ok. i've thought about this for way too long. this is my shane and ilya the americans! au. or my shane and ilya as undercover kgb spies au.
i've decided that instead of them being fake married and pretending to be suburban normies, they are going to be posing as two american college students (who are roommates! gasp.)
ilya is an 18 year old who gets inducted into the kgb spy program. he's told he will be shipped off to DC with new name and identity. he will also be assigned a partner.
ilya. meet shane hollander. he's a north american who's been working for kgb intelligence since he was a teenager. he thinks serving the kgb is the greatest possible honor. he lives and dies by the cause.
ilya of course, as we know, has complicated feelings about russia and his family so doesn't necessarily feel this way.
the two of them being college roommates also works out because their dorm acts as a "private sphere" or the "home" they come back to every night. shane and ilya have a very efficient system to hide their 1) weapons 2) illegal tracking devices 3) stolen classified documents during RA checks.
obviously shane and ilya hate each other at first. shane thinks ilya doesn't take anything seriously. ilya thinks shane is a suck up and way too hardcore of a kgb loyalist.
but of course there are banging montages set to sickass 80's music where they have to work together to break into different professors' offices to steal research, data, communications with american weapons companies etc.
it won't be an americans au without sex and seduction. ilya seducing a senator's daughter so she will agree plant a bug in her dad's office. ilya seducing a lockheed martin engineer so the kgb can blackmail the guy into giving them blueprints
it also wouldn't be an americans au without indiscriminate killing! shane is really good at killing people. he kills so many people.
shane picks up really quickly however that ilya struggles. very hard. with killing people. ilya can do it, it just sucks the life out of him and takes a huge toll on him emotionally. so shane thinks he's doing him a big favor by just popping the guys for him. but obviously this just makes ilya more upset.
on the other hand, shane sucks at seducing targets. he's so fucking bad at it. ilya notices this immediately and is baffled at how bad he is at it. he steps in for shane a lot of the time - at first because the sex and seduction stuff just comes easier to him. but of course after a while, ilya gets irrationally upset at the idea of shane having to seduce anyone, so he just does it so he doesn't have to watch shane do it. shane's irrationally not happy about this either.
this is getting long. uh college party where for contrived reasons ilya and shane have to go because a target is there idk. ilya teaching shane how to have fun and let loose. maybe they almost kiss.
and of course they have one very dangerous mission where they both almost die so the second they get back to their #dorm they have banging thank-god-we-didn't-die! sex. the sex is very good but they do not talk about it. the cycle repeats itself over and over with every new mission after.
they miraculously fall in love. and topple the american government i don't know.
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