Disclaimer: This is a re-write of one of my ealier stories, a lot has been changed, but the meaning remains the same. My other Eva fiction will be updated as soon as I finish editing the second chapter. Neon Genisis is the copyrighted trademark of Gainax Studios and Project Eva. Ladies and gentlemen enjoy the show.
Messiah Studios presents:
"AT feild detected moving from Terminal Dogma! It's a blue pattern!"
"Is it an Angel!"
In Association With Ill Breed Underground RD
"No, I-it's human!"
"Then this is it, we've really begun third impact!"
A Faux Savoir Production:
"The pilot's ego can't take much more, all AT feilds are dispearsing!"
Directed by Vincient Rose
"I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore, make it stop, make it stop!"
"What is thy desire, what is in your heart, what is thy desire?"
"Make it stop, make the pain stop!"
"Is this what you truly want? Is that what is in your heart?"
"Love, I want to be loved, I want Rei..."
Fractured
Chapter One: Awakening
First impact was genisis, life was born with thought. Second impact was armageadon, life raised a question. Third impact was a revelation life was reborn. Such is the way the his grand desgin has unfolded. When we are reborn is it our second genisis, our second coming? Can we really be reborn? Is our soul really allowed to go on in another body, still to be seperated from others by the walls of our hearts? Is there really such a thing as a second chance? Either way, life begins a new with those first few thoughts.
"..pain..unbearable pain..."
"...brain to big for skull..."
"...head about to explode..."
"...who am I...?"
"Crow..."
"...i'm Nathanel Crow..."
"light..to bright...burning.."
"...where am I...?"
"...what has happened..?"
"..why..can't..I...remember...?" Slowly he sat up, the faded light filtering in from closed blinds danced across his face. The sterile brightness of the room forced his eyes to close again. Once more he attempted to open them and they were allowed to adjust to the light. His surroundings consisted of white washed walls in all four directions. A large window with closed blinds rested in the wall to the right of him. A faint and repetitive beeping could be heard and he followed the sound to the EKG machne that sat to the side of the bed he found himself in.
"I'm in a hospital?"
"How did I get here?" He tried to remember, focusing on his thoughts only to be rewarded with a seering pain in his head. Nathanel clutched his skull and let out a pained groan. Fustrated, he ripped off the EKG nodes attached to his skin and the thin blanket that covered him. Standing, he made his way to that bathroom. Turning on the faucet, he splashed the stream of water on his face, allowing the cool fluid to calm him. He looked up at his reflection in the mirror, a pair of stern green eyes peered out a him from the tnagles of black hair that hung in his face. He ran a hand over the thick stuble that was on the verge of becoming a beard on his slightley pointed chin. A short gasp from behind caused him to jump in surprise. Nathanel whipped around and came face to face with a wide eyed, blonde haired woamn in a lab coat. Her eyes moved down from his face and he followed her gaze, realizing that he was completely naked.
"Hey," he snapped. "Eyes up here." She looked back up at his face, a blush creeping accross her cheeks. She muttered something to her self that sounded somewhere along the lines of 'they're right he is big'. He raised an eyebrow at her and crossed his arms.
"I'm pleased to see that you are awake Mr. Crow, I'm Dr. Akagi," she spoke extending her hand to him.
"Nice to meet you, I think, I don't know you do I?" he questioned, shaking the doctor's hand.
"Unfortanuatley no, when we meet you were comatose." His eyes widened. "We aren't exactly sure what happened, but shortly after your arival at the hospital you slipped into a coma and remained that way for nearly three months now, we were going to pull the plug." Nathanel's legs felt like rubber and he leaned against the sink for support as he proccessed what the Doctor had just said.
"Mr. Crow, are you feeling alright? Come on let's get you back into bed." She took him by the arm and lead him out of the bathrrom and back to the bed.
"You should get some sleep."
"No, no sleep, I think three months is long enough, I just want to get out of here."
"Very well, we'll run a few tests to see if everything is alright and then you can go."
"When I came here did I have anything with me?"
"Just the clothes you had on and some stuff that was in your pockets, they're in that closet over there," she replied, gesturing to the small door by the batroom. He watched as the doctor left, his mind going over the information it had just been given.
"How did I end up in a coma?"
"Who brought me here? Why did they help me?" He sighed, placing his head in his hands, giving in to the confusion for the moment. He glanced over at the closet and stood.
"I should get dressed, maybe there's something in there that'll help me figure out what's going on." Opening the closet, Nathanel surveyed it's contents. A black sweater and a pair of faded blue jeans lay, neatley folded on the bottom with a pair of black sneakers resting on top of them. On the top self sat a leather CD travel case, a key ring with a white, plastic tab and a single key attached to it, and a wallet. He pulled the sweater and jeans out, a pair of socks and slate blue boxers fell from the folds. He slipped them on along the wth the sweater and jeans. Picking up the wallet, he flipped through it finding a single card housed within. He pulled it out and read over it. 'Name: Crow, Nathanel Ericson Age: 21 Height: 5'10 Weight: 175 lbs Eye: Green Hair: Black Organ Donor Address: 715 Tenkai Av. Tokyo-3 Japan Apartment 504.'
"Well at least I know where I'm living," he thought, returing the card to the wallet and placing it in his pocket. "To bad there wans't any money in there." He layed back on the bed, his hands behind his head, starring up at the ceiling and playing with the tab on the key ring.
"I just wish I could remember what happened." He closed his eyes, slowly slipping into dreamless uncounciousness once again.
"Alright mister Crow, you've removed all the metal from your person correct?" The Doctor questioned from behind the glass. Nathanel nodded his reply.
"Good, now just relax and try not to move or we have to restart the test understood?" He gave the doctor the thumbs up and laid back on the table. He felt it give a sudden jerk as it moved back into the MRI machine, the light patterns flashing as they began their scan. In the observation room Dr. Ibuki typed a few commands into her computer, the screen displaying the growing images of Nathanel's brian. Her eyebrows raised in surprise at something on the monitor and motioned for her superior to take a look.
"It looks like one side of his brain is slightly smaller then the other and the ceribelum has been extended, have you ever seen anything like this before?" Ritsuko shook her head.
"Do you think it's a result of his coma?"
"I'm not sure, but it looks like he might have had brian surgery before, but all the connections look normal and I don't see any problems or damage."
"Do you think we should keep him for more observation?'
"No, I'm sure it's nothing, finish up the scan and put the results on file."
"If you say so sempai." The terminal beeped signaling the scan was done. Maya typed in a few commands, shutting the machine down, and ejecting the table from the tunnel. Nathanel sat up and swung his legs around, his bare feet touching cold linolium.
"So what's the diagnosis Dr. am I good to go?"
"Everything checks out all right, your blood work came back and I don't see anything that could be a problem there either."
"Then why can't I remeber anything before I woke up?"
"Memoery lose is common in most coma patients, it usally returns in a few days so I wouldn't worry about it." Nathanel stood, grabbing his shoes, and walking out into the hall. He pulled his sneakers on, standing as Dr. Akagi approached.
"Can I leave now?" He questioned, leaning against the wall.
"I just need you to schedule an appointment so we can check up on you, how does next Friday at 4:00 sound?"
"Sure, it isn't like I'll be doing anything then, I don't even know if I have a job."
"Like I said, don't worry about it, your memory will come back just give it some time. In the mean time I want you to get plenty of rest and exercise, you haven't used your body in a while and you need to build up your muscle mass again." He watched Ritsuko warily as she scribbled something down on her clip board.
"Here are some perscriptions for pain medicine and blood thinner, you've been off your feet for a while and you might have developed a blood clot, follow the directions to the letter though, this stuff is powerful," she instructed handing him a slip of paper. He took it from her and stuffed it into his pockets along with the only possesions he owned to his knowledege.
"That's it, just sign out at the reception desk and you can leave."
"I can go now?"
"Yes, but make sure you come back next friday for your appointment."
"Good, this place was starting to make me nervous, thanks for everything Doc, see you next week." He waved and made his ay down the hal towards the reception desk and the main entrance.
"Excuse me, but I'd like to sign out," he stated to the secertary.
"Just fill out the spaces on that form dear," she stated looking up at him. He scribbled down the time and his name and handed it to her. Turning to the computer, she typed in the information on the sheet.
"Nathanel Crow," she paused. "You're the coma patient that just woke up right?"
"Wow news travels fast in this place," he thought nodding in response.
"How are you feeling?"
"I think I've been better, um do you think you could tell me how to get to Tenkai Av.?"
"Sure honey, just turn left when you exit the hospital and go down the street for two blocks and turn left agian, go down for another three blocks and turn right and there you go," she directed with a small smile. Nathanel thanked her and walked out into the street for the first time in nearly three months. He stood with his arms out streched and his head up turned taking in all the sights, smells, and sounds of the city. A few passer bys stop and stared at him with raised eyebrows at his unusual behavor. He turned to them and smiled.
"Nice day isn't it?" He asked them before contiuning on down the street following the seceratary's directions. He ran his finger tips along the walls of the buildings as he went, their rough texture abraising his hands and granting him a calm serenity. He starred at the directory on the door of the apartment complex, reading off the different apatment numbers before finding his under the fourth floor. Slowly, he climbed the stairs, listening to them creak under his weight as he made his way up. He stood infron of his door, a sign stating 'for rent by owners' was taped to it. He'd have to talk to the superadendant about letting him rent the apartment again tomorrow. Pulling off the sign, Nathanel inserted his key and listened for the gentle click of the door opening. His spirits fell as soon as he entered. The sight of an absoulutely barren room meeting his vison. He wandered around to the other rooms and found them the same as the first, empty. He returned to the main room and walked over to the single window that inhabitated it. The sun had begun to set and the moon's first light mixed with the dying sun's bathing the skyline in brillant purples and organges. He turned from the breath taking sight and sighed, an o so familiar feeling of loneliness pulling at his heart. He sat, leaning against the wall listening to the sounds from the other apartments. Laughter and voices from its other tenants, completely oblivious and cut off from him by the surrounding walls. The final rays of sun light died, the city falling roughly into another night of darkness. Slowly Nathanel's eyes drifted closed, setteling in the empty darkness and losing himself in hollow sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED-
A/N: I hoped you liked it so far. I kind of had this idea for a while and I just needed to get it out. Review or flame it's your choice to make. Untill next update so long and good night.