Snowfall
"It's snowing!"
Turning to regard her companion with cool red eyes,
Rei murmured, "Yes. It tends to do that in winter."
"Funny, wondergirl," said Asuka in droll tones.
Forming a smile a few seconds later, she lifted a hand up to
gently catch some snowflakes and said, "But I bet you can't
tell me that you don't enjoy the snowfall."
"Enjoy it?" Rei repeated as her eyes clouded over and
she gazed off into the distance. "I'm not sure."
"What's to be sure about?" asked Asuka while she
turned to regard Rei. "Either you like it or you don't."
"Why do you like it?" Rei asked quietly.
"Why?" Asuka blinked at this question before she
squinted and mulled over it. "Well, I think mostly because it
reminds me of my childhood back in Germany. Before my
mother got... sick she and I used to make snow angels
together."
"Snow angels?" echoed Rei.
"Don't tell me you don't know what snow angels are!"
cried Asuka incredulously as she gaped at Rei.
"Should I know?" asked Rei.
"Should you know?! Of course you should know!"
Asuka ranted as she waved her hands about. "What sort of
person are you, wondergirl, that you don't know this?!"
"An Eva pilot person?" offered Rei.
Heaving an exasperated sigh, Asuka pushed back her
red bangs and said, "All right. That's it. I know what I have to
do and you're going to help me do it whether you like it or
not."
"Help you?" Rei asked with wide eyes.
Before she could say anything more, Asuka grabbed
Rei's hand and pulled the other girl after her as she said,
"That's right! You're going to help me make snow angels!"
"Snow angels?" Rei repeated. "But why?"
"Because of that," Asuka said stubbornly as she came
to a stop in front of a snowy hill in a nearby park.
"Of what? I don't understand," said Rei and for the
first time Asuka actually heard confusion in her voice.
"Because of the fact that you shouldn't have to ask me
why," said Asuka in slight frustration. "Haven't you ever done
something with someone just because of how fun it is?"
A long moment passed then Rei said, "No one has
ever wanted to do something fun with me before."
Lifting her head, Asuka looked into Rei's gaze with
sad blue eyes and whispered, "Oh, Rei. I'm so sorry."
"For what?" asked Rei simply.
"For what?" echoed Asuka as her eyes went wide.
"Don't you even know what that means, wondergirl?"
Turning away to look into the distance, Rei said, "It
means nothing. It merely is. I can't change reality. All it means
is that you are the first to ask and that makes you special to
me." She paused to look at Asuka then said, "I would very
much like to make some snow angels with you if you still want
me to, Asuka."
Her vision slightly obscured by the falling snow, Asuka
rubbed her eyes quickly to get rid of the tears she felt forming
and said, "Of course I want you to."
"Good," said Rei with a smile. "How do we start?"
With a shake of her head, Asuka set about explaining
the difficult task of making snow angels to Rei.
But it was a task that she felt was well worth the effort
and when they'd made several dozen of them after an hour
had passed Asuka felt happier than she ever had.
As she lay in the snow, Asuka looked up at the sky
and noted sadly, "It's stopped snowing."
She then turned to look at Rei and felt a wave of
surprise as her eyes met luminous red ones. Apparently Rei
had been studying Asuka for quite some time now without her
even noticing.
Although Rei said nothing her eyes shone with an
intensity that Asuka had never seen before. One that shook
her to her very core and warmed her snow bitten flesh.
They were silent for a long while before Asuka
swallowed the lump in her throat and said, "This was fun."
"Yes," replied Rei quietly.
"Wondergirl," said Asuka softly as she slowly reached
out to touch Rei's cheek. "Come home with me. Don't be
alone anymore, be with me instead."
"Home," Rei repeated. She studied Asuka closely for
a long moment then said, "Yes. I'll come home with you."
"Good," said Asuka with a sigh. "I'm glad."
The two lay in the snow for a bit longer then rose to
their feet and began a leisurely walk back to the place that
now they would both be calling home.
Asuka suddenly paused in her walk as a snowflake
landed on her nose and smiling widely, she looked up into the
sky and cried in delight, "It's snowing again!"
Spinning around in circles as she continued to look up
into the sky and the new snowfall, Asuka said happily, "Look
at it, Rei! Don't you see the beauty of it? The purity of it?
Nothing else can be as pretty as the falling snow."
Turning back her light blue head, Rei looked at Asuka
out of the corner of eyes and whispered, "You are."
-End-
Both characters are from Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is
my first Christmas (sort of) themed story and I hope I did an
okay job with it. Again, if you haven't guessed I like the Rei
and Asuka romantic pairing. Yes, I'm strange. This was
partially based off of another cool pix of the girls.
Here's the nifty Rei/Asuka pix:
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