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    “No, Wiebe. Find someone else to babysit the infant. Is not my job, and not my problem.”
    Ilya froze.
    Standing in the half-open doorway was said infant, paperwork clutched in his hands.

    Or: ilya rozanov accidentally adopts a rookie and has to figure out how to let someone in without falling apart, and maybe even how to believe they will stay.

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    21 Aug 2026

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    The fire went out a long time ago. All that remains is ash.

    After years of trafficking, Ilya Rozanov has been conditioned to expect pain from every outstretched hand. So when he's placed with Shane Hollander, a seemingly gentle man in a quiet cottage, he knows better than to believe that it's rescue. It is a new chance to be good enough, if he can just figure out what this one wants from him.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    "Okay." Ilya takes a deep breath, letting it out. He lays down, resting his head on a pillow, and lays the phone on his diaphragm after he puts it on speaker. He hums, thinking. "Do you like chai actually? Or your, uh— friend, he decides for you?"

    There's a long, long silence after that. Ilya swallows, hoping he hadn't asked the wrong thing. He went on a limb, in a way, because that's what Ilya always does. He assumes things, and butts in where he probably shouldn't and gives boys who look like they're emotionally one foot in the grave notes with his number on it. For some reason.

    "No, he doesn’t." Shane says, eventually, and all Ilya's muscles un-tense. "I do really like chai. Caramel chai, mostly, if wherever I go has it."

    "This can be arranged." Ilya says, his hands behind his head. "I am very good barista."

    Shane snorts, then. Ilya makes it his goal to get him to laugh, and he'd say he's making pretty good progress so far.

     

    Or, Shane is in a severely abusive relationship with his boyfriend, Ash. When they visit a nearby café one day, their server, Ilya, realizes something isn’t quite right between them.

    Ilya can’t help but try and do something about it.

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    10 Aug 2026

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    “What’ve you been thinking about?” Shane asks, quiet. His finger trails little circles across Ilya’s chest.

    Ilya draws in a long breath, lets it out slowly. “I am thinking I want to give Jelly a sibling.”

    Shane blinks, caught off guard.

    “Okay, first of all,” he starts, annoyance zipping through his voice, “we’ve talked about this. You’re not calling our daughter Jelly.”

    “Angelina, Jelly — is right in the name! We call her Jelly Bean, do we not?”

    “Yes, but that’s just a nickname. The name everyone calls her can’t be Jelly! What about when she gets older? You want her walking around at seventeen going, Hi, my name’s Jelly?”

    Ilya blows a raspberry at him. “Jelly is fun. You are fun police.”

    OR when Shane and Ilya decide to expand their family and adopt from foster care, they accept placement of twelve-year-old Tess, who seems determined to make them regret their decision. Unfortunately for Tess, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have never been the type to give up on what's important.

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    08 Jul 2026

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    “We could…be friends, maybe.” Shane’s voice was small, hesitant on almost every sound.

    “Wha–” Ilya’s reply was less of a word and more of a stupid, confused noise like he’d been punched. A punch probably would’ve caught him less off guard than what Shane actually said.

    “Y’know, text about the hockey gossip? You call, I answer? Friends.”

    Something terrifyingly bright exploded into Ilya’s chest. Something dangerous, that felt like maybe it could keep him warm through the summer in Russia, through the chill that permeated his childhood home no matter how warm it was outside.

    “And also we like to suck each other’s dicks,” he quipped, trying to deflect.

    “Fuck off, Rozanov.”

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    Drunk and young and stupid, Shane and Ilya choose to be honest - just a little bit. To lean into each other, instead of apart. What happens if they choose to be a little bit brave on a Vegas rooftop in 2011, and keep choosing it?

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    23 Jun 2026