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    His shirt, his shirt was—

    “You can’t—“ Shane blurted, “you can’t—you’re not supposed to wear a see-through shirt to Wimbledon. There’s a dress code. There are rules. Like, actual rules that actual people follow.”

    The man turned, his eyes sweeping over Shane’s face, down his chest, to the hands clutching the gift bag in his lap.

    Shane’s skin prickled. God, it was so hot out here.

    “Is not see-through.”

    Not see-through? Who was this guy kidding, with his barely-there shirt, tight pants, wild curls, and deep voice?

    Maybe this guy didn’t own a mirror.

    “What do you mean it’s not see-through? It’s obviously transparent. A blind man would notice.”

    “Is not transparent. No blind men here to ask.”

    Shane’s mouth dropped open. He looked away, squaring his shoulders and sitting up straight. Just his luck to be seated next to a lunatic.

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    Shane’s mom said it would be fun, to sit next to a Swedish princess.
    What Shane got instead was a Prince with a pinkie ring, a nipple piercing, and zero respect for the Wimbledon dress code.

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    90s pop band AU - touted to be the "Next Big Thing" - new pop band "Rivalry" have been manufactured to be the public's perfect boyband - Ilya (the bad boy) and Shane (much to his frustration typecast as the perfect heartthrob) meet at the first casting call. Through photoshoots, choreography camp and then a cross world tour, they fall in love but have to hide it from their bandmates, over-invested management and legions of screaming fans.

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    “Watch the blue line, Hollander! You are slow tonight!”

    “I'm the only reason you're on the scoresheet, Captain. Skate back to your position.”

    To the public, it’s a beautifully toxic civil war. The sports pages live for the vicious practice brawls, the post-game media barbs, and the lethal, high-IQ chemistry driven by pure hatred.

    But forty two floors up, behind the locked doors of a soundproof penthouse, the performance ends.

    “When I hit you... when I saw your head hit the glass, I hated myself,” Ilya choked out. “If I hurt him to save him, what am I saving?”

    Shane framed the defenseman’s jaw. “You saved us, Ilya. Look at me. The ice is still ours.”

    Exiled to Moscow after a scandal in Montreal, Shane Hollander expected to play out his contract in isolation. Instead, he found Ilya Rozanov—CSKA’s terrifying, untouchable iron captain and a fierce, protective gravity that threatened to pull both of their careers into the sun.

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    What if Ilya Rozanov never went to the NHL draft? What if he stayed in Russia to become CSKA’s untouchable iron captain, leaving his secret teenage history with Shane Hollander buried in Saskatoon?

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    Shane sees his ex at a cafe and texts what he thinks it’s a dud number to look busy, little does he know it belongs to Ilya. Shane uses the thread to use as a reminder for stuff he has to do. Ilya enjoys reading what this mysterious man does until he gets a text at 3am.

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    Shappicly-Shappo OP
    Fair question! I didn’t go looking for them or anything. Doing some side work for a local moving company (just boring documentation thank god. I’m much too frail for manual labor!!!) and according to my boss it was left behind by a client ‘‘forever ago” and was never claimed. Knowing him that probably means they didn’t deliver it a decade ago and the client never called looking for it. They were doing a big storeroom clean out and were just going to toss it, so I thought I’d snag it! 

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    So, you just picked up a bunch of old journals you couldn’t read? Didn’t you say you just started grad school? Girl, are you not busy enough????

    Or Ilya loses his old journals in the move to Ottawa.

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