The Last Woman

Ace

Zora shoved a few cushions off of her the next morning. It was still very dark in the room. The projector was switched off and then was a slight mess of popcorn and sweets accompanied by empty glasses and bottles.

"Good morning." Zora knew Rimmer was smiling without even looking up at the hologram.

"Sleep well?" She questioned sighing happily.

"Yes surprisingly. Even though there's a small heavy thing on top of me," Rimmer teased.

Zora sat up on Rimmer's legs and looked him dead in the eyes. He had the decency to at least look a little nervous.

"Arnold Judas Rimmer. Did you just call me heavy and short in the same sentence?" The green-haired woman questioned.

"...maybe not my best decision..."

Zora just laughed at the worried expression on his face.

"You're not wrong. So I'll let it slide." Zora smiled before leaning down to kiss him on the nose and then the cheek in a slightly teasing fashion and just as she leant in close to his lips... Another alarm went off but this time it wasn't a fire alarm.

"Emergency! There's an emergency going on!"

"I swear we better be about to explode!" Zora exclaimed. Then groaned and rolled off onto the floor.

Again Rimmer laughed at the woman's antics before helping her to her feet.

"Come on. We don't exactly want to leave our lives in Lister and The Cats hands," He reasoned.

"Oh God no." Zora agreed and they headed off down the corridors to the bridge.

Zora always loved wandering the corridors of Red Dwarf. It was just so massive that she still hadn't run out of places to explore. Not to mention that most things on Red Dwarf were far more advanced than anything she had had on the Solaris. She decided that she would continue her wandering but would have to drag Rimmer along with her too.

By the time Zora and Rimmer had found the rest of the Dwarf Posse it alarms had ceased and the pair had reluctantly let go of each other's hands not quite ready for any comments the others may have.

But they soon noticed that they were in the company of four others rather than three.

Rimmer groaned audibly in annoyance at the sight of the new man whilst Zora just stared in utter confusion.

"Please tell me I haven't gone mad and am now seeing two Rimmers?" She finally spoke eyeing the other man with complete confusion written on her face.

"The name's Ace Miss," The man said in a charming manner holding his hand out to her with a smile.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ace. I'm Zora." She placed her hand in his but was surprised when he moved it gently towards him and placed a gentle kiss on the back of her hand.

Zora couldn't see from when she stood but Rimmer looked furious and a little hurt at the same time. Seeing Ace charm Zora the way he had charmed everyone else so easily.

"However that still doesn't explain why you look exactly like Rimmer," Zora added eager to take her hand away. Despite trying to keep her cool a small tinge of pink filled her cheek which didn't go unnoticed. Zora still wasn't quite used to being treated like that. Thankfully the green-haired woman found something to take her mind off it quite quickly.

"Yes well, that does require a bit of explanation."

"Well, why don't you explain it to me whilst I fix your arm. You may be putting on a brave face but I can see you've injured it," Zora replied much to Rimmer's dismay. He wanted nothing more than to grab Zora and drag her as far away from his alternate dimension self as he possibly could.