Ever After

Chapter Fifteen: Neon Genesis Evangelion Returns Two

Hazuki wasn't quite sure what to make of this Mari girl hanging around. She was also a pilot, like Asuka, but wore a skintight mostly green colored plugsuit all the time. AND kept rubbing up against her.

"Mari, do you not have work to do?" Ritsuko finally scolded.

"Yeah, yeah," Mari walked off. Noticing Hazuki was watching her go, she added a bit of wiggle to her strut.

"Thank you," a blushing Hazuki sighed to Ritsuko.

Ritsuko had to fight back a chuckle. Hazuki was surprisingly cute, really. If she wasn't firmly committed to Maya, she'd probably be hitting on her too.

"So... as far as we can tell, Hatsumi didn't reappear after our first visit?" Hazuki asked.

"Not seeing anything coming up in our records," Ritsuko agreed.

Mana, the young woman who had been assisting with the search, added, "And we added a 'alert' to let us know if she appeared again. Just in case."

"Huh. Well, it's remotely possible she could be here as a baby... still, it's strange," Hazuki sighed quietly.

Ritsuko nodded. She didn't say the other possibility that had occurred to her... that Lilith was here for some OTHER reason.

"Or yes, Lilith is here for some other reason," Hazuki sighed. She shrugged, "That would be a very Lilith thing to do..."

"I STILL am trying to wrap my head around all this," The UN rep admitted. Satoko shook her head, "Alternate dimensions?"

Misato smiled at her wryly, "Ritsuko gave me a very long lecture on the topic, which I quickly forgot."

Satoko snorted.

"But yeah, it relates to quantum theory and how every decision we take creates a second dimension so that both decisions potentially happen," Misato shrugged.

"Like places where Impact happened and didn't happen," Satoko nodded thoughtfully.

"Or weirder," Misato agreed.

"Thank you again for your help," Hazuki said, bowing a little as she came up to them.

"It's fine," Misato waved that off, "I still feel we owe you from last time."

"We haven't had any luck with the computer search, so I think I should head out into the city after Lilith and Quill," Hazuki explained.

"They have Asuka with them, it should be fine," Satoko noted.

Misato had the oddest look on her face, "Did you just say ASUKA is the responsible one?"

"Point," Satoko conceded.

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Meanwhile, three young women were walking the halls of Tokyo-3 High School. "Excuse me," Lilith flagged down a young man.

"Hommina." he managed a incoherent noise at her impressive clevage.

Lilith smirked. "Eyes up here please," she ordered.

Asuka giving him a death glare also helped making him stop staring.

"My friend here hasn't been there, so could you direct us to the literary club?" Lilith asked.

"Literary club? Right...," he gave them directions and then hurried off before Asuka killed him or something.

"You're looking for something in particulsar, not following a magic signal," Asuka accused as they walked on.

"Well," Lilith shrugged.

"What is it?" Quill asked, looking amused more than anything.

Lilith lead them down the hall as she admitted, "Eve told me something when she returned to the Library, last time."

"Yeah?" Asuka prompted her.

"Turns out she was a member of the literary club here, and wrote for the club magazine," Lilith told them.

"And...," Quill prompted her.

"She mostly wrote erotica about Hazuki," Lilith admitted.

There was a LONG beat of dead silence.

"So we're here to get Eve's PORN?" Asuka demanded.

"Pretty much!" Lilith grinned saucilly.

"Hazuki is going to kill you when she finds out," Quill noted.

Asuka just shook her head as they arrived at the club room.

"Yes?" Yuki Nagato asked calmly.

Asuka was weirdly reminded of Rei Ayanami. Huh.

"We're here looking for copies of your club magazine," Lilith said breezilly.

"Why?" Yuki tilted her head sideways.

"Research," Quill said firmly.

"Yes, research," Lilith repeated.

Yuki accepted that and lead them over to a bookcase where copies of the magazine had been bound into books. "What name...?" Asuka asked, vaguely curious.

"Nova," Lilith told them, adding the last name too.

"There we go," Quill found a reference.

All three started reading... then Quill blushed, then Asuka and finally even Lilith.

"Your sister has SOME imagination," the fiercely blushing Asuka noted.

"She's much more perverted than you'd think under the sweet exterior," Lilith agreed.

"They were by your sister?" Yuki asked mildly.

"Long story, but yes." Lilith told her. "Could I take these?" she asked, holding up the book.

"Copies," Yuki said apologetically, "We like to keep the originals."

"Fair enough," Lilith agreed.

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Later, Hazuki caught up with them and Lilith apologetically explained it was all a false alarm.

"Really," Hazuki said dubiously.

Asuka was clearly fighting the urge to laugh.

Hazuki sighed and decided she just didn't want to know. She nodded to Asuka, "Thank you for the help, sorry it was a bit of a waste."

Asuka visibly smirked. "No problem, I think I learned something," she said.

"Hazuki, we should get going," Lilith added quickly.

Before Hazuki could ask anything else, she, Lilith and Quill were engulfed in green light, then were gone...

To be continued...

Notes: Yes, silly chapter. Blame it on after Christmas exhaustion.