The hospital room had been dark and silent. Asuka had no family to care about her current condition. She was alone in a world where there was no Rei. Her attachment to that blue-haired wonder was equivalent to nothing else she had ever known. She often wondered in her dazed dreams inside that comma, why she had not told her earlier that she loved her. The silence of these dreams were breathtakingly painful. Up until now, they had been but images of the past that ran through her mind like a slide show of regret. Her mother, Shinji, Rei... The battles against the Angels, they were all present in them. When a person falls into a coma, there is often no escape for that person. Science, till the day still had no exact remedy other than prayer for someone who had fallen into such a state. Very often, the person suffers a sever lapse of memory and cannot remember even who they are or their family, let alone what the previous state had been like. Thus we have no accurate account of what important facts of the human sub-conscience are exposed in this state. Asuka's injuries hadn't been too terrible, or so the doctors thought. But, on the first night of her stay she had slipped deep into a coma. Asuka's dreams had been in stages of complexity. Before she had not been troubled by neither color, nor sound. The dream that had begun to emerge in the back of her mind now possessed image, color, and sound. Like most dreams, Asuka's was presently in the third person. She was herself, but there was something about herself that felt strange. She looked down at her hands, they were tiny. She realized then that she was in her childhood body. Before her was Rei, also as a child. The two young children stared at each other for some time, and Rei was the first to speak in a calm and gentle voice. "You're Asuka Langley aren't you? I've heard about you." The background looked familiar. It seemed to comforting to Asuka, who embraced it dearly. The field of sunflowers around them were in full bloom, and the scent of spring was present. Asuka, small as she might have been, certainly did not lack the ferocity of her former self in this delirious dream. "Oh yea? What've you heard?" The small child tapped its foot with an irate beat. Rei simply smiled widely. "I heard a whisper that you loved me. Is that really true Asuka?" Asuka's eyes went wide as they filled with tears. She nodded softly. The end had been the beginning, her dreams had taken her to the origin of the love that she felt. Rei laughed softly. "Then why don't you come to me Asuka?" At that moment, Rei seemed very far away. Asuka's tears fell rapidly from her eyes that seemed to blend with the eternally blue sky. Rei seemed to be getting further and further away. Asuka got to her feet and ran as fast as her childhood legs would carry her. Her voice was shaky and pleading. "Rei! Please don't leave me! Please don't leave me here alone! I have nothing else!!" Asuka ran with the fire that she felt burning in her soul. She sprinted in leaps and bounds, but the faster she ran the further Rei seemed to be getting from her, as if Asuka had been traveling at the speed of light, and all time and space were lying to her. She had finally reached the edge where Rei's wings magnificently unfolded on her youthful body, now as she looked normally in the present. Asuka skidded at the edge of the field where the earth came to an end, and watched Rei take flight. Those wings illuminated the sky as the beat against gravity. Hundreds of red balloons began filling the air. Asuka stood her present size, she was now equal to Rei. Rei laughed softly. "Grab hold on to one Asuka, Come with me to heaven! Come and be one with me." Asuka flung herself blindly off the edge of the world, and clung to the nearest red balloon which would drag her higher, and higher, soaring beyond reality with Rei. She had finally realized that love was far beyond the reaches of men's understanding, way beyond the horizon of reality. Love was simply the border that separated the earth from the sky where wishes are sent and miracles and dreams originate. All of the pretty colors had begun to fade into one. The white had begun to filing to her dream, and she could sense that something was tugging at her heart. Much like someone who has been under water too long, she felt a hand trying to pull her away from this beautiful dream in which she wished to stay forever. The white became brighter until colors began to refill the area that she called her world. The object before her slowly began to come into focus. "Hi... Hikari? Is that... you?" Asuka's voice was groggy, she could hardly believe that this was real. She had lost the ability to decipher the real world from dreams, it had been so long. Hikari's smile widened. "Asuka! You're okay!" Hikari reached down and hugged her dear friend who equally embraced her. Within that soft embrace, Asuka looked around the hospital room. Red balloons were tied to her bed post, there were flowers on each night stand, sunflowers and tulips. There was a cake on a small yet decorated table left of the bed. Asuka sat up in bed slowly. "What is ... all of this?" Hikari giggled. "Well, you couldn't come to the party I was going to hold today... So we brought the party to you! It was all Rei's idea. You were right all along Asuka, she is a good person after all!" Asuka's eyes grew glassy with affection, she gasped softly with adoration, the love overcoming her. Her eyes moved endearingly over to Rei, and a simple tear of joy was shed, which trickled down her cheek and ended up on her lips. Asuka had begun to wonder if this were just another wishful meaningless dream when the tear made it to her lips. She tasted the salty tear, and she knew that this had to be reality. Hikari moved to the side as Rei handed Asuka her present. Asuka took it smiling, and embraced Rei with tears of joy. The party was incredible. Never had Asuka been brought to be so close to those who she had hardly thought of before. Later that day it was just her, Rei and Hikari. Hikari had left when her mother went to pick her up, and Rei and Asuka were left alone. Rei was her usual quiet self. The release papers had been signed, and Asuka was now free to do. Rei took it upon herself to help Asuka pack her things back up; which only consisted of her plug suit, a set of clothing, and the only present she hadn't opened yet. On their way home, Rei had decided to take a detour. They had ended up in the very field of flowers where this whole adventure had begun. Asuka sat down softly, and rested back on her arms. Rei had sat beside her. Asuka was leaning back further when she hit a lump in her book bag. She tried to ignore it for the time being. Rei sat down And smiled gently at Asuka, and spoke in a voice that actually contained emotion. "The world has been empty without you... Asuka. While you were sleeping, I finally found my true self. I have a right to feel the emotions that I do towards you." Asuka smiled taking Rei's hand into her own. Her memory had not failed at all, which was nothing short of a miracle. She looked softly into Rei's eyes. Rei quietly looked away, when Asuka lifted her chin. "Rei... Don't look away from me. I've searched even in my dreams for you. I love you. And I always have. I was so scared that... That I had waited to long to tell you that finally." Asuka shifted uncomfortably, when she pulled the bog from her book bag. She smiled down at it gently. "I'd forgotten to open it. I guess I saved the best for last." Asuka gently removed the red wrapping paper, and the tissue paper that encased the gift. From the depths of the box she produced a delicate crystal figure. At the very top rested two doves in flight. Connected to the tails were the streaming paths which they had flown, forever made fondly visible in crystal. The paths connected to make an eternal circle. Asuka found herself at the end standing at the beginning, with Rei at her side. There were no more words. Asuka gently took Rei's hands up in her own and kissed her lips ever so sweetly. Relativity, all things in life are inevitably intertwined into one, eternally true.
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