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    The WAGs have a group chat. Shane's long term girlfriend has never joined. Jackie is determined to fix that. She's appointed by the WAGs to conduct a secret spy mission.

    Okay, so she appoints herself. But she does have to stealthily follow Shane's taxi in a rental car which feels pretty secret agent-y. And when she gets there, she's going to meet Lily and Lily will love her instantly and join her group chat and they'll be best friends forever. That's what'll happen, right?

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    22 Feb 2026

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    Svetlana has used her key to Ilya's apartment pretty liberally in the past, but it's been a while since she's seen him. She'll just pop over to hang out, and maybe hook up with Ilya and whoever he brings home. Only Ilya isn't the person to walk through the door.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    But the smoke clears and Hollander is gone and Ilya is alone again on this rooftop, and the cold is sobering, the tie at his neck too tight. Hollander knows fear too: No one is looking. You don’t know that.

    And now he is somewhere downstairs again, with aged liquor in his stomach and Ilya’s smoke on his breath, alone but in a different way. This, too, is Ilya’s fault somehow—the rooftop, his absence, the cigarette. The way Hollander had come up here in search of something and left with less than even that. 

    Ilya looks down at his hands. He knows how to do more than just take, he thinks. He just has to remember. 

    He curses, jabs the flame out until it’s ash, and finds his way back inside. 

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    22 Feb 2026

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    He’s never been a full person so much as a set of predetermined, distinct, sanitized things dressed up in athletic wear, jerseys, suits and ties. Borders that he could operate within, could point to inside of his own head with a clear boundary in between: these things are Shane Hollander, these are not. It’s kept him focused. Grounded. They’re facts.

    But this, despite its aching, sweet simplicity, doesn’t fit neatly anywhere. He doesn’t know what he wants to do with it, only that he isn’t quite ready to let go of it just yet.

    The knock comes two minutes on the hour. Shane thinks of it again.

    You look pretty.

    He opens the door.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    “Come on,” Comeau says. “Are we all just supposed to pretend it's normal that you’re still playing house with Ilya Rozanov?”

    “Gil—” J.J. says, but Shane doesn’t want him to finish that sentence, to pull Comeau gently off the ledge he’s steering himself toward. Shane wants to push him, kicking and screaming, to make them say it to his fucking face. That after all this time, they still hate him for the heinous crime of falling in love.

    “We’ve been married for two years,” Shane says. “I’m not sure that qualifies as playing house. I mean, it’s longer than you were with your first wife, isn’t it?”

    Or: Shane reunites with his former teammates at J.J.'s bachelor party. He's finally ready to say (and maybe punch) his piece.

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    21 Feb 2026