Ficlet - Gone. R/L ambiguity, R/K oddity.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[swing-set.livejournal.com]

This hurt so much to even read. Lovely. Thank god it's not true though. Well done.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I know, it's mean of me... but he got into my head, and that's just what happened. :(

[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?

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Hey, welcome back! You know, Amazon still hasn't shipped my blasted copy of Last Human... >:(

Ja, this story in particular was an extreme case of Character Getting Into My Head.