Re: water, pirates, shuttles, and trams...but a scorned woman? Ouch

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"HOW COULD YOU?!" she sobbed. "I thought we had something special..."
"Jenny...I..."
"DONT EVEN TRY TO EXPLAIN!!! MEN! You're all as bad as each other!"
Jay, didnt bother to protest, this event had been and gone. He also
knew what came next, last time Jenny had punched him. But he'd worked
out that the apparitions were once more not solid, they could not
make any physical contact with him.
SMACK
Jay looked up from the floor.
He'd worked out wrong.
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It was more or less just before Jenny punched Jay that Mark McJohn
had decided to sortie out from behind the shelter of the stack of
crates in the other corner of the hangar bay. He'd been cowering
there since the Red Dwarf crewmen had make their brief appearance and
blown up a junction box behind McJohn's head before dissapearing
again.
In the time since they had dissapeared, McJohn had seen, or more
accurately he had stolen a fleeting glance at before ducking behind
the crates again, quite a few of the apparitions which were appearing
throughout the ship. Some he recognized, others were unfamiliar to
him but had obviously happened before he'd joined the Dwarf's crew.
One vision, however, terrified him. It was a glimpse of a future
event, and a very unpleasant one at that: his lunatic ex-girlfriend
Nancy Kirshman stepping off a battered shuttlecraft into the hangar
while shouting his name.
Seconds after this vision faded, the wave swept into the hangar
sending Jay flying accross to the edge of the hull. Some of the
water slammed into McJohn as well, blasting him backwards into a
metal bulkhead. Despite the force of the impact, he was only dazed,
and he saw a wet and bedraggled Jay get to his feet across the hangar
from him.
McJohn rushed towards Jay, and actually got to him a few seconds
after Jenny decked him. Despite the shouting Jenny had done, McJohn
had somehow missed every word she had said.
"Jay!" McJohn cried out, "What the smeg's happening?"
"Ow," Jay said a second later and not in response to McJohn's
question.
McJohn started to move to help Jay up, but he got a look at Jenny for
the first time. "Who are you?" he began to ask pointedly, but was cut
off at the beginning of "you" by Jenny's fist.
As McJohn fell backward, he began to regret ever leaving his nice,
comfortable chief engineer's office that he'd been installed in that
morning.
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