Fics like pointing at stars that already died

I reach out and clasp his hand. It's his left, and there are no raised ridges dug into his skin where my atmosphere had once burned him. His hand is ice cold, just as I expected, and I've missed it. I've missed, missed, missed this skin and its press against the xenonite that had once permanently divided us, and I marvel at being able to truly feel Grace's fingers wrapped around mine. I can hear him even better now that we're touching, every gross, leaky bodily function sloshing around in that fragile body of his, pulsing in waves from the point where we are connected, and it's wonderful. I never want to let go. I belatedly realize that usually, introductions go both ways. I may know Grace, but Grace doesn't know me; I push the thought away. "I'm Rocky." (You gave me that name. Do you remember?) "Rocky," he repeats, "like the movies?" (You're the one who showed me those movies. Do you remember?) "No, like the rocks," I say, because it's a stupid thing to say but if I say it seriously enough, Grace will laugh. * Rocky POV of “I’d wave my hand, reveal the stars” by WyvernQuill <3

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