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HEATED RIVALRY (2025-) 1.06 "The Cottage"

He had been reeled in by this annoying Canadian, and all that he knew was that he wanted to stay. He wanted to anchor himself to Shane and just...stay.

ilya turning away when he cries / shane not letting him hide

HEATED RIVALRY — 1.06 “The Cottage”

HEATED RIVALRY | From Page to Screen: Season 1, Episode 5 (1/2)

the little nose twitch ilya does when he's not getting shane's undivided attention

hollanov + smiling into kisses

ilya + (affectionately) smacking and grabbing shane

Later in the episode we learn that something that kills Ilya is that everyone who never appreciated him always asks for "more, more, more". Shane hears that but doesn't understand, of course. It doesn't matter that Ilya said it, because Shane didn't understand it. And yet, he never asks Ilya for more. Even when he asks Ilya to come to his cottage, it's not "do this for me", it's "it is going to be nice, you will be able to be yourself, to rest" and what Ilya hears is "I just want you, close to me. As you are. As the person you have been for 10 years. I just want you" and now im crying

ilya: i didn’t set up an ad campaign with the two of us together, call you pretty, tease you in the shower, and then almost get caught by your mom in the elevator for you to get our anniversary wrong. since summer before, shane

#Joke asides, this is actually important

(ilya as woodstock (pt. 2)], (shane's version)

ilya: nom nom

HEATED RIVALRY 1.06