Leftover Light by atimefeeler
âDonât let the blood get into your ship, okay?â
That made Grace pause. âWhat?!â
âIf I die, you have to get my body out of here,â the man pleaded, but Grace had to go. His oxygen was out. The guy would be dead in six minutes. âYou have to get me out, even if Iâm dead. Hey!â
âJust hold on!â Grace propelled himself through zero gravity, away from the radio.
âDonât leave me here-!â The roar echoed through the ship halls.
When Ryland Grace complained about being a little bored, maybe a little lonely, he thought a nostalgic trip around Erid would fix him right up. The last thing he expected was to find deadly space bacteria in deep space and a human. Alive.
Show me your heart and I'll show you mine by airheadextreme
Itâs been a few years since the Hail Mary succeeded, and now Grace and Rocky are on a mission to help the other affected stars that are being eaten by Astrophage. Theyâve been traveling around the galaxy, letting taumeoba loose on the infected areas, when they run into a strange solar system. Itâs got a planet with a moon that has an ocean full of⌠blood? And whatâs even more strange is what they find on the surface. Or a more fitting description: who they find.
give me your eyes, i need sunshine (we've both been very brave) by Library_of_Gage
You ever see a fly endlessly bumping against a window so you open the window to let it out instead of just getting the swatter like usual. And it's all just on a whim?
So, anyway, Simon somehow finds himself floating in space after screaming at a giant eye in an endless red void.
Grace and Rocky are on the way to Erid when they come across an iron submarine with a dead eel monster hanging off the end.
Simon gets to heal, Grace gets to interact with another human again, and Rocky gets to watch the incredibly awkward courtship rituals of these two disasters (affectionate).
(AKA, it's my turn to play with the BloodyMary boys! :D )
Confirmation Bias by Yaoi_Bill_Nye
Confirmation bias: the human tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information that aligns with our existing beliefs, while ignoring or dismissing evidence that contradicts them.
No matter what Grace tries to tell him, Simon is very sure that the man is divine in nature. It just makes sense.
Simon winds up in The Enclosure, naturally. Grace is super down to have human company on planet Erid, but he really wishes someone would have given him a little bit of warning first. Especially about Simonâs religious cult upbringing â if he had known about that, he maybe could have planned a better-worded greeting that wasnât basically, âBe Not Afraid.â He really set them up for failure with that one.
(Simon thinks he's dead and that Grace as an angel for A While due to continued misunderstandings)
We Found One! by Graves_yard
It was hard to gander how long Grace was on Erid when Simon came along. He could try measuring it out using the Earthâs Gregorian calendar like he did on the Hail Mary, but thatâs when he still had a âlights outâ timer and didnât live on a planet with a very different yearly calendar. Teaching little eridians has forced him to adapt to their schedule more than his.
Where was he going with this?
He still hadnât met him yet.
Or Rocky and other eridians find a wormhole and then an injured human man! They bring him to Erid and quarantine him to get him nice and healthy, but slowly find out heâs much different than their beloved science teacher.