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Chasing Vulpine by veighla
Fandoms: Drive (2011), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
22 Aug 2026
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Summary
It doesn’t really matter what happened.
It’s never about that.
It’s the fallout that matters—the reaction.
You can hit two kids just as hard and fast as the other and break only one of ‘em. So really it doesn’t matter if he got hit or when or how hard. He was only ever gonna turn out one way.
It wasn’t anything but what was in him that did it. Something in his chemical makeup. Flammable. Reactive. It was bound to be set off eventually. Maybe one day that pretty science teacher could tell him what it was.
Maybe he could take him apart and tell him just why everything made him fucking burn.
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Driver flees from LA before pulling over to bleed out on some residential street in San Fransico. Unfortunately for him, a certain middle school science teacher just so happens to be coming out of his apartment at just the wrong time. All it takes is a few questions and a few well-intentioned lies before Dr. Grace is caught in the animal eye of this one very strange stranger.