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    Shane Hollander learns there are both pros and cons to accidentally adopting a kitten with your situationship.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “Mmm. You want it bad,” Ilya purrs, teeth grazing the column of his throat.

    “Yeah,” Shane whines, hating how petulant it sounds. A fresh flare of determination rises up in response. “Just give it to me. Ilya. I can—just go hard. Just make it fit.”

    Ilya laughs quietly, incredulously. It’s hot against Shane’s ear. “Make it fit."

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    Or: in the midst of a stressful season, Shane's a little... out of practice. He's not gonna let that stop him getting what he wants.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    “Can I show you something?” Ilya asks, finally breaking the stifled silence.

    “Yeah. Of course.”

    “I will be right back.”

    Shane appreciates the warning, calming his anxiety as Ilya extracts himself from Shane and gets up from the bed. He saunters over to the closet like a man on a mission. Even in his distress, Shane hates to watch Ilya leave, but loves to watch him go. He disappears a moment later before coming back with a medium-sized cardboard moving box with “fragile” written in Ilya’s chicken scratch.

    “I thought you hadn’t started packing yet.”

    Ilya smiles, carefully setting the box in the middle of the bed near Shane before climbing back up. “I started putting some of the important stuff away a few nights ago.”

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    Shane is frustrated when he shows up at Ilya's house to find out he hasn't packed a single box. An interruption from Cliff Marlow sends him spiraling further, until Ilya shows him just how in love with Shane he is.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    He’s not alone—hardly ever is, in Boston.

    But maybe, just maybe, he’s lonely.

    It sneaks up on him in stupid moments: standing in line at the bank, catching a ride with Connors after practice, because he doesn’t have a car yet. Lying awake at night with the low hum of traffic outside and the wrong kind of silence pressing in around him.

    In his rookie year, Ilya makes an anonymous online friend. Unfortunately, it's a terrible idea.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    “No vodka?” Rozanov asks, tsking in disapproval but looking amused. “What then? What does the great Shane Hollander want when he does a good job? What is your vice, Hollander?”

    “Hmmmm, mangoes,” Shane sighs out wistfully. It’s not a dangerous allergy for him, but it does mean being itchy and sometimes a little queasy for a couple of days after. Really he knows that he should probably avoid them altogether, but with every other restriction he has and with how controlled he is with his life even outside of that, it’s his one little indulgence, a pressure-relief valve of one bad choice to let some steam off at the end of a season, when he carves out time in his cottage when he can make his annual bad choice and enjoy a few days of wild mango madness before he makes himself buckle back into the restraints he usually keeps his life in.

    He looks up when he hears Rozanov snort.

    “Mangoes?” Rozanov repeats, tugging his shirt over his head. “Really?”

    “They’re good,” Shane defends. “Better than vodka,” he adds, pointedly.

    (shane has food allergies but makes an exception for mangoes) (5 times ilya didn't find out about this allergy and 1 time he did)

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    16 Jun 2026