______________________________________________________________________ Peace by Daruma E-Mail: daruma@tokyo-3.com Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/otherwords ICQ #: 24423411 ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion and all it contains is property of GAINAX Co. and I have no permission to use their material. I am getting no profit and I probably never will. Quality Warning: This fanfic was made with the utmost care and professionalism. Words were chosen and placed in the general vicinity of each segment of entertaining vocabulary in order to capture the sonic characteristics of the drama performed. Each word and sentence was tuned before and often during the creation of the presence and arrangements were sketched out beforetime. The text was created to detract from the repetition inherent in modern fanfic projects. Iambic pentameter was not always an option, however where possible, the last syllable of each sentence of the line was manipulated in order to rhyme with the last syllable of the preceding line. Where this technique has served to distort the original meaning of the text, the fuzz tone of the monitor hum or a virtuosic pc fan has been inserted to detract the listener temporarily from the actual fic. Finally, the best pages were chosen and the others were brutally pulled and thrown in the Recycle Bin - otherwise this fanfic could have easily been greater than 3 gigabytes in size - much bigger than the generally accepted length of a modern fanfic story. Every measure was taken to keep this fanfiction mistake free; the author, Daruma, who has created many top notch fanfic presences, often took the initiative and erased or "ducked" incorrect information or unsavory mental images. If anyone can tell me where I took this from, please e-mail me. Author's Pre-Notes: This is just a spur of the moment thing, which is mostly caused by The Lone Gunman inadvertantly, and reading way too much WAFF that is good for your health. So here we go, another what I call "balcony fic"! ______________________________________________________________________ Peace By Daruma Shinji was at the place where he felt safest. With the soft breeze blowing through his hair, eyes closed, he was at his most relaxed state. The Katsuragi apartment didn't have a very big balcony, with barely room to stand, but Shinji felt content, at peace, for once in his suddenly turbulent life. Trust Asuka to break the silence. "Shinji! Misato says that dinner is ready!" Asuka called from the inside. Seeing though that Shinji wasn't really paying that much attention to her, and nobody hates being ignored like Asuka, she took it upon herself to gain his full attention, in the most violent way possible. She stopped however, when she saw how at peace he was, not the emotional wreck she had many times seen him, not the spineless little boy that wouldn't face up to others, not the boy that would avoid any personal contact at all, but a boy at his most calm, his most relaxed. She found herself lightly tapping him on the shoulder, not the violent whack on the head as usual, so as not to disturb him as much. He turned around silently, and was surprised to see Asuka, he was not expecting her to use such a calm way of attracting his attention. Asuka found herself slightly at a loss for words at a moment when she would normally have no trouble speaking. She saw him in a way she had not seen him before and liked it. After a while she realised she was staring and remembered why she called out in the first place. "Uh, Shinji, Misato says dinner is ready." she managed to get out. Shinji was feeling very weird, this was not the Asuka that he thought he knew. Though he was slightly annoyed that his peace was broken, he found it comforting that she hadn't hit him as she normally would have done. "Hmm, I don't think I'm really up to any of Misato's cooking at the moment." he said as he turned back around, afraid to let his real feelings out. He half-expected Asuka to leave then and was very surprised to find her leaning on the railing next to him. Asuka was also very surprised at her own movements. She attempted to make the best of the situation presented before her and tried her best at conversation, which she found incredibly difficult for some reason all of a sudden. "Me neither, come to think of it, I'm never up to any of Misato's food." she said. Shinji was now looking into the horizon and Asuka was curious at what he was doing out on the balcony. "Say, what are you looking at out here anyway." she said. Shinji was again surprised when she started to talk to him, she had never talked to him before and he could find no reason why she would want to talk to him. He was both confused but felt comforted in the idea that Asuka was actually talking to him. "Nothing really in particular. I just like the way the breeze blows across my face, it feels well, comforting in a way. It, ah, feels like my mother. That must seem stupid to you." he said. He couldn't believe what he just said, it was like he was no longer in control of his mouth, and the words came naturally to him. In normal cases she would have called him stupid but she felt a way she had never felt before. She felt feelings about Shinji that she didn't even know about surface, feelings she kept buried deep within herself, to prevent herself from self hurt. "Oh no, that's not all that stupid." she eventually said. "I'm glad that you feel that way Asuka" Shinji said. He looked towards her and found her looking at him. The moon was quite bright that night and Asuka's features were perfectly outlined. His breath was taken away and he could only get a few words out of his mouth. "You're beautiful...you're very beautiful Asuka." he said. He didn't worry about what might have happened to him, he only treasured the moment as best he could. But no slap came. Asuka surprised him by saying back, "You're not too bad yourself third child." though she was at first shocked at what she was saying she soon saw how right it was, she had never really looked at him before, and now she was doing nothing but looking. She could see even in the relatively low light situation that he was blushing intensely but what really surprised Shinji the most was what she said next. "Do you want to kiss? A real one, not like last time." she said. After he recovered from the initial shock Shinji managed to get out a nod and they got closer, slowly but surely their lips touched. He put his arms around her waist and soon Asuka found herself wrapping her own arms around his neck as they embraced in a passionate kiss. Meanwhile, Misato had become impatient waiting for the two teens and had gone to investigate, instant ramen bowl in hand. Soon the contents of the bowl though, found it's way to the floor as she stood there gaping at the sight of the two children kissing. After a while, she started to smile and said quietly to herself. "My two roommates are in love..." ______________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: Whew, that was an effort. Never written straight WAFF before and it only took me a little while and I got really stuck into it soon enough and it only took me a short shile to complete. Timeline wise, it's after their initial kiss in episode 15 but before Shinji is swallowed by the shadow in episode 16. C&C, MSTs all is welcome. Thanks for reading. Words of Wisdom: "Go ahead you can laugh all you want, I got my philosophy." -Ben Folds Five's "Philosophy" "Socializing? People suck. The general populous of the world sucks. What use is trying to talk to people when what you see is more important than what you hear? Who'd be a writer... -_-" -Mien Diem Mainly influenced by: Always - The Lone Gunman At the Balcony - Pervert + countless other WAFF fics... Read these fics, they're good: An Amnesic Angel - Axel Terizaki Death of One - Godsend777 Child of Love - Axel Terizaki (again) I Mustn't Run Away - Andrew Huang May I Have This Dance - Florencio B. de la Merced, Jr. One I Love Is... - Alain Gravel Variations on a Theme - James Grabowski and Geoff Upchurch Thanks to my pre-readers: Godsend777 - Death of One +others Jonathan Wang - Freedom Ka-Wing Tam - An Ubhal as Airde +others Alain Gravel - The One I Love Is... Greg Thomas - webmaster of Everything Anime Adam Rosz - pre-reading type person By Daruma E-mail: daruma@tokyo-3.com Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/otherwords ICQ #: 24423411