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Stuck In The Middle With You

Summary:

Grace can’t wake his crewmate from her coma. Rocky saves the day… and quite literally her life.

Grace and Finch find themselves on the Hail Mary without their memories, but with one common goal: save the stars. Neither of them expect to find a home in Rocky or for their love for him to bring them closer. As they learn more about themselves, their mission, and how they lost their memories, they quickly realize that neither of them are equipped to deal with the growing comfort they find in each other.

Rocky, of course, notices.

Notes:

welcome to a found family romance between grace and finch, an oc engineer for the crew of the hail mary.

i use a combination of movie and book events and rocky is present throughout. i keep things mostly canon compliant aside from one small divergence regarding ilyukhina, but this is explored within the fic itself so it's not glossed over. this fic will likely be at 100k+ words by the time i finish. you can also find this fic on wattpad if you'd be kind enough to vote there. i hope you enjoy!

a wip playlist for the fanfic, songs in timeline order as well as songs for future chapters: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mL0JDJ1OqcH79LCV1fd1K?si=36d9808d6f3a48d6

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Welcome to Wikipedia! This chapter is an exploration of the characters in this story and a deep dive into the narrative fed to the public about the mission. The files below hold all the publicly known information about the Hail Mary crew after the beetles return to Earth, while this story starts after Grace meets Rocky. Keep in mind that what you read below might not be the whole story, or at least not the one approved for the public. You'll have to read the story to find out what really happened...

You do not have to read these files to understand the fic. In fact, I'd recommend reading a few chapters and then coming back here once you want to learn a little more about the characters in depth. Feel free to skip ahead to the story!


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this file will be added to with time. 
coming next: rocky, then yao.

small details in this file are likely to change once i settle on dates and times for the sequels i'm planning because i have the numbers disorder and i don't like them. i'm using 2026 as the launch period for the hail mary mission for now. i will likely mess around with grace and finch's ages also, so please don't take their birth dates/years as hard fact until i specify that i've settled on these dates for good.

all put together with photoshop, including finch's headshot manip. i didn't edit her nameplate because i'm not that skilled, sorry!

the details in this file are my own personal headcanons, so not everything is canon. please do not repost any part of this file elsewhere. you can reblog these graphics at teaseawrites on tumblr!

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