OneMillionMermaids



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    After the tuna melt meltdown, Shane meets Rose Landry, has several deeply inconvenient revelations, and decides to do the only sensible thing: win Ilya back with sincerity, logistics, and a frankly alarming amount of emotional effort.

    Ilya, meanwhile, mistakes every tender gesture for the kind prelude to an inevitable goodbye.

    Or: Shane is living in a romcom. Ilya is living in a Russian tragedy.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Old arguments fell back into place as easy as breathing, like ten years hadn’t elapsed.

    Like Lance hadn’t grown into something out of Keith’s wildest dreams, tall and strong and striking. Like he hadn’t just sworn himself to Keith, for the rest of their lives.

    Lance laughed, bright and full bodied and wrapped Keith in a hug. It felt so different from when they were younger — mostly because Keith didn’t have much to compare it to. Only a few sparse hugs upon departure, the occasional side squeeze on a good day. This was worlds away from those tepid greetings. Lance smelt heavenly and Keith could taste him in his throat, could drink down the underlying treacle scent of his new husband, rich and borderline savoury in its strength. Overlaying it all was the heavy scent of a storm on a summer day, the smell of dust being disturbed by the downfall, as a young Keith and Lance sat near the parapets and watched as the sky broke open.

    Keith hugged him back, crushing him close and resisting the moistening of his eyes.

    “You’re back.”

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    Alternatively, Keith agrees to an arranged marriage. Lance is a distant memory, until he isn't.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Shane watched the first draft pick stand next to him, for the photograph.
    Number 81 gleamed in gold on the back of his Boston jersey.

    Was that deliberate?

    Had Rozonov chosen it himself?

    Or was it just a coincidence that the number stitched across Rozonov’s back was the same one that had once belonged to Hollander. Two years ago. In Russian red.

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    They met at fifteen in Moscow.

    Neither of them ever really recovered.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Shane (to himself): This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in friends with benefits, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

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    When Shane sticks it out at Ilya's house, and the tuna meltdown doesn't happen, he still walks away confused about what Ilya actually WANTS from him. When an opportunity presents itself in the form of Rose Landry and a very thorough PR relationship contract, Shane decides to take advantage of it to show Ilya that he can be a totally chill and normal friend with benefits, and definitely isn't too attached.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    When Ilya is concussed during a game, he experiences a weird gap in his memories. He has completely forgotten two people he should apparently know: his longtime rival Shane Hollander, and a regular hookup named Jane.

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    13 Jun 2026