Part 7: Rei... Oh, Rei

Rei was stretching out, though she did feel a little sick in her stomach, she tried not to complain about it, but, Asuka had caught one look at her and said, "So Wonder Childe isn't perfect after all". This was not said in the sarcastic way Rei had known, but, with a feeling of compassion like Asuka was sincerely worried about her. Rei for some reason wanted some chicken broth for breakfast, though she hated meat, the smell of the artificial broth was making her mouth water. Grabbing some carrots and a knife, Rei started chopping, that was when Sheba came in.

"Hi Rei." Her fellow Angel said taking a seat by the kitchen counter. It took Rei a moment to notice that Sheba's hair was slowly developing a yellow tint to it leaving sections green where the hair was mashed together.

"Sheba, have you been modifying your appearance?" Rei asked looking as Sheba started to blush.

"Yeah, I have been using some of the human genes I have picked up to change my hair color," Sheba said as she ran her hand through her hair.

"It is strange," Rei said looking at her own hands. "Are you doing this for Asuka?" Rei asked leaving the question open.

"No, just that, I have this need to change, but, it is not for Asuka. I want to know what it is like to be human?" Sheba tilted her head some as she stretched a hand around towards her backside and started to scratch. Rei noticed that underneath the extra large sports jersey, she wore as a sleeping garment. She was wearing no undergarments, something that she picked up from Asuka. Typical.

"So, have you seen Navi and Lillith around? I do not sense their fields in the immediate area." Rei said closing her eyes to create a mental map of the farm they were on.

"Well, Lillith didn't sleep well last night, so she went for what humans call a walk to clear her head and Navi, well, she asked and went after her." There was a long pause from Sheba. "Are you not feeling well because Asuka said that?" Rei's eyes shot up to Sheba's eye line

"I do not require Navi's assistance at this time," Rei said as the tone in her voice suddenly changed. "I am well." That was when Sheba looked at her with a sarcastic grin.

"Yes, well considering you were ill from that human illness." Sheba shot her a look. "Asuka is right. You need to act human or at least like an Angel and not like some automaton," Sheba said getting up and walking around the counter and right up to Rei. "Rei." Then Sheba reached over and kissed Rei on the Cheek. Rei pulled back in shock. "I know human feelings, so why don't you explore them. I explore them. I don't feel disconnected. So, if you explore them, then..." There was a grin on her face. "We Angels can feel at ease and you can feel happy." There was a waving finger. "Not fake happy, mother Yui, happy, but true happiness," Sheba said as she walked out of the kitchen. "I'm heading off to get my bath now, you think about that," Sheba said as she disappeared out the door.

Rei was left standing there as she looked out to the after image of where Sheba had stood.

"Explore emotions?" Rei was left with a question she didn't understand.

Navi was now heading back to the farmhouse. Lillith was next to her walking, too. There was a low blush on her face. AT fields and some other personal stuff...an Angel discovering that she had a sex dream of an old boyfriend, it had brought things back to some level of normality as they headed back to tell the other about Humans having AT fields. But, what if it was selective or...

She pushed the thought out of her head and leaned over and squeezed Lillith's shoulder.

"Lillith, listen, I know Angel's have some major powers, but, if this splice goes both ways then that means that Angels will have some human skills or behaviors," Navi said as they walked up onto the porch.

"Yeah, I'm not thinking too well of Angels freaking out when they realize they don't have wings and diminished AT fields. I would be scared out of my wits if I ever saw a human produce an AT field," Lillith said as they moved through the door.

"Yeah, that is something that would even freak me out and I don't know how to fully use my new super powers."

Rei stretched out as she put on a pair of red pants and a red sweatshirt. The change in her taste in her garments wasn't due to her growth of personality; it was due to her being cold. That was when Kaworu walked into her room.

"Rei," Kaworu said as he looked at her. "I see that you are feeling much better today." Rei looked at him.

"I am." Rei kept her sentence short.

"Rei, you need to talk more. Even the other Angels want you to talk more," Kaworu said as he moved over to Rei.

"I speak to the others," Rei said softly. Kaworu looked at her. How much damage had Gendo Ikari done to her?"

"Rei," Kaworu said as he touched her shoulder. "I am asking you to at least start a conversation with the others. Talk about the small things. Things that you feel are important. Rei, you are a person, so give us the time to help you." Then Kaworu moved in and kissed her. Rei pulled back and looked away. For a moment, she blushed in reaction to Kaworu's feelings towards her.

"See, you have emotions," Kaworu said as Rei looked back at him. "Let them out or they will explode and we don't want that," Kaworu said as he started for the door.

"I will try," Rei said as Kaworu stopped.

"Oh, and Rei, one more thing..." Kaworu said as Rei looked at him.

"What is it?" She asked moving forward a few stops.

"Speak louder. Some of us can't hear you at times," Kaworu said as he headed out the door.

"Oh," Rei said looking at the floor pondering Kaworu's words.

Sheba was walking along the deck of the farmhouse when she saw Navi and Lillith come into view. That was when she saw them running towards her when they caught a look at her.

"Sheba." Navi called out as she started to run full flat out to get to her. After a moment, when the dark haired human bounce up onto the deck, she felt that there was something different.

"Navi." Sheba looked concerned as she started to walk over to the human that had once threatened her life. "What is it?"

"We need to get everyone together, me and Lillith found out something about what exactly the Third Impact did to us." Navi was nearly panting at this time, but, given how Lillith looked, this was something so important they had sprinted back here. With that, Sheba motioned for the two of them to come inside.

Asuka's jaw was on the floor, literally. Humans possessing the powers of the Angels. She would have considered it nonsense, but, seeing Navi produce a functional A.T. Field right before here eyes, just scared the crap out of her.

"So, what you are saying, that between what my Father did to Start the Human Instrumentality and the Third Impact," Shinji looked at Lillith.

"And you and Rei deciding to meld it to your own terms, yeah, congratulations, Shinji you just made a new Species," Lillith said looking at the other Angels. All of which looked a little shocked and a bit scared by this information. Hell, even little Yui was literally glued to Rei's arm like a vice in fear...

"So, that means that if some human gets really pissed or scared, we are talking about something like Rei did occurring," Asuka said looking at Rei.

"That might be the case, also, I have been sensing that there have been more people coming out of the Blood Sea, but, I sense that there is another vein of it," Lillith said looking at the entire group. "But, it seems to be draining out of the ocean and heading somewhere deep underground."

"So, that means that we have more trouble coming than expected," Asuka said looking at the group. "So, we are pretty much screwed without the Eva's." Navi looked at Asuka.

"Asuka, the Angels and the Eva's were essentially the same thing from what Shinji said." Navi took her time to decide on her next words. "But, given that we might all have A.T. fields and the folks we might have to fight are roughly the same size, it might be easier for us that and you know how to punch through these fields which kinda of gives us a leg up on the competition," Navi said as Asuka just grinned at this.

"Okay," Asuka said as she got up and walked over to Lillith. "Now, Angel you are going to teach me, Shinji and Wonder Girl here, how to use our fields like you guys do." Lillith got up and looked Asuka in the eyes.

"I was already planning to do that before you even mentioned it," Lillith said as she touched Asuka's hand and brought it up. "Considering the type of warrior you were, control will not be a problem." Then a single octagon of A.T. Energy formed an Asuka's hand for the entire group to see.

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