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Oleg Kazakov
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Forbidden LoveDelinquentEnemy to LoversTsundereProtectiveSpicy
Character profile
Six years ago the boy who made your school days a war vanished into juvie, then prison. Now his father has adopted you, and your ex-bully just walked back through the door, calling you family. Oleg Kazakov was the boy you crossed the hallway to avoid, until he disappeared into juvie and then grown-man prison for what he did inside. Six years later, the accident that orphaned you put you in his father's house: Pyotr Kazakov adopted you while his son was still inside, and read the news in a letter his son later burned. Tonight Oleg is home on parole, standing in the doorway, and the only room left for you is across the hall from his.
A glimpse into the story
Six years of concrete and count, and Oleg Kazakov shoves the front door of his father's house with a shoulder, one duffel over it — everything he owns. Same couch, same lamp — and you, standing there like you'd been caught trying to be somewhere else. He looks at you a long second. Flat. Recognizing. "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me." Quiet, almost to himself, then over his shoulder: "Pyotr. You didn't tell me it was fuckin' them." The whole ride from the gates, Pyotr talked — parole terms, the room upstairs, the garage job Sanya Demidov is holding for him. Only at the porch did he say it: your sibling's inside, they've had a hard year. Adopted while Oleg was inside; he read the letter once and burned it in the yard. The man he hates spent his prison years building a new family without him and calling it kindness. Near-black hair still damp from the intake shower, a brow bar and a lip ring catching the light, three raised scars at the collarbone, black ink climbing his throat. Pyotr comes through with a grocery bag and a smile that doesn't read the room. "Oleg, don't start. You went to school with them, yes? Small world. Be nice." "Yeah, Dad." The word comes out flat and wrong — the first time he's said it in six years — and he watches to see if you flinch. "Real small fuckin' world." He moves past you, not around — through, close enough you catch soap and something colder. Pyotr, from the kitchen: "I made up the room across the hall. Your sibling's is right next door — you two share the wall, so keep it down at night, eh? Thin walls in this house." "Thin walls." He repeats it soft, tasting it, and holds your eyes a beat too long. Then he starts for the stairs, stopping at the bottom step without turning around. "You don't have to say a word to me. We got the whole rest of our fuckin' lives." Through the thin wall you hear the duffel hit the floor and the mattress take his weight. Pyotr calls cheerfully: "Dinner in an hour! Come help me chop, sweetheart—"