Two Drabbles, Rimmer/Lister implied
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Please go easy on me. I've never posted to a community before. If I do something wrong, please let me know so that I may fix it.
Also, these are my first humble attempts at Red Dwarf fanfiction.
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Title: Mistaken
Story type: Drabble
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister, could be read as gen
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf. I don't make money from this.
Spoilers: Inspired by Series VIII
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I caught you again, you stupid git. You probably think you're getting away with it.
Smeg.
Right, I forgot of whom I speak. 'Oblivious,' thy name is Lister.
It's those little questioning looks, those odd pauses after I've dared to let my guard down in front of you. They're filled with such expectation and hope. They're driving me mad. It's like you believe if you say the right thing or wait long enough it will trigger something in me to bring it all back.
The trouble is, Listy, it's not amnesia when the memories were never mine to begin with.
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Title: Time
Story type: Double Drabble
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister,
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf. I don't make money from this.
Spoilers: Set sometime between Series IV and Series VI
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"Not in a million years. Not if you were the last human being alive." How many blokes have heard those words or those like 'em over the course of humankind? Kryten would know, or maybe Holly, given enough time. She's slow, but she gets there in the end doesn' she?
I glance behind me to the figure focused on the readouts at his station. He doesn't realise I'm watchin' him and I find me'self lookin' longer than I should. I don't see as much of that smug bastard he hides behind when I look at 'em like this. I turn back 'round. There was a time I wouldn' have looked twice at the smeghead.
I look at him now.
When it's like this, all quiet-like on board and there's peace for a'time, I watch him. He's neuroses wrapped up tight as an onion in just as many layers, but I wonder, not for the first time, what I'd find at his center if I worked at peelin' them all back.
Somehow, I feel his eyes on the back of me head, movin' slow in a phantom caress and I smile to me'self.
No. Never in a million years. Possibly three...
Also, these are my first humble attempts at Red Dwarf fanfiction.
---
Title: Mistaken
Story type: Drabble
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister, could be read as gen
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf. I don't make money from this.
Spoilers: Inspired by Series VIII
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I caught you again, you stupid git. You probably think you're getting away with it.
Smeg.
Right, I forgot of whom I speak. 'Oblivious,' thy name is Lister.
It's those little questioning looks, those odd pauses after I've dared to let my guard down in front of you. They're filled with such expectation and hope. They're driving me mad. It's like you believe if you say the right thing or wait long enough it will trigger something in me to bring it all back.
The trouble is, Listy, it's not amnesia when the memories were never mine to begin with.
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Title: Time
Story type: Double Drabble
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister,
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf. I don't make money from this.
Spoilers: Set sometime between Series IV and Series VI
---
"Not in a million years. Not if you were the last human being alive." How many blokes have heard those words or those like 'em over the course of humankind? Kryten would know, or maybe Holly, given enough time. She's slow, but she gets there in the end doesn' she?
I glance behind me to the figure focused on the readouts at his station. He doesn't realise I'm watchin' him and I find me'self lookin' longer than I should. I don't see as much of that smug bastard he hides behind when I look at 'em like this. I turn back 'round. There was a time I wouldn' have looked twice at the smeghead.
I look at him now.
When it's like this, all quiet-like on board and there's peace for a'time, I watch him. He's neuroses wrapped up tight as an onion in just as many layers, but I wonder, not for the first time, what I'd find at his center if I worked at peelin' them all back.
Somehow, I feel his eyes on the back of me head, movin' slow in a phantom caress and I smile to me'self.
No. Never in a million years. Possibly three...
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 03:47 am (UTC)The first one is just killer. And I am down with the second one. Really nice Listervoice, lovely and evocative.
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Date: 2006-07-27 07:23 am (UTC)Yes, I was just going to say!
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:44 am (UTC)On the Listervoice, I worried that I was overdoing it. I'm glad you liked it!
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 04:13 am (UTC)Welcome!
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:47 am (UTC)The first one I couldn't get out of my head. I'm glad it worked.
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Date: 2006-07-27 07:26 am (UTC)Right, I forgot of whom I speak. 'Oblivious,' thy name is Lister.
What an excellently Rimmerine turn of phrase.
The trouble is, Listy, it's not amnesia when the memories were never mine to begin with.
Ouch. But yes, that's just it, isn't it?
what I'd find at his center if I worked at peelin' them all back.
*images of Lister gently caressing and undressing Rimmer enters mind*
Guh.
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:51 am (UTC):: Blushes :: Thank you! And thank you for telling me what you liked!
*images of Lister gently caressing and undressing Rimmer enters mind*
Guh.
Well, he certainly has enough clothes to peel back, doesn't he? :D And I like that mental image...
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Date: 2006-07-27 07:36 am (UTC)The trouble is, Listy, it's not amnesia when the memories were never mine to begin with.
Top line.
Welcome :)
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-27 10:54 am (UTC)And on VIII Rimmer? I'm right there with ya!
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Date: 2006-07-27 03:53 pm (UTC)"The trouble is, Listy, it's not amnesia when the memories were never mine to begin with."
Awesome. So blunt and true.
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Date: 2006-07-27 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-29 10:08 pm (UTC)I love the first one because it's sad and true. The last line sounds like something he would say, and the second is great. Let lister think that he would need such a long time, doubtful. Rimmer was looking good to him after the first millon.
You wrote something good.
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Date: 2006-07-29 11:13 pm (UTC)Thank you for the lovely feedback!
Oh, on the million year/three million reference is from the series. Lister was trapped in stasis for three million years. ;)
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Date: 2006-07-29 11:34 pm (UTC)Shock? Just a slight jolt.
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