I do think Shane owns a Celine Dion CD. It used to be Yuna's but she left it in his car once and now it belongs to him. I do think that there is a day when he and Yuna are driving somewhere with Ilya in the back seat (Because Ilya is Shane's passenger princess but Yuna is Ilya's mother in law and in Ilya's mind that means she gets perpetual shotgun rights) and maybe it's been a rough fucking day for everyone and maybe something in the set of Shane's brow reminds Yuna of something they used to do and so she wordlessly opens the glove compartment and pulls out the Celine Dion CD (Falling Into You, 1996, Shane had just turned five and he used to kick his feet against the back of her seat while they drove down the highway--) and presses play.
And Ilya abruptly realizes that Something Is Happening when the music starts and both Hollanders just. INHALE. The sound of wind. Achingly sweet piano. Shane clears his throat.
"THERE WERE NIGHTS WHEN THE WIND WAS SO COLD," Yuna and Shane all but yell.
They pull into the driveway of the Hollanders' house just as the song ends. Shane has those not-tears clinging to his eyelashes. Yuna's face is blotchy.
"Something happened on the way here," Ilya says when he stumbles into the kitchen to find David.
"Oh?" David holds a spatula aloft as his family flows into the room. "A moose again?"
"Celine Dion," Yuna says, voice still a little thick.
"Ah," David says. "I didn't realize it was a Celine Dion kind of day. I'll pull out more wine."
So Ilya forgets about it a little, because wine, and then it's 2021 and everyone in the world suddenly thinks they belong in Ilya's fucking bed and Shane is falling apart at the seams, just a little, and Ilya is thinking about all of it while the Hollanders are helping them drive back and forth between Ottawa and Montreal for the third time that week, moving cars and people and lives between two cities.
And he looks at Shane, who's beside him in the back seat this time, and Ilya leans forward between the two front seats and puts his head on Yuna's shoulder and says, "Celine Dion."
And Yuna puts the CD on and thinks about the precious cargo in the backseat, like she has every time she's heard this song for the last twenty years. Double the cargo now. Her two babies.
"It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me now."