phantomnotoftheopera
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Seen. That small, clinical word beneath his text feels heavier than it should. Rozanov has read his message, has processed that information, so by this time he must have made a conscious decision to not reply to Shane. He doesn’t know why this is bothering him so much. He has no right to be upset, he is not entitled to Rozanov’s time nor constant attention. They are not… together, he isn’t even sure if they count as close—as friends.
And yet, he keeps staring at his phone, feeling the familiar and prickling discomfort under his skin. Why isn’t Rozanov replying?
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He hasn’t prepared for any of this—for the tenderness that follows the storm, only for the storm to sweep away everything again. He doesn’t know how to deal with Rozanov’s confusing words and contradicting actions, with both fire and ice, both closeness and distance, all at the same time.
Every time Shane feels like he manages to understand Rozanov a little, the pattern shifts, and he is once again left with splintered pieces that don’t make sense.
Or: All the messages Shane sent to Ilya during the six long months between Sochi and Vegas, and the ones he did not send.
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- Part 2 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels
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04 Jun 2026
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A cross hatched art depiction of Ilya eating his favourite dish.
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18 Mar 2026
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Weeks later, when the news finally breaks, the headlines will call it a “catastrophic brain injury”.
They’ll analyze the hit from every angle, trying to find just what went so wrong. It was clean, it was legal… and yet it somehow slammed Shane Hollander into the ice hard enough to end his career.
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or, another take on shane’s injury in episode 5 being much, much worse.
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09 Mar 2026
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Shane always looks so serious when he’s about to cry.
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22 Jan 2026
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when montreal is pitted against boston once again, cliff marleau finds himself knocking at shane hollander’s hotel room door with an apology for laying him out last time their teams met. only, hayden pike opens the door with a scowl on his face.
(my dear reader, smut does, in fact, ensue.)
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13 Jan 2026