DISCLAIMER: Evangelion, it's characters, story, and associated paraphernalia still do not belong to me, it belongs to the legitimate and lawful copyright holders. No matter how much I may want it. This story is solely for my own enjoyment.

Your usual reminder that this story is a LEMON. Adult situations will happen, do not advance further if that isn't your thing.

Also this is the third ASG Special, you know the drill, a semi-apocryphal story set in the same universe as the main fic without a defined timeframe.

Standard:

"This" is speech.

'This' is thoughts.

"This" is memories

A Shower Guest Special III: Überraschung

Asuka Langley Sohryu, Second Child, designated pilot of NERV's Evangelion Unit-02, and transfer student to Class 2-A trudged up the last flight of stairs to reach the walkway that led to the Katsuragi apartment, her eyes gleaming with murderous hatred as a low growl escaped her. It was that last title though that had her fuming now, rather than the fact the elevator was out of order.

"It's my turn today?!" Asuka had blurted out just as she was about to run out of the classroom before she fell into a boredom coma.

"Yes Asuka, we're the two on the schedule today." Her 'friend' Hikari Horaki responded with her trademarked matter-of-fact tone.

"Oh that's just rich! They sure know how to pick 'em!"The German redhead remarked bitterly as she slammed her bag into the nearest defenseless desk.

Hikari sighed, her face pointed downwards, grateful that Asuka chose to take her anger out on something that wasn't living.

'Why do the Japanese have to clean their own classrooms! Don't they have janitors for that! Argghh!' Asuka internally screamed as she made her way toward the door and opened it.

'And this baka! Running out of the school so fast he couldn't eve-' her internal tirade stopped though as the door hissed close and her nostrils picked up the aromas filling their home.

"Baka Shinji." Her lips said softly before forming a knowing smile as she took off her shoes and made her way as stealthily as she could to the kitchen.

She saw him, back to her, opening up the oven in the kitchen, taking out a tray of freshly made dinner rolls and placing them in a basket, totally unaware as she tiptoed towards him.

"Oww! What's that for?!" Shinji said as he felt a pinch in his side just as he put down the hot tray.

"For conniving with Hikari to put me on the cleaning schedule today." Asuka answered, putting two and two together the genius that she was before looping her arms around him and putting a kiss on his cheek.

"Sorry." Shinji said contritely, a smile on his face though, before explaining. "But I needed time for the surprise." His hand gestured toward the table, long, slender, lavender candles waited for a match on either side of a vase of expertly arranged red and blue roses with pale hortensia. Asuka removed her arms from her lover's torso and walked over to her usual chair that had something draped over it.

The German redhead picked it up and realized it was a backless black dress she'd bought but never had the chance to wear.

"Why don't you get ready, I'll finish cooking." Shinji said as he pulled out a cast iron pan and set in on the stove.

Asuka, dress in hand, went up to Shinji, bending forward and puckering her lips. Shinji reciprocated and they shared a kiss before the German redhead went to her room to change. There she saw a single red rose in a vase, with two cards leaned against it and a ribboned box to the side.

She looked at the two cards first. One was from Hikari, the other from Misato. The former was full of the standard well-wishes, while the latter filled with teasing and innuendo but ended with the NERV Major telling Asuka she'd be in the Geofront until morning.

Asuka laughed as she concluded that Misato knowing about their relationship did have its advantages now and then.

She then turned to the present. It had a simple card on it, with Shinji's best try at Latin letters written on it:

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Asuka

She smiled and set the card to the side gently as she opened the box to reveal a silver bracelet. It was separated into numerous slanted segments, each no more than a millimeter or two wide if her eye was right, with each end tapering into a shiny red stone that sparkled in the sunlight that crept through her room's blinds.

"Wunderschönen…, Baka." Asuka said before stripping out of her school uniform and heading to the shower, black dress and bracelet in hand.

In under twenty minutes, a new record for any keeping track, Asuka had washed, dressed and put on her make-up before heading back to the kitchen.

"You look amazing Asuka." Shinji said as he put the last plate on the table.

"Well of course!" She said in the confident tone she used at school and NERV, as her right wrist went up to dramatically brush her hair back while her left rested on her waist, striking a pose before continuing: "I'm the one and only Asuka Langley Sohryu!"

"So you liked it?" Shinji said in a calm glad tone, not fazed by Asuka's theatrics, and realizing their aim was to show him she was wearing the red bejeweled bracelet.

"Yeah." Asuka said her tone growing quiet and contented as her faux smile was replaced by a genuine one as she looked at the gift as a question popped in her mind: "How'd you find it?"

"Hikari helped." Shinji answered by way of explanation as he struck a match, lit the two candles, and pulled out Asuka's seat so she could sit down, though not before he got a chance to plant a kiss on her bare back. His warm breath sending tingling electricity through Asuka's body and her limbs shivered unbiddenly as she sat and Ikari scooched her chair in.

'She probably helped with a lot of this. Misato too' Asuka thought as her brain regained function and she looked at the romantic dinner spread before them and made a mental note to do something nice for the cougar and angel.

Shinji had made steak and carrots just the way she liked it. The meat rare and the carrots tender but not mush. Shinji personally preferred his steak well done and could swear Asuka's was still mooing.

They ate and made small talk, sharing jokes and stories as their laughter filled the cozy apartment. Their plates empty and the last buttered roll in Asuka's hands she brought her bare foot to Shinji's leg under the table, her toes curling around the soft material of his dark slacks:

"Let's go." She said, her tone enticing, her head making a little movement in the direction of their bedrooms as her teeth dug into the roll. The crust giving an audible 'crunch' before giving way to the fluffy, gooey interior.

"Of course." Shinji said before standing and walking over to his lover, pulling her chair out, and taking her hand. But instead of leading her to the bedroom he took her toward the living room as Asuka's brow furrowed.

"Not on the couch ba-" Asuka began, her tone filled with displeasure before she noticed what was on the table in front of it. A bottle of massage oil. Her look of displeasure was instead replaced by a mischievous looking grin. "My feet are killing me Shinji." She began before looking into his eyes and sparkling cerulean met crisp cobalt: "Can you help?" She said as she sat on the couch and placed her feet on the table.

"Sure thing Asu-uuuka…!" Shinji exclaimed, his tone shifting from its normal cadence to one of embarrassed surprise as he knelt down in front of Asuka's feet to get in a good position to work on the knots and sore muscles only to realize the dress and bracelet were the only things she was wearing.

"I'm waiting Shinji…" Asuka said, her feet rocking back and forth, after failing to stifle a giggle at how red Shinji's face was. 'Seriously baka this is like the thousandth time you've seen it, why are you still staring?' Despite the words echoing in her mind her heart still felt like there were butterflies trying to escape it at how after all this time the sight of her could make him blush, that he wasn't bored with her, that he wouldn't leave her.

Finally Shinji regained some of his composure and there was an audible pop as he opened the bottle and let the cool oil pour onto his hands before beginning to rub Asuka's feet.

'Heh…his technique's gotten better.' Asuka mused as she felt the tension in her muscles melt away under Shinji's attention.

He used the palm of his hand to rub the soles of her feet, getting her muscles to relax at the outset, before moving on to her Achilles tendon and splaying her toes with his fingers to ensure not one of the hundred muscles in the human foot was left wanting.

Her feet pampered, Shinji got up from his knees and leaned forward, his right knee going between Asuka's legs and pushing the fabric of the dress too her opening just as their lips met. The wetness quickly seeping through the thin fabric and onto Shinji's slacks. Just like he knew it would. For as much as he said, well thought really, he'd never had said it to her face, that Asuka was a tease when they'd first met, it was Shinji that knew what buttons to push.

If before Asuka had felt the creeping hint of lust in the back of her mind, it was now an unstoppable siren's song.

Her tongue shot into Shinji's mouth as her hips ground against his knee as her hormones took over from her conscious mind.

"Kiss them too, would you." Asuka purred in a quiet voice as the kiss ended.

Shinji nodded in response, knowing exactly what she meant. She spread open her legs as Shinji's hands lifted up the hem of her dress, her slit visible even in the low light of the apartment. Her pink inner lips just pushing past the alabaster of her outside ones while Shinji could swear that he saw her most sensitive nub throbbing in anticipation.

He began slowly. Planting kisses on her inner thigh and her stomach just above her mound, making a clockwise spiral until he eventually reached her outer labia. His tongue swiped up and down across them slowly before testing her gates. Penetrating slowly into her, he could feel her taste on the tip of his tongue. That fleshy, wet, sometimes salty flavor of a woman.

Shinji then picked up the pace, whereas before he was cautious he now furiously struck his tongue back and forth against her insides while his hands went up to her breasts. The fact Asuka wasn't wearing a bra making it easy for him to get access to her fleshy orbs and sensitive nipples.

Asuka, after recovering from the onslaught brought her hands to Shinji's head, her fingers twisting around in Shinji's brown locks, but rather than push him away or try to regain a form of control, she pulled his face forward. Causing his nose to brush and strike her clit as she ground his hips into his face.

'She must be closer than I though.' Shinji's mind managed to think between Asuka's shocking actions and the oxygen deprivation.

He managed to get his nose above water, and pulled his right hand from Asuka's breasts so that his musician's fingers could replace his tongue in the ministration of her insides, curling and striking the wrinkly folds that made up her walls while his mouth closed around the peak of her mound and his tongue played with her clitoris sending a croaking moan to Asuka's mouth as her peak crashed into her and her already black dress became a shade darker between her thighs at the wetness seeping from her.

Shinji brought his face up from her twitching lower lips, the dying candlelight from the table revealing the light sheen on his cheeks as he planted a kiss on the lips of her face.

Their lips were still locked together when Shinji felt the tell tale sensation of his slacks zipper being undone and the garment falling to the ground along with his boxers. The cool air of the apartment against his privates though was soon replaced by the heat of Asuka's hands stroking his already stiff member into standing fully at attention before Shinji felt his body moving.

Without separating her lips from his Asuka managed to twist Shinji around so he was now sitting on the couch and she was straddling him, the flowing fabric of her dress covering the lower sections of their body.

'That's the combat training.' Shinji's subconscious absently told him in a little voice as he suddenly found himself at Asuka's mercy.

The German redhead ended the kiss and stood up in front of the couch, undoing the clasps of her dress and letting it fall to the floor before resuming her place atop Shinji, though not before his shirt joined the rest of their clothes on the floor.

She really did honestly prefer the bed, but she also really honestly did not want to wait as her hand went behind her back and guided Shinji's member to her waiting entrance, barely remembering to moisten the cockhead with her own juices before pushing herself on top of it until she felt the wrinkles of Shinji's balls tickle her ass.

Having obeyed the little voice from her subconscious repeating 'Now, now, now!' Asuka paused and looked into Shinji's blues, a smile forming on her lips, and on Shinji's as they saw the contentment and love in the other's face before their eyes closed, their lips locked, their hands joined together, and hips began moving.

They began slowly at first, before speeding up. Their hips moving in that perfect synchronization that came from when two people knew each other completely, their rhythm letting the pleasure hit deeper than normal, as a whimper escaped Asuka into their joined mouths as Shinji's rock hard member struck a particularly sensitive spot of Asuka's burning insides.

Still being sensitive from Shinji's earlier attentions, Asuka felt the tingling fire within her kindling quickly as her hips seemingly moved of their own volition determined to reach that peak again as quickly as possible.

Asuka stopped her movements as Shinji felt her body shiver on top of him and her muffled lips spoke his name as she came as her hands squeezed his tight as Shinji stopped his own thrusts, content to let his member feel the tightening of Asuka's walls around it as her juices flowed out of her. The wrinkles of his tightened sack acting as canals for the fluid as it made its way towards the couch cushions. The cool liquid sending a shiver of pleasure up Shinji's spine as his tongue shot into their joined mouths as he slowly began moving again.

Asuka took one of her hands away from Shinji's grip and reached behind her. Lithe fingertips going to the edges of Shinji's balls where they connected to his body before closing together and meeting before going back again.

She repeated this massage and twisted her own hips around counterclockwise half a dozen times before Shinji's self-control failed and she felt his hot cum shoot inside her, spreading a warmness and completeness inside of her.

Their lips finally parted, the apartment that was until moments ago filled with rhythmic slaps and suppressed moans now became filled with the sound of panting breaths and heaving chests as the two lovers rested their torsos against one another.

"Happy Birthday Asuka." Shinji said as blood slowly returned to the thinking organ.

"Thank you" Asuka began as she kissed his cheek before adding "baka" in her tender tone reserved for the afterglow as her head rested against his chest as his arms encircled her in a tight embrace.

Asuka's mind went over all the things that had changed in her life since her last birthday. How she had changed. She'd always liked her birthday, one more notch on her way to adulthood and respect in the eyes of others, but now, she reflected, this was the first one in a long time where she felt safe and loved. It hadn't been a straight road, there'd been pitfalls, dangers around every corner and the future still laid uncertain beyond the dark horizon.

'But,' her mind began as her fingers clenched around Shinji's chest, 'As long as we're here together, I know it'll be okay.'

A/N: So here's another short Special. I wrote it for several reasons the main one being the episode with Armisael is dense and is going to need a lot of thought. The other being that canonically Asuka's birthday is the 4th of December, though in the show it is not clear when this is, though likely in Episode 22. With convincing arguments that it is either the day when Asuka's step-mother called, because of course family calls on your birthday, or the day of Arael's attack because the irony and bad luck is too perfect, but no definitive canon answer. So instead of putting Asuka's birthday in the previous chapter I thought I'd make a Special about it.

As always let me know what you think and strap yourself in for the next four chapters, and maybe an epilogue, because we're nearing the denouement of this story.

But those are going to take some time to get right, so monthly updates are unlikely, but this story will be finished.