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    Shane had left. Ilya had told him to go, and Shane had listened. He walked out that door, after driving all this way, all because Ilya told him to.

    God, why did he tell him to leave?

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    AKA: after their fight over the party, Ilya spirals, and ultimately attempts suicide. Shane doesn’t want to him to have to pull himself back together alone.

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    13 Jan 2026

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    "Rozy," Brian, the team doctor says, "talk to me, buddy. That puck clipped you pretty good, how’s the pain?"

    Ilya blinks. He clenches his jaw against a wave of nausea. He rests his cheek on the ice, and the cold helps a little.

    "Bad. Very bad." He swallows. "Is Shane here?"

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    or, in the final MTL/BOS game of the year, ilya takes a puck to the head.

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    10 Jan 2026

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    “Because I can’t fucking do this, Ilya. I’m going to my parents’, I- I need a break, alright? Shit.” Shane’s gaze locked onto his keys and he picked them up, stalking towards the door. He needed a break from the arguing and he needed to go somewhere he could breathe and collect his thoughts, so he could process this correctly and talk about it with Ilya civilly. Everything was still suffocating and overwhelming and Shane needed out, needed to go sit in his car and drive in silence to his parents’ place.
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    Ilya had seen enough breakups to know what one looked like. Shane ignored him, and looked irritated, and said he couldn’t do this (this, like everything between them could be reduced to a single word other than love), and said he needed a break (his confidence in Ilya’s English was comforting up until Ilya realised it meant Shane didn’t feel the need to say the dramatic I’m breaking up with you that characterised the ends of relationships).

    or, hollanov fight and misunderstandings resulting in an injury ensue

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    09 Jan 2026

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    On their wedding day, Ilya stands at the front of a sunlit room with Shane's parents at his side and an empty space in his chest where his own family should be.
    He tells himself he can survive that. He tells himself love is enough to make a home out of anything.

    Ten years later, Ilya finally realizes it is.

    A cottage in Canada. Smoke from the grill. friends turned family. Two kids with bright futures Shane talks about like it’s the safest thing in the world.
    Ilya has everything he never let himself want—until his head starts to buzz, a roar turns the sky violent, and the world cuts out mid-laugh.

    A storm hits. A pilot reports mechanical trouble. Contact is lost.

    Shane is left with one message—four lines that feel like a vow carved into his ribs—and the kind of grief that doesn’t arrive all at once, but teaches you how to breathe around an absence anyway. He learns what it means to wake up and keep going. To love someone who isn’t there. To carry a life that was supposed to be shared.

    And still… some promises don’t disappear just because the signal does.

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    03 Jan 2026