A.N.- "Blah"- normal speech
'Blah'- thoughts
Blah>- Phone
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Man's greatest enemy is…
Chapter2: Running away.
Kaji looked over his shoulder at them, his brow was drenched in sweat and a defeated look appeared on his face when he saw Misato was also there
"What is it?" she asked,
Kaji shock his head then got up picked the person off the floor and turned around which was met with a stunned silence Misato looked on the verge of tears
"Oh god, Shinji!".
Misato was sitting in the waiting area in the medical unit her eyes red from crying, the sight of Shinji in Kaji's arms with a knife in his shoulder was still branded to her brain.
At this moment Shinji was in the ER fighting for his life, he'd lost quite a lot of blood and he'd taken one hell of a beating plus he'd coughed up some white tablets when Kaji was giving him CPR which they would test after Shinji was in the clear, over and over she replayed the scene in her head though all it really did was bring her more pain and with it more tears but it was her actions after she'd seen Shinji which disgusted her the most.
The doctors had just laid Shinji on the gurney and Kaji whose shirt, arms and hands were covered in blood was handing three white tablets to Ritsuko saying that Shinji had coughed them up, Misato just stared at the man with his face twisted into a look of defeat which both sickened and wounded her, she looked at him till she could no longer stand it and she ran, she didn't know where she was running and frankly she didn't care all she wanted was to get as far away from that room as possible. When she finally stopped she found herself at the gazebo in the small garden in the Geofront outside headquarters, she stared into the small fountain
'What are you doing?' she thought to herself 'Shinji need's you and the first thing you do is run.' She didn't know how long she stood there but she didn't move
"Shinji is in the Emergency Room" a voice behind her said, turning round Misato saw Ritsuko "the sync test's have been cancelled and Asuka and Rei have been placed into protective custody but they haven't been told anything."
"How is he?" the Major asked
"Not good, he could really use somebody in his corner."
"I don't…" Misato began
"GODDAMMIT MAJOR" the doctor yelled "GET YOUR ASS TO THAT MEDICAL UNIT NOW." and with that the Major ran off back to HQ double-time, Ritsuko watched her long time friend and college head off
"Hang in there Shinji." she said under her breath before going after her.
That had been two hours ago and she'd heard nothing, Misato realised that Asuka and Rei didn't know about Shinji, she was about to leave when the door opened and Kaji walked in
"What are you doing here?" she asked but Kaji ignored her question
"How's Shinji?" he asked
"I don't know" Misato said "he's still in surgery but there's been no word on his condition".
The two of them sat down, there was a silence between them after twenty minutes Misato spoke up
"Who did this, who would want to hurt Shinji?"
"I don't know." Kaji replied.
Some time later a doctor emerged from the ER, Misato was about to jump him but Kaji put his hand on her shoulder to restrain her
"How is he?" Kaji asked fearing the worst
"We did the best we could" the doctor said "he'd lost a lot of blood and the wound was quiet deep but we managed to stabilize him" he paused "unfortunately his mind has gone into shock."
"What do you mean his mind has gone into shock?" Misato asked
"It means that the patient has suffered a psychological trauma so great that his mind has frozen."
"Can you unfreeze it?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, all we can do now is wait and see if Mr Ikari wakes up"
"What do you mean 'if' he wakes up?" there was a long pause "Well."
"Major you should prepare yourself for the worst, there's a possibility and a pretty high one that Mr Ikari might never wake up.".
There was another silence between the three adults, Kaji looked stunned and fresh tears were forming in Misato's eyes whilst the doctor was looking at his shoes he hated this part of his job but it had to be done.
Kaji led Misato down the halls whilst she unloaded her tears onto his shoulder, Kaji opened his mouth to say something but nothing came so he just led her to her office, once inside she sat down in her chair whilst Kaji sat down on her desk, five minutes later Ritsuko entered the room
"I just came from the infirmary and they told me Shinji's condition." she was putting on a strong front but Kaji could hear her voice shaking slightly and he noticed that she'd shed a few tears on the way over but he didn't mention it seeing that she was trying to be strong
"Misato maybe you should go home." he said she was about to say something but he interrupted her "Your in no state to continue today so go home. I'm sure the doctors will call you if his condition changes."
"He right y'know" Ritsuko said "plus Asuka still doesn't know and she won't need you going to pieces on her."
"Ok." Misato said in a small voice, she exited the room sniffing slightly the two people remaining waited for two minutes before speaking again
"So have you worked out what toughs tablets are?" Kaji asked the doctor
"Not yet" she replied "I've been stuck making sure the Magi wasn't effected by the black out not to mention what caused the damn thing in the first place."
"Sounds like fun, so any theories yet."
"Unfortunately no" "Ikari's not going like that, speaking of that particular devil doesn't he and Fuyutsuki get back tomorrow."
"Yeah well, still I feel sorry for the poor soul who tells them about Shinji though I can already guess their reaction. Fuyutsuki will be shocked but will hide it and Ikari won't give a toss, he hasn't cared about Shinji in 14 years and he'll have little reason to start now."
"I'm a little worried at how Rei will take the news" Kaji said in a sad voice as he noticed Ritsuko's surprised look "she may not let on but she and Shinji have become pretty close."
"I'll tell Rei about Shinji" Ritsuko said still a little stunned at Kaji's words, she was about to leave when she looked over her shoulder "I'm a little surprised at you Kaji. Why do you care about Shinji so much?" Kaji smiled
"I dunno, I guess he reminds me in some way's of me when I was his age."
"Oh" Ritsuko said "I thought you were doing it to win Brownie points with Misato." Kaji laughed
"Well it couldn't hurt could it.".
Much later Kaji once again opened his front door, today had not been one of his favourites. After a few hours of trying to make sense of Ikari's plans for instrumentality and the true purpose of many of NERV's various other 'secret' projects he decided to go to bed and try and get some sleep, he laid down on his bed but couldn't fall asleep. After hours of futile attempts Kaji sat up, he reached into his pocket and pulled out the note which he'd found with Shinji's body and read it. Tomorrow Commander Ikari and Sub Commander Fuyutsuki would be returning and they'd find out about this incident
"Shinji" he said to himself "why did it have to be you!"
AN Sorry for reposting the wrong chapter, bigthanks to rheaditto2 for pointing that out. Keep reviewing andI'll get to chapter 4 A.S.A.P. Peace