Thank you to my reviewer! Yes, Holly in love is adorable to me too-lol I dont know why but it just is. -anyway here is all I have at the moment. Thank you for reading!
Myra sat down at her desk. She began looking through the pages in front of her-not that they meant anything really anymore. The Glatz nebula now only existed in theory- These pages on the copper and iron deposits on the outer rim will now only be of use to line that Cat-man's giant litter box, she thought darkly. She sighed heavily and rested her hands in her head.
"Sorry to interrupt, if this is a bad time?"
Myra looked up at the computer monitor on her desk. It was Holly, the ships computer.
"Well, I …um…No, its fine." She finished remembering Lister's little revelation about the computer's feelings for her. "Did you need something?"
"Just wanted to see how you were settling in." Holly replied quickly.
"Great-Nothing's really changed in here, unless we count that pile of dust over there, which I think might be my old bunkmate-Lewis."
"I kept it just the way you left it." Holly beamed. "Wouldn't even let the skutters in here. Didn't want them mucking around."
"Thanks." Myra grinned. "I appreciate it." There was an awkward moment as Holly and Myra both smiled and nodded at each other-neither knowing what to say.
"I'll have that pile taken care of then." Holly said finally.
"That would be lovely, thank you." Myra said-glad the silence was over.
"Alright then." Holly said.
"Ya, alright." she finished and waved as his face disappeared from the screen. She looked at her hand-Did I really just wave 'Bye' to a computer screen?
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"Well, Did you ask her out yet?" Lister asked Holly when he reappeared on the screen in the command room. Lister and Cat were playing cards with Rimmer stood above them looking superior.
"Don't be silly, Lister!" Rimmer said as he sat opposite his bunkmate. "An inter-species romance? It's not even that --its an artificial-life form/real-life form romance. The very idea makes my skin crawl-if I still had skin."
"Go smeg yourself." Holly said, not taking his words kindly. "And No, Dave. I havent asked her out yet-but I'm working on it."
"I mean how's it going to work, Holly?" Rimmer went on as though he hadn't heard him. "Are you going to buy her micro-processors for Valentines Day? If she gets sick are you going to try and run an anti-virus program on her? And, I don't want to know what you plan on having her do with your hard-drive."
"You never know. It could be true love, Rimmer!" Lister spoke up for Holly. "Stranger things have happened in the cosmos."
"You know what the word 'cosmos' means, Lister?" Rimmer asked, but quickly answered his own question. "Of course you don't-you barely know your own name. It means 'order,' and this romance goes against every order I know of."
"You're just jealous." Holly replied.
"Why should I be jealous?" Rimmer quickly shook his head. "I think we should drop her off on the nearest planet or asteroid with an atmosphere. She serves no purpose here. What do we need with a geologist? She will only use up our supplies and get in the way with her…girly-ness." Rimmer said with a shudder.
"Why don't you come over here and say that?" Holly asked looking cross.
"Now, now fellas!" Lister said getting in between them. "No ones getting dropped off on any planet!"
"You're smegging right, they're not." Holly added.
"Well, be it on your own heads when we can't take a shower without running into stockings hanging on our towel racks and our electric razors being unplugged to make room for hot wax removers or hairdryers." Rimmer said.
"We already have that with Cat here." Lister said pointing at the cat.
"Yes, but that's different. He's a cat and she's a …girl." Rimmer said the word 'girl' lowly with contempt.
"You want to know what I think?" Lister said getting a sly grin on his face and pointing his finger at Rimmer. "I think you're worried if whether or not she outranks you."
"That's outrageous." Rimmer said quickly and walked to the opposite side of the room. "Shes a civillian-It would be impossible for her to outrank me."
"Ahhh…even civilians have some rank while onboard a Space Corps ship-depending on their job purpose. Isn't that right, Hol?"
"Checking now." Holly said, then after a pause. "Says here in section eight of her contract with Space Corps. While on board Red Dwarf, Myra Smith is awarded the temporary rank of junior grade lieu…"
"Aha!" Rimmer yelled. "You said your self temporary. Three million years hardly counts as temporary!"
--kind of ends abruptly there lol..
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