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    "You called me psychotic", Ryder says, "when I first met you."

    Ryland frowns. It’s not the answer he expected. “I think you’ve got a screw loose."

    There is laughter in Ryder’s eyes.

    “You done talking yet?” he asks.

    "Maybe."

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    or,

    Ryland Grace doesn't really do sex. Tom Ryder doesn't really do feelings. And yet.

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    13 Jul 2026

  2. Rec *

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    He cannot believe how enticing the idea is to go from being a degree-holding microbiologist expected to know everything to just some random hook-up tripping out of a trailer on a film set with crooked glasses.

    or, after being fired, Ryland needs a break... so, he goes to visit his brother on set and realizes he needs something else too.

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    13 Jul 2026

  3. Rec 42

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    Near the end of the trip to Erid, Rocky realizes he has a life-threatening Problem with a capital "P."

    Grace has an idea and offers a solution.

    (Or, Rocky and Grace are both low-key disasters but high-key ride or die for each other, as in canon. This one-shot just happens to take it even more literally than normal.)

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    11 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 21

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    “You admit you liked Rocky watching,” he says, the vibrations of his voice low enough to feel through the barrier. I place my hand against it to feel them better. “Let Rocky watch again. Let Rocky help.”

    “How?” I find myself asking, my voice hesitant. “How are you going to help?”

    Rocky purrs, the sound making goosebumps rise on my arms, a shiver running down my spine.

    “Does Grace trust Rocky?”

    “Yes.”

    Or:

    Grace and Rocky finally come to terms with their relationship

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    11 Jul 2026

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    "You can literally hear inside me when you focus, bud. Has observing the action of my gallbladder in HD made you think less of me as a person, or humanity as a whole?"

    [Yes,] Rocky says without hesitation, which makes Grace choke on a laugh. He amends, […at first. Then I get used to. Kind of cute now. Humans need infinity liquids to do basic process, always new mucus…]

    "I bet I'm gonna find your ultra-high-temp organs super cute too," Grace offers with an irrepressible grin, "and actually, okay, this strikes me as a morale problem. You're getting too down on yourself. I promise you there is nothing I could find rearranging your—" Nope. "—digging around in there that would shame the entire Eridian race."

    [No way for you to know this,] Rocky says flatly.

    "There definitely is, because I'm gonna shame the entire human race first."

    This is how they spend the next three days on the glove box addition while Mary reads to them from the unreleased 2021 NEISS report, filtered by incidents requiring extraction of foreign objects from the 'lower trunk' or 'pubic region'.

    (or, Rocky eats something inedible. Grace helps. They both get Really Weird About It.)

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    10 Jul 2026