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    Is it running from your problems if your problems consider you to be a dead imprint of consciousness that killed their son? Yes, but Danny tries not to think about how his nightmares of his parents trying to kill him came true when they found out he was Phantom.

    After being on the run from his parents and the government for a couple of months, moving from town to town, Danny ends up in Gotham City and decides to risk staying in Batman's territory. He'd take the wrath of Batman over live vivisection via beloved parents or being studied and torn apart by the government. Besides, he's not a meta. Being dead is a medical condition.

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    A puff of air whistled from his vent. No one asked him what was wrong.

    He took the xenonite-sealed courting gift from its spot on the dashboard and placed it back in its own special pocket on his bandolier. 'It’s the earth,' Grace had said as he'd extended the small token. 'I want you to have it.'
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    Rocky is led to believe that the Earth hacky sack Grace gives him is a courting gift. He responds to his new mates absence just as sanely as Grace does.

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    “Not — not understand,” Rocky continues, a little higher now, his body shuddering. “Try Vℓ times, all failure failure failure. Eridian mating sometimes fail, but not this much. This much unprecedented. Thought location, temperature, time of year problems in previous attempts — fixed all, Grace know Rocky and Adrian work to fix all, and still failure, still.”

    Grace fidgets with his hands, stretching each knuckle and palming the free edge of each nail, to keep from throwing himself onto Rocky and howling like an animal.

    (Because somewhere along the way, Rocky and Adrian's wish for kids had become Grace's own, too.)

    OR: Rocky and Adrian's eggs keep dying long before they hatch, and no one knows why. Grace — who definitely doesn't see himself as a parent to those hatchlings, how stupid and impossible would that be?! — has the normal reaction, which is inventing gene therapy from scratch to help the next egg survive.

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    Grace had joked, occasionally, that they were a liquid and I was a solid, two completely different states of matter; it was a joke because it was an exaggeration, an overstatement. In reality, Grace had bones and teeth, and I had blood and steam, but we both enjoyed the pretense that we were more different than we were. It reminded us that our new friendship was something rare, something strange and special. Grace called themself a blob and called me a hunk of granite (a great insult that I was saving to use again on Erid), or they called themself a water balloon and called me a little mountain, or themself a puddle and me a pile of rocks: and they tilted at me, the human mouth tilt they called a smile, and that tilt always made me think again, lovingly, about the enormous odds against us ever having met.

    Stone and water, water and stone. That comparison, even as a joke, never failed to ring a bell deep inside of me. Because I would think about erosion, about the long slow beat of water against rock, and I would think about how the rock was always, in the end, consumed.

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    Rocky isn't satisfied with the Eridian medical team's level of care for me. I've tried to convince him that they're doing a great job, that they're so friendly, and polite, and thorough — but they will never be enough, for him. He's always insistent that he can find more capable minds to care for me. His frustration makes him into a different person, an angrier person who screams at people for perceived slights, who refuses to listen when I insist they've done nothing wrong.

    I know it's unhealthy, this obsession he has with perfecting my healthcare. I know it should upset me to see him like this.

    But it doesn't.

    I'm not frightened, watching him scream at the newest member of the team after they accidentally grabbed my arm too roughly and left a bruise. I'm not angry, when he insists on doubling my weekly visits to the physical therapist, despite the fact I'm not sure if I need to keep going at all. And I'm not disgusted, when I learn about the copies of my organs he's been growing in secret all this time, after my emergency lung transplant.

    I feel loved. I'm loved in every way that's possible, for him.

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