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A ‘Bears walk in to Ilya’s house and see him napping with Shane AU’ where Ilya somehow manages to still keep Shane’s identity a secret.

Ilya always had been a light sleeper, so no matter how lightly they stepped he was awake moments after the first shocked gasp.

Ilya knows it’s over for him. There’s no mistaking that there’s a man asleep on his chest in a clearly non-platonic cuddle. Usually Ilya would be punching the intruder, threatening violence to try and ensure they kept their mouth shut but he has quickly realised something far more important. With the way they are sleeping, Ilya on his underneath on his back and Shane on his stomach on top with his face pressed into the gap between Ilya’s neck and the couch, they can’t see his face.

He quickly pulls Shane’s hood up over his head to hide hair and rests a hand over it to gently discourage Shane from moving it should he start to wake up.

So Ilya just stares down his team and goes “you can be upset, but are going to be fucking quiet about it because if you wake my guest I’m sending all my blackmail on you to your wives, and then start fucking them to help them get over the divorce.”

So the whole “You’re fucking gay!” “No, I’m a fucking bi who is fucking a gay” conversation happens at a furious whisper, with Shane blissfully sleeping on Ilya’s chest as life implodes around him.

Shane may be a deep sleeper - and the argument in whispers - but even he starts to stir at the noise.

Ilya can’t have him moving his face into visibility now, so he just scruffs the back of his neck harshly and pressed him deeper into his shoulder.

Shane lets out a pleased (and not at all quiet) moan, and - worried that he is going to start talking - Ilya realises he needs to shut him up.

So he glares at the Bears to be quiet, while suddenly putting on the softest voice they have ever heard him use as he goes, “shhh quiet time now mоя любовь. Back to sleep.” And then shoves his fingers into Shane’s mouth.

When the Bears leave soon after, some of them have LEARNT some things about themselves. But crucially, none of them have learnt who their captain is fucking.

aneternalfangirl

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander & Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble & Ilya Rozanov, Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble & Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander & Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble Characters: Luca Haas, Zane Boodram, Young (Game Changers), Holmberg (Game Changers), Wyatt Hayes, Brandon Wiebe, Troy Barrett Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Married Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Anxious Shane Hollander, Texting Fic, fuck AI fuck it to death Summary:

Shane was freaking out again.

Ilya had hoped it would happen before they were in bed, preferably when Anya was still awake to help calm him down. He had not anticipated that Shane would lock himself in the bathroom to hyperventilate. He quickly ran through everything they did that day, just to make sure Shane was, in fact, freaking out about the next day. Ilya had gone to the arena today for an optional skate, but Shane had had to go to the main Centaurs office to finish up some paperwork.

Pre-season was starting tomorrow. Shane Hollander was having a good ol’ fashioned panic attack about it. Thankfully, Ilya knew exactly how to get that bathroom door to open.

tarawitht

This is your daily reminder that canon Shane Hollander never showed any sings of ´femininity’ as a social concept. Never showed any child like quirks. Had a lot of close friends and bagged some hot people. Is very horny and foul mouthed and out freaked Ilya multiple times.

So yeah, I don’t know why a part of this fandom likes to feminize or infantilise him.

Has anyone else started recognizing Russian due to the number of times we read it? And reheat it?

Or is it just me?

#heated rivalry #ilya rozanov #shane hollander

#heated rivalry

allthingswhumpyandangsty

fanfic writers deserve better

if we post too fast, we get accused of using ai (no, you don't know how fast someone can write. you don't even know if the "too-frequent-to-be-human updates" you see are something that have long been finished and sitting in an author's drafts for god knows how long. just because it's recently posted, doesn't necessarily always mean it's recently written too. a lot of writers finish the whole thing first before they start posting it chapter by chapter).

if we take "too long to update", we get people pressuring us to "update faster" even though fanfics are our hobbies and we write for ourselves first and foremost.

if our works are grammatically correct, we get accused of using ai (some of us just love correct grammars).

if our works are not grammatically correct, we get insulted/criticized (mind you, not everybody writes in their native language. kudos to writers who write in their second, or third, or fourth language — I'm willing to bet a lot of people who criticize fanfics because of poor grammar can't even speak other languages besides english).

if our paragraphs are "too long and too detailed", we get accused of using ai.

if our paragraphs are "too short", we also get accused of using ai.

if we are autistic and we write in ways some deem "too robotic", we get accused of using ai.

some people just don't use their brains to think "ai was trained on human-made works, it was trained to look human-made. ai writes this way because the way it writes is the way real humans write — real humans whose works it was trained to mimic". instead they somehow disregard this logic and think "hmmm this work looks ai-generated. I will engage in witch hunt, be a bully and harass writers whose works I don't vibe with".

annasmith2023

Well if I suspect the work to be AI, I just close it. But I also do the same for the works where I do not like the story or the writing or just don't like the character portrayal.

I do not think this is a big ask, what is the use of being rude to people who are doing this for free. You should not be looking at the teeth of the gifted horse. Don't like it, don't read it.

Simple.

aaliyahsparrow

I've been thinking about how Shane has his entire life under control. His career, his diet, his knowledge of the game, his captaincy, his public image—everything is carefully managed. He's the person everyone relies on, the one expected to have the answers and make the right decisions. Being with Ilya must be one of the few places in his life where he doesn't have to carry that responsibility. He can relax, let someone else take charge, and simply exist without having to be in control of every detail.

For Ilya, it's almost the exact opposite. He's living in a country that still isn't fully his own, speaking a language that isn't the one he grew up with, and separated from his family. Even if they were nearby, they're the authority figures in his life, not people he can direct or control. Then Shane comes along and willingly puts his trust in him, handing over the reins without hesitation. For perhaps the first time, Ilya has someone who looks at him and says, I trust you. You decide.

Of course they're a match. They're solving opposite problems. Shane finds relief in surrendering control, while Ilya finds confidence in being given it. They're opposite sides of the same coin, each giving the other exactly what they've been missing.

sabotage-on-mercury

After TLG, the one thing Shane enjoys more than competing against his husband is competing with his husband. On the ice, playing hockey, obviously. But also against other couples.

It isn't that Shane dislikes Scott & Kip or Troy & Harris or Hayden & Jackie. It's just that Shane enjoys knowing that his and Ilya's relationship is just. better.

It doesn't mean that Ilya and Shane are always lovey-dovey - bickering and trashtalking is Ilya's and his love language, just a little foreplay - no, Shane dissects other couples teamplay, connection and communication with the same precision he analyses a hockey game.

Meeting one of the other couples and exchanging meaning glances with Ilya over a sip of his drink when he notices a hint of a strain between the other two.

He's 100% the guy to say: "Oh, I just think, if he really loves you, he would help you with the dishes, just saying." "Oh, Ilya and I would never fight about this." or "I mean, it's good when that works for you two but Ilya and I like spending a lot of time together, so..."

"So, you hate outdoor stuff but Harris wants to go camping? Well that's too bad. No, Ilya and I are always very much on the same wavelength when it comes to planning our vacation."

"A dry spell? What is that? Oh. Yeah no, sorry buddy, Ilya and I never had anything like this. Are you and Kip okay though?"

And of course that ends in the nastiest debrief with Ilya, later, like Shane is a total gossip. "Jackie said she and Hayden have seperate duvets isn't that weird? I'm worried about them."

Shane already forgot that just this morning Ilya and him bickered over socks left laying around, but as most of their arguments this problem ending in mind-blowing sex, who would remember a little argument after that?

Shane also gleefully ignores that Ilya and they jumped a from decade long homoerotic rivalry while secretly being emotionally repressed fuckbuddies straight to mutual codependency, still with homoerotic competitiveness. He's sure that's the healthiest relationship anyone ever has had.

ill-gotten-gaines

To be clear, Shane has always been ridiculously hot. When he and Rose Landry hit the scene the surprise wasn't him landing a movie star, it was literally everyone wondering where the hell the shy boy ran into her.

But after he and Ilya come out, something shifts. His hair's a little longer, his shoulders are a little looser, and suddenly he's not Shane Hollander, hottest boy next door. Suddenly he's, Shane Hollander, who obviously just had sex and is radiating how good it was at ALL TIMES.

His latest underwear billboard causes three fender benders and goes viral.

When he tops Cosmopolitan's list of hottest hockey players (again) with a bullet (AGAIN) he shows up to the photoshoot with an obvious hickey and asks them not to cover it up because "Ilya wants people to see his handywork."

The world was not prepared for Shane Hollander, the Man who Fucks. Ilya couldn't be happier.

#and people didnt believe Ilya when he called Shane a freak in the sheets #Hayden might need therapy #heated rivalry #hollanov

ill-gotten-gaines

After they're out, Shane and Ilya record a lifestyle video together for ESPN. ESPN is chomping at the bit: no one can imagine Racecar Rozanov and Hockey IQ Hollander's life behind closed doors, and they want the exclusive.

The crew shows up totally unsure of what to expect, charmed but surprised when it's Ilya opening the door in a tank and sweats and dramatically sighing, "Is meal prep day."

They spend hours filming the couple navigating the kitchen, arguing over how much salt to put in their egg cups, talking about how they learned to cook together when they first made a real go of their relationship.

Shane keeps his hands busy and his eyes focused on his prep work, and that makes it easier to talk about the murky grey area between healthy food choices and disordered eating. Ilya just rubs his back and mocks how he's dicing the bell peppers and keeps calling what he's wearing his "unlucky sweatpants" until Shane hits him in the face with a spatula while mumbling something about tuna melts.

Surprising exactly no one, the video goes viral when it drops on YouTube. It explodes on socials, with thousands of people stitching together Ilya saying "is meal prep day" with videos of their own meal prep, their healthy habits, sharing their own journey to loving food and treating it as fuel and not punishment. They use the tag #eatlikehollanov and it trends immediately.

Ilya's favorite part is when fans start to battle over #eatlikehollanov - the food posts get overtaken with videos and photos of them out at social events, serving cunt and generally looking like top designers battle it out for who gets repped by The Gay Wonder Twins of Hockey (which they do, and stop calling us that, we're married you perverts).

Then Shane and Ilya are spotted at a bar making out in a dark corner and everyone remembers these two probably spend 30% of their waking hours eating each other alive, and suddenly it's #eatlikehollanov munch munch munch yum yum yum.

The Centaurs jump on the trend, sharing their own food prep videos with increasing innuendo. Luca Haas turning bright red while eating a glazed donut gets 3 million views, but Troy really breaks the internet by eating a banana while maintaining eye contact with the camera the whole time. Harris threatens to replace the Kiss Cam at games with #eatlikehollanov and Shane tries his hardest to crawl into a corner and die because he just wanted to share how he protein loads, you guys, why did you have to make it so weird.

Scott Hunter helps not at all by making blueberry and banana smoothies with Kip. Shirtless.

kingskindly

I just know, after raising Shane all these years, Yuna is very in tune with the likes and dislikes of her family and always likes to pick things up when she’s out.

A blanket on sale that she knows is a texture Shane will like, sesame mochi — the only dessert Shane will eat — David’s favourite brand of chocolate covered almonds (Meiji, obviously).

And when Ilya joins their family it takes a while, but Yuna notices that he always reaches for the dried mangoes when there’s a bag open, and he eats the Miss Vickies sweet and spicy ketchup chips by the handful.

So it makes sense to her that she would pick these things up when she sees them at the store and make sure her pantry is stocked for all her boys.

Ilya only finds out when they’re over at his parents on a movie night, and Shane, rummaging around the pantry for snacks groans “at this point, you have more of Ilya’s stuff than you do mine,”

“My stuff?” He asks, completely befuddled.

“Yeah, like the ketchup chips and the dried mangoes. Your snacks take up the whole pantry.”

“My snacks,” Ilya says again flatly, still not understanding. “But you all eat these.”

“I mean sure,” Shane agrees, “but my mom buys them for you. Because you like them.”

“This is true?” Ilya turns to Yuna with wide eyes.

And Yuna smiles softly at him, maybe a little sheepishly at being called out so blatantly, and shrugs.

“I mean, yes, honey. I thought you liked those snacks?”

And Ilya gets all teary and reassures her that he loves these snacks. He’s obsessed with these snacks. They are his favourite snacks.

And he starts noticing how anytime he shows interest in something, it will start showing up regularly at the Hollander household—snacks, candy, that specific Japanese soda Ilya likes with the marble.

It becomes a running joke between them that Yuna pays more attention to what Ilya likes than what Shane does (not true but the joke makes them both pleased and sappy).

tsitpfrvrbonrad

I absolutely love this!! This definitely happens!! 😍

nerdygaymormon

ill-gotten-gaines

Hayden's just going to come out and say it: Shane sleeps weird.

Well, not sleeps. Naps.

The thing about being a professional athlete, the best kept secret that no one says, even to each other? This shit is exhausting.

So between flights and practices and hours-long games, you have to learn how to catch sleep whenever you can.

Hayden has become a connoisseur of the nap. All he needs is a suitably soft hoodie for under his head and a pair of headphones and he can conk out pretty easily. (Honestly, this is one of the biggest fights he has with his kids. What do you mean you don't want to nap? Naps are great.)

Everyone on the Metros has their own nap style and it's cool, Hayden can't judge. Except Shane.

Hayden has roomed with him often enough to know Shane's nap time routine down pat:

Curtains closed, socks on, over the covers, nothing covering his ears but it must be quiet, nothing covering his eyes but it must be dark, hands resting on his stomach and his legs stretched straight out like he's auditioning for the role of Cadaver #2 on CSI Canada and not getting the part because he looks so. damn. tense. And if you interrupt the delicate falling asleep process (that mostly looks like Shane scrunching his face together and, I dunno, pooping himself?) so help you God.

Shane naps real fucking weird.

So when Shane and Ilya come out (are outed, Jesus Christ and fuck you Gary) and Yuna posts a photo of them cuddled up on the couch, Hayden thinks he's slipped into an alternate reality. It's the only explanation for it, that or a complete mental breakdown. But no matter how many times he blinks or refreshes Instagram, the image stays the same:

Shane Hollander, passed out on Ilya Rozanov's chest, sunlight streaming through the open windows, bare toes tucked against the arch of Roz's foot, hand resting easy against Roz's chest while he looks at his phone with one hand, fingers of his other one tangled in Shane's hair.

It is the most non-hermetically sealed nap Hayden can imagine, and he must be having a stroke. There's no burnt toast smell, but no other explanation for the way Shane looks so at peace, asleep in the eye of the hurricane that is Ilya fucking Rozanov.

Jackie catches Hayden zooming the photo in on Shane's face and laughs and laughs through his rant about ideal nap conditions.

But it's not funny, and Hayden can't even say why but he's seething with... something. Something he refuses to examine too closely, won't call jealousy no matter how much it turns his stomach and washes the back of his tongue with a bitter feeling.

Hayden spent a decade navigating dark hotel rooms at 2pm, using headphones religiously, buying the fluffy socks so his feet wouldn't be, and here he quotes, "too damn stompy," and what? Ilya Rozanov stomps in with his cigarette smelling ass and his (probably) flat feet and his total lack of sleep hygiene and Shane sleeps through it like he's comatose.

It's stupid, and petty, but he's hurt. Hurt enough that Jackie notices and the laughter fades into concerned eyes and a gentle hand on his arm. And then his wife, who is way too smart for him, gives his arm a squeeze and says, "Just because he feels safe with someone else now doesn't mean he didn't with you, too."

That's when Hayden weeps, sobs loud enough that Jackie buries his face in her shoulder so he doesn't wake the kids, and lets the story he's had in his head of Hollzy and Hayd completely dissolve. Because no, he didn't. He tucked away a fundamental part of who he was and an entire goddamn relationship for the entirety of their friendship, and that's not safe. That's scared, that's hiding, of course he couldn't fucking sleep.

Eventually Hayden cobbles himself back together, pulls his face from Jackie's soaked shoulder, and gets his wracking breaths under control. When he finally looks at his wife (his beautiful wife, who heard the news about Shane and Ilya and immediately invited them to dinner) her eyes are red rimmed and her nose is a little runny from crying and he couldn't love her more if he tried. And if he can help Shane have his person the way Hayden has Jackie, then he's gonna fucking try harder.

So he clears his throat and says, "No he didn't. But I can do better, now."

(That Christmas Eve after the kids are all asleep, he comes back to his living room to see Shane passed out on Ilya's chest and it feels like a victory.)

ill-gotten-gaines

Ilya is not allowed to go on Call Her Daddy. It doesn't matter how much he begs and cajoles, and promises to be good, Yuna has put that particular interview on the "Hard No" list at least until they're retired.

To be honest, Ilya gets it. He doesn't think that any amount of media training could keep him from going fully off the rails if given the chance to talk about how much he loves Shane, how good his cock tastes, how he made Shane cum hands free the first time he was ever inside him. And the thought of literally any of that being chirped back at them on the ice like it's bad or filthy or shameful? No. Not happening.

So Ilya pouts but understands, and gets over it. That is, until Shane accepts the invitation. Then there are hissy fits and overdramatic shouting matches with zero heat behind them ("Yuna, what the fuck? Why can Shane talk about our filthy sex life?" "Because he blushes when he says the word 'sex', Ilya. And because he's never made a face fucking joke in front of me.") and just so much sulking.

Yuna knows it's a risk, and there's no way in hell she's going to be there for the taping. But she also knows that Shane's Golden Boy image was shattered to pieces with a single grainy video of him.

Now is a chance to start over. They've had long conversations about this - conversations over wine, and walks, and in therapy. This being a "rebuilding period" for Shane's reputation, yes, but also for his agency over his own image. And if him going on a podcast to talk about why his knees are perpetually bruised during the summer will give him a sense of control over his life, then this is the penance Yuna will pay for not listening and being in his corner sooner. This is how she will support her son.

So Shane goes on Call Her Daddy, and Ilya sits behind the camera with headphones on, pouting dramatically when Shane is looking, but really just staring with love and adoration at his husband. When Yuna asks how it went, Shane just blushes and Ilya beams and says, "He will break the internet."

And he does. Of course he does. He can't say the word sex without blushing, but it turns out Shane Hollander can employ euphamisms and imagery like a goddamn romance novelist.

Gif Sets are instantly made of him saying things like:

"It felt like cannonballing into a cold lake: every inch of me was suddenly alive." about Ilya handing him a water bottle when they were eighteen, or;

"It was a revelation." about their first hookup, or;

"It's the only place other than hockey where my mind goes quiet." about their sex life in general.

Entire OpEds are written about Shane's quiet devastation at the end of his Metros run ("They were going to hang my jersey in the rafters. Now they burn it in the streets."). During the Metro's next game, a huge number of fans turn up in his jersey, holding signs that say "We're Sorry."

A fan account turning his quotes into steamy romance novel covers gets over 1 million likes on the cover they made of Shane's ridiculous cologne ad photo with the words, "I spent years surviving on the minutes we could steal" written over the top.

Ilya can't get enough. He starts calling Shane his poet, his author, his cunning linguist. He buys tank tops of his favorite phrases and wears them all the time. He and Rose even wear matching ones when they're shopping in LA that say Ravenous over the grainy footage that outed them to start with. Ilya frames and hangs the paparazzi photos.

Eventually time goes on and the internet finds something else to obsess over and Ilya forgets all about it. That is, until Shane shakes him awake at 3am, looking haunted as he says, "Ilya, Ilya I need to tell you something."

Ilya's brain is still in Russian mode, still in fight or flight when he mumbles, "What is it?"

"The podcast, Ilya, I..." for a second Ilya thinks he's having a massively delayed panic attack about the whole thing, but then Shane says, "I. I hired someone. An author. To write the talking points."

Ilya laughs himself into an asthma attack.

caralikesgay

hard launch this, soft launch that...has anyone written hollanov going full gaslighting with their coming out? just straight up going "we've been together for years? why are you acting like this is news?"

double points if they don't even plan to do it. they decide to soft launch via no longer actively hiding their relationship, just slowly acting more like a couple around other people. they're both at some event and ilya finds shane and just wraps his arm across his shoulders, which maybe that could just be ilya being ilya, but then shane just leans into it? like this is fine and normal? and when someone questions it shane panics and is just like "why wouldn't i? he's my boyfriend" and whoever they're talking to is like "what? since when?" and ilya is immediately onboard with this game "since 2017."

they just keep doubling down "you don't remember me sneaking out to go visit him every time we played in boston? you were all chirping me about it."

"wait, did you two drive here together?" "why would we take separate cars, we live together?" "you WHAT?"

when someone thinks they're joking they bring up the group chat with shane's parents, ilya scrolls back to a text where yuna calls him her favorite son. they bring up a video clip jackie sent of the twins saying "we love you uncle ilya!" shane brings up his thread with svetlana where she sends him russian words and phrases she thinks he should know.

they quickly enlist everyone who already knew, get them all onboard to pretend like their relationship wasn't ever top secret information. shane posts a picture of him with anya, when someone comments "that looks just like ilya rozanov's dog?" he just replies "yeah, we adopted her several months ago" and ilya replies "love our daughter ❤️"

the more people act like this is revelatory news the more they inisist that it's not. "we started a charity together!" "i moved to canada for him!" meanwhile everyone else is slowly losing their minds.

annasmith2023

Just to make it easier, here are the links

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82020046

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79042586

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83383156

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75114181