Angels help
epilogue: For the Angel...

It was pretty cold and misty morning for the beginning of january in Tokio-3. It was about 7:30 am and most people were hurrying on their way to work. However, there was single figure that was just standing in the middle of this chaos. This figure was standing in the yard of apartment block in front of small, handmade from concrete brick, gravestone under big tree. On this gravestone was hand carved stylized image of bird and three lines that said:

'Arael
The Angel that found love.
13th september 2000 - 25th september 2015'

That figure was teenage girl with long fiery-red hair. She was wearing two red neuro-clips on her head, although she herself was sure that she will never need them again - they were just part of her, blue jeans and crimson sweater. And she had black ribbon tied on her left hand... Girl kneeled in front of gravestone and placed two white flowers on it. She ran her finger over hand carved bird. She was deep in thoughts, recalling events of last three and a half months...

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Day 0: 25th september 2015
Ritsuko just returned to her business, when she heard alarm. Angel appeared. She immediately ran towards central dogma. But after thirty or so seconds siren died. Only to be turned one second later. For a mere second. Then there was silence again... Not knowing what to think, Ritsuko continued her way to central dogma. Until she saw something in the secondary corridor. When she came closer, she saw that that 'something' were four men: three section 2 agents and commander himself implanted into the wall. Two of the agent were definitely dead. Other two men were still alive but unconscious. Being interested in what could do that, doctor Akagi turned round the corner and saw Asuka in the epicenter of destruction.

Day 4: 29th september 2015.
Asuka woke up in a hell lot of pain. She felt like her abdominal was constantly teared apart, but yet there wasn't even a scratch there. Asuka was in one of rooms of NERV hospital, but it wasn't an ordinary one. It had thick metal walls and there were tanks with poisonous gas... Even if her S2 organ worked properly, which wasn't as Asuka assumed from her pain, it couldn't save her from poisoning. She wasn't a patient there... More like a criminal... or Angel?.. healed for some purpose.

"What happened?" Girl whispered trying to ignore her pain. "Why am i there?"

""You are here"" Gendo's voice came from intercom. ""Because you needed medical attention and for a choice of a room, that's because you took two lives of NERV personal and attempted to take two more, including commander's one."" Pause... ""When you feel better, you'll appear before war tribunal, Second Child.""

'Schiebe! He just loves...' it was hard even to think normally with this terrible pain. 'torturing people...'

Day 11: 6th october 2015.
Asuka was still in the ocean of pain and knew what happened this day from what Shinji told her after this nightmare finished... On this day sixteenth Angel attacked and hell broke loose. Kaworu had HER, Asuka's, Eva-02 damaged beyond repair... Shinji's Eva was also damaged, but not to that extent... But Rei... That Wondergirl had to self-destruct Eva-00 to kill Angel... And yet, two days after battle she was pretty much alive... Four more days later Ritsuko made personal excursion to Chamber of Gauff for Third Child and Misato... And Rei's darkest secrets were revealed... Not only she was half-Angel, her other half was made from DNA of Shinji's mother... And there were many 'Reis' - soulless spare bodies for Ayanami...

Day 34: 2nd november 2015.
Asuka hadn't had any real changes in her condition up to now...
On this day Kaworu, or better say Tarbis, broke memory seal Arael gave him and attempted to fulfill his mission as an Angel... But in the end, as Shinji said, Tarbis decided, that this world should live and asked Third Child, who became his friend, to kill him. After Shinji hadn't moved, seventeenth Angel forced Shinji's Eva to crash him... This left poor boy deeply scarred in his soul, and Asuka didn't know, if he overcame it yet, in the beginning of year 2016...

Day 36: 4th november 2015.
This day Asuka remembered on her own. Japaneese government forces and SEELE tried to wipe NERV from Earth's surface... Shinji was forced to fight against all nine mass production Evas on his own. And he lost, only to be saved by Rei... Or new Lilith's carnation... After MP Evas were destroyed, something terrible happened: Rei fulfilled purpose, Gendo laid on her - she initiated Third Impact, even if not in a way anybody had it planned... Rei gave everyone, she even came to Asuka, choice: be in a world without pain and loneliness, being a part of collective conscious, or stay on Earth, painful and violent world, but being your own self...
This day at least two thirds of Earth population was gone, including Gendo, Maya, Ritsuko,.. Eva's souls...

Day 68: 6th december 2015.
On this day Asuka's body, more precisely her S2 organ, decided what it wanted and stoped constantly torturing ex-Second Child by hurting and healing her all the time... Next day Asuka was as good as new... And without Gendo there, war tribunal said that she was not guilty... On 7th december Asuka's new life began.

Day 103: 10th january 2016.
Today Asuka woke up, as usual for last month in warm embrace of Shinji. She silently escaped the bed without waking him, and went on with mourning routines and her new ritual... And it finally happened! Flower of her love finally blossomed out! Her test was positive!

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And now, three months and fourteen days after Arael left this world Asuka was there, kneeled in front of Angels gravestone... And she had news for her Angel...
"Guten morgen... Arael... You know, i kept my word... And i know that you are still there with me, at least in my heart..." Asuka whispered. "I miss you... In september... In september you'll become an aunt... Auntie Arael..." ex-Second Child paused for several seconds, before she continued. 'Wherever you are, Arael-chan, if you hear me...For the love you gave me, thank you, my Angel.'

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story is finished now. rewriting first chapter on queue... Oh, how lazy i am... Anyway, everyone who read my story, THANKS!