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Montreal plays Ottawa on Monday, and a stomach bug has almost every player on both teams regretting the whole thing by Wednesday.
Shane calls Ilya to beg him to bring him Gatorade and saltines only to have Ilya make it less than one sentence into the call before throwing up himself.
"No good to you, moya lyubov," Ilya sputters.
"Well, this sucks," Shane says as Ilya continues to dry heave over his kitchen garbage can. (Shane regrets a little that he used video chat.)
"Sucks, yes, and not in a fun way," Ilya says as he rinses his mouth out at the sink. Then he asks, "You could call your parents, yes?"
"No, that's okay. I'll just do an order. I don't want to get them sick," Shane says.
"Oh, but was okay to get me sick?" Ilya asks, raising his eyebrows.
"No," Shane says before hedging, "maybe, I don't know. It doesn't matter because you already are."
"Yes, but you didn't know that," Ilya says.
"I just thought we could get through this crappy stomach bug together," Shane says.
Ilya considers this then says, "Okay. We will have most boring and gross date over phone today. First, we order stuff. Get your crackers and drinks."
"Check what you have," Shane instructs. "You need electrolytes too."
"You are saying these are not in Vodka?" Ilya asks, as he holds a bottle up to the screen.
"I hope you're joking," Shane says. "Please don't drink Vodka. I'm nauseous just thinking about it."
"Okay," Ilya says. "I have boring drinks and snacks. See?"
He holds up exactly what Shane wishes he had in his own pantry.
"Now, go to the couch, Shane," Ilya says.
"I think I'm getting a bucket first," Shane says.
"I need to empty kitchen trash, then find bucket," Ilya says.
"Such a sexy date," Shane mutters as he watches Ilya dispose of his vomit.
"We will take care of each other over phone, remind each other about medicine and fluids," Ilya says. "Now, we watch movie and probably fall asleep."
They both find the first Fast & Furious movie and start it at the same time, though it seems to get out of sync as they watch.
They pause the movie once for Shane to get his groceries, and three times because one or both of them has to throw up.
Ilya does fall asleep near the end, and Shane has to call him back to wake him up.
"Hey," Shane says, as he takes in Ilya with his sweat damp curls and redness coloring his cheeks, "do you have a thermometer? You look really flushed."
"Yes, do you?" Ilya asks, running his eyes appraisingly over Shane.
They both sigh when they determine they have similarly low grade fevers and curse whoever brought the stupid bug to the game.
"Pike has too many kids. I blame him," Ilya says.
Shane rolls his eyes before saying, "I should text him and see if this is going through his family too."
"Not during our date," Ilya says. "Date is all day. Pick next thing we are watching."
Shane smiles, but it doesn't quite reach his eyes, "This is nice and all, but I still really wish you were here."
"I wish you were here too," Ilya says.