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by PenAndInkPrincess

“-can’t see each other again,” Ilya says, looking only at Shane’s hand, holding it so, so gently and stroking over Shane’s skin so, so softly. The soothing feeling of it makes it very hard to focus, but Shane tries very hard to do it anyway. “I tried-we tried, but this can’t happen again.” It takes a moment, but Shane finally manages to make sense of the words, and he lets out a soft noise of understanding.

Ah. He’s apologizing that he won’t be able to see Shane in the hospital again before he leaves.

“I understand,” he says, and he does. It was probably really hard for Ilya to get here even once, and it can’t be very long before his plane leaves. He’s sad, of course–they didn’t even get to spend time together, really–but it’s not like this will be the last chance they ever have to see each other. He gives Ilya his best attempt at a smile, and if it comes out a little sad, too, all Ilya does is reach out to stroke the backs of his fingers gently over his cheek.

I guess in his mind he thinks Todd came round angry that Vanessa yelled at her, she started shouting at Charity about spreading lies and then threatened to tell Sarah the truth again (which up to that point is what happened), and then in the moment Charity decided well I guess the only way to shut her up is to kill her? Which is ridiculous really because Todd had been blackmailing her for weeks and she didn't kill her over it. It's pretty unlikely she actually would have told Sarah.

But honestly the way she died should automatically rule out murder?? Firstly Todd is a pretty sturdy woman and only fell from Sarah's push because she slipped on the rug, so Charity would have to.. plan for the rug to slip?? Or shove her with a good amount of force to ensure she fell over. Secondly even if she did manage to catch her off guard and topple her, what kind of magic would she be performing to be able to do it in a way in which she knew for sure that Todd would fall at the exact right angle to hit her head and instantly die? 😭 I mean if she'd wanted to kill her surely it would be a saucepan to the head rather than shoving her and hoping for the best.