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    Ilya’s first thought is, how do I reduce the risk of Shane being hit?

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    Shane wanted to respect Ilya’s request for space. Shane wanted to get the fuck out of here. Shane couldn’t breathe.

    Couldn’t move at all. He was frozen - from his lungs to his feet. Everything except his hands which were shaking. He should leave, but he wasn’t even sure how much longer his legs would be able to support him, and driving seemed like a bad idea in this state.

     

    What if Shane stayed after the Boxing Day fight. Basically an exploration of the age old question - what if they just, like, talked about their feelings? (And also went to Bood's party after all).

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    Please let me in, she thinks. I can be better. I can do it right this time, I promise.

    Or: an exploration into why Yuna might've needed 5 minutes to herself after learning that her son had been hiding a relationship from her for nearly a decade.

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    Yuna wants nothing in the world more than she wants to meet the first woman her son has dated since his rookie season, perhaps the only woman he has ever dated seriously. She wants to corner her in the kitchen and ask What is he like? When he’s not in front of cameras? When I’m not in the room? Is he happy? Does he seem happy to you? When you’re together? When you're alone? When he can be himself? Sometimes I look into his eyes and I see this bottomless well of sadness that he can barely contain from spilling over. But maybe that’s just with me? Hopefully it's just with me. Hopefully it's just because of what I have become to him. Because I was the one who shook him by the shoulders and screamed “it is not enough to be good you must be perfect you must be faultless you must be better than the rest of them and then some because everything you are ever given you will have to fight for tooth and nail they will not hand you anything for free” and now it is impossible for him to be happy with me in the room because in reality no one can ever be perfect and so in my presence he will always feel like a failure.

    She wants to ask Does he talk about me? Does he complain? When you're lying in bed and the room is dark and hushed and secrets become so easy to spill? Does he tell you I was too hard on him? Put him under too much pressure when he was far too young to be able to carry it? Slave driver. Tiger mom. Only ever cared about the success and the fame and the money. As if he hadn't told me at six years old that he wanted to be the greatest player in the MLH, only to turn around and resent me for working as hard as I could to make it so.

    And it's ok. Really, it's fine, she wants to tell her. I can live with that. I can. I can be the villain. As long as I know that he is happy. Sometimes. Somewhere. With someone. As long as I know he can still carve out a life he wants to live from what I have given him.

    That's probably a bit much for the first time meeting the parents. They've only been together a few months. She'll have to workshop ways of getting to some of that information without scaring the poor girl off before things with her and Shane have even really had a chance to get started.

    She lets out a deep breath. “I know she's busy, but she's important to you and we'd really love to meet her.”

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    hockey twt socmed fics ft the neutral zone podcast

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    shane and his sex life from the outside

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