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    Shane fractures his toe and is out for the playoffs but it isn't all that bad...

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    26 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 95

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    Shane and Ilya spend their first summer at the cottage after Ilya moves to Ottawa

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    26 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    In a hotel room their first year playing together for Ottawa, Shane and Ilya talk about gay rookies and bad threesomes and how to not sound like you're trying to hook up with Shane's mom.

    "I get that you're trying to say something that's actually kind of sweet, but I cannot emphasize enough how much it sounds like you were trying to hook up with my fucking mom. Also, my mom doesn't just like you, my mom loves you. You know that."

    "Sure, okay, now. But back then? I was very happy to settle for just like. You know how it is with Hollanders. You have to hook up with them for a while before the feelings start to grow."

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    24 Feb 2026

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    Ilya liked Shane’s parents. He really did. David and Yuna Hollander were entirely devoted to their only child–maybe sometimes a bit intense, if not a little overbearing, in Yuna’s case–and their attentiveness had moulded him into a kind, hardworking, and thoughtful man. Truly, their son was a testament to the quality of both their character’s–Shane’s soft underbelly nurtured by his father’s patient tone and earnest gaze and his shrewdness and talent sharpened by his mother’s fierce mettle. Shane was the sum of his parent’s parts, yet entirely his own, and Ilya was very grateful to the tender, yet firm, hands that had shaped the man he loved. But right now, well, right now Ilya was not their biggest fan.

     

    Jane:
    My parents are going to be staying at my place after the game on Friday.

     

    Ilya missed Shane. Ilya really needed to have sex with Shane. Now the man's parents were in the way.

     

    Or: Ilya is finally seeing Shane for the first time since their summer at the cottage but Shane's parents crash their first evening alone in weeks. Set during that agonising final season Ilya plays for Boston.

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    23 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    But that was in another country.

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    21 Feb 2026