"I was hoping to meet you here, the 'first child' Shinji Ayanami" Tabris said to the vessel of Lilith, who said nothing, he could feel the eyes of someone through the cameras seeing them talk, unimportant, audio does not pick up from their possition "I suppose you could be called one of us, in essence."
Tabris could see that that ticked the other... boy?... off.
"Who are you here?" asked Lilith-not-Lilith.
"I guess you know you could call me a nephew of yours, like the others who come by and you do off with them."
"I know that, it's not what I asked."
"You can call me Kaworu (-Tabris-) Nagisa, it's nice to 'meet you'."
"Can't say the same, even if I tried" Kaworu chuckled, he could see why Chamuel enjoys Shinji's company "what are you doing here? It is not the time for you yet."
"Nothing yet really, I'm choosing to see closer this time."
"Because it's different?"
"Very much so. So" he smiled "I really hope we can be friends this time" the other boy scoffed, and Kaworu continued "I know it would make her happy, my Beloved, I mean."
A pensive note and the prescence watching them in silence where the only things that seemed to linger. Shinji turned around and left.
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Doctor Ritsuko asked them to come to Nerv inmediately after school since she was going to spend the morning testing out new features for the Evas.
The sun was pleasant on their way to headquarters. The perpetual summer sun is giving them a reprieve uncharacteristic of the season. There's a vibrancy to today that makes Rei stroll alongside the other pilots, its nice and makes her skin buzz with energy. No one is talking but the company is comftable with the sound of cicadas in the background, Rei was enjoying the sunlight and breeze with her eyes closed.
The softest, most whisper of "Close, so close" reached her ears and she had to open her eyes, stopping her gait stock still and turning her face, tilting her head to where she tought the sound came from, her head getting dizzier by the second.
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Ritsuko had just pressed the keyboard when everything shut down.
"The main power supply has been interrupted."
"Voltage level is zero!"
Ritsuko had to look around, feeling everyone's eyes on her "It's not my fault!" at least she thinks it isn't.
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Misato was not liking this, stuck in an elevator with her Ex, capital E, her Ex.
"What do you think?" Kaji asked, irritating her.
"It'll switch to the backup power supply soon" she answered.
They did not know that not only was Nerv like this, but it extended to the whole of Tokyo-3.
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The whisper became a ringing in her ear, high pitched.
A hand softly held her elbow, the contact made the previous buzz into an electrifying spark that ran through her body and she directed her to look at the speaker "(-Beloved-) Rei, is ok" Nagisa-kun said, sliding his hand and trailing the energy towards her wrist, a hold that felt freeing and reassuring; like she could fly away and he would wait to catch her if she fell "you're ok, it's not the time for that yet." he continued as if she was not as calm as she felt "Want to keep going?"
Dragging herself off the buzzing in her head was sudden, like blinking, there and then it wasn't. The other two pilots were a bit ahead and did not realized that they were getting further away.
"Yes" slowly and hesitantly she finally answered, starting to walk and letting him keep pace while still holding her wrist.
The contact was grounding all the way until they reached the gates. Shinji-kun was the closest and tried to use his ID to open them but nothing hapened, not even a declined sound or red light. Leaving Nagisa-kun's side, Rei tried it herself to the same result.
"Move" the readhead pushed Rei to the side and tried it, multiple times, back and forth; oh and with her ID held backwards, nothing "Oi Fifth!" she extended her hand to Nagisa-kun "let me see yours!"
A few awkward breaths passed for them all, Asuka-san's impatience was palpable, Nagisa-kun opened his mouth "I don't have one" he finally said.
Rei was a little worried for Asuka-san's teeth with how hard she was grinding them "What?'
"Haven't got one" he shrugged his shoulders "I was thinking that they were going to give me one today-" he had to dodge to the side since the redhead pilot launched her school bag at him "Don't you need that?" he pointed at the fallen bag.
"AAAAAGGGHHHHH USELESS" she shrieked.
"Maybe there's a problem with the gate," Shinji-kun started, waiting out the tantrum besides Rei and Nagisa-kun.
"Is it me or the city has been a little too quiet?" asked Rei "the buzzing of electricity has been silent."
Asuka-san stopped to breathe and said "HAH?! The what?"
"You know, the electric current makes a noise, and its not now."
"Third, I can't hear shit that you're talking about."
"Oh" Rei looked down, cheeks aflame.
"No, no" started Nagisa-kun "I hear that too, well, not now but usually do, Rei-chan."
Shinji-kun nodded in agreement.
"You guys are lying, whatever, we need to confirm that, lets go then" Asuka-san started walking to the side gate, where it looked like a defunct station and she picked her schoolback from the floor too.
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They ended up in the auxilary tunnels shown in their Nerv emergency package, nothing electronic was working so any alternative route was needed.
Asuka-san was leading them, then Shinji-kun behind her while Rei and Kaworu walked side by side in the rear.
They encountered their first manual hurdle with a closed gate.
"We can proceed through Route 07, right here" started Asuka-san while gesturing grandly.
"We can open it manually" Shinji-kun pointed at the crank on the side.
"There you go, you two" She pointed at Shinji-kun and Kaworu-kun with one hand each "That's a boy's job."
While the female pilots were waiting on the effords of the guys, Rei felt a shiver in the back of her neck, not realizing that it meant an Angel was coming their way, splindy limbs creeping yard after yard with every step. The ones who did know this information were unable to alert anyone via communications. Sending a chopper to deliver the message via speaker.
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Rei Ikari
Fanfiction"Rei, if it was a girl and Shinji, if it was a boy." Yui's baby ended up being a girl. Gendo was ecstatic for a while.
