also if you have any favourite outsider POV recs i’d love that too! you are the best at this lol

i don’t read a lot of sickfics, so i am unfortunately not the best person to ask about this. i dug through my bookmarks and history a bit, and these are the only only ones i remember reading

Healthy Scratch by mcshrug [E 4K]

Ilya is sick. Shane has an unorthodox approach to taking care of him. post season 1

wait by waxing__crescent [E 3K]

Maybe Ilya can go over and not kiss him. Disease isn’t transmitted through the dick, right? As long as he stays away from his face, from all the crevices that spew bacteria, then he’ll be fine. He can fuck him face-down, press him into the mattress, and it won’t be a risk. episode 4 fuck montage

from the cold by stammiviktor [T 6K]

It’s winter in Ottawa and Ilya has hunkered down in his big, empty mansion to weather a nasty flu. Then his phone buzzes. post season 1

i was raised out in the cold (i was raised on little light) by coffeeinallcaps

This isn’t what Ilya had in mind when he figured they’d be spending most of their time at the cottage in bed. He throws his arm over his eyes and groans. first summer at the cottage

Cliff Marleau/Marlow, Hayden Pike, JJ Boiziau/Dagenais, Kip Grady, Luca Haas, Rose Landry, Scott Hunter, Svetlana Vetrova, Multiple POVs

Your Dog by @bluegrasshole [E 9K]

Did you hear about Laurette’s boy? Cliff, the oldest one. He got drafted to the Boston Raiders. Heard he’s doing well for himself.

crossfire by makemegentle [E 10K]

In 2014, Ilya and Marleau went to Paris on a girl to celebrate the Stanley Cup win. Ten years later, on a balmy evening spent in the Hollander-Rozanov Ottawa home, Marleau reminisces and, courtesy of Shane and Ilya, re-enacts. It’s just a game of play pretend.

Give You All You Need by @pillow---forte [E 4K]

Before he’s even realised he’s doing it, Hayden’s opened Shane’s text thread with Rozanov and scrolled way back. Just to check. Just to make sure there’s nothing, like, concerning. Because that’s his job as Shane’s best friend. To make sure he’s OK.

Before a Fall by tyrsdayschild [T 2K]

It's almost Pride Night at the Bell Center. Shane isn't happy about it.

nothing makes me feel as good by @bitterbloodyorange [T 4K]

Shane had poured everything into his team (possessively: it was his team) and he asked them to give it back that day, so they delivered. When Shane smiled at them afterwards, it felt like love.

predator instinct by @elumish [T 2K]

Kip likes Hunter’s teammates more than he expected to, which is to say not all that much. Some of them are good—some of them are great—some of them are terrible, and a lot of them just have no idea how to talk to a queer person.

tom cat by guarddog [T 2K]

Luca has a crush. Shane gets territorial.

Gossip Girl by @northisnotup [M 6K]

Coming out to the Pikes was not the plan for the evening. It wasn't even in the top 10 list. And yet, here Shane is, sitting on their living room floor, having fought Rose Landry to get his phone back, and making a Face. He knows he is making a face, he can feel his forehead scrunching and his jaw aching and he can do nothing about it except wait for— "So who's Lily?!"

clouds in my coffee by walkingthroughwindows [T 7K]

A scandal breaks. Rose drives to Ottawa, to be not-alone.

the border by @agoodsoldier [T 2K]

Scott Hunter sees himself in Shane Hollander. Many years later, he sees Shane Hollander outed publicly on the internet.

respectability politics by @shanesmouth [E 3K]

Ilya didn’t go to the cottage, and he's feeling pretty Byronic about it. Scott Hunter…really does not have that context.

Rook by @catalpa-waltz [M 2K]

Scott felt it — a cold hard tug under his left ribs, a powerful ache of familiarity. It had been a long time since he’d seen so much of himself in the new crop of players, who seemed to get younger and younger every year. But Hollander wasn’t much like his peers. Scott couldn’t decide if he was more or less mature than the rest of them, but whatever he was, he was different. Marked. It gave him the look of a decidedly soft target.

salvage by brokebackmountain2005 [E 3K]

Scott takes Ilya Rozanov to the winner’s room.

#noticing by @theburialofstrawberries [T 3K]

The first thing Svetlana notices as she’s being introduced to the First Couple of North America is that Rose Landry has great style.

a new orbit by walkingthroughwindows [M 6K]

Svetlana quits her job. She can't quite explain why.

that's great, it starts with an earthquake by @trippedlaces [T 6K]

Across the NHL, five players wake up to the news of the FanMail video. There are a lot of group chats, some bad advice, a team who just wants to find their captain, a misunderstanding about how a green screen works and the kind of life-changing news that's too big to be watched on a small screen.

I may be bad (but I'm perfectly good at it) by @gurlsrool [M 6K]

5 times someone's shocked to learn that Shane's a little freaky, +1 time someone isn't.

saturday night & the rest of your life by @eemolu [T 2K]