It was Thursday and they were leading up to the last few days of filming the Last Mission, and most of what was being filmed now was retakes and odds and end shots.

To celebrate the end of filming, Sebastian made a big elaborate plan for a getaway week for him and Rylee. For the last month or so he's secretly been in contact with his usual travel agent, Rachel, piecing together the perfect trip for them.

He finally had it all together and was practically vibrating with excitement about it, even if it basically wasn't for almost another month. He just loved that all the activities he had planned all clicked together perfectly.

Rylee was out at the store, and Sebastian needed to tell somebody about his plan, or else he'd burst at the seams. So he called Chris.

The phone rang twice before, surprisingly, a female voice answered the phone.

"Hi Sebastian," Alexa's voice chimed through the phone.

"Hey Lex, is Chris around?"

"He's in the shower at the moment. What's up?"

Sebastian hesitated. Could Alexa be trusted with such a guarded secret from her best friend? He decided he'd wing it because, again, he had to tell someone.

"Can you keep a major secret. Specifically from your best friend."

"Sebastian Stan, this better be a nice, positive, lovely secret, or I'm going to come kick you in the balls."

"Wow. Okay. I mean, it is a good secret, but shit, Lex," he laughed nervously.

"Okay, shoot." Lex responded.

"I've got a vacation planned for Ryles and I..for when filming is all done."

"Oooo! Where! When!" He could tell that Alexa must've been laying down when he answered because he could hear her sitting up, interested, over the phone.

"Italy for a week...for Christmas."

"Oh my god. She's going to love it. You should definitely tell Chris that he needs to plan a trip...you know. For science."

Sebastian laughed, "yeah okay."

"That's so exciting though! You're such a romantic Seb," Alexa crooned over the phone.

"A lots been going on the past three or four months, I think a vacation is in order." Sebastian shrugged to himself.

"Very true. We'll I'm super excited for you both! That's so great!"

Sebastian could hear Chris mumble in the background, as if he just entered the room.

Alexa pushed the phone slightly away from her mouth to say "its Sebastian and he's taking Rylee on a secret romantic vacation!"

Alexa must've put the phone on speaker, because he could hear Chris much more clearly now, "That's awesome man. Alexa and I need a vacation."

"We sureeee do." Alexa laughed.

The three of them continued to talk for a few minutes when Sebastian got a text from Rylee.

❤️

I'm back! Can you come down and lend a hand?

😍

Be down in a sec!

Sebastian dismissed himself from the conversation, saying good bye to the two of them as he hung up and slipped on his shoes to go help unload the groceries.

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Sebastian only had to go to set for a few hours that evening, but he felt like half of that time he spent in wardrobe trying to slide on his fake arm. They had run out of the lubricant they use to put it on and didn't have quite enough to get it where it needed to be.

Sebastian took out his phone and called Chris.

"Y'ello?" Chris answered.

"We need lube."

"...I appreciate and cherish that our friendship has expanded to you asking me for a lube run for you and Ry...But do you need it like...right now? I'm in traffic on the way to work."

"For me you asswipe. I'm on set and we can't get this damn arm on."

Chris started howling with laughter from the other end of the phone. "Jesus man...ohhhh my god," he sighed deeply, a tear running down his face from laughing so hard. "Uh, Monica keeps a spare in the storage closet in the make up room."

"Thanks Evans, oh, and thanks for offering to pick up lube for my relationship too. That's friendship right there." Sebastian laughed loudly.

"Any time man! Bye!"

Sebastian laughed again as he said goodbye and hung up the phone. He stood up and went to the closet Chris mentioned and low and behold, there was a brand new container of KY jelly smack dab in the middle of the shelf.

He palmed it and brought it back to the wardrobe room, where, 5 minutes later, his new arm was in place and ready to go.

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An hour or so later, Sebastian was sitting in a trailer with Anthony, Holland, and Hayley, when they heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" Sebastian spoke up towards the door.

The door popped open, Chris walking through.

"Find your lube?" Chris joked.

"I did! Thanks!" Sebastian laughed

Chris plopped down on the couch opposite of Hayley and started fiddling on his phone for a moment.

Tom looked between Chris and Sebastian a few times and then looked at Hayley and Anthony. Completely lost. "Uh. Am I the only one lost about the lube thing right now?"

Everyone started laughing in unison as Tom sat in confusion. Sebastian explained through his laughter.

As he finished, there was another knock on the door, this time it was Joe. "Perfect. You all are exactly who I need." He sat down and started talking about what shots needed redone with everyone. It was enough work to fill the entirety of tomorrow.

"The jump again? Man, that harness is a motherfucker. Pretty sure I got rope burn on my junk last time."

Everyone laughed at Sebastian's comment. "Yeah, sadly we need some better angles for that one. So you don't need to do the whole spiel up top, just the last line or two and the jump."

"Eh could be worse. Sounds good, Joe." Sebastian tacked on as Joe went on to tell Tom what he needed him to reshoot.

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Sebastian got home at around 9:00 that night and was surprisingly tired. When he walked through the door, he was looking at his phone but when he looked up he saw Rylee, wearing an orange sports bra and black and orange leggings, who was laying on her back on the living room floor.

"Uh, hi?"

Rylee was breathing heavily, "hey," she answered, and that's when Sebastian comprehended that she was laying on a yoga mat.

"Y'alright?" Sebastian asked, offering her a hand up.

"Yeah," she replied, still breathing heavily, taking his hand and letting him pull her up. She almost immediately plopped down on the couch as soon as he stood her up.

He started walking to the kitchen and grabbed two bottles of water. As he came back, Rylee started saying, "You know how they say yogas all relaxing and stuff?" Sebastian nodded and handed her a water, "Thanks. Well, that's a bunch of bullshit."

Sebastian started to laugh, "Why's that?" He asked as he plopped next to her on the couch.

She didn't even say anything, she just gestured towards her own existence. "Do I look relaxed? Do I look refreshed?"

"Um. I gonna say no, but you're beautiful and I love you?" Sebastian answered in the form of a question just to be safe.

"That's the correct response." Rylee chuckled.

"Well we could always go test out the yoga skills in the bedroom...maybe that'll help."

Rylee was still laying back on the couch and paused to process his sentence. "That ...was a shitty line...but...I'll allow it."

She stuck her hand out for him to pull her up off the couch. Sebastian stood up, grabbed her hand, and heaved her over his shoulder, giving her a good hardy smack to her ass, causing her to yelp and laugh as he carried her upstairs.

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Soon enough it was Friday afternoon and Rylee was laying on the couch reading more of One of Us is Lying. It was a rain filled, gloomy looking day outside the window across from her. She had been texting Sebastian throughout the morning and afternoon.

😍

So what should we do for dinner tonight?

❤️

Boy, it's barely lunch time and you're already thinking about dinner?

😍

Um. Yes.

Thinking about after dinner too. 😏

❤️

👀 😘 Only like four more hours.

Think you'll make it?

😍

I suppose I'll have to try

Chris mentioned ordering pizza earlier

But I'd rather just get home to you

❤️

🥺❤️

😍

Ah, I've gotta get going.

I'll be filming for a few hours so I won't be by my phone.

See you in a bit, love you ❤️

❤️

Love you❤️

After a little while, Rylee accidentally fell asleep, book spread across her chest as she snoozed. With the rain tapping on the window and the lights dim, it was just the perfect kind of weather for taking a nap anyway.

Her phone vibrated on the coffee table beside her, a phone call trying to ring through, but she slept through it. It vibrated again, but she still slept.

Twenty minutes later Rylee was startled awake by a loud banging on her door. Her stomach turned in knots. She sat up quickly, trying to get her bearings and stood up. She tiptoed over to the door, afraid of who may be behind it pounding so harshly.

She grabbed the aluminum bat that she started keeping by the front door and looked out the peephole. She relaxed for a moment but then confusion took over when she saw it was Chris pounding on her door.

She pulled the chain across the door letting it hang to the side and undid the deadbolt to open the door for Chris, he looked like he was in shambles, soaked from the rain outside.

"Hey wha-"

"I tried calling you."

"Sorry I fell asleep. What's going on?"

"Sebastian's in the hospital."