Some Hollanov thoughts hovering in my mind. 5 things about Shane and 1 thing about Ilya.
1. Shane has routines. Ilya learns that the routines – calling or texting Rose once a week to catch up, for instance – can be interrupted or delayed without too much pushback. Shane sometimes enjoys the interruptions even if he protests them verbally, because they end up tussling playfully or Shane doing something to annoy Ilya back. Ilya likes when Shane loosens up. His eyes go bright and his cheeks glow and his freckles are like stars.
2. Shane also has Routines. He has his bed made a specific way, he has the lights dimmed to a specific setting, he has the clothes hung up in a specific order. These cannot be changed or altered in any way or Shane gets in his head about it, antsy at best and sullen at worst. Ilya hung up his Balenciaga shearling coat between Shane's wool coats once before they had to go to some event and Shane was antsy and distracted all dinner until they got home and he could put them back in the correct order. "You can tell me if you don't like something," Ilya tells him, and Shane replies, "It's a small thing, I'm not gonna be a diva about this sorta shit." Ilya rolls his eyes and kisses his boyfriend and goes, "You like things done your way. That is not diva. I am diva. Ask Sveta, she will confirm."
3. Shane likes being held. It isn't a surprise at all by this time, but now he seeks it out. Ilya may be sprawled on the couch watching F1 on their TV and the next thing he knows, he has an armful of gorgeous boyfriend who is reading some book about some player in the past. If Shane hums in satisfaction as Ilya pets his hair, and Ilya will die for the cute way Shane nuzzles into the caresses, no one needs to know.
4. Shane is so, so bitchy. It's not in his words or even his actions, but it is in the way his mouth tightens and how his eyes glaze over. Ilya lives for the moments he can see his boyfriend become extra judgmental and often wishes Shane can be as freely bitchy as he wants. One time, Shane mutters "he's more obsessed about our dicks than we are" after a homophobic asshole yelled slurs at them from the sidewalk. Unfortunately for Ilya, Yuna taught Shane too well and Shane refused to have his cock sucked in the next alley as a reward for the commentary.
5. Shane is super patient with kids. Probably because of Hayden Pike who cannot keep his dick wrapped up. At least the kids are cute since they are half Jackie. Anyway. Whenever a kid comes up to talk to Shane, Shane would hunker down and listen, making eye contact all the while, and he takes photos or signs anything they give him. Even if he is exhausted from practice or has just finished yet another tiring photoshoot or interview or whatever, he stops for children. Ilya needs to get Shane pregnant with their kid, which is probably how Pike feels about his wife, and eww he does not need to empathize with Pike.
+1. Ilya is shockingly soft and sweet when he isn't on the ice. Yes, he plays up the Russian stereotype when he's out and about, and yes he loves his nightlife, he loves drinking and dancing. Yet, away from all that, he is so sweet and gentle. Shane's mom and dad passed one of Shane's childhood photo albums to them, and Ilya teasingly oohs and aahs over his baby photos, but Shane has also seen Ilya trace his fingertips over four-year-old Shane in his hockey gear and smiling in wonder. Secretly, Shane asks Svetlana to see if she can send some photos of Ilya as a kid, and she happily obliges. No one ask how she got the baby photos. When Ilya comes back to the cottage at the end of the season, Shane leads him to the main fireplace. Ilya sees that the mantle is covered with photos of them both – as chubby kids, as gangly teenagers, at the start of their careers... He cries when he sees, at the center of the display, a photo of toddler Ilya being hugged by his mother, the chain he now wears still on her neck, and Shane feels fiercely protective of the man he loves. He will become a fortress for his boyfriend's heart.
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