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1. Pull Me Out by thendpoem

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   30 May 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon Lives (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Needs a Hug (Iron Lung)
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Protective Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky are Best Friends
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Vomiting
   • Medical Procedures
   • Blood and Injury
   • Eden is a Cult (Iron Lung)

   Summary

   Grace finds himself, no longer busy, standing listlessly at Simon's bedside again. Reaching for his wrist to feel his pulse. It's an odd sort of tactile comfort. An additional confirmation that he's alive, he's fine - even if the monitor plainly displays it. Just the contact is nice, even through the bandages (which are less bloody, Armando must've changed them).

   It sends an odd thrill up Grace's spine. A weird giddiness. Makes him lightheaded. Buzzes beneath his skin. Pathetic, right? That's how he feels despite how well he knows that humans are social creatures and, by nature, require physical contact. Touch is something he's been deprived of. Severely. And now Simon is just miraculously here, with warm skin and blood in his vessels and a steady heart rate.

   —

   Or, Grace deals with everything that comes with having another person aboard the Hail Mary. Another person who showed up without any logical explanation, severely injured and afraid.

   Series

   • Part 2 of I Won't Quit On You

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