Void

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Svetlana Vetrova, Rose Landry, Hayden Pike, Jackie Pike Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, World War III, Fluff and Angst, Autistic Shane Hollander, brooding ilya rozanov, Teen Romance, Coming of Age, Found Family, Eventual Smut, warning: inspired by “How I Live Now”, Mutual Pining, the point is to cry a lot, but also feel happy?, End of the World, Survival, HEA Summary:

At seventeen, Ilya is exiled from Russia by his father and sent to 90’s rural Canada, where he is forced to live with his childhood friend Svetlana and her rowdy band of foster siblings. Hurting from old traumas and unwilling to trust anyone, he arrives cold, closed off, and determined to survive the summer untouched. But the warmth of the rambling cottage, and the found family waiting inside it, begin to draw him out all the same.

Against his own nature, Ilya finds himself falling in love. With the land. With the house. And most of all with Shane Hollander, Svetlana’s foster brother, whose quiet steadiness begins to break through Ilya’s defenses. Through a magical summer of hikes and swimming holes, rowdy dogs, bonfires, and wildflowers, Ilya starts to thaw.

It’s perfect.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Svetlana Vetrova, Rose Landry, Hayden Pike, Jackie Pike Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, World War III, Fluff and Angst, Autistic Shane Hollander, brooding ilya rozanov, Teen Romance, Coming of Age, Found Family, Eventual Smut, warning: inspired by “How I Live Now”, Mutual Pining, the point is to cry a lot, but also feel happy?, End of the World, Survival, HEA Summary:

At seventeen, Ilya is exiled from Russia by his father and sent to 90’s rural Canada, where he is forced to live with his childhood friend Svetlana and her rowdy band of foster siblings. Hurting from old traumas and unwilling to trust anyone, he arrives cold, closed off, and determined to survive the summer untouched. But the warmth of the rambling cottage, and the found family waiting inside it, begin to draw him out all the same.

Against his own nature, Ilya finds himself falling in love. With the land. With the house. And most of all with Shane Hollander, Svetlana’s foster brother, whose quiet steadiness begins to break through Ilya’s defenses. Through a magical summer of hikes and swimming holes, rowdy dogs, bonfires, and wildflowers, Ilya starts to thaw.

It’s perfect.

today (and every day) is a beautiful day to read this fic. forced marriage but make it hockey, sex tapes, angst, did i mention sex... you could not ask for more...

In late 2014, celebrity photos start dropping. Ilya deletes his texts, his photos, a video he should never have taken. It isn't soon enough.

I love this fic, I love this Ilya, I love this Shane. Run don't walk:

There is a tense note in Hollander’s voice. This is not unusual, because Hollander is held together by latent panic

AND

Maybe Hollander feels like this all of the time, like his skin will crawl away without him if he does not hold himself still.

AND