Looking for happy-ending Hollanov fics where Shane doesn’t get hurt before the cottage, so Ilya follows through with his original breakup plan after the game. Basically wanting “what if the breakup actually happened first” angst/reconciliation vibes
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🏒 even when i doubt you, i'm no good without you | 1.3k
Ilya goes to the hospital to break up with Shane. Shane starts crying and Ilya caves immediately.
🏒 my ribs are metal cages (to guard my heart) | 2.5k
Shane doesn't get hit at the 2017 Boston vs Montreal game. Ilya follows through with his plan.
🏒 just let me move on first | 3.4k
Shane doesn't get hit on the ice, doesn't end up in the hospital with a concussion and broken collarbone, doesn't invite Ilya to the cottage. Ilya finds the resolve to break things off with him that night
🏒 Course Correction | 3.4k
Ilya breaks up with Shane when he comes back from Moscow. Well, he tries anyway.
🏒 Found in Translation | 3.8k
If Shane hadn't ended up injured that night, Ilya would have broken up with him, and if Scott Hunter hadn't won that year either, what would the relationship between Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander be like?
🏒 this love is alive (back from the dead) | 4.6k
cliff marlow doesn't injure shane, and ilya goes through with his plan to end things with him that night
🏒 I Know You Want Me to Want You | 5.4k
Shane and Ilya call it quits after the All-Stars game when Ilya says they can't be anything. He says no one will fuck Shane like he can, and Shane takes that personally, starting a two year cycle of sending each other ratings of the other people they fuck
Shane doesn't get hurt at the Boston vs. Montreal match. Instead, he gets his heart broken.
🏒 If only I’d known, I’m sorry. | 7.2k
Before Shane got a concussion on the ice, Ilya had planned to break up with him that night when they would have met up, but ultimately he couldn't go through with it after seeing Shane hurt. What if Ilya broke up with Shane before Shane got hurt on the ice?
Shane doesn't get injured that night Montreal plays Boston. Ilya follows through on his plan to break things off with him. Well, he tries, at least
🏒 you stole my show, so I chase you to the pavement | 8.3k
Shane doesn't actually get hurt in the game against Boston and Ilya breaks up with him because Ilya's heart had entered into it, and that changed everything
🏒 What Hurts The Most | 8.7k
What if Shane hadn't gotten hit by Cliff in Heated Rivalry? What if he'd gone over to Ilya's that night, when Ilya planned to break up with him?
🏒 Countdown to Connect | 9.0k
🔒 Shane Hollander doesn’t take the hit from Cliff Marlow, and Ilya Rozanov ends their arrangement in 2017. Heartbroken, Shane tries to move on. He wins another Stanley Cup. He sleeps around. He’s fine. Until he is outed in photos leaked to the tabloids, clearly hooking up with a man.
🏒 it hurts to be something (it's worse to be nothing with you) | 10.3k
the aftermath of ilya breaking up with shane
🏒 Coming This Fall | 11.3k
Shane and Ilya end their relationship during the 2017 All-Star Game. Years pass with no contact off the ice. When a new TV show premieres, following two queer professional soccer players in a years-long secret relationship, the show's success creates a ripple effect through the sports world, leaving both Shane and Ilya wondering about what might have been
🏒 Before I'm someone you leave behind (I'll break your heart so you don’t break mine) | 11.5k
What if Shane never got injured?What if Ilya decided to finally take a step back?What if the 5th best player of MLH was suddenly spotted hanging out hockey's golden boy Shane Hollander?What if Ilya had a few feelings about it?
🏒 Supporting Role | 12.2k
Shane's injury is much more minor, so Ilya goes through with the breakup. Luckily, Rose is there to help him through it.
After Scott Hunter comes out on national TV, Ilya wants nothing more than to go to Shane's cottage and figure out a way to make their relationship work. Too bad he broke things off and blocked Shane after the Montreal/Boston game that sent Shane to the hospital. Upon discovering that Shane has blocked him back, Ilya decides to show up at the cottage and win his Hollander back.
🏒 don't rein me in | 13.1k
Ilya breaks no contact by connecting to Shane's vibrator
Shane never gets injured during the All-Stars game. Ilya breaks things off with Shane after he returns from Russia. Scott Hunter never wins the Stanley Cup
🏒 (Sub)textual Evidence | 13.3k
ilya goes through with his plan to break up with shane in the hospital) (the problem? shane is too high to understand that he's being broken up with
🏒 Like A Man Who Wants Me | 13.8k
🔒 After breaking off their situationship, Shane is taunted by Ilya's sex tapes, with a man who looks eerily similar to himself.
🏒 And How Can I Move On When I'm Still In Love With You? | 19.8k
Shane never got a concussion during the Montreal/Boston game in April 2017 and Ilya ended things like he had planned to. Also the Scott/Kip kiss never happens.
🏒 I Need Sunshine | 21.4k
“I can’t do this anymore, Hollander.” His voice sounded steadier than he felt, and he was glad. "I don't want to do this."
🏒 Love In Exile Has Nowhere To Go | 22.9k
Shane doesn’t get hurt, they break up, and they don’t talk for five long years. Until Shane is traded to Ottawa
🏒 He Is Stable (You Are Deep) | 24.2k
Shane never gets injured that night at the Montreal vs. Boston game. Ilya ends things between them. They spend the next year trying to forget each other in other people. Their yearning betrays them.
Shane does not get laid out on the ice. Ilya goes through with ending it. Shane lets him
Shane doesn’t get hurt playing against Boston, and Ilya does break up with him. Flash forward four years, and Shane finds himself playing for the Ottawa Centaurs, where Ilya has been captain since 2019
🏒 Distance Getting Close | 31.4k
Ilya ends things with Shane after he is injured at the Boston/Montreal game, but shortly thereafter Shane finds out he is pregnant.
🏒 a moonbeam in your hand | 38.3k
Ilya spirals into a deep depression when Shane breaks things off with him definitively after a horrifying run in with their feelings (and tuna melts)
🏒 The Hurt I've Caused | 48.1k
After Ilya breaks his heart, Shane gets into a relationship with a physically and emotionally abusive man. Ilya notices something is wrong. He will stop at nothing to fix things
🏒 Do You Think About Me At All? | 48.5k
Shane walked away from Ilya after the tuna melt incident. But what if Shane never turned up at the All Stars Game in Tampa?
🏒 Distance getting Close | 50.4k
Ilya ends things with Shane after he is injured at the Boston/Montreal game, but shortly thereafter Shane finds out he is pregnant.
🏒 ay, recházame (oh, reject me) | 57.3k
Shane doesn't get injured after Tampa, and Ilya breaks up with him to save both their hearts. (Un?)Fortunately for Ilya, Shane isn't letting him go without a fight
🏒 Would Have Been the Best Mistake (should have kissed you anyway) | 58.3k
where Ilya does cut things off before the cottage and Shane lets him
🏒 think twice (and come back for a third time) | 70.3k
Ilya's father doesn't die in 2017; Ilya breaks up with Shane instead of confessing his love. They get older, but not any less stupid about each other. Shane gets a boyfriend; Ilya gets on medication; they work on becoming whole people. And they always find their way back to each other.
🏒 There's Things I Want to Say to You (but I'll just let you live) | WIP
what if Ilya had ended things in the hospital when he went to visit Shane?
🏒 Distance getting Close | WIP
Ilya ends things with Shane after he is injured at the Boston/Montreal game, but shortly thereafter Shane finds out he is pregnant
🏒 The Problem is, His Type Might Just be Assholes | WIP
Back in 2017 Shane Hollander doesn't get his bell rung in the game against Boston, and Ilya breaks things off that evening. It's best for both of them. Ilya needs to work on finding a woman he likes enough to keep around, and Shane deserves to be with a good guy. Someone who would make his world bigger, not smaller. Even if that means Ilya has a black pit where his heart should be when he lifts the Stanley Cup for the second time a few months later
🏒 We needed more, You offered less | WIP
After their breakup, neither can handle it well. Shane Spirals, and Ilya wished he knew how to grieve them differently
🏒 this is not enough | WIP
In the Heated Rivalry book, Ilya intends to break things off with Shane the night of the All-Star Game, but then Shane gets hurt. What if Shane never gets injured by Marlow, and Ilya really does break things off?
Boston's Ilya Rozanov decides to do what he'd been putting off for years. He calls off his affair with Shane Hollander, Montreal extraordinaire, right before a Montreal vs Boston game. He gets a hockey puck shot right into his hamstring for it. Right in the middle of the game. Honestly, he never guessed Hollander had it in him to be vindictive
Fic Rec Masterpost | Rewritten Scenes
2014 Vegas Rewrite | 2017 Break Up Happens | All Star Weekend Rewrite | Boxing Day Fight Rewrite | Centaurs Plane Crash Rewrite | First Hook Up Rewrite | Hospital Rewrites | Hospital Rewrite | Hotel Gym Rewrite | Shane Leaves Ilya Post Vegas | Sleeping w/ Other Men Fight
Similar -> 2017 Break Up Rewrite | Boyfriend Era Pt. 1 | Boyfriend Era Pt.2 | Breaking Up & Making Up | Cheating w/ Each Other | Different First Meet | Early Relationship | Exes to Lovers | Getting Together Later In Timeline | Married Hollanov Pt 1 | Married Hollanov Pt 2 | Married Hollanov Pt 3 | Pre-Relationship | Situationship Era
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