i already talked about this on twitter but i'll talk about it here too! thinking about the first night that grace has to sleep alone on erid. obviously he and rocky are attached at the hip now but rocky does have things he needs to attend to now that he's home, and grace needs to sleep but he's starting to have a very real panic attack now that he realizes rocky isn't going to be watching him. his pulse spikes, he gets lightheaded, he's trying to hide it so hard. adrian was the one who dropped by to tell him rocky wouldn't be there tonight, and grace just freaks out instantly. but adrian, who honestly isn't even that fond of grace yet because they haven't spent nearly enough time with him, immediately notices the way grace freezes and they're like "oh fuck can he die from this? rocky will kill me if his alien dies in my presence" and quickly tells grace, "that is why i am staying to watch you." and grace immediately starts to calm down, even if he is a little surprised.
adrian fully understands how into grace rocky is, but they didn't understand the extent to which grace needs/wants rocky until now. it warms their hearts, but it also breaks them specifically because of how much they must have had to endure together to be this reliant on each other. especially because, from what rocky has told them, adrian knows humans don't technically need anyone to watch them sleep like eridians do.
anyway grace is able to fall asleep that night and adrian just kinda scoots closer and closer until grace is like fully curled up against them at one point, and adrian finds themself thinking "oh no. this is Adorable. oh fuck. oh shit." let the bonding between them begin in EARNEST at that point.
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