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    Shane has a rare opportunity to surprise his boyfriend in Boston. He does not think about what could happen if Ilya comes home with one of his teammates instead of alone.

    "“What the actual fuck” Cliff heard himself say. Shane fucking Hollander was in Roz’s front entryway with no fucking pants on. He barely registered the sharp inhale of his captain behind him and the door shutting. Hollander was just standing there like a deer in headlights. And he was wearing a Boston jersey."

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    The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating. 

    The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice. 

    “I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—”

    Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask.

    “Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—"

    Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little. 

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    Footage of the last game between Ottawa and Montreal is everywhere; it’s breached containment from the sports world, and now it seems like everyone is baying for Montreal’s blood. Except, Ilya is oblivious. Not exactly blissfully so, but as the fight for accountability within the league rages on without him, Ilya just wants someone, anyone, to tell him what happened.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Ilya has always known Shane could do better than him. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s finally found it.

    Found someone else.

    Because that’s what this is, isn’t it?

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Shane Hollander is eighteen, second overall draft pick, and quietly, a father. He's learned to carry both versions of himself with practiced ease.

    Then there's Ilya Rozanov: first overall, unbothered, and already taking up more space in Shane's head than he has any right to.

    Their rivalry is the story everyone wants to tell. Shane is starting to suspect the real one is something else entirely.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “My parents are coming before. For dinner.”

    “Is that an invite?” Ilya hummed, lips twitching with a smile. 

    Shane faltered. “I-”

    “Relax Hollander. Is just a joke.”

    Obviously. Of course it was a joke. The idea of Ilya sitting down for dinner with his parents was ridiculous. Impossible.

    When Montreal is hit by a bad storm on the night of their game, Ilya thinks Shane might let him stay the night. What neither of them knows is that Shane's parents, also caught in the storm, have had the same idea.

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    12 Jun 2026