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    Hayden navigates the hockey world after his best friend moved to Ottawa. It's also:

    Five times Ilya forces out a compliment about Hayden in front of an audience. Every time, Hayden is confused.

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    28 Mar 2026

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    “You want to talk to people about me?” Shane asked quietly.

    There was something small and confused in the question. But Ilya was still furious and raw.

    “Well I would,” he sneered, “if there was anything about you that was fucking interesting to talk about! It would be nice to not be so fucking bored and miserable!”

    The second the words left his mouth, he watched the pain roll across Shane's features like a thousand fractures shattering through glass.

    Ilya had seen Shane nearly break ribs. He had seen him miss game-winning shots, take hits that left bruises blooming purple and black across his skin. He had never seen this.

    Shane closed his eyes for a long moment. He shook his head slightly, a tiny movement, then nodded once as if agreeing with something only he could hear. His face twisted briefly with a fresh wave of pain before he forced it to still.

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    What if Shane and Ilya don't make up so easily after the Boxing Day fight? The Centaur's plane never malfunctions, so Shane never proposes. Instead, Ilya gives him an ultimatum on coming out and going public. It backfires spectacularly.

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    25 Mar 2026

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    “You know what’s funny about this?” Robin says, a smirk on her face that Steve doesn’t trust on principle.

    “Nothing?” Steve suggests.

    “You and Jonathan have, like, the complete opposite taste in music.”

    Steve sighs, long and suffering. “Yeah, Robin. I’m aware of that.”

    Or: modern AU where Steve and Jonathan are exes who still share the same Spotify account that they use to purposefully annoy each other as opposed to talking about their problems.

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    16 Mar 2026

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    "Now," the announcer says, "Let’s head over to the recap of Women’s Figure Skating, where the nineteen-year-old from the United States was able to snatch the gold in a stunning upset from the frontrunner, Russian Individual Neutral Athlete, eighteen-year-old Irina Rosanov.”

    And there she is, in a pink rhinestoned costume, gargling water and spitting it out of perfectly painted lips. Hands on hips, taking deep breaths before skating out onto the ice.

    Shane’s hand is immediately on the remote, moving to change the channel.

    “It’s fine,” Ilya says, “Want to see.”

    He tries not to keep track of her career, but when it's playing on the screen like this, it's hard to look away. She is the spitting image of his mother, curly blonde hair, lithe frame, piercing blue eyes. She is her namesake. And he doesn’t know her at all.

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    Or, Ilya's niece receives her trust fund. She comes looking for answers (and finds a home, while she's at it).

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    14 Mar 2026

  5. Rec 66

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    “Just… be happy, okay?”

    That’s the last thing Dan says before he gently lets the door fall into its lock behind him, the soft clicking more resounding, more final than any slam could’ve been.

    Phil can handle a loud fight – Dan always comes back after those.

    He’s not sure how to handle this soft goodbye into the night.

    Dan leaves.

    Phil doesn't know how to bring him back home - he just knows he has to.

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    08 Mar 2026