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  1. Public Bookmark 70

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    It started out purely out of scientific curiosity. The staring, that is.

    The mutations Simon endured, the teeth, the tongue, the extra bones, the scars on top of his radiation poisoning, the blood- it was all so fascinating, and Grace would always be a scientist by heart.

    As they got to know each other over the weeks on Erid, it occurred to him that the staring might be strange, and he should probably stop. Simon would squirm when Grace stared too long, and ended up looking at him in turn until Grace got the hint and focused on something else. Above all else, he did not want to make Simon uncomfortable.

    It was hard to keep this promise to himself however, because as soon as he'd first seen Simon in his harness framing his broad shoulders and firm, muscled chest, he knew he was a goner.

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    Grace has been having some pent up frustration recently. Good thing Simon’s there to help

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    Grace startles back as if burned, but he can’t go far with Simon’s hold still pressing him down. “Simon, please,” he whispers. “You don’t have to do this.”

    That’s the thing Grace just doesn’t understand. Simon does have to do this. It’s the only way to sooth the itch under his skin, the urge to settle the score one way or another.

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    “Is the alien…dangerous?” he asks slowly.

    “No! No, no he’s my friend, he’s - uh, well, the engineer of the Hail Mary,” says Grace. “Look, I’m just saying that - he’s gonna wake up soon, and we don’t need to tell him about how our first meeting went. We can gloss over the whole ‘tackle me to the ground and scare the daylights out of me’ thing. I won’t tell if you won’t.”

    Simon is 90% sure this is going to come back to bite him in the form of blackmail but he nods anyways, because it sure as hell sounds like Grace is implying Simon will be allowed to stay a while longer.

     

    Rocky sleeps through the absolute shitshow that is Simon and Grace’s first meeting. It’s probably for the best.
    Despite it all, it will be the start of beautiful friendship.

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    “Don’t let the blood get into your ship, okay?”

    That made Grace pause. “What?!”

    “If I die, you have to get my body out of here,” the man pleaded, but Grace had to go. His oxygen was out. The guy would be dead in six minutes. “You have to get me out, even if I’m dead. Hey!”

    “Just hold on!” Grace propelled himself through zero gravity, away from the radio.

    “Don’t leave me here-!” The roar echoed through the ship halls.

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    When Ryland Grace complained about being a little bored, maybe a little lonely, he thought a nostalgic trip around Erid would fix him right up. The last thing he expected was to find deadly space bacteria in deep space and a human. Alive.

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