#rycarl

[aliiencircus]

rycarl for your troubles

[roamingradio]

The video diaries of Dr. Ryland Grace had been watched viewed by millions of people.

Obviously thee were parts that had been edited out for a public audience, but they got most of the story.

Men, women and children everywhere watched in awe, studying memorizing every detail of the discovery.

None more then Carl Boyce, chest flooding with guilt at every sentence; and despite not being scientist, he made a discovery.

If he brought it to anyone's attention he'd probably become famous for it, win countless awards.

Drawing attention to it would also bring him a great deal of embarrassment.

It also broke his heart...

Over the course of the videos, Carl notices something as he watches Dr. Ryland Grace ramble over and over again.

The small tattoo of a fox they had printed onto his arm was changing. Shifting over the soulmark on his wrist making it visible once more.

Except it wasn't the same one, and it didn't stand out against the scientists skin. The words that Carl had said on the day they sedated him faded away and now white unreadable music note scrawled on their place.

Somehow the trip to Tauceti-e, to Adrian- had changed Grace's fate.

The impossible had happend far off on another star.

By saving earth, Grace had forgotten and gained a new soulmate without ever remembering.

It's almost funny that the two last things he'd ever heard his soulmates speak were,

'you know who you are' and 'It's okay Grace, it's time to sleep.'

[starrose17]

At The Beach In Every Life - Gigi Perez

[roamingradio]

Building on something I saw on tik tok about Carl touching Ryland for the first time after the coma and seeing the matching soulmark.

I raise you, soulmate au where instead of the first sentence your soulmate says you, it's the last.

Ryland has amnesia, he won't remember until the very, very end of his journey.

And Carl's is his own name, he has to check, he has to inspect Ryland comatose body himself, just to make sure it's the same.

There it is, written cleanly on the scientist skin,

'you know who you are.'

And out kindness, they tattoo over it.