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    After not speaking for over four months, Ilya is perturbed by headlines that Shane has suddenly married an American pop star.

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    Shane Hollander opened the door to find a 6’3 seething Russian in the hallway. “What…” he angled his head to peer around Ilya’s rigid, imposing figure. “What are you doing here?”

    Ilya shoved a magazine at him. “Annul it.”

    “No seriously. Where’d you even come from?”

    “Hollander.” Icy warning wrapped around each syllable.

    “Aren’t you presenting at the ESPYs tonight?”

    “Am home sick,” Ilya barked, pushing his way into Shane’s apartment. “Is true?” he gestured toward the magazine Shane had yet to acknowledge. “End it. Now.”

    “End what…” Shane looked down, frowning when he realized it was the fucking 'National Enquirer'. What the actual fuck? “Oh…” he breathed, the top box on the front page catching his eye. A picture of him and Mia Voegele taken in a dark club with the tag, ‘Secret Marriage?'

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    02 Feb 2026

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    “You are very sensitive.” Ilya settles on, eyes brightened in the evening light. Smoke seems to pour out of his skin.

    Shane grits his teeth, trying to keep himself from shaking too violently. “What? For a Canadian? It’s, like, forty degrees out here, and I was just playing, and I’m sweaty—”

    “No. You are very sensitive in the, ah, the other way. You did not punch me.” He grins. “I thought you would after mediocre.”

    a different, mildly supernatural take on the hollanov meeting. and just about everything else

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Ilya finds himself Friday afternoon walking across campus to the giant building he’s probably been in twice during the last three years. He’s lucky he even remembers the way. He goes straight to the elevator and presses the button for the quiet study floor that he recognized from the pictures and waits, impatiently. When the doors open and he sees Shane Hollander sitting alone, Ilya almost cheers and pats himself on the back. He might be a genius. He psyches himself up and walks to the table. He’s ready to turn up his charm and ask Shane if he can sit down next to him, and then maybe to coffee, or dinner, or to his bedroom.

    This is where things start going wrong.

    or - Ilya experiences love at first sight but fumbles his way through seducing campus nerd Shane Hollander

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    01 Feb 2026

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    "You see that?"

    "yea," Ilya breathed, and he absolutely did see that. He'd been seeing that for months now, catching glimpses of Shane across campus, in the library, at the campus coffee shop where Shane always ordered the same thing; green tea. Ilya had maybe (definitely) developed what could only be described as a massive fucking crush, not that he'd admit it to anyone.

    "No one," Jake said, drawing out the words like he was making a dramatic announcement, "has ever bagged Hollander. Not once. The guy's basically allergic to giving anyone below his iq level a chance. But you—" he jabbed a finger into Ilya's chest, "—If anyone could do it, it's you."

    Ilya's alcohol-drawned brain was already latching onto the challenge before Jake even finished. "So what is the bet exactly?"

    "One month. You get Hollander to go out with you, really go out with you like proper dating and I'll give you a thousand bucks."

    It was the most idiotic idea he’s ever heard come out of Jake’s mouth (and that's saying a lot), so like any sane person; Ilya should just say no and move on with his life–

    "Deal."

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    01 Feb 2026

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    When Ilya casually suggests Shane sleep with
    someone else to ease the ache of long distance, it
    breaks something inside him.

    Two weeks later, Shane lies and tells Ilya he did it, just to see if Ilya cares.
    He gets his answer at 7 AM the next morning, when there's a knock on his door.

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