Subject: [FFML] Re: [FFML][Evangelion][Fanfic] Vignette - 1.1
From: "DB Sommer" <sommer@3rdm.net>
Date: 7/28/2001, 12:24 PM
To: "Joshua 'Gargoyle' Trujillo" <gargoyle@glasscity.net>
CC: <ffml@anifics.com>

Back to doing this again:


Hey there!

Here's the second one...And the latest...

'latest' being a relative term when it's been sitting in my box for over a
month. :)




The rain began shortly after I said goodbye to the Second Child
and Ikari-kun. Weather patterns were just right and the prevailing
winds from the lake made for a series of long, slow rainstorms.
There are puddles even as I walk. There have been puddles for
days. Gatherings of water in the imperfect earth. Water that gives
life. Water that is life. The city sleeps around me, for it is late.

Sounds like she's in Unit-01 again. :)


The Second Child did not speak often as we walked. When she did
speak, it was to admonish Ikari-kun for the rain and to call him an
idiot. I do not understand the second child. Ikari-kun only needs a
good tutor to restore his grades; otherwise, there is no difference in
intelligence between them. He had forgotten the umbrellas though.

Heh. Nice look at the world through Rei's eyes.


I knew of a faster was

way

 back to the apartment in which I live and
left the Second Child and Ikari-kun that I might make it back there
before the rains came. I was unsuccessful. Looking at my feet, I
notice that someone has pushed the rest of the mail through the slot
in the door and into the front foyer. They're getting wet where they
are. I leave them there. There is nothing of importance in the
growing paper stack though.

I do not need the money this Mr. McMahnan person tells me I won.

Commander Ikari told me they were
not important and he is not wrong.

important, and

Yeah. Riiiight. Sure he's not.


I undress and step into the shower in the bathroom. There is a furo,
but I do not use it. I have not told Commander Ikari that I prefer
the shower. I expressed a preference before and he informed me
that my preferences are irrelevant. Since he told me directly, I must
assume he is correct. I still...prefer...showers.

So much for infallability.



Ikari-kun. Ikari Shinji. The First Child. I have given him an
appellation different than that of his father. When did I do this?

About episode 6 or so. :)

Why did I do this? Perhaps that is so I can tell them apart in my
own mind and yet...I have no memory of consciously doing this
separation. I see that my memory is more faulty than I originally
thought. I will speak with Dr. Akagi concerning it tomorrow before
my trip to Terminal Dogma. Perhaps it is just due to the fact that I
am tired. It has been a long time since I slept and

slept, an

 Dr. Akagi told
me that sleep is necessary for humans to function properly.

No matter how hard some of us try to forgoe it. :)


"So I shall sleep."

I normally fall to sleep

'asleep' (Sounds better to me)

quickly and dreamlessly. Only the thoughts
of my sisters permeate the darkness behind my eyes. They are
somewhat unending. They have thoughts of rain. Of sunshine
across the golden fields of sunflowers, shining like the flickers of a
candle. They wonder at the taste of blood. The LCL solution that
we use in Evangelion tastes like blood.

Mixed with something else. It has sort of a wangy taste to it. I do not know
what it is.

^_^

 It is the same solution in
which they live. They wonder how I know it tastes like blood.
They also wonder at the air. It seems, from their perspective, that
there is no fluid on the other side of the tank wall. That is true.
Then, how do you live? I breathe air. What is air? I tell them, they
do not understand. Does air taste like LCL? Air has no taste on it's

its

own. What is no taste like? I cannot explain that. What does Shinji
taste like?

Asuka: Like a weenie. Not that I have any idea, mind you. It's just a guess,
really.

I do not know. I wake.

It is morning. The sun shines through the small openings in the
curtains.

A bird lands on my sill and cherps. I grab it before it can fly off. Now it
is time for breakfast.


It is a quiet walk, resounding only with our footsteps on the paved
ground. Some cicadas that have survived the storms have come out
and are busily chirping in the trees. Something is different about
Ikari-kun. There is something *about* him today that was different
than yesterday.

I think it is the nose piercing, but I could be mistaken.

Truly, I must have Dr. Akagi check my memory.
That is it. He smells differently.

Someone forgot the deodorant, I see.


"H-How do you mean," he is visibly beginning to sweat.

"You smell differently."

"Yeah," he chuckles nervously, a hand at the back of his head,
"Misato wanted me to try out some cologne. This was the only one
that I liked."

"It's called, 'Spineless' for men. It's the only one that felt like it was
appropriate.


"I..." I pause, "I...like it."

"You do?" his eyes were wide, "Good. I'm glad you like it."

I cannot meet his gaze again. Perhaps I should ask for a more
complete physical...He is still standing, looking at me. The elevator
stops. I turn quickly and kiss him on his lips.

My. Impulsive Rei. What a surprise.

Nice work. Will try to get to the rest eventually.

D.B. Sommer


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