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    “You will not be so nice when we beat you,” Ilya told Shane Hollander, holding onto his hand, not letting him pull away. Not yet.

    But Hollander’s brow furrowed, not in anger but in confusion. “Ah, um, sorry,” Hollander said. “Merci. My English is bad. Worse… than you. Maybe slower?” And he leaned in, like that would help him understand.

    Ilya’s eyebrows rose, and his smile widened.

    Or, Ilya Rozanov grew up in Russia. Shane Hollander was raised in France. When they first meet, neither of them can speak English very well. Somehow, it’s easier to understand each other when words aren’t getting in the way.

    (Stand-alone remix of “I’m Reading Your Lips (You’re Speaking My Language)” but this time neither of them are native English speakers, and learning a new language is sort of like falling in love, if you think about it.)

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    15 Feb 2026

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    Shane sleeps with other men, and (of course) Ilya crashes out.

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    14 Feb 2026

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    “You never really told me about the Mexican guy.” Ilya said to Shane, glancing at him out of the corner of his eye. His tone was calm, light—like he was talking about the weather. He was actually dying of curiosity—and he was a little jealous too—but he had no intention of letting Shane see that.

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    12 Feb 2026

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    Ilya’s world careened into a car crashing halt. There was just no way those words were spoken so casually by his beautiful, loving husband. “I’m sorry, did you say you kissed Hayden? Hayden Pike?”

    Shane had the audacity to not even look away from his book as he replied. “Yeah, it was years ago. I just wanted to see what it was like to kiss another man,” he turned a page. “And Hayden was bicurious or something.”

    Ilya felt bad for Jackie at this moment because he was about to make her a single mother.

    or: Shane and Hayden shared a quick kiss years ago and Ilya wants to commit murder.

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    12 Feb 2026

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    Ilya reaches for the bridge of his nose to try and stop the blood flow now trickling down the tendons in his neck, seeping into the collar of his leather jacket. He hears footsteps, and steady hands are suddenly on his face, beating him to it. They pull the cigarette from his lips, and it drops to the concrete like a shooting star.
    “Tilt your head,” says the voice, and now the fingers are on his chin, doing it for him. Said delicately, as if this is his first ever nosebleed. He likes the idea that the slammer of this door thinks Ilya is a stranger to violence. It’s a gentle thought, another Ilya from another life, who isn’t familiar with blood in his teeth and broken bones. Ilya cracks his eyes open.
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    Ilya Rozanov is a little obsessed with former figure skater Shane Hollander, Boston Bears new physio, after he hits him in the face with a car door the first time they meet. When they get off on the wrong foot, Ilya starts looking for ways to get Hollanders attention - which may or may not involve getting injured in increasingly ridiculous ways, starting too many fights on (and off) the ice, and general unhinged self-sabotaging - just in case it means he can spend more a little more time with a certain physio.

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    12 Feb 2026