Let the light in

you’re in the wind i’m in the water

[stabthroughme]

Thinking abt an Alive!Irina universe where she manages to leave with Ilya and Alexei by getting both of them into a private school in Boston that's so prestigious even Grigori can't say shit. She's on staff as a figure skating coach.

Svetlana attends there, Ilya and Alexei and Irina join her at Raiders games. Alexei's basically in a forced detox program at the school bc it's so well secured/monitored and his dad being a cop in Russia doesn't impress any of the dealers enough to give him shit, and they don't actually have real money.

Ilya who's constantly training, like usual.

Ilya who meets a cute freckled Canadian boy at a summer training camp and despite Ilya's private school hockey friends saying he's weird Ilya picks Shane over the pretentious kids.

Shane who's never been picked before, friends would be told he was weird and pick their other friends, but Ilya picked him. And he doesn't really know what to do with himself.

Irina talking to Yuna at training camp pick-ups and Yuna inviting them up for Christmas when Irina talks about how much she's missed it.

Ilya who sleeps on the floor of Shane's bedroom, Alexei who thinks Shane is weird but he's perfectly happy to not say shit and just eat the cookies Yuna and David have. Shane and Ilya who sneak out to the canal and skate on it the second it's open, racing each other, tackling each other, horsing around, being normal young teenage boys. Shane who quietly asks about girls Ilya's interested in, back in Boston. Ilya who answers honestly, Shane who doesn't like the weird, jealous feeling in his stomach. Ilya who suggests practising kissing so Shane will feel better prepared.

Ilya who doesn't like Shane's high school girlfriend, but he doesn't say anything bc he knows how few people Shane has at his school.

Ilya who ends up on the Russian juniors team despite playing for an American juniors team bc he's still a Russian citizen. Ilya who decides he hates playing against Shane.

Ilya who doesn't need 2009 to be the year he bursts onto the international stage because it hasn't been drilled into his head since age 12 because Irina's alive.

Ilya who decides to go to university for a bit, delays his draft date under the guise of wanting to get more training.

Ilya who gets drafted to Montreal and Shane's there for Ilya's draft day and is so happy he hugs Ilya and doesn't let go. Shane who booked and paid for Ilya and his family's hotel rooms, who made sure Ilya had his own room, who sneaks into Ilya's room and hugs him more.

Ilya who says fuck it and kisses Shane. Shane who kisses him right back.

Shane and Ilya who enter Ilya's rookie season already together and hopelessly in love, who everyone sees as best friends. Hayden who's the only one who knows bc he caught them making out when Jackie made him bring Ilya a tray of enchiladas she made to welcome him to the team.

A power play line for the Metros that's Shane, Ilya, and Hayden.

Ilya who's there when the twins are born, playing the bouncer at the door to her room because Jackie only wants Hayden there and both their parents and Jackie's siblings are all being a little entitled about deserving to be in there. But they've also all seen Ilya body people twice their size on the ice. So they behave.

Ilya who calls his mom when Jackie has Arthur and is struggling with PPD, Irina who drives up and is such a big support for Jackie. Irina who's unofficially the Pike-lings grandmother after that.

Ilya who's an unquestionable part of Shane's life even though they're just marketed as best friends. It's survivable, because they can be seen together in public being openly affectionate and people chalk it up to bromance.

Ilya who doesn't come out after Scott but Shane who still comes out to the Metros. Ilya who hears the first-hand slurs and homophobic language that still gets bandied around the locker room. Ilya who pulls Yuna and Irina into figuring out a team that can afford him, JJ, Hayden, and Shane all at the same time. JJ who ends up traded to New York after trying to speak out.

The other three of them ending up in Ottawa in one big signing in one summer. Press who see the two stars of Montreal and their biggest supporter leave the team and start poking around and uncover the homophobic culture at the root of it before Ottawa's training camp even starts.

Ilya and Shane who are able to be a little more open with the Cens, though they close back up a little when Troy's traded. And then when Troy comes out to the two of them at the Kingfisher they come out to him in return. Shane who tells Troy to ignore Ilya's matchmaking. Shane who hears abt Troy sleeping with Harris and then saying no to a relationship and bluntly tells him that it's really fucking stupid.

Troy who comes out to the Cens and shares his relationship. Wyatt who jokingly says "anyone else?" Shane who says "fuck it" and kisses Ilya and announces they're actually married and have been since 2015. Hayden who collapses in relief bc dear lord he's been so close to outing them through circumstance too many times and it's done a number on his nerves.

Shane and Ilya who pull a Scott Hunter and make-out right after winning the cup. The carpet hasn't even been rolled out yet, they haven't even done the handshake line.

And Crowell who's stewing in it but the League has marketed themselves as tolerant and supporting Scott publicly, and they've been pushing Shane and Ilya's close supportive bond since Ilya's rookie season. There's no way he could pull them both, no way he could pull one of them. And they just won the cup, so...

[my-2nd-account]

More HR as textposts:

[jimmysownworld]

i love the “hollanov has a crush on carter vaughn” take not necessarily in a “i think they would invite him to watch” way but more in a “ilya would accidentally let it slip while chirping at shane to fluster him that vaughn is at the top of their ‘would’ list and vaughn is a little thrown off and straight so he’s like “are you guys asking?” and ilya laughs and pats his shoulder and assures him “absolutely not, i do not share my shane, we just think you are good looking man, i like that you are pretty and fun and my shane likes that you are serious about hockey and have good grooming habits. is not serious, do not worry vaughny we will not be asking you to witness me and my beautiful husband ever” and vaughn low key is overjoyed about it, his teammates who are around and hear the exchange are sometimes like “that doesnt bother you? you dont find that a bit weird?” but vaugh genuinely is just like “rozanov just called me pretty and fun enough to hang out with and hollander thinks im good at hockey and clean enough for him, you could hand me a nobel peace prize and it wouldnt come close to this achievement” and eventually it gets out to the general public so vaughn is captioning his instagram posts shit like “#1 contender for being the hockey husbands third goes fishing” despite shanes mortification about this getting out and vaughns clear delight with it” way

[cloudabserk]

hollanov baby

[boginyagroz]

the first time ilya takes shane to the club after they get married, he shaves beforehand, puts on a tight black tank top and sprays himself with his fuckboy cologne from the hookup era. shane is already horny for him even before they leave the house — crucially, he loves fuckboy ilya, because come on, he’s been fucking this man for years when he looked exactly like this.

at the club, ilya buys out the entire dj set to only play 2010s club anthems all night long. he wants to give shane the ultimate 2010s clubbing experience he never had, but also make up for all those nights ilya had to spend dancing and making out with strangers and not the one person he wanted. but now he gets to do all this with his husband! who is delightfully hard for him by the way, because shane finds sleazy club slut ilya absolutely irresistible. ilya is gripping his hips, grinding against him, licking his neck and whispering the dirtiest filth into his ear, and shane gets dizzying butterflies he imagines all those girls got back then. and he isn’t even retroactively jealous, because now his ring is on ilya’s finger, and oh god, he gets to be taken home by ilya rozanov! he gets to have all his attention now and get railed stupid by him later!! in their shared home!!! shane is living his dream life, and ilya is right there with him.

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[escapepodding]

The miscommunication in Heated Rivalry is because they're living in different romance types to begin with:

Shane: In some sort of Austen-esque existence where hjs ill-advised flirtation with a notorious rake goes too far. Scandalised by the intimate use of first names he flees, concerned what society and his goodly parents will think, his reputation at stake. He tries to find a proper marriage prospect but alas his heart is lost to the rake! But he finally follows his heart and invites Ilya into his home too (and accepts first name usage!)

Ilya: Smoldering in mirrors and out of windows and getting emotionally wuthered screaming Shane's name on a moor. My man is byronically going through it gothic style

[perlukafarinn]

I love an AU where Ilya seduces Shane away from an asshole boyfriend and I really want one where the boyfriend suggests opening the relationship and that's how Shane and Ilya first start fucking.

[fruitcage]

She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

[argillaforma]

when they’re both playing for the centaurs and ilya does his signature good job i love you, i love you, i love you to the team after the game and shane is the last in line and ilya looks at him for a moment and says hm i guess you’re also not so bad and shane is like you asshole🙄 (secretly very smitten)

[drabbles-and-rambles]

I saw a post about Shane and Ilya being sad that they can't thank each other in their acceptance speeches like other can with their spouses and it got me thinking:

Ilya wins his first awards and hes got nobody he really wants to thank after his team and coach cause he he hates his family but he knows his speech is too short so on impulse he goes "And I want to thank Shane Hollander for being slightly worse than me this season". Everyone knows it was going to one of those two, so everyone thinks hes an asshole to say that but whats new so it works for him. But from then on it then becomes a bit for both of them to thank each other in their speeches in a snide way as a reason they won.

Shane winning the Art Ross Trophy (Awarded to the player who leads the league in total points at the end of the regular season). and going "special thanks to Rozanov for missing at least 5 shots this season, he was a huge help"

Ilya winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (Awarded to the most valuable player for his team in the playoffs.) "Just want to give a quick shout out to Hollander for getting knocked out in the second round this season. Must hate to see me up here."

They find a way to mention the other in their speeches every time all the time.

[mina-logan]

Some art about coffee and certainly nothing else

[dontcallmeanythingplz]

I like to imagine that the manager at Ilya's local McDonald's has a great relationship with Rozanov and asks him if he'll do a local ad for them. It ends up airing all over Canada because Ilya is obviously a hot professional athlete.

Anyways, he never mentioned it to Shane because that would blow his cover that he does indeed go to McDonald's all the time when he's been promising Shane that he stopped going and "yes I promise I'm working with the team dietician Solnyshko, I will only go to McDonald's during the off season" etc etc.

Unfortunately, the McDonald's ad is a huge success and Ilya just wakes up one morning to a text from Shane with a link to the infamous ad and some expletives accusing him of lying.

Haven't decided how the conflict ends. But definitely a fanfic idea to throw around.

[thisfeebleheart]

patient needs neck kisses to survive

[lavenderprose]

Good thing COVID didn’t happen in the Game Changers universe because Shane and Ilya would have outed themselves INSTANTLY by quarantining together with Shane’s parents. Like why is there a picture of Shane Hollander as a kid in the background of this hopecore video posted by Ilya Rozanov.

[emmikay]

Someone notices Shane's 'Everyone wash their hands and listen to health officials' and Ilya's 'Why the fuck aren't you masking you selfish assholes' videos were filmed on the same couch, and they were wearing the same shirt.

[lexicanons]

You know that meme that’s like “A job will have you, a 21 year old, with a 55 year old bestie” Well, AU where Ilya gets hired at the Treasury Board and quickly becomes besties with David Hollander. They’re really good at their jobs so they finish most of their work by 10:30 am and spend the rest of the day fucking around and pretending to be busy together. They get lunch together and talk shit about their boss. David tells Ilya that he’s throwing a birthday party and asks Ilya to come. “You can meet my son and talk hockey! I think you’ll like him!” Ilya decides to go and the party is in full swing when he arrives. David takes him around, introducing him to people until they make it to David’s son. David introduces him to Shane and Ilya is taken by how beautiful Shane is. He’s admiring Shane’s freckles when it dawns on him that he’s staring at THE Shane Hollander, best hockey player in the league. David told him that his son plays hockey but he never put it together that David’s Shane was THE Shane. Ilya and Shane end up in the far corner of the living room, talking all night as the party goes on around them. Years later at their wedding, during his speech, David admits to throwing the birthday party to hook Ilya and Shane up.

[rileetheriddler]

Shane is Arthur's Dad Part 2

"Mom, I need to tell you guys something."

Shane technically included David in that statement, but the man could see that Shane had eyes only for his mother as they sat across from him at the dining table in his Montreal penthouse.

David kept his thoughts to himself, as Yuna set down her fork and directed the full force of her attention onto their only son, Shane for his part, had laid his hands flat on the table to stare challengingly at his mother, David liked to see it, couldn't be him, of course, but Shane had enough problems making eye contact with the wider world, but his son and his wife had never had a problem challenging each other

It'd been cute when he was a toddler. Less cute once puberty hit and their individual priorities came into conflict.

He was a worldly man who understood his place in life as labor, and not management, and it had nabbed him the most beautiful and perfect woman on the planet, so he'd only settled more into that role as the years passed.

"Yes, Shane?" Yuna asked calmly.

"There's not really a good way to say this, but," their son cleared his throat. "There's a baby."

David perked up before he could help himself. A baby? Like a grandbaby?

"What?" Yuna asked sharply. "A baby? Whose?"

David wiggled a little in his seat. A potential daughter-in-law? He'd always wanted one. Someone to pass the family recipes down to, since both his wife and son were something like war crimes in the kitchen.

Shane also squirmed in his seat. "Well. You know about Hayden's new baby, Arthur?"

David deflated. Oh, that baby. That particular baby that already had grandparents and wasn't his to claim as his sweet grandson. A damn shame. He hadn't realized he was ready for a grandkid until that moment, and now the disappointment was nearly crushing. Well, at least he could admit it was a cute kid. He'd met Hayden's twins but not the newborn yet, only a glimpse from the pictures Jackie had posted from the hospital. They were such a sweet couple. David was glad his son had such good, wholesome friends.

"God, Shane," Yuna said, also relaxing a bit. "Yes, I know about the new Pike baby. We sent Jackie a gift for the shower. You had me thinking you'd got some girl pregnant."

Which, now that Yuna mentioned it, didn't exactly line up with what David knew of his son. His son who he was 87% certain was not interested in women at all. Now, if that meant he was interested in men or just hockey, David didn't know yet. The posters of shirtless athletes on Shane's walls as a teenager certainly lent more evidence to one theory over the next. It wasn't really David's business.

"Um." Shane stuttered, his first sign of weakness, and David zeroed in again. He had to stop zoning out. Otherwise, Yuna might eat their son alive. "So, Arthur is like…biologically mine?"

Yuna and David both blinked at their son. Full system reboot, non-operational, blue screen.

When they didn't say anything, Shane continued. "Like, Arthur is my son. Mine and Jackie's. And Hayden's"

David set down his fork. "Son, I know you aren't telling us you slept with your best friend's wife behind his back and got her pregnant. We raised you better—"

"No, no! It wasn't behind Hayden's back. He was there— I mean, we were all there— actually, I mean, there was no cheating!! I wouldn't do that. God, dad."

"And Hayden's?" Yuna asked. "A child can't have two fathers, Shane. Its you or Hayden."

"He's mine biologically," Shane clarified. "But Hayden is his dad, you know?"

"And there was no cheating?" She asked.

"None," Shane said.

Huh. David couldn't say he expected this from his son, but he guessed it took all sorts to make the world go round. More importantly, this meant the grandson agenda was back on, and he hadn't been around a baby in YEARS. They'd have to make up a little area in their Ottawa house in case the baby ever visited and he hadn't had a kid to spoil in years and they had so much more money now than they did when Shane was a kid, and if Arthur was Shane and Jackie's and Jackie had twins already did that mean David now had three grandchildren? A sweet little baby boy and the twins?

It did. He decided. He was a grandpa now officially, and his eyes teared up at the thought.

"I'm sorry," Yuna said, sounding anything but. "Let me see if I have this situation accurate. Shane, you and your best friend's wife had a child together, and Hayden is not only fine with it, but stepping into the role as father. Where are you in all of this? You have rights to this kid, and they cannot keep you away from him—"

"They're not going to keep me away from Arthur. We've all already sat down and talked about it. They asked me how involved I wanted to be, and I said I wanted to be there; I want to be involved. Jackie said they didn't want or need child support, but I still want to set up a trust or something. I don't know what that looks like yet, the trust or my involvement, but we're all going to figure it out, and I want you—I want your help. I want you to meet him."

David sniffed and dabbed at his eyes. "We would love to meet your son, Shane. And we've never spent a lot of time with Jackie, but if you three are in some type of —" damn, what was the word? He'd learned it the other day from one of the new interns at the treasury department. "Throuple! Then of course we'll support you."

Shane looked horrified. His jaw opened and closed, but nothing came out.

"A throuple," Yuna stated through clenched teeth. "God, the optics. Okay, it's fine. It fines. We are happy for you, son. No Judgment here! The sponsors will love this."

David gave her a bit of side-eye. Her clenched teeth were worrying him ."That's a little aggressive, honey."

They both ignored him. "There's no throuple!" Shane finally exclaimed. "It was such a normal— actually, you know what I'm not talking about that with you!"

"The sponsors—"

"Do not need to know!"

"And I know we gave you the talk, Shane—"

"Oh my god, Mom—"

David picked up his fork as he tuned them out, thoughts already on his new grandbabies. If he was remembering right, the girls were named Ruby and Jade. How cute. Maybe some monogrammed jackets? He'd have to meet them first to see what they liked. Arthur would be easier for now, not yet old enough for his own opinions. Maybe just three stuffies for now? And some flowers for Jackie. And a case of beer for Hayden? He still wasn't sure about his role in all of this, but it sure made a lot more sense for Hayden to be in the mix than for Shane to voluntarily have sex with a woman.

Not that it was any of David's business. But a father knew these things.

Part 1