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    Ilya Rozanov has spent ten years circling Shane Hollander. Ten years of hotel rooms and secret phone calls. Ten years of pretending he doesn't feel it, doesn't need it, doesn't wake up reaching for someone who's already gone. Ten years convincing himself he's not good enough. That he's not worth it.

    Then a plane needs to make an emergency landing near Montreal, and Yuna Hollander is on it.

    So when Shane calls him from a bathroom floor, unable to breathe, Ilya stops pretending.

    After five hundred miles of frozen highway, three and a half hours of driving like a man possessed, a hospital waiting room full of people who have every reason to hate him, and a boy who looks at him like he's something worth keeping, Ilya may have learned a thing or two about what it means to be loved—and to let himself love freely.

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    05 Sep 2026

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    I think this fic fundamentally broke me then stitched me back together and then slowly shattered me apart but the smoothed out the jagged pieces with such tender care that once they were placed back together it was better than before. This hit like a 5 hour therapy session I didnt know I needed and I cried the whole time. The pacing of this was absolutely perfect. It was so Immersive and deep yet so human and funny and awkward and just so perfect I want to hold it in my hands and hug it as hard as I can. It felt like coming home after a long, draining day to idle conversation that lives with you and fulfills you in a way you cannot describe. This is beautiful and serene and should be sponsored by Kleenex

     

    The Distance Between Us by Bruja_oscura

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    Those stormy eyes would be the death of her, she thought, as his intense gaze raked over her. How was it that she felt breathless from a look? Without much thought, Sansa gave the tiniest of nods, and he reached out to the lock. The slow click of it was deafening, her hands falling from her hair and coming to rest on the sink in front of her. Still he didn’t move, and she realised it was because he wanted permission. This was her choice, he wouldn’t push a moment. Sansa’s lips parted but she couldn’t find her voice, couldn’t think of the way to say yes, please, you.
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    On a date with her neglectful and quite frankly terrible boyfriend, Sansa ends up in the bathroom with someone else.

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    24 Jan 2021

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    Lovely pacing and lovely time

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    “I was trying to be cool about it.” Shane's confession is a quiet whine, muffled into his palms. “Go with the flow, y’know?”

    It’s almost unbearable, how much Ilya adores this perfect, neurotic man. “Hollander,” he says patiently. “You have never once gone with flow. Not ever in your life.”

    There is only one grey cloud in the perfect blue sky of Ilya’s summer.

    His two weeks at the cottage are almost over, and Shane still hasn’t asked him to stay.

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    25 Aug 2026

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    Not me absolutely bawling over this. Its so beautiful and it feels like a hug and a therapy session over candle lit pasta. So many lovely things to remember and commit to memory in the fic and the feelings that it evoked through reading it. The simple domesticality of it all has me so soft

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    Shane: Is this Ilya Rozanov?
    Unknown number: no
    Shane: Oh, but the dog collar had this number.
    Unknown Number: What? What dog collar? What are you talking about?
    Shane: I'm Shane Hollander.
    Shane: I have your dog.
    Unknown Number: Is this ransom threat?
    Unknown Number: Did you kidnap my dog?

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    18 Aug 2026

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    Ilya falls in love with Shane’s hockey, first. Everything complicated comes later.

    (A non-chronological timeline of Ilya Rozanov, falling in love with hockey and with life and with Shane Hollander.)

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    17 Jul 2026

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    Beautifully paced. Reading this feels like sipping a warm cider on a crisp morning and then remembering the sharp tang of lemonade on the hottest day of summer. Both deeply contrasting but lovely and continuing to remind yourself of the comfort of now and then. A graceful tribute to Shane and Ilya and the time it took for them to be them