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    Shane Hollander has spent his entire life being quiet.

    Troy Barrett trying to make nice was the straw that finally broke the camel's back

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    Shane can’t look at him. He can’t really look at anyone but he manages to lift his head and stare right back into Troy’s glistening eyes.

    “I never had that advantage, Troy. I never got to take it out on anyone, for any of it. All the times I got on that ice to play some hockey and some… fuckwit idiot like Kent, or whoever was calling me slurs— whether they were gay ones or racist ones… I couldn’t just hurl them back and call it a day like you did.”

    He swallows hard. He thinks he might be sick a little bit in his mouth.

    “You know how fucking lucky you are? To have gotten away with it? They love you, Barrett. This team loves you! You’re fucking celebrated because you overcame this big, terrible thing but for me it’s—”

    He thinks about his mom in that very split second. His beautiful, wonderful mom who’d coached him his entire life on how to be polite, how to be well behaved. How to answer to teachers the right way, to coaches, to cops to the press to the general public to his fucking teammates—

    He looks away. The fight suddenly drains right out of him and he goes back to his bag.

    or: shane decides to confront troy if no one else will

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    Troy Barrett apologizes and Shane accepts it. That part is easy. The part that comes after—the parties, the double dates, performing happiness in his own home for a man who used to make him feel like a guest in his own sport—that part is harder. But Shane is good at hard, he's been good at it his whole life.

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    In 2012, Shane sees a news report about the dangers faced by gay and bisexual men in Russia. He becomes determined to make sure Ilya is safe. This changes everything.

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