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Advice and Trust [NGE]

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The First, Second, Third, and Fifth Children walked out of the classroom as a group. The Fourth had already grabbed her boyfriend and bid them a hasty goodbye before speeding off towards Hikari's home. She'd declared that since she had to be home and see her family, but she wanted to be with him, it was high time Touji meet her father officially at a family dinner. Touji had paled, but let himself be dragged off.

It was an oddly tense group: Rei kept shooting the occasional baleful glare at Nagisa, and Shinji and Asuka followed along behind them, holding hands and intermittently exchanging their own confused looks. Rei, maintaining anger at someone? Someone she had just met? This was unheard of.

Their surprise mounted even higher when Rei stopped them before they even got halfway to the shoe lockers and gave Nagisa an even more nasty look than previous before turning to them. "Please proceed home without us. Nagisa and I need to... talk."

"Er... are you sure, Rei? I... um... you sure you don't want us with you to help... keep things calm?" Shinji asked carefully.

Rei shook her head. "I wish you both could stay with me, but... he and I need to discuss topics it is safer for you not to hear. I will rejoin you at home as soon as possible." She looked at the Fifth Child again. "I may make sure he goes to his own residence and stays there first."

"I will go wherever NERV places me," Nagisa said with a faint smile. "Don't we all?"

"Silence, new fish," Rei said sharply. "Follow me."
 
Strypgia said:
Writing is happening. Update shortly. Teaser:

The First, Second, Third, and Fifth Children walked out of the classroom as a group. The Fourth had already grabbed her boyfriend and bid them a hasty goodbye before speeding off towards Hikari's home. She'd declared that since she had to be home and see her family, but she wanted to be with him, it was high time Touji meet her father officially at a family dinner. Touji had paled, but let himself be dragged off.

It was an oddly tense group: Rei kept shooting the occasional baleful glare at Nagisa, and Shinji and Asuka followed along behind them, holding hands and intermittently exchanging their own confused looks. Rei, maintaining anger at someone? Someone she had just met? This was unheard of.

Their surprise mounted even higher when Rei stopped them before they even got halfway to the shoe lockers and gave Nagisa an even more nasty look than previous before turning to them. "Please proceed home without us. Nagisa and I need to... talk."

"Er... are you sure, Rei? I... um... you sure you don't want us with you to help... keep things calm?" Shinji asked carefully.

Rei shook her head. "I wish you both could stay with me, but... he and I need to discuss topics it is safer for you not to hear. I will rejoin you at home as soon as possible." She looked at the Fifth Child again. "I may make sure he goes to his own residence and stays there first."

"I will go wherever NERV places me," Nagisa said with a faint smile. "Don't we all?"

"Silence, new fish," Rei said sharply. "Follow me."
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Yes. Give.
 
Yes yes... Only a matter of time when Rei calls Nagisa Rainbow Trout playfully.

I ship them already.
 
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Yes yes... Only a matter of time when Rei calls Nagisa Rainbow Trout playfully.

I ship them already.
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Nope. Israfel Special only! Who's with me, people? I can't hear you!

I can agree with AxS too. It just happens that I ship both RxS and AxS -- and this story is AxS by default.​
 
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Wint said:
Nope. Israfel Special only! Who's with me, people? I can't hear you!
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Not me.

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Yes yes... Only a matter of time when Rei calls Nagisa Rainbow Trout playfully.

I ship them already.
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[Notices it is not incest]

It shall suffice.

[Waves Rainbow Trout flag lazily]

The Shadow Omake (As it shall henceforth be known as) is up on QQ in the creative writing section. Entitled:
"Advice and Trust [NGE] Shadow Comedy Omake: Rei's Pre-Emptive Strike"

Go find it if you want to read it; I can't be bothered to deal with PMing every individual who wants to find it.
 
I... Don't want Kaworu paired up with Rei. At all. It just doesn't sit right with me. Anyone else feeling that? I've thought it for weeks kinda subconsciously but only now put it down into words.
 
This Rei seems to have as much love for Kaworu as a Liam Neeson character does for the French underground
 
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Chapter 9.5
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    • Kaizuki said:
    Feels contrived after buildup of bonds between RSA.
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    Have I let you all down so far? :) Watch and wait. Maybe this ends with shipping, maybe it ends with Rei being the one to stop him in Terminal Dogma rather than a in-full-breakdown Shinji. Many things are possible.

    Though to be fair, right now Rei's current thoughts on the Fifth Child are more along the lines of what a mother cat with one kitten might think on sighting her first dog approaching her lair...

    Sorry for the delay, @Maglor, @The Phoenixian, @Rukatin... but this one is your trigger. 1300 words, and I'm going to bed.

    Chapter 9.5
    Everything I Do...

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    The First, Second, Third, and Fifth Children walked out of the classroom as a group. The Fourth had already grabbed her boyfriend and bid them a hasty goodbye before speeding off towards Hikari's home. She'd declared that since she had to be home and see her family, but she wanted to be with him, it was high time Touji meet her father officially at a family dinner. Touji had paled, but let himself be dragged off.

    It was an oddly tense group: Rei kept shooting the occasional baleful glare at Nagisa, and Shinji and Asuka followed along behind them, holding hands and intermittently exchanging their own confused looks. Rei, maintaining anger at someone? Someone she had just met? This was unheard of.

    Their surprise mounted even higher when Rei stopped them before they even got halfway to the shoe lockers and gave Nagisa an even more nasty look than previous before turning to them. "Please proceed home without us. Nagisa-san and I need to... talk."

    "Er... are you sure, Rei? I... um... you sure you don't want us with you to help... keep things calm?" Shinji asked carefully.

    Rei shook her head. "I wish you both could stay with me, but... he and I need to discuss topics it is safer for you not to hear. I will rejoin you at home as soon as possible." She looked at the Fifth Child again. "I may make sure he goes to his own residence and stays there first."

    "I will go wherever NERV places me," Nagisa said with a faint smile. "Don't we all?"

    "Silence, new fish," Rei said sharply. "Follow me."

    "New fish?" Nagisa said in amusement as he turned to follow Rei down the hall.

    "Asuka called you that, and that is sufficient reason for me to employ it as a mild derogative appellation until I feel otherwise," Rei said without looking at him. She led the way down the hall and out of sight of her friends. She had memorized the school schedule of activities at the beginning of the year, more because it took her only moments and the information was in front of her than from any interest. It was not like she expected to ever join any of the clubs. Right now this meant she knew the school music room was unoccupied and would be so all afternoon. She slid the door open and waved him inside, closing it and locking it once she had followed him in.

    She pointed at the piano bench. "Sit," she ordered. She placed herself a few feet away, standing and glaring at him. "Additionally, it covers my irritation and confusion at your light. I look at everyone else, and I see their AT-Fields easily, in a consistent manner. You... are wrong. Different. What are you?"

    "I told you," he said with that same, faint, and increasingly irritating smile. "Both of us ended up in the same form as the Lilim while we inhabit this planet. I am just like you."

    "No you are not," Rei replied. "If you were, you would look like me, your light would be like mine, or everyone else's. I would see a light like a person's, not a... a... stupid rainbow trout!" Rei said in frustration. You'd look normal, not like..." Her eyes widened. "An Angel," she suddenly hissed. Her hands hooked into claws again.

    His smile did not flicker at all. He just nodded. "In that vein, you may call me Tabris, if you wish. Pleased to meet you."

    The room began to shudder and the sheets of music on the stands began to ripple in a wind that did not blow. "You will not harm them, Adam-spawn!" Rei growled. "This world is mine! I will protect my children! They will live!"

    Nagisa raised both his hands in a gesture of surrender. "You don't need to do that."

    "Why not?" Rei snarled. "You and I cannot coexist, Child of the White Moon! For all the other lies SEELE has told, they told the truth about that! I know what compels you! You cannot resist the Call to seek your origin! You will inevitably try to unite with Adam and fulfill the drive you cannot deny! And I will not allow you to overwrite all life on this world!"

    "I am not your enemy, First Child," Nagisa said carefully, his hands still raised.

    Rei unfurled her AT-Field, feeling it rasp and clash against his. Yet he and his own AT-Field remained totally passive. When she pushed, he resisted no more than necessary to keep from utterly collapsing. "You have no choice! I know how strong the Call is!"

    "I am the Angel of Free Will. There is always a choice. And I choose my fate, not the old men of SEELE, whatever they may think. They cannot control me, not like that." He lowered one hand and trailed it along the keys of the piano, the trickle of notes oddly sweet and clear against the burning tension of their confrontation. "There is too much beauty in this world for me to want to destroy it so casually." He looked back up at her. "And in the people."

    Rei paused her metaphysical assault, pulling back just a hair. "...You said you would not harm them by your own will. That still leaves wills not your own. And they are the ones that sent you here. I doubt it was out of goodwill towards Commander Ikari."

    "They think I am their instrument. I let them send me. I wanted to come here. Yes, I feel the Call in my soul, drawing me here. I do not deny that. But I can still choose, for at least a while. And I want... to see this world, these people. I... I thought I would meet someone unique, someone special when I heard about the Third Child. And he is... but more than I ever expected. You are correct, his bond with the Second Child... I have never seen anything like it. It is truly beautiful... I want to see more of it."

    Rei pulled back to just a notch above her usual AT-Field. The shuddering of the room ceased. "Then you understand why I cannot let you be here. You may choose otherwise for now, but how long can that last? You are a threat to them and their whole world merely by your existence. The day you cannot stop yourself, I will. By your basic nature, you are my enemy."

    "What if I do not want to be?"

    Rei narrowed her eyes. "What?"

    "All this has happened before, all of this will happen again. But what if I want to choose a different path? You say I am your enemy... but I do not have to be. I do not want to be."

    Rei stared at him, probing with all senses she could command to try to read him. "...Shinji has taught me to forgive and to give second chances. So I will give you this one chance, Adam-spawn. But if I become convinced you are about to do anything... wrong," her eyes glittered like razor-edged rubies. "Then I will end you."

    Nagisa just nodded. His fingers trailed down the keys of the piano again. "Music... music is the highest achievement of Lilim culture... I feel... freed when I play. In a way nothing else can match." He looked up at her again. "I understand the Third Child plays?"

    Rei's face hardened a little. "Yes... as does the Second. They play together. And it is far more beautiful than you can possibly imagine."

    "....may I see this?"
     
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    • The Englanderish said:
    Not me.


    [Notices it is not incest]

    It shall suffice.

    [Waves Rainbow Trout flag lazily]

    The Shadow Omake (As it shall henceforth be known as) is up on QQ in the creative writing section. Entitled:
    "Advice and Trust [NGE] Shadow Comedy Omake: Rei's Pre-Emptive Strike"

    Go find it if you want to read it; I can't be bothered to deal with PMing every individual who wants to find it.
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    Read it. You seem disturbed by your own writing. If you want I can remove your brain from your skull, pet it properly and then put it back into your skull right here on Sufficient Velocity.

    And for those of you with minds in the gutter no I didn't mean this in any sexual way.
     
    Strypgia said:
    Have I let you all down so far? :) Watch and wait. Maybe this ends with shipping, maybe it ends with Rei being the one to stop him in Terminal Dogma rather than a in-full-breakdown Shinji. Many things are possible.

    Though to be fair, right now Rei's current thoughts on the Fifth Child are more along the lines of what a mother cat with one kitten might think on sighting her first dog approaching her lair...

    Sorry for the delay, @Maglor, @The Phoenixian, @Rukatin... but this one is your trigger. 1300 words, and I'm going to bed.

    Chapter 9.5
    Everything I Do...

    ++++

    The First, Second, Third, and Fifth Children walked out of the classroom as a group. The Fourth had already grabbed her boyfriend and bid them a hasty goodbye before speeding off towards Hikari's home. She'd declared that since she had to be home and see her family, but she wanted to be with him, it was high time Touji meet her father officially at a family dinner. Touji had paled, but let himself be dragged off.

    It was an oddly tense group: Rei kept shooting the occasional baleful glare at Nagisa, and Shinji and Asuka followed along behind them, holding hands and intermittently exchanging their own confused looks. Rei, maintaining anger at someone? Someone she had just met? This was unheard of.

    Their surprise mounted even higher when Rei stopped them before they even got halfway to the shoe lockers and gave Nagisa an even more nasty look than previous before turning to them. "Please proceed home without us. Nagisa and I need to... talk."

    "Er... are you sure, Rei? I... um... you sure you don't want us with you to help... keep things calm?" Shinji asked carefully.

    Rei shook her head. "I wish you both could stay with me, but... he and I need to discuss topics it is safer for you not to hear. I will rejoin you at home as soon as possible." She looked at the Fifth Child again. "I may make sure he goes to his own residence and stays there first."

    "I will go wherever NERV places me," Nagisa said with a faint smile. "Don't we all?"

    "Silence, new fish," Rei said sharply. "Follow me."

    "New fish?" Nagisa said in amusement as he turned to follow Rei down the hall.

    "Asuka called you that, and that is sufficient reason for me to employ it as a mild derogative appellation until I feel otherwise," Rei said without looking at him. She led the way down the hall and out of sight of her friends. She had memorized the school schedule of activities at the beginning of the year, more because it took her only moments and the information was in front of her than from any interest. It was not like she expected to ever join any of the clubs. Right now this meant she knew the school music room was unoccupied and would be so all afternoon. She slid the door open and waved him inside, closing it and locking it once she had followed him in.

    She pointed at the piano bench. "Sit," she ordered. She placed herself a few feet away, standing and glaring at him. "Additionally, it covers my irritation and confusion at your light. I look at everyone else, and I see their AT-Fields easily, in a consistent manner. You... are wrong. Different. What are you?"

    "I told you," he said with that same, faint, and increasingly irritating smile. "Both of us ended up in the same form as the Lilim while we inhabit this planet. I am just like you."

    "No you are not," Rei replied. "If you were, you would look like me, your light would be like mine, or everyone else's. I would see a light like a person's, not a... a... stupid rainbow trout!" Rei said in frustration. You'd look normal, not like..." Her eyes widened. "An Angel," she suddenly hissed. Her hands hooked into claws again.

    His smile did not flicker at all. He just nodded. "In that vein, you may call me Tabris, if you wish. Pleased to meet you."

    The room began to shudder and the sheets of music on the stands began to ripple in a wind that did not blow. "You will not harm them, Adam-spawn!" Rei growled. "This world is mine! I will protect my children! They will live!"

    Nagisa raised both his hands in a gesture of surrender. "You don't need to do that."

    "Why not?" Rei snarled. "You and I cannot coexist, Child of the White Moon! For all the other lies SEELE has told, they told the truth about that! I know what compels you! You cannot resist the Call to seek your origin! You will inevitably try to unite with Adam and fulfill the drive you cannot deny! And I will not allow you to overwrite all life on this world!"

    "I am not your enemy, First Child," Nagisa said carefully, his hands still raised.

    Rei unfurled her AT-Field, feeling it rasp and clash against his. Yet he and his own AT-Field remained totally passive. When she pushed, he resisted no more than necessary to keep from utterly collapsing. "You have no choice! I know how strong the Call is!"

    "I am the Angel of Free Will. There is always a choice. And I choose my fate, not the old men of SEELE, whatever they may think. They cannot control me, not like that." He lowered one hand and trailed it along the keys of the piano, the trickle of notes oddly sweet and clear against the burning tension of their confrontation. "There is too much beauty in this world for me to want to destroy it so casually." He looked back up at her. "And in the people."

    Rei paused her metaphysical assault, pulling back just a hair. "...You said you would not harm them by your own will. That still leaves wills not your own. And they are the ones that sent you here. I doubt it was out of goodwill towards Commander Ikari."

    "They think I am their instrument. I let them send me. I wanted to come here. Yes, I feel the Call in my soul, drawing me here. I do not deny that. But I can still choose, for at least a while. And I want... to see this world, these people. I... I thought I would meet someone unique, someone special when I heard about the Third Child. And he is... but more than I ever expected. You are correct, his bond with the Second Child... I have never seen anything like it. It is truly beautiful... I want to see more of it."

    Rei pulled back to just a notch above her usual AT-Field. The shuddering of the room ceased. "Then you understand why I cannot let you be here. You may choose otherwise for now, but how long can that last? You are a threat to them and their whole world merely by your existence. The day you cannot stop yourself, I will. By your basic nature, you are my enemy."

    "What if I do not want to be?"

    Rei narrowed her eyes. "What?"

    "All this has happened before, all of this will happen again. But what if I want to choose a different path? You say I am your enemy... but I do not have to be. I do not want to be."

    Rei stared at him, probing with all senses she could command to try to read him. "...Shinji has taught me to forgive and to give second chances. So I will give you this one chance, Adam-spawn. But if I become convinced you are about to do anything... wrong," her eyes glittered like razor-edged rubies. "Then I will end you."

    Nagisa just nodded. His fingers trailed down the keys of the piano again. "Music... music is the highest achievement of Lilim culture... I feel... freed when I play. In a way nothing else can match." He looked up at her again. "I understand the Third Child plays?"

    Rei's face hardened a little. "Yes... as does the Second. They play together. And it is far more beautiful than you can possibly imagine."

    "....may I see this?"
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    …Are you hinting that Kaworu is a time traveler or at least aware of the multiverse Strypgia?
     
    Strypgia said:
    Chapter 9.5
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    I have to say, Rei's fury is a thing of majesty. Reading it sends chills down my spine.

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    Rei stared at him, probing with all senses she could command to try to read him. "...Shinji has taught me to forgive and to give second chances. So I will give you this one chance, Adam-spawn. But if I become convinced you are about to do anything... wrong," her eyes glittered like razor-edged rubies. "Then I will end you."
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    This part especially. Mmmmph.
     
    Strypgia said:
    Hinting? Hinting what? Can't a guy just make a Battlestar Galactica ref?
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    So much for going to bed. :V

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    what a mother cat with one kitten might think on sighting her first dog approaching her lair...
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    I can safely say my cats have never reacted in such a way to next door's dog.

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    Right now this meant she knew the school music room was unoccupied and would be so all afternoon.
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    Aaaaaaand there goes the idea machine...
     
    ...Why is it so hard to dislike Tabris here? He comes across as so innocently alien in his interactions. I can hardly blame him for wanting to see the beauty life, and humanity in particular, has to offer.
     
    Strypgia said:
    Though to be fair, right now Rei's current thoughts on the Fifth Child are more along the lines of what a mother cat honey badger with one kitten offspring might think on sighting her first dog approaching her lair...
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    FTFY.

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    The room began to shudder and the sheets of music on the stands began to ripple in a wind that did not blow. "You will not harm them, Adam-spawn!" Rei growled. "This world is mine! I will protect my children! They will live!"
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    Um, Kaworu does have his life insurance paid up, right?
     
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