mind_the_gap



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    Ilya knows that no one loves the same version of a person; his Shane is different to Yuna’s Shane, who is different to David’s Shane, who is different to J.J., or Rose, or Hayden’s Shane. And while Ilya knows he’d fall in love with every single version, he’s happy he gets this one. Happy he gets the Shane who lets himself be trusting, and vulnerable, and honest.

    It makes Ilya wish he could have loved Shane earlier - makes him wish he could have known him longer. But he’s just glad he gets to do it now, here, like this.

     

    (Or, four times people are surprised by Shane’s clinginess, and one time they completely expect it.)

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    12 Jul 2026

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    ‘My teammates think you’re my girlfriend,’ Shane Hollander leads with a fucking bomb of an information and Lilian chokes on her coffee.

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    Lilian Harris, the goalkeeper of Boston PWHL team and a newly minted PWHL champion wakes up with the worst hangover of her life. In a hotel bed in Montreal. Which she is sharing with three of her teammates and the freaking Walter Cup.
    Her phone is full of messages from Montreal Voyagers players who watched the match last night, saw the name Lilian and the word Boston, and came to the completely wrong conclusion once again.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Cliff watches him squeeze the phone between his cheek and shoulder, lifting the jersey over his head as he continues to talk, a bit distracted now by the multitasking.

    “And was good practice, you know, for when I am your husband."

    Immediately, the locker room goes dead silent. And so does Rozanov, in fact.

    In which Ilya accidentally calls himself Shane's future husband in the middle of the Bears locker room. Worse still, they're not even dating yet.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Shane doesn’t know how to grocery shop for two. He doesn’t know how to do any of this, really. He’s keenly aware that this was the longest stretch of time he’d be spending alone with Ilya, with any one person ever, outside of his parents.

    In a way, it feels like playing house, unpacking the groceries and setting out a set of towels and washcloths for him. It is playing house. This is what it might feel like, to be able to have him all the time. The thought feels impossible to contemplate, terrifying to dwell on for longer than a minute or two at a time.

    on finally getting to know your situationship of 10 years

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    18 Jun 2026

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    “Everywhere I go,” Ilya said in the smallest of voices, “I am always ready for a fight.”

    Shane said nothing. He just nodded. I hear you. Speak out what you need to. I have you.

    “Russia was a fight. My family was a fight. Being foreign in America is a fight. Trying not to love you, trying to make people hate me so they don’t see me…” Ilya let his head fall against Shane again, like he couldn’t bear the mass of all these things anymore. “I have been fighting my whole life. Everywhere, Shane.”

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    Shane finds Ilya deep in the hurt of healing.

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    16 Jun 2026