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1. the cost of perfection (but what am i without it) by bxkubro

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), The Fall Guy (2024), The Gray Man (2022)  

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   20 Aug 2026

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   • Ryland Grace & Colt Seavers & Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry
   • Ryland Grace & Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry
   • Ryland Grace
   • Colt Seavers
   • Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry
   • Mentioned Dan Tucker
   • Ryland Grace Needs a Hug
   • Ryland Grace and Colt Seavers are Twins
   • Ryland Grace and Colt Seavers and Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry Are Siblings
   • Older Sibling Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry
   • Good Sibling Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry
   • Sierra Six | Courtland Gentry Needs a Hug
   • Family
   • Family Bonding
   • Family Feels
   • Sibling Bonding
   • Brothers
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Vulnerability
   • Coming of Age
   • Struggling Ryland Grace
   • Talking About Feelings
   • Light Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Brotherly Bonding
   • Brotherly Affection
   • the angst that comes with senior year of high school
   • Coltland Gentry AU
   • Lots of Crying
   • Hiding Feelings
   • high school party
   • Underage Drinking
   • Arguing
   • no beta reader we die like real men so if you see any errors do me a solid and pretend they don't exist

   Summary

   the only thing ryland gentry was good at besides science was making good decisions, not making mistakes, and he prioritized that over everything else. maybe this mindset overtook his life enough for him to get to senior year without really learning how to make friends and he was now headed to college, alone, to most likely do the same thing, sure, but he liked being perfect. he had to be perfect to be worth something, right?

   well, someone has to be there to catch him when he slips, and it was always going to be his older brother courtland.

   AKA: colt convinces ryland to go to his first and only high school party over christmas break before they graduate. ryland, now drunk and left alone, is NOT having a good time, so he decides to call courtland to come pick him up. arguing via a nokia cell phone and emotional conversations about expectations and self worth ensue.

   Series

   • Part 1 of a phone call away

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   English

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