Vignette: Slipping - R/L (imp), L/K
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reddwarfslashTitle: Slipping
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister, Lister/Kochanski
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: It's been years, and I still don't own Red Dwarf, or make money off of it. Honest!
Spoilers: Back to Earth
Notes: Just a little vignette I typed up at work, to make me feel like I'm actually producing something.
Sometimes Lister forgets what it's like.
How the build-up is so much better than the act itself, somehow; how it strings you along and the craving rises until there's no going back, and you need it; need it like lager on a late, hung-over morning. That moment, when you let yourself go; that's the real orgasm, somehow.
There are days when he knows he'll never have another moment like that again. These days... these days are mostly those days.
It was a little bit like that, with Kochanski, in the squid reality. That's why he stayed. To stand there, on the precipice, leaning forward, knowing that sooner or later the forces of gravity would pull him down and over - to let go. That made him feel alive. Blood rushed through his body, surging, and everything was prefectly clear and unimportant all at the same time. No drug could ever make you feel like that.
There was a comedown, though. Her face, outside the dim lights of the fake bedroom, was off somehow; blurred around the edges. It wasn't her fault; she was made from his memory.
Back in familiar reality, he looks out on the stars and feels the memory of Earth slipping too. A lost planet and the fading face of a woman who is almost like the one he used to love - is that all he's got to keep him going?
It's not that, really.
It's the rush. He remembers it now, and he thinks he knows where to get it. All is quiet in the little room they share, and his bunk-mate of too many years subtly shifts closer...
Then Rimmer sneers at him, and Lister wonders if he might have been better off forgetting.
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister, Lister/Kochanski
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: It's been years, and I still don't own Red Dwarf, or make money off of it. Honest!
Spoilers: Back to Earth
Notes: Just a little vignette I typed up at work, to make me feel like I'm actually producing something.
Sometimes Lister forgets what it's like.
How the build-up is so much better than the act itself, somehow; how it strings you along and the craving rises until there's no going back, and you need it; need it like lager on a late, hung-over morning. That moment, when you let yourself go; that's the real orgasm, somehow.
There are days when he knows he'll never have another moment like that again. These days... these days are mostly those days.
It was a little bit like that, with Kochanski, in the squid reality. That's why he stayed. To stand there, on the precipice, leaning forward, knowing that sooner or later the forces of gravity would pull him down and over - to let go. That made him feel alive. Blood rushed through his body, surging, and everything was prefectly clear and unimportant all at the same time. No drug could ever make you feel like that.
There was a comedown, though. Her face, outside the dim lights of the fake bedroom, was off somehow; blurred around the edges. It wasn't her fault; she was made from his memory.
Back in familiar reality, he looks out on the stars and feels the memory of Earth slipping too. A lost planet and the fading face of a woman who is almost like the one he used to love - is that all he's got to keep him going?
It's not that, really.
It's the rush. He remembers it now, and he thinks he knows where to get it. All is quiet in the little room they share, and his bunk-mate of too many years subtly shifts closer...
Then Rimmer sneers at him, and Lister wonders if he might have been better off forgetting.
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Date: 2009-05-29 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 10:33 pm (UTC)it's my birthday today..
Date: 2009-05-29 04:06 pm (UTC)Great job :) We need more Back to Earth stuff.
Re: it's my birthday today..
Date: 2009-06-05 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-29 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 10:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading and feeding back!
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Date: 2009-05-29 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 10:37 pm (UTC)We do, we do; but she's been - and still is - quite busy with work and other things. I will make sure to pass this comment on to her, however; she'll appreciate the sentiment. :)
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Date: 2009-05-31 12:13 pm (UTC)This is just so wonderfully written ...
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Date: 2009-06-05 10:38 pm (UTC)