[Evangelion] [NaokoxYui] [viii- the space between us]

Mar 11, 2007 19:07

Title: fill the spaces
Author: seetoo
Fandom: evangelion
Pairing: naokoxyui
Rating: pg13
Word Count: 273
Warnings: yuri
Disclaimer: not mine. woez.
theme: 8- the space between us



In the hallways Yui is Dr. Ikari and Naoko is Dr. Akagi and Gendo is, Dr. Ikari, sir. In the cold atmosphere of the Gehirn building, she is the bioengineering specialist and Yui is the genius, plain and simple. She toils over her Magi and Yui vanishes and she murders Rei I and dies. This is the way things seem.

The story is in the spaces.

The way Naoko’s fingers try to fill the spaces between them, as though something belongs there. The way Yui locks her hands and her knees together as though praying- praying for something to fill the empty spaces. The way, when Gendo reaches his arms out to demonstrate something, that void seems a little more empty than usual.

In the spaces in the hallway- Gendo’s gaze travels the length of emptiness between him and Yui.

Naoko always edges closer to Yui, trying to shorten that chain, link by link.

And Yui strains against this bonds, leans first one way, then the other.

-until they break. Suddenly everyone can see the open, aching, empty spaces. It may because now there’s an empty spot around them, too, and maybe there is. There’s a missing beat somewhere, the place where her smile used to be, where he voice floated over the metallic silence, where her pale hands moved like strange birds against a sky of carefully drawn plans.

Gendo creates a sad puppet, whose thin arms and legs cannot fit the Yui-shaped imprint in his heart.

Naoko destroys the puppet; if she cannot replace what she lost, neither can he.

No on realizes that her corpse is reaching out to something.
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