all the stars aligned
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They’d agreed on a plan. It was cautious. Designed to keep them safe. Laying the foundation for a future after hockey. It didn’t include Shane going nuclear one fucking day into pre-season, blowing up his entire life on something he should’ve expected to happen if he was being honest with himself.
Or, when the long game falls apart, Shane and Ilya need a new plan. (Or or, from the ten year plan to the one week speed-run.)
- Part 1 of all the stars aligned
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- English
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- 32,186
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #80441546
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Ilya should leave quickly—he needs to keep moving, like a shark, and maybe if he does the thoughts of staying here, keeping Shane, turning this thing between them into something real and serious and permanent can’t catch up with him—but he doesn’t. He lingers.
- Part 2 of all the stars aligned
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- English
- Words:
- 1,500
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81112596
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Shane hasn’t been new on a team since his rookie season. He hasn’t had to walk into a locker room full of guys he doesn’t know since he was nineteen. That first year in Montreal had been one of the most exhausting of his life, and the hockey had been the least of it.
Boston’s locker room will be easier than Montreal's, Shane thinks. Hopes.
- Part 3 of all the stars aligned
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- English
- Words:
- 29,262
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84105246
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Ilya's been taking care of himself for so long, and not always doing a very good job of it. It would be understandable, Ilya thinks, if Shane didn’t really know how to do it yet. Not when they’re only a month into being married and three months into being honest and less than a year since that hotel room in Tampa, where Shane had climbed into his lap and let Ilya cry into his shoulder and held him like no one had held Ilya since he was very small.
- Part 4 of all the stars aligned
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,879
- Chapters:
- 3/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #92172556