Sweet_Southern_Tea



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    Hayden wasn’t the type to invade someone’s privacy, but seeing Shane reduced to a ghost was wearing him down. He picked up the phone, his fingers trembling slightly as he searched for the contact “Lily.” The phone rang once, twice, three times.

    Then, the line clicked. But there was no "Hello?"

    “This is Ilya. I never check my voicemail.”

    Hayden pulled the phone away from his ear, staring at the screen as if it had just exploded. The name still read Lily. But the voice… the voice was low, gravelly, with that Russian accent he’d been hearing scream across the ice for years.

    “Rozanov?” Hayden whispered. “What the hell…”

     

    Set after Shane left Ilya's house in ep 4

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    No serious hockey fan or sports commentator worth their salt would have considered record-breaking Boston superstar Ilya Rozanov to be Shane Hollander’s rival exactly, but sleeping with a man who had a specific offense-related vendetta against him and a wrist shot like a jet engine to back it up was probably ill-advised just the same.

    Or, Shane is a goalie. Ilya can’t score.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    All Shane wanted to do was to play hockey.
    He knew he was pretty much the best at it.

    What he didn't know, being the best was not enough.

    Being a gay Asian-Canadian hockey player didn't help anything at all.

    Nor did the fact that he got drafted to Ottawa, the team where Ilya Rozanov was already the biggest star.

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    An alternate universe where Shane is openly out as gay. Ilya is still closeted bisexual. And they both play for the same team- ie, Ottawa Centaurs.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Hollander stopped dead, his eyes widening in surprise as he took in Ilya, hand paused as it hung over a stray box of oats at his feet.

    The shepherd made a low whine, snapping Ilya out of his frozen state, and it seemed to do the same for Hollander as well as it booped their nose into his leg firmly, urging him to take notice.

    “Hol-” Ilya finally choked out as Shane stood up abruptly, eyes glazed over in panic. With a nod at the floor, he turned and strode away, the dog trotting along diligently at his heels.

    “Wait, Hollander!”

    Ilya was stunned. There was no other word for it. He feels like he’d seen a ghost, and in some ways he kind of had, for Shane Hollander was very much a ghost of the past.

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    In 2014 Ilya slipped away to Russia for the summer to care for a man who was steadily forgetting everything. On the other side of the globe Shane Hollander had slipped away from the MLH and the world without a word, never to be heard from again.
    In 2022 Ilya, tired and needing something different, takes up a contract with the Ottawa Centaurs. In the cereal aisle of a Loblaw supermarket, he runs into the last person he ever thought he’d see and something deep in his soul flickers alight.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “We must find you a queen.” Kim Dokja’s fingers played lightly with the parchment he held. He bit down onto his lips, his eyes averted from Yoo Joonghyuk’s gaze. “The nobles are growing increasingly restless as we speak…” He turned a page over, his lips thinning to a line. A sigh puffed from those mirthless lips of his as he massaged his brow. “The northern regions and the southern regions share the same sentiment about the instability of your rule. If we don’t consolidate your position with a child, a riot may ensue.”

    “Kim Dokja,” Yoo Joonghyuk growled. “How many times will I have to repeat this? I do not wish for a queen. I do not need a queen. How much longer will you pester me with the meaningless wants of those filthy nobles?”

    Yoo Joonghyuk’s foolish aide proposes he take a queen to rule by his side. Instead, he resolves to teach his aide a lesson.

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