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Almost like putting a tone indicator at the end that just says he adores him or something. Grace is sweet he can’t help it. He switches to frustration v fast when Grace is being an idiot and not taking care of himself, but his name stays the same.

Except everyone figures it out in a few weeks cause there's no way the wet puppy science guy of Eva stratt suddenly becomes way more confident, started to accompany the astronauts in their training and actually could keep up with yao in piloting, could balance himself and put on the EVA suit perfectly. And suddenly starting to suggest creating a prob that could get Inside a planets atmosphere to collect samples

Adrian (carrying Grace over their head): Here he comes!

Rocky: I want to see my little boy!

a curiosity

Esspecially rocky and simon. Yall be writing rocky walking around Erid all puffed chest and proudly announcing that he has mated Grace 'so fuck you guys hes mine offically now. Too late for you losers' while Adrian is trailing behind also smug but in a less openly brag and more 'Oh, the alien? You mean my mate?'

You got Carl whole ass preening at the idea of being Graces baby daddy and being utterly prideful to have the rights of bending him over. He's so smug like 'ah yes I was able to bag the weird genuis school teacher, 😎'

And then ussually Simon is either written like a sly little nasty mongrel who just got away with breeding a purebred show poodle or thinks of himself so little that having the bragging rights to having gotten Grace is monumental to his entire bloodline. Like he would go back to eden just to shove it in their faces that he IS capable of being loved 'So fuck you!!'

And then you have Tom fucking Ryder being on social media constantly posting Ryland (even if theyre not together anymore LMAO) with captians like 'My boo thang❤️‍🔥' or just 'He dosn't know it yet but Im gonna put a ring on that finger💍'

Colt, texting Grace: Did you get engaged and not tell me? *shows him the post*

Grace, who broke up with Tom 5 years ago, had no clue what so ever about the post because he has Tom blocked, and now multiple people are messaging him about the wedding: ?? Is that a threat?

Im coming to the conclusion that Grace is a trophy wife. In the sense he has a display case full of scientific awards and everyone wants to show him off.

so it starts with your typical some Eridians on a space mission somehow find Simon and rescue him, and then Rocky is very excited bc new human for grace good good good

but then Rocky thinks like wait, he could be Grace's mate, they are both human ofc they can be mates so he makes his mission to make Simon presentable enough for Grace

and so he doesn't tell Grace about Simon and him and the eridians take care of him like cleaning him up, healing all that stuff

eventually Simon wakes up and at first freaks out bc first he was dying and then he's not and now a bunch of alien rocks are all over him you know the usual it takes him a while to get used to it but eventually is like ykw at least i'm alive and they are not hurting me and are feedind me wahtever i'm out of the submarine

rocky somehow manage to have grace give him the translator so he can comunicate with simon and one day they are talking and simon says something like

"i don't understand why are you taking so much care of me"

and rocky of course just says "so you can meet grace and be grace mate, you must be grace's partner yes yes yes"

but doesn't explains that grace is another human so simon is like what.the.fuck they are going to make marry a rock oh god

but eventually he's like "ok fuck whatever i'll marry the rock who cares as long as they keep me here"

so FINALLY time comes simon looks good enough for rocky and so they go meet grace and all the time simon is like "wow where did all this ocean come from tf this is actually pretty nice and what is that a house why would this guys need a house this is weird" and then rocky calls grace and the door opens and simon is fully expecting to see another spider rock who's going to be his spouse now and boom it's another human but not just that is the most beautiful blonde blue eyed man he's ever seen and it's completely at loss for words and rocky is just explaining to grace that "this is simon, simon new human for grace, simon grace new partner" and grace only reaction is like "ROCKY WHAT THE HELL"

anyways if somebody know a fic that is similar uuh pls give me a link

But for a few years (cough, decades, cough), a baby pebble is about as hard as a soft-shelled turtle—or a normal turtle, if they're a bit older. Disadvantages aside, there is an advantage to being able to see your offspring's internal functions. And until their vocal bladders form and they're capable of making multiple complex sounds, being able to see what is hurting is absolutely helpful.

It's a universal experience among parents to lament the day they can no longer hear their pebbles' heartbeats.

That is to say, Rocky knows Grace is an adult, okay? He isn't someone who anthropomorphizes, and he isn't going to start now. Statement.

But when he first heard Grace in all his squishy glory— heart pumping away, lungs filling and deflating, organs digesting food— his brain went full baby-fever mode. Frankly, he was white-knuckling the urge to find the nearest hypothetical cave, bundle him up into a proper nest, and wait for his skin to absorb the surrounding minerals and start hardening properly.

But because Rocky is sensible and proper and not going to infantilize his best friend (he swears to God, stupid fucking instincts, shut the fuck up!!), he won't.

But sometimes the urge to squish his best friend is overwhelming. He just pinches at him through the permeable mesh of his ball. And Grace will screw up his face (so soft) and go what’s up bud? I piss you off or something? (He learns what bruises are and sulks for half a day afterward.)

All of that aside, once again, Rocky has gotten used to Grace's heartbeat, his clumsiness, and his one-tone voice. That's his best friend, and he's smart and just as capable as any other adult. He is also the cutest fucking thing to Eridian hearing. Is he also disconcertingly alien, definitely— His size, the limbs, the head protrusion (and other protrusions), the leakiness detracted maybe. But his cluster-sibling once cooed at and brought home a pet sulphur slug because, oh my spirits, hear his squishy respiratory system and you tell me that's not the cutest thing on the planet! It blurbles, Rocky! It fucking blurbles!

So, as Erid draws closer and Rocky/Grace become more excited and stressed. (The food has yet to run out, and as good as Erid is, they need substantial help from the human side to figure out how to make proper human nutrition. And finding the right informational packs in all of human knowledge is a very big undertaking.)

It isn't until he overhears a cluster of new parents talking to their pebbles that it clicks. Adrian speaks to him like a child -- not in the talking-down-to-him or patronizing way (at least. not very often.) -- but like he is something precious and fragile, that needs teaching and is worth protecting.

On his first excursion out of his biodome and through Erid (because of course they made him his own xenonite suit) with Rocky and Adrian, they get approached by many other Eridians who have heard of Grace. They coo some and praise the human, and add a congratulations to Rocky and Adrian at the end. It takes this happening a few times before Grace picks out the Eridian word for baby or child in the congratulations, and he’s ECSTATIC, making the assumption that his friends must be having a baby. Of course, he has some questions like “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” and “Why does everyone know but me?” and “When will they be here?” and “Actually, how do Eridians reproduce?”. During his barrage of questions, Rocky and Adrian are speaking to each other in low tones, trying to figure out the best way to tell Grace that the name he uses for introductions and official matters translates to Grace, Child of Rocky and Adrian, Teacher and Savior of the Stars.

and in your weakest state, trying to help save the earth and all of her life, the life that literally brought you into existence, that life turns on you. that you only really remember who you are while running away, memories and Knowledge leaking back into your human body

imagine fighting so desperately and the humans you were just working with to save the world pin you down and try to force you onto a ship

and they don't understand why you're fighting so desperately. they can't fathom why you're screaming and wailing, terrified at the thought of being forced away from everything that makes you up and everything that gives you meaning, farther than you've ever been before. they don't understand that in this weakened state, you can't make it back to them, you can't get back to earth, not without somehow regaining strength

and you fight so hard and in the end it means nothing because the humans swarm you, jabbing needle after needle into your flesh, the flesh you're trapped within, until finally your eyes close