Please please please can we have some red dwarf stuff 🙏🙏 Just anything rimmer x lister or rimmer x reader pretty please (reader can be gn or male) Thanks 🙏
I love this energy! This is also exactly what I wanted to write when I posted about taking requests. I hope this is okay!!
I apologise it's only short but I wanted to give a taster of my style.
PAIRING= (Pre-accident) Arnold Rimmer x Reader
Arnold J Rimmer, once again, woke up slumped over his desk to the sound of knocking. Regardless of how many times he faced the consequences, he never seemed to learn. For such a military man, he was awfully unorganised sometimes. Slowly, he lifted his head, which seemed heavier than it should have been. It seemed that during the night, multiple sticky notes and revision notes had become plastered to his face. He peeled each one off with a sigh. Glancing over them, it was clear that he had already forgotten what half of it meant. He might as well have written them in Greek.
The knocking came again, gentle and polite. He had forgotten about the knocking.
"Go answer the smegging door, Rimmer!" A groggy voice spoke out from under a pile of blankets in Lister's bunk.
Of course, Arnold had to answer the door. Arnold had to do everything around here. He was expected to clean up, wash up and manage Z-shift. All while his own dreams of becoming an officer were pushed to one side like he was some sort of tradwife. No wonder he kept failing his exams! God, he must have been tired. He always got like this when he was grumpy. Alas, Rimmer stretched his arms, rolled his shoulders back and went to answer the door.
When he saw who it was, all the negativity seemed to leave his body.
"Y/n?" There they stood in their officers' uniform. Hair messy, tie crooked and top button undone. They had a look about them like they were ready for anything, even though it was barely eight in the morning. They smiled, a sight for Arnold's sore eyes.
"Don't act like you weren't expecting me." They giggled, and the all-too-familiar butterflies returned to Rimmer's stomach. That's when they held up three small food containers Arnold hadn't even noticed they were carrying. "I brought breakfast, I was worried you might forget otherwise."
It would be reasonable to say that no one had ever treated Arnold J Rimmer this way before. However, Y/n had always acted like Rimmer was their equal. Unlike all the other stuck-up, trust fund baby, Gap Yah officers, Y/n had never looked down their nose at him. From the very first time that they met on the cramped corridors of Red Dwarf, they had promised to take Rimmer’s valuable list of contributions and complaints into consideration. Not once had they laughed or taken the piss. Y/n had listened, and from then on, they were always happy to see him. Never once did they attempt to run or hide from him as other officers had previously done. If anything, they actively sort him out in order to check on him. He felt honoured Y/n even knew his name. They were living proof that someone out there in the cold, dark universe liked Arnold J Rimmer.
The attention still made Arnold blush, even three years into their relationship.
"So are you going to let me in or are you just going to stand in the doorway, Gandolf?" Before Rimmer could respond, Y/n had already pushed past him in a playful manner. “Gosh, it’s always so cosy in here.” They joked as they beelined to the small table to place two of the three boxes. The third he carried over to the bunk beds.
Climbing the first two steps, they leant towards the pile of blankets and spoke. "Morning, Lister, I brought you some warm vindaloo." A hand emerged from under the pile and took the box with a muffled 'cheers, mate'.
Back on the ground, they stood for a moment in the middle of the room and looked around. His eyes snagged on the desk. "Oh, Arnie, you haven't been studying too hard again, have you?"
Rimmer, who was still standing by a now closed door, could merely shrug. Lingering sleep had really slowed down his brain function.
Y/n's smile never faltered, although Rimmer assumed that they were likely disappointed. However, instead of complaining, they picked up the other two food containers and took a seat on Rimmer's unsurprisingly uncomfortable bed.
"Come sit down, dear. You look exhausted." Arnold could think of nothing better. Their voice was so soft. In a few short strides, he was at the bunks and sat by Y/n's side.
He allowed his head to drop onto their shoulder. At the beginning of their relationship, neither of them would have expected Arnold to initiate such casual physical touch. Now they wished these moments would last forever. Rimmer felt Y/n place a sweet kiss on his head, and he looked up.
"You missed." He stated, trying to crack a smile.
Y/n simply rolled their eyes, "Don't be so soppy. Look, your breakfast is going to get cold. I never know what to get you, so I picked out a variety of Danishes."
They pushed one of the containers into Arnold's lap. Unsure, he opened the lid, and the smell that escaped was heavenly. He did not hesitate to pick one and take his first bite. Maybe sugar-filled pastries weren't the best choice for everyday breakfast, but they were the exact sort of pick-me-up Arnold had been denying himself for months.
He looked up at Y/n again, a surprisingly goofy grin spread across his face. Y/n had already started on their breakfast, but that did not stop Arnold from stealing a kiss.
"What was that for?" They asked.
"Thank you." Arnold never said thank you to anyone else. Y/n knew this.
"Just promise me you will be a bit easier on yourself? You don't deserve to suffer just because of some stupid exam."
After that, they say in silence. Quietly, they finished off their Danish pastries whilst remaining close. They both knew that Arnold would break that promise; he did every week. But Y/n would be there, ready to send him back to bed or provide him with love.
I hope this has been good, feel free to send more requests!!
