imagine if some arena security guy escorting shane to the ambulance hears ilya’s name clearly when no one else does and sits with it and realizes that he may not know why hollander is so insistent on telling rozanov that he’s ok but he’ll pass on the message.
and so he gets himself into position near the visitor locker rooms and he gestures to ilya as he’s leaving said locker rooms (looking very shellshocked and quiet and scared mind you) and he takes him to the side and just says
“hey i was with hollander when they were taking him away and he kept trying to tell us to talk to you. tell you that he’s ok. man i don’t know why he was insisting but—”
and he just cuts himself off because rozanov’s face is doing something really weird?? Almost like affection?? Then it’s wiped clean and he’s rambling off this excuse of “oh we got friendly at all stars this year he must have seen me stay on the ice once he got hit okok thank you so much for message i have to go”
and the security guy watches ilya practically run to the team bus and just stands there and goes. huh. that’s weird.
then when they’re outed the guy is waking up in a cold sweat at three am thinking oh my god i was informing the man that the love of his life wasn’t dead
