#jackie pike

[shane-bug]

Idiots in love

[ilya-sweetheart]

jackie thinking she’s finally found the one “my friend sally does mummy & me yoga, she’s very into fitness, she’s kind and also vegan!”

shane, head over heels in love with a crass, cigarette smoking, reckless ducati driving russian “oh, i’m not really looking to date right now, sorry.”

(please send your love to jackie and hayden when they eventually find out about ilya after ten years of trying to set shane up with “really nice girls”)

[barbie-verse]

heated rivalry twitter (40/?) in honour of connor's birthday, here are the people ilya loves exposing his deepest secret: that he's a big ole softie

[hrsocials]

.ninety-one :)

[belleandkurtbastian]

Ilya in post-game interviews keeps referring to his “wife-in-law” and the media and fans are (naturally) convinced that he’s just confused and doesn’t realise that term makes no sense whatsoever.

This goes on for a while until one reporter is finally brave enough to ask.

“I’m sorry, you keep saying your ‘wife-in-law’, and I feel like someone should tell you that that’s not… a thing? Do you mean your sister-in-law? Mother-in-law?”

Ilya: “No, there is no misunderstanding. My wife-in-law, Jackie. We get drinks every few weeks. She calls me her husband-in-law, I call her my wife-in-law, and our husbands both roll their eyes because that’s just how they are.”

And then he walks off.

[my-2nd-account]

It's so important to me that everyone who meets Ilya feels safe around him. Shane at age 19 trusting him with his body and his sexuality and his reputation therefore his whole career. Svetlana who left home and could've gone anywhere but chose to move to Boston because guess who also lives there. Every person he's ever hooked up with because that's 100+ of people trusting him and saying yes. Yuna and David who spent less than an hour around him (Ilyushka not Rozanov) and accepted him as Shane's boyfriend even though they've spent the last decade hating him on Shane's behalf. Jackie trusting him with her kids after only meeting him once. Harris's family inviting him over so many times. His neighbors' kids making it a habit to wish him good luck before games. Troy coming out to him when it's his first time saying it out loud. Luca asking him for advice because he's finding it hard to "meet people". Coach Wiebe coming out to him and telling him about the guy he was in love with.

He's the safe space he needed growing up. He's the comfort person he wished for when he felt like he had no one. He's the familiar warm presence who has so much love to give to make up for all the love that was taken away from him.

[chubby-cry-baby]

hayden getting annoyed by ilya and insisting on a ‘who knows shane better’ game with shane and jackie as judges and he gets completely wiped by ilya. “boohoo pike you should know how many goals your captain scored last season” “pike how do you not know his favourite protein powder i thought you were best friends” “you’re taking too long pike you should know shane’s favourite cities”

[anime-writing-everything]

JJ: would you like to play “Jackie or Shane” a game where I tell you a real quote I have heard Hayden Pike say, and you have to guess whether he was talking about his wife or his best friend?

Ilya: …. Let’s do this