“ilya please remember, i will be out of reach for three days” shane says looking directly into ilya’s eyes while holding his shoulders “you can’t call me, you can text me and leave voice messages, but i won’t be able to check them for three days. you will remember that, right?” ilya nods and shane goes “you promised me that you’d be okay, you said” he starts imitating ilya’s voice with a terrible russian accent “of course you can go, sweetheart, i will be okay here with our daughter” and ilya nods again and says “i will be okay here, i promise” as he reaches for shane to hold him in a tight embrace “i will be fine” he says into shane’s neck and shane holds him back just as tight and they stay like that for a while until wyatt shows up to pick shane up for camping with bood, dykstra, a friend of dykstra, some centaurs rookies and hayden. after three days enjoying nature, the scenery, the trails, swimming in the river, canoeing, and the campfire, shane finally reaches a place with signal on their way back and he picks his phone to find over a thousand messages from ilya and he gets worried until he actually opens their chat and see that half of them are ilya singing romantic songs, singing songs he made himself about how much he misses and loves shane, telling him about his days, new things anya did and a whole lot of “i love you” “i miss you” “please come back soon”. when shane finally arrives home, ilya is on him the second he opens the door, going “shane, next time i’m coming with you even if i hate everything you guys did there, i can’t be more than a day without you”










