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    “Hollander - we are too old to be playing pryatky” he tried again, dropping his bags by the hallway and turning the corner from the hall. “If your shoulder is okay, I have not had you in two weeks, and I -”

    Ilya stopped cold halfway into the kitchen.

    Across the marbled counter, a glass of ice water sat, half drunk and gathering condensation.

    Next to it, a bright orange pill bottle, the cap popped off.

    And on the black tiled floor, partially hidden behind the island, Shane lay crumpled and motionless.

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    or, Shane is injured during a Bears/Metro game, again. Rotten luck, but at least Ilya is around this time to take care of him. Until he finds Shane on the kitchen floor.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Ilya and Shane attend Bad Bunny's No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui residency in Puerto Rico.

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    Shane gets a little cross-faded at a Bad Bunny concert and it maybe ends up on the internet. Oops.

    Alternatively, the one in which I prove that "Safaera" is Shane's song, but Ilya's is "Seda." iykyk.

    **Now updated to include a little spicy post-concert scene. Can be read without, if you prefer!**

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    07 Feb 2026

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    When an injury puts Ilya in a coma during the Ottawa Centaurs third game in the Stanley Cup final, Shane must decide whether he can handle the pressures of leading the team to victory with the worry that at any moment Ilya's condition could go from bad to worse.

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    Shane didn’t want to go home. It was one thing to be in another country clinging to the unfamiliarity of the people and the places to try and rationalise that this was a strange nightmare. But when he had to wake up in his bed alone and walk streets with people wearing Ilya’s jersey that pathetic hope would be extinguished.

    It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The next game was the 11th, and if they hadn’t won by then they would have done by the 13th. Either way, by the time Ilya turned 32 on the 15th he was supposed to be a two-time Stanley Cup winner. They would spend the summer at the cottage, bathing in the joy of success and each other and forgetting that there was a world out there that demanded things of them.

    Title from Walt Whitman's 'O Captain! My Captain!' RIP Walt Whitman you would have loved hockey yaoi.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    Dennis's family visit and Dennis is Not Okay. Thankfully, he has enough people looking out for him that he'll be okay... eventually.

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    Dennis's Dad is a homophobic asshole. Dennis is trying to get through the week. Robby just wants Dennis to be okay

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    03 Feb 2026

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    After their engagement, Ilya and Shane return to Russia under the cover of the Irina Foundation, knowing it may be the last time Ilya ever sets foot there. What waits for him is not closure, but grief, memory, and a past he learned to survive by becoming quiet and hard.

    It isn’t about going back to the life he escaped.
    It’s about one final goodbye—to the place that shaped him, and to the mother he never stopped missing.

    With Shane beside him—steady, patient, and fiercely careful—Ilya faces grief he’s spent years surviving, old fear that still lives in his bones, and the quiet truth he’s been avoiding:
    some doors don’t close cleanly… but you can still choose how to leave them.

    This is a story about grief, survival, and choosing a future where home is no longer a place, but a person.

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    29 Jan 2026