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the widower's garden by orphan_account
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
05 Jun 2026
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Shane is an English landowner, a veteran of the Great War. His wife Rose died in the influenza pandemic in 1920. Now he lives alone in a crumbling manor house, tended only by his garden - roses, mostly.
Ilya is a 23-year-old Russian botanist, an émigré fleeing the Bolsheviks, who arrives at the manor seeking work. He knows plants; he knows what the soil needs. Shane hires him.
They spend the season together in the garden: planting, pruning, coaxing life from the earth. The attraction is quiet at first, then undeniable. And in the walled garden, hidden from the world, they create something that neither of them has ever had: a place where they can be exactly who they are.