northstarloon

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    Ilya and Shane soulbond with a handshake in a freezing parking lot in Saskatchewan. It actually doesn’t change very much, until Shane’s concussion drives everything haywire, forcing them into close proximity and an earlier confrontation with all the feelings they’ve been trying to ignore.

    Or: as it turns out, it’s easier than you’d think to be in someone’s head and still not know how they feel.

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    19 Aug 2026

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    Weeks later, when the news finally breaks, the headlines will call it a “catastrophic brain injury”.

    They’ll analyze the hit from every angle, trying to find just what went so wrong. It was clean, it was legal… and yet it somehow slammed Shane Hollander into the ice hard enough to end his career.

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    or, another take on shane’s injury in episode 5 being much, much worse.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    Most beautiful depiction of disability I’ve seen in a story as far. Saving to share with people in disability community. TBI representation. Use of AAC device.

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    onging hollanov mafia!au

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    05 May 2026

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    Shane and Ilya, through life, as seen and shown in snippets from the Cottage that cares for them.

    It remembered, with trembling breath, when David walked in, saw its boys on the deck. It breathed its sigh of relief when they came back, shaken, but smiling, confident. It noticed, how the rest of their time felt easier. How they breathed easier. How much it had freed them that someone, besides the house, knew.

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    05 May 2026

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    Shane Hollander never got that concussion, and Ilya Rozanov breaks up with him. Shortly after, Shane suffers a career ending injury. They don’t speak again.

    Of course, stories don’t end like that. At least not theirs. When Shane adopts a little girl with familiar curls and deep blue eyes, Shane writes letters to Ilya, imagining he was with him, raising the girl together.

    Movers get things mixed up. Letters get sent. And after 4 years of no contact, Ilya moves to Ottawa to see Shane again. The only question is—will Shane let him in? Or is he still just as scared as he was in 2017?

    (main story completed!)

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    04 May 2026