kingdomgladiator
On the ice, they were enemies. At home, they were fathers.
Vasilia Alexandra Mila Eudoxia Starkov had spent fifteen years believing she belonged nowhere.
Russian-Canadian, extraordinarily intelligent, painfully observant and happiest with a book in one hand and skates beneath her feet, Vasilia has always existed slightly outside the world around her.
Then she became Vasilia Hollander-Rozanov.
Adopted by hockey legends Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, she is the one person capable of walking into a room with both men arguing and somehow making them stop.
She knows their habits. Their moods. Their histories.
She knows when Shane is pretending not to worry.
She knows when Ilya is hiding something behind a joke.
And, perhaps most importantly, she knows that beneath decades of rivalry, there has always been something neither man could quite name.
Now fifteen, Vasilia is entering a complicated new chapter of her own. Between figure skating, hockey, school, her extraordinary mind, navigating neurodivergence and dissociative experiences, and figuring out her bisexuality, she has more than enough occupying her thoughts.
But when pieces of her life before adoption begin resurfacing, Vasilia discovers that becoming a Hollander-Rozanov didn't erase the Starkov name.
It only gave her somewhere safe enough to finally confront it.
And Shane and Ilya are about to discover that protecting their daughter isn't always about keeping her away from the storm.
Sometimes it's about standing beside her while she walks through it.