Fic: Sunset - R/L - PG-13 (for slightly grim bits)

[kahvi]

Title: Sunset
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Red Dwarf owns me, not the other way around. And I don't make money from this. Would that I did!
Spoilers: Hm... Just The End, I suppose.
Notes: A follow up, of sorts, to roadstergal's Appliance. Written as part of the fanfic100 challenge - my table is here.

Comments

[roadstergal]

Aww, hell!

Lovely, lovely Lister in this.

still giggling uncontrollably at the image of three of the scutters very reluctantly pulling Rimmer's voice-activated book out of Lister's laundry-basket

Perfect mental image.

Lister groaned, and leaned against the military/ocean/whatever gray surface face first.

Heee!

Great descriptions of Petersen's habits and quarters, and Lister's drunken thinking. I did think of Balance of Power when I read Buns and Babes...

Lister's mad fit, and crying about how everyone is dead - killed me.

He needed to hug someone; hold someone. Someone who wouldn’t slink away disinterested after half a minute to fix his hair. Someone who knew what it was like to be human. Someone who remembered.

*sigh*

He tried to smile. He was out of practice, so the result was probably less than satisfactory.

Yep!

The rotten little smegger; had he no sense of decency? Wasn’t erasing himself to save him good enough for the gerbil-faced procrastinating twonk; what did he want - a public execution with fireworks and toffee

[kahvi]

I do like Lister in this, despite what I make the poor thing go through. Ah well, it's nothing compared to what we do with Rimmer, is it?

That said, I'm very happy to hear I got Arn right. He tends to elude me, but I've come to know him quite well. ;)

Thank ye for lovely feedback!

[eviltigerlily]

Aww, that was beautiful - delightfilly angsty, but sweet.
I really enjoy fic that deals with the impact of all the crew dying. They skirted over that very quikly in the show (probably why they did it differently for the novel). I think the sister idea is very interesting. It's always the way isn't it - you can't really deal with an issue of this magnitude, but then something small sets you off and then....
The ending was just beautiful.

“Well,” he conceded, “I might as well stick around then.” After all, Lister was clearly too far gone to be helped by anyone.

I love that. I think that's very Rimmer.

[kahvi]

Thank you! It's always great to hear I've gotten Rimmer right - he doesn't live in my head, you see. :)

[zekkass]

Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

was littered with astro-navigation books that Lister stolen - no, borrowed, he corrected himself - from Rimmer Oh, I can't see him returning the books someday. :D

All he could do was stumble towards Rimmer, hands flailing, clutching at a body that wasn’t there. He heard shouting, protests yelled in fear, but he couldn’t stop. Finally, his fingers caught something solid; something that was there, and he clutched it to his chest, closing his eyes, gasping, rambling.

This is where I. Um. Oh, I'm still reeling from this one. Bloody beautiful image, but it's painful as well.

He needed to touch something. He needed to hug someone; hold someone. Someone who wouldn’t slink away disinterested after half a minute to fix his hair. Someone who knew what it was like to be human. Someone who remembered.

Oh, perfect Lister.

Yes, it had been a simple enough task; keep him sane. He looked at the sobbing, cowering pile in front of him. He heard the sounds coming from the last human being alive, and sighed,

[kahvi]

Thank you!

This turned out a lot more emotional than I had planned. And I hadn't planned on them kissing either, but Lister has a way of doing whatever the hell he wants in my stories. And don't I love him for it. ;)

[lyrstzha]

Oh, gorgeous! I love the characterizations, the idea, the deftly handled details, and the images. It's so perfect that all the death and loss finally seems real to Lister because of a simple note from Petersen's sister. Really, it's just all lovely work.

[kahvi]

:D

Wow, thank you... Lovely feedback makes me happy. :)

[thoraarwin]

Guh...I'm speechless. You need to write longer fic!!*g* Very intense, this. And brilliantly written. Rimmer's “Look. It’s… All right. I fold. I’ll do it.” just made me shiver. And he'd do it too, wouldn't he? He's a total pain and all (but we still love him*g*) but seeing Lister like that- he'd give him Kochanski, wouldn't he... *sniffle*

[kahvi]

*blush* Thank you!

And yes, I'd like to think he'd do it. I'm no Rimmer expert though; that's roadstergal. But it fit my purposes to have him react that way in this. ;)

Work, Shapes and Ends are the longest fics I've written. For anything longer, I tend to need roadstergal to help me along. :)