Disclaimer: See chapter 1.
"Speech"
AN: This is probably the last chapter for this rollercoaster of a story, if you can really call it that. At any rate, this is the epilogue, and it is probably poorly written, as the endings to most of my stories are, but it is an ending nonetheless. Also, this chapter is written in Shinji's POV.
Chapter 8: A Rose For The Dead
We have beaten the Angels. They will no longer come back to haunt this planet of ours. Earth, it seems, is safe. For now at least. The Eva's will not be destroyed as it has been proven that another crisis may arise that may require them to be used again, but no one knows when. They have been put into cryo-stasis, and NERV has been shut down yet again.
Most of us, however, are happy that we have been given another chance to live, but this time, with no government agency of any kind telling us what our job is and what it is not. There are no diabolical schemes to destroy the Earth just so one man can be reunited with a woman who has been alive all this time; in spirit, inside Evangelion Unit 01.
Now that the Earth has been saved, I feel it necessary to pay respects to the person who I hated. This will be the first and final time I ever do this for the monster that was called my father.
"Father, what foolish ideas you had. Ending the world would not have brought you what you sought so badly. No, she was in front of you the whole time, but all you saw was the machine that had engulfed her body."
Misato walked up behind me and stood there for a moment, not saying anything, waiting for me to finish saying what I had never told him when he was alive; that he was an old fool with foolish schemes.
When I finally turned around to her, she smiled to me in her Misato like smile that only she had, and I walked over to her and grabbed her hand and intertwined our fingers and we headed off for her car, the blue Renault that she has always had.
"So, Shinji, where should we go now, besides home?" The sun was starting to set and the stars were starting to come out as it got darker and darker.
"Second star to the right, and keep on going 'til morning."
With that said, she started the car and we went for the stars, and we touched them.
AN: Short, but not too bad. I know, I could have written this better and longer, but I didn't really think I could really take the story much further than I have. I also am thinking about writing a sequel to this, so that is why the cryptic ending is there. Until the possible next time, see you later.
blackdeathmessenger