So I’m working on a Heated Rivalry fic where Shane goes into cardiac arrest on the ice during a game (set in the time period after the last All-Stars game but before Scott wins the cup) and the biggest struggle I’m having is that even though the fic STARTS from Ilya’s POV and is about him losing his entire shit watching this happen on TV, the actual plotline is less about Shane and Ilya’s relationship than it is about Shane’s relationships in total (with his parents, his friends and teammates, and Montreal as a whole).
Which is catnip for me, but means I’m having a harder time figuring out what Ilya’s arc is throughout this fic, or if he even needs one. (Right now I am planning to have his dad still die like in canon.)
Anyway, if you’ve read all of that and you’re still curious, have a snippet of the WIP from Svetlana’s POV:
Right up until Hayden Pike approaches their rented car in the parking lot of Montreal General, Ilya has no hope that this will work, Svetlana knows.
He comes anyway, beacuse he trusts Svetlana and because he’s so desperate to see Shane that he’ll try anything, even this wild plan Svetlana’s cobbled together on a few threads of information and sheer brazen nerve. Hold your head up and speak with confidence, and people listen to you.
Svetlana hopes this works. She’ll bully her way through this hospital if she has to, but the less stress for Ilya, the better.
In the rearview mirror of their rented SUV, Svetlana finally sees Pike approach. “Okay,” she says in English. “Are you ready?”
Ilya just nods grimly, unbuckling his seat belt.
Pike’s mouth falls open as he sees them get out of the car. “Holy shit. Holy fucking shit.”
“We told you we were coming,” Ilya says, irritably. “Why you think I ask around league for your phone number?”
“Right, but—holy shit.” Scrubbing at his face, already unkempt with a dusting of stubble—this is not a man who slept well last night—Pike turns to her and says, uncertainly, “It’s Svetlana, right?”
Svetlana smiles and holds out her hand. “Yes, but I think you know me better as, ah, Boston Lily?”
Hayden takes her hand and shakes it gently, a wondering smile flashing across his face that makes him look very young all of a sudden. “You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to meet you,” he says, half-laughing, but then his smile wobbles and breaks. “Fuck, I wish it wasn’t happening like this.”
Svetlana swallows. “Me too,” she says, and it’s nothing but the honest truth.
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Thanks for the tag, @peachpety! Sorry it took me a few days to get to it. Busy holiday weekend + recovery from busy holiday weekend, y'know?
Almost all of my most recent fics are for the 9-1-1 fandom, so I'll stick to my last 10 Drarry fics. And since those fics all old news now, I'll make this a little more interesting by posting the first lines in random order without the titles. Like a blind date with a fic!
“I’m not sure if I’m the best person for this job."
Harry Potter’s boyfriend is a smug, self-serving prick, and nothing would make Draco happier than finally doing something about it.
The day is mild for late October—or rather, Harry assumes it is.
It seemed like a blessing at first.
The worst of the autumn storm passes sometime before dawn, and Draco is up on the roof as soon as the slate shingles are dry.
“Malfoy’s turn, eh?”
Looking back, Harry thinks he ought to have remembered that Tuesday is the unluckiest day of the week.
Grey stone walls surround him.
“Rubbish!”
It was autumn when I found myself at the end of the road.
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omg ok im on saltburn rewatch #???? and smth just hit me. weve all been sort of operating under the assumption that what olivers mum says about him is true. taking the idea that he actively avoided socialization, avoided friends, kept to himself, at face value. but honestly?? i feel like it was the exact opposite. bc the first time he sees felix (assuming that the first time WE see felix in oxford is in fact the first time oliver sees him, as olivers telling would have us believe) its not like, some romantic shot of just felix himself. its very specifically *felix surrounded by the people who oliver was preemptively rejected by, whom felix has obviously charmed*. and like. if oliver was in fact a willful loner, like micheal gavey (although even there, the willful part is debateable, given the bitter undertone to his whole rant about not being invited to the christmas party), then hed have no reason to be so....disgusted? by micheals embracing of his loner status? oliver really strikes me as the type who truly wanted connection, but was socially shunned throughout middle and high school, and lied about it to his parents so as to duck the humiliation of facing their pity. he got them to think that he *wanted* to be alone. just like he got them to think hes on the rowing team. hes treating oxford as a fresh start, but hes still in his old habits of lying to his parents, and he still has his old wants. the first time he walks through the archway into oxford, hes insulted by people who dont even know him. and then, alone, peeping through a window, he sees felix. surrounded by friends. which is to say, i think he first falls in love not with felix as a person, but with what felix represents to him: *acceptance*. i know theres a lot of arguement whether oliver wanted felix OR saltburn, love OR wealth, to be with felix OR be him, but i swear to god, i really truly believe that at its core its both. this entire movie is about oliver conflating the two. he is drawn in by felix's halo effect, not just as a subject of his gravitational field, but as an aspiring planet himself.
anyways. stream The Last Of The Real Ones by fall out boy its so cattonquick i wanna puke
There's going to be one more sad, piney fic in the imrrick series before I break it up with some smut. I've decided we all need some smut before diving back into the feelings. As a treat.
