Blood From The Blood God (10655 words) by Antilocapra
Chapters: 5/6
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace, Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary), The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) & Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Adrian & Ryland Grace & Rocky
Characters: Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Adrian (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace, The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung), Original Eridian Characters (Project Hail Mary)
Additional Tags: Blood and Gore, Swearing, Post-Canon, Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung), POV Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Vomiting, Starvation, Blood Drinking, Kind Of, it's not entirely blood at that point, it's been filtered through borrowed divinity, The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) is a god, Kissing, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Starving Ryland Grace, love that that's a tag
Chapter 5 excerpt:
When it reaches the top of the bluff, it halts, swaying, its head tipped back. Its heart pounds in its chest, thundering against the membranes under its ribs like it’s trying to break out. Heaving for breath, it drops its head and seems startled to find Rocky standing next to it.
“Come to watch?” it rasps.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” Rocky confesses, and the human-shaped thing huffs out a burst of ragged laughter that sounds painful.
“Neither do I,” it says, and drops heavily to its knees.
Rocky scrambles away, then jumps back to get an arm under its chest as it pitches forward. Its own arm swings out, but it wouldn’t have caught itself in time. Instead, it presses its quivering palm to the soft soil over the stony core of the bluff and gives a shaky sigh.
“It’s more than me,” it whispers, its tone low and defeated, then continues in a voice wracked with exhausted defiance. “Okay. I’m ready. Go.”
Or, what if your friend accidentally catches the attention of a god in hopes of saving you, and that god falls in love with you instead?