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"Commander, Your son is outside."

"What?" Gendou looked at the clock sharply. To Fuyutsuki's eye, he 
suddenly seemed a lot more nervous. He had certainly started sweating.

"Shall I send him in?"

"I don't suppose I can put this off any further... send him in, and 
close the door behind you."

"Certainly."

Fuyutsuki left the room, ushered Shinji in, and closed the door. 
What, he thought, could he have to talk to his son about that could 
make him quite so nervous?

*****

"Son."

"Yes, Father?"

Shinji was a little perplexed. His father only ever saw him when it 
was really important, or when he was due a carpeting. He wasn't due 
the latter, and he couldn't think of anything that his father really 
had to see him about. But his father looked very, very nervous. He 
looked like a long-tailed cat in a rocking-chair factory.

Gendou steepled his hands, and then dropped them, standing up and 
pacing, wringing his hands.

"Son, there's something I have to speak to you about... it's..."

Gendou dropped into his chair and pinched the bridge of his nose. 
There was no getting away from it now. The boy had to be told 
sometime.

"You see... It's... well... when a man and a woman... you know..."

Shinji could barely keep himself from laughing. It was a first to see 
his father squirming like this, but he felt a bit of pity as well. He 
let his father continue to blush, and stammer on for a few seconds.

"And it..s um... b-becomes... er..."

"Dad, if it's sex you're on about, what do you want to know? I am 
fourteen, you know. I've known about this sort of thing since I was 
eleven."

Gendou stuttered to a halt and stared at his son with his mouth open. 
After a couple of seconds his glasses fell off.

"What, _all_ of it?"

"As near as all of it as I can get without experience."

"Um, I, ah, I see."

Shinji felt a little mischievous spirit enter him.

"I know all aboutstraight sex, homosexuality..."

*****

Misato and Ritsuko were outside the door. Ritsuko looked over at 
Misato.

"How do you think he's doing?"

"Shinji or Gendou?"

Ritsuko paused. Even she wasn't sure who she meant. "Gendou."

"I think Shinji will be more embarrassed."

"Is that so? I'm betting that Gendou will be worst off. Five hundred?"

"You're on!"

*****

"Will there be anything else, father?"

"Ah... no. Thank you, Shinji. You may go."

Shinji left his seat, and the room a few seconds later. (He then saw 
Misato passing a couple of bills to Ritsuko, but didn't think much of 
it.)

Gendou fanned himself with a couple of sheets of paper, and reached 
for the intercom. "Fuyutsuki? Get in here. And bring me a large 
brandy. Better still, bring me two."

Fuyutsuki entered, carrying a small tray.

"Is everything all right?"

"I... I think so. How old is Shinji, again?"

"Fourteen, commander."

"I thought so." Gendou downed the first brandy in one. "I didn't know 
what a golden shower was until I was twice his age. And I'd never 
even heard the word clitoris until I was sixteen, and never fouund 
one until... my early twenties." He sighed. "Just shows how out of 
touch I am with the younger generation, Fuyutsuki."

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