They woke up at the same moment of course.
It was incredibly comfortable.
It was incredibly awkward.
Asuka let go of Shinji's hand and grasped the bedcover instead. It was bad enough he was touching her bare skin, she wasn't letting the early morning light let him see it as well. Shinji released her and moved his hands away in a slow-motion precision manoeuvre which somehow managed not to touch her on the way. It took another minute before she finally rolled off the arm which had been wrapped around her, and was now just pinned to the bed by her side, and broke contact completely.
"Get dressed baka," she says softly, "and go make me breakfast" Normally that would be an imperious order, today it's just an inevitability. "You can have the bathroom first" She knows his bladder is fuller, just like she knows exactly where he is as he pulls his shirt on and goes to the door, even with her face buried in a pillow. She needs a long shower to wash his scent off her. She needs time to decide that's what she wants to do.
'Never again' screams part of her mind.
'Get him back here right now' yells back another.
"Shinji?"
He stops and turns in the doorway, looking back at her. She can't tell what he's thinking.
"We don't talk about this.
"Of course Asuka. I.. Just promise me something?
"What?!
"Remember you can always ask.
Asuka waves him away with the hand which is not holding the covers around her, not trusting anything she might say out loud.