Angelic love
By: ninetyninenails
Chapter two: Dinner
The three children remain calm as they underwent a Harmonics test. Shinji knew that if he was going to ask Rei over for dinner it had to be today. He wondered what her answer would be.
"She'll probably say no or that there's no point." Thought Shinji. He slowly made himself sadder than he normally was.
"But what will I cook if she agrees?" Pondered the third child.
"She doesn't eat meat," He noted.
"Perhaps something made of soy?" And then he began worrying because he didn't know how to cook with soy.
They completed the sync test and changed back into their clothes. They got their test results and that's when Shinji noticed Rei heading out of Nerv and he snapped out of his trance and hurried to her.
"A-Ayanami?" said Shinji in a scared and nervous way.
"Yes?" she said in her normal monotone voice.
"I w-was wondering if you would like to have d-dinner with me tonight?" he finally spit out he was shaking nervously from head to toe. A small unnoticeable smile crossed her lips.
"That would be acceptable." said the red eyed girl.
"Great!" Shinji exclaimed.
"Come around seven o'clock this evening." he explained.
"Very well." said Rei and Shinji watched as she left to go back to her apartment.
"So why were you talking to Wondergirl?" asked the German redhead.
"I was asking her a question." said Shinji.
"Oh, did you ask her if she loved you?" asked Asuka in a teasing way.
"At least I talk to someone that's the opposite gender and that's my own age!" said Shinji angrily.
"I do talk to someone the opposite sex and my own age." said Asuka.
"Who?" asked Shinji.
"I talked to you don't I?" said Asuka.
"Baka." she added. Shinji, Misato and Asuka all went home.
Asuka quickly gathered her pajamas and some clothes.
"I'm leaving for Hikari's now!" called Asuka and she left the apartment.
"So how'd it go Shinji?" asked Misato.
"Is Rei coming over to join us for dinner?" asked the Major.
"Yeah" said Shinji.
"That's surprising." said Misato.
"I know," said unit-01's pilot.
"Hey Misato can you take me to the store, I still have to get the food." said the blue eyed boy. And with that Shinji left with Misato driving three hundred miles an hour.
Shinji stood looking at the soy products, picking up the product and placing it in his basket along with other non meat products. He purchased them and made his way home. He carefully set the table and made some green tea. He carefully went over the directions in a cook book he was planning on cooking steak made of soy, along with some steamed white rice and vegetables.
As he finished up cooking there was a faint knock on the door he went to open it and welcomed Rei into his apartment.
"It's nice to see you again Ayanami." said Shinji he almost called her Rei but quickly stopped himself and Rei replied.
"It's nice to see you as well." and Shinji walked her to the table where Misato was already sitting and enjoying her favorite beer.
"Hi ya, Rei." greeted Misato.
"Hello, Major Katsuragi." said the pale skinned girl.
"You don't have to be so formal, call me Misato." said the purple haired Major.
"As you wish." said Rei. Shinji seated Rei and went to work putting the food on the plates. The smell of soy and vegetables filled the apartment and Rei's nostrils. Shinji placed a plate in front of Rei.
"Here you are," he said as he put the plate in front of her.
"It's not real meat, it's made from soy." he added. He poured her a cup of green tea.
"Thank you Ikari." said Rei as she felt herself blush again as she was not used to normal human kindness.
"You can call me Shinji if you want." said the third child.
"Then you may address me by my first name as well." said Rei. This has been the most time they had ever spent together without being in the presence of Asuka. Rei pondered why Shinji invited her to have dinner with him, for what purpose. She remembered experiencing those memories and she planned to tell Shinji about them.
They began to eat. Rei ate some of the vegetables and was quickly surprised by the taste. It was coated in a sauce of some sort and was absolutely delicious. She took a bite of the noodles and then she tried the steak and was surprised the steak's taste had no real trace of meat or meat flavoring.
"So do you like the food?" asked Shinji.
"It is….very satisfying." came her response. Shinji smiled at her.
"You and Shinji should really spend more time together outside of work." said a drunken Misato.
"Is that an order?" asked Rei.
"No," said Misato.
"Rei you need to relax and enjoy your youth there's much more than just being an Eva pilot." she added.
"My only purpose is to pilot Eva, I have succeed my purpose, my life holds no more meaning." said the girl with the alabaster skin.
"Don't say that, just because you were created to pilot Eva doesn't mean you can't find more to do with your life." said the drunk. Those words sunk into Rei. Perhaps her life did have more meaning.
"I think what Misato is trying to say is just because we pilot the Eva to defend man kind we have more purpose than that or else why would we be piloting the Eva in the first place." said Shinji.
"I think I understand now." said Rei.
"I really like spending time with you Rei." said Shinji.
"I enjoy your company also, Shinji." said the red eyed girl with a smile as happiness came over her. They continued eating.
"I am happy…" she thought. She ate some more of the soy steak. Some time passed by and no one said a word until Rei finally decided to tell Shinji of her memories.
"Shinji, there is something I need to tell you." said Rei.
"Yeah what is sit?" asked the blue eyed boy.
"I can remember these things and I need to no if they happened or not." she explained.
"Okay." said the third child.
"I can remember us fighting the fifth angel up on a mountain top, I block its attack to protect you and you managed to destroy the angel and to come to my aid." said the first child.
Misato was then sent into shock as she heard Rei's words.
"Yeah Rei all of that happened.'' said the young Ikari. She then told him the other details and Shinji confirmed them all.
"Why couldn't I remember these things before?" she questioned.
"Rei, you don't remember but you have died two times." said Misato and Rei was a bit surprised.
"Each time commander Ikari had your soul put into another body, he had hundreds of bodies so that you could continue piloting Eva and each time, he had your memory erased." said Misato and Rei felt a feeling she never felt before. She knew it had to be realization, the realization of herself.
Unknown to them while they were talking, outside it was pouring down rain heavily and the sound of thunder approached.
"My father is a very evil person," said Shinji.
"Rei, I promise I'll never betray like my father has." said Shinji in a determined tone.
"Thank you." said the girl and she smiled serenely at him. Misato got up and got herself a beer and noticed the black windows.
"Oh no it's raining!" exclaimed Misato.
"Rei would you like to stay the night?" asked the Major.
"That would be logical." she replied.
"You can sleep in Asuka's room or you could sleep with Shinji in his room." said Misato.
"I would like to sleep beside Shinji, if that's alright." said Rei. Shinji's heart began beating a thousand miles a second as he hoped nothing would happen between them.
"You can wear my pajamas." said Misato.
"Thank you, K-Misato." said Rei in her usual voice.
Later that night….
Rei had changed into Misato's pajamas. Shinji looked at her and thought she looked cute in the over sized shirt and pants that were decorated with little sleeping bears. Shinji nervously got into bed and Rei followed. She curled up besides Shinji and put her arm around him.
"Rei?" asked Shinji.
"I find the sound of thunder to be bothersome." she replied and Shinji turned around and put his arms around her and she eased herself in his arms and soon fell asleep. Shinji knew he was lucky to be sharing a bed with such a sweet innocent girl he felt like a creep as he watched her sleep for a while but soon he too fell under the submissiveness of fatigue and he fell asleep with her.
AU: How you like the second chapter, please give me your comments good or bad I like 'em all. Chapter three will probably be the end and I hope to start writing it soon.