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    "We're setting you up with a billet situation," Fletcher continued. "It's pretty common for first-year players, especially international guys. Gives you a chance to settle in, learn the city, have someone looking out for you."

    "Okay," Ilya said slowly, not entirely sure what a billet was, but not wanting to admit his ignorance.

     He could guess from the context – he’d heard of rookies being assigned to live with older single players, veterans who could show them the ropes. Maybe that was what Fletcher meant. Connors maybe, he was probably a handful of years older than Ilya. Or perhaps Becker. Ilya just hoped it was someone who–

    "You'll be staying with Nikolai Petrov and his family."

    The words hit Ilya like a punch to the gut. For a moment, he forgot how to breathe.

    "Petrov?" he managed, his voice coming out strangled.
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    The Bears decide that Ilya should be set up with a billet for his first season. The idea of spending a year living with a man that Ilya is sure hates him is completely terrifying. And yet, it ends up being the best thing to ever happen to him.

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    What makes a family?

    Is it the blood you share? The name you carry? Or is it something less tangible—something felt rather than seen?

    For Sirius and Regulus Black, the answer has never been simple. Each of them has their own idea of what family means, though neither could explain it easily—not until much later. Because figuring it out… that took time. And pain. And lots of learning.

    The truth is, what makes a family looks different to everyone.

    For the Potters, it’s love.
    Love that is steadfast, freely given, and never earned. A kind of love that opens its doors to broken boys and whispers, You belong here.

    But love isn’t always easy—especially when the person you’re trying to love doesn’t know how to accept it. When trust has been shattered too many times, and hope feels dangerous.

    Still, through every argument, every silence, every small step forward, love remains.

    And somewhere along the way, Sirius and Regulus begin to ask themselves the question they never dared to before:
    When did I first feel loved?
    When did I finally believe I was?

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    for as long as bucky could remember, he’d wanted to be an architect. after 6 long (long) years and a masters degree to prove it, he’d gotten the dream job at a cushy firm that was paying him a lot of money to do the only thing he ever really loved.

    then, his sisters sudden death found him no longer the fun uncle but the sole guardian to a 6 month old he had no idea how to take care of.

    so, he quit his job and used a chunk of his savings to buy a garage shop with a little apartment over it in the middle of brooklyn and became every architects worst nightmare: a contractor. a for hire residential contractor.

    a year later, captain america and all his quiet anger came stumbling through the door and without bucky realizing, everything changed.

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    In the haze of the summer, Harry can hear the magpies chirping.

    Is it before or after it happens that they stop? He can't quite remember. It's a weird mixture of relief and horror, what he feels in the moment.

    He always told Dumbledore that something bad would happen if he went back to the Dursley's.

    And now something bad has happened.
    Like the magpies, like an omen of bad luck, he remains in violent prophecies once more.
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