bleh‼️‼️

shane has been sitting on the couch staring into space for over an hour. ilya, at first, tries to leave him be, but then becomes increasingly concerned. he finally allows himself to approach, mumbling a small “shane?”

Shane just hmms back, but his eyes stay fixed on the blank TV screen.

20 minutes later, ilya is calling yuna panicking.

“Ilya, honey. I’m sure he’s fine. what was he doing before this?”

“we had a media day. photos, interviews, a few tik toks. we didn’t even have practice.”

yuna laughs. “that’ll do it! shane just needs a minute to decompress. leave him be.”

“but he’s been in this… stupor! for almost 2 hours,” he whisper yells, making sure shane can’t hear him.

“Ilya. he is fine. he gets like this sometimes because of his autism.”

of course that was a thought that wasn’t even close to what ilya was thinking, he would never support anything that hurts Shane.

But shane with all the weakness he was feeling he was starting to doubt.

i actually think he was struggling not because of necessarily disappointing ilya, but because he was just really resistant to changing his birth plan 🤔 i think he was pretty adamant to ilya that he did NOT want an epidural. he wanted to be in control of his body, to "tough it out" (oh shane...). and so i think when he was reaching the point of realizing he really, really wanted an epidural, he was struggling making the final call and saying he wants it (i think again partly because he told ilya that was the birth plan he wanted, so he didnt want to change it)

so yuna and david show up to every Centaurs game wearing Rozanov jerseys instead of hollander. they had to buy so many new ones and ended up donating a bunch of shane’s they never wore anymore.

david always calls and asks Ilya what he’d like for family dinner, but never asks shane. shane will pull out frozen meal prep without complaint if he doesn’t like ilya’s choice, while ilya marvels at whatever david cooks up for him. “what is this you say? marriage chicken” ilya asks. “Marry Me Chicken,” david answers. “this is gravy, yes?” Ilya says, shoving half a chicken breast into his mouth

at christmas they have to get new stockings made, because the hollander’s traditional stockings are too old to buy a matching one for Ilya. Ilya cries fat tears when he opens them on christmas eve. Shane pouts because he’s going to miss his Santa stocking from childhood, and Yuna smacks him upside the head until he shuts up. They also have a stocking made for Anya <3

when both ilya and shane come down with a nasty flu at the same time (one in montreal one in ottawa), yuna and david camp out with ilya to help him through his convalescence instead of shane. because they know ilya is a big baby when he’s sick while shane will refuse any help and would prefer to be left alone

when ilya goes through a particularly bad depressive episode, yuna and david call up Galina and ask for advice on how to care for him, and pull out every trick in the book. ilya is too raw and embarrassed to thank them but cries into shane’s chest every night because he feels so loved but also so guilty

ilya walks over to shane who is reading his book on the couch and places his noice cancelling headphones on him before he starts vacuuming

shane, on his way home from practice, picks an injured ilya up a mcdonald’s coke because he knows it will cheer him up, but crosses the line at a big mac and makes ilya a lovingly prepared homemade burger instead

mean bitchy pregnant shane anon you always arrive when i need you most. i really enjoy our walks together. this is very very good

also imagine that ilya maybe started working out MORE and being more conscious of what he ate during the pregnancy (wants to be at his best for the baby <3) . so hes extra fit and has like an 8 pack during the pregnancy. which just pisses shane off more. shanes just like how does he look even hotter now when his stupid parasite baby is making shane feel like shit