Nothing Will Ever Change That

Chapter 82: Meet Me

A/N- This chapter was proof-read by Frost-Eva-00. Thanks for the help!

Asuka's Room

"I need both of your help… do you mind coming with me? I need you to read something to me," I start to walk over to her.

"Sure, what is it?" Asuka had that smile on her face. She loved it when someone needed her help, I think it made her feel important in a way. Not that she needed it, she was plenty important to me.

"A letter was sent to me and – as you can tell – I can't read it. It also came with a package. Do you mind helping me out?" we began to walk out of the room with her. Before I left, I picked up Dietlinde and brought her with us. I was never going to leave her alone again.

"Sure, we don't mind. Any idea where the package came from?' you know, Asuka was able to ask the stupidest questions. Of course she didn't know!

"No, I had some trouble reading the address!" I knew it! I just had that sort of intuition, I could just tell… "But seriously, some guy from NERV said that it was stuff from my parents," her parents… a touchy subject. Last time we talked about her parents, she broke down in tears.

"Your… parents? Are you sure you want our help? Last time wasn't exactly… it didn't really go well…" I swear… Asuka was NOT on the ball today.

"Yeah… about that… sorry, I overreacted. That was a one-time thing, I'm asking for your help NOW," she said that with a smile. When we finally get to her door, she opens it and shows us the pile of boxes. There was one, three by three box in the middle of the floor.

"You only got one letter?" she nods as she sits down on her bed.

"Yeah, do you mind reading this to me?" she hands Asuka a legal sized letter.

"Sure," she tears it open and begins to read, "To Samantha J. Simmons. J., what's your middle name?" I glare at her, "Sorry… To Samantha J. Simmons, I know what really happened. You don't know the truth about your parents…" she paused as she continued to read, "but… I do… meet me at the American Embassy tomorrow at four… you'll finally know the truth… look in the boxes before meeting me…" she stopped for awhile, "That's it… it's unsigned," she sat there wide eyed.

"Open the boxes… please…" she sat there with an emotionless face. I walk over to one of the boxes – after handing Dietlinde to Asuka – and rip it open to show stacks of envelopes, most of them opened and empty.

"There's just a bunch of envelopes…" I pick one of them up and read it, "Okay, Asuka, you're going to have to read this," I looked like it was in German, so I hand it over to her.

"Do I have to do everything?" she swipes it away from me, "To Mr. and Mrs. Simmons, from… what the hell is this?" her eyes went wide, "is this a joke? It says that it's from Karsten Langley…" her father? "Hold on, there's more," she pulls out a letter inside, "It looks like gibberish to me, just numbers and letters."

"I'm sorry… who's Karsten? Is he related to you? Your last name is Langley, right?" Sam finally spoke up.

"Yeah, he's my bastard father. Forget about it," she picked up another letter, "another from Karsten and the inside is the same," she flips through all of them, "These are all from my father! What the hell is going on? Sam, do you have any idea what this is?" she shakes her head.

"None… I guess all I can do is follow what the letter said… can Shinji come with? I don't want to bring two people, it'll look too weird… do you mind?" this actually sounded dangerous in a sense. A strange letter with a strange package came, telling her to meet in a stranger, "I… don't want to be alone…"

"Sam… I think you should take Asuka. I doubt I can be of much help if you get in trouble," she gives me a confused look… I never told her about my hand! She still doesn't know! "Oh! Sam, sorry, I forgot to tell you. I lost my hand about a week ago in a fight." She goes pale, "Yeah, just forget about it. Just take Asuka, if you want, I'll trail behind you guys." She was still surprised.

"You… lost…" Asuka lets out a sigh.

"Yeah, that idiot lost a hand because he had to get all macho and protect me," she smiles over at me, "but he's my idiot…" I'm hers? I wish she would make up her mind!

"Okay… I'll take Asuka… but I want Shinji close by," Asuka sighs again.

"Geez, Act like I'm not here why don't you! I can fight just as good as Shinji!" she's proven that before!

"Sorry… so, can we go tomorrow?" she seemed really… different… I couldn't place it. She didn't really seem herself, but I couldn't place the emotion. I would always tell the emotion from the eyes, and without them, I had trouble with it.

"Sure, we'll be happy to… but I have one question… is that all you know about your parents? You don't know anything else about their death, their life, anything?" she shook her head

"No, I don't. I thought that they were just bakers, there was apparently more to it," I had no idea what was going through her head, was she sad? Was she happy that she would finally know the truth? What? "Listen, you guys can go now, just meet me back here at around three." She gets up and starts to guide us out of the room, "Thanks again… really…" she closes the door when we get outside. I knew she was different; she wanted us out, now. I knew she was upset!

"Man… that must be hard on her. What do you think the big deal is?" I just shrug as we walk.

"No idea…" I take Dietlinde back from Asuka, "but all this doesn't sound right to me. Think about it, we have no idea who this guy is, why he's helping, or if this is even real or not. I'm a little nervous about meeting him," Asuka opens her door and lets us in.

"Whatever, we'll find out soon enough if this is real." She takes Dietlinde from me and puts her in her crib, "Anyway, I had a question for you. What happened back in the Eva? Your hand was glowing or something, what was it?" even I didn't know too much about it.

"You remember what Gendo said about my mother? How she was supposed to be trapped in Unit 01?" she nods.

"Yeah… but that was Unit 01… you're a good five models away!" she was being weird… no, come to think of it, she wasn't. She is acting like she did before we were dating; she's back to normal…

"That's not the point. When I passed out, I saw her. I'm still not sure if it was her or not, but after that I was able to use my hand. She said that she wanted to save me and…" I paused for awhile, trying to come up with another word.

"And, You and what?" this was basically committing suicide here…

"My… wife…" she rolls her eyes and walks over to her bed.

"You know what? I'm so sick of you dropping these hints! I was NOT your wife, I was your fiancé! Will you please just leave this alone? God! You're using your mother as a bit to try and get together with me! What the hell is wrong with you?" she's the one that asked!

"Believe what you want…" I lay down on the sofa, "even I'm not too sure what happened… I could have dreamed it…" I didn't care if it was a dream or not, I finally saw my mother again. The conversation ended there, not a word was said. After awhile, I went over and picked up Dietlinde, she was the only thing left of our relationship. Just like that one night, I laid her head on my chest and she soon fell asleep. When I finally start to doze off, I hear a faint humming. It started to get slightly louder as time went on, and it sounded like that German song we would sing to Dietlinde. I lean up past the head of the sofa and see Asuka looking over at us with a smile as she hummed, "Will I ever understand you? You know I hate mixed signals."

"I'm a girl… get used to it…" I hated this constant bickering we were having now; it was like we were thirteen again.

"I've been trying…" I walk over to her bed while I carried Dietlinde and looked her in the eye.

"You need something?" actually, I did.

"You said that my eyes changed, what do you mean?" she said that my eyes were different, that was why she started to trust me again, but I didn't understand what she meant.

"Not this again…" I give her a slight pleading look, "Fine… when I would see you hurting or even killing someone, you had… I don't even know how to describe it… it was like you weren't human; your eyes looked like an animal's. When you told me about actually caring for me, it changed somehow… I don't know, it was just weird," that's what I didn't get, how did they change? I always felt that way about her, not just at that moment. I may not have shown it, but I always did.

"If you say it happened, it did. I'm just glad that you started to trust me again," she takes Dietlinde from my arms and sets her down on her chest, "You do trust me… right?"

"Most of the time… I'm just watching out for you this time. I know you don't like to hear it, but you're not going to hurt me again, I won't let you," damn… that hurt…

"Sorry… you know that I didn't do it on purpose don't you? I would never hurt you intestinally," that is about the only thing that holds true lately.

"I hope you wouldn't… actually, I know you wouldn't. I know you well enough to say that you wouldn't hurt me or anyone that you care for on purpose." At least she knew that about me.

A/N- I… hated… this… chapter! This was – by far – the biggest piece of crap I've written: extremely OOC, awkward conversations, poorly written, and a stupid new plotline. It'll be better next chapter, I promise, it's just that I haven't written in a couple of days, so I'm a little off-beat. Sorry for that. Anyway, what will this man do? Is he for real? Find out in the next chapter; Who Are You, until then, keep on keepin' on!