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1. Someone You’ve Never Met by Petalabye

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Bullet Train (2022)  

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

   14 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ryland Grace/Tangerine (Bullet Train)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Tangerine (Bullet Train)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Tangerine Lives (Bullet Train)
   • Meet-Cute
   • slight Meet-Ugly
   • Alternate Universe - No Astrophage (Project Hail Mary)
   • Romantic Fluff
   • Romantic Comedy
   • I think so anyway
   • Didn't Know They Were Dating
   • Idiots in Love
   • Tangerine’s love language is paying for shite
   • on his own terms
   • Protective Tangerine
   • British Slang
   • British terms of endearment
   • Nicknames
   • Strangers to Lovers
   • Medium Burn
   • Feelings Realization
   • Love Confessions
   • Getting Together
   • Implied/Referenced Past Violence
   • Mutual Pining
   • Oblivious Ryland Grace
   • Touch-Starved
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Dating Tropes
   • Ryland Grace Is Not Graceful
   • Cute Ryland Grace
   • Tangerine has cuteness aggression
   • he wants to squish Rylands cheeks and shoot anyone who been mean to him
   • Soft Tangerine (Bullet Train)
   • Slight Misunderstandings
   • Light Angst
   • Fluff
   • 4+1
   • Fuck AI
   • just me my dyslexic brain and my slow arse against the world
   • Last chapter has smut for you my fellow freaks
   • Eventual Smut
   • Smut

   Summary

   The brit purses his lips at that before nodding, “Alright, bet.”

   “What?” Ryland asks, looking genuinely confused. The stranger tilts his head, a smile growing on his face. “I’ll take you out to eat.”

   Is this man for real? Ryland blinks slowly over his glasses. “… for real?” Did he hear that correctly?

   Or,

   On a particularly bad day Grace spills coffee on Tangerine, this sets off a series of not-quite dates. An unintentional four times they kind of dated, plus the one time it was real.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   4,060

   Chapters:

   1/5

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   Bookmarks:

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