Nothing Will Ever Change That
A/N- This chapter was proof-read by Frost-Eva-04, not Frost-Eva-00. I've been screwing up on the name, so all of my chapters have been proof-read by Frost-Eva-04. Sorry about that man!
A/A/N- You all asked for some peace? You all asked for some resolution? Here ya go! Just read and see what I mean. I think you'll all like this chapter.
Chapter 85: Two Weeks
Asuka's Room – Morning
I woke up early… really early. It was five in the morning when I finally came to. I look down to see Asuka sleeping on my chest with a leg swung around me… just like last time. Last night was amazing in my eyes. It wasn't like last time, there wasn't that awkward feeling of having no idea what you're doing, we both knew exactly how to react. Another good side was that she actually let me pull out, I take it she didn't want another child. I didn't have to worry about her getting pregnant again, all I had was a good memory. In one night, we went from friends, to making out, to finally dating, to being engaged again, and then actually having sex. Yeah, I'd say it was an awesome night.
I laid there staring at the ceiling for an hour until Asuka woke up on her own.
"Mmmm…" she looked up at me with half closed eyes, then smiles, "hey… sleep good?" she always made a funny comment after waking up after the act.
"Yeah… you?" she nods as she gets up out of the bed. She stretches her arms in the air and grabs a shirt. It was the one from last night that went down to her mid-thigh.
"I really didn't sleep much…" no surprise there. She slips the shirt on and throws my wadded up shirt at me, "Here, I don't want Dietlinde to see you," crap! I forgot about her! We actually did it with her in the room! I put on the shirt and get up out of bed, "Grab some pants, your shirt isn't exactly… long…" with a chuckle I follow what she said. A few seconds later, I hear a knocking at the door. Asuka walks over and peeks outside, then swings the door open, "Hey Sam, you need something?" at first, I freaked out that Asuka was dressed like that, but hey, who's gonna see?
"Two things; one, I'm happy that you two are together again, but please keep it down. I could hear you from down the hall! And two, please tell me Shinji used a condom this time!" she had a wide smile on.
"Shut up!" Sam grabbed Asuka's left hand and felt the ring.
"I knew it! You two are getting married!" Sam hugged Asuka tight, "It's about time you got back together!" Asuka pulled away from Sam.
"Yeah, yeah…" she whispered something in Sam's ear and Sam smiled widely, "See?" she giggled a little.
"Okay, I just came over to congratulate you two. See ya…" she started to walk down the hall, "By the way, Shinji, nice one! No wonder she's loud!" with an annoyed moan, she shuts the door.
"What did you tell her?" she smiled just as wide as Sam did.
"Nothin'…" she walks over to Dietlinde's crib, "Just a number…" there are so many ways to interpret that, I just ignored it.
"Forget it, I don't even want to know!" she picks up Dietlinde and walks over to her closet. While holding Dietlinde with one hand, she pulls out a high-chair, "Where'd you get that?" she puts Dietlinde in it.
"Ritsuko gave it to us. Dietlinde needs to eat, you know," she pulled out a can of baby food and began to spoon feed her. When Dietlinde learn to eat without force? Probably yet another thing I missed, "You're hungry, huh?" Asuka gave her a sweet smile.
"Did you teach her to spoon feed?" I guess Akagi could have done it.
"Yeah, it didn't take too long… she's a fast learner, just like her mother!" Dietlinde giggled at her. When she was done, Asuka put her back in her crib and walked over to me, "Okay, I'm not going to beat around the bush here. I want to start planning our wedding right now. You still have Gendo's money, right?" already? I guess I wouldn't mind getting it out of the way…
"Y-Yeah… I do, but-" she cut me off.
"Good. I don't want to wait with this, I want it to be soon," she sure was taking control here. When she said 'soon' I thought she meant in a few months… nope… "Soon, as in within the month."
"What, how can we get it done so fast!" she finally smiles back at me.
"You know that I don't want a big wedding, so it won't take long. Come on Shinji, I want this," she put on her begging eyes… and now I was putty in her hands. She knew damn well that I can't resist those eyes!
"If you want to… where you want it to be?" she waved a finger in the air.
"Hold on, we have to go tell Ritsuko. I'm sure she could help," she will be overjoyed to see us together again.
"Okay… but before we go, put on some pants…" she rolled her eyes and grabbed a pair of shorts and slipped them on, "Now we can go!" she gave me her sarcastic smile and took my hand as we walked. We both knocked on Akagi's door in unison.
"Come in!" we walk in, still holding hands, "Oh, hey Shinji… and Asuka… holding hands…" she looked down at her left hand, "Oh my God!" she leaps up out of her seat and hugs both of us, "You're back together! I knew that you would!" she leans back and looks at us.
"Um… yeah… we needed your help with something," Asuka was way too excited about this to wait on it.
"Anything! What do you need?" Asuka smiled and told Akagi what she wanted.
"We want the wedding to be within the month. We just can't wait any longer… can you help us with the planning?" Akagi's eyes went wide.
"So soon?" we both nod with a smile, "Okay, if you want to. Just tell me what you want and I'll arrange everything," she leads us over to her desk and takes out a pad of paper, "First off, where do you want it to be?" that was an easy question.
"At the same spot where I first told her how I felt, at the beach." She looked at me weird. We never told her how this all happened, I just realized that, "Oh, well… we went to the beach one day and… yeah… basically I freaked her out…" Asuka laughed.
"Well yeah! I mean damn, we were talking about my looks and he just came out and said 'I love you' wouldn't you be freaked out? Anyway, we want it there. I'll show you where it was." She just stared at us wide eyed.
"I swear… you two have the weirdest relationship… okay, how many people you want to come?" it's not like we know too many people.
"Well, let's see; Sam," she held up a hand counting off the people as she named them, "you, Gahiji, Toji, Kensuke – even though he's an asshole, and anyone else that you can think of," like I said, not too many people.
"I know a few of the NEVR employees that would want to come, but that's still only ten people… kinda small, don't you think?" we both shrug. Neither of us wanted a big wedding, so it didn't matter.
"We want a small wedding. Now, the invitations are simple, so we can take care of those, we'll need a priest, food, and of course a wedding cake!" Asuka… always taking control.
"Okay, now about your dress," Asuka's face lit up at that. This… wasn't going to be good.
"I thought you'd never ask! I already have on picked out!" she pulls out a magazine from her back pocket… how did she know… she's had this planned! She knew that this was going to happen! She opens it to a page that had a single dress on it, "Right there!" it was actually duller then I thought it would be. Two spaghetti straps held it up that went down to a v-cut neck. The rest was just a normal dress that went down to her ankles. A fancy pattern decorated the breasts and went down to the stomach.
"You really do want a casual wedding, huh? Okay, I'll pick that one up. Now for Shinji… you have two choices here… you could just go with a tux… I have to tell you something…" a tux or the NERV commander uniform, I know.
"I know, I'm the commander of NERV, so I could wear the NERV getup, right?" her eyes went wide yet again.
"How… how did you know? Who told you?" I wave a hand in the air.
"Forget about it. I think I'll wear the commander's uniform, I always liked how it looked!" plus, I want to show off my top ranking! I outrank everyone in Japan!
"O-Okay… I'll talk with you about that later. Anyway, I think we have everything. Just give me the check and I'll buy everything," luckily, I actually remembered to bring it. I hand the check over to her and get up with Asuka, "Okay, I'll try to get the wedding to be in two weeks, but no promises," man… this was happening way too fast. Well, no, not TOO fast, I was just fine with it, it was just so sudden.
"Thanks, really. You always help us whenever we need it… thanks…" Asuka was actually blushing as she said that!
"Awww, don't worry about it! I'll do anything for my favorite couple!" with a wave, we left.
"Damn… two weeks… two weeks and we'll be married… I can't wait…" Asuka stopped in her tracks, "You okay?" she had a wide smile on and her 'I have an idea' eyes on, "Uh… Asuka?"
"What about our honeymoon?"
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Asuka's Room – That Night
We've been simply lying in bed staring at the ceiling all day. Both of us are amazed at this. Sure, we knew that it was going to happen eventually, but damn, this is just crazy. I can't get my heart to stop pounding; thoughts of that day keep on flashing in my head. Her in that beautiful wedding dress, the eyes of everyone when we finally say 'I do' and actually being together forever… I just can't wait.
"So… you sure that you don't want a honeymoon?" Asuka didn't want one, but she still hasn't told me why.
"Yeah… I just won't be able to relax knowing about SEELE. It doesn't matter, we'll have plenty of fun right here!" she chuckled and swung an arm around my chest. We've already broken the tradition of waiting until the honeymoon to have sex, but whatever.
"Yeah, I guess. I'll order for a special dinner, we can have a romantic candle-lit dinner, then…" she chuckled, "yeah… that…" I really couldn't wait for this. I just kept on thinking of that day.
"Hey, who's gonna be your best man?" like I had much of a choice.
"Well, it WAS going to be Cass… but now I'm thinking Toji. What about you? Who's going to be the bride's maid?" It would have been Hikari, but now probably Sam.
"Ritsuko," I knew it… wait… "Neither of us have much of a choice in the matter, huh? The bride's maid is supposed to help me with the dress, right? Well Sam might have some trouble with that. I would have picked her anyway, she's done so much, and we owe her." that was true. We basically owe her our relationship, so this was the least we could do.
"I'll be right back..." I start to get up. I needed to talk to Akagi about something, "Just stay here."
"Hold on! Where are you going?" I walk out of her room and begin to close the door.
"I need to talk with Akagi alone," with that, I shut the door. I had to do something about this hand before the wedding; I didn't want this with me when I walk down the aisle. Once again, I knock on Akagi's door.
"Come in!" always the same greeting. I walk up and sit down at her desk, "Oh, you're back. Did you need something?"
"Yeah, I want to do something about this hand. I can't have everyone looking at it when we're getting married. Any ideas?" amputation would work just fine. It's not like it would hurt… just get a blade and cut it off!
"Wow… that was… unexpected. Well, we could amputate it," I knew it, "or we could just slap a glove on it. You know, straighten out the fingers to make it look normal before the wedding and just put a glove on it." Great! Now I'm going to look like MJ.
"Yeah, I guess that's better then a stump, huh?" she chuckles.
"Yeah... Also, Sam just stopped by, she told me about last night… nice one," why does everyone keep on saying that!
"Nice one what? What did I do?" what DIDN'T I do, that's the real question!
"Oh come on, like you don't know! Four times Shinji! Do you have any idea how tired she must have been?" but we only did it once… wait… did Asuka… she actually told Sam that!
A/N- A little joke at the end never hurt anyone, right? If you don't get it, get out. Well, you can guess what the next chapter will be about, huh? I don't really have to say much here, just read the next chapter; New Level, until then, keep on keepin' on!