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  1. 47

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    It's been a long time since Grace has gone into subspace, and it's starting to show its strain. Rocky is worried, so for his sake, Grace decides to try a guided meditation.

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    “Grace pick you name. He say is funny.”
    “What does my name mean in your language?”
    “I tell Grace means stone worker. I lie. It mean special present.”

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    Mary tells you about the journey so far.

    This is a little Mary introspective written as if she were sentient and computers could feel anxiety and imposter syndrome and fall in some kind of confusing love. Or, what if you were a spaceship computer tasked with keeping three astronauts alive and then a couple didn’t make it? You’d probably get really attached to that third one and bend over backward to make him happy and comfortable huh

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    Dr. Ryland Grace is spiraling, and his robot assistants know how to help.

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    If Rocky propositions him during the workday, he makes no such attempt at a performance—or, as Rocky likes to call it, courtship.

    After they determine this is indeed the word Rocky’s using, Grace snorts. “No. Courtship is, like, old-fashioned dating. Very formal old-fashioned dating.”

    “No, no.” Rocky gestures to what he gave Grace. “Is courtship. Trust.”

    “I don’t know what this is, but it’s not courtship!” Grace holds up the honest-to-God padded handcuffs Rocky made for him. They jingle a little. “Explain how this is old-fashioned to you. Quickly.”

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    "Why are you just standing there? Did I..." I cut myself off, rewording. "Did something go wrong with your plan?"

    Rocky tilts back and forth for a second before finally responding, "Grace not begging, question?"

    My mouth drops open, "You want me to beg?"

    "Grace begging like human pet ringing bell. Is next step in my plan."

    OR: Grace assumes that, after the first time Rocky propositioned him, his curiosity was satisfied. Turns out it's quite the opposite.

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    {Also can better see Grace. Study Grace. Understand what Grace fifth limb is.}

    “Woah,” I laughed, “I appreciate it, but that’s… for mating and waste.”

    {I know. Leaky human has many holes to leak from. Never see this one. Has TWO fluids. Interesting. Rocky will study. Answer questions that Grace won’t answer because blood goes to fifth limb and away from stupid squishy human brain. Like now.}

    That jerk was right. I could feel two things at once. Rocky, above me, VERY deliberately pressing his carapace even closer into my body. And the soft, throbbing sensation between my legs, pressing at the fabric of my sweatpants.

    Ohhhh fudge.

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    Rocky and Grace explore each other on their way to Erid with the help of some hot new xenonite technology!

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    "So how humans pick partner?"

    "Well, sexually speaking, I guess a lot of humans go off of looks,” said Grace. “Physical appearance.”

    “Physical appearance!” Rocky was scandalized. “No good. Bad variable. Tell you nothing. Have to run experiment. Have to try.”

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    “I guess, um,” I say, licking my lips as I stall. When did my mouth get so dry? “I don’t know why, don’t ask me why, but… you’re… obviously a lot stronger than me, and I guess that… activated some part of my brain that’s… into that, I guess.” I wring my hands, fussing with the arms of my jumpsuit tied around my waist- anything to avoid looking up at Rocky. “It’s just… been a long time since I’ve, uh. Mated with anyone, on Earth, and I think I’ve just been a bit- frustrated, so my body’s just reacting to whatever it can. Don't- don’t get me wrong, I know it probably doesn’t make a lot of sense, I mean- you could literally crush me if you wanted to, but- for some reason, I… I guess it was just… exciting. To me.” I finish lamely.

    Rocky stares at me, as much as a being with no eyes and 360 degrees of echolocation ability can stare. I am acutely aware that he can hear every beat of my heart, every hitched breath. He can probably sense the pinpricks of sweat that bead on my forehead. I swallow, my heart hammering in my chest at the silence.

    Rocky finally tilts his carapace ever so slightly. “You are aroused by strength in mate, question?”

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    To Grace's knowledge (i.e. the Hail Mary's database, i.e. all of human knowledge), there have never been any studies done to confirm whether ambrein (a derivative of sperm whale digestive secretions!) actually functions as an aphrodisiac in humans or not.

    Well, 15.8 light years from Earth, he's about to find out. Because the cytoplasm of Taumoeba consists in large parts of a triterpene alcohol that is startlingly similar to ambrein — and baby, he's all out of coma slurry.

    Or: The sex pollen amoeba fic you (never) asked for.


    Rocky utters a wordless little trill, half concerned and half curious. Always curious, and why would this be an exception? If anything, this is me conducting a pilot study on the unusual effects of Taumoeba on the human body, and oh is he ever morbidly fascinated by the many things my gross, leaky body does.

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  11. 21

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    Rocky really wishes he could help Grace relax. Unfortunately, they can’t touch. Fortunately, Mary is ready to lend a hand.

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    Rocky states his proposal as soon as Grace has one foot in the ladder, and Grace misses the next rung and almost cracks his head against the side of his bed in shock.

    There is no way Rocky had actually said what Grace thought he heard, just now. “You…you want to what? For science?!”

    Rocky tsks, like Grace has taken the implications way out of proportion. “Experiment,” he stresses. “Logical, methodical experiment. You make it sound… unreasonable.”

    Grace explodes. “Unreasonable! Unreasonable! You want to stick your hand up my ass!”

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    Some things are supposed to stay private.

    For Eridians, heartbeats are not one of them.

    Rocky has data on Grace. Months of it. And the results are...significant.

    Ryland Grace really should stop being in love with his alien best friend. Unless he's prepared to have the worst — and best — time of his life.

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    "Rocky analyze Grace heartbeat. Have months of data. The results are significant. Heart abnormalities correlate with Rocky interactions."

    I groan. Of course he analyzed my heart data! I'm not talking my way out of this. How could I, when it's my heart he can hear?

    "Extra information: Grace heart rate up by 18% when Rocky close."

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    So Grace wants to have the upper hand the next time they fuck. Why does that idea seem so far out of reach? He sticks the pen he’s holding uselessly over a blank piece of paper between his teeth and lightly chews on it, staring at the paper in front of him. The original plan was to brainstorm ways he could catch Rocky off guard, shake him up a bit, and make him regret all those times he called Grace his plaything by using him instead. But he doubts that writing IDEAS FOR DOMMING ROCKY at the top would go over well with Rocky if he found it, and he absolutely would find it some way or another. Grace can hear the chirping of his laughter now.

    (In which Grace wants to be in control for once, Rocky wants the same, but neither of them will admit it.)

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    “Grace?"

    Grace shakes his head, bringing himself back into the moment. “Sorry, Rock. What’d you say?”

    “What Grace want for birthday,” Rocky repeats himself, tone more insistent this time.

    “Y’know,” Grace says, deciding an unrealistic idea is better than no idea at all, “I think I want a hug from my best friend. If you can figure that one out, you’ll never have to get me another birthday gift again.”

    “Rocky will continue to get Grace gifts anyway.” Grace flushes at the declaration, which he does not want to address. Rocky is quiet for a moment after, tapping his claws on the ground in thought. And before Grace can tell him he was just joking, don’t worry about it, just make him some xenonite barbells so he doesn’t lose these muscles so fast, Rocky is perking up and skittering to leave the room again. “Rocky know how to get Grace gift! Will take some time. Late gift. Will make up for it next Earth year.”

    (Or, the one where Rocky's birthday present to Grace ends up getting a little out of hand.)

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    Ryland Grace is a coward. Always has been. He doesn't take risks, and his failed scientific career, failed friendships, and failed romantic life don't prove otherwise. But he saved Rocky, whether that be out of selflessness or the fear of being alone again. He took a risk.

    Grace is glum in the midst of waiting for Taumoeba-06 to evolve (any day now), burdened by loneliness and touch-starvation. Attentive Rocky notices this in Grace's demeanor and checks in on him. Grace confesses how much he misses physical contact and surprisingly discovers the feeling is mutual.

    Rocky engineers a solution. Something that will drastically change the course of their relationship.

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    Rocky engineers a method for him and Grace to hug. This escalates to Rocky pleasuring Grace, a misunderstood confession of love (language barrier), regular physical contact (among other things), and reaching a mutual understanding of what their relationship means.

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    The awareness of time is a delicate thing.

    It is slipping rapidly from Grace's fingers. Grace, who is starving to death, who is still recovering from the most precise amnesia Earth could give him, who turned around and left Earth in the hands of the Beetles save his one dearest companion even though it would kill him, is still a scientist at heart. Scientists solve problems. He finds ways to keep track.

    Rocky wouldn't approve, but what Rocky doesn't know won't hurt him.

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    We’re both compelled to explore exobiology to the furthest possible extent, consent withstanding. It’s very normal, even. People do it all the time.

    Alternately: "Grace show hole, command."

    Or a thinly veiled excuse to write Grace and Rocky going at it.

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    Rocky leans in, so their carapace is almost all Grace can see. “Grace needs to use his words.” The notes are so deep and bassy that the translation software struggles to pick them up, but Grace manages to make them out.

    “Rock— please,” he’s pleading now.

    He can hear the satisfaction mixed together with the same unplaceable tone from earlier, can feel it in the way the vibrations reverberate through the rock into him. Grace feels it in his bones, right down to his core. “Use right words.

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    “No.” Rocky said, cutting Grace off. “Grace big.” His carapace did a slow tilt in a very pointed ‘look down’ kind of motion.

    Grace swallowed hard and looked away from Rocky with another laugh, albeit more awkward and forced than before as he reached for the pipette.

    “That’s kinda something you’re supposed to pretend you haven’t noticed, pal.” He said stiffly and adjusted his weight on the chair. Maybe if he just silently acknowledged and made peace with how pink his face was it would go away.

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    or, alternatively: grace has a massive dick. rocky is ovulating and horny about it.

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