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Awakened Confusion

Cat opened his eyes and looked round, his question still running through his mind. He saw his body still laid out on the ground along side Lister's… LISTER'S?

He looked down in shock at his hands and felt the "H" on his forehead.

"You've gotta be KIDDING!" He yelled causing the others to wake up.

"What's happened now? Lister asked groggily as he opened his eyes and came face to face with Rimmer's body.

"We must have swapped again." Rimmer reasoned as he sat up and tried to analyse the situation.

"Oh ya THINK?" Lister snapped as he looked down at his manicured claws.

"Hey the last body had no pockets, this isn't even a BODY here!" Cat moaned.

"What do we do now?" Lister asked confused as to what the smeg was happening.

"Well I don't know about you two, but I think…" Rimmer began but was cut off by Lister.

"No smegging way – we're sticking together. Anyway you really think I'm going to let you out of my sight in my body?" Lister snapped, thankful that he was at least a solid entity again… not that he would have ever referred to a body that technically.

"What about me?" Cat asked, now not even able to change his clothes if he wanted to.

"What about you?" Rimmer hissed glad he could direct his anger for the feline and himself in the same place.

Cat waited for himself to spurt an insult but none came as he stood their staring at Rimmer in Lister's body and Lister in his. Cat stormed out leaving the other two men in the Drive Room to ponder these strange occurrences.

The monster laughed, the pathetic feline was progressing nicely, but the hologram was not too upset by his physical form and the human was always to be the toughest of the group but that would soon change…
"Nice plan on us sticking together ey Listy?" Rimmer scoffed as he went to the nearest vending machine and ordered 5 Crunchy bars and a bowl of ice cream.

"What on SMEG do you think you're doing?" Lister asked storming over.

"Errr comfort food." Rimmer replied.

"Not in my smegging body." Lister protested.

The two glared at each other tension mounting till a scream broke their concentration

"CAT!" The two man yelled running off down the corridor, the crunchy bars and melting ice cream abandoned.

The men rounded the corner in the direction of Cat's scream but could find no trace of him. They turned round looking desperately.

"I knew we should have stopped him." Lister said worriedly, turning and grimacing as he felt his foot step on something.

"My light bee…" Rimmer muttered as Lister picked up the broken item.

"Did I?..." Lister asked as he examined the light bee.

"I don't think so… You know what this means?" Rimmer asked.

"That Cat's been killed by some kind of weird mind swapping demon?"

"Yes but it means I can never be a hologram again – We wiped my spare disk remember. I am dead." Rimmer said in shock.

"Oh shut up HE'S dead, you're still here – In MY body." Lister hissed as he threw the light bee away in disgust as to what had happened.

"So how's it feel to walk in a dead man's body?" Rimmer asked. Lister searched his voice and face for sarcasm but found none.

"Like you did everyday."

"I'm just going to…go…" Rimmer trailed off as he set off away.

"Rimmer – You can't…" Lister began but it was too late. "SMEG!" he cried kicking a box.

Rimmer wandered to the Observation Tower. He always seemed to go here when he had problems. It let him think and reflect. He held his… Lister's head in his hands and cried. He cried a lot but tried never to do it in public.

The feeling and taste of the salty tears as they fell from his eyes and rolled down his face and onto his lips made Rimmer feel even more guilty.

He was alive but for how long? Would they all be killed by this thing? Or would he have to live for the rest of his now natural life in Lister's body, seeing Lister in Cat's everyday? Or even worse – If there was another body swap he would end up in Cat's.

Rimmer shuddered he didn't even like the self absorbed feline yet here he was morning his death… or his body's death… Or something.

Rimmer knew he didn't want to die at the hands of whatever had got Cat, but he knew he was too afraid of death to commit suicide – Especially know he was no longer made of light – Even if he was in the body of someone with less personal hygiene than a laboratory mouse.

Rimmer wondered what was happening to his mind, but decided he wasn't too worried, he had never been the most sane person in the world. Rimmer's opinion of his mind was however to change as he watched space change – The planets began to move faster and faster and he began to see people from his past as well as the Red Dwarf crew and Cat.

Rimmer panicked – was he going mad or was he been welcomed by the dead?... Or is that the same thing really? Rimmer ran, reacting the only way he knew how – Hiding under a table in the cargo bay rocking back and forth…