Ilya + enthusiastic eating

+ 1: Consistency is key

towards the end of their wedding reception, sun setting, looking rumpled and tired, Ilya kissing Shane's palm while Shane is very seriously talking to Scott Hunter

the two of them with a fan, taken at the dog park, Ilya holding Anya and Shane with one arm around his husband's shoulder and the other trying to prevent Anya from licking the fan's face

Shane Hollander sitting on the Centaurs bench with blood on his face, mouth wide open, Ilya Rozanov gripping his chin and glaring at the gap where Shane's bottom canine used to be

Ilya Rozanov with his fist in the air after a goal, a smear of red in the corner of his mouth

sitting next to each other at team tape review, heads bent together, Ilya's hand on Shane's thigh, Shane's hands sketching out a play in the air

Ilya Rozanov leaning against his car in the airport arrivals line, a coffee in one hand and a forest-green smoothie in the other

Shane Hollander giving his husband the middle finger after losing the shot accuracy competition at ASG by half a second

piggyback racing across the yard with a Pike twin each clinging to their necks

Ilya Rozanov, outraged, with a face full of snow, as his husband doubles over with laughter

wearing identical blank expressions the seventeenth time a journalist asks about their "off-ice chemistry"

Shane Hollander throwing his head back and cackling in a booth at a random dive bar in a random city, Ilya Rozanov grinning into his drink

he's ilya's dog when he's trying to anticipate all of ilya's needs and give them to him at the cottage and then waiting nice and still to be told what ilya wants next. he's ilya's dog even when they're having sex their regular way (by which i mean the d/s way) and he's following ilya's orders.

he's ilya's dog when he's letting ilya pet him and calm him down and let him stay on his knees when he's overwhelmed. he's ilya's dog when he's in the bathroom following orders for the sake of following orders and the reward isn't what he thinks he will get but what ilya wants to give him and is satisfying to him anyways.

when hes looking to obey an order and do it Perfectly Right Without Any Mistakes he's ilya's dog. when he's upset and snapping at ilya, trying to start a fight so that he can be muzzled, he's ilya's dog.