Caught-Part 2

A.K.A-'My Better Than Life'

Hi! Well, I better get to writing this, lickety-split! Now, on to the characters we know!

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Rimmer looked up from his book, 'Dictators Rule'. Lister had zoned out on his top bunk. Cat and Kryten had to be in another room, and Holly was on 'down time'.

Rimmer had gotten over the shock of the last few days. Sure, Kryten had came back to the Red Dwarf after that whole 'Parallel Universe' thing. He had crashed Lister's space-bike. Lister had to put Kryten back together. Now the gimboid of a mechanoid didn't have his old personality, so he wouldn't take an order from Rimmer. Not unless Kryten felt that it was a good order.

Sure, Holly had fallen deeply in love with the alternative personality of himself. Love stricken after leaving the parallel universe, he had performed a head sex change. Now he had the face of Hilly, his counterpart.

Sure Rimmer had adjusted to these changes. But the events of when they were in 'Better Than Life' still rang through his brain.

He was having a real nice time, getting to touch things; food, women... But then it had went all horribly wrong. His sick mind had taken control. Not being able to accept good things happening to Rimmer, the dream had turned into a nightmare.

It had made him mortgage his car, so it would be practical for his kids. Then the whole 'kid' business. His brief 'time' with Yvonne McGruder, had turned into her getting pregnant. Then, his mind had made Rimmer marry her.

After that ordeal, Outland Revenue turned up, demanding payment. That letter Lister had read him, about him owing eight thousand five hundred pounds.

Then, his twisted mind had a tarantula crawl up his trousers. After Lister and Cat told Rimmer to fantasize it all away, Rimmer, Lister, Cat, and Holly were buried in sand, faces smeared with jam, about to be eaten by killer ants. Rimmer had had this happen to him as a boy, by his brothers. Coincidence? Rimmer thought not.

Then, he had finally transported them back to the Red dwarf. Or so they thought. A twinge of hope entered, saying that Rimmer was actually an officer. But all that faded when the taxman for Outland Revenue jumped out of the cupboard.

Rimmer couldn't believe he had ruined the game so much. He was afraid what his brain was hiding from him. It had been going so well...

Rimmer felt deep in his heart that he wanted to try the game out again. He was afraid, though, that his diseased mind would take control. Rimmer vowed to himself that that would not happen again.

Rimmer quietly stood up from his bunk. He glanced at the pile of papers and letters covering the table in the officer's quarters that Lister and himself now occupied.

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Hi! Hoped you liked it! Well, that being the summary of 'Better Than Life', it's time to move the story forward! Review, please! But don't be harsh. No one's perfect...especially the Boyz from the Dwarf!

Additional AN: I usually procrastinate on my stories-either writing them or re-doing them. It's about time I re-did my stories to make them look better! And, I just want you to know (That I really care about you...JK ) that on most of my stories, if I say that I will finish it, someday, I will. It just takes me awhile!