The worst part wasn’t being benched. It wasn’t even being forbidden from strapping on skates. It wasn’t the surgery or the pain. It wasn’t the injury itself, though it was particularly rankling that it hadn’t been acquired on ice. He’d gone to spend Monday afternoon with the Pikes, both to catch up with Hayden after the bye week and to soothe his frayed nerves by spending some wholesome time with kids who adored him and didn’t give half a shit that he was an NHL star. When he’d seen Ruby teetering on her training bike on their plowed street and had lunged to catch her, slipping and landing at a terrible angle on his left wrist, knowing immediately that that pain was not right, the worst part was this: he hadn’t even needed to make that grandiose abortive leap at all. Ruby had wobbled back the other way, righting herself, and pedalled on, happy as a clam.
•POV Shane Hollander •Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence •A Tuna-Melt Remix •Bromance •Denial of Feelings •Explicit Sexual Content •Friends with Benefits •Getting Together •Ilya Rozanov Makes Tuna Melts •Internalized Homophobia •Public Relations •Self-Denial •Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Situationship •Situationships -The Situationship to Friends-With-Benefits to Boyfriends Pipeline