🍉Hello It’s Shae 🥰

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of course a close up picture of their baby's hand holding a cup ring. it's probably the first picture ilya ever posts of her. he captions it: dynasty.

picture of shane with a burp cloth on one shoulder and spitup completely staining his other shoulder, holding a bottle and staring exhausted into the camera. probably captioned something like #dadlife

close up video of ilya's face, the top of his head visible, where a tiny little hand is pulling his curls and banging a rattle toy against him (baby hollanov is cooing and screeching) caption: my daughter thinks my head is a drum

video of hollanovling toddling up to ilya with a closed fist. ilya holds out his hand and says, "for me?" and she hands him a single macaroni noodle and babbles something incoherent. ilya responding, "oh...thank you sweetheart..😟"

video of shane on the deck of their house; outside is blanketed with snow and there is a giant snowbank off the deck. shane is repeatedly gently tossing their daughter into the snowbank. she is giggling wildly and kicking her little legs in the snow and going "dada again!!" shane is laughing and jumping into the snow too. anya is circling around them wagging her tail and licking their faces in the snow.

picture of anya with purple and pink marker scribbles on her face and muzzle. caption: daughter decided anya needed a makeover today, doesn't she look pretty!

The Ilya we see in Heated rivalry would not be throwing the first punch, he's not an enforcer. Ilya is a star center and a Pest. He wouldn't be doing his job correctly if he was punching players every other game, it would end up with not enough ice time to let him be the playmaker he's paid to be.

But being a pest can be playmaking! Find a player to bait, emotionally push them just enough that they try to fight you, and then get the fuck out of there before the ref gives you both penalties. This gets your team the power play. There is probably someone on Ilya's line dedicated to helping him get out of the fights he starts, and finishing them for him!

I also think this is also something that Shane would respect. Ilya is good at it and it's a good strategy for his team. I don't think Shane would see it as some dirty tactic, because Shane probably thinks everyone with a brain can see it for what it is! He probably thinks everyone should be able to see that being an asshole is a tactic for Ilya, that it's something to ignore and not fall for, that it's a strategy and not personal beef.

When Lisa has a bad shift at work and suddenly has Wyatt planning how he wants to be buried/his funeral and Shane and Ilya both decide when they die (at the same time) they will be sharing a coffin. Or even better going full Classics mode and mixing their ashes together. They declare this out loud then return to stick taping.

Shane calling Lisa to ask if they (doctors) would do elective surgery to transplant their bones into each other on speaker phone. Ilya is beaming.

Shane watching Ilya tape his stick. Ilya who only developed his “way” of taping his stick post 2017 All Stars when he saw how Shane did it. They match. Shane acts like Ilya is performing a strip tease.

Ilya hearing Shane talk to the new Russian rookie in Russian, talking abt how if he ever needs anything to call Shane and/or Ilya. He knows how isolating it can be etc etc. Ilya finds it sweet but is irrationally possessive about Shane speaking Russian to anyone else ever.

Awww Hudson unarchived this post today ❤️

ilya rounds the corner into the dim hallway and finds shane sitting on a bench staring at the wood paneling between the two bathrooms signs on the wall opposite him. he approaches quietly and sits down, taking stock of his husband. he has his earbuds in. his left hand is rolling that spiked stim toy he likes against his thigh while his right clenches and unclenches a fist around his knee. he taps his shoe against shane’s ankle and is happy to receive an almost instantaneous tap back. it gives him assurance to break the silence.

“so this is where you scampered to, huh?” ilya leans his head back on the wall, turning his chin towards shane so he could watch (read: admire) his profile.

“scampered?” his brow crinkles. automatically his left hand swaps the stim toy to his right and starts rolling the other thigh.

“that means disappear yes? run off, scamper?”

“i mean yeah.” shane gives him a shallow shrug, “you said it correctly it’s just not a common word.”

“i will use in a sentence:” he grins, “мой зайчик thought he could scamper away from party half hour ago and i would not notice.”

shane shoots him a glare and ilya meets it happily, considering it a win over shane’s reluctance to make eye contact. but it doesn’t last long, a new thought sparks and shane looks down at his reeboks, “i didn’t mean to ditch you, i just needed a break.”

“shane, is fine. i understand.” and he does, mostly. ilya waves dismissively towards the bright doorway back into the pub where laughter is trickling out, “the lights here, they are too loud”

“right?” shane’s hands go up emphatically, squared at his sides. the sharp motion almost knocks the stim toy from his hand. like a balloon in him pops, shane deflates, leaning into ilya’s space and rests his head against his shoulder, “the countertop on the bar is really sticky too.”

ilya laughs lightly, wrapping an arm around him and pulling him a little closer, “we can go home.” he says, not really suggesting and more giving permission.

“no,” shane shakes his head but it’s incriminatingly similar to burrowing further into the crook of ilya’s neck, “you’re having fun.”

“i was having fun. now i want to get out of here.” he speaks right to his hair, rubbing up and down his arm, “draw you a bath, dress you in those linen pajamas. maybe i will put on brown noise machine. then i can lay on top of you like a blanket.”

shane is a quiet for a moment and ilya briefly worries his tone toed to far into the ‘owner listing his dog’s favorite words’ territory. but then shane sighs deeply and all the remaining tension in his shoulders goes gooey. ilya knows that he has him now.

“god, i fucking love you.”

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