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RD fic ... in progress
Aug. 2nd, 2011 06:13 pm"You're working on TWO fics at once?" you're saying. "Are you CRAZY?"
Well, I might be. But I had two concurrent ideas for Red Dwarf stories, so I thought, what the hell, it's not like I have to meet a paid deadline. I'll start 'em both and see if they go anywhere. (And hey, at least I haven't succumbed to writing "X-Men: First Class" fanfic. Things could be far worse.)
So some of you may have been reading the one I've been posting, that's Listerish/Rimmerish. Well, this one is het - I was listening to some songs one day and Pink's "U + Ur Hand" came on, and it's just a fun song, and I had this mental image of Yvonne McGruder and a female friend in a bar on Mimas or Titan or whatever on shore leave, and some testosteroned jerk hitting on her friend and not going away, and finally McGruder has enough and slugs him. Then, she and her friend have to beat a hot trail out of the place amid chaos. (Yes, it's possible Lister and Rimmer are there somewhere, on their own sojourn. Lister might see her as some dame fleeing a jerk and throw himself on the guy to hold him back; I sort of envision Rimmer sitting at the bar with his back to it all, studiously ignoring it. *G*)
Anyway, it occurred to me that maybe there's a story there, told in a series of scenes, from her POV, about how she first comes across Rimmer, etc., and up through the point either where she leaves to find her new life as a single mom, or where Michael finally gets to meet Dad ... three million and some years later. So I wrote the first little bit and am in no great hurry for the next scene, so figured I'd post for the hell of it. Unbetaed.
( So here's what I have so far. It's fairly PG, I think. )
Well, I might be. But I had two concurrent ideas for Red Dwarf stories, so I thought, what the hell, it's not like I have to meet a paid deadline. I'll start 'em both and see if they go anywhere. (And hey, at least I haven't succumbed to writing "X-Men: First Class" fanfic. Things could be far worse.)
So some of you may have been reading the one I've been posting, that's Listerish/Rimmerish. Well, this one is het - I was listening to some songs one day and Pink's "U + Ur Hand" came on, and it's just a fun song, and I had this mental image of Yvonne McGruder and a female friend in a bar on Mimas or Titan or whatever on shore leave, and some testosteroned jerk hitting on her friend and not going away, and finally McGruder has enough and slugs him. Then, she and her friend have to beat a hot trail out of the place amid chaos. (Yes, it's possible Lister and Rimmer are there somewhere, on their own sojourn. Lister might see her as some dame fleeing a jerk and throw himself on the guy to hold him back; I sort of envision Rimmer sitting at the bar with his back to it all, studiously ignoring it. *G*)
Anyway, it occurred to me that maybe there's a story there, told in a series of scenes, from her POV, about how she first comes across Rimmer, etc., and up through the point either where she leaves to find her new life as a single mom, or where Michael finally gets to meet Dad ... three million and some years later. So I wrote the first little bit and am in no great hurry for the next scene, so figured I'd post for the hell of it. Unbetaed.
( So here's what I have so far. It's fairly PG, I think. )
