Some whump for lunch:
Something I have not yet seen people consider, despite some of the beautiful science people have added into their fanworks, is that fresh outta the submarine nasty blood-covered Simon doesn't just look a trash panda that carries various diseases, but he actually might be the carrier of some dormant infection or other
And that Grace, in his panic and joy of finding another person in literal space that may or may not be dying in his med bay right now, forgets proper quarantine and safety precautions. Forgets about virgin soil epidemics and the likes, focusing all his energy on saving the only other person on this plane
Perhaps it's just the flu or its Edenian equivalent, ultimately harmless to anyone back on the station and Simon himself, but Grace with his delicate American immune system after years of isolation?
He is gonna get his shit wrecked. I'm saying fever ramblings, splitting headaches, being so so weak, the whole nine yards And it'll up to a still traumatized Simon and a whole gaggle of Eridian scientists to keep Grace from dying while they barely got to know each other so far. But a life debt is a life debt and Simon will not lose the one good thing he got going on in years so soon after getting it
