Thinking about that one-shot where ilya is in Russia when Hayden’s fan mail gets released so Shane lies and publicly announces that he had a huge crush on his very straight arch-rival and so he challenged Ilya to kiss him and people all believe shane is a perv and ilya is let go
but now imagine a 60K fic where ilya is actually arrested and they try everything but there’s no way to get him out so Shane publicly lies and the trial goes on for months so that means the entire world thinks shane is gay and a perv and basically sexually assaulted ilya
montreal being the assholes they are use it as an excuse to get rid of their only gay player and no one can even call them out on it
Centaurs are angry af at shane for coming on to Ilya and putting him in danger
The internet is going insane and cancelling shane
The lawyers tell Ilya to shut up and not blow their story
Shane has no regrets if it means ilya comes back to him safe
Imagine 60K of angst where shane is upset and humiliated but determined and ilya is losing his mind in prison over what this must be doing to shane
Yuna, David, Hayden and Farah having to shoulder the weight of their association with shane because everyone hates him now
Shane only has one regret that homophobes are going to use this as an excuse to be even more homophobic but he’s doesn’t care about anything but ilya rn so that’s a problem for another day
ilya is finally released after a Russian judge believes the story that ilya was almost ‘corrupted’ by a gay western man and lets him go
Ilya lands in Ottawa and first thing he does is kiss shane infront of the whole world and internet promptly explodes again…
