sweat- dropped and prepared for the worst, while Shinji felt a cold breeze.
"MISATO! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING WITH KAJI!" an angry teen red- head pointing her finger screamed from of the screen.
The sinister man with glasses behind the desk chuckled and reached for the small red bag upon his desk.
"Damn, I'm out of Peanut Butter M&M's!"
The sunlight glinted off the dirty shades of apartment 402 onto the angelic face of the blue-haired pilot of Eva Unit-00, and Rei Ayanami's eyes gently opened. She batted her eyes lightly and opened them reluctantly taking in the full brightness of the light becoming alert quickly. She was a very petite girl of the age of 16, and possibly the most graceful of any her age. Her apartment was a complete mess and she had seemingly had never given more than a passing glance at the mail, it was overflowing from her door. 'What would be the purpose?' she thought.
She slowly rose from her futon. Attempting to equalize the temperature between her appendages she pulled her legs up to her body and hugged them with her arms while she stared at the water-filled glass beaker near her bed through her blood red eyes.
"Ikari," said in her normal emotionless voice while watching the light reflect and refract on the water. She slipped back to her train of thought from the night before. She had rested the night to dwell on the question.
"Shinji," she said with the faintest hint of joy. They had known each other for many months now. And although the differences between the two are wide Shinji had never given up on her. He had been trying to crack her shell whenever he got the chance. Yes it felt right to call him by his first, inside and out. The corners of her lips turned upwards minutely, but disappeared as quickly as it came. She could feel emotions rise up inside her, many she had never even known existed until Shinji came and then especially after the defeat of Ramiel, the 5th angel.
'I smiled for him. A smile I could feel all over. I have done that for no one as of yet but him. He showed he cared, not like the Commander though. I gave him nothing, yet he nearly sacrificed himself simply to see if I was undamaged. Could this all be my. imagination?" A voice of feeling grew inside of her to seek him out. Her face remained emotionless.
'I should inquire about these. feelings.. to the Commander. No, it would be best not to waste his time on matters as trivial as this when not in relation to Project Eva. I should ask Shinji at school when he is not busy. Yes.'
"Shinji," she repeated. 'Yes, this feels right.'
Ah I hope you guys liked that! I didn't have a huge amount in it Just setting up for the rest of the day (Hence: Reloaded). Look forward to Chapter 5: Revelations! It could be my first really long chapter! What is Rei gong to say to Shinji? Who is the man behind the desk! (you'd have to be an idiot nor to know by now! Unless you haven't seen the series in which case sorry I offended you. And what's going on with Asuka! Hopefully I'll set up Maya Ibuki's entrance! And maybe that Pen-Pen + Ritsuko thing! Well actually I was thinking about having Pen-Pen commit a series of crimes like robbing liquor stores, going to jail, shanking someone, dealing with prison rape, busting out, becoming a pimp or something or going into Nerv with guns blazing SOMETHING LIKE THAT! But I'll need a a lot of reviews telling me to do so in order for it to happen! In fact 25-30 reviews in order to get chap 5 out of me. Every one of them counts. Do your part! So Get Review'n! See you Space Cowboy
Changing Attitudes Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Reloaded
Asuka was groggy, she had a splitting headache the size of her Eva, and most naturally of all, she was pissed.
"Mein Gott, what in Himmel happened to me?" She turned on her side. The normally strawberry scent of herself hit. "Whew, I smell rancid!" She picked herself up slowly from the futon. She had no idea what time it was as she couldn't find her alarm clock for some reason. Every move she made seemed to only make her head feel like it was going to explode out of her skull.
'Ugh, what brought this all on?" she mentally whined. She remembered that something happened to her yesterday, something important. Her head was down in her hands as she moved across her room. The trip felt inexorable but finally reaching her where her door should be but forgetting it was closed, walked straight into it.
"Ahh sheisse!" she cried. "Errr," she threw the door open and immediately regretting it for the loud bang noise it made when it hit the frame. It only hurt her already hurting head more.
---
Shinji abruptly woke from his light sleep hearing a sudden, loud thud and crack. He split his eyes and just looked at his clock. '4:30AM, too early,' he swiped at the clock his hand from force of habit and knocked it across the room. He quickly slipped back into his dream world. "Rei" was all that was thought aloud before succumbing to the silence of sleep.
---
The shower had felt refreshing to her. She felt revitalized and the stink from earlier was gone. "She stretched every muscle in her body with one large, sweeping cat-like yawn and body stretch. This feeling of energy was great until she shipped the bathroom door open and moved into the hallway. Her ear pop was earth shattering to her.
'What did I do to deserve this,' she wailed with her head in her hands. "Ugh," she sighed. Without any logical reasoning she just lifted her head from downward position to just right to look at Shinji's door. She began gazing at it.
"What?" she had puzzled herself now. She stood there for what seemed like just a few seconds but she had actually been standing there for several minutes now. Thinking, trying to grasp what newfound importance Shinji's door suddenly had. It was on the tip of her mind but she just couldn't reach it. "Arrrghh, what am I doing?" she squealed. She tried, but she couldn't tear her eyes away from Shinji's door. She felt like she didn't have control over her body anymore as she began taking steps towards it, but she was becoming intrigued as to what laid there for her.
'What the hell do I want from that baka!' She instantly felt a pang in her gut that broke her away from her trance. She was now immediately in front of his door, her right hand was gently resting on the sliding indent. 'Weird, but I feel like I should doing something that has to do with him.' At this point she realized she was still only wearing a small, red towel and in front of Shinji's door. 'Whoa someone could really get the wrong idea from this!' Her body and mind panicked and she did a 180* turn and leapt back into her room. Unfortunately she did all this before realizing her door was closed.
---
A sinister man in a black command suit sitting in his chair in his dark office laughed.
"Gonna need a replay on that one," he chuckled.
---
After twenty minutes of reeling from the hit she just took combined with her massive headache, she had finally managed to struggle into her blue and white school uniform. But after her period of random curses in all sorts of languages her mind went back to the question she was trying to comprehend. Why did she go to Shinji's door like that? It just wasn't like her.
'Screw this, he probably is hiding something from me or is having a some hentai dream about my gorgeous body,' then her voice went soft. "Baka."
She moved past her door which was already open and looked from there at Shinji's door indent. She creeped as silently as she could towards his door and cracked it about an inch or two. He was asleep as far she could tell.
'After all that crap I put him through yesterday he's still here sleeping happy and contented.' She thought warmly. The corners of her mouth were upturned slightly. Then her mind sparked.
'Wait, what? What did I do to him through yesterday?' she thought concerned. She tried to sift through her various short-term memories but couldn't find nearly anything from the day before. 'Was bad,' was all her mind could come up with. She gritted her teeth at Shinji because she was beginning to get frustrated with herself and him. She knew he must have had something to do with it. Although it was true in general that she put him through a lot of her crap. Almost no days have passed since she moved in with him and Misato had she either not thrown insults at him for no reason or physically assaulted him. Although she never hit him too hard, she didn't really want him to get seriously hurt or anything. But in a few seconds her tensed up shoulders just relaxed and she could feel her anger melting away. 'Huh? Why can't I get mad at him now?'
"Rei," he murmured quietly from his sleep, but it did not go unnoticed.
'Rei? Rei! What the hell! What is that baka thinking about right now! I could kill him! Probably dreaming about what he's going to make that doll Wondergirl do for him next!' She was getting very angry but deep inside where she couldn't consciously notice it was a stab in her heart. But anger was not alone now, it was with an amount of fear.
'How dare he choose her over me! After all I've done for that baka.' She thought without thinking about it. She was currently too broadsided by her anger to notice it. She felt betrayed and didn't know what to do.
Not realizing that when she opened his door a ray of light shot from the living room into "Shinji's Lovely Suite" or so the sign said. It was dashed across his face and he started stirring and finally opened his eyes.
"Hmhm," he batted his eyes shut adjusting to the light then blinked, "Asuka?"
"Ehh!" she gasped and her mind shrieked. 'ALERT! We've been caught!' She shut the door quickly and sprinted into the kitchen.. 'What the hell is wrong with me!?' she repeated. She froze again and stared off into space. 'Well um,' her anger flared somewhat. "Well I'm not going to stay here so that pervert can try to take advantage of me!" She grabbed her books on the table where she had left them the day before and quickly glanced at the microwave clock. She turned towards the door and left the apartment with haste. But the moment she turned around from the door to the hallway she piled right into someone she didn't see before and the force from the impact threw both of them to the ground.
She was wearing a mid-length black dress and she had very vivacious purple hair and a telltale silver cross necklace, always worn by."Asuka?" the woman said holding her head.
"Misato!?" she replied shocked.
"Er.. What are you doing up? What are you doing out here?" she questioned. Though she was also very nervous. 'Oh my God does she know?!?' Then she looked over Asuka. She looked pretty frazzled and dazed. 'Her eyes are awfully twitchy.' The girl hadn't even dried her hair yet, Misato was getting suspicious as to where she was off to in such a rush at this time in the morning. 'She's definitely not going for a walk, it's five AM.'
Asuka realizing she didn't have any plausible answer fell to her usual back- up plan, a smart-ass retort.
"I could ask you the same thing Misato!"
It was on. Now they would see who cracked first.
"I'm your guardian so I don't have to explain myself," Misato boasted and folded her arms under her breasts. Asuka simply thinned her eyes into slits and glared at Misato. Realizing that this strategy would only work on Shinji, Misato quickly devised her self a new plan and created herself an alliby for it.
"I'll tell you if you tell me."
Now Asuka was interested. 'What the hell is she coming home for at five in the morning for? Where has she been all night!'
"You first," Asuka retorted. Asserting that she would not go first and that Misato would have to step up to the plate here. Misato gulped.
'I can't really tell her the truth about where I just came from! She'd murder me in my sleep!'
"I just got back from Nerv, I had the late shift," she lied. 'There, she couldn't possibly come up with anything to shoot that down. I am Nerv's Director of Operations after all.' She had a smirk on her brain so wide it was about to poke out of her ear. Misato was getting cocky.
"In THAT dress Miiisato?" Asuka jabbed, not believing it for a second.
"I felt like dressing nicely for once. So sue me," she asserted.
Asuka looked down at the ground in front of Misato's knees. 'Hmm, I don't really believe her, but if I put up too much of a fight it'll make me look too suspicious.'
"So where are you off to in such a hurry? I gave my answer, it's your turn." She said it with the coyest of smiles. The bump on Asuka's forehead where they had bumped together was getting redder. She fell back on another shady reply.
"I'm headed to school!" She said not realizing that she had just sent a spark through Misato's brain. "I decided to get an early start," she assured.
"Reeally? It's five AM Asuka, the school doesn't even open for another three hours." She was getting closer and closer between the crosshairs.
"I'm going to Hikari's first to hang out." She said finally. She picked herself up off the ground and dusted herself off while walking away.
"Oh, Asuka! Your books." Misato pointed to the ground in front of herself.
"Oh yah." She back walked a few steps to gather her books but tried to make it look like she wasn't rushing. Misato was starting lasers at Asuka, she was ready to strike.
"So, going in early to make up for skipping yesterday?" The hammer had hit the steel hot. Asuka remembered now, she watched TV most of yesterday. Asuka's mind was frozen and she knew she was screwed now. She spent the day with Pen-Pen yesterday.
'Pen-Pen? What the heck? Why would I spend the day with him?" Her mind was reeling.
"Uh," she stammered and slow raised her eyeballs up and they found Misato's unintentionally. Misato raised a brow and moved to a crouched position while she patiently awaited for an answer.
"Checkmate," she grinned. Misato always had a way of turning these battles in her favor. She was the queen of manipulation of these sorts.
"What do you want?" she hung her head in defeat.
"An explanation would be nice for starters."
"I don't have to explain myself to you!" Asuka's anger flared.
"I can suspend your piloting privileges if you don't."
"You wouldn't." Asuka snarled.
"I would."
"You can't!" she yelled.
"I can!" She said with an upbeat smile. "I can and I will."
"You fight dirty Misato."
"Yea I know. Life sucks then you die. Get over it. Now, on with your explanation."
Shinji woke up abruptly again. He could hear Asuka and Misato arguing. 'Arrg, they're so loud.'
"Thank God we don't have any neighbors." He sighed. They're arguing was annoying the crap out of him and he couldn't help falling in and out sleep every few seconds, an irritating mix. He needed to put a stop to this one. "I wonder what it's about this time." He got up and traveled outside of his room and to the apartment door.
"I can't remember what happened yesterday!" Asuka clamored.
"Well try!"
He could barely stay conscious otherwise he would noticed all he was wearing was his boxers. As he opened the door his mission of peace fell through. What with the falling in and out of sleep, by the time he got outside he couldn't remember why he was there. The two ladies in front of him stopped their bickering and looked up at him in silence, they stared at him as if they expected him to say something important.
Shinji was stumbling around in his mind for what seemed like a minute. He couldn't remember what he was here for. The stares were prompting him to talk, he had to say something. And old saying came to mind, 'Think before you speak Shinji.' The silence became too much for the poor boy and he snapped.
"So, um.. how did your date with Kaji go last night Misato?" Misato sweat- dropped and prepared for the worst, while Shinji felt a cold breeze.
"MISATO! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING WITH KAJI!" an angry teen red- head pointing her finger screamed from of the screen.
The sinister man with glasses behind the desk chuckled and reached for the small red bag upon his desk.
"Damn, I'm out of Peanut Butter M&M's!"
The sunlight glinted off the dirty shades of apartment 402 onto the angelic face of the blue-haired pilot of Eva Unit-00, and Rei Ayanami's eyes gently opened. She batted her eyes lightly and opened them reluctantly taking in the full brightness of the light becoming alert quickly. She was a very petite girl of the age of 16, and possibly the most graceful of any her age. Her apartment was a complete mess and she had seemingly had never given more than a passing glance at the mail, it was overflowing from her door. 'What would be the purpose?' she thought.
She slowly rose from her futon. Attempting to equalize the temperature between her appendages she pulled her legs up to her body and hugged them with her arms while she stared at the water-filled glass beaker near her bed through her blood red eyes.
"Ikari," said in her normal emotionless voice while watching the light reflect and refract on the water. She slipped back to her train of thought from the night before. She had rested the night to dwell on the question.
"Shinji," she said with the faintest hint of joy. They had known each other for many months now. And although the differences between the two are wide Shinji had never given up on her. He had been trying to crack her shell whenever he got the chance. Yes it felt right to call him by his first, inside and out. The corners of her lips turned upwards minutely, but disappeared as quickly as it came. She could feel emotions rise up inside her, many she had never even known existed until Shinji came and then especially after the defeat of Ramiel, the 5th angel.
'I smiled for him. A smile I could feel all over. I have done that for no one as of yet but him. He showed he cared, not like the Commander though. I gave him nothing, yet he nearly sacrificed himself simply to see if I was undamaged. Could this all be my. imagination?" A voice of feeling grew inside of her to seek him out. Her face remained emotionless.
'I should inquire about these. feelings.. to the Commander. No, it would be best not to waste his time on matters as trivial as this when not in relation to Project Eva. I should ask Shinji at school when he is not busy. Yes.'
"Shinji," she repeated. 'Yes, this feels right.'
Ah I hope you guys liked that! I didn't have a huge amount in it Just setting up for the rest of the day (Hence: Reloaded). Look forward to Chapter 5: Revelations! It could be my first really long chapter! What is Rei gong to say to Shinji? Who is the man behind the desk! (you'd have to be an idiot nor to know by now! Unless you haven't seen the series in which case sorry I offended you. And what's going on with Asuka! Hopefully I'll set up Maya Ibuki's entrance! And maybe that Pen-Pen + Ritsuko thing! Well actually I was thinking about having Pen-Pen commit a series of crimes like robbing liquor stores, going to jail, shanking someone, dealing with prison rape, busting out, becoming a pimp or something or going into Nerv with guns blazing SOMETHING LIKE THAT! But I'll need a a lot of reviews telling me to do so in order for it to happen! In fact 25-30 reviews in order to get chap 5 out of me. Every one of them counts. Do your part! So Get Review'n! See you Space Cowboy