Fic: Easter Egg (Lister/Rimmer, PG, Season VIII)

[notalwaysweak]

Easter Egg

PG

Just a short one that I whipped up for an Easter treat. Nearly no smut, although perhaps hints of future smut (I promise nothing, however). Forgive me; I'm out of practice with RD, having written nothing except Forty Days since December 2004.

Red Dwarf characters belong to Grant Naylor and the BBC.

Dedicated to kahvi and, as ever, fiareynne.

Comments

[shivvlan]

Cute.

[lady_draco]

Awww - sweeet hee =)

[roadstergal]

Lovely! :D

I like the Lister-cooking; I was reminded of Polymorph.

Mind you, that was probably because a certain person who's apparently incapable of silent slumber was imitating a chainsaw in the bunk above mine

Hee!

I love Lister's reaction to why-did-you-call-my-name.

covered in flour, milk and what is hopefully a large smear of chocolate and not anything rather less hygienic.

Eww, but hee!

Rimmer's lifted his hand to his mouth and started licking the chocolate off his fingers without thinking about its possible impact.

Long, lovely Rimmerfingers. *faint*

'And I am most certainly not doing this to provide you with any sort of erotic display.'

Rimmer's such a slut! Love it.

Lister gloms onto the one finger that's still got a dribble of chocolate and does things to it with his tongue that remind Rimmer disturbingly of his one and only sexual liaison, only with less sexy female boxing champion and more... well... Lister.

*faint*

I'm sure I could think of something for you to do for me in return*faint

[katflace]

'I'm not him, Lister,' Rimmer says quietly, catching the direction of Lister's gaze. 'I'm not "your" Rimmer.'

I really love that sentence. And somehow I sense quite a bit of regret in it... like he's thinking "I wish I was, I wish I'd grown closer to you, I wish you could trust me, but I really doubt you do". Except, you know, I think he does... he may rationally know it's not the same Rimmer, but I don't think he really groks it, meaning he wouldn't treat him that differently. And I also like how it implies Rimmer never really hated Lister, but rather tried to keep him at a distance to avoid being hurt (like he seems to do with just about everyone, really)... and with a bit more certainty he wouldn't be hurt, he gets a bit less defensive.

... or, y'know, I could be completely off because I've never actually seen any of Series VIII. =^u.u^= Either way, I clearly like this.

[kahvi]

I think you're spot on; I thought something along the same lines.

[jargonelle]

This is really nice! (I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean it's cute and it's sweet and it's teasing - all good things!)

I love the lines that roadstergal picked out, but I think this one: Rimmer allows the smirk on his face to stretch just that bit further. 'Ah, but Lister, I, unlike you, am not required to be down here.' is my favourite - so in character!