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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    His mother told him a story once, about a man who kept his death somewhere no one could find it. Ilya built himself the same way.

    Post-The Long Game, and Shane is starting to notice.

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    10 Sep 2026

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    Have more drinks. Go to the next bar. Then the club. The bass throbs and it’s like if your heart can follow the pulse of it, maybe it will keep beating. You’re the last ones left. You can’t go home, because home is where all the rest of it waits. Luca stumbles into you and blushes so easily with blue eyes so wide — desire that he doesn’t know what to do with as his gaze slides to your mouth like someone else you once knew.

    What’s the worst that can happen?

    Shane and Ilya had a plan. Ilya being outed by pictures of him getting a blowjob in an alleyway behind a club from Luca Haas was not part of the plan.

    A not-very-nice Hollanov infidelity fic.

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    29 Aug 2026

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    ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. THAT is the stuff

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    Five months ago, Ilya was filling up their nice, practical car when the pump malfunctioned and spit gasoline all over his shoes. He cursed the gas pump and the empty tank and the fucking fossils that made the gasoline that ruined his new Givenchy leather sneakers. But a sick part of him looked down at the puddle of gasoline at his feet and wanted to pull out his lighter.

    It must be that part of him that says, “do you think of me when you are alone?”

    -OR-

    Ilya Rozanov has been married to the love of his life for three years now. Their marriage is fine. He’s fine. He is a good captain, and Luca is drunk, and he is just driving him home.

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    28 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ohohohohohohoho YES. love when there’s a deeply emotionally compelling/painful reason for infidelity. and everyone feels like shit after

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Ilya Rozanov has never had to ask for anything in his life.

    "You ask first."

    "Ask what," Ilya says. His throat feels like it's on fire.

    "To fuck me," Luca says.

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    28 Aug 2026

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    fascinating and unexpected luca/ilya dynamic. delicious, want to think about this one some more

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    "You don't think he..." Shane says slowly. "That he did this on purpose?"

    "I don't know. What has he said to you?" Svetlana asks.

    Nothing, Shane wants to say, but that's not completely true. He and Ilya talk every day. It's normal, or at least feels normal. It feels like having a boyfriend, and Shane really loves having a boyfriend. He loves loving Ilya and being loved by him, but Ilya hasn't said anything to him. Nothing important. Nothing that would indicate that he would drive his Porsche into the country, unbuckle his seatbelt, and crash into a guardrail on purpose.

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    Ilya is found critically injured after a car accident on a quiet back road in Ottawa. Shane doesn't have much to do but wait for news from Svetlana in Ilya's empty house, listless and useless and spinning wild scenarios in his exhaustion. He starts drinking the beers in Ilya's fridge to pass the time, but time has other ideas, namely, ideas on how he can help Ilya without ever stepping foot in the hospital.

    Canon Divergent from The Long Game, post-Halloween.

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    20 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    oof this fucked me up and while I love a deeply ambiguous ending & value the thinking it asks us to do I do think ** **** at the end and I cried