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• Bubbles on the Roci by Lupiac1622

  Fandoms: The Expanse (TV), The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  05 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Amos Burton/Original Female Character
  • Amos Burton & Original Female Character
  • Jim Holden/Naomi Nagata
  • Jim Holden & Naomi Nagata
  • original - Relationship
  • Amos Burton
  • Naomi Nagata
  • Jim Holden (The Expanse)
  • Bobbie Draper
  • Clarissa Mao
  • Alex Kamal
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Praxidike Meng
  • Crew of the Rocinante (The Expanse)
  • Post-Book 6: Babylon's Ashes
  • pre-persepolis rising
  • pre-book 7: persepolis rising
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Found Family
  • Mistaken Identity
  • References to Shakespeare
  • The Tempest (Shakespeare) References
  • Canon Compliant
  • Post-Canon
  • Slow Burn
  • enemies to lovers (sort of)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Alien Planet
  • Body Horror (mild)
  • Action/Adventure
  • Humor
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Trauma Recovery
  • Cultural Identity
  • Belt culture
  • class conflict
  • Literary References & Allusions
  • original colony world
  • hard burns
  • Juice - Freeform
  • Injury Recovery
  • Shakespeare but make it Belter
  • Ancient Greek poetry
  • Tattoos
  • Mutual Pining (one of them is oblivious)
  • Amos Burton is a Good Friend
  • POV Amos Burton
  • Roci Fam | Rocinante Crew (The Expanse)
  • Inspired by Beowulf
  • References to Beowulf
  • references to Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Gilgamesh - Freeform
  • references to The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Summary

  Andrine "Andy" Tønne-Lykke has three things going for her: a half-finished epic about Naomi Nagata, her mother's fermented pepper paste, and the worst luck in the Belt.

  After building a theater company on the colony world of Skagafjord, Andy needs one thing to finish her life's work—a ride on the Rocinante. What she gets instead is a one-night stand with a mechanic who turns out to be Amos Burton, a crash course in hard burns, and a front-row seat to something very wrong on an alien swamp world.

  Part literary ambition, part disaster romance, entirely The Expanse.

  She came to write the Belt's first epic. She didn't plan on the mechanic.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  49,610

  Chapters:

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  Kudos:

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