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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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    04 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 61

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    Grace and Simon have ended their stories. Unfortunately, neither of them had their happy ending.
    Grace has found a tentative home on Erid. He's living with his soulmates, Rocky and Adrian. He's saved the stars, set foot on distant worlds... and he's starving. Not even just for food, although that's part of it. His first love was humanity, Earth. He loved science, teaching, and making friends. And now he's 10 years away from it all and desperate for human connection.
    Simon is objectively worse off. His prayer to live was answered by the Blood God, but in its ignorance it did not distinguish between Simon and the rest of the SM-13. He's stuck in a hellish limbo, encased in the mutant tree and fused with the submarine, reliving the horror of the last moments of his life, waiting for freedom.

    Will he get his freedom?

    I know I know. Another "Grace finds Simon floating in space" fic. Listen, I was blissfully ignorant. After consuming some bloodymary fanart I was unwillingly possessed by a hell-creature, vomiting the contents of this fic into my notes app while the Great Unknowable Eye of God beheld me in my stupor. After three days of not eating or sleeping, I returned to consciousness and had to upload this.

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    03 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 93

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    “You built a teleporter?” Grace swallows. “You – did I know you could do that? Did you know you could do that?”

    “Could not do that.” Rocky lowers himself back down, fiddling with the device. “Had theory. Much trial and error. Build long time. Should work.”

    “Should – it should work?” Grace sputters. “You haven't tested it?”

    “Not without you,” Rocky says, as if that should be obvious.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Turns out having been raised in a death cult made you not only weird about sex but also insanely good at sex. Neither Simon nor Grace had any complaints about that.

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    03 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 80

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    Simon gets frustrated with Ryland not picking up on his flirting whatsoever. He decides to do some research on Earth's courting traditions to close the communication gap. Thankfully, Stratt packed the Hail Mary with a copy of the entire internet.

    Hijinks and shenaningans ensue.

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    02 Jul 2026