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1. The Blood and the Soil by wickerfox_sage

   Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jul 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
   • Eva Stratt
   • Carl (Project Hail Mary 2026)
   • Olesya Ilyukhina
   • Yáo Li-Jie (Project Hail Mary)
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon is From Planet Earth (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Was Raised In a Cult (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has Religious Trauma (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has a Bad Time (Iron Lung)
   • POV The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Simon (Iron Lung) is an engineer
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace is on the Aromantic Asexual Spectrum
   • Ryland Grace Has a Bad Time
   • Scientific Inaccuracies
   • Angst
   • Slow Burn
   • Ryland Grace Uses Creative Cursing Alternatives
   • Demisexual The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace Has PTSD
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • no AI

   Summary

   There was only 20,906 kilograms of Astrophage left.
   It’d taken 1,979,094 kilograms to get here.
   So… there was not enough fuel to go back.
   This was a one-way trip.
   A suicide mission.
   “What the fuck do you mean?” He asked no one, slamming his closed fist on the armrest of his chair. Immediately he regretted it.
   He unclenched his fist, the sting of his nails digging into his palm aching. He exhaled long and slow, then patted at the armrest before lowering himself off the chair and to his knees.
   He, Grace, and their dead crewmate were on a suicide mission, and there was no fuel to go back even if they wanted to.

    
   or the AU where Simon is from Earth, gets thrown into space right alongside Grace, and has the misfortune of waking up a little too early into the mission.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   25,186

   Chapters:

   9/?

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