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1. The Version that Stays by S0MEWHATDAMAGED

   Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   05 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • The Talamasca & Everyone Else's Business
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Lestat de Lioncourt
   • Irina Rozanova
   • I Have Two Dead Dads And Now So Does Ilya
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • The Horrors Persist and So Do Shane Hollander's Spreadsheets
   • Married Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Alternate Universe
   • Vampirism But Everyone is In Denial and Nobody is Saying the Word
   • Ilya Cannot Live Laugh Love in these Conditions
   • I kissed the brick
   • (No Beta) We Die Like the USSR
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat (But the Dove is French and Also a Vampire)
   • Memory Loss
   • Remember I love you
   • Generational Trauma
   • Epistolary
   • Minor Character Death
   • (mention of)
   • Therapy is Cool but I Wrote Fanfiction Instead

   Summary

   When Irina Rozanova was thirty-five, she ended her own life.

   Before she did, she left her son twelve letters: confessions, apologies, and twelve years of trying to name the man she could never quite remember.

   On *his* thirty-fifth birthday, all Ilya Rozanov wants is a quiet day with his husband.

   Instead he gets a package nobody admits to sending, answers to questions he never thought to ask, and a full Pandora's box of every fear he has about becoming a parent.

   Shane just wants to make a spreadsheet about it.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Papaoutai

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,825

   Chapters:

   6/6

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