“Can you waive your no trade?” she asked, her voice gentle and her arms wrapped around him like she could hold him together by sheer force of will; she was doing a pretty good job of it, honestly.
Shane paused and thought back to that moment in the locker room where it’d started to feel like retiring as a Voyageur was no longer in the cards, thought about how he’d always assumed that would feel like heartbreak. But now he knew what heartbreak felt like, he knew that there was more to life than hockey even if hockey was so much of what made him him. He didn’t want to give it up, that was for damn sure, but he might just be able to stomach giving up Montreal.
Teen, canon-divergence. What if Shane had left the Voyageurs much earlier and ended up in New York with (a still-closeted) Scott Hunter? I love fics where Shane ends up with a much more supportive team and people who see how awesome he is. This is an epically long, incredibly enjoyable version, even if the last two chapters are still missing.