The game Better Than Life, is from the show Red Dwarf. Though for this story I am going to be using the concept found in the books more than the one on the show.

Gamer heads.

The colony on Mimas, Saturn's moon was full of them. The game started out simply enough as a new advancement in virtual reality. The only problem is that once someone started playing, the game protected itself, and they no longer realized that they were in the game. People fell down stairs, walked in front of cars, or let their bodies go to waste from not eating, while in the game they lived the kind of life they had only dreamed of. That was while the game was called Better Than Life. The main problem was it wasn't just better, it was their life. They never found a way to help the people who lived out the rest of their lives away from reality. There was only one way to leave the game and that was you had to want to leave. To simply remove the machine would kill them and very few were successfully reached by interfacing with the system. Of the ones who were reached only two left the game in the end. Of those two one committed suicide within a few short months and the other went insane.

Now normally a place like Mimas, wasn't a place the Doctor would willing frequent. Ever since his being captured and tortured for months on end, he preferred the quieter parts of the universe. Especially with the twins growing inside of his stomach. Mimas was anything but quiet as it was a popular stop off for people heading back to Earth or out of the solar system all together. Cars on top of cars lined the roadways and crowds were the main sight on every street and in every building. Traffic jams here could last for days and more and more cars were being abandoned in favor of space hoppers. The space hoppers though made the Doctor sick, as they jumped around the traffic to reach destinations quickly. So instead, he walked hand in hand with Jack, down the busy streets, trying to reach a small restaurant.

"Remind me why we are here again?" Jack asked as he dodged around a group of gamer heads. The Doctor held his hand tightly as he turned sideways to avoid hitting the group as well.

"Your children want Mimian noodles and this is the best place to find them," the Doctor stated, blaming his craving on the babies. As a Time Lord he never got cravings and wouldn't admit to the cravings even if he did. Being pregnant with half human children, gave him a free pass to drag Jack around the universe just to eat and for the last week he had done just that. He woke Jack up at all hours of the night, to accompany him various places. Jack was sure he had gained a stone in the last week but the Doctor looked as skinny as ever, even with his growing stomach.

"Right," Jack drew out the word as he continued to walk. He looked back at his lover who wiggled his eyebrows cheekily at him. Jack smiled. He couldn't be mad for long at the Doctor. He loved the man with all of his heart and could feel the love returned through there bond to be married. Even if they never did get married, Jack still knew they would be together until the Doctor's last breath. He pulled the Doctor up to him and kissed him on the lips.

"Jack." It was the Doctor's turn to whine as Jack displayed their affection in public.

"No one is watching anyways Doctor," Jack commented as he motioned to the gamer heads surrounding them. "I could push you up against the wall and take you right here, and no one would look twice." He nipped the Doctor's ear and the Doctor moaned and pulled away.

"No," He said firmly as he started towards the restaurant again. Jack sighed, grabbing his hand to follow him. There was a small table set up before the restaurant with the gaming devices for sale on it. They were illegal to sell technically, but the Mimian police looked the other way, their pockets full of money. The Doctor picked one of the devices up to exam it. He pulled out his sonic and the device buzzed as he tried to get a reading. Jack to examined the device. He held it up to his eyes to look in it, not understanding how you could get addicted to a game.