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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    12:

    Ilyukhina and Yao come on up and find Grace in his underwear and Rocky sleeping, freak Grace out and fail to convince him to come down (which they don’t try that hard at anyway)

    Stratt is at NASA and Grace might feel safe

    Rocky POV explained that he came over after both Grace and Adrian died, and is a bit of a grumpy old man. Feeeeeels

    Proposal
    You receive: peace
    Rocky receive: coffee, food, and googly eyes
    Also helooooo Mark!

    Grace is def totally completely calm but knows all the things now, about to talk to NASA again via suit

    Rocky Puppet Show, NASA is shitting themselves because Grace was like dis suit hot imma take it off

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    Two survivors wake up aboard Hail Mary with no memory of how they got there: Dr Ryland Grace, and an engineer called Simon Fleischer. As they navigate their unique situation and the discoveries awaiting them at Tau Ceti, they uncover truths about themselves that would have, perhaps, been better left forgotten.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Simon and Grace wake up, realize together where they are, Grace freaks out and Simon recalls staring at his ass a lot when they were on Stratt's Vatt. Mutual attraction and Simon's decision that pursuing it would be a very very bad idea.

  3. Public Bookmark 69

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    To say that Ryland Grace and Simon of Eden get off on the wrong foot would be the understatement of the century.

    Being rescued didn’t miraculously solve all of Simon’s problems. He has a lot to adjust to. Being a fresh amputee, the stars not being dead, aliens being real, living on an alien planet, having a human neighbor who doesn't want to kill him, trusting in this so-called “reality” that’s too good to be true… yeah, no, making friends isn’t a priority. Exiting survival mode is easier said than done. He barely even knows who he is when he’s not fighting tooth and nail.

    Grace is doing his best not to get attached to the handsome stranger he helped save. Simon may choose to leave Erid once he’s healed. He’s not so desperate for human company that he’d pursue someone who attacked him in their first-ever interaction. He has a good life here on Erid; he totally doesn’t dream of holding another human being’s hand, or being looked at fondly by someone with eyes, or seeing another person’s smile. He has Rocky and Adrian, who are more than enough family for him.

    But who does Simon have, if not Grace?

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    14 Jun 2026

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    (The one where Simon trauma trigger violence trigger grace trauma)

    Simon visits class and it’s super cute! He talks with Grace! Bonding! Until he goes ah shit the first human contract you had in 68 years was me trying to kill you and he shuts down a bit, leaving after revealing his brutal past and title

    Simon: i made quiche fuck you
    Grace: T_T this is one of the best things I have ever tasted lemme tell you about the starving times
    Simon: … shit maybe we’re more alike than i thought
    Simon: i cannot tell him my shit he’s too empathetic and has already been through enough I’ll just be over here having nightmares that I killed him

    Grace is determined to be a passive aggressive petty bench via bringing Simon weekly produce because, yet again, his efforts to connect resulted in triggered trauma and the belief that Simon will never like/trust/think well of him. Also Simon was like “is this a sex thing” and Grace was like “when the hell did I do anything to make you think that. I want dates and times.” Also G is touch-starved and it battles against feeling unsafe with Simons touch and i love it

    Simon see the stars and finally maybe believed that he’s not hallucinating all of this!

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    “What – what?” Colt demands when they turn the corner. Set pieces roll by. Gail keeps pulling until they're in the trailer and the door is shut. Then, like a freak, she pulls at the shades. “Gail, you're doing that thing again.” 

    “What thing?” She peaks behind the blind one more time.

    “The thing you do when you make me think you're about to kill me,” he says, “or tell me that you've killed someone else.”

    OR, Colt Seavers tries to go back to his normal life after his older brother comes back from the dead. Unfortunately, his life is dedicated to fucking him over.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Part 2 of Courtland dropped Claire at Grace’s fic series. FG with PHM happening in background…

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    Sierra Six had ruthlessly culled all of Court from himself, carefully paring away slices of the boy between missions and flinging them behind him to the depths of time, until all that was left was Fitzroy's asset. Could only be the weapon the CIA had invested so much in. But as Claire threw her arms around him in the safe house where Suzanne had stashed her, Six realised that he remembered exactly when he had last been held without the intent to harm.

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    Court Gentry is not used to being in control of his own life, much less someone else's. He doesn't suppose a change in situation is going to lessen the universe's interest in tossing him around like a ragdoll.

    He would be right.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Six said he doesn’t have a secret family and he would not be a good brother before Claire could mention that Grace looks eerily similar. Sore subject. Claire likes school and friends!

    Six enrolled Claire in Ryland’s middle school, Grace and driver became a thing a few years ago and Grace has ✨ trauma✨ from pops and being unable to protect his baby brothers, thinks Six was killed in prison and Colt sent him away after breaking his back (recent). Grace caught driver injured after job gone bad and asked to help, not pressing for truth