/ CHAPTER 1 / WHO AM I? /

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Additional, additional:Short chapter to begin with, they will be a lot longer.

Everyone in the universe has a life their supposed to lead; a fate that is supposed to occur. Kristine Kochanski was supposed to become an Officer on the vessel Red Dwarf… but what if she didn't? On the day she was accepted as Navigation officer, what is if a strange man told her to run? And what if they've been running ever since?

Set after The Angels Take Manhattan Doctor Who (end of series 7) and series 7 Red Dwarf with Kochanski and no Rimmer or Holly. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! / becomes more of an actual crossover fic from chapter 4 onwards.

Starbug 1. 19th November 3000002049.

Kochanski ran her fingers across buttons and dials trying to steady the ship. The Starbug hurtled through the shower of rocks and shuddered violently.

'How's it on your end?' she asked anyone who could hear her.

'Not good, mam.' Replied Kryten. It was silent for a while as they directed the vessel away from the meteors. Nothing too serious would happen if they were hit but there was always the chance the Oxygen Generation Unit could become damaged and well, that wasn't good at all.

'Are we out of danger?' Asked the Cat from behind his seat.

'Yes,' Kochanski said as she exhaled deeply, her voice full of relief. The ship stabilised.

'Kryten!' Cried Lister, leaping from his seat. Kochanski's relief evaporated. 'What the hell's that?'

'Sir: they appeared to just be meteor's,' he replied as if it was obvious but Lister shook his head as Kryten spoke. 'I can guarantee we are not under attack.'

'No! Not that!' He yelled pointing at Kochanski. She caught her reflection in the metal. Her body shimmered a weird metallic, purple-y rainbow. Rising from her seat and holding her hands out in front of herself, Kochanski tried (and failed) to stay calm.

'Something weird is going on,' The Cat said. 'I don't like the smell of it.' He backed away from her.

'Time! Time's changing!' She cried! 'I'm changing!' Kochanski watched at her hands began to dissolve from the air. Her body fell numb.

'Kryten?' Dave keened helplessly rushing to be at her side.

'The timelines, sir, they're syncing up.' Kryten just watched as she faded further and further out of existence. Kristine Kochanski knew there was nothing to be done.

'What's happening to me?' She asked as her eyes brimmed with tears.

'You're ceasing to exist….' Dave said so quietly it was a strain to hear him. His voice as soft and he stood extremely close to her. He didn't cry but Kochanski could see there were tears forming in his eyes, too.

'Hold on, Kriss.' He said so sadly. Kochanski felt nothing. She just felt… empty, as the room faded away into blackness. She was gone.

'We'll get you back, Krissie… I promise.'

The TARDIS. Relative Time.

'Where am I?' Kristine asked forcefully as she whipped herself around from the doorway, not knowing how she'd gotten there in the first place. Wherever this place was…

Everything just blurred. She remembered what Dave said though. He'd told her to hold on. But onto what? She was on the Starbug one minute but… Right now, it seemed like she was in a control room. Yeah, a control room, that's what it looked like anyway, and facing a cylindrical desk connected to what appeared to be the ceiling. The floor was glass with metal railing above it and the whole place was just kind-of majestic. Nonetheless there was no doubt in her mind that she had never been there before. 'Where am I?' She demanded again. There was a man, to whom she directed her anger, standing opposite her, open jawed and wide eyed. Kristine was sure he'd done this.

'I…I don't,' He stuttered looking a weird mix of nervous and inquisitive. 'You just sort of… appeared. You're not getting married by any chance are you?' He asked bleeping her with some weird green-glow-y screwdriver thingy. He darted towards her but she kept an equal amount of distance between them moving along the control centre. Hair flopped against his face.

'What the smeg is going on?' Kristine asked but was interrupted by a sudden feeling of vertigo. She became light-headed. Out of the blue, she felt all of a sudden, really, quite dizzy. A tingling sensation started in her legs and worked its way up to her neck and then seized her mind. Something very strange was going on. It was like her memories were burning, her head seemed to be imploding. Not in a painful way, there wasn't really any way to describe it. It felt like pins and needles then before she knew it everything was flipped the wrong way up, inside out and outside in. The whole room began to spin and distort itself as her head expanded and filled with air. She knew she had to sit down fast before she…

Fainted. Kristine fainted.

Kristine Kochanski felt arms around her body laying her to the ground and slipped away from consciousness easily. A weird half-memory gripped her mind of three men, no… two men… No, something. Someone who… Almost as if there was somewhere else she was supposed to be but didn't quite remember. She forgotten something but what it was, was just out of her grasp. It was no good. For the second time in her life, Kristine passed out.

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