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    When Ilya asked for something inexpensive for his birthday, he expected flowers and cake. Maybe a self-made card.

    He did not expect 365 emails. Or rather, the promise of them.

    Ilya is promised that for the next 364 days, he will receive an email every morning, each containing a song that reminds Shane of their seventeen years together—from first meetings and first fights to weddings, championships, and everything in between.

    A year of music. A year of memories. A year of Shane loving him as intensely as ever.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    Daily posts on the Ottawa Centaurs social media.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    The last thing Shane and Ilya expected when they died after living a long, happy life together was to wake up back in their 17 years old bodies the day they first met.

    They get to redo everything together and to fix what they got wrong the first time.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    "Ilya, honey?” Yuna sounded calm, composed, but there was a crack in her voice. A crack that he had never heard in it before. It chilled the blood in his veins, froze him to the spot. “Are you home?”

    "Da. Why?” His free hand was tapping against the kitchen counter. 1,2,3 - repeat.

    "Shane was in a car accident.”

    "My Shane?” Ilya’s brain was spinning without grip, like tires during heavy rain. It did not make sense, in his thoughts–this was not real. She was lying. “No, he is a careful driver. He would not. I joke all the time. Even a grandma will take him over.”

    The silence on the other end of the line thickened. It felt like it was eating him alive.

    Late at night, after Shane left Ilya during the Christmas fight, Shane gets into a car accident.

    While the world keeps turning and Ilya deals with the uncertainty of grief and guilt, Shane meets the one person Ilya no longer has: Irina.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    “Ilya, what are we gonna do?” Shane says.

    Ilya finishes whatever he has been doing on his phone, and tosses it gently to the bed beside him. He crosses the room to Shane, stands in front of him, squeezes into his shoulders with his big hands, rubbing them like he means to warm them up.

    “Looks like we will have a little vacation,” he says, with a big obnoxious grin.

     


     

    Boston and Montreal are sent to Paris to play against each other in an exhibition series in January 2017. Ilya and Shane decide to stay in Paris for one more night. Just one more night, so they can talk. Maybe finally understand each other.

    They aren't expecting a volcano to erupt in Iceland and close all the airspace in Europe, leaving them stranded there. Together.

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    13 Jun 2026