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    “See you in Ottawa next month, okay?"

    Ilya presses his lips together. “So we will really be in Ottawa for my birthday, then?”

    “Yeah, looks like it,” Shane says. “Don’t worry, it’ll still be fun.”

    “Oh, I am sure,” Ilya drawls. “Ottawa is nothing if not fun.”

    * * *

    Ilya is about to exchange Boston for the suburbs of Ottawa, and everything is fine. He’s definitely looking forward to moving to a city that’s notorious for being boring as hell. He’s also coping spectacularly well with how oppressively quiet his new surroundings are, because it’s not like his most anxious thoughts amplify in the silence. Oh, and Shane wants to come over and celebrate Ilya’s birthday with him in his half-furnished house? That’s fine, too.

    He’ll be fine. Everything will be fine.

    (Or, Ilya moves to Ottawa. Shane welcomes him home.)

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    17 Jun 2026

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    “You can go, y’know, if you want-“

    “Ah, no. I do not want to,” Ilya interrupts. “Stay at home with my very sexy husband who is wearing his glasses, or go out to a club filled with people who are not you? The answer is very simple, Shane.”

    Shane rolls his eyes again, but he’s smiling as he saunters towards Ilya.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Two years into their marriage, Shane discovers that Ilya has never been on a real first date. There is only one way to remedy the situation: Shane asks his husband out on a date where they pretend that they have just met.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Ilya tries to breathe. Shane is the one who panics. In fact, Ilya has been so calm over the past hour. So, so calm. Soooooooo so so so amazingly calm that maybe Shane will reward him with a very nice blowjob later. Ilya has been calm because Shane needs a rock to lean on, but Shane is gone and now Ilya is panicking. This is his only chance to rectify the first, shirtless impression he made on Shane’s father.

    “Do you still read New Yorker?”

    OR: Ilya, on the confluence of Shane with David, Yuna, and Svetlana.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Life feels so chaotic for Shane sometimes, with all the loud noises and the unwritten rules he’s expected to follow, even though no one ever taught them to him. It’s why the bookstore feels more like home to him than anywhere else in Boston. It doesn’t ask Shane to be anything other than himself. Doesn’t ask for any more than he can give.

    He can just exist here.

    Shane likes slow, likes taking his time. And Ilya - without saying or doing anything in particular - makes Shane feel like that’s okay. Like he isn’t doing anything wrong by standing still sometimes.

    (Or, Shane works in a bookstore, Ilya plays hockey, and they both go to the same college. They fall in love in every universe.)

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    09 Jun 2026