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    Their first year of marriage was the best year of Ilya’s life. He got to wake up to his husband every morning, play hockey with him all day, and go home with him every night. They’d established a routine that felt comfortable and reliable, and Ilya felt settled for perhaps the first time in his life.

    But a phone call after a quiet day at the cottage changes everything. And suddenly, their future becomes dangerously uncertain.

    Or: Ilya gains custody of his niece, and we get excessive and wholesome Hollanov dad content, as a treat

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    07 Apr 2026

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    Her heart pounding in her chest, Alja stared at the four letters on her father’s broken screen.

    Илья. Ilya.

    She knew almost nothing about her father’s life— except for his brother. His successful, rich, yet good-for-nothing brother.

    When he sank the deepest, on those nights where stars didn’t quite shine, Alexei’s tongue loosened. And words gushed from his mouth, words he never remembered having spoken aloud.

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    in which Alja Rozanov is very similar to her uncle— not that she knows it.
     

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    06 Apr 2026

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    “More,” Rozanov grunts in English, but Shane is transfixed on the bead of sweat rolling down his temple, down to his tense jaw. “Say more, Hollander.”

    “Mm, more–”

    “No, more– Блять–”

    “No more?”

    “Ни хрена себе– Say more Russian, Hollander.”

    or, Shane knows how to say about four words in Russian, and Ilya loses his mind

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    02 Apr 2026

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    “I don’t want to smell that place again,” he says. “I don’t want to hear that language around me like that. I don’t want to be small again.”

    His chest tightens. His breathing gets shallow. He hates this part. The moment when the past stops being something he remembers and starts being something he feels.

    “I can’t,” he repeats. “I really can’t.”

    There’s a long pause. Then Ilya exhales shakily and adds, quieter now, almost breaking,

    “But I can’t leave her alone.”

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    when ilya's niece loses her mother and reaches out to him in secret, he returns to russia with shane to get her out of an unsafe home.

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    26 Mar 2026

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    The Ottawa Centaurs go to a bar after a game. There happens to a be a mechanical bull, and everyone puts money on who can last the longest on it. Everyone underestimates just how experienced Shane is at riding.

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    03 Mar 2026