My mind keeps drifting off to darkfic ideas.
Grace intentionally makes himself sick so that Rocky can care for him (Munchhausen syndrome). I guess with the malnutrition he doesn't need to pretend, but maybe he can start early.
Or
Rocky makes Grace sick (Munchhausen by proxy). Just a tiny bit sick, just enough for him to dote on Grace. Technically, Munchhausen by proxy is about external validation but whatever.
Or
Grace and Rocky have sex. Not out of love and not even out of curiosity. Grace pressures Rocky to have sex with him, playing the Nice Guy (TM) card because he's such a Good Friend (TM) and saved Rocky and everything. Rocky is repulsed but totally cornered because he's stuck on this alien spaceship and got nowhere else to go.
Leaving this here to get it out of my system so I can hopefully think in more wholesome terms again. 😬















