Bloody Mary AU...
Grace suffers a horrific accident and falls into a coma. Simon’s convinced the blood's on his hands. Whether he actually killed him or not isn’t important because every time he closes his eyes, he sees Grace bleeding out in his arms.
All the Eridian specialists tell Simon to wait. The human body can recover from ridiculous amounts of stress and trauma.
Simon refuses.
He buries himself in research, chasing anything remotely regenerative. Anything that might save Ryland from each shuddering breath that threatens to be his last.
What Simon comes up with is an engineered strain of cordyceps.
He isn’t entirely sure how much control it’ll exert over its host. He tells himself it won’t be much… if any at all. The fungus is designed to do one thing: rebuild damaged tissue. Repair what the accident destroyed. Give Ryland’s body enough strength to wake up.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
eye reflection's sorta like this
