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    Ilya was quiet for a long moment. "I'm scared I'm going to end up like my mother."

    Ilya is struggling while Shane is on the road with the Metros, and the distance, combined with a brutal depressive episode, leaves Ilya spiralling. When everything becomes too much and the intrusive thoughts won't stop, Ilya takes Anya for a walk - and somehow ends up at Shane's parents' house.

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    "If you have someone here with you, you can give it to them instead."

    Shane.

    The name came unbidden, immediate.

    Ilya thought of his teammates, the messages he hadn't answered yet. They had said they would come by later, after the operation.

    Shane.

    He thought of Sveta, far away in New York, living a different life, unreachable from this room.

    Shane.

    No one was waiting for him here.

    Shane. Shane. Shane. Shane.

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    Montreal, 2016. Ilya is injured and needs surgery, but he isn’t willing to leave his mother’s cross in a cold, sad hospital safe.

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    He knows that they voted him into the alternate captain position, but the feelings of inadequacy and being an outsider do more than just linger. He can’t stop thinking about it. Can’t stop thinking about the fact that he wouldn’t feel this way had the country that brought him up not turned its back on him.

    “I mean,” starts the interviewer curtly, “there are a lot of Canadians who feel uneasy about a foreigner even being on the team, let alone being a captain. I guess what I’m really trying to ask is: why make the switch at all? Just to get around the ban?”

     

    OR: Ilya and Shane go to the Olympics together and feelings are complicated

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    He thinks the thing that his father hated more than he did Ilya was his inability to control him.

    But even as the colossal fuck-up that his father saw him as—he was brilliant at hockey. The best that his coaches had ever seen. He thinks it is the only semi-reedamable quality that his father sees in him. But even that had not made Grigori Rozanov want to look at him.
     

    (Or, Ilya Rozanov learns how to be loved.)

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    “I told you I’d make you feel good, didn’t I?” Rozanov murmurs, soft but sure. Shane sluggishly nods his head. He feels fucking amazing.

    “Do you want me to make you feel even better?” Rozanov whispers against the shell of his ear, his free hand carding through the strands of hair falling over Shane's eyes. Shane nods again, feeling miles and miles above ground, completely sky high.

    “You need to answer me, Hollander. I won’t do anything to you if you can’t say it.” Shane groans, feeling like his voice has retreated somewhere foreign in his body. He can’t grab the words, can’t force them into a proper sentence.

    or; ilya keeps his promise of making shane feel good, but at what cost?

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