"Alright im heading out shinji, i left some money on the table again if you get hungry"
The blond doctor stated
"Ok miss akagi, have a nice day"
The front door closed
It's been 3 days since Shinji arrived at his new home. The days mostly blended together since there was nothing to do, she lived a very spartan lifestyle dominated by work.
Shinji's day typically started out with Dr akagi helping him with his bandages, seeing as she needs to be at work by 6:30
This means his day starts …...early
The first couple of days he spent familiarizing himself with his new home
Witch wasn't so different from his last,
Everything was neatly organized like out of a catalog, all of the furniture was stiff like it was brand new the only thing that seemed to have used it recently was her 2 cats
Named tom and butch though they seemed to hardly stick around, leaving after she feeds them in the morning.
The first floor contained a living room to the immediate right of the entrance with a hallway leading to the kitchen in the back of the house. When he inventoried the food all he found were canned goods and tv dinners, Half of it was expired meaning it was sitting there for a while. She had next to nothing in cooking utensils either just 2 pots and strangely enough a spatula.
Going upstairs the first door on the right is a bathroom and next to that is dr.akagi's bedroom so far he hasn't worked up the nerve to quite explore it yet.
Next to that is her home office. completely jam-packed with paper work, her doctorate hung next to a window and a home computer sat in a corner on what little space wasn't covered in paperwork.
And in the center of the paper tornado was one wetherd, torn chair. When compared to the rest of the Furniture in the house this one seemed to have been recently used.
Continuing on was finally his room. Dr.akagi akagi said when she was his age this was her room, which still had some of her old memorabilia in the form of old rock band posters and a solar system inspired ceiling fan, a modest twin sized bed resided in the corner, opposed directly across was a worn desk covered in stickers and filled with school supplies the only peculiarly in this otherwise normal room was what stood in the corner.
It was an electric guitar, pre impact.
When asked she said
"It was my rebellious phase, i tried to catch my mom's attention after she got hired at nerv. I tried to be a punk. I dyed my hair orange and started dressing like a school shooter, in the end I just wasted my time……. If you want to try it, I'm not stopping you. Just don't ask me to teach you i wasn't any good."
The only thing shinji had to entertain himself was his SDAT but that can only sustain him for so long, he ventured for the tv to discover she didn't have cable.
She only had the local antenna channels
And the only thing that played were reruns of Godzilla and the news.
He was bored to say the least.
On the upside his arm was out of the cast, he still had the pins in his arm so he still had to use a sling but it felt good to be able to let his arm breathe
'Just one more day, then i have my arm back '
He looked to the door
She had encouraged him to go explore the other day when she gave him a cell phone
'It's not like i have any other choice"
He made to the door and slipped on a pair of foam sandals checked for his phone and money and stepped outside
'It's a nice day out.'
It was a cool 70 it being early in the morning
Hours went by as he explored the neighborhood. Most of the people who lived here seemed to be older, few children and fewer teens walked the streets. For the most part it was a quiet neighborhood. Down the street was a small market advertising locally produced food, next to that a liquor store further down the street was a pathway that leads down to a school
'Probably the local high-school'
Past that was a park, it was a decent sized field with a playground overall a nice place.
But soon it became dusk as he was walking he again passed the supermarket he still had some money, some from Dr akagi and some from his travel
In Shinji's mind a plan began to form.
Dr.akagi finished the final report detailing evangelion 01, after a week of staying late working endlessly she had finally done away with the skyscraper of papers after many pens, time and effort she can finally go home
'I should call and see if shinji ate, i could pick something up on my way home'
She reached for her cell tried to dial only to discover it was dead
'Oh wel-'
RING! RING!
her office phone came to life
She stood as it rang, already dreading the conversation to come
'What if i don't answer the phone. It's not like they'd know I heard it.'
She looked to the security camera in the corner, in her heart dread started to manifest no doubt he's watching her right now
She reached for the phone bringing it to her ear
"Why did you hesitate dr.akagi" he was watching, he's always watching
"I'm just tired commander, i just finished the last of the reports and was about to go home."
"Good i was about to ask you about that,
You seemed to be taking an excessively long time completing those papers "."Anyway, what's the condition of the 3rd child?"
'He's asking about shinji?'
"He seems to be doing well, however--"
Shinji was hard at work, for the first time in weeks he felt productive he was preparing dinner for Dr.akagi and himself
It wasn't much but it's better than the take out they've been eating.
Taking his time he eventually was able to cut the vegetables for the soup, a simple homemade chicken noodle soup nothing to fancy but still easily accomplishable
The oven dinged as his bread finished baking .
"I'm home!"
"Welcome back Dr.akagi, dinners gonna be done in a few minutes"
Shinji sat out the bread to cool as he stirred the soup
"Are you cooking? That's a surprise,where'd you learn that?"
She sat her purse down on the chair and took a seat
"I picked it up from my teacher, he was adamant that I should be able to take care of myself."
He attempted to grab a bowl from the top shelf but his short stature preventing him from reaching
"Here let me help you with that"
Dr.akagi walked up behind him and grabbed the bowl
"You know if you're ok with cooking i can give you some money to buy ingredients"
She smiled as she handed him the bowl
"No!, im mean you don't have to, it's so i can repay you for giving me a place to live"
She frowned before replying
"Listen shinji, relationships aren't like that. I let you live with me because I wanted to, I'm not being forced to do this,you're going to take the money I give you and we're going to have a proper kitchen."
She smiled before continuing
"Or is that going to be a problem?"
Shinji wasn't expecting that.
Teacher always said people only do nice things in exchange for something
And hardly anyone wanted anything to do with him.
"No ma'am, no problem at all."
She walked back to the table
"And don't call me ma'am, it makes me feel old."