some things never change
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Everyone knew who would win Rookie of the Year at the MLH awards. The media often likened Rozanov’s meteoric rise to Shane’s own career trajectory a decade ago. The next Shane Hollander, the headlines liked to say, as if they were gushing reverently about the second coming of Christ.
(2011, Las Vegas. Shane Hollander, thirty-one, watches the supernova that is Ilya Rozanov take everyone’s breath away, including his own.)
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- Part 1 of some things never change
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Never meet your heroes, they say.
Well, Ilya personally considers that saying to be pretty fucking stupid, because meeting his hero had paid off very well for him—with said hero kneeling in front of him, begging to suck his cock.
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- Part 2 of some things never change
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“Hey, before we give out the award, can I get a selfie?” Rozanov asks, in a strangely stilted tone.
“What?” Shane immediately responds, not needing to read the teleprompter for that one.
“This isn’t going to happen again, is it?”
The tail-end of Rozanov’s question falls quiet, uncertain, instead of lifting in a joking lilt as the scriptwriter no doubt intended. Shane would love to throttle whoever wrote these fucking lines. He grits his teeth, ignoring how his heart is twisting in an ugly knot.
“Sure, why not? This is probably the last time you will see old Rozanov and new Hollander together.”
(Shane Hollander, freshly retired, flounders amidst the dawning realisation that he might be a little in love with Ilya Rozanov. They reunite in Las Vegas, 2014.)
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- Part 3 of some things never change