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    So he’s there in the hotel room, and Ilya Rozanov has him pushed up against the door, and he’s saying all sorts of filthy things that should send Shane running and instead very much make him want to drop to his knees, which is also a relatively new feeling—and he won’t quit grabbing Shane’s face.

    It's the first time Shane realizes it’s going to be something that irreparably alters him for anyone else. It feels like a betrayal, somehow, that this is happening on home soil.

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    Henry inherits a broken wristwatch from his father, and there is more to the simple gift than he could have ever expected.

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    28 Nov 2025

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  3. Rec 28

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    Alex and Henry have been telling everyone from day 1 that they are strictly platonic. Even if others don't believe them they know it's true, that's really all that matters. It's been that way for years, and there is no reason for them to change how they are just because others don't' get it.

    Why does alex start to feel that things might not be so platonic after all, if nothing has changed, though.

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    28 Nov 2025

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  4. Rec 40

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    Alex rolls onto his back so he’s looking up at Henry from in his lap. It’s hard not to drown in the chocolate pools.
    “But my eyes are open, Hen. I already know you’re the one.”

    Henry chokes on his own spit, and tries to cover it with a cough.
    “What do you mean, Alex?”

    He sees Alex drifting towards sleep. “Alex, love, talk to me.”
    But it’s too late – Alex has succumbed to the pull of unconsciousness.

     

    OR: Three times when Alex’s broken brain-to-mouth filter throws Henry off-kilter, and one time when Henry retaliates.

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    27 Nov 2025

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    With no recollection of how he got there, second year Ph.D. student Alex Claremont-Diaz wakes up hungover in a stranger's bed. Said stranger turns out to be Professor Henry Fox, who Alex is TAing for in the new term.

    But in the classroom, Professor Fox is an upmost professional, pretending nothing ever happened between them.

    It makes Alex want to commit an HR violation. Well, technically he already had, but not that Henry would look at him any differently, would touch him any differently. And so, Henry would wrap up lecture, and Alex would shove his rising feelings back under and hurry off to his next class.

    After all, how do you cross a line you already left behind?

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    27 Nov 2025

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