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1. Dead Hearts by higrace

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

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   04 Jun 2026

   Tags

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   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • author is making up science by the seat of their pants
   • let's smash these worlds together
   • Drug Use
   • Simon swears a normal amount
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Comfort
   • scenes from a biodome
   • science is Grace's coping mechanism
   • Alternating Perspectives
   • unacknowledged power dynamics
   • toilet talk
   • but make it romantic
   • no i will not explain

   Summary

   Grace was a chemistry guy: his world was provable and predictable. Every quantum physicist that Grace knew had a wild-eyed, pulling-my-hair-out kind of energy, so it felt like a very bad sign that the most grounded explanation for Simon's presence here might be "wormholes."

   Grace knocked his glasses off his nose to scrub his eyes, leaving them dangling from one ear. Talking to Simon had given him more questions than answers. What else could he observe about the man? What were the objective facts?

   He picked up his marker and wrote:

   -Handsome

   Really, Grace?

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