was thinking abt shane getting slapped hard across the face again today n i cant stop imagining how his parents would react if they accidentally saw the rougher side of his relationship especially smth as casual and demeaning as a backhand for seemingly no reason. like its probably shanes worst nightmare but its also so 😵💫🥰‼️
ooouughhhh yeah yeah like. We already know his parents are willing to let themselves into his cottage....
maybe ilya is doing it For shane, knows the impact and submission is what he needs but wont ask for, the first slap comes without warning and has shane spluttering and reeling and then ilyas patting his face, eyebrows raised expectantly and shanes grabbing at his wrist and pleading more and so ilya starts to hit him properly and shane is swaying into every hit and moaning and -
'What are you doing to my son?' Yuna wouldve been a whole other can of worms, but david hollander, for all his seeming passiveness, does not play about his son. already trying to get between them, eyes locked on the blooming red of shanes face with horror and heartbreak and oh god. Shane feels sick, has to be the one to say dad its not - he wasnt - and david is trying to hug him and apologize for 'not seeing it' and ilya is watching from the sidelines like a deer caught in headlights as shane stumbles through a humiliated confession of 'i asked him to. I liked it. I like it.'
And then i mean. David is so embarrassed, does his best attempt at a Hollander Goodbye with a 'oh. Oh. Thats - okay. Right. Im... sorry. I shouldnt have -' and ilya cuts him off, because shane is Not okay, and he says 'its good you are so protective of him. But i think you should go.' This will be a horrible conversation later but the important part is that it happens Later.
David leaves and its silent for a long time, and ilya just watches, waits for shane to react, and when he does its hands hitting his head and eyes squeezed shut tight and oh god oh fuck and ilya lets it happen for maybe five seconds before hes grabbing shanes wrists and saying 'enough.'
shane looks at him with these wild glazed eyes and says 'ilya it was my fucking dad.' And ilya says 'all he saw was me taking care of you. because you belong to me. are you ashamed of belonging to me?'
shanes like. Three hard blinks and 'ilya im fucking humilia -' and ilya slaps him clean across the face 'are you ashamed?' 'ilya i dont want this right now' another slap 'answer me.' 'ilya -' another slap and then shane is cracking, shaking his head so hard he must be dizzy 'no. No of course not.' And theres tears in his eyes but they havent fallen yet. Ilya can fix that. He shakes out his hand where its starting to grow sore, winds his arm back, and says, 'good. then you will be quiet and let me take care of whats mine'