Merpetail



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    Leon shuddered a breath out of his frozen lungs and asked numbly, “Why do you hate me?”

     

    There was a quiet more invasive than the deadly silence of the world beyond the walls protecting them and Leon hated himself for being so stupid— stupid fucking Kennedy saying shit he wasn’t supposed to say— fumbling for a way to cover up his fuck up, when Chris’s low voice broke the silence, saying, “I don’t hate you, Leon. I never have.”

     

    “Liar,” Leon accused softly into the darkness of their warm refuge. “You’re a f-fucking liar.”

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    Chris scowled and crossed his arms over his chest, certain he looked absurd. A huge man still in his uniform and gear, sitting in a small chair in a tiny office. His biceps were the size of O’Brian’s computer. “I did what I had to do to get the job done.”
     
    “And that’s all we ever expect,” O’Brian replied. “Regardless, people saw. People took notice. People who decided you’d be the best person to keep Agent Kennedy on a leash and controlled.”

    “What the fuck is he doing?”

    O’Brian paused. “I’m assuming you haven’t heard, then.”

    “Heard what?”

    “Sherry Birkin is dead.”

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    Captain Simon Park and his crew agree to kidnap Lord Ryland Grace for ransom.

    It ought to be simple enough: take the supposedly sickly heir from his father’s estate, keep him safely aboard the Iron Starling for a handful of weeks, and return him once Count Grace decides his only son is worth paying for.

    Except Ryland is neither sickly nor difficult. He is polite, capable, strangely resigned to his own captivity—and, before long, slipping into lessons beneath the open sky, shared meals, borrowed names, and the quiet rituals of a crew that has made a family out of the unwanted.

    Then the ransom goes unanswered.

    And Simon begins to wonder whether anyone ashore ever intended for Lord Ryland Grace to come home at all.

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    “You live in an enclosure,” the man said. There was no venom in his voice. He was just stating a fact.

    “Yeah, but… it’s nice. I have just about anything I could ever ask for. And back on Earth, well… there’s nothing for me there now.”

    A new human, inexplicably, shows up on Erid, and Ryland Grace has to remember how to be a good host. Considering he hasn’t seen another human in about a decade, and this human is both distractingly handsome and incredibly traumatized, it’s safe to say that this might be a challenge… especially with Ryland still working through his own issues, even all these years later.

    But he saved the entire world, so, how hard could it be to save one more man?

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    With Trucy at rehearsal, Phoenix gets a night to himself. Miles unexpectedly turns up and they drink together, causing Phoenix to make a confession that shocks them both. Pure angst ensues.

    (Inspired by the trending 'Something Borrowed' audio that the fic is named after.)

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    21 Sep 2026