all the stars aligned
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They’d agreed on a plan. It was cautious. Designed to keep them safe. Laying the foundation for a future after hockey. It didn’t include Shane going nuclear one fucking day into pre-season, blowing up his entire life on something he should’ve expected to happen if he was being honest with himself.
Or, when the long game falls apart, Shane and Ilya need a new plan. (Or or, from the ten year plan to the one week speed-run.)
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- Part 1 of all the stars aligned
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a touch of a hand lit the fuse by heydoeydoey for verily_i_say
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Mar 2026
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Ilya should leave quickly—he needs to keep moving, like a shark, and maybe if he does the thoughts of staying here, keeping Shane, turning this thing between them into something real and serious and permanent can’t catch up with him—but he doesn’t. He lingers.
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- Part 2 of all the stars aligned
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Shane hasn’t been new on a team since his rookie season. He hasn’t had to walk into a locker room full of guys he doesn’t know since he was nineteen. That first year in Montreal had been one of the most exhausting of his life, and the hockey had been the least of it.
Boston’s locker room will be easier than Montreal's, Shane thinks. Hopes.
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- Part 3 of all the stars aligned