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1. all my love and terror balanced there between those eyes by catalystchance

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

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

   21 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Slow Burn
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • They are both so traumatized
   • this started as a single idea and morphed into a super long fic
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon Has Trust Issues (Iron Lung)
   • POV The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • POV Alternating
   • but lowkey might not alternate every single chapter later on
   • that’s just how it’s been going so far
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   in which Simon lives on Erid before Grace and Rocky return, and is cared for by Adrian.

   now Adrian and Rocky have to try to introduce their humans to each other.

   - - -
   (this started off as a smaller fic and now it is going to be sooo many chapters and i’m not sorry)

   previously titled “Bit of a Fixer-Upper”, but decided that would serve better as a seperate fic!
   new title comes from abstract (psychopomp) by Hozier!

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   English

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