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    Shane was fourteen the first time a number felt like safety.

    The nutritionist worked out of an office in Kanata, framed certificates, a calm voice, laminated charts with columns. She explained it simply: fuel in, output required, timing of each. She said it was a starting point.

    Shane took notes in the margins the way he took notes on everything—completely, past what was required. Yuna had found the nutritionist herself, sat beside him, and took notes too.

    Like mother, like son.

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    Or: Shane’s system works until it doesn’t; Ilya notices first.

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    At first, he thinks he’s hallucinating Rozanov. The lethal half-cut of his gaze, the open collar of his shirt, the span of his hands moving up someone else’s waist. Shane’s always been a glutton for punishment.

    But he blinks, or the lights keep blinking for him, won't fucking quit, and Rozanov is still there. Looking. An anchor. Shane stares back, can’t make himself stop.

    The glass he’s holding slips out of his hand and shatters as he jolts forward. He's drowning in this sea of people but he thinks, maybe, Ilya is the only one that manages to hear.

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    Steve always knew he was different.

    It started when he was a kid. Maybe four years old. He was obsessed with Sleeping Beauty, watched it every single night.

    As he grew, he formed a habit of rewatching any movie that showed a character sleeping, fainting, getting knocked out. When he got his first laptop, he started watching videos and finding websites through other websites, exploring deeper into this fascination, until he came across something even better. Something that would sear itself deep into his soul (and groin) for the rest of his life.

    Hypnosis.

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    Shane gets laid out cold on the ice for the first time in his career. A month later, things go sideways again, and Ilya realizes he doesn't have forever to figure it out anymore.

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    Will hesitated, his hands smeared with dirt. He hadn’t thought this far ahead. His planning had stopped at the getting-out-of-the-house-unnoticed-and-digging-him-up phase. But, now he thought about it, human heads didn’t just open like boiled eggs, did they?
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    In 1983, Will came back from the Upside Down not dead, but not exactly alive either. Five years on, in the middle of a Hawkins overrun by the Upside Down, it's getting harder and harder to hide that everyone who'd called him Zombie Boy had been absolutely right.
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    Written for the Byler Big Bang 2025 with artwork by shubaoven

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