The term, he’s told, is temporary retrograde amnesia.
Ilya doesn’t need the direct translation to understand: he forgot things. Ten years of things. It’s 2024: he’s thirty-four, not twenty-four, and he plays for the Ottawa Centaurs, not Boston. Apparently, so does Shane Hollander.
Source: there’s no pretending, by moonsock – Game Changers Series – Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own]
Adult, canon divergence. Amnesia fic, oh how I love thee! 😉 This is the exact right mix of painful and lovely.