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    Ryland Grace loved many things about his life.

    He loved his class. He loved teaching. He loved science. He loved his brother.

    But he did NOT love watching Colt's stunts, as they terrified him greatly, but he still loved his brother enough to come to visit him in Montreal, Canada, for his latest shoot during the summer break. And he did NOT love the annoying actor who started flirting with him the moment they met, just to get under his brother's skin. And he did NOT love how that annoying actor started fawning over him and acting like a totally different person in private.

    (OR: A typical Ryland visits Colt on set, Tom flirts with Ryland to piss Colt off, Tom catches genuine feelings, but doesn't wanna be a soft bitch around his people, so he reserves his genuine and kind character for Ryland in private.)

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    “Let me ensure I understand correctly,” Yao counted slowly on his fingers.

    “Your oldest brother is an alcoholic private detective.”

    “Yeah.”

    “Your second brother killed your abusive father.”

    Grace nodded sleepily. “Self-defense mostly but yeah.”

    “Your third brother is in a committed relationship with a sex doll.”

    “Bianca is very nice

    Yao continued as though he had not heard that.

    “And your twin brother throws himself off buildings

    Grace thought about it. A very long exhausted pause. “…Yeah that about sums it up.”

    Silence again.

    Stratt looked at Yao.

    Yao looked at Stratt.

    The realization passed silently between them with horrifying clarity.

    So Grace—

    This exhausted, socially awkward, disaster of a scientist currently clinging to Eva Stratt like a drowning kitten—

    Was the normal one.

    God help them all.

    Stratt stared down at him for another second before one particular detail from earlier finally circled back around.

    “You slept with Tom Ryder.”

    Grace nodded against her shoulder.

    “Mmhm.”

    “The internationally famous actor.”

    “Yep.”

    “How?”

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    “Always think,” Rocky shifted his ball closer, bumping into Grace’s shoulder. Grace bumped it back, lips quirking up. “Think, think, think. Human brain never shut off. What Grace think about, question?”

    Grace went quiet for a moment and looked away. “Uh, my… ‘mate.’ Back on Earth. I remember I had one.”

    A series of happy little squeaks and chirps erupted from Rocky, his claws waving in frantic little jazz hands. He must have been excited to realize Grace had someone waiting for him back at home. Grace still didn't have the heart to tell him the truth, and likely never would. He shakes the thought away and focuses, eyes half-lidded and flickering back toward Rocky. The display pulled a genuine smile from Grace, though he wasn’t sure there was anything happy about the man back on Earth who grabbed him like a dog.
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    Alternatively, Grace has a flashback and subsequent revelations about himself and the person he was dating back on Earth. It affects him more than he thought it would.

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  4. Public Bookmark 71

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    Sometimes, Carl wonders if he’s a bad person.

    He soothes himself by saying that a bad person wouldn’t wonder if they’re bad; they’d just be bad. But he also knows that’s not a good enough excuse because self-awareness is a curse even bad people have. He thinks, maybe, he’s not a bad person, he’s just someone faced with bad options.

    He knows that Ryland Grace is a good person faced with no options.

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  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    “Doc broke a tube of something, inhaled it, then fell in the middle of the lab. He said it was someone else’s. Smelled sweet.”

    Stratt swears about a paragraph worth of German profanity.

    “You’ve got the shape of it,” Carl says when she’s done. “You know what that was?”

    She presses hard at her temple. “It was an experimental drug to manipulate neurotransmitters,” she spits out, her consonants especially harsh. “Meant to help the crew in their comas by stabilizing hormonal output.”

    “It was supposed to,” Carl echoes. “Does it?”

    When Stratt shakes her head sharply, her hair falls from its loose braid. “The very opposite. It was an abject failure—an aphrodisiac. Very potent.”

    “Uh oh,” Grace says dreamily.

    .....

    When Grace has an accident in the lab and ingests an aphrodisiac, Carl takes him to the only person he knows with a private room. Stratt gets them through it.

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