read this post for context. i'm still not gonna make this a full fic but this scene popped into my head and i wanted to write it. tagging this verse as 'open relationship au' because i've got a couple more scenes i wanna write
All Stars 2011
Being invited to All Stars as a rookie is an honor. Ilya genuinely appreciates it but he'd be lying if he said most of his excitement for the game wasn't getting another chance to share the ice with Shane Hollander.
And it's a good game. Fun, in the way only Hollander can make it. Hollander seems to be having a great time, too, lips twitching every time Ilya looks his way like he can't quite keep himself from smiling.
It gives Ilya confidence to approach Hollander after the game, at the hotel bar where the players and other guests are mingling. He watches Hollander from the corner of his eye as he walks around the room, waits for him to inevitably tire from the social interactions and retreat to a secluded corner, far away from the crowd.
Ilya calmly takes a sip of his beer and makes his move.
Hollander looks faintly surprised to see him coming but quickly recovers. "Rozanov. Good game."
"The better team won, so yes," Ilya agrees.
Hollander rolls his eyes, much to Ilya's delight. "Yeah, whatever. I still beat you in the shots accuracy comp."
"Barely."
"It was by over a second."
It's Ilya's turn to roll his eyes. Enough of this beating around the bush, he decides. "So you are still with...?"
He lets the sentence hang between them unfinished. Hollander will catch on quickly; their last off-ice conversation about his secret boyfriend is still fresh in Ilya's memory despite the months that have passed. He has no doubt this is even more true for Hollander.
Sure enough, Hollander's eyes widen. He looks around, shoulders tensing, but Ilya's not stupid. The room is loud and there's no one close by to overhear. With their backs to the wall they have an easy vantage point to spot anyone approaching. This is as private a conversation as they're gonna get a chance to have.
Hollander seems to realize this, because his posture relaxes. "Yeah, still with. I hate to disappoint but we've been together since I was sixteen. We're trying to stick it out for the long run."
Damn. Ilya takes a sip of his beer to hide his disappointed frown.
He should take this as his cue to walk away. But he's curious.
"You are, ah, high school sweethearts?"
"Kind of?" Hollander shrugs. "I mean, he wasn't in high school when we started dating."
This strikes Ilya as odd. "You are dating an old man?"
"Fuck off, he's only four years older than us."
Four years. So he was twenty to Hollander's sixteen when they started seeing each other. It's not such a terrible difference, Ilya supposes. He's known couples with much bigger age gaps, including his own parents.
It still feels wrong, somehow. Hollander seems naive even now. At sixteen he would still have been practically a child.
Still, it's not Ilya's place to judge.
"Hm. And this dinosaur has a name?"
Hollander glares at him. "Brian. And he's not a dinosaur, he's a post grad student." His voice turns warm, proud. It irritates Ilya to hear. "He's majoring in finance."
"Smart guy, then."
"Probably too smart to be dating a stupid hockey player, yeah."
The self-depreciating statement strikes another odd note for Ilya. Hollander is a rich, gorgeous superstar on his way to a historic rookie season, a generational talent matched only by Ilya himself. Why he would even joke about not being good enough in any way for his ugly old boyfriend is beyond Ilya.
Hollander looks off, posture gone stiff and awkward again. "We, uh, we should probably socialize some more. People will think it's weird if they notice how long we've been talking."
Sadly, Ilya can't really disagree. He gives Hollander a suitably macho pat on the shoulder, not quite able to resist the urge to let his hand linger. His fingers just barely brush the bare skin on the nape of Hollander's neck.
"Well, when this Brian dies of old age, you know where to find me."
"Fuck you, Rozanov," Hollander says, but he sounds amused.
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His instincts are screaming at him. Mary had just beaten him for a stupid mistake of falling asleep while on lookout while Mary stitched herself up. She reaches towards him, to slap him or grab him again, he doesn't know, but he hisses, teeth bared and fangs prominent and Mary pauses.
Rage paints itself onto her face, it's ugly and terrifying and she grips his cheeks tightly in her hand.
"Hiss at me again and I'll rip your fangs out. Useless Omega. I dont have time for your posturing we need to go." She spits, shoving him away roughly.
His Omega whines and curls in on itself and he gives in.
A year later, they're in Canada and his mother is in a horrible mood, running on an hour sleep at best, she's snappy with him and it's riling his Omega up, his body is starting to reject the pills and he's reacting to his body catching up on 6 years of scent and hormone blockers. He hisses at her before he realises what he's done.
She pins him, spitting with rage as she uses some rusted pliers she stole to rip out his fangs as he screams and begs her to stop.
He doesn't have them anymore.
He has to learn to adjust, he can't scare off unwanted alphas, can't intimidate without the venom-filled fangs, he has to rely on Mary to scare them away.
Then she dies and he goes to Millport, tells them an excuse, cavities, surgery.
Nothing really changes when he goes to Palmetto, but Riko uses him as a laughing stock when he's stuck at Evermore over Christmas, 'pathetic omega' 'i knew you wanted this, if you didn't you'd hiss at me— oh wait, that's right, you don't have them, do you?'
After Baltimore, sat with the Foxes and laying down his heart and soul to them they ask.
"What about your fangs?" Allison jumps in.
"What?"
"Your fangs, you can't have gotten surgery whole on the run, right?"
Neil swallows thickly, Andrews hand on the nape of his neck and thumb rubbing his scent glands soothingly.
"My mother— my mother took them."
There's a horrified silence before Dan asks, "what do you mean?"
"It was my fault— I hissed at her, she told me not too so she ripped them out"
Nicky gasps, eyes glazed with unshed tears, even Aaron looks horrified.
Andrew squeezes his neck and Neil glances at him, receiving a barely-there nod. 'Not your fault' it says.
Neil hunches in on himself, his injuries screaming.
(temporary) amnesiac!AU where neil gets a bad head injury and doesn't remember anyone but especially not this random ass 5 foot blonde who is somehow accustomed to all his needs and wants, and for some reason that neil's attracted to???
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lets be so for real right now, andreil are both aro. they definitely feel romantic attraction, but they sure as hell dont express it in the "normal" allo way. their definition of what romance is--if they'd even use that godforsaken word--is such a foreign concept to anyone not them (or kevin) that their relationship is veiwed as one void of all emotion and attatchment. i dont think they'd ever define it, mostly because why shut something in a box when you can let it be free, no need to cause extra issues via labels. they work just fine without one.
this is, i think, the reason that they work so well with kevin. in my honest opinion i think kevin would be aromantic acespec, that man would cringe at anything and everything catered to allo people. valentines day, anniverseries, PDA, all that jazz would be just like, ew. no. he has a one track mind and it only focuses on exy or andreil. it doesnt make what they have any less significant, but it would be FARRRR out of any allo person's understanding from an outsider pov
i'd imagine that the foxes probably think kevins just some sucker lost puppy typa thing, following after andreil 24/7. they dont know hes literally the stitching that holds them together, like, he IS the thread, he is the condition.
no but i think its better like that. none of them owe anyone an explanation and kevin genuinely does not give a damn about other people's opinions when its not about exy, okay so what they think hes some "pitiful wittle cweature" its half true, hes pathetic, but andreil has him nevertheless and thats what matters
I know it’s been said but pipe dream is such a crazy thing to call someone Andrew really said you are an unobtainable fantasy that I foolishly desire and it went right over Neil’s head
Based on this post: I think Wyatt is Shane's work husband. This is more based on the new lore of the show but I think that Shane's particular flavour of autism really vibes with Wyatt's (who I also think is probably autistic 'cuz like, goalie tings).
Like he's not into the superhero stuff, but I think Wyatt allows Shane to be weird and obsessive and that's like, really fucking valuable to him. So yeah, Trolya work husbands for sure, and I think Wyatt-Shane is the other side of the coin. Any given moment they're like, sitting doing parallel play (shane's watching highlights and Wyatt's desperately trying to acquire a rare action figure)
Ilya: My fetish is saying some incredibly stupid shit and watching Shane speedrun the five stages of grief as he realizes with horror that he still wants me to fuck him.
Being rich does not stop Ilya from being Shane's sugarbaby. That man is texting Shane like Heeyyyy I want this [insert bullshit item of the day] so bad pls can u get for me? I will make it worth it for u 😏 and Shane is like Ilya you're rich you can buy it yourself?? And Ilya is like noooo you buy it for me. As a gift 😜
Shane is kind of exasperated but also delighted because he lovesssss taking care of his baby boy so of course he buys Ilya whatever he wants. Ilya is so proud to be thee Shane Hollander's sexy controversially young (by one month) boyfriend and he brags about it constantlyyy after they're married. Like Oh yes I was just sexy sidepiece but he fell in love with me so hard he married me. And Shane is standing next to him like 🙄 as if he didn't just buy Ilya $2000 worth of fancy appetizers and drinks on their date last night.
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Amazing how we cant discuss the foxes being cruel to kevin in tkm (BECAUSE THEY ABSOLUTELY WERE WAY MORE HORRIBLE TO HIM IN THAT BOOK THEN THE OTHERS FOR SOME REASON???) without apparently "sanitizing" kevins character??? Lmao ppl talk all the time about how awful the upperclassmen were to Andrew but god forbid day fans talk about Kevin. That comment about hitting him where it wont show was so fucking cruel
am i crazy for thinking neil gets a tattoo of a chess pawn somewhere on his body? its supposed to mirror kevins and reclaim the idea of being used as a pawn monetarily by the moramiyas. maybe it helps him accept the fact that life isnt perfect and he undoubtably is a pawn, but that doesnt mean that he can't start off with a two section move. i like to think it'd be on his lower hip, so that only kevin and andrew get to ever really see it. but it could be where-ever
Shane doesn't want kids. He's never said so in so many words, but Ilya's read between the lines. He remembers Shane's interview after Pike asked him to be his daughter's godfather. How the interviewer had asked if he hoped to have kids of his own one day. How Shane had gone a little blank and guarded the way he does whenever he's asked a difficult question. How he'd come back with a perfect media-trained answer ("Not sure. Right now, my responsibility is making sure the cup comes back to Montreal. That's my baby.") How every similar question after that was met with a similar answer, until eventually reporters learned to stop asking.
So Ilya knows that Shane doesn't want kids. And that's fine. Ilya thinks he does want them, but not so badly that he couldn't live without them if Shane didn't want them. Their family is already perfect, just the two of them. And Ilya gets to help look after Pike's kids sometimes, and he adores those kids, so that's good enough.
That's why Ilya is completely blindsided one day when Shane turns to him after settling all the Pike kids down for their afternoon nap, and says, "Do you think our kids would be this easy to settle if we ever had them?"
And Ilya's so shocked that his brain has to buffer for a moment. He's just staring at Shane, whose cheeks are now flushing with colour. Ilya can't figure out where to start with this conversation, and the longer he's taking to reply the more awkward Shane is getting, until eventually his eyes drop to his hands. "I mean, uh, nevermind. Forget I said anything. I just thought... nevermind."
This snaps Ilya out of it. "Where is this coming from? I thought you didn't want kids?"
And Shane has a little confused frown on his face. "I've always wanted kids. I thought you might not want kids. You always get a little weird when anyone brings it up in conversation. I can't ever get a good read on what you want."
And this is truly not how Ilya thought this conversation was going to go if they ever had it.
"But what about all those interviews where you avoid the question? All that 'the cup is my only baby' stuff...?"
"That's because it's a stupid fucking question and none of their business," Shane laughs. "And also because it's not something I thought I'd ever be able to have. Not when I couldn't imagine ever being happy with a woman. Not when I thought I'd never be with someone I actually wanted to build a life with. But with you? Yeah. Yeah one day when hockey is done, Ilya Rozanov, I'd really like to have kids with you. But only if you want it to."
And Ilya smiles Tampa-bar bright, and swoops in to kiss Shane all giddy and messy, following it up with at least a dozen more peppered all over his face.
"Of course I want to have babies with you. They would be the most beautiful babies in the world," he says. And then he looks around the living room. "How mad do you think Hayden would be if we made our first one right now?"
He's waggling his eyebrows, and Shane laughs and shoves him.
"Fuck off, asshole," he says, leaning in to kiss him again. Before pulling away, lips still brushing Ilya's, Shane mutters, "When we get home, I'll let you try to make as many as you want."
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kevin day should’ve been an ancient greek tragic heroine and instead he got stuck in a self published 2010s contemporary sports/crime thriller… and he didn’t even get put on the woke team so he doesn’t know about estrogen or bisexuality
after years on the run, Neil had developed a habit of sleeping with his arms wrapped around his waist, as if shielding his vital organs from an attack that could come at any moment. the habit still lingers when he shares a bed with Andrew, but little by little, it’s being replaced by something else. every night, before sleep takes him, Andrew’s hand settles around his waist in a gentle grip, drawing him closer. slowly, the instinct for survival gives way to a different kind of habit—the habit of finding warmth in the body behind him, of trusting the arm that pulls him in instead of bracing for the next blow.
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