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    It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
    It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…

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    Daybreak by Anonymous

    Fandoms: Psych  

    01 Mar 2018

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    Protect and serve - Juliet O'Hara believes in those words, and since she became a detective here in sunny Santa Barbara, she has tried her hardest to honor that oath. But after a vicious attack that left her standing, but not quite the same, Juliet is forced to come to terms with her new nature, and to figure out how to keep the people she cares about safe - her stubborn, grumpy partner included.
    She'll serve them. She'll protect them. Even if it means pushing them away.
    Too bad Carlton Lassiter is really, really not okay with it.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    THEE LASSITER AND JULIET FIC
    PLUS VAMPIRES EVERYONE STOP AND READ THIS NOW

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    Doctor McCoy sure as hell doesn’t compromise care, confidentiality, or his goddamn conscience for anyone. He has no problem with extracting a mind-controlling slug from Uhura's sinuses, performing a blood transfusion between a human and a sentient puddle, or administering therapy to a crew-wide hallucination of a god.

    But catching feelings for Spock?

    Now that’s just irresponsible.

    And ultimately, it's all Jim’s fault.

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    The NSS T’Vann was going to crash.

    Thirty-one standard seconds was not enough time to launch the escape pod.

    Despite their reputation throughout the galaxy as emotionless automatons, even a Vulcan was not immune to the overbearing weight of fear. Emotion was not purged by evolution, but mastered with lifelong training. In moments of certain doom, those less disciplined would succumb to their primal nature. Years of practice would slip away – mere grains of sand racing through cracks between fingers.

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    Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear.

    Spock repeated the words as a mantra in his mind. They were the original words of Surak, the sermon which had saved their species from self-annihilation. His wisdom had delivered them from fear and the destructive, untamable force of entropy.

    Yet, Spock could not cast out fear, for he was stranded on this alien world inhabited by barbarians – and he was alone.

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    Prince S'chn T'gai Spock of Vulcan, engaged to Prince James Tiberius Kirk of Earth through an arrangement made by their parents many years ago, writes to his intended on the day of his birth in the interest of diplomacy. Jim is not interested in diplomacy. Though there is no precedent set for the commencement of a written correspondence begun due to these specific parameters, I will strive to maintain, to the best of my abilities and with ample preparatory research previously conducted, the appropriate level of formality between us, based on a number of factors, primarily examples of a similar nature.

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