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    "“I found a little spot while I was waiting around yesterday. It's where I set up my camp. It's a little ways off from the main area. More trees. More privacy.”

    “I will follow you anywhere so long as you suck my dick when we get there,” Ilya answers honestly.

    Normally he'd be embarrassed to be so open with a near-stranger. He's a forthcoming guy but he often likes to play coy, the chase being a thrilling part of foreplay.

    But something about being on the trail like this, the easy and casual nature between them, it just feels pointless to play games.

    They're both just two men who find each other hot and are on similar adventures with nothing to lose."

     

    Or, Shane decides he's tired of not feeling in control of his own life, and after college graduation he makes the bold decision to hike as much as he can of the Pacific Crest Trail in 3 months on his own. Ilya Rozanov also just graduated college and feels aimless, so he and his friend Cliff decide to hike the entire PCT together. Shane and Ilya meet on the trail. No slow burn here!

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    26 Jun 2026

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    Cliff would probably remember if he was there when Ilya met a woman so earth-shattering that he would chase after her for nearly a decade. Probably. Cliff thinks he would probably notice something as life-altering as a meeting like that. Who on earth is this woman and how did they find each other? Did Cliff watch Ilya’s life change before his eyes and not even realize what was happening?

     

    In the fall of 2017, Cliff Marlow notices evidence of Jane all over Ilya’s apartment. He decides to investigate.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Shane joins the Centaurs and Ilya thinks he’s won the lottery. Maybe he did, but there are repercussions. For one, Hollander is impressive. Hollander wins games. But, he wanted to play with Shane.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    And yeah, Shane knew that Ilya hadn’t been okay last time he was in Russia, but Ilya had had the very real excuse of a funeral to blame things on. Ilya had downplayed it as much as he could, and Shane hadn’t been there, he’d heard the fatigue and he’d seen Ilya’s tired smile, but he hadn’t felt the way Ilya’s hands were cold the entire time he was there, hadn’t seen through the screen the way Ilya dropped eight pounds in three weeks, hadn’t kept time when there were twenty hours in Ilya’s day instead of something closer to sixteen. Or, on the flip side, for the week or two after, when there had been approximately ten conscious hours in a day.

    It was one thing to see something. It was another to feel it in your hands.

    Ilya and Shane are so, so happy for their first year married. They’re playing in Ottawa together, they’re fucking winning, they’re together and out.

    So now, after a year, Ilya should be fine. He should be great. He should not be flinching at small noises or nearly punching people off the clock or feeling like he’s drowning whenever he’s not on the ice.

    Or: Ilya Rozanov, meet your PTSD.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    This thing that they have—whatever the hell it is—it’s good. It’s easy. It feels like the only thing keeping Ilya afloat sometimes.

    He can’t let it get to a place where it’s more than just a good, convenient fuck and some fun teasing in between. Even if sometimes, in brief moments of tenderness, it already feels like it’s more than that. Or at least like it’s something that can be, if they just let it.

    But they don’t. They can’t.

    Although sometimes, Ilya does find himself giving in to the urge to look at Shane just a little bit longer, to let his touch be just a little bit gentler, more reverent, than what it would be for something as casual as they claim this to be—albeit sparingly.

    Sometimes, just for a moment, he lets himself indulge. He lets some of that affection bleed out of him because he feels like he’ll implode if he doesn’t.

    But he always catches himself before it can linger.

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    where six months of ghosting is shane’s final straw and he cuts contact with ilya after vegas, tired of the wall that just keeps getting higher each time he tries to chip away at it

    so ilya is forced to reckon with his feelings much sooner

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    24 Jun 2026