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    In late 2012 when Shane has a meltdown and frantically tells them to call Lily, for the first time Yuna’s ever witnessed, Shane is coaxed out of one of them instead of just suffering through until the exhaustion wins out instead—and all by some mysterious, apparently very well attuned to Shane, 'Lily'.

    She hadn’t meant to see the number before she’d pressed it and fumbled the phone up to Shane’s ear. It was simply a byproduct of the situation, something Shane had asked for her to do.

    …Memorizing it and then texting that number to thank Lily for their help was not something she’d been asked to do. But she worries so much about Shane, and Lily is a reassurance. Not a pry for details but the simple, verifiable confirmation: he’s okay.

    Lily, on the other hand, very much enjoys being able to make oddly specific 'your mother' jokes to Shane much more often now. (And maybe the whole family piece of it, too.)

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    06 May 2026

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    Shane knows the plan to wait to come out until they retire isn't ideal, but he doesn't have a better one. He thinks that he and Ilya can make it work, until his mom points out how long they will have to live their lives in the shadows.

    But once he realizes that, he immediately knows that he can't come out. It would ruin his legacy.

    He's pretty sure that's why he doesn't want to come out. No other reason. Right?

    He is sure that's all it is until Ilya asks him if he would be safe if he came out. And he can't answer.

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    or Yuna does the math on the retirement plan and when she points this out it opens Shane's eyes.

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    also known as this author had (1) idea for a scene and had to reverse engineer a multi-chapter fic to make it happen.

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    04 May 2026

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    Yuna did not hate Rozanov, no — she despised him. Just the mention of his name let her blood boil inside her veins. Shane did not work his ass off to only be reduced to some kind of rivalry. He deserved the spotlight and praise for his own achievements and Yuna fought the urge to scream whenever her son just shrugged it off as if he didn't care. She couldn't fathom how he could be so nonchalant about all of this. He should be enraged and angry and stand up for himself. He was his own person, not an extension to some Russian who thought he was above everyone else!

    And then Rozanov had the audacity to show up at the hospital, looking like his whole world had shattered in front of his eyes.

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    Yuna tries to let go of her own prejudices and gains a son along the way

     

    This work is part of a series and the direct continuation of part 1. It could be read as a standalone but I don't recommend it.

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    02 May 2026

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    Yuna's hand meets Ilya’s. The rivalry status that the league had painted over her son's relationship with the Russian now cast aside. They clutch to each other in silent acknowledgement of their shared pain, hope and fear in what had just manifested before their eyes. There's a uniting force in pain and grief—It's one that wipes slates clean, makes you forgive, makes you love harder and appreciate more than you ever thought possible. Everything she ever knew or felt about the Russian whose hand she now clung to was dissolved

    Shane Hollander briefly dies on the ice after the hit from Marlow in the Montreal vs Boston Game. Ilya handles his emotions poorly and has a very public meltdown revealing their relationship to the world.

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    02 May 2026

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    What if the hit Shane takes on the ice ends in something far more serious than just broken collarbone and Shane high as a kite? What if his heart stopped and in the heat of the moment, Ilya outed them as "boyfriends" in front of the whole arena? And what if Shane falls into a coma?

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    Ilya wants to scream. To claw his way down the hallway. To grab the nearest doctor by the collar and shake answers out of them. To punch a wall until his knuckles break. To rip out his own heart and shove it into Shane’s chest:

    Here. Use mine. Mine seems determined to keep beating through this, might as well make itself useful.

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    02 May 2026