31_days Fic: Now with Kaworu...
...Whom I'm not sure I write very well, as I think I've been poisoned against him by the legions of Kaworu squee-gurlz (the legion of K/S shippers haven't triggered this: their ship may have a canonic leg to stand on, even if I don't see it that way).
Title: "More than You (Need to) Know"
Day/Theme: Sept. 4th) the hidden secret button inside your head
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Character/Pairing: Kaworu Nagisa aka. Tabris/OFC
Rating: PG-13 for some mild creepiness
Author's Note: Kaworu was, in part, some of the inspiration for the whole notion of my ambitious NGE project, and since he seems to have the ability to push people's internal buttons, this prompt was made for him (I've been recently re-watching the series, but somehow, Kaworu here seems more like the manga version than the anime version). Takes place sometime during Episode 24
Trash day. The recent radio silence from NERV after Armisael's destruction had left Sabia with time on her hands. She'd spent her days taking walks by the lakeside or reading. That didn't stop her mind from roaming to NERV, wondering what the Vice-Commander was doing, aside from his work. Not like you were anything more than his assistant, a consultant in cracking and translating those EVP recordings part of her told herself, as she carried her trash to the incinerator in the apartment complex.
As she descended the stairs, she heard someone humming Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. She turned to spy a young man in his mid-teens with greyish hair standing on the mezzanine, looking at her intently, but at the same time his reddish eyes looked right through her.
"Hello, are you new around here?" she asked.
He gave her an odd smirk that put in mind of some of Othmar, her guardian's son. "You might say that I'm very new and yet I've been here before. I'm Kaworu Nagisa," the young man said. He descended the stairs, joining her. "May I take that bag for you?"
"Thank you, but it's quite all right. It's not that heavy," Sabia replied.
"Or are you afraid of what might happen if my hand brushed yours when you are in this mild state of anxiety? And you needn't worry for him, he's more than capable of taking care of himself, unlike a lot of the Lilim," the young man said, the smirk taking on an almost knowing leer.
"What -- how could you know any of that?" she said.
"You're better known than you realize you are," Kaworu said.
"Have the old men holding NERV's leash been spying on me?" she muttered, trying to step around him, but something blocked her.
"There's very little they don't know about you," Kaworu said, leaning in closer. "They clearly know more about you than you know about yourself. If you know, would you cling to this form, Penemue, and would you choose to be female?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, young man," Sabia said. "My name is Sabia Valiant, my father worked for Enniel Prussot as a file clerk and my mother was a secretary. Prussot paid for my education after I became his ward when my parents died in a train accident."
"What you know and what you believe about yourself are such different things," he said. "You're more of Lilim than a child of Adam, even though you have lived among Adam's outcasts, the Grigori. But then again, they can be more human than the humans. You really don't know much about yourself, do you? I wonder why Prussot kept you in the dark for this long."
"I know what I need to know," she said. "And I am what I need to be."
"Is that why you find the old man so attractive? Because he is, in fact, your junior?"
"If this is referring to my relationship with Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki, you have an embroidered version of that," Sabia said.
"Or is the embroidery something else you have hidden from yourself?" Kaworu asked.
"If it is, or it isn't, none of it is for you to know," Sabia said, pushing past him. A high-pitched tone emanated from the invisible wall that she had sensed earlier and a blaze of light exploded from the point of contact.
"You let the light of your soul shine all too easily, Penemue," Kaworu said, stepping aside and letting her pass.
Title: "More than You (Need to) Know"
Day/Theme: Sept. 4th) the hidden secret button inside your head
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Character/Pairing: Kaworu Nagisa aka. Tabris/OFC
Rating: PG-13 for some mild creepiness
Author's Note: Kaworu was, in part, some of the inspiration for the whole notion of my ambitious NGE project, and since he seems to have the ability to push people's internal buttons, this prompt was made for him (I've been recently re-watching the series, but somehow, Kaworu here seems more like the manga version than the anime version). Takes place sometime during Episode 24
Trash day. The recent radio silence from NERV after Armisael's destruction had left Sabia with time on her hands. She'd spent her days taking walks by the lakeside or reading. That didn't stop her mind from roaming to NERV, wondering what the Vice-Commander was doing, aside from his work. Not like you were anything more than his assistant, a consultant in cracking and translating those EVP recordings part of her told herself, as she carried her trash to the incinerator in the apartment complex.
As she descended the stairs, she heard someone humming Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. She turned to spy a young man in his mid-teens with greyish hair standing on the mezzanine, looking at her intently, but at the same time his reddish eyes looked right through her.
"Hello, are you new around here?" she asked.
He gave her an odd smirk that put in mind of some of Othmar, her guardian's son. "You might say that I'm very new and yet I've been here before. I'm Kaworu Nagisa," the young man said. He descended the stairs, joining her. "May I take that bag for you?"
"Thank you, but it's quite all right. It's not that heavy," Sabia replied.
"Or are you afraid of what might happen if my hand brushed yours when you are in this mild state of anxiety? And you needn't worry for him, he's more than capable of taking care of himself, unlike a lot of the Lilim," the young man said, the smirk taking on an almost knowing leer.
"What -- how could you know any of that?" she said.
"You're better known than you realize you are," Kaworu said.
"Have the old men holding NERV's leash been spying on me?" she muttered, trying to step around him, but something blocked her.
"There's very little they don't know about you," Kaworu said, leaning in closer. "They clearly know more about you than you know about yourself. If you know, would you cling to this form, Penemue, and would you choose to be female?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, young man," Sabia said. "My name is Sabia Valiant, my father worked for Enniel Prussot as a file clerk and my mother was a secretary. Prussot paid for my education after I became his ward when my parents died in a train accident."
"What you know and what you believe about yourself are such different things," he said. "You're more of Lilim than a child of Adam, even though you have lived among Adam's outcasts, the Grigori. But then again, they can be more human than the humans. You really don't know much about yourself, do you? I wonder why Prussot kept you in the dark for this long."
"I know what I need to know," she said. "And I am what I need to be."
"Is that why you find the old man so attractive? Because he is, in fact, your junior?"
"If this is referring to my relationship with Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki, you have an embroidered version of that," Sabia said.
"Or is the embroidery something else you have hidden from yourself?" Kaworu asked.
"If it is, or it isn't, none of it is for you to know," Sabia said, pushing past him. A high-pitched tone emanated from the invisible wall that she had sensed earlier and a blaze of light exploded from the point of contact.
"You let the light of your soul shine all too easily, Penemue," Kaworu said, stepping aside and letting her pass.