friends-to-lovers is my kink

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Rose Landry Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, No Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Abortion, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Intimacy, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pregnant Shane Hollander, Shane Hollander Gets an Abortion, Supportive Ilya Rozanov, Protective Yuna Hollander, Good Friend Rose Landry, Hockey Injuries, POV Ilya Rozanov, Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander, Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov

Summary:

After getting hit on the ice by Marleau, Shane learns that he is pregnant. Yuna is pissed, Ilya has some feelings, Rose is a good friend, and Shane makes the only choice he can.

Excerpt:

"You are a ...." Ilya realized he did not know the English word, apart from the slurs he had heard thrown around in locker rooms and on the ice. Come to that, he was not sure he knew a Russian word for it that was not also half a slur.

"A carrier, yeah," said Shane. "Apparently."

"What do you mean 'apparently'? You didn't know?"

Shane shook his head. His eyes were open now, but he still did not look at Ilya. He stared at some distant point on the wall as if it had personally offended him.

If you enjoy hurt/comfort and injury/trauma recovery fics, this is one you should definitely check out. The writing is beautiful and it is by turns harrowing and tender, the subject matter treated with the seriousness it deserves without ever becoming too heavy. Serious warnings for graphically-described homophobic violence and medical trauma. I have enjoyed following along with this fic so much, and I am kind of sad that it is finally over.

Word Count: 91k Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Ottawa Centaurs - Character, Montreal Voyageurs | Montreal Metros Team Ensemble (Game Changers), Roger Crowell Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Hockey Injuries, hypoxia, Hospitalisation, Montreal Voyageurs | Montreal Metros Being Assholes (Game Changers), Shane Hollander's feral revenge spree, Breathplay, both the fun and and unfun kinds, Homophobia, Supportive Ottawa Centaurs (Game Changers), Racism (Implied), Medical Trauma, Face-Fucking, Unreliable Narrator, Whump, Hurt Ilya Rozanov, Trauma, it's brutal but they still get to be soft, Memory Issues, taps roof of this fic: this bad boy can fit so much medical trauma in it, Post-Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Panic Attacks, Light CBT, Cockwarming, Disordered Eating, BAMF Shane Hollander, Freak4Freak Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Inappropriate use of Mr Brightside, Fuck the Montreal Metros, Face Slapping

Excerpt:

The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating. 

The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice. 

“I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—”

Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask.

“Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—"

Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little. 

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