Lost Signal (слэш)

On their wedding day, Ilya stands at the front of a sunlit room with Shane's parents at his side and an empty space in his chest where his own family should be.
He tells himself he can survive that. He tells himself love is enough to make a home out of anything.
Ten years later, Ilya finally realizes it is.
A cottage in Canada. Smoke from the grill. friends turned family. Two kids with bright futures Shane talks about like it’s the safest thing in the world.
Ilya has everything he never let himself want—until his head starts to buzz, a roar turns the sky violent, and the world cuts out mid-laugh.
A storm hits. A pilot reports mechanical trouble. Contact is lost.
Shane is left with one message—four lines that feel like a vow carved into his ribs—and the kind of grief that doesn’t arrive all at once, but teaches you how to breathe around an absence anyway. He learns what it means to wake up and keep going. To love someone who isn’t there. To carry a life that was supposed to be shared.
And still… some promises don’t disappear just because the signal does.