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    After the All-Star game in Tampa, Ilya flies home to deal with his father’s death; Alexei is arrested, and Ilya assumes custody of his niece. After months away from the NHL, Ilya returns to Boston with a child, and Shane hears rumors of Ilya with Svetlana and a 3-year-old with curly hair.

    Or: Ilya doesn’t communicate, Shane makes assumptions, and they’re both idiots. Featuring brattiness, pining, and second chances.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Shane Hollander can handle twenty thousand screaming fans, high-stakes games, and the kind of pressure that never really lets up.

    He cannot, however, handle preschool drop-off.

    Fortunately, Teacher Ilya can.

    (It involves a stuffed bunny, a city with no mayor, and maybe something more.)

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “Why did you want me to meet you here today?” Shane asked. When he’d heard the request, he’d had the same thought as Jared. Was he trying to rub it in? One last chance to retaliate for a long ago rejection?

    Shane had almost made it to Rozanov’s room that night in the hotel in Toronto. But when the elevator doors opened, Shane’s feet had stayed glued to the ground.

    He’d been so afraid of ruining everything, only to have it ruined for him barely a year later.

     

    Shane does not hook up with Ilya in Toronto. Six years later, his hockey career is long over and he has found a new calling that puts his media training, and his pretty face, to good use.

    Consider this a remix of sorts.

     

    Content warnings: homophobia and associated use of slurs

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “Did you want a letter? Should I have sent you a formal invitation? What the fuck else was I supposed to do?” Shane asked, exasperated.

    “Oh, I don’t know you could maybe have said that your ‘friend’ Harry who was coming for dinner was the Duke-of-Fucking-Sussex, Shane!” Ilya said, bringing his hands up in frustration. He could feel a dull aching throb behind his eyes and if not for the fact that it would only antagonise Shane more he would have turned around and gone home.

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    Or; Shane Hollander is far more famous than anyone in his life ever realised

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Galina stopped writing to look at Ilya. "Do you think he'd be willing to talk to you next time it happens, even if it's late?"

    Ilya's stomach turned over. He didn't even want to consider it, but he knew the answer. "Yes. But he silences his phone at night."

    "Most phones these days have an option to let certain numbers ring through, even on Do Not Disturb. Do you think he'd be open to setting that up for you?"

    Imagining that conversation made Ilya nauseous. Yes, no fucking doubt, Shane would be open to it if Ilya explained the reason. "I'm not going to ask him to do that."

    Set during The Long Game, an alternate version where the plane scene doesn't happen. Instead, there's this: a car crash, a therapist's duty to report, and an urgent reckoning with priorities.

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    02 Jun 2026