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    There were times after Rocky moved into the Hail Mary when Grace would be hunched over an experiment, struggling to make things work; struggling to find the solution that Tau Ceti held, then struggling to grow nitrogen-resistant Taumoeba faster. Sometimes he would sit staring at the farm-tanks, slouched in his chair with his hands dangling over his knees, and whisper to himself. “Please,” he would say. “Please, please, please.”

    “Who is Grace talking to?” Rocky had asked in the stilted way he’d been stuck with at the time.

    “No one,” Grace had shrugged. “Or anyone. Anyone who’ll listen.”

    Rocky does not understand humans. But now, he sits on the shore of an infant sea, a brand-new constructed world all around him just waiting for its single lonely occupant to take control of it, and wonders if human senselessness is worth a shot.

    “Please,” he whispers, running his claw through the water. “Please, please, please.”

    The sea does not respond.

    Or, what if your friend accidentally catches the attention of a god in hopes of saving you, and that god falls in love with you instead?

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    Footsteps and shuffling outside the door break Grace out of the uneasy doze he’d fallen into after being shoved into the cell. If he’d known he was going to be detained, he never would have steered the Hail Mary toward the mysterious cobbled-together-looking station hanging in loose orbit above the tiny dark planet.

    Blinking to bring himself to full alertness, he stares dully forward as bodies approach. He knows by now that he can't understand these people. What's the point in saying anything?

    “Hey,” a voice says, low and rough. It’s a new voice, different from the ones who chased him down and threw him in a cell. Grace ignores it. So they're mimicking him now? Great.

    The new person clears their throat, then coughs like it was painful. He hears them muttering something, and a more familiar voice – one of the guards – growls back. Grace listens with everything he has, tuning all the xenolinguistic skills he's learned working with Rocky into the problem, and he still can't tell what the heck they're saying.

    “Hey,” the new voice says again. “Ai, uh...ai herdjer talkin' oldstyle.”

    “...What?” Grace tumbles to his feet and stumbles forward. “What did you say?”

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    Grace's tongue is still coated with toothpaste residue. His whole mouth is minty-fresh, and he spent three hours earlier trying to convince Rocky to let him disconnect the mass spec to see if they could hotwire it to work on the floor, and his stomach is cramping and they're still more than a year away from Erid and he doesn't remember what fresh fruit tastes like and he's tired. He's so tired.

    So he doesn't notice, at first, when things start to go to hell.

    “He's talking about my suppressants,” Grace sighs, rinsing his toothbrush off and dropping it in the cup next to Simon's before bringing both hands up to rub over his face. “I ran out ages ago – well, except for a handful to keep in reserve so we can synthesize more when we get to Erid – so my scent's probably changing. It's why I've been so sweaty. It should equalize, soon, or –”

    “Suppressants?” Simon interrupts, and Grace drops his hands to see him backing away, his face contorted in an expression Grace has never seen before, his eyes wide. “Sup- wait. I thought you were a beta. Why would you need suppressants?”

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    I’m gonna kashoot myself if Simon keeps saying sad shit (great fic im having a great time :3)

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    Silently, Grace turns on his haunches and sits heavily on the next step up, staring at the precious, cursed items clenched between his fingers. He’s holding four pale flower petals, two of them streaked with blood, and he knows exactly what this means.

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    I’m kicking my feet and giggling

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    Simon has been on the starship called Hail Mary for nearly a year when Grace walks up to him in the projection room with a bundle of cloth in his arms.

    “Here,” he says, dumping it into Simon's lap before he can move. “Hide this.” And then he walks away.

     

    Or, a Bloodymary Selkie AU

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