Duckintheriver



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    all my one shots (and plenty-shots? lmfao) exploring a darker hollanov dynamic in various forms and varying levels. named evil ilya for fun, but dark!shane and just general dark!hollanov fics are posted here too.

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    The irony—that it's Shane who once made everything bearable, and Shane who now makes even leaving unbearable—registers, but without bitterness now, without panic, not even with regret. The dichotomy swirls inside him, and he just watches it spin, as he’s done so many times.

    Ilya thinks of how Shane was the first and only person to give his adult life shape and meaning. The first person who ever made him feel real. Chosen. The first and only person to see him, really see him.

    It's only fitting, he thinks hazily, that you're the last.

    Love changes Ilya’s life. It doesn't save it.

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    15 Feb 2026

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    Shane will be the one to get dementia, in the end, once the disease progresses. He’ll be the one who forgets, in the final stages. It’s unfair, so fucking unfair, but Ilya can’t cry about it in front of their daughters or in front of Shane’s parents. So he gets up from the table and slams the patio door, pats himself down for a cigarette he knows won’t be there until his fingers find his mother’s cross laying heavy against his collarbone.

    Or, Ilya and Shane, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). A series of vignettes.

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    "You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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