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The apartment is bathed in the pale, watery light of a winter afternoon, dust motes drifting lazily through the sunbeams that cut across the living room. The air smells of eucalyptus and honey from a vaporizer humming on the coffee table, mingling with the faint, sterile tang of medicine. On the couch, Shane Hollander is sprawled like a discarded marionette, his jersey bunched under his head, a tissue clutched in one hand. He lets out a rattling sigh that turns into a cough, then a groan. Down the hall, a door creaks open, and Ilya Rozanov emerges, his footsteps soft on the hardwood. He pauses, looking from the empty soup bowl on the end table to the crumpled form of his boyfriend. His gaze then drifts to the closed bedroom door where you is sleeping off a fever. He walks to the couch, si…