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    Grace is sick. He doesn't want to admit it. He doesn't want to be a burden. So he hides it and tells himself he just needs to finish one more tablet.

    But Simon has spent months learning to read Grace the way Grace read him. And when Simon finds Grace's abandoned thermal blanket and follows the trail of sniffles to a shivering, feverish scientist who can't stop apologizing for feeling things.

    "I've got you" Simon says, pulling Grace into his arms.

     

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    The one where Grace got sick and cries a lot and Simon is an overprotective heating pad.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Simon thought he was going to die in the SM-13. It was a fact written in blood and rust. He would die.

    Until he didn't. He ended up on a pristine ship with an angel and a rock.

    Or, some character study for Simon and Eden

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace was supposed to be doing the dishes.

    He was.

    He was doing the dishes.

    Yep. His hands were in the soapy water and he was definitely touching a plate (maybe it was a bowl…)

    He was definitely doing the dishes and not watching what was happening outside the window.

    Because what was happening was just gardening.

    (Make sure you click the link when it comes up!)

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    05 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 98

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    Simon wasn’t used to affection.

    The last person who had given him anything of the kind was his mother, 20 years ago.

    Cults aren’t very affectionate and prisons certainly are not.

    For more than half of his life, Simon had known nothing but pain. Any hand reaching out was never gentle or soft, but always inflicted pain.

    His own hands weren’t much better. They’d been used for…horrible things.

    Survival things.

    So when Ryland Grace first placed his hand over Simon’s right and only hand, he didn’t think his reaction was wrong.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Grace grabs his glasses and puts them on so he can make sure that the person next to him is Simon. He needs to know that Simon isn't a figment of his imagination.

    His boyfriend's face comes into focus. Simon is more awake each time he blinks, eyes focusing on Grace. Wrinkles of concern settle between his eyebrows and on the top of his nose.

    “Ry?”

    Grace makes out Simon's torso with his hands. Smooth skin. Hair. The dip of his navel. Scar tissue. Nipples. The peaks of a few too many ribs. Simon is real. He's here. Grace didn't just invent him out of loneliness. Grace remembers him. Remembers his body and how it feels.

    “Baby,” Simon says.

    “Sorry. Sorry. I—nightmare.”

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    Or: Grace has a nightmare that he's forgotten Simon.

    Companion piece for Bumps in the Night.

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    05 Jul 2026