Rec: The Things the Dead Leave Behind
This fic is sheer insanity. It’s going to have a HE but it’ll break you first.
The Things the Dead Leave Behind
Summary: When Shane stops answering his phone, Ilya drives to Montreal expecting irritation, maybe a fight, maybe another one of Shane’s ridiculous explanations
Instead, he finds Shane dead in their bed.
After the funeral, Ilya tries desperately to survive the grief, leaning on teammates, family, and the life they built together. Then Shane starts appearing in places he shouldn’t be, asking Ilya to do small, ordinary things that slowly begin erasing their shared history from existence.
Ottawa disappears first.
Then the cottage.
Then the MLH.
Then Shane himself.
And somewhere beneath the unraveling nightmare waiting for him is the life Ilya Rozanov was supposed to have if he had never met Shane Hollander at all.