Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to this story...except Brina and Demi I guess - oh and my natural lazyness which is why it has taken me like months to update
Hey anyone who reads my stories and is annoyed i've not been updating any of them - but i'm determined to make up for it now - Starting with getting this story completed once and for all. Still not sure how many chapters there will be, probably 14...but We'll see...Anyway - ignore my rantings and read on if you want. (PS: The '&' thing is coz I can't get the dividers to work dammit)
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Bedtime Story
A long time ago there was a town, and in that town there was a beautiful princess names Christina who was admired by both royalty and civilians alike. One day a foreign peasant called 'Dave' came to live in the town, and was instantly struck by her beauty.
He wasn't rich, or smart, or highly talented, and his friends teased him for even thinking she would give him a time of day – one man even more so, not that Dave would ever call…William a friend. He was just someone Dave had to work with for a pitiful wage.
Eventually though he won over princess and once their affair was made public the king sentenced Dave to a thousand years in a magical prison where he would not age, or really exist.
When the time was up and he was released by Hol, the warlock who had imprisoned him, he found everybody he knew dead as expected, but a wave of evil trolls had swept across the land, and the town lay in ruins, none of his race seemed to have survived and he began to go insane, until Hol resurrected William as best he could to keep him sane.
They began to explore what was left in the town and discovered a young feral man who had been abandoned by the rest of his own kind when they had fled the war, and a sub species who was created to serve the rich.
The 5 – Dave, William, Hol… Duane and Jake built a ship to try and find somewhere peaceful to call home, yet trouble always seemed to find them…
"What happened to them?" Demi asked sleepily, bringing Arnold out of his trance.
"...You will have to find out another night." Arnold said sadly as he kissed Demi on the forehead, and turned to leave, groaning inwardly as he saw Cat standing in the doorway.
"What a lovely story 'William' – So truth filled!" Cat deadpanned as Arnold walked towards him
"Yeah well would you rather I had told the story of 2 mental rejects on a space ship, one of whom brought a pregnant cat on board and so got sent to stasis and when he awoke he was left with the other reject as a dead guy, a senile computer, a vain cat and a robot who had committed accidental homicide to the crew of the Nova 5?" Rimmer whispered so as not to wake Demi.
"No." Cat admitted with a sigh. "…But did you have to call me Duane?"
"Hey I was on the spot!" Arnold protested with a smile as Cat rolled his eyes.
"Come on – Everything is ready, Brina is setting a course to a couple of clicks away from where we attacked – That way there's no chance of the other Starbug being affected when we use the drive.
"Ok…Have you thought about what we're going to do afterwards – that is if the paradox doesn't blow us all to pieces – You remember what happened when the past us killed us." Arnold wasn't happy with the idea fully, he knew that if something could go wrong for them – It always did.
"I thought we'd gone over that – It will work…Probably – Anyway it's simple, we use Holly's Hop drive as a starting mechanism for the Slip Stream Drive, go back, protect them…and us from the simulants then leave." Cat stated matter of factly
"And go where?"
Cat sucked in his breath deeply. "It's up to you and Brina too…But I was thinking…Earth."
"Why there?" Arnold blinked.
"Well Lister always talked about Earth…I've never seen it the way he – and you too some extent, did. But I don't want Demi to spend the rest of her life on this wreck." Cat explained quietly as he looked back at Demi.
Arnold took a breath and ran a hand through his hair before smiling softly. "Seems like a good enough reason to me." He said before making his way down the corridor.
"I'll be along in a minute." Cat called after him as he walked silently over to Demi and sighed deeply as he looked down at her sleeping...