Fic: Blackout - R/L - PG-13
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reddwarfslashTitle: Blackout
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf, or any of the characters thereof. I make no money from this.
Spoilers: Psirens.
Notes: Written as part of my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanfic100 challenge. My table is here. As always, please bring me concrit!
The lights had gone out on Starbug, and Lister was afraid. Deeply, instinctively afraid, like he got in enclosed spaces. Fear saturated him; making the blanket stick to him with sweat, the pillow and surprisingly soft mattress Kryten had got off some derelict failing to offer any comfort. He didn't understand. He never usually got like this.
Something was different.
Back on Red Dwarf, they had power failures all the time, even when the crew were still alive. More than the lights would go out then; one time, the oxygen supply had been out for long enough that it had gotten hard to breathe, and had they not reached Mimas in time... but Lister hadn't been afraid then.
He looked around the room, or rather, tried. There were no screens pretending to be windows in here, only lights on the ceiling that were no longer living up to their name, but that was no different from what the officers quarters he had been living in these last few years looked like during emergencies. It was the same, deep, dark, impenetrable blackness, seeming to attack his eyes with its lack of anything else. It felt like being blind, though Lister had heard that being blind wasn't like that at all. That wasn't it though. What was it?
Growing desperate, he sat up, trying to will his eyes to see, but the more he tried, the less he was able to make out. Why this panic? The lack of understanding mixed with his unease and heightened it; making his heart race, shutting his mind even further down. The room felt alien in a way it never had before. If you die, his thoughts informed him, rather abruptly, there will no longer be any living human beings in the universe. He yelled, then, crying out sharply and wordlessly, pushing up against the back of the bunk and panting; wanting to get away, but unable to leave the bed. He sat there, whimpering, until the door flew open.
"What?" Rimmer, flushing red and startled, appeared in the doorway. His body, made of light, gave off a dull, red, glow.
"I'm all right; it's all right."
Rimmer snorted. "Yes, I expect that's what made you yell like a GELF in heat at the top of your voice. Do try to keep your masturbatory orations down; I'm only next door, you know. Close," he added, and the door slammed shut.
Enclosed again in the blackness, Lister lay back and closed his eyes, pointlessly. He thought of that dull, red glow, and tried to imagine it, just about visible, in the bunk next to him. Eventually, he fell asleep.
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf, or any of the characters thereof. I make no money from this.
Spoilers: Psirens.
Notes: Written as part of my
fanfic100 challenge. My table is here. As always, please bring me concrit!The lights had gone out on Starbug, and Lister was afraid. Deeply, instinctively afraid, like he got in enclosed spaces. Fear saturated him; making the blanket stick to him with sweat, the pillow and surprisingly soft mattress Kryten had got off some derelict failing to offer any comfort. He didn't understand. He never usually got like this.
Something was different.
Back on Red Dwarf, they had power failures all the time, even when the crew were still alive. More than the lights would go out then; one time, the oxygen supply had been out for long enough that it had gotten hard to breathe, and had they not reached Mimas in time... but Lister hadn't been afraid then.
He looked around the room, or rather, tried. There were no screens pretending to be windows in here, only lights on the ceiling that were no longer living up to their name, but that was no different from what the officers quarters he had been living in these last few years looked like during emergencies. It was the same, deep, dark, impenetrable blackness, seeming to attack his eyes with its lack of anything else. It felt like being blind, though Lister had heard that being blind wasn't like that at all. That wasn't it though. What was it?
Growing desperate, he sat up, trying to will his eyes to see, but the more he tried, the less he was able to make out. Why this panic? The lack of understanding mixed with his unease and heightened it; making his heart race, shutting his mind even further down. The room felt alien in a way it never had before. If you die, his thoughts informed him, rather abruptly, there will no longer be any living human beings in the universe. He yelled, then, crying out sharply and wordlessly, pushing up against the back of the bunk and panting; wanting to get away, but unable to leave the bed. He sat there, whimpering, until the door flew open.
"What?" Rimmer, flushing red and startled, appeared in the doorway. His body, made of light, gave off a dull, red, glow.
"I'm all right; it's all right."
Rimmer snorted. "Yes, I expect that's what made you yell like a GELF in heat at the top of your voice. Do try to keep your masturbatory orations down; I'm only next door, you know. Close," he added, and the door slammed shut.
Enclosed again in the blackness, Lister lay back and closed his eyes, pointlessly. He thought of that dull, red glow, and tried to imagine it, just about visible, in the bunk next to him. Eventually, he fell asleep.
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Date: 2007-11-16 05:04 am (UTC)Cute story. :)
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