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    “You’re beautiful,” Ilya whispers into the sunlit room, trying to preserve the moment just a little longer.

    The corners of Shane’s mouth quirk up, failing to hide his pleased smile, maybe he’s not even trying. Ilya lets his straining arm drop down, reaching for Shane’s face. He has to tilt his head awkwardly to avoid the sun from blinding him again.

    He ghosts his fingertips across the freckles under Shane’s eye, back and forth, before slowly making his way onto the bridge of his nose. He slides his pointer finger down the slope and taps lightly against his nose, watching the way it scrunches up, freckles trying to go into hiding.

    Everything about him is so beautiful it has something aching in Ilya’s chest.

    He drops his finger further down into the dip of his cupid’s bow, gently pressing the pad into his lip. He traces the shape, top and bottom, and then dances his fingers along the seam. Shane’s lips part slightly around a soft exhale.

    Or: 5 times Ilya gets to worship Shane’s freckles and one time he has to reassure him

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    22 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 75

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    Nothing’s wrong. It’s just that Shane Hollander’s standing here in his kitchen, barefoot and dressed in Ilya’s softest, ugliest clothes, ready to help him cook dinner. It’s just that, after nearly a decade, after so much pain and heartache and distance, Shane Hollander is here in Ilya’s kitchen, looking at him with such obvious love and care and worry. It’s just that, after everything Ilya’s done over the years to deter Shane from loving him, Shane’s stubbornly, doggedly refused to stop.

    It’s just that Ilya kept that stupid, ugly t-shirt—wore it by himself in his big empty house, wore it smoking on his balcony, wore it to sleep, packed it with him when he went back to Russia for his father’s funeral—because he thought that it might be the only bit of Shane he ever got to keep.

    And he was wrong. God, he’s never been more grateful to be wrong in his life.

    OR: Shane wears Ilya’s ugliest, most embarrassing t-shirt, and Ilya reacts like Moses at the burning bush.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Ilya considers himself a reasonable man. Sure, one might say he’s more obsessed with Shane than is strictly healthy, but it’d be more unreasonable if he had the king of hockey in his bed (and in his heart) and he wasn’t obsessed. Still, he’d like to think that he’s above becoming jealous of fictional characters. And he is above it. Of course he is. It would have been one thing if Shane had told Ilya about his childhood crush on Anakin Skywalker at the beginning of May, when they had a summer-long stretch of lazy weekends at the cottage and busy days at the Irina Foundation and warm bright mornings where Ilya gets to watch Shane wake up in his arms.

     

    But it’s late September, and Ilya’s mad at everything.

     

    Or: Ilya finds out about Shane’s childhood crush on a certain tortured Jedi, and it dredges up old insecurities.

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  4. Public Bookmark 44

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    Ilya noticed a hickey on Shanes neck, on television, on Canadian news. He felt so proud and Shane looked straight out of his dream. Just as a wide grin spread across his face yet again a thought crossed him. Shane would never allow a hickey, and Ilya doesn't remember giving him one that's so obvious. His stomach dropped.

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    “Ilya, what are we gonna do?” Shane says.

    Ilya finishes whatever he has been doing on his phone, and tosses it gently to the bed beside him. He crosses the room to Shane, stands in front of him, squeezes into his shoulders with his big hands, rubbing them like he means to warm them up.

    “Looks like we will have a little vacation,” he says, with a big obnoxious grin.

     


     

    Boston and Montreal are sent to Paris to play against each other in an exhibition series in January 2017. Ilya and Shane decide to stay in Paris for one more night. Just one more night, so they can talk. Maybe finally understand each other.

    They aren't expecting a volcano to erupt in Iceland and close all the airspace in Europe, leaving them stranded there. Together.

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