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  1. They were waiting for the big goal— learning to walk. That was the one that they were most excited for. The one Shane was eager to see, he was so sure she would do it any day now. Or the one where Sofia walks for the first time

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  2. "As if it could be a sacrifice, to learn to know the man he loves better. "
    OR
    Shane Hollander's journey to learning Russian for Ilya Rozanov.

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  3. It was the sweetest gesture when Sofia came to her grandparents and asked them to help make her daddy and papa a valentine. They of course couldn't resist their granddaughter's little pleading face on top of the fact that Sofia already had her piggy bank ready in hand to buy her parents something to go with her card.

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  4. We put a microphone on 3-year-old Makari Hollander during the Ottawa Centaurs' Learn to Play camp. A fluffy, future kidfic in the form of one of those mic'd up videos. enjoy the chaos:)

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  5. Shane's eyes burned. "What if I hadn't noticed?" "But you did." "But what if I hadn't?" Ilya pulled Shane against his chest, wrapping his arms around him. "You would have. Because you are Shane Hollander. When Shane Hollander has goal—like goal to keep our baby safe—nothing gets past him." He pressed a kiss to Shane's temple. "Is blessing and curse, yes? But mostly blessing." Or, 3 times Shane's hypervigilance caught something wrong with their kids before anyone else did, and 1 time Ilya had to confiscate his laptop.

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  6. It’s not Ilya’s fault that Pork gets out.

    Okay, well, maybe a little bit. But it is almost equally Shane’s fault.

    The facts are thus: Ilya’s home nursing an injury, and Shane’s on a roadie, and maybe he and Shane have managed to get a little codependent after just one season playing together.

    And so, while Ilya was making lunch, he got distracted by his very pretty husband facetiming him from the hotel shower. And perhaps the water evaporated and the noodles caught fire a bit.

    And in the chaos of smoke and fire extinguishers and flinging open every window and door in the house – Well. Pork’s always been a bit of an escape artist.

     

    Or: Shane’s horrible hairless cat gets out and Ilya has to hunt down his least favourite child.

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  7. “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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  8. “I want to eat you,” Ilya tells him.

    Shane laughs, loud and bright and carefree, and Ilya feels it blooming inside of his chest like a sunflower. It only makes the desire to consume him grow even stronger. Not in a crazy way (probably), but because he feels like he can never get enough of this man. His Shane. His husband. No amount of time, no amount of closeness, ever feels like it could be enough.

    He wants them both to be eternal, wants to live with their ribcages locked together and their hearts thumping against each other.

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  9. When Shane is 11, he and Ilya have their first sleepover, as best friends do. Shenanigans ensue and secrets are shared. Everyone needs someone who sees them. [Can be read as a stand alone.]

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  10. Everything was quiet now in the house. It was almost a little too quiet compared to the semi- chaos it had been in not even thirty minutes prior to Shane mustering up all the will power in his body to get both a defiant toddler and a newborn to sleep. Or Shane is so exhausted and Ilya saves the day

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  11. shane was always so specific about what he put in his body, but ginger ale never wavered. why? or a cute, domestic conversation taking place sometime after the events of TLG :)

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  12. It’s perhaps the sweetest Svetlana has ever known Ilyusha to be. She has always been granted access to the more affectionate side of Ilyusha, the one that he rarely shows to anyone else, but it was never anything compared to this. This tenderness, this adoration, that he gives so freely to Shane. It’s like her best friend is a completely different person right now, and she starts to wonder if maybe she was wrong earlier. Maybe, instead of being too boring for Ilyusha, perhaps Shane Hollander is giving him the space to become something soft. Something without walls, or masks, or armour. (Or, 5 times people doubt their love for each other, and 1 time they are certain of it.)

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  13. “Mic’ing us up? Did I hear that right?” Hunter questions.

    “Someone in PR thought it would be funny to hear the three of you during all of your games,” Coach LeClaire explains, “The idea got out and spread like wildfire.”

    “Huh,” Hunter responds.

    “It would be funny to hear me,” Ilya corrects, “I am funny. The other two are boring.”

    He hears Hollander huff out a laugh and bump shoulders with him as Hunter continues to ask questions. Casually glancing over to the other man, he sees a small smile playing at his lips. His eyes, though, there was a gleam that he hadn’t seen before. He wasn’t certain what it could mean, but it couldn’t be good for Ilya.

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    Or what if Shane had stayed with Ilya that night in Boston?

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  14. Ilya knew that morning when he woke up feeling like his entire body was hit by a bus that he was sick. It was definitely something he had picked up from Sofia, she had a playdate with Amber earlier that week so that was more or less where she had picked up the cold from. Or the one where Ilya takes care of his sick little baby bear.

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  15. Shane woke up to an eerily silent house. He wasn't sure why it was so quiet but these weren't his normal morning sounds at all and it was starting to make him feel off. Actually there were no sounds…like at all. Or the one where It's Shane's birthday and he has some surprises in store.

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  16. "It was nothing, Ilya. Don't worry about it." "Ah," Ilya said, and something like understanding crossed his face. "Was about us, then." Shane pressed his forehead to Ilya's neck. Of course Shane couldn't just slip this by, of course he would be figured out. He wrapped Ilya up in a hug and moved his hand up and down his back, in a way that he hoped said it doesn't matter. "He just–after he checked me, I called him a dick, and then he said I'd need my big scary Russian husband to protect me. And then he called you a name, and…" Shane didn't know how to finish that sentence, so he let it trail off. And it felt so unfair. And I got more angry than I had any reason to. And I hate that I can't go one game without my sex life being brought up in some way. And it's happened a million other times, so why should I have cared on this one specific occasion? Over the course of the first half of his fifth season on the Centaurs, Shane considers retirement, homophobia, his public life, family, and his legacy. He also gets a tooth knocked out, visits the beach, and is repeatedly pissed off by how hot his husband is.

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  17. Ilya knew it sounded crazy, but he was ninety-nine point nine percent sure he was being stalked. Because there was no rational explanation for how his entire relationship with Shane, his very secret relationship, had been documented in painstaking detail and turned into five record-breaking studio albums by some British boyband called One Direction.

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  18. Still, there’s something that sticks in his chest about all of this, feeling like somehow, he’s failed. Baby should have turned on her own by now. What is he doing wrong? Everything else about the pregnancy so far has been textbook. He’s done everything right- his diet, his exercise routine, prenatal yoga, Lamaze class, protein shakes, oil massages- Seriously, he's done every single thing the pregnancy books advised him to do. He hasn’t missed a single one. Yet, somehow, he’s failed at this. And this is pretty fucking important. If she’s not head down, he can’t safely deliver her. And if he can’t do that- Christ. Shane exhales again, rubbing his hands deliberately over the aching stretch of skin on his belly. He pushes against her stubborn little foot, low on his side. “Why don’t you wanna flip, little girl?” he asks softly, brows furrowed. “I did the stupid elephant walk and I burned moxa at my feet. I’ve done the stretches, I let your dad massage my belly, I’ve tried everything. What am I doing wrong, hm?” -or, shane is 36wks pregnant with their first baby, and she's being stubborn about flipping head down-

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  19. Ilya Rozanov would do anything to stop his kids from crying. Apparently, that includes cutting off his own hair. Or, Shane and Ilya's toddler gets slime stuck in her hair. The attempted rescue goes badly, and Ilya tries to make her feel less alone by matching her botched haircut. Shane is not thrilled.

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  20. Ilya watches as, with shaking fingers, Shane presses something on his phone and turns it to him.

    There is an article open. Ilya sees… a photo of him at Shane’s house in Montreal. A side by side comparison of them, wearing—sharing—the same shirts, and hoodies. Shane’s car driving through the gates at Ilya’s new house.

    Shane hiccups, tears streaming down his cheeks.

    “They figured us out.”

    A year in the life of Shane and Ilya, if they had been outed earlier.

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