Beltiel

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    AOS!Trek with daemons! Bones has a big ol' bear, Spock has a crow. And Jim… well, people aren't really sure what Jim's daemon is. Bones and his Jenna have met Scarlet, Jim's daemon. But (now) she's a small little lizard like thing, lightning fast and expertly camouflaged. She'd put a chameleon to shame with her ability to disappear given any environment. Spock hasn't had the pleasure of meeting Scarlet, and feigns indifference; but his Andariel is somewhat obsessed with a certain starship Captain…

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    An away mission to Horkut IV comes with revelations for both Jim and Spock.

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    “You want to talk to people about me?” Shane asked quietly.

    There was something small and confused in the question. But Ilya was still furious and raw.

    “Well I would,” he sneered, “if there was anything about you that was fucking interesting to talk about! It would be nice to not be so fucking bored and miserable!”

    The second the words left his mouth, he watched the pain roll across Shane's features like a thousand fractures shattering through glass.

    Ilya had seen Shane nearly break ribs. He had seen him miss game-winning shots, take hits that left bruises blooming purple and black across his skin. He had never seen this.

    Shane closed his eyes for a long moment. He shook his head slightly, a tiny movement, then nodded once as if agreeing with something only he could hear. His face twisted briefly with a fresh wave of pain before he forced it to still.

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    What if Shane and Ilya don't make up so easily after the Boxing Day fight? The Centaur's plane never malfunctions, so Shane never proposes. Instead, Ilya gives him an ultimatum on coming out and going public. It backfires spectacularly.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “This is medical leave,” he said, forcing his tone to remain steady. “It’s not like I’m fucking off to Fiji for six months.”

    “We all deal with pressure,” the coach shot back, waving one hand dismissively. “You think you’re the only one who’s stressed?”

    Farah shifted slightly beside him, already preparing to intervene if necessary. But something inside Shane snapped.

    “Yeah, well,” Shane said, “if I go home and put a bullet in my brain, you'll still be screwed for playoffs.”

    The silence that followed was a tangible thing.

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    Ilya cannot help the wide smile that breaks out across his face. "You ran here," he says, reaching out to smooth Shane's rumpled clothes, fingers working the chewed-up hoodie string free from his mouth while he sits very still and watches Ilya with wide eyes. "Across many states and up four flights of stairs—where are your grandma candies?—to ask if I have secret baby.”

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    01 Jun 2026

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    “Check Twitter!”

    Ilya has been hung up on. Fucking Marlow. Ilya opens Twitter, and he doesn't even have to search for anything because the screenshots are right there, trending, with over fifty thousand tweets and climbing: #WhoIsSvetlana.

    Someone has asked: "Who is Ilya to you?" and Svetlana has replied: cousin❤️! To another person asking the same question, she's written: ex-husband and then, to yet another person: biological twin, we were separated at birth, it's very sad story. The last one, with the most likes, reads: father of my child.

    Good grief.

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    4 times Shane was strict with Ilya and the 1 time he wasn't ft Ilya having an emotional crisis over it.

    OR: inspired by the tweet: ilya actually love having a strict boyfriend. like no his bitch do not let him have friends NO he not allowed to be out past 11 and NO U CANNOT SIT HERE!!!

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    30 May 2026

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    “I thought it wasn’t so bad, but I—I nag you a lot. About everything. Don’t I? I’m not—I’m not trying to be like—your parent or something. You are an adult, and I should not be so... so controlling. Shit.” Shane lets out a humourless little chuckle. “No wonder you would rather spend our last day together with your friends.”

    The words punch the breath out of him. Ilya's mouth parts unconsciously. Alarm bells ring in his head, which still do nothing to drown out the sound of his own heart, beating so fast in sync with the blood rushing into his ears.

    “So you are… not mad and… not breaking up with me?” Ilya asks carefully.

    Shane’s eyes snap to him, wide and red around the edges. “Break up with you?” Shane chokes out. “I should worry about you breaking up with me. I’m such a—”

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    After Vegas, Shane begins to give up on Ilya and looks for a new way to feel wanted.

    Ilya, of course, finds out about this and locks in.

    A small dose of jealousy and a bigger dose of communication add up to change the trajectory of their affair from 2014 onward.

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    29 May 2026

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    What he wasn’t prepared for was: “You did so fucking good. You weren’t lying about the Helen of Troy thing; Hollander is, like, an aspirational pull.”

    “What.” Marly wasn’t wrong, but Ilya was almost certain he must have misheard him.

    Marly started listing qualities on his fingers. “Gorgeous, the best player in the league, loaded. G-d, Roz, you really can fuck anyone, huh?”

    “I am best player!” Ilya protested.

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    “What is this ‘ball and chain’?” Ilya frowned.

    Ilya's teammate grinned. “Wife. Girlfriend. Nagging you. Controlling. No fun allowed.”

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    26 Apr 2026

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    “...so I just grab any vegetable oil,” one was saying, a conspiratorial smirk on his face. “She says ‘get the light olive oil for dressing,’ but honestly, what’s the difference? It all goes in the pan.”

    His companion snorted. “Smart. If you do it wrong enough times, they stop asking. What I do is the dishwasher. I load it completely wrong. Plates facing each other, plastic bowl on the bottom rack. She finally blew up last week and said she’d just do it herself forever.” He puffed out his chest, as if announcing a major victory. “Saved myself, what, ten minutes a day for life?”

    They shared a laugh, an ugly sound.

    Ilya froze. The anticipatory buzz in his veins turned to a cold, sharp static.

    Incompetence as a strategy.