Acknowledgements:
Well, first there is the Literal Translation Project, without whom this fic would be quite different, and take a lot longer to write.
Next we have the FFML, who provide a much needed outlet for this, so that I can know that other people have at least read whatever it is before I send it to RAAC.
Next, we have ADV, who pressed my Eva DVD box set.
Next, we have Mangle, who pressed the Eva movies.
Next, we have my fans (all four of you) who occasionally asked if I'd ever finish this . . . Thanks.
And, last, but definately not least, we have Gainax, and Anno-san, without whom I'd've never started this mess.
'Nuff of that.
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Shin Seiki
Evangelion
Chouchuanshan
Episode four.
Bah. More fun and games at NERV. I've become so sarcastic recently. I smile at the thought.
Erhart is ranting about the current hoop, rather than just jumping through. I hope it is a good sign. Admittedly it is a fairly easy one, the sukebe in charge want direct, unmediated connection data, but they have that for me already.
Well, me before the change, anyway.
'Yes, Yes, I understand. None of you people out there had better watch!' she says, then struts down the hall in the most rediculous attempt at a sexy walk I've ever seen.
I manage not to laugh. Barely.
Lantis brushes against my arm, 'Rather silly, isn't she, sometimes?'
'Yes.'
_SSEC_
Ritsuko asks, 'How are you feeling?'
'Something is different,' Rei.
'Yes, it is different than before,' me.
'Things feel wrong. Only the right arm is clear, the rest is dim,' Asuka.
'Rei, try to move the right arm,' Ritsuko.
'Yes.'
A little while later I look up, blinking, trying to figure out what's wrong, where the attack is coming from.
'NO!' Rei, screaming. A moment later, she shrieks, and a moment after that, we're all ejected, the plugs moving with that faint slickness of a boat on water. Rei is whimpering, softly.
'Lantis-chan, are you OK?' I ask softly.
'Yes,' she says firmly. Then she whimpers again.
'I don't believe you,' Asuka says, and the sound of the LCL being pumped back into storage fills her comm link for a moment, before she cuts the mike.
I trigger the pumps as well, and I feel more than hear Rei do the same. The first thing I see when I get the hatch open is Asuka's face.
'Drat, wrong one,' she smiles, then pulls me out into the rather severely chill water.
I shiver, then start swimming towards Rei. She's just about to plunge into the water herself when I get there.
'Stay in there, the water's cold as a witch's tit.'
'When,' she asks, 'have you been feeling witches' tits?' she smiles faintly, and helps me into her plug, 'and should I feel jealous?'
'It's just a phrase. I think it's translated from English or something,' I say, reaching to help pull Asuka's shivering form into the plug.
Rei seals the hatch, and drapes herself across our bodies, 'glad you are here.'
_SSEC_
Eventually they fish us out, and no one comments on the fact that two of the plugs are empty.
_SSEC_
Today they are running cross-compatability tests. Lantis-chan first, with Shougouki. I notice that I'm worrying again, and force myself to stop. She'll be OK. They ask her how Shougouki feels, and she says it smells like me. I somehow manage not to blush.
After an interminable wait, they stuff me into Zerogouki, and the first bit isn't bad. After the second stage, they ask me how it feels, and all I can think of is the truth, 'It smells like Ayanami.' Asuka sputters something funny, but I can't remember what it was. Lantis calms her, somehow.
At that point they go to third stage, and for a moment it is nice, as somehow there's nothing in the world but Lantis-chan. Then I realize it isn't her, and start fighting back. It doesn't work, so I force myself to calm, force the sync, but don't let Zerogouki too far into my head. At that point I realize we've torn free of the restraints, and our fist is in the dent we put into the observation window, 'That was exciting,' I joke weakly.
_SSEC_
I hate this ceiling. After a little while the head-shrinkers come in, and I tell them that I don't remember what happened. They belive me easily, for I don't know what happened, even though I do remember it. They don't want to listen as I try to explain that there is an older copy of Lantis in Zerogouki, a remarkably single-minded copy at that. So many stupid A.I. schemes have been invented, but persona-transfer is one of the worst. All of the bad parts of having a human, and few of the good.
They let me go eventually.
_SSEC_
'Are you OK?'
'Yeah, mostly,' I smile at Erhart. 'Were you worried?'
'Not particularly. Lantis was rather scared, though.'
'I'm sure you said you'd be there for her.'
'Yeah, and that I was sure you'd pull through, somehow.'
'Thanks.'
'You're welcome,' and she gives me a fierce hug, her face slightly damp.
_SSEC_
Lantis grabs me firmly, stopping my kata, her face pressed between my shoulder blades, 'Scared me. Really scared me.'
'I'm sorry,' the words escape before I can stop them.
'Don't be sorry. Just don't do it again,' the only sign that she's crying is that my shirt is getting damp.
_SSEC_
'What were you up to this afternoon?' Asuka asks the question I'd like answered.
'Double-black stuff,' she frowns.
I blink in shock, then move in close, trying to be supportive without prying.
She wraps me in a fierce hug, her face pressed to my belly, 'Erhart as well,' she commands, her words only slightly garbled.
_SSEC_
They've combined classes on us, since there are only enough students in all of Tokyo-3 for two classes each all through middle-school, maybe four classes of grade-schoolers, and most of two classes of high-schoolers.
So the room is full again, but not with the same people it had the day I first came here.
They've also yet to hassle me about continuing to wear a boy's uniform. I'm overly amused by that, I'm sure.
I plop into my seat, and Kensuke and Touji drift over.
'What happened yesterday? Ayanami and Sohryou came in all quiet and gloomy yesterday afternoon, and everyone was too scared to ask them what happened to you.'
'Very tactful,' Kensuke complains, 'Well?'
'Lantis, what is the classification on yesterday's experiment?'
'Blue,' she smiles.
I can't help but smile back, 'OK,' I turn back to the two boys, 'We were running cross-compatability tests on the Eva. I pretty much proved that I can't safely pilot Zerogouki.'
'Why were they testing? Aren't they controlled the same?'
'Somewhat. However, each has it's own A.I., and I think all of them are a little crazy.'
'Oh. So Rei is more able to fight Zerogouki's A.I., and make it do what she wants?'
'No, I think it's just that she expects it, and I wasn't. It went out of controll on her on her first activation, too. The autoeject worked for her, though, and she was hurt pretty bad. I got to stay in the Eva until it ran out of power, so all that happened to me is I woke up in the infirmary again.' I turn to Lantis, 'I hope all of that was blue material.'
'I'd have stopped you if it wasn't,' she smiles, but I can tell she isn't joking.
Touji and Kensuke laugh weakly.
_SSEC_
My turn to clean the class. Joy. I pause to watch Lantis, who's wringing a rag like someone's neck.
'Men!' Touji calls, whomping me with a mop-handle.
'Ah!' I grumble.
'Responcibility!'
'Gomen!'
'You have a responcibility to clean this room!'
Blesed Eris, mother of us all, I grumble to myself, getting back to work with only a few moments spent on Lantis-watching.
_SSEC_
'Lantis-chan, I'm going to be visiting my mother's memorial with my father tomorrow. What do you think I should talk to him about?'
'Why are you asking me?' she turns, and smiles, just a tiny bit.
'I saw you seem to enjoy talking to him, that time. What kind of person is my father anyway?'
'Haven't the faintest,' her smile is comforting, not teasing.
'Ah.'
'You were watching me today,' the smile twitches a little bigger for an instant.
'Yes,' I smile at her, 'when you were wringing that washcloth, I thought it looked like you were imagining it was someone you didn't like.'
'I might have been,' and her smile, again, twitches just a little bit bigger, for just a moment.
_SSEC_
'The nerve of some people!' Asuka stomps though the door.
'What?'
'Hikari got rooked into trying to get a friend of her older sister a date with me. Me! I'm taken, captive, off the market!'
'Thank you,' Lantis says, shifting from where she had been working on something, her legs draped across mine.
'Y, you're welcome,' Asuka's anger deflates, and she sags to her knees next to us. I twist, rolling over, and she crushes both of us into a hug.
_SSEC_
'You're really stressing over this, aren't you,' Asuka's voice is firm, declarative.
'I'd be stressing over this even if I hadn't become a girl, and didn't know that no one has told him.'
'Hey, he might like that.'
Icky thoughts, 'Please don't say things like that.'
'Probably he won't even notice, or if he does, he'll pretend it was planned.'
I laugh, 'Perhaps.'
_SSEC_
'Three years, now, since I was last alone with you,' he says.
'Since the last time, I've not come here. It doesn't seem like this place is connected to her at all. I can't remember her face.'
'People survive by letting things go, but there are some things we must not forget. Yui tought me those. To remind myself, I come here.'
'Don't you have a photo or anything?'
'Nothing is left. This grave is only a memorial. There is nothing left.'
'The teacher says you've tossed everything away.'
'Everything is in my heart. That is enough for now.'
_SSEC_
'It is time. I'm going.'
The transport VTOL drops to the earth, blowing dust everywhere.
'Father!' he turns, 'It was good to talk to you.'
'Was it?' and he turns, and walks to the VTOL. Rei is inside.
I wonder about that.
_SSEC_
I play something verging on dreary, to match my mood. It isn't that I hate him, just that I cannot comprehend him. He refuses to let me close enough to care, refuses to let the interesting mix of love and fear for me that I can feel whenever he is near show. When he told me, all that time ago, to go home, I wasn't skilled enough to know what he felt, and now it eats at me, that not knowing.
After a while I tire of the steady, slow notes, and stop for a little bit, digging through the sheet music for something faster.
I'm about three pages into the new piece when the door opens, 'Yeah?'
'Not bad!' Asuka drops to the floor in front of me, 'You play?'
I glance up to see her crooked grin, as she realizes how redundant that sounds, 'Since I was five. I'm not particularly talented.'
'Effort and will, then?'
'Something like that. I started because a teacher suggested it. I've just never stopped.'
'Why?'
'No one cares that I do. So I've become almost good,' I flub a note, but she doesn't seem to notice.
_SSEC_
'Where's Lantis-chan?' Asuka asks me, after a while.
'I last saw her in a transport VTOL with my father. Probably classified stuff.'
'Or maybe she'll tell us about it when she gets back.'
'Maybe.'
_SSEC_
'Shin-chan? It's me, I'm too too drunk to drive. Could you come rescue me before I end up at the third time party with Kaji?'
'Yeah, Where are you now?'
She tells me, some bar, near the hotel that the wedding was held in.
'OK, I'll be there shortly.'
'Kewl.'
'Try not to pass out before I get there, OK?'
'Sure thing!'
'Bye.'
'Bai Bai!' *click*
'Erhart, would you like to come rescue Misato before she embarasses herself? More?'
'Asuka. And yeah, I'll come along.'
'OK, Asuka.'
_SSEC_
I ponder her change of name-preference as I get my leathers on, and we get her settled in the sidecar.
The air is warm, tonight, and Asuka laughs merrily as we speed, just a little, down the street. The modifications she came with, motor, transmission, intake and exhaust let my cute little Ural maintain, according to her speedo, anyway, 140 KPH.
I pull to a gentle stop in front of the bar, and Asuka unbuckles, pulls her helmet off, and heads inside, re-appearing after a few minutes with Misato, who is about nine sheets to the wind.
I flip the run-switch off, and help get Misato into the sidecar.
Asuka climbs on behind me, her arms tightly wrapped about my waist, and rests her helmeted head against my back.
We somehow manage to get Misato home before she throws up.
_SSEC_
'I'm such a wuss,' Misato whines.
I listen, torn between tuning her out and letting her wallow, or trying, again, to comfort her. Asuka's given up already, twice.
'No, you're just drunk. Have some more water, and it will be better in the morning,' I tell her, softly, and hand her another glass.
She drinks it, then, with a quizical noise, collapses face-first into the table. Just when I start to worry, I realize she's asleep, and heft her up.
'Asuka-chan, could you turn Misato's bed back?'
'Hai, hai,' she grumbles.
We strip her down a little, then pull the covers over her, and let her sleep.
_SSEC_
Misato's worried about something. Can't tell what, but it's pretty obvious, and something to do with NERV.
_SSEC_
'The stock is changed,' Lantis smiles at me.
'Yes, Ritsuko-san gave us some dried bonito as omiage.'
Lantis makes a quizical face.
'Eee! Too hot!'
'Eat more slowly,' Lantis tells her, gently chiding.
'Yes, Mistis,' Asuka answers.
'Mistis?'
'Pervy novels from the 50's,' she tells me.
'3150s or 1950s?'
'3150s,' she turns to Misato, 'Why does NERV use the Gregorian calendar still?'
'Because. That's what they told me, anyway.'
'Anyway, nasty slave-owning people take over the world. Mistis is a rather intimate form of address from serf to owner.'
'Oh.'
'I have copies if you can read English,' she pauses, 'It might be kinda fun to read them to you if you don't. Long, though.'
'I can.'
'I cannot. Read them to me, Asuka. Shinji can help,' the half-grin on her face belies her imperative tone and phrasing.
'Yes, Mistis,' Asuka seems to like this game.
_SSEC_
Testing is boring.
_SSEC_
'Um, Lantis, I'm sorry, I didn't think to ask you before adding the bonito-flakes.'
'It was caught in accordance with the Rules,' I can hear the capitalization, and nod, 'so it is acceptable. Much more wouldn't be, you do know, right?'
'Yeah, I'm sorry,' I must look miserable, for she gives me a firm hug.
_SSEC_
I'm most of the way to Seishou Kabuse station, which is, in turn, near my favored used book shops, when the call comes. I sedately turn the Ural around and head back.
_SSEC_
'Can you hear me?' as if she wouldn't be told by the plethora of sensors if we couldn't, 'Target data is just what I've sent. Nothing further yet. Approach carefully, watch its reactions, and try to lead it out of the urban areas if it will follow.'
'You got the high sync in today's test, Miyuki, so you take point!' Asuka tells us.
'OK, I guess,' I reply, 'Which way?'
'Two o'clock high. Zerogouki is backup.'
'Nigouki as well.'
'Lantis, Asuka! In position?'
'Just a moment. Gotta change cables.'
'I'll be there.'
'It's moving!' I yell, and pull the prog knife. Two steps, and I throw it at the sphere.
It completes a turn and a half, striking the sphere's surface butt first. The sphere goes completely black, then vanishes.
A lovely sinking feeling spreads through my belly, then I realize I am sinking, eva and all.
'Oh dear. I'm sinking into the shadow,' I say, with a little bit of concern tainting my voice.
'Miyuki!' Lantis-chan yells, quite surprisingly loud.
'Shinji,' Asuka's quieter than I expected, but she is also charging over.
Lantis-chan is pulling me backwards by the umbilical, just about as fast as I am sinking. I don't think it will be enough. I can't get any traction on this shadow I'm in. Suddenly I moving back faster, but I still don't have any traction. The blackness is right under Shougouki's chest, then I stop moving backwards.
'Fuck,' I call, sinking rather quickly.
'Eject the plug!' Misato yells.
'Override!' I yell back, mashing buttons rather franticly. I don't want to be caught in this nasty black stuff without the rest of the eva, and we don't have any air support right now.
'Asuka! Rei! Rescue Shougouki! Hurry!'
'Hai!' Lantis-chan. Zerogouki is suddenly right there, sinking into the shadow with me, pulling Shougouki up by the upper arm as Asuka pulls hard on the umbilical.
'Sheisse!' Asuka cusses, 'The shadow's growing. Fast! Too fast!'
'ASUKA! REI! Withdraw! Now!' Misato yells, panicking.
'Can't,' Lantis-chan replies, nearly calmly.
'They're still in there!' Asuka's a little, no, a lot more strident.
'Get out of there!' Misato reiterates.
'No!'
'Go,' Lantis-chan tells her.
'Don't get caught too,' I say into the radio, 'Go.'
The pull on us stops.
'She's safe,' Lantis-chan says, then, with frightening suddenness, we both sink into the shadow.
'Sixteen hours,' she says, Zerogouki wrapped around Shougouki, 'if we don't move.'
'So your umbilical is cut as well?'
'Just a little bit ago.'
'Can we keep talking to each other?' I should know, but I haven't had to worry about the energy costs of the comm system, so I haven't.
'Audio only.'
'Much better than nothing.'
'Sing me a song.'
'I don't sing well.'
'I don't care. Sing something.'
'Heh. What sort of something.'
'A song you like, of course.'
'OK,' I pause a moment to think, then start, 'With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, she pulls the spitting high tension wires down.'
After the last chourus of "Go go godzilla!" she asks for a translation, then explanation. I'm shocked that she's never seen any of the Gojira movies, not even the new ones, which have such wonderful effects, particularly when compared with the mid-1970's movies.
_SSEC_
'Still us, in a lot of nothing,' I tell her, shutting external sensors down again.
'Lovely,' she says, in that tone that says it is nothing of the sort. I wonder if anyone else could tell.
'Four hours of life support left.'
'Almost.'
I glance at the gauge, and let myself worry.
_SSEC_
'Smells like blood. Old, decomposing blood,' Lantis-chan says.
I glance at the small display, another hour at minimal life support, then another two or three before the LCL gets too bad to breathe. Maybe fifteen seconds of full activation. Maybe.
Lantis-chan caughs, a horrible hacking wheeze.
I key in the reactivation sequence, hold my hand over the final key, and reach for syncronization.
Perception stretches, folds, Zerogouki suddenly wrapped around me, long legs around my waist, long arms about my neck, a frightening lack of power in that body, a frightening weakness in the pilot. My fingers twitch as I stroke the reactivation key, and call up the AT field, intent on ripping our way out of here, since it is obvious that NERV will not or cannot do so.
I reach, and grab for the edge of this space, knowing it will be there, ripping it open. It bleeds, bright red like arterial blood, but I keep ripping, pulling the edge I have found open. With a sudden hemorage we're out, the angel collapsing into a bloody heap behind us.
'Power, get Zerogouki power,' I yell into the radio, watching the counter tick down way too fast.
'Lantis-chan!' Asuka calls, then Nigouki comes barrelling around the corner, an umbilical cable in hand, 'Miyuki-chan, is she . . . '
'She's still alive,' I say when she trails off, 'Unconscious, I think.'
'Not quite,' Lantis-chan says, the umbilical having had a moment to start recharging the batteries.
'Youkatta!' Asuka replies, then trots off to fetch another umbilical.
_SSEC_
All three of us in a hospital room, Lantis-chan in the bed, Asuka and I to either side.
'Don't do that again,' Asuka is telling us.
'We will endevour not to,' Lantis-chan says, a lovely smile coloring her pale eyes.
'I mean it. I'm gonna be pissed if I lose either or both of you.'
'So will we,' Lantis-chan says, then, abruptly, 'In.'
'Here?' Asuka asks, 'Is it OK?'
'I think so.'
We crawl into her hospital bed, and she cuddles us close.
_SSEC_
'No, I detected no attempt at contact by any outside force. I waited because I didn't know what to do, until Zerogouki's power ran out, at which point I acted.'
'Why did you act then, when you hadn't before?' the man at the end of the table asks.
'Before there was still a chance that outside help might rescue us.'
'You might still have been rescued,' a different voice.
'Or I might not have been. It was act, or Ayanami died.'
'If you hadn't been successful, you would have drained your batteries,' Green-light starts.
'And been in as bad a situation as Ayanami, very shortly thereafter. Yes, I know.'
The men around the table look at each other, then one of them speaks, 'No further questions at this time.'
_SSEC_
Lantis-chan is shaking when she comes out, 'You wouldn't have told me, would you?'
'Told you what?'
'That you had another hour's worth of life support.'
'It's logged. I didn't think I needed to.'
She grabs me into a hug, 'I don't like this.'
'Neither do I. Asuka's waiting.'
'Then we should go to her,' she tells me, pulling free and walking towards the exit.
I follow, as she intended.
_SSEC_
Lantis-chan wraps herself around me the moment I come in the door, holding tight, 'I don't like this anymore. It didn't used to bother me, but now . . . ' she trails off, barely audible over the music she has playing, loud enough that the neighbors, had we any near, would complain, her face up against my chest.
'Can you talk about it?'
'No, it's all black stuff. Some of it is double-black. Some of it is worse because I am not human, as you've doubtless noticed.'
'Part youkai? Or space alien?'
'Not that,' and she holds my hand over her belly.
I let my senses focus, note the unexpected sphere, then the familiar flavor of it.
'Blessed Eris mother of us all,' I indulge in soft-voiced profanity.
She pulls my head down, brings her lips close to my ear, says softly, 'This isn't my only body. My other ones aren't me, yet.'
'What do you mean?'
'This,' she whispers, 'Is my second body, I think. I've died once, strangled, but I remember it, and waking up a little later. I think a whole lot of us were incepted at once, but I think they've only one core with 'me' in it. The rest of them sure don't seem to be all the way there, as befits a being who lives in a tank of LCL.'
'Ara,' and I hug her tightly, not letting go when Asuka steps into the room, and hugs us both.
'Tell her, as soon as it seems prudent,' Lantis-chan tells me.
'I will.'
'Tell me what?' Asuka demands.
'Nasty black-classified stuff about Lantis-chan.'
'Fuck.'
'Nothing so fun as that,' Lantis-chan says, utterly straight-faced.
Asuka gapes for a moment, then breaks into giggles.
_SSEC_
All of the teachers send Lantis-chan's assignments and make-up work home with me, again. Yesterday's is still in a pile, untouched.
_SSEC_
'So, what is this nasty black classified stuff?' Asuka asks, as we walk towards school, Rei again on something official, taking a different path than normal so as to attempt to avoid NERV surveillance.
'Lantis-chan isn't human.'
'I knew that. Ctholon, right?'
'Some, and youkai, and human, and Angel, with a whole lot of careful work to tie it all together.'
'Angel?' Asuka grabs me, spins me around, a hand on each of my shoulders, 'So they've been around that long?'
'So it would seem. I don't know all of it, but she's died already once, and they have a lot of bodies for her. I think they feel she's somewhat expendable as a result.'
'It would explain their reaction to her injuries during her activation tests,' she wraps me in a tight hug.
'What do we do?'
'Keep her safe,' she says, fiercely.
'Right!'
_SSEC_
'Misato-san,' I greet her.
'What?'
'Ritsuko-san expects you at tomorrow's business meeting.'
'OK, thanks,' she says, 'Ja mata.'
'Hmm,' Kaji-san says, 'How about a cup of tea with me?' he asks me.
'Um, involved here.'
_SSEC_
'I thought you were more serious,' I tell him, sitting outside on a bench, a comforting couple feet between us, the light a disconcerting orange.
'What a thing to say to such a serious person as I.'
'Sorry,' I don't giggle. Quite.
'Me too. Didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. Come, I've got something cool to show you.'
_SSEC_
'Watermelon?'
'Cute, isn't it. Sort of a hobby. Don't tell everyone, OK? Growing something, helping it grow, is a really nice feeling. We learn many things from doing it.'
'Suits you, rather,' I tell him.
He smiles, and I go back to looking at the watermelons.
His phone rings, 'Moshi mosh,' he says, then, 'It's Katsuragi, the sychro test is starting soon.
_SSEC_
In we go, back in the test plugs. Such fun.
_SSEC_
Touji gets called out of class. If I believed I had even the faintest touch of precog this sinking feeling would really worry me.
_SSEC_
'How was New Yokosuka?'
'It was fun. Do you know anything about Evangelion Unit Three?'
'Eva Unit Three?' I ask him.
'Yeah, the one they were building in the US. It's finished, isn't it.'
'I don't know.'
'I know it's classified, but please, tell me something.'
'I really don't know. I've Dark Kingdom ties, so they may think I'm a security risk.'
'Have you heard the rumor that the activation test will be at the second test facility in Matsushiro?'
'Nothing.'
'The pilot hasn't been chosen yet, have they?'
'Wakarahen,' I let myself drop into Oosaka-ben for a moment.
'I could be a pilot. Misato could choose me. Ask her for me? I really want to pilot an Eva.'
'I really have no clue.'
'How about the story of Unit Four getting lost?'
'What?'
'You really don't know?' pause, 'It disappeared along with the entire second branch. My dad's section was in a panic.'
'Really?'
'Seems like.'
'Misato hasn't told me anything.'
'Maybe the pilots really don't need to know.'
'I don't like that answer,' I tell Kensuke.
'Touji's late.'
_SSEC_
'This is bad,' Asuka says, dropping on top of me with a *thump*.
'What?' I ask her, turning from my homework.
'Touji's Sangouki's pilot.'
'Oh,' I blink up at her, 'So you have a bad feeling about this, too.'
'Yes,' and she buries her face against my neck.
'Suck,' I tell her, and hold her close.
'Where's Lantis-chan?' she asks, her voice a little muffled by my neck.
'She said she'd be back late, remember?' she nods, 'She should be here soon.'
'Good,' she says, and slowly goes limp on top of me.
I turn my head to look at my homework, sigh, and close my eyes.
_SSEC_
'Do you know?' Lantis asks, prodding us both awake.
'About?' Asuka mumbles.
'Touji.'
'Yes,' I tell her.
'Good, then I don't have to break security and tell you.'
I smile up at her.
'Get out of those,' and she brushes Asuka's skirt with bare toes, unbuttoning her own uniform.
I hasten to comply.
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log:
2000 December 25: started, log added.
2001 November 21: actually wrote some ^_^
2001 November 27: wrote more
2001 November 30: bit more
2002 July 14: finally continued through episode 16 ^_^
2002 July 15: Beginning of ep 17.
2002 July 17: Middle of ep 17, ed on begining.
2002 November 11: Finished ep 17, at long last.
2003 September 12: Tiny edits
2003 October 3: Title block and acknowledgement.
2004 November 5: Tiny edit
2010 July 10: tiny edits, mauled for posting to ff.n
