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I’m watching episode 5 and I’ve never really appreciated the scene between him and Rose as anything more than a reflection of Ilya and his relationship. But now I’m watching it and thinking, it totally made sense that they went out because they do have chemistry. A kind of teasing flirtation which you can get between close friends.

And when Rose kisses Shane I always thought of it as a “one last time” thing. The ending of a chapter.

But what if it wasn’t.

What if they keep it up for the media and to keep heat off Shane.

Even long after the news breaks they carry it on. Not because it’s romantic but because it’s just how they greet each other. A friendly peck which is entirely heatless.

When Rose finds out that Shane has Ilya (after appearing unannounced at the cottage with a bottle of wine and some okra fries) she waits for Ilya to leave to go to the bathroom and then turns to Shane and apologises profusely and offers to stop. After all, she always initiated them and she should have asked.

At first Shane shrugs it off, but she keeps apologising and so eventually he smirks and goes a little red “I mean it does make him really jealous”

Rose gasps and slaps his shoulder “Shane why didn’t you tell me me?”

Shane let’s put a soft chuckle and looks away, “No. I uh, I kind of like it”

It takes Rose a minute to get it and then her eyes widen “Shane Hollander. Have you been using me as foreplay!?”

Shane stammers suddenly feeling a little guilty and then Rose leans forward like this is the best thing she has heard all day. “What does jealous look like?”

When Rose leaves their house she pulls him on for the same kind of kiss that they have shared a thousand times. Sweet, familiar, heatless.

Ilya basically slams the door in her face and later she gets a message from Shane.

The reporter then asks how Rozanov feels about it.

“Oh he hates it. He complains all the time. Keeps telling me to go back to Montreal where I belong. That I’m bringing the team down with my bad energy-“

when he was crashing out about trading to ottawa, he said, "You know, it's just gonna be really hard to leave melissa," and hayden was sitting right there like. "melissa?? it's gonna be hard to leave MELISSA??"

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And no one is ever ready for the switch, and even after it happens they can never fully prepare themselves for what they’re going to get. Shane has learned that when he’s going to do that he should take them aside to give them the card rather than in front of people

Once Shane feels comfortable with Hayden as a genuinely good friend in his birthday card that year he writes out a whole thing about how he’s always wanted a best friend like other kids had but never had one and had accepted he never would, and then Hayden came into his life and gave him a level of love and friendship he never thought he would get and he loves everything about Hayden and can’t wait to be by his side as friends and brothers for the rest of their lives. Hayden fully breaks down and loses it, Jackie notices they’ve been gone a while and walks into the kitchen to see Hayden hugging Shane and sobbing into his shoulder. She raises her eyebrows at Shane and Shane just gives her the OK sign and goes back to rubbing Hayden’s back

Ilya learns about the card thing when it’s yunas birthday and he notices her opening Shane’s card like she’s deactivating a bomb. She stares silently as she reads it and Ilya starts freaking out a little when she starts to tear up and then pulls Shane in for a long silent hug. He looks at it later and sees that Shane wrote about how the last year made him realize over again how lucky he is to have someone as strong and supportive as her as a mother and he hopes to one day be half the parent to his own kids as she was to him

When it’s their first time having Ilya’s birthday together he’s legitimately nervous because this is his first Shane Card and he doesn’t know what to expect and part of him is afraid he’s built it up too much in his head and Shane won’t have as nice things to say as he did with other people. And then he opens the envelope and there’s no card but instead multiple pieces of paper because Shane couldn’t fit it all into a limited space. Ilya spends the better part of the next hour walking around the house reading it, taking breaks occasionally to cry or hyperventilate before going back to reading it because holy shit does Shane Hollander love him. Like he knew logically that Shane did but now he’s got pages and pages of Shane walking him through his feelings over the last decade of their life and every moment he remembered and cherished. Shane finally catches up to him and he’s on the floor of the kitchen, face a splotchy red mess, chugging Gatorade because he’s dehydrated from crying