This is a short story, which I have no idea where it came from because I'm making it up as I type this, so I have no idea what this story is going to be about yet.
Oh, just so you know I do not own any part of Red Dwarf, so don't ask me about copyright. Thank You!
Rimmer is walking down the corridor toward his room, but when he gets to the door he just stares at the closed door for what seemed an age, and then just as he is about to turn round the door opens to produce the thing known as his bunkmate.
"Oh! Hi Rimmer!" The thing says in an uncaring, curry & beer smelling voice.
"Hm…Hello Lister" Rimmer replies, turning back towards the door
"So were you come back in to the room or you were looking at the door?"
"I was just checking the paint work on the door to make sure the paint hasn't got ruined from all the years it hasn't been painted"
"Rimmer, it was painted yesterday by the skutters"
"Well, you can never be too sure that they are doing it right"
"You were supervising them to make sure they did"
Rimmer's nostrils flared and then he walked off without another word.
Lister closed the door and went to his bunk in thought, That was so unlike Rimmer he normally argues longer than that with me and why is he doing so much painting?
"Holly?"
Holly came up on the mirror, "What's happening dude!"
"Have you noticed anything strange about Rimmer lately? Because he seems to be acting different"
"Now you come to mention it, he has been quiet recently, but I would think it's a good thing"
"I thought that at first too, but it been a two weeks and today is the first day I managed to talk to him." Lister said a bit worried about Rimmer, "Is there any way of checking if there is anything wrong with him."
"Well, I could check his data disk."
"Would it help figure out want is wrong?"
"Maybe, I'm not sure."
"Ok. Erm…do I need to do something to help you check it?"
"No, it very simply to do, so just stay where you are"
Then Holly disappeared from the screen, as Lister got back up on to his bed to lie down to think as he waited.
Holly looked round his computer systems to find bindery code all around him and most of it just flew by with out his understanding of what it meant, but the ones he did know tended to be a little popup window that would say something like "Error corruption file", which he would ignore and carry on past them. After much vain of searching for Rimmer data file he managed to find it stored in a file called "Why did I do this?"
Lister meanwhile is now chewing he's toenails and wondering Maybe I should clean up the room. … Nar! If I do I might end up going to a wine bar and next thing you know, I'll be playing squash every Tuesday night with a bloke called Gerald!
Rimmer is just sitting down in the dark cinema, which is playing some John Wayne classic and so the Skutters in the front row watching it, not even bothering to pretend to be cleaning the floor. Rimmer didn't even care to tell them off, because all he wanted to do was sit in the darkness of the cinema.
Holly opened Rimmer's data file and notice that he didn't understand any of it, so he got a manual. "Ok! Hmm…" looking at the first page, "Right! Slot A in to D…" he said following the instructions of the manual called "How to put you AKEA shelves together".
Lister had just closed his eyes, then the lights flicked for a second, and so he opened his eyes and looked around, but concluded the flicking must have been his imagination playing tricks on him.
Rimmer leaned back is his seat and blinked, but when his eyes opened from the blink he found he wasn't where he was before, in fact he didn't know where he was.
I can feel the tension from you all now.:) Bet you are wondering what is going to happen next. So am I because I don't even know yet.