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    “Jar!” Hayes calls out from across the room.

    “What? We didn’t even do anything!” Shane insists, rather indignantly.

    “Oh, please. You can’t look at each other like that and call it nothing. I know that look - I have a wife.”

    “So I can’t look at my husband now?” Ilya whines. “This is workplace bullying!”

     

    (Or, the Centaurs get Ilya and Shane a PDA jar. It doesn’t work.)

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    11 Jun 2026

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    “My husband won’t like you touching me like this.”

    “Husband, eh? You’re married?”

    Ilya can feel the sleepy rumble of the man’s voice against his back. He presses further into it, folding his own hand over the one that’s splayed against his stomach, and slotting their fingers together.

    “Yes. He will be very sad when he finds out I am in bed with second best hockey player in NHL.”

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    “Ilya,” Shane whispers. “Ilya, baby, can you open your eyes?”

    He’s met with silence, and the frantic tremor of his heart turns into an earthquake. The ice beneath him seeps into his veins and freezes his blood. Panic claws at his chest, scaling his ribcage like a ladder and lodging in his throat. He can barely breathe around the terror.

    “Ilya, you need to open your eyes. You need to look at me.”

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    “My - it’s my,” Shane pants, his hand flapping like Ilya’s sometimes does when he’s searching for an English translation that he can’t quite remember. Shane’s heart squeezes painfully. “He’s-“

    He wants to say my boyfriend is on that plane. He wants to cry, and throw things, and scream the love of my life might be dying while we stand here. But he doesn’t. He can’t. His voice can’t find the words, can’t find the strength to speak, and even if he could - would he? Would Shane tell the whole world that for him, it has always been Ilya? Will only ever be Ilya?

     

    (Or, the plane scene in The Long Game goes a little differently.)

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    Taking the call off speaker-phone and pushing his glasses up on the crown of his head, David cleared his throat and asked, “Sorry, who is this?” with a furrowed brow and a hand on his hip.

    It was silent between the two of them for almost a minute, but David could hear vague sounds of movement on the other side of the call.

    “Um. I am a friend. Shane’s friend,” the other man answered with a thin tone, before asking, “Who are you?” He throws the word ‘you’ at David like an accusation.

    David couldn’t help but laugh. “I’m Shane’s dad.”

    He followed his answer up with, “I’ve been listening to you talk to my son in what sounds like Russian for the last ten minutes, uh…” David pulls back the phone to check the name again, just in case he had somehow misread the contact. Nope. He didn’t. “Lily?”

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    Or, after Shane, high-on-painkillers, calls Ilya in the hospital and falls asleep shortly after, David shows up and gets to chat with whoever Lily is. David is confused, to say the least.

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