Following my other post about Grace’s attempt at escaping, I’m thinking of an AU where they managed to keep him in Stratt’s office and didn’t sedate him right away. Still, the moment they hold him and he can’t even kick his legs, he has an accident, because he knows there’s no coming back now and they’ll be sending him off to space. When Stratt notices, she’s in shock, but still starts trying to calm him down.
Grace can only hear his own sobs, though. He’s already panicking, more scared than he’s ever been in his life, and now there’s humiliation on top of it all!! Now everyone knows for sure he’s a coward. He wishes he could pretend he’s not absolutely terrified, but he doesn’t have it in him.
Maybe he even tried to hold it in, fight the security guards, but he didn’t really have a chance against his bladder, even though he didn’t need to go that badly. His muscles just gave out because of the fear as they always do (I think he’s the sort of person to pee a little during a horror movie heheh)
When Stratt realizes he’s suffering and not really listening to her, then she lets them sedate him. I just love the idea of Stratt talking to him while he’s activelly wetting himself because of her. She’s holding back tears herself. Carl’s there to watch the whole thing unfold, too, and he’s never felt this guilty before in his entire life. Like you said, he knew Grace was scared, but not to that point.
(Bonus points if he always wets himself during nightmares in the Hail Mary, and once Rocky understands what’s happening and why, he wants to send a pipe bomb to Earth)
Like a combination of the film and book (where they put him in solitary confinement until launch day) so he's not running out but he's not exactly going willingly! 😭
Omggg Stratt trying to have her monolog to Grace about how he's a coward but then her gaze goes down and she sees his jeans actively turning a deep and soaked saturated shade- he's wetting himself. He's so scared that he's wetting himself and here she is, calling him a coward ontop of it all!
That's probably when Stratt makes the signal for the doctor to sedate him, she tries to say that he'll be remembered as a hero but,,,she knows that her previous comment about him being a coward while he was peeing from fear will probably stick instead 😭
Omfgggg every nightmare on the ship definitely has Grace waking wet! Before he remembers everything, Grace just thinks it's stress, the nightmares are blurry but they always make him wet thr bed!
So,,,when Grace finally remembers his last waking moments on earth, remembering how he wet himself in fear,,,ooh those nightmares make sense now! Grace mentions it to Rocky, kinda off handedly as a means to explain it all.
Rocky is standing there like, "...Rocky send pipebomb to earth." Because how DARE earth be so nasty to Grace, to force him to go to space even after he had fear leaked!!
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