Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Horus ❯ Mystery Foe ( Chapter 1 )

I: Mystery Foe

Rei and Shinji were holding each other on the couch, the sun now setting. They had been going out for weeks now, and either people were stupid, or they didn't care. Misato was drunk, wandering out after she knew the coast was clear. She smiled over them, briefly wandering whether she was being a good parent, but dismissing it because she was making them happy, since the Commander could not. Add that they had been together behind the commander's back.

She was preparing some coffee when the phone rang, loud and annoying. She picked it up immediately, since it was only a few feet to her left.

"Hello?" she said with a slight drunken slur. She listened for a few minutes.

"What?" she yelled.

Shinji and Rei looked up from the couch, rubbing their eyes and squinting in the darkened apartment.

"You're kidding!" she screamed, hearing a hidden sob in her voice.

She listened a bit more before hanging up the phone and sobbing everything she had held since her fathers death. She cried so much her eyes hurt, and cried more. Her throat was soar from being open, but she didn't care. Her everything was gone and she cried it away, as much as she wished she could bleed it away and join him.

"What's wrong Misato?" Shinji asked, sitting next to her and putting his hand on her shoulder. She had instantly sobered up, totally void of the effects of the many beers she had downed.

"K-Kaji is dead!" she said between sobs, which were often. It took Shinji several minutes to digest this information before he rubbed Misato's back.

"I'm sorry Misato," he said consolingly. Rei looked at him questioningly, but he could tell what she had asked, and nodded. She left silently, mouthing, `I love you' and shutting the door behind her.

"Go lay on the couch, I'll finish your coffee," Shinji said softly. She nodded and stood, walking to the couch like a zombie with nothing to eat. The third child fixed her some chicken soup and coffee and brought it to her. She thanked him between sobs and blew her nose before starting on her food.

"T-thank you Shinji," she sniffled, her sobs now gone completely. When she was finished, she looked at Shinji with all the pain that she felt in the depths of her heart.

"Please don't leave me," she said, sobs now coming on fresh. She leaned against Shinji shoulder and cried her heart out into it. The Ikari put his arms around his guardian and let her cry herself to sleep.

When she was fast asleep, Shinji laid her out on the couch and covered her with a blanket.

Later, he and Rei went out for a walk in the moonlight. They were arm-in-arm and perfectly happy, for the moment. Yet he could not shake a feeling he had since he left. Suddenly, a blow went to the back of his head, knocking him to the ground. Rei followed soon after. Shinji rolled over painfully and saw two beings standing over him and Rei, their eyes glowing blue.

What…are…you…was his last thought before the blow came again, mercifully knocking him unconscious.

When he came to, he saw figures standing around him. They were talking in some strange language. One of them pointed at him, and he felt arms drag him off. Then darkness over took him.