underrated fic recs part 3
some more really great fics under 5k hits on ao3 :) hope you enjoy & don’t forget to show some love to the authors!!
1. tell me what goes on behind closed doors by woodlands M, 5.1k
Rozanov purses his lips. “Probably you did not make out with old man Scott Hunter tonight, though.”
Shane bristles. “I did. I said I would.”
2. the stones and the boulders by smallestchurch M, 2.8k
it's after the after. after the sunset, back at the cottage, the comedown. a quiet conversation in the warm tub, night buzzing in through the open window. some ideas about the future. about what it's like to have one at all.
3. spitting blood like the golden sun god by deadcliche M, 1.3k
The camera zooms in and Rozanov’s licking blood from his teeth, grinning wide and vicious and victorious as the blood keeps drip drip dripping from his nose. And Shane… Shane wants to kiss Rosanov messy, wants to smear crimson across his lips, wants to taste the iron on Rozanov’s tongue, wants to feel the blood get sticky on his own skin.
Shane wants and wants and wants.
4. Always wants a little more by isevsianne E, 1.6k
The hotel room around them seems hot and airless. Shane feels ready, so anxious to get to the next part—isn't that what they both came here for? But every time he reaches for Rozanov’s dick, Rozanov knocks his hands away with a stern, "Not yet, Hollander."
But Shane is ready now and he doesn't want to be whiny about it, but fuck. It's not right that he has to keep his hands to himself.
5. your best american girl by running_like_a_plover E, 3.8k
Ilya Rozanov likes blondes. This is a known fact. It makes things easier somehow—safer. Like math. Girls Ilya likes = blonde. Shane = not blonde. So Shane goes a little bit insane after seeing photos of Ilya on a date with a mystery brunette, and Ilya shows him why it's not an issue.
Featuring: yearning, sex as character study, Shane Hollander's under-examined biracial Asian feelings, a little light dominance, and a conveniently placed bedroom mirror.
6. Do What You Want To Me by ToastMaloneIII E, 1.3k
They don't fuck in Nashville, but boy do they get close.
7. Gambit by grailquest E, 4.8k
Sometimes Liliya thinks this is her favourite part: her fingers hovering above the chess piece, the heartbeat of stillness before her move. Pure potential. She could make Jane crawl across the floor, kiss her feet, beg. She could make Jane bark like a dog.
8. Swagger by siegeofangels E, 1.5k
Ilya is going to have a heat and Shane is going to knot him as many times as Ilya asks. He can do this. It can't be worse than the combine.
9. dad toques by nomadsland T, 2.2k
David Hollander knows that he’s supposed to hate Ilya Rozanov. Yuna has laid it out for him several times in painstaking detail, twice with the help of a slide deck on her computer. David can name many of the reasons he’s supposed to hate Ilya Rozanov...
10. A Side Door into the Dark by magnetica NR, 8.9k
Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica
In grad school the only flirting he had mastered was the strategic deployment of phrases like ‘oh, really?’ and ‘is that so?’ It was brought to his attention by one of his more regular hookups in the kitchen of his apartment while they were cooking dinner, and he had said whenever Shane wanted to fuck he started talking like a coastal elite college girl who’d never had to ask for it outright. Now, in this strange point of contact with Ilya where it was obvious something vaguely carnal had passed between them, he thought about emulating his particular brand of assured charm. Whatever ideas he’d concocted devolved rather quickly into his own unintentional directness, and he said, “Does it scare you?”
“Does climatology scare you?” Ilya’s face was measured and calm, his foot still pressed against the curved joint above Shane’s heel.
“Yeah,” the word came out like a laugh, “it does, actually. A lot.”
bonus: After The Break, We Chat With Raiders Captain Ilya Rozanov by harmonic_oblivion G, 1.8k
On the first day of the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon, a staple of the Boston sports broadcasting world, Boston Raiders captain Ilya Rozanov comes on the NESN broadcast to talk about winning the cup, the upcoming hockey season, and giving back to the city he plays for.