Rated M for: Strong Language, Adult Themes, Violence, And LEMOM!

I Don't Own Evangelion...though owning Evangelion 3.0 when it comes out would be pretty awesome!

Sometimes I really hate the way fanfiction formats stuff. Okay, enough with that.

Right so, I know that pretty much all of you were disappointed with the ending of Spawn of Adam, and I don't really blame you. It does heavily suck, but as I said, I had been planning that ending almost right from the get go, and was very pleased to see that it ended as such.

Two of Us is a direct sequel to Spawn of Adam, with an After Impact scenario involved. There will be a very interesting plot later down the road, as everybody awakens from Instrumentality, but before that to happen, Shinji and Asuka must grow to love each other again.

For those of you that have waited for this, I thank you for your patience.

Shinji-

We had a life, we had a love, but you don't know what you got till you lose it.

Well that was then, this is now, and I want you back, How many times can I say I'm sorry.

Yes I'm sorry.

-Phil Collins, Something Happened On The Way To Heaven.

Asuka-

Now I want you, when your gone and now its like.

Your holding something just in front of me.

Well then, I can't allow this to become another one of those times that I'm left in the cold.

Dead.

Theres no compromise, just another tie I know I, need to severe.

-Disturbed, Guarded

Together-

We're on our way home. We're on our way home. We're going home.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

-Lennon/McCartney, Two of Us

-Amanda Norman

Many relationships fail, but only true love prevails; if its love, than time slows to the beat of your

hearts, and minutes become years.

-Patrick Thelen

The World has ended, yet I'm still here.

The World has ended, yet you're still here.

The World has ended, yet we still have each other.

The World has ended... Lets start over...

Third Impact had been avoided, for better or for worse. The world had been saved, and everything was set as it should be. But was that really true? For two people, that may not necessarily be true.

Shinji and Asuka had connected with each other, they had loved each other, they had fought for each other, and then at the end of it all, they had lost each other. Had everything been futile then? Had every moment they had ever spent with each other been for naught? Maybe this was true, but the body remembered.

Love is a strange thing, and love can vary from person to person. The love of a husband and wife; the love of a father and mother; the love of a boyfriend and girlfriend. Love can vary depending on the individuals definition of what "love" is. Love is more an emotion, more like a feeling you have when you are around somebody, something which can't be replicated no matter how many times you attempt to recreate it.

So then what hope did Shinji and Asuka ever have to love each other again? Maybe it was simply the fact that they were drawn to each other, that such an outcome was always unthinkable. But that love had to be rekindled, reborn to what it once was.

Love is an abstract thing, similar to that of AT-fields and memories. It can't be seen, except in the vision of the person who is seeing it. Some describe it as red, while others simply describe it as a warm feeling in the heart. People try to explain what they feel, but are unable to. Why is that? Is it because they don't understand each other? That they don't understand what love is?"

Then what about Shinji and Asuka? Neither of them understood what love was when they first met, having never experienced such a thing in either of there lives before meeting each other. So then, how was it that two fifteen year olds were able to understand the concept better then adults? Is it because they were younger, that they didn't understand things?

Or was it because that they had first connected as human beings, before making that next giant leap?

Whatever the reason was, Shinji and Asuka had once loved each other, that much was certain. But now, as the earth settled back into its normal rotation, and the Tree of Life began regrowing, they would have to make do with what was given to them. Third Impact was over with, and the Lilim would return one day and reside once again upon the earth. But until then, Shinji and Asuka were given time to grow whole once again.

Shinji opened his eyes groggily; he had passed into a restless sleep, nothing of which he seemed to have recalled. He had dreamt something, but he didn't know what.

He instead turned his gaze to the girl lying on the beach next to him. She was still motionless. Shinji had checked every hour or so, but she still continued breathing normally. Once or twice, he had almost nudged her gently, but stopped himself at the last minute. Part of him wanted to continue watching her sleep, but the other part of him wanted to talk to her, to get to know her, to understand who she was.

Shinji was admittedly lonely, and he was rather surprised at that. He had never cared much about people before, but this girl who he had never once seen in his life...

'What is wrong with me?' thought Shinji.

Looking once more at her pale skin and her sleeping face, Shinji turned away from her, and passed into another fitful sleep, in which his thoughts were filled with that girls face.

One last thing; I've got finals coming up next week so the first chapter won't be coming out until the first week of April. (When I've got Spring Break). Cheers!