Heated Rivalry (TV), Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Explicit, 5127 words
Tags: PWP, POV Shane Hollander, Mean Dom Ilya Rozanov, light Dom/sub, ruined orgasms, gangbang fantasy
Summary: After a bad game, Shane needs something. Ilya can’t give it to him if he doesn’t use his words. AKA Ilya threatens to whore Shane out to the Raiders
The place feels off. Like it’s at an angle. Shane whips his head around. All his stuff looks normal, in its right place, the Montreal backdrop glittering among the reflections of the lamps dotted around the place. He can’t seem to focus on anything. Maybe Rozanov isn’t even here. Maybe he has a second to pull himself togeth–
Shane’s eyes lock onto Rozanov’s like a bolt slotting into place.
He’s reclined into the corner of the couch, arm slung over the side, knee falling open onto the seat. Tumbler in hand, something brown he must’ve found in a forgotten cupboard. Looking amused.
“Well done,” Shane says, and his voice only wobbles a fraction. It should come easy to him. It’s Shane’s brand. But tonight, with him, he’s having to force the words out.
Rozanov’s eyes crinkle. “Thanks,” he says. Shane doesn’t expect any congratulations, but the absence of the return hangs between them, possibly even louder.
(cliff marleau voice) no man there’s actually a huge difference. italian catholics know that they will sin but know that they will be forgiven. the irish catholics believe they will never be absolved from sin and shame.
(shane hollander voice) oh yeah cool i get it (furiously texting under the table) dad are we irish
Shane getting cursed with an Ella Enchanted style obedience curse and everyone’s horrified and tries not to order him around especially Ilya and Shane’s happy because Ilya’s being so considerate and he cares and everyone cares about him so so much except. Now he has no idea what to do because everyone is deferring to him, which never used to happen because truthfully he doesn’t like being the one in charge and he doesn’t like having to make his own decisions and in a weird way, when he first got cursed his primary emotion was actually relief because it meant he would finally be capable of doing exactly what everyone wanted of him— and now he has no idea what anyone wants and the only real thing he wants is for someone to tell him what to do
Or alternatively: Shane gets cursed with an Ella Enchanted style obedience curse and his teammates and parents are appropriately horrified. They make an effort to stop ordering him around, defer to him, force him to make every decision for himself, and it would drive him crazy except that Ilya doesn’t change at all.
Shane comes home from the curse breaker, dejected, tells Ilya that there’s no quick fix and he just has to wait out the four months before the curse runs out. He braces for the frown and carefully worded questions, but then Ilya says: get on your knees. Shane hits the floor before he even fully processes it. Ilya says: crawl to me. Shane does, because he has to, because he doesn’t get to decide, not when he’s like this and maybe never, when he’s with Ilya. When he reaches Ilya’s feet, Ilya tilts up his chin with a finger, looks at him appraisingly, with cold eyes. Then, smirking, he says: ah, so, not much has changed, then. You still do what you are told, no? What I tell you to do?
And this whole time, there’s been something, something in the pit of Shane’s stomach, tense and painful like knotted muscle, that Ilya apparently knows how to press on exactly right. Ilya tells him just what to do, even though Shane has no choice but to listen, even though he can’t say no, and he knows it’s true, then, that nothing has really changed at all; the knot loosens, goes entirely slack
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hc that shane really wants to be spitroasted but he’s not gonna ask some stranger and definitely not one of the centaurs; so ilya (possessively and horny) suggests marley (who is straight bi curious) if he’d be down
“shane motherfucking hollander want to give me a sloppy toppy? the gluck gluck 3000? while you fuck him? sign me tf up brother”
shane voice what if i was a rookie and you were my captain and you forced me to my knees to suck your dick and then made fun of me for how eager i am to use my mouth on you and made me thank you for giving me your cum and maybe called me some really bad words as well
or what if you bent me over the locker room bench and made me spread myself wide open for you and you spit all over my hole and played with it until i stopped whining for you to stop and started begging you to please make me cum and then you came on my hole and left me all needy and humiliated
In hockey, there is an unwritten set of rules that players are meant to follow. It's called "the code."
The code includes a lot of things, but most relevant to this fic is about retribution for hits or plays that injure other players.
If you hurt a player and it is a dirty or borderline dirty play, you are usually expected to pay for it by fighting someone on that injured player's team.
(Now keep in mind, a lot of this is unwritten and the "rules" change as eras change. I am doing my best to replicate what would be the attitudes in their timeline)
Why does someone have to fight when they have thrown a hit that hurt another player?
If you hurt a guy on the other team, you are usually challenged to fight by a player on his team to "avenge" him. This is theoretically supposed to scare other players in the future from going after anyone else. Most often it's done as revenge and to feel better (lol).
Why is it a big deal if someone from the team with the injured player doesn't fight the player who caused the injury?
If players don't fight after someone is injured, sometimes people will question the chemistry of the locker room (aka, how close the team is, what kind of attitude and culture they have as an organization and roster of players). The idea is that if you guys are close as a team, someone will be mad enough on your behalf to fight.
Second of all, and this is crucial, if you do not fight, people question if your team is tough enough to defend itself. If you don't fight after one hit, then other teams may throw other dirty hits because you have shown you can't defend yourself.
I don't know about the Raiders in this universe, but in real life, their NHL equivalent (Boston Bruins) are supposed to be a mean, big and bad team just overall. They are supposed to be the ones who play borderline dirty and strike fear in opposing teams. For this team to let someone else go unpunished after this would look really bad. I have no reason to think that in the HR universe this isn't the case too.
Why is Ilya worried about fighting someone else the next game?
Because he needs to prove and show that he and his team are still tough. Ilya needs to fight to show that they won't be pushed around. However, when it's a fight that isn't as 'heat of the moment' like the one right after an injury would be, you are expected to be "fair" when you decide who you will fight.
Ilya is going to have to find a guy who is close to his size and fighting experience and try to fight him. Otherwise, that'll be frowned upon. (Keep in mind, if a smaller player challenges him, he's welcome to take the fight, he just can't/shouldn't initiate it)
Ilya is worried also because fighting comes with injury risks. Hockey helmets are hard and can really hurt hands if someone accidentally catches them in the wrong way/angle/force in a punch. You can also get hurt falling down at the end of the fight. You can also just get hurt because, you know, its a fight.
to add some more, and this is more ramble-y than the original post so you'll have to excuse me, but the whole fighting after a hit is....so ritualized, almost.
before i go forward, just know im not saying i approve or disapprove of this or anything, i'm just trying to express how circular the logic of hockey is, but also how ingrained it is! you have guys fighting for actions that everyone knows weren't even on purpose probably and you have them thanking each other in the penalty box for it! you have guys fighting days after/weeks after the thing they did to earn getting their ass beaten! its crazy!
rambling under the cut
example #1
adam lowry vs keegan kolesar
(this one i would say is a captain fighting a guy because he felt like it was the way to show he cared because everyone knows the opponent didn't actually mean to hurt his guy)
the precursor to this clip is keegan kolesar (#55 in white & black) had a collision with a player from the jets (team in blue) and sent him flying and crashing into the boards. he had to be stretchered off. (here's a link to a video that shows what happened at around 36 seconds) honestly? pretty much everyone can agree that this was bad luck and more of an accident than anything.
and yet. kolesar had to fight adam lowry (#17 in blue) (also note that he is the captain)
it's almost ridiculous, if you think about it.
here, as they get ready for play to restart, around 10 seconds, you have kolesar and lowry talking. all things considered, it looks pretty friendly and calm. they're not necessarily yelling, and imo kolesar even looks legit apologetic. its all pretty peaceful.
then the game restarts.
the puck is about to drop.
notice the formation? you have the two guys taking the faceoff. and then near the bottom of your screen, you have two guys set up there ready for the play (#62 & #61). and thats exactly what the guys on the other side, near the top are meant to be doing. but no, they're not. they're already skating apart. its #55 and #17 getting ready to fight. they were arranging a fight when they were having that talk.
both guys drop their gloves and now its go time.
watch the video from 1:34-1:57 and you'll hear an example of the code is applied for real in these hockey brains lmao.
the announcer says: "this is about respect. this is about responding. this is adam lowry representing his group saying 'this is how much we care about you, brother' and this is kolesar saying 'although [ the hit was] unintentional i'm gonna answer the call [to fight]' because i would say he cares too. there's a code...and at times you just have to accept invitations and kolesar does. he accepts a couple of left stiff arms and good for those two men"
then the fight ends, they both go to the penalty box and #17 actually thanks #55 for accepting the fight.
and the game moves on. maybe the guys on the jets struggle because you know, they saw their teammate stretchered off ice, but hopefully this stops anybody else going after guys for the rest of the game.
this is a fight i would say was fought based on priciple and honestly done mostly for the locker room and team of the jets. #17, as the captain, felt like he HAD to fight the guy who hurt his teammate even though everyone can tell it was a freak accident. this is for the harmony of the room and some obligation he felt to show his injured teammate he cares.
(also in this screenshot you can see the cuts on lowry's hands. this was a relatively short fight too, so. you can see what i mean about possible injuries in fights)
example #2
jayden struble vs nick cousins
here you have jayden struble (#47 in red) and nick cousins (#21 in white). cousins plays for the senators. struble plays for the canadiens. keep in mind, these teams have a bit of a rivalry. not bruins/canadiens old, but its been a fiery one lately, so there's history here)
this one is interesting because it goes back to the last time these teams played vs each other.
this is nick cousins (#21, in a different jersey) slashing (attempting to injure) the canadiens best rookie player ivan demidov (#93 in white and red).
now, this doesn't look like a massive deal but every player knows how dangerous that is. that kind of slash is how you break a wrist of a player and take them out for months. this could also effect his career as a whole, because again, wrists.
this is, pretty clearly, a purposeful play. this is something a team feels the absolute need to fight after.
so now, a few days later, the canadiens and senators are going up against one another and its #47 vs #21.
it's pretty clear who won that fight, but post-game it was revealed that #21 had been avoiding a fight all game long. this is disapproved of, because it's expected that he will sooner or later answer the bell for a dirty play he made. this is part of why the size mismatch in this matchup wasn't such a big deal. that, plus that they have similar fighting experience.
(creamsicle try not to bring her fave team into the convo challenge, challenge failed)
