OnceUponASunsetDream



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    03 Jun 2026

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    SCOUTING REPORT - PIKE CHILDREN (ages 1-5)
    Threat Level: Catastrophic
    Projected Outcome: Emotional devastation

    Shane Hollander shows up to babysit like it's Game 7.
    He has a binder. He has a strategy. He has run simulations.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Shane is drunk, concussed, and hiding in a phone booth when he calls the only number he knows by heart.

    The man who answers is not Hayden Pike.

    Shane is still a hockey player but Ilya is a paediatric surgeon

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    Good riddance, he thinks. Or maybe feels obligated to think. He’s not sure. It feels like a natural thing to think about a brother who hit you and insulted you and extorted you for most of your short, miserable time together. He’s thought about it before, Alexei dying. The life he lived had not been conductive to longevity.

    I am the last Rozanov, he thinks, and that is an emotion he can parse, finally: closure. Like setting the last piece down in a puzzle.

    It’s only after the first puff of smoke escapes his lips that Ilya remembers Alexei’s daughter.

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    Two years after he gets married, Ilya Rozanov receives the news that his older brother has died.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Two years after he gets married, Ilya Rozanov receives the news that his older brother has died.

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    Something tugs in the center of his chest. He should be angry, furious at his brother for trying to do something to screw him over, even after years of not speaking. He’s been doing the same since they were kids, using Ilya as a scapegoat to slip out of his responsibilities and consequences for his own actions. Doing this - getting a woman pregnant that isn’t his wife and claiming it’s Ilya who has done it - is just something else to add to the list.

    Instead he just looks at the picture of this tiny little boy and wonders if he’ll have freckles.

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    26 May 2026

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    Alexei got a woman pregnant and claimed it was Ilyas. Ilya and Shane adopt him instead. Really very excellent. So lovely

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    Shane wants to figure out if he's gay before he gets drafted—and no, the way he felt when Ilya Rozanov smirked at him with a cigarette between his lips in Saskatchewan has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, the random guy he hooks up with to try and make sure one way or another takes a picture, and Shane gets outed before the draft. In the ensuing scandal, he goes seventh overall, to Ottawa.

    It turns out, having the worst thing you can think of happen to you when you're seventeen years old can end up being pretty liberating. And land you an unexpected best friend.

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    26 May 2026

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    Shane is outed before the 2009 draft and ends up being chosen 7th by the Centaurs. A lack of rivalry means that Shane and Ilya are able to be best friends before they fall in love