'Blah'- Thoughts
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Man's greatest enemy is…
Chapter 7: Development
Maya Ibuki sat at her workstation reviewing the file that Kaji had given her to look at, she knew he'd told that this could lead to a critical break through but quiet frankly she had no real idea what she was supposed to be looking for. One thing was clear that these drugs would be arriving at the docks by ship sometime in the next few days so that narrowed the drop off location a little. At this moment she was looking at the list of ships scheduled to at the dock to try and narrow the field even further.
The door behind her opened and Kaji entered the room he was holding two cups one of which had coffee for himself whilst the other contained tea
"Hey Maya. Here two sugars and a spot of cream just the way you like it." He said as he handed the mug of tea to the young woman, which she accepted gratefully, Maya didn't like coffee she found the taste of it too bitter for her liking "So found out anything for us."
"It's coming along but it's a little more difficult then I thought it would be mostly because there's a lot of jargon and terms in here that I'm not familiar with and would only make sense to someone in the police department." Maya said as she let out a tired sigh
Kaji looked at the young tech feeling slightly sorry for her as this wasn't what she'd signed up for
"Y'know Maya if this is too difficult for you I could always find someone else to…" he began but she cut him off
"No its alright I'll get it done, it might just take me a little longer then expected." She gave then unshaven man a small tired smile "So have you got the DNA results back yet?"
"Not yet. We sent them to the crime lab for analysis but it seems that they're pretty bogged down with other cases at the moment." Kaji replied, "So how's the search of the Magi going?"
"I'm currently running a self diagnostic program through Casper designed to alert me if it finds any trace of the virus or program that was uploaded and disabled our network. So fingers crossed."
She then picked up the file again and began working through it "I wish I knew what half this stuff meant?"
"Like what?" he asked looking at the document over her shoulder
"Like this word for a start." She replied pointing to the one she was struggling with
"Oh that means that the informant cannot be named for reasons of security." Kaji replied casually before sipping his coffee
"How did you know that?" she asked astonished
"Well, nah forget it." "No, tell me." "No way, you'd just laugh at me." She then looked at his pouting her lips and a puppy dog look in her eyes
"Damn my one weakness. Alright when I was young I wanted to be a detective."
"Really I bet you watched Starsky and Hutch religiously."
"Actually I was addicted to tough's old Black and White noire movies from the 40's and 50's."
"Really I never would have guessed."
"Yeah back in collage me and Ritsu spent many a Saturday night on my couch with the lights off with a pizza and a six pack watching Humphrey Bogart in all his glory."
"Sempi likes noire movies?"
"Oh yeah she collects blondes in bottles too." The government agent said doing his best Bogart impression
"I could tell you stories but dear Ritsuko would kill me."
"Did the Major ever join you?"
"Hell no, Misato hates toughs movies, she wouldn't watch one with me no matter how many of her movies I had to sit through."
"I bet ole Huph was your hero back then, I bet to you Casablanca was worshipped religiously."
"Not really I was never really into Casablanca, it was good for a drinking game though." His cell phone suddenly began ringing
"Excuse me. Hello…ok I'll be there are in a couple of minutes…listen I got to go but if you need any help with that give men a buzz and I'll see what I can do." He said bas he put his phone away
"Sure." She replied Kaji then headed for the door but stopped just short "Hey Maya I think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship." He said once more in his Bogart impression Maya burst into giggles as he left.
Fifteen minutes later Kaji found himself in the T3PD crime lab looking for a Lieutenant Horatio Caine (I love CSI alright, CSI & CSI Miami rock New York not so much) a man with smart red hair that was beginning to grey dressed a white shirt and grey slacks
"Mr Kaji I'm Lt Caine."
"Yeah I got a call saying you got something for me."
"That's right, if you just follow me."
The lieutenant then led Kaji along the corridors of the facility
"You know Lt Caine I'm getting the impression you don't like me very much." the lieutenant looked the government agent
"Don't take it personally Mr Kaji its just me and my co workers don't happen to like your organization nor do we agree with your methods." he said to him
"Hmm, where have I heard that before." Kaji replied with a slight grin
"Glad you find it amusing." Lt Caine said before they set off again.
They then arrived at one of the labs where they found a young guy in a white lab coat working away at a computer
"Ryan Wolfe meet Ryoji Kaji from NERV he's here for the results." the young manlooked at the government agent
"Ok ." he then typed in some commands and a file came up
"We took the shoe prints of the three guys that were found at the scene and ran them through the employee database and we have managed narrowed the field somewhat to twenty people." he then handed Kaji a print out "But that's not the reason we called you down here."
"No?"
they then left the computer and walked over to table with a lot of equipment spread across the top
"No, see we asked for the victims clothes to see if we could find anything that might point out of the accused identity. We didn't find anything the attackers left behind but we did find this."
he then picked up a tightly sealed pieces of plastic at first glance Kaji couldn't see anything but studying it closer he saw a single hair sealed within
"We found this on the victims shirt. We tested it and it doesn't match the victims DNA."
Kaji looked at the young man then at Lt Caine "So you mean to tell me..."
"There was a fourth guy." Lt Caine finished Kaji's sentence
"You said it didn't match the victim do you know who it does belong to?"
"Yes, take a look."
Kaji was handed another print out and looked upon the face of the guilty man
"Has anyone mentioned this in a report yet."
"No, I'm gonna write one up after I'm done here." Ryan said looking at the government agent
"Don't, don't release anything yet, this guy might be more useful if he doesn't know someone's onto him."
Back at NERV Misato was going through the seemingly endless pile of paper work that was on her desk. She was about to nod off when her cell went off Major Katsuragi please report to the Commanders office.
'Oh great, well I guess it was only a matter of time. Time to face the music' Misato thought as she rose from her desk 'Or a firing squad.'
The elevator ride was long but for Misato it wasn't long enough soon the elevator reached its destination, exiting Misato made her way towards the Commanders office
'I really don't like it here, I mean would it kill him to turn on a light?' she thought to herself as she entered the room as grim and dark as usual
"Ah Major sit down." said a voice but to Misato surprise it wasn't the Commander instead she found Sub-commander Fuyutsuki "Surprised to see me?"
"Well yes sir, I wasn't expecting to see you." Misato replied releived she didn't have to deal with Gendo
"Yes well, it has come to my attention that you've been taking Rei home with you." Fuyutsuki said as he went through a document on the desk
"Yes sir." the Major replied
"Care to explain why."
"I believed that under the circumstances it would be better for her not to be living by herself, sir."
There was a pause Misato believed she could see gears turning behind the Sub-Commanders eyes
"Hmmm, well given the present circumstances it is an acceptable, I'll try and keep this off the commanders radar. You are dismissed Major."
"Thank you sir." Misato made to leave when she turned back to Fuyutsuki
"Erm sir, if your here where's the commander?"
"I'm not sure, he said something about a personal matter to see too."
Meanwhile in a hospital recovery room Gendo Ikari stared at the young man who was occupied the bed in front of him, he'd been sitting there for the better part of an hour in total silence but then again when the other person is in a coma conversation tends to be thin on the ground and as far as anyone was concerned he wasn't here this visit never took place.
AN Well finally chapter seven sorry it took so long I started writing this a while ago but I got side tracked with other stuff. So how was it review and tell me. I'll try and get round to writing chapter eight soon, I hope. Later.