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"Second human! Second human, simon!"
Simon heard rocky yelling, the yelling progressively getting louder as he got closer to the door from the outside.
Simon opened the door and saw rocky in his suit, using very aggressive body language, as if to tell Simon something
"What is it rock?"
Simon asked, leaning against the door frame, listening to rockys protests
"When grace last sleep!? Question. Grace been in his lab in same spot for 3 earth day and nights! I made you two house to be comfortable and sleep, and all he does is not listen!!!"
"Calm down rock, I checked in on him a few hours ago and he was knocked out, he got a few hours of rest, let him do his experiments"
"Ugh! Simon no help, rocky have to care about his aliens so hard and all they are is no help!!"
Rocky continued letting out his annoyed sounds, lecturing Simon to go make Grace sleep
"Okay! Fine, I'll go get him"
Simon said before walking out of the house, making sure to close the door behind him before walking over to Grace's lab, which looked more like a backyard shed with a big window for a nice view.
"RYLAND GRACE"
Simon yelled, opening the door to the shed, startling Grace in the process
"Simon! How many times have I told you not to barge in like that when you know I'm in the middle of something!"
Grace had shout out to Simon, though Simon completely ignored Grace and walked up to him and the table next to him, with Grace facing away from the table, Simon practically had him pinned there, his real and mechanical arm resting on the table as he leaned into Grace's face
"Ry"
"si.."
"What happens to the human brain when it tries to work without sufficient rest?"
"I dont know what your talking about si, and back up, t-too close"
Grace said, deflecting the question and using one of his hands to keep space between Simon's and his faces, the back of his hand on his own mouth, trying to look away
"Dont deflect, tell me what happens"
"Well..most of the time without sufficient sleep, the human brain struggles to process information, and regulate emotions.."
"So somebody trying to research and find information on something with a lack of sleep seems silly right?"
"Um..I guess..?"
"Ryland, you've been in this lab for 3 days now, so you can either walk with me back to the house, or I can drag you out of here myself"
Simon said to him, giving Grace a stern look.
"I'm not done with my study, I'll go back to the house when I'm done"
Simon's face showed blatant annoyance, while Grace tried to convince Simon to leave him alone
"Your really gonna make me do this?"
"You won't do anything"
Simon's brow raised, as if asking Grace silently if he was actually gonna try to test him
"You wanna try?"
Grace quickly tried lower himself out of Simon's arms, trying to escape through the side, beside Simon's leg, before he noticed, he felt Simon's leg moved front to keep him there
"Really Nova?"
Is all grace heard before he was picked up by Simon, trying to maneuver his way from his arms, flailing around, trying to 'reason' with Simon.
The blush on Grace's face from the nickname Simon gave him had distracted him enough to be picked up, though he wasn't gonna go down without a fight,
Simon knew about Grace's experiences with being held against his will, so he kept grace in a bridal position, and if Grace really felt uncomfortable with it, he knew he could easily fight himself off.
But it was almost like Grace knew he needed this
"Simon! Put me down! I'll sleep after I'm finished!! I need to figure out how-"
He was cut off by Simon nudging his head towards the house door, not even realizing they had made it out of the lab
"Open"
"Exuse me?"
"I'm holding you with both arms, if I try to move my fake one you'll fall from being uneven, if I try to move my real one, my fake one will fall from the pressure change and then I'll drop you"
Grace looked at Simon.
Simon looked at grace.
Grace looked at simon again, sighed, and opened the door for him.
"Absolutely no reason for you to pull me out of my lab like that"
Grace continued complaining, crossing his arms even to show his displeased attitude toward Simon, who continued to walk to Grace's room, listening to his protests. But Simon could hear the tiredness in his voice, which made himself a little upset that he didn't check in on him sooner
"Hey Ry?"
"Mmh?"
"Whats with you and not listening to your body?"
"Thats..kind of personal don't you think?"
"Sorry..just wondering, cuz you do this all the time...but usually rocky'z able to get you to sleep, why don't you listen to us?"
"Well..I've always had a hard time sleeping, even on earth, I always had terrible Nightmares and found the fact I had to be completely unconscious and unaware of body for hours at a time...unnerving I suppose...."
"Yeah but, you know we wouldn't do anything to hurt you..right? Your literally in the safest place ever"
"I mean, I know that, I just..my brain brings up old memories and that plus sleep paralysis...not a good mix-"
"Sleep paralysis? How long has that been happening, why not tell me Ry?"
"Since..hail mary"
Simon had a sort of worrying look on his face, but Grace hadn't noticed, he was to busy dealing with his sleepiness, the feeling of Simon holding him gently mixed with the dark atmosphere of their house made the wave of all of his stress and worries about his 'new discovery' wash over him, and finally let him experience tiredness
Simon let Grace down onto their shared bed gently.
"Have enough energy to change?"
"Less change, more just getting out of these clothes"
"Still don't understand how you just sleep in boxers.."
Simon stated, laughing a bit, before running his hand through Grace's hair, scratching behind his ear a little, and his reaction was almost cat like, making a relaxing sound come from him
"Alright, arms up Angel"
Grace followed what Simon had said, letting him take Grace's shirt off, though he was able to take his pants off himself
"Cuddle.." Grace said, almost pathetically, but Simon couldn't help but see it as adorable
"Of course honey.." He said before giving a kiss to Grace's head, taking his glasses off and setting them on his nightstand, and finally getting in bed with him to cuddle up and keep him there.
He wasn't allowed up for the next two days, only getting up for meals(freshly cooked by Simon) or being forced to drink water