Imagining a scenario where Adrian or some eridian scientist thinks that the bond that Rocky and Grace have is unhealthy (it is) and toxic (not quite), so they petition to have them removed from each other for a little bit to help them ween off their desperate bond.
Rocky is prevented from going to the biodome to see Grace and is given more time with Adrian ( which they think is wonderful! they love their mate and have truely needed to go see their old friends more!) but slowly devolves back to their time on the ship: thinking about their shipmates who died because Rocky couldnāt do anything; thinking about Grace whoās alone now, without them, no one to what him sleep or who walks on the beach, who Rocky depends on as the only other person who really understands what Rocky went through in those 40 yearsā¦
Grace is left in his biodome and told that he canāt see Rocky anymore because itās for the best but Grace doesnāt see anyone outside of Rocky and Adrian, and Adrianās time is being spent with Rocky now. The only eridians who come to see Grace are the scientists or biodome experts, and they talk to Grace but they donāt stay with him! They donāt watch movies with him, nor go for walks on the beach, nor sit and lay together despite the hard layer of xenonite keeping them apart, because they need to ensure each other is still alive because their the only ones each other have on the space ship. Grace is back on the ship alone with no one but two bodies of people he doesnāt even remember; only he does now and it doesnāt matter because their dead and Rocky is Gone. Grace deteriorates quickly: not leaving the house, watching movies, not eating, canāt sleep, getting irritatable and hostile; walking out to the beach and screaming at the biodome door that the eridians use: screaming how heās sane, heās fine, this isnāt fair, they canāt DO this to him again, he canāt do it again he canāt he canāt HE CANT
Grace cries and screams at the door till his voice is hoarse and he has to drag himself back to his house so he can curl up Alone and cry over the lose of another friend.
Grace wonders if Rocky wanted this. If maybe Grace was too much and now Rocky needed a break from him. Heās too important for earth and heās not important enough for Erid. What a sad pathetic existence!
The scientists eventually see that both saviors might genuinely kill themselves if they are separated any longer and allow them to reunite! Rocky and Grace spending the next 24 hours physically attached because they need to make sure the other is alive/still cares about them and wants them around.
The eridians finally noticing that they need to see each other again before they both go crazy from separation
Eventuallyā¦
Probablyā¦
