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Ilya always had been a light sleeper, so no matter how lightly they stepped he was awake moments after the first shocked gasp.

Ilya knows it’s over for him. There’s no mistaking that there’s a man asleep on his chest in a clearly non-platonic cuddle. Usually Ilya would be punching the intruder, threatening violence to try and ensure they kept their mouth shut but he has quickly realised something far more important. With the way they are sleeping, Ilya on his underneath on his back and Shane on his stomach on top with his face pressed into the gap between Ilya’s neck and the couch, they can’t see his face.

He quickly pulls Shane’s hood up over his head to hide hair and rests a hand over it to gently discourage Shane from moving it should he start to wake up.

So Ilya just stares down his team and goes “you can be upset, but are going to be fucking quiet about it because if you wake my guest I’m sending all my blackmail on you to your wives, and then start fucking them to help them get over the divorce.”

So the whole “You’re fucking gay!” “No, I’m a fucking bi who is fucking a gay” conversation happens at a furious whisper, with Shane blissfully sleeping on Ilya’s chest as life implodes around him.

Shane may be a deep sleeper - and the argument in whispers - but even he starts to stir at the noise.

Ilya can’t have him moving his face into visibility now, so he just scruffs the back of his neck harshly and pressed him deeper into his shoulder.

Shane lets out a pleased (and not at all quiet) moan, and - worried that he is going to start talking - Ilya realises he needs to shut him up.

So he glares at the Bears to be quiet, while suddenly putting on the softest voice they have ever heard him use as he goes, “shhh quiet time now mоя любовь. Back to sleep.” And then shoves his fingers into Shane’s mouth.

And ok Dallas is maybe kind of an asshole but so was Ilya, and he seems pretty straight but maybe he's bi, maybe he's going to explore his sexuality with Troy? Now we have a big rager of a party after a game, and ok Troy is definitely the main character because we're in his POV and Dallas has gone off somewhere with some girls who maybe seem kind of drunk, it's that kind of party. Troy is getting a text.... he's leaving the party... omg secret long distance boyfriend video call?? Dude seems kind of disengaged and dismissive, obviously this is the impediment to Troy and Dallas getting together.

Another game, against the Metros, and we get a glimpse of our boy Shane, when we see Troy skate up to Dallas after he's said something to Shane and Shane actually throws a punch, wow, what did he say to him? That might after the game Troy is scrolling Reddit. And there are the sexual assault allegations. The room is spinning. He calls Adrian. He's shaken. Adrian doesn't notice, because he has his own confession, that he cheated on Troy, they're breaking up.

Troy drinks that night. The next day at practice he screams at Dallas for being a rapist piece of shit. Quick montage of disciplinary meetings. A transfer contract. We arrive in Ottawa and there's our boy Ilya! He seems unhappy. The team is resentful towards Troy. They're all leaving him out of some social media promo that this guy Harris is trying to put together. That night Troy is going through his phone deleting and blocking all his contacts with Dallas and Adrian. The phone screen goes black, plunging the room into darkness, and the episode ends.

Images from a Summer never was~

Inspired by the fact that it breaks my heart that Shane and Ilya have no pictures from the early years of their relationship 😭😭😭😭

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