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    The day after attending a charity event in Vancouver, Shane, Ilya, Scott, and a few other players board a plane to take them to Tampa for 2017 All Stars.

    The plane goes down somewhere in the wilderness, in the middle of a storm.

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    07 May 2026

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    “You’ll text when you land, right?” Shane asks as he takes an exit ramp labeled Airport Departures.

    “Yes. Promise.”

    “And you’ll call tonight?” Shane’s throat works over the words, like he still doesn’t trust this new thing between them. Ilya thinks he understands. He also doesn’t know how to trust this love. How can he when it has been trapped in his own heart so long. Neither of them know what the next year will bring. There is so much time before Ilya can have his agent, or his future agent, he will need a new one with no connections to Russia, reach out to Ottawa and hope that they’ll be interested in a future Hall of Fame center. The one thing Ilya is certain of is that he will do everything in his power to make their plan work. He spent his entire adult life lusting after, and then pining for Shane with his whole heart.

    “I will call.” Ilya reaches for the hand Shane has left on the gearshift and threads his fingers through his. He wants to say so much, but he has always been better with touch than words, especially when the only shared language was English. “We will talk every day.”

    Or, There is a year before Ilya can sign with Ottawa, Shane counts down the days until their forever.

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    29 Jan 2026

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    Ilya was only a few strides behind Shane on the ice.

    He clocked the angle before the hit even landed; Marlow coming in too hot, too fast, shoulder high. Shane turned and slowed at the wrong moment, skates clipping, balance gone.

    Impact.

    The sound carried oddly through the arena, duller than boards, sharper than ice. Shane went down hard, helmet skidding, body twisting. And then it all happened at once. Skates tangled. Marlow stumbled over him as he fell, too. A skate’s blade flashed too close, too sharp.

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    Shane's injuries during the Boston/Montreal game are much more life-threatening than in canon. Ilya's quick thinking and bone-deep instincts are the only reason he survives.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    “No it’s okay.” Helplessly his thumb met those freckles. Then he listened to Shane ramble about missing last night, maybe missing him. And, so help him, in that moment Ilya wanted to tell him he would stay with him. That he would move into his apartment and help him with his recovery and make him sandwiches and watch the playoffs with him and read him his boring hockey book.

    But of course he couldn’t.

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    What if instead of Shane asking Ilya to go to the cottage, he asked him to stay. Stay by his bedside, in a hospital Ilya hates. Can he refuse Shane Hollander?

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    26 Jan 2026

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    Ilya never texted Shane back. He didn’t call. Twenty minutes turned into two hours, then eight.
    Shane had spent that time spiraling. It’s something he hasn’t done recently, at least, not about this. No, up until yesterday he thought his relationship was unflappable, that Ilya was just as happy as he was. Well, as happy as they both could be keeping such a major part of their lives a secret.

    Every time he closed his eyes he saw the hurt that flashed across Ilya’s face right before he kicked him out.

    I already chose you, Hollander.

    The words had landed in his gut like a rock. They never discussed the things he’d given up, not because Shane wasn’t, at least peripherally, aware that that was the case. He moved to a new country and signed with a team that was so historically bad they were a laughing stock. One of the greatest players in the league tore up his American visa, sold his car collection, and moved to Ottawa just to be within driving distance of him. Ilya did that to give their relationship a real chance.

    Or, Ilya kicked Shane out on Boxing day and now he has to wait two weeks to make things right. Those two weeks are going to change everything.

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    24 Jan 2026