lost at sea

What a blessing to be moved by anything at all

we accept the queerbaiting we believe we deserve

the thing about heated rivalry is that it is that serious

No, like, I know we all get it but that scene where they're heading to the cottage is actually so insane because they've had seven years of hotel rooms and bottling up their emotions and only ever spending time together long enough to hook up and, even then, only when they happened to be in the same place. Now suddenly Ilya is here and he took a plane with the express purpose of seeing Shane and they're in his car and it's a two hour drive so for the first time ever they are just talking without sex being the immediate goal or what just preceded it. That's two hours of just existing in each other's company. That's two hours more than they've ever had before and it's just the prelude to two weeks and Ilya takes his hand and admits that he's nervous because this is so new and they've both wanted it for so long and, you don't understand, I'm going to cry.