Lizasaurus The Lizbian

Loyalty (1869)

— by Briton Rivière

Loyalty (2025)

hc that one day shane (missing ilya, pissed off watching him score 12 seconds into a game & it's So Beautiful & that's His Guy!!! that is his beautiful BOYFRIEND whom he LOVES being incredible at hockey which he also loves!!!) he just starts recording himself ranting about it...then forgets to stop recording.

cue ilya later receiving a 2.5 HOUR voice note that's just. shane's commentary & reactions throughout the ENTIRE game. (some quiet moments where you just hear the tv gameplay or shane shifting around. LOTS of shane insulting making observations about various players. lots & LOTS of him reacting to some sinfully impressive move/goal/fight of ilya's with "damn that's hot")

But there's another part that tucks it unopened into his wallet, the part that wants the note to stay with him, perfect in its unread state. Just for when he really needs it. After all even though leaving for Boston was sad, he's currently coming off of three weeks (he pushed back his flight for as long as he could) of being loved up with his beautiful boyfriend (boyfriend!!!).

Its easy to feel like Shane really does love him and wants forever with him right now.

So he keeps it for when he needs the reminder.

And the little note stays in his wallet, transferring over with his license and credit cards whenever he gets a new one. Moving with him from Boston to Ottawa. Two more join it, these ones opened and read and part of a series of sweet little notes tucked into pockets. But the first one stays pristine and perfect, safe for when he really needs it.

Then of course he asks Shane if he would choose him over hockey and doesn't believe his answer. Shane asks him the same question, offended and oblivious as if Ilya hasn't already done that. Its been a week and they haven't talked since Ilya kicked Shane out of what he had intended to be their house.

Ilya is so worried that it might be over. This might be it. The last thing he said to the love of his life was to get out.

Its then that he breaks. He pulls out the little folded blue envelope and carefully unfolds it. The message inside is two lines long.

"I know you stole my sweatshirt asshole." and then in precise but obviously google translated Cyrillic "я тебя люблю"

I love you.

Ilya's phone starts buzzing and he can see the Jane on the screen. In his bones he knows its not over yet. This thing between them will never be over.

The first time it happens, Shane is confused. The second through fourth, he thinks maybe this is some cruel prank being played on him. By the fifth, he's forced to admit to himself that it's possible these guys are being sincere and they actually want to fuck him.

It's at this point he brings it up to Ilya, because it feels like the kind of thing his boyfriend should know about. After a long silence, Ilya asks for their names.

"I can't tell you that," Shane says. "They all approached me in private, they definitely don't want it getting out that they're not straight."

"Then they should not be hitting on my boyfriend," Ilya says sourly.

Shane is unable to keep from smiling, feeling a smug little thrill at seeing Ilya act jealous. "Well, unfortunately for them they don't stand a chance, since my boyfriend is hotter than all of them combined."

Now it's Ilya's turn to be smug. "Yeah?"

"I'm kind of obsessed with him," Shane admits.

And what's Ilya supposed to do about that other than initiate some mind-blowing phone sex?

"Just tell me one thing," Ilya says once they're finished and basking in the afterglow, both of them lying down and holding their phones inches from their faces. "Pike hasn't hit on you yet, has he?"

i need a fanfic where all this combined with their preferences in bed fries some poor straight's brain they just can't compute that ilya is the more "feminine" (dw i say this verryyy sarcastically) role but cant get enough of plowing his man into the mattress and shane cant get enough either (hayden pike, cliff, any Centaurs player, *any interviewer/ppl on the internets)

He spends hours perfecting his pronunciation and his accent, making sure he doesn’t sound like an idiot.

Heated Rivalry incorrect quotes 3/?

Bonus:

"Can you imagine being the reason that Ilya Russian-Greatest-Love-Machine Rozanov spends the rest of his life having boring missionary style sex? Shane Hollander, if you really love him, let him go"

And everyone can see Ilya trying to understand the tweet for a second before he freezes, his breathing becoming unsteady while he interrupts Shane (stammering through a media trained response) to say:

"you... You think that Shane... You think he..."- before completely collapsing into absolute laughter. The kind of laughter that kind of hurts, that has you wheezing and trying to find your breath, that gets tears in your eyes and turns your face red from lack of oxygen. His voice and laughter get high-pitched, and he has to steady himself on his husband cause he almost falls from his chair.

The man is completely undone while Shane smacks his leg to "shut up, shut up!", all the while trying and failling to finish the sentence, cause he can't believe anyone on this planet could think of Shane as anything less as a sexually-deviant-kinky motherfucker who would rather die than do something less than soft BDSM.

Every time he starts to calm down, he looks at the camera and starts laughing again. They have to stop recording for 15 minutes, and in the following part of the interview everyone can see the red eyes from the tears of laughter, and the cuts in the video from where he couldn't control himself and started laughing again.