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Shane tends to forget their kids are half Rozanov until he catches them throwing their hands up and going “Davai!”

Shane doesn’t touch Ilya’s dick for like three days (long time for them) when the toddler goes “BLYAT!” Ilya doesn’t even pretend to be mad, in fact he laughs until he cries. The glare Shane sends him is murderous (but he’ll laugh about it later too because the look on the kid’s face and the hands on the hips were all Rozanov)

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I just read “words of love” and I just wanted to tell you it made me feel so warm and fuzzy and gooey inside. I really love how you portray those two! I have a feeling it’s gonna be one I come back to time and again 💖💖

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! This ask made me grin like an idiot -- now I'm the one feeling all warm and fuzzy and gooey inside 🥰 I'm truly delighted that you enjoyed the story so much and that you took the time to let me know!! 💖💖💖

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Shane’s definitely the “aw man they must not have heard me say no pickles on my sandwich and now I can’t eat it but I have to so I’m not rude to the waitress” boyfriend and ilya is definitely the “excuse me he said no pickles” boyfriend

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sure he’s ilya “mr. asshole” rozanov but he’s also buying matching pajamas for him and the hollanders and anya for their next christmas card

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There’s just a whiteboard in the Centaurs locker room that says “0 days since Cap/Ilya Rozanov has had to go to mandatory media training”. Harris, as punishment, has now taken to making Ilya rewrite the new number everytime he says something out of pocket on AND off the ice which atp is every day

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Wondering what Ilya mic’d up on the ice would be like. They probably wouldn’t even do it case they know 95% of the footage would be unusable

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Thinking a lot of ilya when he first gets to the States. The macho front is at an all time high. He can’t let people see how scared and nervous and a little homesick he is and how much he misses his mama I mean he is literally what 17? 18? So there’s a front he puts up that most everyone believes except Marleau.

(For this next bit I’m warping timelines a little because I know nothing about Marleau except that him and Ilya are friends).

Marleau sees right through him and that’s how he spends his first American Thanksgiving at Mrs Marly’s Mom’s dinner table delightedly eating everything he can and it’s time for dessert and drinks and Marly tells him it’s just easier to say yes to that and also piles of leftovers and no one says anything when he goes out back for a quiet smoke and realizes that the lump in his chest (in the shape of him missing his mama and being homesick) had lessened a little sometime over the past two hours when a family took in not only a friend of their son a world away from his own but someone marly saw as lost, someone who needed to be told “come, sit, eat, be loved today”

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Now imagine how he feels when they invite him over for Christmas cause Marly spilled that he probably wasn’t going back to Russia for it and that he doesn’t have anyone here to celebrate with

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I am Thinking about Ilya’s first birthday that he celebrates with the Hollanders. Before, he used to go out with the Bears or the Centaurs, maybe to a club or for dinner. Fleeting stuff, alcohol, lights, a haze barely remembered. It *is* fun.

But now it’s different - when he gets handed a birthday card from Yuna and David. There’s a cake with candles, and some gifts approved by Shane. He takes a moment when he gets handed the card, has to blink hard twice, shocked he has to compose himself. Shane tells his parents later, when Ilya’s asleep next to him, that he thinks it’s the first birthday card (that’s not from himself) that Ilya’s gotten in a very long time.

Shane ends up crying a little too (he was so nervous about his parents not liking Ilya), because he loves the way his parents express their love for the man he loves.