Black_Bellatrix



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    “Did you… plan this? Even before I told you about…? Had you already planned to ask me to stay, and to… cook for me?”
    Ilya freezes, looking caught, before he says unconvincingly, “No?” and turns back to the fridge, leaving Shane staring at the side of his face.
    “Rozanov.”
    He winces. “Maybe? I was thinking about it. I was worried you would say no.”
    “Why would I say no?”
    “You almost did say no,” Ilya reminds him, giving up and turning to face him again. “You tell me.”
    Oh. Shane had almost said no, because… this isn’t what they do. They fuck, sometimes cuddle for a bit, and leave. And maybe if this were last season, and if Shane hadn’t been working all summer on getting more comfortable with deviating from his years-old routines, he’d be a lot less cool about all this.
    But Shane’s been getting better at figuring out what he wants and not just what he’s supposed to want, and at letting himself have the things he wants, and, well, he wants this. He wants Ilya.


    In the summer of 2016, Shane starts to heal his relationships with himself, his body, and his desires. That October, Ilya gets to be grateful for the results, in more ways than one.

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    12 May 2026

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    After one messy breakup too many, James Hagens decides he’s done with relationships for a while.

    Then a rivalry weekend against UConn ends with a basketball game, an overtime win, a loser parade, and Braylon Mullins looking at him one too many times across a fire pit.

    So much for the plan.

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    11 May 2026

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    It’s like they’re in a fucked up game of relationship chicken now, increasingly doing things together that Shane can’t describe as anything other than domestic and romantic and boyfriend-like. They text constantly, detailing their days and sharing everything from complaints about teammates to jokes about other players in the league to the kind of quiet worries about family that don’t need to be responded to, just heard by another person.

    Or maybe it’s like Schroedinger’s cat. As long as Shane doesn’t ask, doesn’t speak out loud, he can have this. It can exist, and it cannot exist at the same time as long as Shane doesn’t press too hard. Doesn’t want too much.

    It feels increasingly like agony now that he’s realized that he loves Ilya.

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    Tunameltdown AU where Ilya makes him tuna melts and says his name and Shane doesn’t freak out and run away. Well, he does freak out, but he also stays. Or the one where Shane doesn’t realize that Ilya’s his boyfriend for a solid three months.

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    08 May 2026

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    David Hollander never made it to the cottage, leaving Ilya and Shane to enjoy the summer exactly as they’d imagined, but fate has a crude way of ensuring that what is meant to happen will happen, no matter what.

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    07 May 2026

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    Shane knows it’s not a good time to have this conversation. He should wait until they’re not both tired from a stretch of tough games, until he’s not exhausted from having all the Centaurs over for the day. He should wait until he can’t feel anger simmering inside him and his shoulders aren’t tense. That’s probably why he doesn’t wait.

    “Stop trying to make me be friends with Troy Barrett.”

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    07 May 2026