[identity profile] roadstergal.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] reddwarfslash
I finally got my dad to agree to watch Red Dwarf. I chose Tikka To Ride as the one that would probably appeal to him the most. As I was watching the flashback to Out Of Time, I started to wonder what would have happened if Rimmer had been just a second faster... and I wrote this on the plane on the way home.

Not a happy fic; character death, shower sex that just isn't right, angst. Spoilers through Out Of Time.

The one brave thing he's ever done in his life, and he did it too late.

Date: 2006-03-13 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norseblue.livejournal.com
Wow. Beautiful and painful.

Date: 2006-03-13 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kirke-novak.livejournal.com
Oh wow. That was so sad and beautiful. I felt so sorry for poor Arnie :(
Very good job on this one!

Date: 2006-03-14 01:02 am (UTC)
ext_2266: llama (Frank)
From: [identity profile] swing-set.livejournal.com
This hurt so much to even read. Lovely. Thank god it's not true though. Well done.

Date: 2006-03-15 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi.livejournal.com
I know how that is. I've got a really, really bad story inspired by "Last Human" that wants to be written, but I just haven't been able to do it yet. I was away in England this weekend, and I was about to take the book with me. I remember loving the end before I was a Rimmer/Lister shipper so I glanced at the final pages. However, now it just made me so upset I just couldn't re-read it.

Heh, funny what fictional characters can do to us, eh?

Date: 2006-03-15 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kahvi.livejournal.com
Wonderful, in a sad, quiet way.

Like a computer program set in motion by a long-dead hacker, they follow Red Dwarf.
I liked this analogy.

The whole sequence starting from Rimmer taking Lister's seat and ending with the indeed not-right (yet still right in some odd, awkward way, because what else could have happened) shower-sex is very, very good, and seriously packed a punch.

With no other living beings around against whom to judge the passage of time, Rimmer's hologram no longer ages
*smiles sadly*

And Starbug tears across the broad gaps between galaxies.
Beautiful.

*sob*

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