And on to something else:

Vignette
By
Joshua Trujillo

1.0

The rain was incessant. It'd been raining for nearly two weeks.

Ah, so this takes place in Seattle. I see.

 The

drains had been hard pressed to sluice it away to Lake Oshino
several miles west. There were still puddles reflecting the gray
skies above. Occasional flashes of lightening

lightning

Asuka had said the same thing over and over since they'd begun to
walk home. As they left the Geofront, it had been muggy and still
wet, but not raining. Rei had bid them goodbye early on and found
a different way back to her place. Shinji wondered that

'if' instead of 'that' I think.

she could

tell it was going to rain and shrugged his shoulders. It wouldn't
really surprise him. The rain began minutes later. Shinji thought it
was somehow appropriate for his mood.

Rain is always appropriate for his mood. :P

 Ritsuko was mad because

she thought that he wasn't trying on his synch tests. Misato was
angry because she was having problems with Kaji.

With him having been killed and all.

And while she

never took out her anger on either he or Asuka, indeed she was
quite careful to control her temper, Shinji frequently had to deal
with her drunken ramblings as a kind of counselor.

Usually he conseled her into puking in the toilet instead of the floor and
falling asleep in her bed instead of the floor.

them up, but she'd been drinking. While that wasn't unusual in and
of itself, it constituted in her more danger than she normally was
behind the wheel.

Heh. True.

The only good thing was that the temperatures

temperature

were

was (I think)

 still warm. It just meant that the misery took longer to set in.

It had set in about ten yards back.

Heh

Asuka scowled underneath her sheath of wet hair. Her hair was
wet, her clothes were wet,

her panties were wet, of course they always got wet around Shinji. Not that
she would ever admit it to him. Then he might grow a spine, and that would
ruin the sweet relationship they had.

more into the city proper. At least they wouldn't have to worry
about crime out here in suburbia.

Good place for a paragraph break.

She scowled again as she glanced

at Shinji. He looked like he was enjoying the rain. Just like him.
The rain depressed her. Not as much as a bright spring day, but
still.

So sunny days and rainy days depress her. I suppose only hail cheers her up.

"Shinji, I'm cold," she said quietly, "Put your arm around me as we
walk."

It felt like an eternity of hellish waiting as he awkwardly slipped
his left arm around her. She felt the contact and her face snapped
into a scowl as she began to instantly fume.

"I MEANT around my shoulder, you idiot!"

He quickly shifted his grip and Asuka calmed some. She was
disgusted by his cluelessness, but supposed that he had SOME use.
She still felt that someone needed to keep him from getting a big
head and she was perfect for that.

head, and

And no, I'd say walking closer to her would make his head bigger. Oh, wait,
you mean the head on the shoulders. Nevermind.

"Shinji," she said softly against him, "You're an idiot."

He said nothing in return. She sighed and unconsciously snuggled
closer. She knew that she was blushing at the contact. It was all his
fault, of course.

In a way, she is right.

What was she going to say? The heat just felt good...Another
moment floated between them...

"Nevermind..."

Nice little WAFFy piece. It flowed well and I enjoyed it. Sorry I couldn't
be more helpful.

And that's that for this evening.

D.B. Sommer


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