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And eventually Ilya notices (He clocked Shane as soon as he came in the room, of course, but he likes to make him wait) and he raises an eyebrow and says, "What?" into the rim of his coffee mug as he takes a sip.

Shane is sweaty and/or wet and one of those things is sliding from his hairline down his jaw. His face is red, not just from exertion or sun, and he eventually unclenches his jaw to say, "Hey."

"Hi." Ilya raises his eyebrow again.

"What are you doing?"

"Eating breakfast," Ilya says, gesturing.

Shane's eyes track up an down. "Over the, um, sink?"

Ilya turns and props his hip against the counter. Shane's eyes retreat immediately to the haven of his iliac crest and stay there. And Ilya smirks.

"Yes," Ilya drawls. "Less to clean up this way."

Shane's eyelids flutter rapidly. "Are you. Um. Still hungry?"

Ilya tilts his head, pretends to consider it, nods.

"For what?"

Ilya reaches out a hand and smacks the counter, one-two-three, a wordless command. Shane hustles over and lifts himself onto it, exactly where Ilya's hand had hit.

Okay doesn’t technically fit in the timeline since Ilya would be with the Centaurs but I didn’t want to make up my own Centaurs jersey LOL

Sorry for the obnoxious watermark but I saw an A*I scam bot stole my work so now I gotta do this

These two kids in eachother's faces:

Hi wait no I’m going to throw up actually. This made my tummy HURt.

Oh my GOD. I die I die I die. Post tuna melt rut hits Ilya like a fucking bus, he’s miserable and angry and watching his omega be shown off by another alpha, a gorgeous pretty perfect alpha but Ilya knows- with certainty that shane Hollander who fits so perfect on his knot- he can’t be satisfied with her, can’t be. He hates it and he doesn’t let himself be sad not really so he’s usually just grouchy and bitchy and exhausted. The hurt all pushed down down down.

He feels his rut coming on and he’s so desperately angry, the hormones make it worse. He’s going on long runs, spending hours in the gym being semi deranged on the ice. He wants to fight and he gets them, knows how to provoke them out of other players, gets a split lip and black eye and busted knuckles from the punches he threw but it doesn’t settle it down, the rage.

He goes into rut and the rage melts away, as he goes into the second day of it. He just feels desperately cold and sad, alone. He refuses to be in the bed he was last in with Shane, and locks himself away in a guest room, survives on a couple bottles of water and protein drinks he’d had the thought to toss on the nightstand before the worst of it hit. He gets lost in the waves of desperation, despite the cold stone his heart is and he’s completely out of his mind- peak of his rut when his hand finds his phone and he calls Shane. He’s pushing his knot into the stupid handheld toy made of silicone, that smells nothing like Shane, his ocean salt sweet smell.

It aches and it isn’t warm, it isn’t the heat of Shane, the snark of Shane. It isn’t his omega. And his chest aches, hazy mind yearns, his omega, his omega could fix this, his omega could make it feel better, his omega always took his knot so nice, it would every better when Ilya was in rut, they’d stay stuck together longer that way, Ilya could breed him that way. Ilya growls and he’s not even cognisant of his phone shoved by his face on the pillow, the way his phone rings out to Jane, clicks through to voicemail. All the alpha registers is the sound of Shane’s voice (his voicemail box message) and his chest fucking caves in.

He whines, whines, whines, desperate needy sounds, and his breath catches and hitches as he’s begging, words a mix of Russian and English.

The fucks of his hips are short, angry, frustrated into the toy, his fist around it tight, tight. It’s not enough.

“Why, why omega. Please” he pants.

“Whatever I did, I’m sorry- I’ll be better”

“Please. I’ll be- I’ll be good I’ll be a good alpha. Please puppy” he’s still whining, it’s rattling in his chest and lets out another desperate noise, body trembling. If he’s good if he’s good his omega will come back his omega will need his knot, he’ll knot him so well.

“I. I need, need to be inside you. Knot you. My puppy please please come back and I’ll give you it I’ll give you my knot just stay. Stay this time and alpha will look after you” he sounds possessed, voice shaky and horrible, half sobbing and he’s still just whining as he cums, purely from biological need. It doesn’t feel like release. He’s mumbling sorry into the pillow as he comes down, head pounding and he drags a pillow to his chest, shoves his face into it and lets out a small sob as he spins down, pumping cum into stupid plastic as he aches for his omega.

his comment section blows up—it’s just a sponsored post, yet everyone is curious about who took the photo. ilya replies to his teammates’ teasing with a lot of winking emojis. the mattress company is stoked.

years later, after he and shane become public, this picture goes viral again. and ilya confirms that shane hollander was indeed the photographer that day.

Scott just lets out a long sigh everytime and counts to ten in his head.

He ends up on the same flight to New York as Shane after an away game in Ottawa, with Scott going back home and Shane travelling for the launch of a new Rebook store in New York.

And Scott can't help but laugh when he sees what the in flight movie options are. At Shane's curious look he waves at the small tv screen and explains the bit Ilya has going on. And Shane, just for a second, gets this weird glint in his eyes before offering Scott one of his earbuds with a smile.

"Want to rewatch the game with me instead?", he asks, holding up his IPad. And, why the hell not, Scott thinks, there are worse things than reviewing their game with Shane (even though he doubts Shane will share any of his strategical thoughts with him).