Part 4: A time of healing

Asuka had returned to the camp with several backpacks filled with supplies. What Shinji had noticed as they crested over the hill was that they had brought someone with them.

"Asuka," Shinji called out as the Red Head Eva pilot walked over to him with a very heavy laden pack full of supplies she and the others had gathered. "What happened?" There was a long pause between them between Asuka's confidence and Shinji's curiosity.

"Shinji, we kinda of ran into another person that came out of the soup like us," Asuka said as she turned to let a Dark haired girl with mocha colored skin walk over by him and move on over towards to where Rei was laying in the campsite.

"Who is that?" Shinji asked looking at the girl.

"Her name is Navi. I think she is still a little freaked out by the fact that your old man totally decimated the planet and the Angels in one fail swoop through his Human Instrumentality Project," Asuka said as she watched the girl pull out several bottles of pills and medications and start looking through a book she had in hand to check what she had was the right stuff.

"So, Asuka, is this the Angel you told me about that happens to be your friend." The girl said as she slowly shook Rei's bare shoulder to wake her up from the lucid sleep she was in.

"Yes, she is. Rei started to argue to me some before she fell down in pain. Rei said that the pain was mainly in her stomach and belly. But it was the blood that tipped me off that it must be something menstrual." Asuka called out the answers she that had pertaining to some unspoken medical questions.

"Rei, I need you to tell me some of what you are feeling, okay? I have tons of medicine here, so tell me how you feel so that I can treat you?" The girl said as she slowly listened to Rei's words.

"Her name is Navi," Asuka said as she watched as Rei seemed to show some true emotion on her face. It was like Navi was bringing out the long hidden emotions in the First Child through her conversation of how to treat her injuries. "She is from America. She got flushed out of the LCL fluid and found her way to a Mall we headed to get some supplies from." There was a pause from Asuka before she continued on with her story. "Sheba found her or she found Sheba. I'm leaving who found whom in the air until I get some answers out of the two of them and trust me; I want to take my time with Navi given the knife she pulled on Sheba. I think that Navi was worried that the Angels had returned or something of that lot and wanted to kill her," Asuka said as she watched as Sheba moved over to her wearing some new clothes of blue jeans and a white t-shirt. Shinji took a double take at the busty female Angel seeing how it had changed from bouncy bouncy juggies to something of very form fitting cleavage on the Angel. "But, I think she is cautious about what is going on with this alliance between us and the Angels." Asuka finished as she watched Navi like a Hawk.

"Asuka," Navi called out to the Second Child after giving the First Child some pills and a slug of water to take in to her body. "Rei is going to be okay. Her menstrual cycle just kicked in and she is suffering from a serious drug withdrawal, that and the medicine she was on was to halt her menstrual period. When she reformed, I think that the drug got flushed out of her when we got absorbed into that blood soup of a sea. And now she is having her biology kick in like mad. She should be okay in a few weeks, but, I am weaning her off the meds she was on. Going cold turkey for her wasn't a good thing for her body," Navi said as she rubbed Rei's forehead with her thumb. "Shinji." There was a pause. "Rei said that she's sorry about being so cold to you when you first met. Oh and that it is okay for you to see her naked since you are kinda of her brother and she has a liking for someone named Kaworu." Asuka's jaw could have punched a hole through the other side of the planet given how far it fell. Navi was looking at Rei wondering if this Blue Haired girl had planned that for some sort of revenge against Asuka.

Several days had passed and Rei felt stronger. Through the smell of the blood sea was still present in the air given the winds, she wanted to walk around and get her body back in shape for the trials ahead of her.

All of the voices of the clones had been silenced.

One soul, one body.

She had suddenly gone through a slew of emotions. Anger, sadness, controllable laughter of one of Shinji's jokes and embarrassment when she felt Steve touch her behind by accident while they were walking. She felt so different. A single self; that was when her mind turned to thinking about Kaworu being naked with her she felt she needed to mate with him. She shifted her thoughts back to the smell of her body and the desire to get it clean for him.

Now she needed to get a bath. A cold one.

Walking down a makeshift path to the ocean with her towel and a small backpack, she stripped down to bare skin leaving her new clothing in a disheveled pile and walked into the sea with a small rag and started to scrub with the salt water to get the stink off of her skin.

After several minutes, the coldness of the sea started to sink into her skin. She was a Lillum, so, that meant that she had a...a...she looked up into the sky and saw the sun and the clouds. She was at peace. She was one of one, a single self. No Hive mind, No Poli-Mind. Just her.

"Rei," A soft voice said as she got tapped on the shoulder. "You okay?" Rei turned to see standing in the water next to her was Yui wrapped in a towel around her naked body. Rei blinked a few times as tears starting to come down her face.

"How...how do you deal with emotions?" Rei asked looking at the child.

"I just let it out and talk," Yui said as she sat down in the water next to her the towel getting soaked in the process. "I am a Human/Angel like you. I'll teach you emotions and you can teach me about..." Rei was looking at this younger version of herself and seeing a glimpse of the life she could have had if she was either born on the world of the Angels or as a Human here on Earth. What had Rei to offer, she was lost, didn't have many kills. All she knew was fighting, dying, survival. She wanted more. All she had was her first incarnation's memories of being a mother to Shin.

"I will be your big sister," Rei said as she reached out to the girl and hugged her tight almost out of pure instinct.

"Rei?" Yui said as she felt Rei's bare back with her small hands.

"I desire this. You are young and I..." Rei's mind was processing faster than her mouth could move. Of all the times she wished to be telepathic.

"You feel about me," Yui said as she pulled back to Rei's face. "That is good. You have the memories of the progenitor; you will learn to make memories of your own. You are not Ikari; you are Rei, daughter of Yui Ikari. You have her memories like all Angels of their parents." Yui's words sunk into Rei. She had felt that something was wrong with her, but it was her.

Years of repressed emotions came flooding out of her body and suddenly Rei stood up out of the sea and summoning all of her powers, she let out a scream at the top of her lungs. Waves of emotions and power exploded with every ounce of pain she had. This raw emotional power just blasted into her AT field as she shot it out into the sky letting the pain of her life flow out with purging force of a tidal wave crashing into the shoreline.

The sudden part of the sky and clouds from that one single burst of AT power had cost her a lot of energy as she collapsed to her knees from exhaustion. She let the coolness of the ocean flow around her body cooling her down as she felt it lap at the bottom crease of her breasts. She could feel her nipples start to harden as she felt her body get used to the water temperature. It was then she noticed that Shinji was standing by her draping a towel over her shoulders so she wouldn't catch cold.

"Rei, I didn't know that you cold produce an AT field?" Shinji slowly knelt down and scooped her up and carried back to the beach in his arms.

"We all have AT fields. I just...," Rei paused as she put her head to Shinji's chest and listened to his heart beat letting her know that they shared the same blood and some of the same pains in their lives. "Shinji, I know that you are my brother." There was a long pause again as Rei started to sort through what next to say next to Shinji. "I have the memories of you're...our mother." Rei corrected herself as she remembered Yui's life and the feelings for her son and the daughter she was planning to have with... "Do you hate me for being part Angel?" Rei's words just felt a little out of place. Shinji just stopped as everyone was standing on the beach looking at him and Rei.

"What the hell was that?" Asuka asked seeing Shinji carrying a very naked Rei.

"It was Rei," Yui said looking at Asuka. "She let out her pain, her field focused it and it happened," the girl said as Shinji placed Rei on the soft sand and let her pull the towel around her body to stay warm.

"What?" Asuka asked looking at the tiny Blue haired girl.

"She needed to let out her pain," Yui said as she knelt over Rei. "So much and so little time of her being alive to have it dumped onto her." The Angel/Lillum child said.

"Okay, so..." Asuka was cut off.

"Asuka," Rei said still curled in Shinji's arms on the ground. "You can be such a rude bitch. I just hate Shinji's dad for what he did to me, being his doll. So, I will consider your feelings only when you consider mine, you Second Child Nazi Bitch. And don't call me a doll. I will never be anyone's doll gain." Asuka was left speechless as Rei thought about what she wanted to do with her life and new kid sister...

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