Gaiaphage



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    Shane’s heart skipped as he watched Ilya’s eyes squeeze shut, a groan leaving his mouth. Not the deep breathy groan Shane was used to hearing; the one that sent a familiar heat curling low in his gut, that made him absurdly proud of how easily he could undo Ilya Rozanov.

    No, it was a bit higher, more strained.

    “Hey, what’s wrong?” He quickly pushed himself more upright, hands hovering but hesitating to touch Ilya’s still frozen form.

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    Ilya has chronic pain.

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    05 May 2026

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    Similar to Built to Break-Alternate ending, this story will be the same up to a certain point, and then switch into an alternate version. Chapter 25 is where things will begin to shift from the original.

    If you have read the original, I have gone back and added some author's notes at the end of the chapters with some thoughts and insights you might enjoy, instead of rereading the whole thing... though I find that rereading it sometimes hits different when you know the ending will change.

    Spoiler alert: Ilya will die.
    Double spoiler alert: There will be a happy ending and a reunion, because I am not a psychopath.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    It’s not like his mom had been celebrating Ilya having a fucking heart attack. It’s just that if Shane hadn’t been such a coward, he would have told his parents about Ilya sooner, and then maybe none of this would have happened at all.

    After a fluke cardiac event leaves Ilya with an anoxic brain injury, he and Shane attempt to cope with their new normal.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    After finally admitting their love and coming out to Shane’s parents, Ilya and Shane leave for the cottage with a future that, for the first time, feels certain. But a sudden car accident shatters that moment, leaving Ilya suspended between life and death.

    In a peaceful, dreamlike version of the highway, he walks alongside his mother as memories of the crash bleed into the stillness. Faced with an impossible choice, Ilya must decide whether to stay in this quiet, certain place with her, or fight his way back to the life—and love—he had only just begun to fully claim.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    In 2008, Shane Hollander’s MHL dreams died when a tumor resection transformed into an L1 spinal cord injury. In 2021, Ilya Rozanov was the newest center of the Ottawa Centaurs, freshly shunned from Boston.

    After a chance meeting on home ice, Ilya's agent has the idea of a lifetime. Shane’s injuries didn’t kill his ambition and Ilya’s abrasive past didn’t taint his talent. All they needed was a little reshaping.

    Or, Shane and Ilya rebrand as an Olympic-Paralympic couple on the road to gold in Beijing. It’s all just good PR, of course.

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    31 Mar 2026