Wicked Lovely

your eyes can be so cruel (just as i can be) |  E  |  50k

Author: @formosusiniquis

Artist: @kaspurrcat (tumblr and twitter)

Beta Reader: @ablogcalledrevenge

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Pairings: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson; Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson; Corroded Coffin & Eddie Munson

Characters: Steve Harrington; Eddie Munson; Dustin Henderson; Claudia Henderson; Wayne Munson; Robin Buckley; Nancy Wheeler; Corroded Coffin (Stranger Things); Henry Creel | One | Vecna; Upside Down Hive Mind

Tags: Alternate Universe - Labyrinth (1986); Future Fic - Early 2000's; Period-Typical Transphobia; Minor Animal Injury; Hospital/Illness Mention; Slow Burn; Transmasc Eddie Munson; Trans Eddie Munson; Eddie Munson Has Powers; Steve Harrington Has Powers; Enemies to Lovers; Magic; Fantasy Elements; Hive Mind; Hallucinatory Imagery; Possessive Behavior; Eventual Smut; Mild Angst; Happy Ending

Trigger Warnings: Depictions of Violence; Period-Typical Transphobia

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After one inconsequential game, a reporter asks about what Coach Theriault and Hayden think of the future of hockey with their former star player playing with his husband. Theriault says some shitty PR nothing answer laced with so much disdain that Hayden just. can't. take. anymore.

Obviously his team wants him to shit-talk his best friend and de facto brother-in-law who happen to be playing the best hockey of a generation (he will never let Ilya know he thinks this). The reporter obviously is chomping at the bit for a "dissension in the locker room" story that will make his life even more miserable. So, fuck the both of them.

"and how about you Hayden, what do you think about the future of hockey with Hollander and Rozanov?"

"Well, I think they should get on having kids, like surrogacy or adoption of something"

Dead silence, the reporter blinks in confusion. He can feel the glare coming off Theriault burning into the side of his face. He doesn’t turn his head and blithely goes on.

“Yeah, specifically 3 girls. I have 3 girls so if they have 3 girls, we’d have a whole hockey team to start in the pee-wees and get to the PWHL. My Ruby would obviously be a defender. She’d spend her whole life in the box, but she'd be such a good enforcer, especially if she was playing with her sisters.  Jade is sneaky fast, so forward for her. And I know Amber is a baby, but I swear she’s got goalie eyes. My son Arthur is already the peacemaker of the family, so Uncle Shane could start training him up on all the rules so he can be our ref. But Shane and Ilya would have to get themselves another defender and a right or left wing with a center. Yep, that’s the future in hockey I’d love to see with Hollander and Rozanov”

Moments where the real Nikki breaks through the wish OBSESSION (2026) Dir. Curry Barker

-how many grams of protein from my cum do you think you have ingested over the years? (ilya pulls out his phone to google average load volume and average load protein. he knows this is a math question. and Ilya is good at math.)

-if you could create one frankencentaur out of the best body parts and skillsets of all MLH players to create one uberplayer, whose parts would you use? (there's 7 seconds of dead silence before the entire team starts screaming over one another. Ilya yells "yes, the dick too, Barret, obviously")

-do you think i could bench press Luca? (they try immediately. turns out just because you can do the weight equivalent on a barbell does not automatically mean you can lift a human body like that. especially when the body in question turns out to be extremely ticklish)

heated rivalry | Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov; Kip Grady/Scott Hunter; Kip Grady & Shane Hollander & Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov | T | 8.4K | AO3 Tags/Themes: POV Kip Grady; Autistic Shane Hollander; Identity and Celebrity Culture; Banter, Fluff, and Humor

The only difference between drag and kayfabe, in Kip's mind, was that Middle America was fine with one of them.

The only difference between kayfabe and whatever the fuck was going on in hockey was that wrestlers at least knew what they were doing was pretend. That everyone was pretending.

Obviously, he knew there was a difference between his fiancé Scott, who didn't understand abstract art and slept with the same flat pillow he'd had since his rookie season, and Scott Hunter, Captain America and one of the best hockey players in North America.

heated rivalry | Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov; Kip Grady/Scott Hunter; Kip Grady & Shane Hollander & Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov | T | 8.4K | AO3 Tags/Themes: POV Kip Grady; Autistic Shane Hollander; Identity and Celebrity Culture; Banter, Fluff, and Humor

The only difference between drag and kayfabe, in Kip's mind, was that Middle America was fine with one of them.

The only difference between kayfabe and whatever the fuck was going on in hockey was that wrestlers at least knew what they were doing was pretend. That everyone was pretending.

Obviously, he knew there was a difference between his fiancé Scott, who didn't understand abstract art and slept with the same flat pillow he'd had since his rookie season, and Scott Hunter, Captain America and one of the best hockey players in North America.

Harris finds it while combing through the archives for fun comparisons to the current team.

Instantly posts it with a picture of Ilya pulling Shane away from a fight single handed, and with the photo from Shane and Scott’s post-game fight when he was a Metro.

heated rivalry | Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov; Kip Grady/Scott Hunter; Kip Grady & Shane Hollander & Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov | T | 8.4K | AO3 Tags/Themes: POV Kip Grady; Autistic Shane Hollander; Identity and Celebrity Culture; Banter, Fluff, and Humor

The only difference between drag and kayfabe, in Kip's mind, was that Middle America was fine with one of them.

The only difference between kayfabe and whatever the fuck was going on in hockey was that wrestlers at least knew what they were doing was pretend. That everyone was pretending.

Obviously, he knew there was a difference between his fiancé Scott, who didn't understand abstract art and slept with the same flat pillow he'd had since his rookie season, and Scott Hunter, Captain America and one of the best hockey players in North America.