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    Ilya doesn’t seem to go out much, aside from the few times Shane sees him leave and return dragging two armfuls of groceries. He slips out onto the fire escape several times a day, every day, to chainsmoke and look miserable. It’s only natural, given the sheer amount of time he spends out there, that Shane would cross paths with him while using his own patio.

    Shane has a four year plan to captain his college hockey team and join the MLH, but none of that will happen if he gets lung cancer from all the cigarette smoke his smartass new neighbor produces, or if he keeps wasting his time meeting him on the fire escape.

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    22 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 84

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    Their eyes met once more, but Ilya didn’t look away this time. He lingered on Shane, his eyes heated as they traveled down the length of Shane’s body slowly before coming back up to his face. Ilya wet his lips with his tongue, eyed Shane for a beat more, and then went back to his sketch. Shane’s body flushed hot again and he swallowed hard, desperately hoping his blush wasn't visible.

    Shane couldn't believe it when Professor Johnson announced there was only five minutes left. As hard as it was to concentrate on not getting too flustered, it still felt like nothing as he sat there and watched Ilya sketch. He was sure he could pose for hours and never grow tired or bored so long as he got to watch the thoughtful furrow of Ilya’s brow and the delicious purse of his lips as he focused on his work.

    or, Shane and Ilya are college students that meet when Shane volunteers as a nude model for Ilya's art class.

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    22 May 2026

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    Shane had been used to being alone. He'd never thought of himself as lonely. He honestly often craved the solitude, found it grounding. But that was before he knew what it was like to have someone to call, someone to touch. He was never lonely before Rozanov, but he'd been lonely ever since.

    April 2017: Shane does not get laid out on the ice.

    Ilya goes through with ending it.

    Shane lets him.

    What follows is eleven months of distance, denial, and a quiet kind of devastation neither of them knows how to name, let alone fix.

    They learn how to live without each other.

    (Or at least, how to pretend.)

    And then, almost a year later, the infamous collision happens and Shane goes down cold.

    And suddenly, neither of them can pretend it doesn’t matter.

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    12 May 2026

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    “I’m here. I’m here,” comes through, finally. “Sorry, just- I’m here. What do you need?”

    “Just talk,” Ilya begs, not even caring how pathetic he sounds. “Please.”

    “Okay, okay,” Hollander breathes. “You know. I keep thinking. This isn’t right. There’s something fucking wrong.”

    “Of course there’s something wrong, Hollander! Your building is on fire!”

    “I fucking know, Rozanov!”

    Or:

    Pre-tunamelt, in peak situationship era, Hollanov’s building catches fire… with Ilya still inside.

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    10 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    “You’re the only person I can trust.”

    “I hated you once.”

    “You also loved me. Which weighs more heavily on you, Hollander?”

    Shane always sensed that one day his mistakes, the past, would come knocking. He never thought he would be the one that chased them down with desperate strides, but he's learned not to be surprised by his own actions. Even to himself, he's a stranger. Shane wonders if anyone truly knows him, but he already knows the answer.

    Ilya Rozanov.

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    08 May 2026