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    “I like it,” he says weakly. “I like it, I like you holding me like this.”

    “Like what?”

    “Like you own me.”
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    or; They're falling in love. They can't have it, even if they can have each other, just for a little while.

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    30 Jan 2026

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    He’s already in the room, shutting the door behind himself as quietly as he can before he realises that not only is there someone other than Shane in the room, but there are three someones other than Shane.

    And, as if he hasn’t already fucked up spectacularly, the someones happen to be the Hollanders and Hayden fucking Pike.

     

    // or; Ilya visits Shane in the hospital and meets his parents. He's traumatized and grieving, everything hurts, and Shane takes after his mother.

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    28 Jan 2026

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    a different take on the plane situation, in which it lands a little more roughly, ilya gets injured, and shane drives 13 hours to get to his man.

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    “Shane? Sweetie, are you okay? We saw the news,” his mother says immediately upon answering the phone. She sounds like she’s been crying.

    “No,” he answers, too raw to even think about lying. “I’m—I’m on my way to Tampa.” There’s no point in lying about that, either—they’ll find out one way or another.

    “You what?” He can hear the panic in his mother’s voice.

    “Hayden helped me get a rental car,” he grits out, taking a steadying breath. “I-I have to get to him.”

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    27 Jan 2026

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    “Stop,” Shane rasped, though his hands refused to push away. “We can’t—“

    Ilya lifted his head, eyes blazing. “You wanted to know how to dance with a girl,” he said quietly. “I’m showing you.” His thumb swept along Shane’s lower lip, then pressed gently until Shane parted his mouth again. Ilya leaned in, gave him another searing kiss. Shane leaned into it, desperate. Every inch of him leaned.

    When Ilya finally pulled back, Shane chased him, lips chasing his. Ilya smiled, pleased, before catching Shane’s jaw in one large hand, holding him still. He studied the flushed face, the glassy eyes, the swollen mouth. “That’s how you do it,” he said, low and final, as if stamping a grade on an assignment. He rubbed his thumb over Shane’s cheek one last time, then stepped away.

    Shane tries to date a woman. Ilya shows him how it's done.

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    Everything that happens in episode 4 after Shane excuses himself to the bathroom. He meets Ilya.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck.

    So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stability was hard to come by, but he was managing.

    Then along came Shane Hollander to knock him on his ass, one more time.

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    26 Jan 2026