What are you drinking?
"What are you drinking?", Misato asked and raised her brow. She orginally needed to talk to Asuka and Mari because of the upcoming mission to recover Unit 01 from space before NERV could get their hands on the Eva. So when the woman entered her pilots' quarters she was expecting to see them bicker like they always do, maybe Asuka yelling or Mari teasing. What she didn't expect was seeing Asuka sit in the taller girl's lap with a cup in her hand.
Sure she had been aware of the nature of the girls' relationship (they weren't exactly subtle) but she had never truly seen them sitting like this.
"The tears of my enemies.", Asuka finally replied rather bluntly before resuming to sip at the drink. The British girl who's lap she was currently sitting in sighed and shock her head.
"Hot chocoalate."
The response Mari gave came out of nowhere, leaving Misato a little more puzzled than before. "Pardon me?"
With a small laugh the girl put her head on Asuka's shoulder, looking at the other girl slightly smugly, "It's cute she's trying buuuuut, she's drinking hot chocolate."
Misato had become stoic and cold over the years, she had to after the near Third Impact. But once she saw the slight reddening of Asuka's face and the pout she made the older woman couldn't help herself and laughed.
"Damnit. You couldn't even let me have that, Four-eyes?", the redhead grumbled.
"No can't do, your Highness," Mari threw back, "But you love me anyways, riiiiight?"
"...yes."
From there on Misato watched as Asuka's face grew even redder than her Eva Unit 02 when Mari decided to press a kiss on the girl's cheek.
Maybe not all was right in the world, but these small moments made all the fighting and all the hardships worth it.