Sam

to be loved is to be known

I feel like in the movie so much of Grace and Stratt's strange relationship is a snowball effect of Grace's initial complete obliviousness to who/how powerful she actually is. She doesn't say "I'm the Director of the Petrova Task Force" when she comes to his school, she just says "I'm with the Petrova Task Force." And so at first she's just This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me, and then she kidnaps him again onto the boat and suddenly he's getting shoved in front of a room full of scientists and told to explain the astrophage breeding and oh no oh no now there's EXPECTATIONS, so she stops being This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me and is This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me And Much More Importantly Is The Only Familiar Presence In An Extremely Scary Situation. (Enter instinctively grabbing her hand when she comes to tell him to sit down and also whispering the Venus thing into her ear instead of talking into the microphone.)

im fuckinf cooked these are my doctors bro