Chapter One

Kristine Kochanski was having a wonderful life. She lived on a spaceship three million years into deep space with her husband Dave, their three children Llewey, Jim-Bexley and Alicia-May, Kryten a service mechanoid, Cat, Arnold Rimmer (her ex-boyfriend) and their children Chloë and Theo. Everything was perfect and Kriss was very, very happy.

Kriss sat down to feed baby Theo when somebody appeared in the corner of the room, actually four people appeared in the corner of the room, one woman and three children. Kriss recognised two of the four people

"Yvonne?" Kriss rubbed her eyes "what are you doing here?"

"I'm looking for Rimmer" Yvonne McGruder told her "wow, you had another baby?"

"Yeah" Kriss smiled "Theo's my fifth."

Yvonne went over to Kriss and sat down on the bed "I've missed you mate" Yvonne smiled "what are they all called and how old are they?"

"Chloë Rimmer, she's four, Llewey Lister and Jim-Bexley Lister they're three and they're twins" Kriss smiled as she carried on "then there's Alicia-May Lister, she's eighteen months and this" Kriss smiled at her son lying in her arms "is three-week-old baby Theo Rimmer"

Kriss didn't get the reaction she expected from Yvonne, she got off the bed

"Where's Rimmer?" she demanded, "I want to see Rimmer"

"I don't know where he is!" Kriss promised "he's got Chloë today, he could be anywhere"

With that Yvonne simply walked out of the room leaving the three children with Kriss and Theo.

"Sorry about mum" the eldest girl said "I'm Jemimah" she smiled

"Jemimah?" Kriss smiled back "the last time I saw you was when you were about six! How old are you now?"

"Twelve" Jemimah answered

"Twelve?" Kriss gasped, "wow"

Suddenly the other girl spoke up "I'm Lilimay" she smiled "I'm ten"

"Hello" Kriss responded

"This is our brother Junior," she pointed at the boy "we're twins!"

"Hold on" Kriss was confused "you're ten?"

"Yes" Lilimay responded

"Why didn't I know about you?"

"I don't know"

"I'll have to talk to your mum"

"Can I hold the baby?" Lilimay asked, "I'll be careful with him

"Okay" Kriss agreed

Kriss didn't know it but she had left baby Theo with his oldest sister. Lilimay and Arnold Junior were the results of Arnold and Yvonne's two minute sex session all those years ago, Yvonne didn't tell anyone at the time but Junior had been asking about his father and finally they had found him.