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  1. Rec 48

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    It's Ilya who finds her.
    That's the truth. That's also an oversimplification built on a technicality.
    Ilya's twelve and everything's normal until it isn't.

    Or: a time travel AU loosely inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife, in which Irina's suicide more than haunts the narrative, and Ilya meets himself several times.
    Also a 5+1 fic of sorts, if you squint at it the right way.

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    15 May 2026

  2. Rec 27

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    Ilya is six the first time it happens. He's in the garden, and then he sees himself, just a little older, and that older Ilya waves and comes running over to play. Later he will be so grateful Mama is the only one who sees. She tells him it must be their secret, just the two of them, always, and gives him ground rules, to keep him safe: when you visit, don't talk to strangers, don't go in public, don't ask questions of your older self, don't tell your younger self anything. You don't know what knowing the future might change. Don't ever tell anyone about it.

    When Ilya says he's going to score fifty goals his rookie season, he's not boasting, he's reporting a fact.

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    15 May 2026

  3. Rec *

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    “When you’re with her,” Ilya continues, voice rough and breathless, “and she does fuck all for you no matter how hard you close your eyes, do you try to angle your hand so she brushes up on the scar? Do you do everything you can to remember it exists? Am I there with you, Hollander? Always?”

    Shane wants to touch him—so he does the only thing he’s allowed to do.

    He throws the first punch.

    Or: After Shane and Ilya's first on-ice fight sends the media into a frenzy, the league forces them to date to control the narrative.

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    08 May 2026

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    ...oh,” his mom says. “Oh, honey, you were seeing someone? You never said anything.”

    “It’s-it’s complicated.” He catches the present tense too fucking late to do anything about it, and he barely resists the urge to either groan or slip forward to start beating his head against the coffee table.

    Fuck his fucking life.

    “You’re still…seeing this person?” His mom asks, and the amount of control he can hear her exerting is almost painful. “Who is-”

    “Yuna,” his dad cuts in, voice quiet, “maybe give him a second, yeah?”

    Yeah, Shane agrees in his head. Give him a second.

    Maybe give him a decade while they’re at it.

    (when shane's old fake id falls out of his wallet around his parents, he has to explain that it was to book hotel rooms before he was 21)

    (...and then he has to explain why he needed to book those hotel rooms in the first place)

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    08 May 2026

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    “You are not broken, Ilya,” Terry says, sounding a little stern now. “I told you to keep an eye on the side effects. How long have you been experiencing this?”

    “Since last night.”

    “What?”

    “Since last night,” Ilya repeats. “Or afternoon, technically.”

    And Terry…Terry fucking laughs.

    Ilya is going to die, and Shane will be sad forever and Terry fucking laughs.

    “It hasn’t even been a day?” Terry clarifies, still chuckling. “Well, this could have nothing to do with the medication. It could just be an off day—”

    “Off day?” Ilya repeats incredulously. “Have you seen my husband? There are no off days with an ass like that.”

    OR: Ilya starts taking antidepressants only to realise it's fucking up his sex life. And, he acts totally very chill about it.

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    04 May 2026