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  1. clap when you land by

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    2026-10-24

    AU — The Centaurs’ plane crashes. No deaths are reported, and that should be a relief.

    Ilya survives. He just isn’t waking up.

    As Shane waits, the world continues on, and he’s forced to confront just how fragile their life truly is.

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  2. honey bees and other doomed creatures by

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    2026-10-14

    The beginning starts with an ending: Shane Hollander dies when he is twelve years old. It is not permanent, but it does linger.

    (Shane, Ilya, and the great game of being good enough to be worth something to someone.)

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  3. one day i'll watch as you're leaving (and life will lose all its meaning) by

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    2026-10-13

    The fight on Boxing Day had been explosive and painful. But they'd decided they would make a new plan. One they could both live with.

    But the more Shane tried to compromise, all the years of resentment and hiding crowded in at once. He spat an ultimatum across the table. Six months. A year at the absolute most. Or they were done.

    “That’s not enough time. A year is… tough, but maybe,” Shane offered carefully. “Eighteen months?”

    Ilya’s temper flared.

    “I do not want to wait another eighteen fucking months!” The words echoed through the room. “I want to be like Hunter! Go on dates with my boyfriend. Talk about him to people. Not always feel like some awful, shameful secret.”

    “You want to talk to people about me?” he asked quietly. His voice sounded so small and fragile and confused. But Ilya was still furious and raw.

    “Well I would,” he sneered, “if there was anything about you that was fucking interesting to talk about! It would be nice to not be so fucking bored and miserable!”

    As the words left his mouth, he knew he'd gone too far.

    ---
    What if the Centaur's plane never malfunctions, so Shane never proposes. Instead, Ilya gives him an ultimatum.

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  4. Small Hours by

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    2026-10-11

    Morsel • môrs(ə)l • [mor-sel]
    noun
    1.) A piece; a bite
    2.) A small quantity
    3.) Something delectable and pleasing

    Thoughts on a marriage; or, things that might have happened.

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  5. And even worse, that he would do it for a man by

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    2026-10-08

    “I wasn’t accusing you,” the reporter says, and Ilya’s shark smile grows even wider, and Harris thinks, uh-oh.

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  6. Jane Has Been Added To The Chat by

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    2026-10-07

    Penelope (Dill)
    Omg get on with it, Cass!

    Cassie (Bood)
    Thank you
    Now, we must behave ourselves, ladies
    We have royalty in our midst

    Arden (Pointy)
    What the hell are you on about, Cassie?

    Cassie (Bood) has added Jane (Rozy) to the conversation

    Jane (Rozy)
    Uhh
    What is this?
    ______________
    or; "Jane" gets added to the Ottawa WAGs chat after Ilya drunkenly tells his teammates about "her"
    or or; Shane Hollander in his WAG era

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  7. Homecoming (Homebound) by

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    2026-09-30

    “Who was it?”

    Comeau’s words fell over the room like a blanket. They were pointed, no soft curiosity, a demand for Hayden to reveal what he already knew.

    Who would Hayden have a video of? What two men kissing would make Hayden flip like he did?

    If it was two strangers he wouldn’t have freaked out.

    Or

    The FanMail video gets refunded to Hayden in the middle of the Metro’s locker room. No viral post, nothing about Ilya, but Shane gets exposed for being in a relationship. Ilya is safe, but everything crumbles around Shane. They get the chance to do things a little bit different, a little bit better.

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  8. Jane, Head WAG by

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    2026-09-26

    Cassie:

    btw jane now that ilya is captain this means you’re officially Head WAG 💁🏻‍♀️

    Jane:

    what?

    oh nononono that's not necessary

    Selena:

    sorry girl it's not really a choice

    Or, Ilya tells the Ottawa Centaurs about Jane

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  9. Growing Outward by

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    2026-09-17

    “Good, well then that brings me to the real topic of conversation.” Another sigh from Coach Wiebe, “As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, those highlighted names have been offered rookie contracts and they’ve each expressed interest in living with a vet for their first year.”

    Ilya felt his heart fall into his stomach, afraid of the next words to come out of his Coach’s mouth.

    “We asked the rookies who they’d like to live with and, well, LaPointe wanted to board with you, Chouinard. And Young with you, Bood,” Wiebe then turned to Ilya who had frozen on the spot, “And Roz, Haas wants to live with you.”

    Bood and Chouinard chuckled as they watched Ilya’s eyes widen in horror.

     

    OR

     

    Luca Haas was drafted 2nd overall by the Ottawa Centaurs in 2018. Two years later, he anxiously moved halfway across the world to play his rookie season with the team. He requested to live with Ilya Rozanov and they slowly became family.

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  10. How I Learned to Stop Worrying (but Didn't Love the Bomb) by

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    2026-09-06

    “Mom?” His mother moved the tea and plate of cookies closer to him, but Shane didn’t let himself get distracted. “I think I’ve had another memory lapse. Why wasn't Ilya in the play-off games? Did something happen?”

    Mom dropped her phone.

    Why does she have such a weird look on her face?

    ...

    Shane has memory gaps and keeps journals. Then, after the seventh game of the playoffs, he discovers they can send him back in time.

    At first, he only wants to fix his relationship with his team.

    Every attempt makes things worse.

    Shane tries again.

    And again.

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  11. Little By Little (Or All at Once?) by

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    2026-08-31

    Shane gets added to the Ottawa Centaurs' WAG group chat. Little do they know Jane is not Jane. And she's not going to be a WAG for much longer. Shane and Ilya come out to each of their friends, knowing they always have someone in their corner incase something goes wrong.

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  12. Edges by

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    2026-08-30

    "Don't go to Ottawa," in a woman's voice was the first indicator that the person calling him from Ilya's number was not Ilya himself. The second indicator was the clarifying follow up of: "This isn't Ilya. It's Svetlana. Hi, Jane."

    Shane turned his TV to mute with a trembling hand, the ESPN panel discussing his integrity silenced but still loudly gesticulating on his screen. "Hi, Svetlana," he said.

    "I told Ilya not to go to Ottawa, too, but he thinks he's more romantic than he is. He wants nothing more than to suffer for love. Idiot."

    Svetlana has a different plan for the NHL and Shane Hollander and for herself.

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  13. but they don't know what i've found by

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    2026-08-18

    Shane Hollander (!!!!!!) frowns. "You're Oliver Holmberg," he says, and politely doesn't glare at him like he's scum on the bottom of his shoe when Oliver gasps at the sound of his full name (which, his full name (!!!), has never sounded so fucking good, holy shit, Young's gonna shit himself when he tells him about this later) coming out of his mouth. "Are you looking for Ilya?"

    "Ilya?" Oliver repeats, dazed beyond belief. He sort of wants to ask if the world's swimming for everyone, or just him. "Who?"

    Shane Hollander looks abruptly, immensely pleased. Oliver has no idea what he's said to make him look like that, but he'll do anything for it to happen again.

    OR: In a world where there is no outing of Hollanov, Oliver Holmberg stumbles over the big secret twenty-four hours before it's set to be revealed.

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  14. Bisexual! This is great! Me too! by

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    2026-08-13

    Old friends Eric Bennett and Brandon Wiebe realize - oh yeah, that time when we were best friends at hockey camp in high school, actually maybe we were boyfriends? They’ve been casual friends for decades since then, but when Eric comes out publicly, Wiebe reaches out. They catch up and debrief life and hockey as bisexual men while Eric enjoys his first year of retirement and Wiebe navigates his first year as a coach.
    Ilya Rozanov is just delighted to have bisexual friends. Even if they don’t always know he’s bisexual too. And since his love language is being a little shit, he badgers them into bisexual solidarity.

    OR:
    They’re all bisexual and talking to each other

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  15. Husband Shenanigans by

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    2026-08-11

    Now that Shane is officially a player on the Ottawa Centaurs, Ilya demands to be added to the WAG chat too.
    Chaos ensues.

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  16. pour mercy, mercy on me (set fire to history) by

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    2026-08-02

    “I was thinking summer,” Shane said. “Summer for what?” Shane lifted his head and met Ilya’s gaze. “For everything. Coming out. Going public. Getting married.” Ilya’s heart flipped. “Yes?” “Yeah. I know it’s going to be a shitshow, but I’m tired of being scared of being found out. I want to tell people, on our own terms. I think I can handle anything that happens, as long as going public is a choice we made ourselves. Together.” “That is what I want,” Ilya agreed. “We tell people ourselves. Together.” ~ The Long Game, Chapter 25 What if Shane and Ilya were never outed in Hayden's FanMail, and got to come out on their own terms?

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  17. rotting on a wooden cutting board by

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    2026-07-28

    He doesn't mean for it to be a secret.

    Or, well. That's his story, at least. It sounds convincing in his head. He practices the words in the mirror, over and over again, at first with a flat affect and then growing into a wearied sort of pleading, an uncomfortable honesty soaking into the lines of his face as he imagines the expressions of his teammates.

    Fuck.

    He doesn't know if he can do this.

    But he knows—he knows—it's a matter of time.

    OR: Shane has a secret. It's a really, really big one.

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  18. Twenty Years of the Ilya Rozanov Fight Compliation by

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    2026-07-12

    Dylan starts playing around with video editing software after taking (and dropping) a community college media class in 2011. He may as well use the new skills to make something, so he makes a hockey video. This leads to him becoming the ‘Ilya Rozanov Fight Compilation’ guy – it’s the start of an interesting two decades.

    Or, the twenty years of Ilya Rozanov's MLH career as seen through the posts of one social media account.

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  19. the way you love me by

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    2026-07-11

    Ilya knows that no one loves the same version of a person; his Shane is different to Yuna’s Shane, who is different to David’s Shane, who is different to J.J., or Rose, or Hayden’s Shane. And while Ilya knows he’d fall in love with every single version, he’s happy he gets this one. Happy he gets the Shane who lets himself be trusting, and vulnerable, and honest. It makes Ilya wish he could have loved Shane earlier - makes him wish he could have known him longer. But he’s just glad he gets to do it now, here, like this. (Or, four times people are surprised by Shane’s clinginess, and one time they completely expect it.)

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  20. The Promise by

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    2026-07-10

    “Ilya, can I ask you something?” “You have been asking things all week, Shane.” “Have you ever thought about running away?” — At the cottage, Shane tells Ilya something distressing. Years later, when Hayden’s FanMail video leaks, a promise made there is tested.

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