Neon Genesis Evangelion copyright Gainax and Hideki Anno.
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Hyuuga and Aoba were in the lounge several doors down from Central Dogma.
"Slow day, eh, Makoto?" Aoba asked as he popped open a soda can from the
dispenser.
Hyuuga simply nodded. No Angels for the past week or so had made their
presence felt. It looked to be another quiet ordinary day at NERV, the
organization that saves the world.
The door slid open and a familiar visage walked into the room.
Aoba stopped in mid-gulp and sputtered. "Commander! Good morning!"
Hyuuga half jumped out of his chair. The Commander wasn't supposed to
return for another two days....
Commander Ikari stopped and nodded at the two techs. "Pretty early to be
on a break, is it not?"
Hyuuga gulped. Uh-oh, he thought.
Aoba tried to transfer the soda can behind his back. "Um.. ah, well...."
The Supreme Commander stared at the two. And then, much to their
amazement, grabbed a soda can from the dispenser, plopped down on one of
the chairs and raised his feet on another chair.
"So what's been happening since I left?"
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"Are you sure it isn't due to an Angel?" asked Misato, as she crowded over
Aoba's shoulder to look at the display terminal.
"I'm positive, if it were, the Magi would be screaming bloody murder right
now." Aoba typed into his keyboard as the subject of their attention moved
out of the cameras range.
The security cameras on Level 17 whirred into action. The subject of their
scrutiny kept walking down the corridor. A door hissed open as a NERV ID
card was swiped into the appropriate slot. The figure stepped through the
dark doorway, which promptly and efficiently hissed shut.
Misato frowned. "Whose room is that?"
Aoba punched up the hexagonal map... and stared. "It's Doctor Akagi's."
Misato wasn't surprised when a few minutes afterwards, distinctly feminine
giggling was picked up by the audio sensors on the camera trained on
Ritsuko's office.
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"Umm... Asuka..." Shinji stammered.
"What?" asked Asuka in a bored tone.
"Well... did you notice anything weird about my father today?"
"Weird? What do you mean?" Asuka yawned as she and Shinji made their way
from NERV Headquarters.
"Well..."
"Well what? Speak up baka! I don't have all day!"
"Remember when we ran into him?"
"Yes?"
"He... smiled."
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Fuyutsuki stood in the Commander's Area at Central Dogma. He glanced down
at the heart of all NERV operations. Maya, Hyuuga and Aoba sat at the
terminals monitoring Tokyo-3 and the Sub-Levels of NERV headquarters.
Ritsuko was noticeably absent, having gone home complaining about "stress
and exhaustion".
He had been receiving reports of the Commander's, ehem, odd behavior since
he had returned. From his incessant grinning and whistling (funny, he
didn't have a history of sugar imbalance) throughout the day, to that
loving kiss smacked on Unit 01. And those were the OFFICIALY reported
incidents.
Fuyutsuki turned as the faint sound of whistling came up the stairs
leading to the loft. He remembered the last time Gendo looked like this.
And that was a long time ago. I wonder, he thought, could he have gone...
bananas?
Had the responsibility of protecting the human race caused him to finally
snap?
"Sensei, good morning!" Gendo jauntily waved as he springingly walked to
his chair and sat. He leaned forward, and clasped his hands, firmly locking
the fingers. The staff below glanced up and sighed in relief, this was
normal at least.
Gendo Ikari glanced at the main screen, currently showing a dazzling view
of the sunset off Tokyo-3's bay.
"Lovely weather, eh, sensei?", he asked as a flash of crimson light
glanced of his spectacles.
"Quite Ikari. And I think it's about time you had your glasses changed."
Fin
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Thanks be to TimeRunner and Hunter
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Jin
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