The Last Woman

Game Night

Zora was lying on her bed various tools were scattered about the bed as she fiddled around with one of the extra light bee's stored onboard. She had spent the last five hours cutting and rewiring and testing various things. Well, that was until the Cat came bursting through the door.

"Hey there gorgeous," Cat chimed with his signature grin.

"Hi Cat," Zora replied with a sigh and rolling over into her back with her head dangling over the edge so she was looking at Cat upside down with her hair dangling onto the floor.

"The monkey and I were going to have a game night. We wanted to know if you wanted to join," He explained still smiling.

"And?" She crossed her arms and stared up at her feline friend as she tipped a little further over the edge of the bed.

"And I wanted to borrow that red leather jacket," He added.

"You can borrow my red leather jacket if you bring back the red and black blazer you stole from my quarters last week. And you have to bring the blazer back first or else I'll be stealing some of your favourite clothes and never giving them back," She threatened.

"You know for a beautiful lady you can be very mean," The Cat observed.

"Believe it or not I can be meaner, so shoo. I'll meet you in the monkey's quarters in the next hour for game night okay?"

The Cat screeched leaving the room and Zora attempted to sit back up onto the bed only to fail and slip further over.

"If I didn't know any better Zora, I'd say you were stuck." Rimmer stood in the doorway, arms folded, with a grin on his face as he watched the former Captain of the Solaris.

"I'm not stuck!" She protested. Then struggled a few more times before sighing heavily and reaching her hands to the floor and flipping her legs over her head with very little grace. She landed on her feet with a thud and stood up brushing herself off. "See, not stuck," She smiled.

Rimmer was too busy laughing at her to pay much attention.

"Smeg head," Zora mumbled attempting to straighten out her hair that had fallen awarded in random directions.

"Well, that's just rude."

"Stating facts is hardly rude, Arnold," She corrected with a grin as she began to collect up the various things she had been working on and safely store them away in the trunk that was settled in the far corner.

Usually, Zora would have expected to see Rimmer glaring at her or throwing back some insult or another as he usually would but he wasn't. He was too busy starting curious at the box where he had seen Zora place a light bee so similar to his own.

"What's that for?" He asked stepping into the room a little.

"Oh, um. Just something I'm tinkering with. I was thinking that I could use one of the light bees to make some sort of projectable computer. Not sure how useful it will be but it's something to do," She shrugged straightening out the red one-shoulder t-shirt she was wearing as she tried not to make eye contact with the hologram.

"Sounds interesting," Rimmer mused. "Need any help?" He offered.

Zora shook her head lightly.
"Not with this particular project but I've got others I want to start soon that you can help me with," She added quickly with a smile hoping Rimmer wouldn't be disappointed with her answer.

The hologram didn't get much of a chance to reply as the Cat burst back in brandishing the black and red blazer.

"I got it, I got it. Now give me the jacket," He chorused.