I’m so scarecited (scared/excited) for a potential scene that looks like next time Shane sees Brian after the 2014 awards scenes (absolute chef’s kiss btw) and he’s like “umm okay so babe you know how I don’t know how this open relationship thing works exactly?” “Yeah?🤨” “are we supposed to tell each other? Like afterwards? What went down?” And Brian because he’s so fucking myopic thinks it’s all about him is just all “oh! Hmm well idk babe, it might just make you really jealous y’know? I’m not sure you can handle it. Maybe it’s best not” and Shane’s like “oh….? Okay? Um sure. I did mean about me but I guess I see what you mean” and Brian’s all “wait what?” “I mean about me, like me being with someone” “in theory?” “…..” and that’s how Brian in master manipulator tactics who not only strongarmed Shane into an open relationship, but didn’t properly establish ground rules our expectations, condescendingly and angrily “explains” that Shane was “supposed” to bring up Rozanov before they hooked up (meanwhile Brian has of course absolutely already had hookups within the open relationship and arguably ambiguously beforehand without bothering to alert Shane because again these were Not predetermined rules) and that without doing so Shane essentially fucking cheated on him and how the fuck could you do this to us babe do all these years I’ve suffered because you’re in the fucking closet and on the road all the time mean nothing to you and blah blah blah and it’s Brian’s usual explosive bullshit and Shane does his best to follow the convo and understand what went wrong where and apologize and know what to do right in the future and no no fuck of course he loves him he only slept with someone because Brian fucking insisted on it he never would’ve had the idea himself (he ignores the nagging voice in his head that calls that a lie) and of course Brian is punishing afterwards with all the old tricks, the silent treatment and saying just the right things to wound Shane and making him overly apologize for things that were never his fault in the first place, but this time? This time?? Brian doesn’t get Everything he wants. Because Brian thinks what this’ll do is make Shane feel so much shame he avoids Rozanov like the plague. And while it’s certainly not the fight that breaks them up, not even the fight that makes Shane truly Realize™️ everything or serve as the straw that breaks the camel’s back, it is the fight that marks a turning point. Because Shane’s had a taste now, of Ilya and of what wanting can feel like and of what someone other than the person who took him when he was still a ball of clay and has been clumsily pressing their thumbprints into him ever since can feel like. He’s not going to go without tasting that again. He’s not going to go without feeling how Ilya shapes and moulds him in entirely different ways. He’s only just begun, dammit! And he’s Shane fucking Hollander, after all. If Brian says he fucked up at open relationship, well that’s simply unacceptable. He needs to work as hard as he possibly can until he’s good at things 😤 So he insists they carve out all the rules so he doesn’t “fuck up” again, and diligently texts Brian before every Boston or Montreal or All Stars hookup 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️ which y’know Brian’s a real fuckin sport about I’m sure ! (sorry aksnfks as I typed it turned out this was a little more fully formed in my head than when I began, that’s just a sign of how your au concepts have captured me I suppose!😩)
Don't apologize, I love that you've basically written an AU of my AU 🤩🤩🤩
As you can see from my latest update, I went a different route with the aftermath from Vegas (you'll get a scene between Shane and Brian to show what their relationship is like now soon) but I love Shane accidentally placing Brian in a torture chamber (where he belongs) simply because he wants to follow the rules and Brian being unable to get himself out because he's talked himself into a corner.
