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    Russians do not blush. Russians do not get sick. Ilya gets concussions. He gets stitches. He skates on cracked ribs and calls it fine. He does not get sick. Which is why, when he wakes up at three in the morning in the middle of June, shaking so hard his teeth knock together, his first instinct is irritation.

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    10 Mar 2026

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    "Our love isn’t earned, we’ve given it freely."

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    A year in Shane and Ilya's lives as they become parents to Charlie and Jack

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Canada had given him his life as he knew it, but it had never felt one hundred percent comfortable, either. He missed Russia sometimes, but it didn’t have the thing that mattered most. Ilya had exactly one home, and it was this: his face pressed into a smooth chest, his head tucked under a strong jaw, with freckled arms wrapped around him and delicate fingers combing through his hair. Anywhere else was a temporary excursion.

    A treatise on second (and third) languages, homesickness, acceptance, Shane's struggle learning Russian, and the things people do when they care.

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    06 Mar 2026

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    "No m'not," Shane said, somehow pressing his face even more into Ilya's body. "All I ever did was play hockey. Now, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I hope we have a baby soon."

    The car went quiet at that. When Shane looked up, Ilya was looking out the window, jaw set.

    "S' something wrong?" Shane asked. He ran his fingertips along the warm skin of Ilya's forearm.

    Ilya turned back to face him, expression softened. Whatever pensiveness had taken hold of him was gone.

    "No. Everything is perfect."

    After sixteen seasons of professional hockey, Shane Hollander retires from the NHL in the interest of starting a family with his loving husband. It's maybe a little earlier than he would've liked, but with his thirty-five year old knees beginning to protest, it makes sense.

    He's happy. He and Ilya have been working towards this for nearly a decade.

    He's also terrified, wondering if this is the biggest mistake of his life, and thinking that maybe he should take it all back. But mostly, he's happy.

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    05 Mar 2026

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    Shane and Ilya’s oldest son, Maks, is a little different. People always assume goalies are a little weird, and he is…a little weird. He knows weird things about superheroes.  He speaks Russian and French and English (and a little Norwegian, there’s a rookie on the team and he doesn’t speak much English so…). He likes to do origami to calm his nerves. He talks to dogs like they’re people. He mumbles to himself as he skates back and forth in the crease to create the perfect divots and thanks the goalposts when they make a good save. He listens to whale noises when he works out. And he’s not someone who can just sleep with someone with no strings attached.

    So it takes a lot for Maks to have this encounter with the woman in the pie shop.

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    04 Mar 2026