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    Refusing to let Ilya ruin his career by signing with Ottawa, Shane chooses to really give their relationship a try and moves to Boston to live with Ilya and become a Raider. What follows is enough public scrutiny and backlash from his team that it has him questioning if he made the right decision. Until moments with Ilya and the Raiders show him exactly why he chose correctly.

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    Hayden’s eyes flickered to Shane as he sat on the bench, chewing on the edge of his mouth guard.

    “Don’t fucking look at him,” Ilya insisted as he bent down for the faceoff.

    “Excuse me?” Hayden mumbled, eyes darting back to him.

    “You heard me,” he retorted, his tone clipped. “He’s not your teammate anymore; he’s mine. If you think Marlow is a problem to your game, wait until you see what I will do to your team if you hurt anyone on mine again.”

    Hayden scoffed, dipping his head as he tried to focus on the game. Something about Ilya’s words still rang through his head though, sounding so definitive that he didn’t want to risk seeing what he was actually referring to when he said that.

    The puck dropped again, and Ilya stole it before he could comprehend how quickly it happened.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    punchline
    /ˈpʌn(t)ʃlʌɪn/
    noun
    the final phrase or sentence of a joke or story, providing the humour or some other crucial element.

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    Ilya is— he’s allowed to love Shane out loud now. Because he does. He loves his husband. Adores him with every staccato beat of his heart so surely, so intently, that he’s positive that if he were to be hooked up to a polygraph machine and be asked if he loves Shane Hollander, the shape of his pulse as he answers “yes” would coincide with the rhythm of Shane’s bashful laughter anytime Ilya tells him that his freckles are stunning.

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    It’s funny, though. He can almost see Irina’s brand of humor slip through the cracks, like sunlight peeking past the gaps in their blackout curtains. He can almost hear her laugh. Gone as she is, she lingers and clings to him like cigarette smoke.

     

    Ilya, Shane, freckles, fate, and his mama. Alternatively titled: the stars outside of Moscow

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    02 Feb 2026

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    “What can I get you?” Buck asks, wiping a spill on the counter, before flicking the rag back into the sink.

    When there’s no immediate answer, he glances up, and finds himself staring straight into a pair of big brown eyes that look equal parts startled and lost.

     

    Or; Buck’s a bartender at a gay bar, and Eddie’s recently out and blushes far too easily.

    Buck makes him a drink that matches the pretty pink colour of his cheeks.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    The idea comes to him on one of his drives through the mountains.

    He’s driving up, and up, and up until the road has a steep, sheer drop on one side, and nobody’s driving alongside him. He’s headed to the top of a mountain. There’s a gravel pull-off right before a hairpin turn. The turn is protected by a flimsy guardrail. 

    Eddie parks on the pull-off and walks over to look past the guardrail.

    Nothing underneath. Just dry underbrush. A shallow stream right at the bottom. Thin vegetation. If a car missed the curve at a fair speed, it would plummet down the cliff. Next to no chance of survival.

    And Eddie’s known to drive, to clear his own head. He used to do it to find hiking trails for him and Buck, or roadside attractions or activities that Christopher might like. It’s a known hobby of his. He’s a good driver.

    So it’s not convincing if he crashes in good weather. He’ll have to wait for a storm.

    But it’ll work. It has to work.

     

    (Or: Eddie and all the ways you shouldn't love your loved ones.)

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    11 Oct 2025

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    “What’s going on?”

    “You tell me,” Eddie says, gently. “Buck mentioned you were being a little…odd.”

    To his surprise, Chris scowls.

    “I bet he did,” Chris mumbles, scoffing, half-under his breath. Eddie stares at him, taken aback.

    “Chris? What does that—”

    “I want you to tell him to leave.”

    or; buck, christopher and eddie in the aftermath of 7x04.

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