Evangelion: Asuka/Rei - grey
Originally posted by minus_seven at Evangelion: Asuka/Rei - grey
Prompt: Drabble Tag 6 - Grey
Fandom: Evangelion
Pairing: Asuka/Rei
Rating: G
Word count: 436
It had been a depressing day. She’d woken up The school day had been tedious, the weather completely miserable... and Ayanami hadn’t come to school for whatever reason, so Hikari had saddled her with bringing her the missed schoolwork. Honestly, if Hikari wasn’t her friend...
Asuka sighed and checked the address again. This couldn’t be the place, could it? It was literally falling apart. The thrum of nearby construction work echoed inside her chest. No, she spied a black Section 2 van parked across the street. Ayanami... lived... here. It made a twisted sort of sense that the albino’s residence was as desolate as her personality but... wasn’t this a bit too much?
“Argh! Whatever.” She would just deliver the paper and make herself scarce.
Not even bothering with an elevator that probably didn’t work, she ran up the stairs and swept past several barren, abandoned apartments until she reached the number she was looking for. The letterbox overflowed with unread correspondence and the door... She tried it. Yeah, it was broken.
Cautiously, she entered the apartment. The cloudy sky outside kept the one room apartment wrapped in penumbra. The floor and the walls were an equally dirty shade of grey, the single curtain on the one window ratty and faded white. Grey. A pitcher of water didn’t shine without light and remained bleak next to bundles of medication. Grey little pills, grey water. On the bed, under a comfortless sheet, lied a lifeless form. Her breath caught. The blue-haired creature was otherworldly in its stillness. Surrounded by the grey, she shone, instead of fading into pastel colors like she did under the sun.
Slowly, almost nervously, Asuka approached her. Even dust particles had paused on their way down, the flow of time interrupted within the four walls. She kneeled down, close to the other pilot’s head. If she was breathing, it was so shallow she couldn’t see it. Her hand stopped before it could touch the marble white skin of the creature before her. Would the spell holding time in its grasp break if she awoke? No, she had to check if she was alive, if she was real. She couldn’t be.
And at the barest, involuntary brush of skin against skin, Asuka was looking into rubies. Precious gems, red, bloody red shinning from within, alive, so full of life and burning. They were the only living things in the grey, and they were looking at her. Seeing her.
Asuka’s heart jumped without her permission and she almost let the accursed papers fall from her arms. The spell hadn’t broken, but captured her completely instead.
Prompt: Drabble Tag 6 - Grey
Fandom: Evangelion
Pairing: Asuka/Rei
Rating: G
Word count: 436
It had been a depressing day. She’d woken up The school day had been tedious, the weather completely miserable... and Ayanami hadn’t come to school for whatever reason, so Hikari had saddled her with bringing her the missed schoolwork. Honestly, if Hikari wasn’t her friend...
Asuka sighed and checked the address again. This couldn’t be the place, could it? It was literally falling apart. The thrum of nearby construction work echoed inside her chest. No, she spied a black Section 2 van parked across the street. Ayanami... lived... here. It made a twisted sort of sense that the albino’s residence was as desolate as her personality but... wasn’t this a bit too much?
“Argh! Whatever.” She would just deliver the paper and make herself scarce.
Not even bothering with an elevator that probably didn’t work, she ran up the stairs and swept past several barren, abandoned apartments until she reached the number she was looking for. The letterbox overflowed with unread correspondence and the door... She tried it. Yeah, it was broken.
Cautiously, she entered the apartment. The cloudy sky outside kept the one room apartment wrapped in penumbra. The floor and the walls were an equally dirty shade of grey, the single curtain on the one window ratty and faded white. Grey. A pitcher of water didn’t shine without light and remained bleak next to bundles of medication. Grey little pills, grey water. On the bed, under a comfortless sheet, lied a lifeless form. Her breath caught. The blue-haired creature was otherworldly in its stillness. Surrounded by the grey, she shone, instead of fading into pastel colors like she did under the sun.
Slowly, almost nervously, Asuka approached her. Even dust particles had paused on their way down, the flow of time interrupted within the four walls. She kneeled down, close to the other pilot’s head. If she was breathing, it was so shallow she couldn’t see it. Her hand stopped before it could touch the marble white skin of the creature before her. Would the spell holding time in its grasp break if she awoke? No, she had to check if she was alive, if she was real. She couldn’t be.
And at the barest, involuntary brush of skin against skin, Asuka was looking into rubies. Precious gems, red, bloody red shinning from within, alive, so full of life and burning. They were the only living things in the grey, and they were looking at her. Seeing her.
Asuka’s heart jumped without her permission and she almost let the accursed papers fall from her arms. The spell hadn’t broken, but captured her completely instead.