Katsuragi Misato Standard spoiler warnings apply Standard Gainax copyright warnings apply Standard non-lemon warnings apply Standard warning warnings apply Applications located at the front desk I Don't Want To Cry A Neon Genesis Evangelion Fanfic Inspired by the ROmantic Mode song of the same name Dr. Akagi Ritsuko walks down a corridor of Terminal Dogma, slowly. It was after hours at NERV, and no one else could be seen. She turns a corner, down a dimly lit hallway. A guard stops the young doctor at her point of entry, asking for identification. She gives it to him, running a hand through her newly bleached hair, and noting that she needed to take a new picture for her NERV ID, for her hair was still brown, like that of her mother's. The guard looks at Dr. Akagi for a second, taking in her sophisticated beauty, and then slides her ID through the card reader. The screen came up, "Akagi Ritsuko, E Project." She was to be Ikari Yui's replacement. Yui had recently died in an Evangelion pilot synchronization, and her mother had sent for her. "Very well, you may pass." The guard steps out of Ritsuko's way, and she walks quietly through the door. After a couple of steps, however, she hears her mother's muffled voice. "But, Gendou, I'm in love with you..." Dr. Akagi Naoko breathes out, bending over Ikari Gendou, who was sitting in NERV's version of a Lazy Boy, and kisses him squarely on the lips. Gendou simply sits there, eyes open, unmoving and not reacting, like a statue. Naoko blushes as she passionately kisses him, and then she goes back to her regular work. Ritsuko stands there with two of her own fingers on her lips. "And that was when I fell in love with that bastard..." Ritsuko says to herself, watching Gendou and the naked Rei III in Central Dogma in front of the huge being called Lillith. She pushes a few buttons on her laptop, receiving a positive response from Balthasar. "Rei I..." A few years later, Naoko and Ritsuko meets up with Gendou, and an 9 year old girl child. Naoko speaks, "Ah, Ikari. Is that Shinji-kun?" "No, Shinji is with some relatives. This is Ayanami Rei. I am watching her as a favor to a friend." Gendou says. "Yoroshiku, Rei-chan!" Ritsuko says, bending down to Rei and smiling. Rei says nothing. Later that day, they found Rei's strangled, lifeless little body near the MAGI computers, which incidentally had just been completed. A hallway down from the MAGI, they had also found Naoko's bloody body, for she had shot herself for killing Rei. A few days later, Rei was being shown around the Geofront. She was given her own apartment, and they had started synchronization tests on her. She was Rei II. Ritsuko pushes a few more buttons, and receives another positive response, but from Caspar. "Rei II..." Ayanami, pilot of Evangelion Unit 00, felt the Angel enter her body through the Eva. It was snaking into her skin, worming into her body. She held on to the control trigger for dear life, readying the positron rifle. The Angel worked it's way up to her left arm. Rei cries out, holding on to her arm, dropping the rifle. She hears Maya's voice on the com set, "It's no good! We can't eject the entry plug, she's got it jammed!" Rei feels a tear run out of her eye, and it dissipates within the LCL. She thinks, "Why am I crying? Is it because I want to be with Ikari-kun? Then, in order to save him, I must do this.." She hears on the com set, Maya's voice again, "I can't forcibly eject the entry plug, she's refusing the signal!" Misato's voice: "Abort, Rei! You'll die!" Rei whispers as her Eva picks up a N2 bomb, "To save Ikari-kun..." The bomb goes off, and Rei II is dead. Shinji yells out painfully, "No!! Ayanami!!!" Dr. Akagi enters in the commands to be sent to the third MAGI supercomputer, not waiting for the response. Looking at a surveillance camera's live feed, Ritsuko witnesses Misato giving a deep, long kiss to Shinji, clutching her chest. She lets Shinji enter the elevator to get to his Eva. Misato slumps to the ground, then shortly keels over. There is blood all over Misato's chest, back, and the wall behind her. Misato, her oldest friend, is dead. She looks to Gendou and Rei III again, with a tiny tear in her eye. Gendou says, "Rei, it is time for you to take us into Lillith, and finish the Human Complement Program." "No!" Gendou and Rei III look to Ritsuko in shock. "No! It won't happen, Gendou. This is wrong, and you know it! You know that this Human Complement Program was the whole reason that those Angels were sent! You know that this is the entire reason that so many people were killed! And, I'm not going to let it happen!" "What have you done to stop me, Dr. Akagi?" Gendou says coolly. Ritsuko says, "I have programmed the MAGI system to self-destruct NERV... oh," she exclaims at the screen, "Oh no!" The third MAGI computer had rejected her orders. Her mother had abandoned her for Gendou. "Ritsuko... I loved you." "Liar! I know that you love no one but Yui and your little doll. You don't even love your son! A shot rings out, piercing Ritsuko's body. She falls into the pool of LCL that was at Lillith's base. Her last thoughts are: Mother, I never cried for your death. But now, I'll be with you... and Misato, Ryouji... my friends. Author's notes: This was John's suggestion for a title, "Crazy Old Bat Who Loves Cats" Thank you John. ^_^ A bit angsty, eh? It's my first non-lemon, and certainly not my last. It's a hell of a lot easier when you don't have to write in all of the sex! ^_^ For those of you who don't know, all of the parts in this fic are completely true. Sorry for spoiling it for you, but I did warn you! Please e-mail me with all thoughts of praise and whatnot. Flames will be extinguished by the nearest Shriner's fez. Katsuragi Misato Yuna@csnsys.com http://www.csnsys.com/yuna/ -- Katsuragi Misato- Head of Strategics and Tactics for NERV N E R V : God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World Visit NERV at: http://www.csnsys.com/yuna/