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    "He opens his mouth, trying to find the right words. When he does, he nearly chokes on them. They come up quiet, weak, shameful. But they come anyway.

    'It’s not fair.'"

    or; Luca is young and queer and out, and Shane is jealous. He and Ilya work through those feelings.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    “It’s only a cake,” Shane says, even though they both know it isn’t.

    Shane’s focus during this playoff run is unlike anything Ilya has ever seen, and he’s seen everything about Shane, always.

    He’d been fully ready for Shane to be so focused on the training he’d forget the date, and might only realise it’s Ilya’s birthday once someone else brought it up.

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    It’s Ilya’s birthday, and they’re on the road for the playoffs.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    “You okay?” Shane asks quietly. His hand brushes against Ilya’s forehead. Ah.

    Shane thinks he is sick.

    He has never been around for this part before — it’s never hit him in the cottage during the summers, and Ilya’s been better since they moved in together. He smiles. It gets harder by the day to hide from Shane, who is so open with his own struggles and emotions, who lets Ilya comfort him and distract him when things get too much.

    “I’m fine, sweetheart.”

    Ilya goes through his first depressive episode since marrying Shane.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Canada had given him his life as he knew it, but it had never felt one hundred percent comfortable, either. He missed Russia sometimes, but it didn’t have the thing that mattered most. Ilya had exactly one home, and it was this: his face pressed into a smooth chest, his head tucked under a strong jaw, with freckled arms wrapped around him and delicate fingers combing through his hair. Anywhere else was a temporary excursion.

    A treatise on second (and third) languages, homesickness, acceptance, Shane's struggle learning Russian, and the things people do when they care.

     


     

    A rewrite of Plentiful, but Ultimately Finite.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Shane was there when Ilya got the call, his arm heavy across Ilya's stomach, like even in sleep he could tell something was trying to take Ilya away from him.

    When Boston realize Ilya wants out, they send him to the highest bidder. The highest bidder is LA.

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    11 Jun 2026