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The Makings
Author: New aka unshelteredlife77
Chapter: 1 of 13
Censor: PG I
guess--language
Pairing: none
Summary: Floor 13:
Hero inspired: A woman is trapped in space in the remains of her ailing �Starbug�. All of her crewmates are dead and there is little
oxygen left for her. She decides to end her life before she slowly suffocates.
She knows there is no hope for rescue. Sappy mixed with angst.
Dedication/Thanks: Thanks to
Lauren and Ty for their permission to continue this, umm, whatever it will become.
Disclaimer: All Red Dwarf
and all its characters belong to Rob Grant and Doug Naylor with the exceptions
of Sasha, Shayne and JayV
who belong to LaurenScavenger and Jules Jari who belongs to me. I�m not making money from this,
etc.
General
Reading Guide: Everything is pretty much self explanatory but�
/___/
= thinking to self
italicized words are sound effects and flashbacks
Most
important: Jari is pronounced Yari

****
The
six sleeping pills she�d just taken were starting to take their effect. She lay
back on her bunk clutching the light bee in her hands. Her last friend in the
universe had voluntarily turned herself off so the computer could put more
power to life support and auxiliary functions after the attack.

�Krytie! Cat! Get in here now damn
it!� Jari yelled from the cockpit.

The mechanoid
rushed in followed by the fashion sensitive felis sapian.

�Have we seen them before Jari?� Kris asked.

�No, but they obviously think they
know us and they don�t like whomever they think we are. Damage
report, someone please!� Jari yelled again.

�That surprise first hit took out
the engines, the dimension drive, weapons and most of the power,� Kryten replied.

�Cat, talk to me. Where are they?�

�J-girl, there�s more than one
we�re�� Cat began.

�We�re being hailed Ms. Jari mam,� Kryten
interrupted.

�Put them through Krytie,� Kris demanded.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

Jari was
thrown from the navigator�s chair. When she came to, Kris notified her of Cat�s
and Kryten�s deaths.

�Kris, what are we going to do?� she
cried.

�The ship is damaged beyond repair Jari. I�ve done everything I can to minimize the space we
need to conserve oxygen for you. I�ve got the emergency signal broadcasting,
but we can�t do anything else
but wait and pray someone comes.�

They waited for three days for word
from anyone. Kris, being a hologram, could check the ship and cockpit that was
now inaccessible to Jari.

�Well?� Jari
asked when Kris returned after her daily check.

�Nothing, not a word,� she couldn�t
look at her.

�Kris, what�s wrong?�

�Jari�the computer readings show that the ship�s integrity
isn�t good. It needs to divert more power to auxiliary systems.�

�Power from where?
There�s no place to take it from. We�re already confined down to this room.�

Kris just looked down at the floor
sadly.

�No Kris, you, you
can�t��

�Jari, I
have to. You can�t survive without air. I�ve already told the computer to turn
me off.�

�How long?�

�Within the hour.�
Kris replied in a half mumble.

�And how long will that give me?�

�Another two weeks� maybe even
three.� Kris choked out.

�I can�t be alone that long. You
know I�m terrified of being alone. Kris you can�t do this. I�ve already faced
facts. There�s no rescue. The only beings that are capable of helping us did this to us!�

�Jari,
don�t think like that. You can do this. Someone will come.�

Within
the hour, Jari found herself alone. For a week she
paced the floor. The computer repeatedly told her to keep her movements to the
minimum to conserve air but she couldn�t. She was too anxious. No one came. The
oxygen was getting so low that she was then forced to sit still, meditating to
regulate her breathing. She couldn�t do much else anyway. She was cold. She was
starving. She was lonely. She was completely devastated. Space insanity was
setting in.

She�d
have rather died on �Red Dwarf� three million years ago than have survived in
stasis. It had been horrible for her to climb into that tiny compartment alone.
It seemed that even while she was unconscious, she knew she was alone. Ever
since she was a child when her sister locked her in the closet and wouldn�t let
her out until hours later when their mother came home, she hated being alone
especially in confined spaces.

Yet
she did it. She did it to catch the eyes of two people: two men to be exact.
Kris didn�t know what she was pushing away. Kris Kochanski had been her
bunkmate. Jari had envied her silently because of Kris�s admirer. David Lister
was madly infatuated with her. He never paid much attention to Jari even though
they saw each other quite often. Then there was his bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer, who was even worse. He was too busy climbing up the
ziggaraut to bother with relationships, which in
itself was something she never understood. She was an officer. It�s what he
wanted to be. It would�ve made perfect sense for him to at least see her as an
opportunity for help in advancement. Kris hadn�t known of her infatuation with
the two men. Not until after the accident anyway. Before, Kris would�ve just
laughed at Jari�s �poor� taste in men. After, Jari
had decided that revealing secrets between the two of them helped the long
lonely journey in space. Kris never really grasped her reasons. Just as Jari assumed, Lister and Rimmer
were beneath her according to Kris. Yet Jari couldn�t help herself. She had a
difference of opinion. She found them both rather attractive. She could never
decide which she liked better: Lister�s laid-back carefree attitude or Rimmer�s
up tight sarcasm. Just being friends would�ve been fine, but they didn�t seem
to notice her. When it came to the two of them, they even fought like cats and
dogs. But everyone wondered if it was just an act. Indeed, that�s what made Jari all the more interested.

In
general, having men not attracted to her wasn�t the problem; in fact, it
was completely opposite. Most of the male officers were after her and/or Kris.
They were all terribly annoying, boring and egotistical though. They were all
too stiff and serious with little or no sense of humor. Admittedly, Rimmer could be classified as being just those things, but
Jari had seen proof of otherwise. One evening, Lister and some of his friends
played a little joke on Rimmer. They slipped something like Valium into his
meal and then convinced him to have one bevy with them. The one bevy turned
into a drinking game and he became a completely different person: relaxed,
funny, and a complete goof off. But just as the others started getting Rimmer
to talk openly, Lister put a stop to the game and the party altogether. Lister seemed
to be hiding something he knew about Rimmer but he never let on to anyone else
what it might be. Jari had her suspicions that he actually liked Rimmer. She
had watched him help his bunkmate back to their room. He had taken great care
with Rimmer the whole way and it wasn�t because he was slightly pissed himself.

Not
too long after that, Jari found a way to possibly
gain their attention. She had overheard a conversation between Kris and Lister
about a kitten he had smuggled onboard. Someone was going to have to take the
blame and punishment: Lister for bringing it, Kris for being a superior officer
and having kept it secret, or Rimmer who was somewhat an accomplice and an easy
target to blame. In the end, Jari had claimed the cat Lister snuck on board was
hers and took the six-month stasis punishment. They would definitely notice her
when she got out. She�d saved them both from missing out on six months of pay
as well as life. When she woke, Kris, the hologram, and
Holly, the �Red�s� computer, broke the news to her. Not only was she the
only survivor of the disaster, but now she was the only known living human in
the universe. Everyone had died in the massive radiation leak together. But Jari? She was dying alone.

/I�m
sorry Kris�I just can�t do this. No one is coming./ Jari closed her eyes.

****
�Ace,
there�s a faint signal just on the other side of that moon.� Sasha spoke when Ace entered the cockpit.

�Any life signs?� he sat down in the
pilot�s seat.

�There�s something else: it�s a �Starbug�.�

�WHAT?! Why didn�t you notify me of that
sooner? I wouldn�t have taken that thirty minute shower after you woke me,� Ace
raced to his seat trying to read all the scans and screens at once.

�Sorry.
There is one life sign but it is extremely faint. There�s no oxygen with
exception of one small area and it has very little left.�

Ace suited up to make his first rescue
in weeks.

/I
wonder who survived in this dimension?/ He watched as Sasha moved the �Wildfire II� closer.

****
Jari opened her
eyes. Was she dead? Was this her afterlife? She moaned with the throbbing of
her head.

/Great,
migraine headaches in afterlife too?/

She
struggled to sit up and look around. Her whole body ached. Afterlife was
supposed to be wonderful and nice. Not painful. Well, at least she was clean
and wearing clean clothing. This room was immaculate as well. She slowly forced
her aching muscles to stand herself up.

�Woah, you
shouldn�t be moving around yet,� a vaguely familiar voice filled her ears.

It
came from off to her side. She tried to turn towards the soothing voice. Strong
arms caught her as she started to fall with her knees buckling under lack of
use and pain. She looked up to her helper and blacked out.

****

�Miss,
miss,� the voice called to her. �She�s not coming around Sasha. What should I
do? She�s been unconscious for a month. Do you have anything else from the
computer data we got from the �Starbug�?�

�Not
much else besides the information about the sleeping pills she took only hours
before we found her, plus bits and pieces of what happened to the ship. The
data is in very bad shape.�

Jari wasn�t aware
of the passing of time when she heard the voices again.

�Ace,
I�ve just completed the defragmenting of the data.
Your new shipmate is Jules Jari, Senior Navigation Officer.�

�This
is odd,� Ace pondered aloud. �Her dimension is really different. It�s always
been Lister, Kochanski, or me that survived in stasis, or the female
counterpart of Listy in that one case. I don�t even remember a Jules Jari on
our �Red�. Does it say why she was in stasis?�

�Unn, where
am I?� Jari groaned.

�Your aboard
my ship �Wildfire II�. I�m Ace. Ace Rimmer.�

Her
eyes shot open. She couldn�t believe her eyes. It was...at least the face was
his. But that hair?

�Rimmer? But, but
how?� she gasped and tears welled up.

�It�s
alright Officer Jari, you�re alive and safe now.
You�ve been unconscious for a little over a month in Medi-bay.
Do you remember anything?�

�We
were attacked�don�t know who they were�Krytie�Cat�Kris��
her voice trailed off and she sobbed uncontrollably.

�Sasha, what gives? Tell me something, anything
about her already!�

�NO!� Jari shouted. �Who are you? You
can�t be Rimmer? He died.�

�What? It�s my ship and I�m the only
one that can tell her what to do.�

�Please,
don�t. I, I�ll tell you whatever you need to know. Computer please�don�t�� she continued sobbing.

If
her guess was correct, this Ace person, this Ace Rimmer, he had taken �Starbug�s� black box and data records. It had everything
including her reasons for being the survivor in her dimension.

�Please calm down or I�ll put you back
out!� he commanded.

The
shock of his authoritative tone scared her a little. She searched his face
carefully and his expression softened almost immediately with her fearful gaze.
She collected herself. He helped her to sit up and got her some food. Later he
left her alone in a bunkroom. But, he locked her in. She couldn�t handle the
small space. She beat on the door.

�Please!
Don�t lock me in!� she screamed repeatedly as loud as she could but she was
exhausted in no time. She slowly slumped shakily to the floor sobbing and still
mumbling her plea. �Please�let�me�out.�

After
sitting for what seemed like hours sobbing at the door, she slowly examined her
�cell.� She took a shower and put on clothing she found in one of the cabinets.
She curled up in the corner of the bed and rocked herself to sleep.

When
she woke, she found herself laid out properly in bed covered with a heavy
blanket. That Ace guy was setting what looked to be breakfast on the table
nearby. She was unsure of what she wanted to do. Bolt out of the room and run
like mad until she found some way to escape. With the way she felt, that would
be highly impossible and unwise. Part of her wanted to jump up and hug the man
tightly for saving her from that hell and certain death. But what if he was one
of those that attacked the �Starbug�? He could be
playing a sick game of torture. If that were the case, she needed to play along
until she was stronger. At full strength and health she could easily take him
in a fight.

/I
do hope that is not the situation./ she pleaded with
herself and forced the horrible thought out of her mind.

She
lay quietly for a moment watching him. It was uncanny. He looked just like her
Rimmer with the exception of the hair of course. Tall, slender yet muscular,
light hazel eyes if she remembered correctly from the Medi-bay.
She slowly sat up urging her still aching muscles to move. Ace noticed and
moved to help her but she moved away defying his touch. She could remember what
it felt like when he had touched her before�warm strong hands that were also
quite smooth and gentle at touch. She had been too weak to react. They had felt
electrifying on her skin, as he had helped her through the corridor to this
room. She had always dreamt what it would feel like to have her Rimmer touch
her but she just couldn�t handle the overwhelming sensation again. Not until
she regained her full strength back anyway.

�I trust you slept well,� he backed
away.

�Please
don�t lock me in again. I don�t like confined spaces. Not even before�� She
went silent pushing the awful memory out of her head and just moved herself to
the table to eat. Once she had finished and was sitting quietly sipping some
hot tea, he decided he would try to talk with her and get her story or at least
what she could remember.

�I�m sorry I had to do that, but it was
just a precaution.�

�Don�t
make up excuses. You knew perfectly well that I wasn�t and still am not a threat to you or your ship. You said your name was
Ace then Rimmer. Which is it? Who are you? Where did you come from?� she wanted
to see how much information and clues he�d give her.

�My name is Ace Rimmer. I�m from
another dimension. Is this your dimension?�

�No.
We had just jumped here about five hours before we were attacked. Kris�and I
were preparing to jump back just as we were fired upon,� she took a slow sip of
tea but choked with a realization. �Wait? We�re still in the same dimension? We
have to leave! Leave immediately! They came out of nowhere. They didn�t show up
on sensors or scans. They took out the engines, weapons and half the ship�s
power with one hit. They are obviously way more advanced in this dimension than
ours, maybe even yours��

�It�s okay, it�s okay,� he soothed her by grabbing her hands
and holding them tightly from across the table.

/This
Rimmer look alike is touching me again!/ She pulled
her hands away quickly.

�I,
I�m sorry. Is touching taboo in your dimension? I didn�t mean to offend.� Ace
slowing pulled his hands away.

�It�s�it�s okay. I just haven�t had a�umm, another living
breathing human around in a long time.�
/Especially
not a version of a man I lusted after./

�Well,
I left that area where we found you long ago. But I didn�t leave for fear it
was your dimension and you might have somewhere you could go. If you want to
jump somewhere else we�ll go right now.�

�Please! Anywhere but here,� she
pleaded.

Within
the hour, they had jumped to a dimension familiar to Ace. He had been here
several times. It was a calm dimension. Nothing exciting ever happened here.
Apparently, the radiation leak never occurred here because Ace never found any
traces of �Red Dwarf� according to the flight path he knew from his records and
experiences.

Jari learned she
had nothing to fear. This was what Ace did for a living: listening for and
responding to distress calls. Sasha informed her of certain other �perks� of
Ace�s job. Ace was usually paid with sex by his female rescue-victims en route
to home.

/Funny?
He�s never made advances on me. What�s wrong with me?/

Sasha
read Jari�s mind. She probably figured it out because
she knew the content of the data files from the �Starbug�.
Sasha revealed that he actually hadn�t done anything
since she came aboard. Jari knew something was different about him the longer
she had been with him. However, she new very little about her
rescuer. The only thing he had really explained was that every dimension
was pretty much the same. The only differences were that the characters had
made different decisions and reacted differently to situations, which led to
alternate outcomes. In his dimension, things called nanobots had resurrected
the crew.

For several months Jari
continued regaining her strength from her ordeal and month-long coma. She jumped
here and there with Ace rescuing people from all sorts of worlds. She would
wait patiently aboard �Wildfire II� while he did the hero stuff. Following one
particularly difficult rescue, Ace returned to the ship terribly withdrawn. He
had grown noticeably more reluctant about going out and less satisfied when
coming home. He seemed lost and distant like he was constantly thinking about
something or someone.

�Ace
has been in his bunk for days, is he okay? Is there something I should do?�
Jari asked Sasha.

�He�s
tired Jari. He�s done this for almost two years now. Jumping here and there,
homesickness is taking its toll. Something always happens like this��

�Sasha
shut up now!� Ace commanded fiercely. �Since when do we discuss these issues
with anyone.�

Ace
was standing in the doorway of the cockpit. He looked tired like he hadn�t
slept much even though he had locked himself in his room. He had an exasperated
expression as he glared down at Jari.

�Sorry, I didn�t mean to pry,� Jari
cowered out of the cockpit back to her room.

****

She
sat in her bunk reading. Why in the world had he blown up like that? She had
just been asking Sasha if she could help somehow. Jari was feeling useless
sitting around, eating Ace�s food, breathing his oxygen, and generally being of
no use. She wanted to start pulling her weight around here until they could
find a suitable dimension or world to relocate her. That was his intention
wasn�t it? He had waited around in that dimension thinking she had some place
to go. When she was able to take care of herself, he would drop her off
somewhere.

Ace
came in. He never knocked because she never closed the door. Jari peered over
her book at him briefly as he sat down at the small table in the room. She
didn�t feel much like talking to someone who couldn�t appreciate that she was
only interested in helping. If he didn�t apologize first thing she--

�It�s not your fault,� he began. �I
shouldn�t have snapped like that.�

She
peered back over her book. He was staring at her with a pitifully weary gape.
Jari put her book down and stood up.

�May I ask you something personal?� she
sat down across from Ace at the table.

�It depends.�

�Why do you wear that ridiculous wig?�

He
was taken aback. No one else, even those that knew other Rimmer�s, had ever
noticed that before. He did his best to play unaffected.

�I wouldn�t know what you�re talking
about,� he lied.

Jari reached across the table and
jerked the wig away before he could stop her.

�I knew it. Just like my Rim�� she
stopped short.

Ace
sat openly shocked at her reflexes at first. He had wondered how she was doing
recovering her strength and health. He knew that she exercised while he was off
fighting. Sasha had informed him of that long ago. He had noticed her form
changing as well. Her color had returned to what seemed to be her normal
healthy tone. He could see why her Rimmer�

/What?
Her Rimmer? Does that mean�/ �What do you mean by your
Rimmer?�

�The one from my dimension, th, that�s all. Wasn�t there a Jules Jari in yours?�

�I
can�t say that there was. I didn�t know anyone by that name. That�s what I�ve
been trying to figure out. I�ve searched through all the data files my ship has
collected from other dimensions. Your dimension is the most radically different
I�ve come across.�

�Figures,� she sighed.

Jari
moved back to her bunk and returned to her reading. The defrocked Ace just sat
there watching her. Why did she seem so dejected when the Rimmer from her
dimension was brought up? What did it matter if there had not been a Jules Jari
in his dimension? His curiosity had been peeked. He got up and left the room.

****

�Jari to the
observation room please,� Rimmer called her over the voicecom.

/What
is he calling me for? After weeks of barely speaking to me at meal-time and avoiding
me the rest�What if I don�t want to come?/

Jari returned to her reading.

�Jari,� Sasha spoke after about fifteen
minutes. �Ace needs to see you in observation.�

�So what. He hardly speaks to me for a month and
all of a sudden he expects me to follow commands? I don�t think so.�

About
fifteen minutes later, Rimmer appeared without his wig in her doorway. He had
stopped wearing it while he wasn�t on a mission. Why should he anyway? There
wasn�t much of a point.

�I asked you to come to observation,�
he scolded.

�I�ve
asked you lots of things the past few weeks such as to simply say something to
me and got nothing,� Jari barked back.

�NOW Jari,� he demanded.

He
was angry. But why? Because she saw
through his disguise? Because she brushed off his questioning?
Surely not. She scowled at him and dropped her book
harshly to the bed, stomping out the door and down the corridor towards
observation. As they walked she felt the tension melting away from the man now
walking beside her. He was suffering under that anger.

/Sad?
Maybe it has to do with what Sasha was trying to tell me before./

�Look out there,� a
softness had come to his voice as he pointed to the window.

Jari
walked over slowly not really understanding what she was supposed to be looking
for or at. Once she reached the window, she realized she didn�t have to be
told. What she saw amazed her. Still back in the doorway, Rimmer�s voice
startled her when he broke the brief moment of silence.

�This is a special place.�

�What
is all of that?� she asked not looking at him. She could see his reflection in
the window and he looked completely worn down and despondent. She couldn�t
stand to see the carbon copy of a man she had cared for look like this. But she
wasn�t even sure it was really because of the old Rimmer that she was concerned
now. This version was different somehow.

�All
of those are Ace�s. Ace�s that have gone from dimension to dimension fighting
the good fight, whatever that is.�

�How? Why?�

�Some
unknown time ago one Rimmer in some dimension decided to start this legacy. I
suppose he did it because he was some fantastic version of Arnold J. Rimmer or,
at least, he wanted to be. I�m sure once he started jumping dimensions and
found alternate versions of himself he saw the potential to kind of live
forever being this protector of the multi-universe. So as one Ace dies or tires
of the job he simply finds another to take his place. It almost ended with the
one that came before me. I saw what this life had done for him and I wanted to
try it. He died protecting those that I loved from a terrible abomination of a
Rimmer gone insane. He showed me I had a purpose and now�� he sighed.

Jari focused on Rimmer�s reflection
again.

�Glorious life has lost its glory has
it? This wasn�t what you expected?�

�In short, not exactly. But I wasn�t really looking for
glory to be honest. I was doing this for other reasons,� he slumped against the
wall.

They
stood staring at each other�s reflection. It seemed to Jari he was more than
just tired or sad. He had lost something or he had left something behind, maybe
even someone. He had his secrets just like she did. Jari returned her focus
outside the window. It was this Rimmer she cared for now. He had saved her and
had given up something in order to make this possible. Without him taking up
the Ace persona, she�d be�No, right now, she was lonely and depressed enough
without having him add his baggage to the load. What was she even doing here?
What was he trying to tell her? She closed her eyes and rubbed her fingertips
none to gentle over her temples.

�What
do you want Rimmer? Is this what Sasha was trying to tell me about when you
stopped her? Why are you all of a sudden sharing with me?�

�I
realized you needed it. You needed to see and understand just as I did. I�ve
never been here myself. I�ve avoided it actually. But now that I�m here�do you
see? Do you see the possibilities?�

At
first Jari didn�t understand. She turned and looked at Rimmer and, suddenly,
looking at how he was looking at her with those hazel eyes exploring her, she
froze. He knew. He had read the data files. He knew everything that had
happened. Everything about her. What�s more, he knew
why she was the one that survived the disaster, why she had been the one in
stasis. She closed her eyes to hold back the tears and prayed she was just
having some dream. That had to be it. She would wake up any minute and she
would be in her bunk. She was only dreaming of this Rimmer like she used to
dream about her Rimmer or Lister. She heard footsteps
coming towards her and she stepped back until she met the wall. She turned her
back on him brushing her shoulder across his chest, as he was that close to
her. The shock nearly knocked her over. The sensation of touch even through a
shirt, especially his, was almost too much having gone so long without it.

�I
don�t see anything out there or in here or anywhere,� she spoke harshly trying
to shake off this whole situation and this feeling. �There are no possibilities
left for me. You said it yourself: you haven�t found record of any other Jules
Jari in any dimension. You should�ve just let me die. You don�t know me, or
what I�ve been through. I don�t care what you think you know from that data
recorder. You have no idea��

�You
don�t know exacting how well I do know. The jokes, the snide remarks, the
pranks, they were all just as bad as being ignored and forgotten�and one bad
mistake and poor decision after another until the best decision you could have
ever made�join up with the corps. Your luck really began to change but you
didn�t know it at first.�

�How
did the disaster help me? It ruined everything I had planned! Now I�m alone! I
have no purpose and no reason to be here!� She was finally yelling and it felt
good.

The
face that stood before her had ignored her for all those years. It was his
fault she was miserable, as well as his friend. If they had just stopped to
look once she wouldn�t have needed to climb into that stupid closet and go
through this nightmare only to end up where she was always trying to run away
from: alone.

Jari
tried to slide away from her captor and flee. She would just escape out an
airlock somewhere and die in space like she should have done gently a year ago.
She brushed at the tears streaming down her face.

Rimmer
grabbed her at the shoulders and forced her to stand still. /Did Lister have to
put up with this from me all that time? Did both versions of me need to be
smacked as hard as this woman needs to be smacked? No. Just like Listy couldn�t
hit me, I can�t hit her. Not even to knock some sense into her. She�s too
beautiful to hit anyway. Wait, what am I thinking? Lister�s the one I�m
attracted to. I love the man. But she is beautiful. I can�t deny that.
The soft auburn hair that hides away in a braid until ship nighttime�I still
remember what it was like to touch it and wash it while she was unconscious.
Her deep gray eyes�it�s been hard not to think about them. And her smell�it
fills the room when she simply walks by. How could the Rimmer of her universe
not notice? How could the Lister of her universe not notice? He must have seen
her and Kris together a thousand times? Did they really not see what I see?/

Rimmer
stood there thinking over this for a few brief seconds. Her life couldn�t have
been meant to end. He could never understand why he was alive and not
someone else for a long time. It took Lister and Ace to show him the reasons.
Yes, every person in every dimension survived for a reason. Then suddenly it
hit him. Maybe she was really supposed to have survived all of that to end up
here. Just like him being repeatedly forced together with Lister. Just like
Kris crossing over and meeting Shayne. Jari was supposed to cross over to
another dimension�to be found�

/�by me? But why me?
Not because�Listy. Think about Listy. I miss you, you
smeghead./

They
only needed to learn what her purpose was. It all came down to that one simple
yet complicated question: why was she so important that she survived? Rimmer had an idea. A possibility.

�Did
you ever think that maybe this is what was supposed to have happened? You can
still succeed in what you planned for yourself. The dimension drive gave you
the opportunity that you needed. It brought you here and you now have the
ability to start over. Your universe is dead. There was nothing for you there.
But look? Look at all the Ace�s out there. Think about what they have done.
Think about what they suggest. Think about all the possibilities. They all
represent a different universe in an infinite number of universes.�

�Well
then pick one and drop me off because I�m tired of this. I don�t have to give
you the reasons because you know why I was in stasis. This is too hard for me.�
She pried herself from Rimmer�s grip and ran out of the room. Surprising
herself, she wasn�t crying. Not even when she made it to her room. For the
first time, since Holly and Kris told her she was the only survivor, she wanted
to be alone. She locked herself in her bunkroom.

****
�Jari?�

�Yes, Sasha?�

�Prepare
for dimension jump.�
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