World For Geeks

1 sec, * rubbing hands *

1. TMI fic, super wholesome

2. Same Author as above, slowburn

Especially great if you are into werewolf pack - found family - trope

3. Super cute, focusing on Clary and Simon as parabatai - which we haven't seen enough of in TSC

4. Lightwood Bane family fiction, not fluffy - but definitely heartwarming

5. TID/TLH fic on our dear Sophideon

Has just the right amount of Everything

6. The fluffiest domestic stuff to read

Absolutely adorable TLH fic

7. Jordelia collection for every romantic at heart

8. Can't forget Wessa - my darlings

9. Lucie × Jesse - obviously deserves a mention

10. Gabrily through and through

Can't even remember how many times I have read this

Ilya Rozanov has been drafted by Boston, the number one pick overall, but his father doesn't want him moving to America and so takes steps to block his visa. He's going to have to go back to Russia and stay there forever and that, thinks Shane Hollander, is wrong.

It's so wrong that Shane can't stop himself from doing something about it. Even though that something is the most reckless, the only reckless thing he's ever done in his life. He marries Rozanov in secret, to keep him out of Russia and put him on a path to Canadian citizenship.

Shane's got a five-year plan to get him there and when you have a plan nothing can go wrong. Right? Right. When you have a solid plan and a marriage that's on paper only there's no risk of feelings getting involved. Not on Rozanov's part and certainly not on Shane's.

Right???

(or, the story of how Shane Hollander fell in love with his own husband)

LINK

Shane stiffened, and Ilya pulled back in surprise. 

“What?” he said. 

“You really… with Scott Hunter in the next room?” 

Ilya huffed and rolled his eyes. “Yes, I really and I do not care about palaeolithic wonder man Scott Hunter. Let him go back to his cave and carve his own tools. I will not be cockblocked by an early hominid.”

Shane looked torn between laughter and indignation. “Early hominid?” he sputtered. 

“Yes. People who lived four hundred thousand years ago. I read about them in National Geographic.” 

“You read a fucking National Geographic?” 

Ilya opted not to be insulted by his tone. “Was our team trainer’s. He is very boring man like you. Good with his hands though. Also like you.” 

“Jesus,” muttered Shane under his breath. 

“Mmm, thank you. But you can call me Ilya,” said Ilya, and Shane finally broke. 

“You are impossible,” he groaned through his laughter. 

“Not true. I am very easy. Yours for nothing.” He kissed Shane again then murmured lowly, right into his ear, “I need to fuck you, and I think you need that too. Yes?” Another kiss, this time with a hint of tongue. Shane chased his mouth when it ended and Ilya knew he had him. “If you are worried that Scott Hunter might hear you will just have to be very—” he kissed Shane again “—very—” another kiss “—quiet. Can you do that?” 

Shane nodded and Ilya kissed him deeper, pressed him into the pillows until he was gasping. “Shhh,” he said, as he tapped Shane’s thigh to urge him onto his stomach. “Here.” He thrust a pillow into Shane’s arms before reaching for the lube he’d stashed beside the bed. “Bite on this.” 

Shane looked dubious at that suggestion right up until Ilya’s slick fingers sank into him and then he buried his face in the pillow and moaned. 

“Shhh,” said Ilya again, leaning over him to speak into his ear. “What if Scott Hunter hears you and thinks, ‘This is Shane Hollander’s moan. I would know it anywhere’ like ancient pervert he is, hmm?”

Shane choked back a laugh that became a groan as Ilya stroked his prostate. He bit down hard on the pillow to muffle the sound and arched his back to take Ilya’s fingers deeper. 

Another time, Ilya would have been content to finger him far longer, to tease and edge him until he was quivering and incoherent, but it had been six long weeks since Christmas and Ilya was mildly concerned that if his dick didn’t get some attention soon it might abandon him entirely and go attach itself to the body of someone with a chance of getting laid more than five times between the months of October and June. 

He pulled his fingers out, ignoring Shane’s whimper of protest, and replaced them moments later with his cock. 

“Hrrrnnnggg,” said Shane, into his mouthful of pillow. Ilya groaned out a laugh and kissed his shoulder, his neck, just behind his ear. He took a firm hold of Shane’s hip and drove hard into him, watching from just over his shoulder as his cheeks flushed and his mouth fell open before he snapped it shut again. 

“Oh, fuck,” he gasped. “Fuck, Ilya—” 

“Shhh,” Ilya warned him again. “Scott Hunter is listening.” He paused long enough for a thrust or two then said, “Imagine if he were watching.” 

Shane made a noise Ilya didn’t think he’d ever heard from him before. “You would like that?” he said. “Scott Hunter in cuck chair watching me fuck you?” 

“Oh God,” Shane moaned. 

“You would.” Ilya filed this fascinating discovery away for later. “Only Hunter, or others too? Hayden Pike maybe?” 

“No,” groaned Shane. 

Fanfiction is so funny because Annie, Casey, and Morgan have my whole heart but even people who've read every one of my fanfics probably have no idea who those people are. They're original characters from the Hollanov group chat fic where Lily joins their group chat.

Annie, my girl who lived in Ilya Rozanov's building but didn't tell anyone that except her two best friends. She's the POV character of a story told entirely without narration in group chat form, but she still felt like the POV character to me as I was writing it. Her name only appears like twice the whole time so no one could even know her name except me. Casey, my dedicated hockey fan who fell into hockey RPF by accident because her hockey girlies started to get into it and she got swept up in the tide Morgan, my favorite little shipper who is only loosely aware of the rules of hockey and only turns it on when there's chaos or hotties to watch (and Montreal vs Boston gives you both!)

Then there was All the Girls Know with the Neighbors

Julie, who totally picked up on 1) the fact that Ilya and Shane were a thing (which she was so good at keeping secret she didn't even tell her own husband) and 2) the fact that Ilya loved kids and wanted to spend more time with them. "I'll pay you in lasagna" to the man we KNOW loves pasta, it's a match made in heaven. Lucas, a very sweet family man who watched the two rival hockey players come and go all the time for months and it didn't occur to him to wonder why Shane Hollander of the Montreal Metros was over at Ilya Rozanov of the Ottawa Cantaurs' house all the time. We stan a himbo.

Here it is, the promised HR fanfiction rec list! As it often happens with my rec lists, it might grow later ;)

all the things he did by HR (blankjournals)

Summary:

4 times Shane was strict with Ilya and the 1 time he wasn't ft Ilya having an emotional crisis over it.

and i spit out the seeds by linearity

Summary:

A video of Shane sucking Ilya’s dick is leaked. Over the next twenty-four hours, Ilya goes on an odyssey.

at the lonely end of the rink, you and me by vahosi

Summary:

The first time Ilya coughed up a flower, he was kneeling over a toilet in the penthouse of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, for entirely the wrong fucking reason to be kneeling over a toilet in Vegas. 

There was no point in trying to pretend it wasn’t happening. He wasn’t an idiot. Hadn’t he seen his own mother waste away, coughing up clumps of clean white chamomile stained shocking scarlet? Hadn’t he known, on some level, that he was fated to follow in her footsteps one day, to throw his entire heart and soul into loving a person who would never — could never — love him back?

No, Ilya knew what this was. He also knew he’d never set foot on the ice again if anyone found out. 

Blindly, he reached for the toilet paper, wiped his mouth, and then flushed the whole thing. Petals, too. He didn’t want to know what kind they were. Pizdets. It should’ve been a fucking maple leaf. 

❁ ❆ ❁ ❆ ❁

the Hanahaki AU, in which Ilya loves Shane Hollander’s stupid face so much it makes him sick (literally)

be neighborly! by steelknuckles

Summary:

Ilya's new neighbor is annoying. Sucks that he's ridiculously handsome, and good at cooking, and Ilya might be falling in love with him.

Big fish, little fish by penpen_xo

Summary:

Shane had schedules to stick to, regimens to maintain, plays to study, drills to perfect.

He needed to eat the same thing, every day. Train in the best way to keep his mind and body fit by keeping to strict programs. He needed to stick to his plan so that he could ensure that everything also went, well…to plan.

He needed all of these things to fall in place otherwise— well he tried not to think too hard about the otherwise. He couldn’t let otherwise happen.

Basically he’d treated his body like a fucking temple for majority of his life and had no problems with it yet— And then he turned 30.

NEW Broken Glass by prinny_a

Summary:

When a visit to his father turns violent, there's only one place Ilya wants to go.

set post-rose breakup and pre-all stars game.

NEW Canon Compliance by ThePromptWasntThisLong (shredded_potato)

Summary:

Ilya discovers RPF. Naturally, he decides the best course of action is to read the filthiest scenes aloud and then meticulously reenact every single one.

Shane is mortified. He is also very, very turned on.

can't rush the dawn before it is time by Wretchedheart

Summary:

It was supposed to be a joke, okay? It was supposed to be funny, and they were all supposed to get a laugh out of it. Despite all of his protests, Hayden had thought he could get Shane to see the humor in it once he gave in. Except the longer Shane decidedly didn’t find it funny, the less entertaining it became for Hayden as well.

Hayden hadn’t ever actually done a deep-dive into the whole Hollanov internet obsession. He wasn’t prepared to have the cornerstone of his worldview be destroyed by a youtube compilation video.

--

The Montreal team watch a Hollanov compilation on youtube, for fun, and realize some things.

NEW clear to a hedgehog by magneticwave

Summary:

Every Boston Raider knows that although their captain has a girl in every port, he’s got a soft spot for the one in Montreal. Dr. Shane Hollander knows it’s better to have a semi-regular source of casual sex than try to make a relationship work during residency. Ilya Rozanov knows that the doctor he’s fucking in Montreal is unaware that he plays hockey, and in fact probably thinks he’s Bratva.

Concussion Protocol by cjr2

Summary:

Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. Dazed and agitated, Ilya briefly starts speaking and responding only in Russian and the medics can’t calm him down. Luckily, Shane started studying Russian after Ilya spoke to him in Russian on the phone from Moscow. For no particular reason. Certainly not because he’s fallen in love with Ilya Rozanov.

In Montreal with lingering concussion symptoms, Ilya is advised not to fly home for a few days, and the hospital won’t release him without assurances that he has someone to stay with him until his symptoms improve. Luckily, Shane conveniently has a condo in Montreal no one knows about and a few days before he has to travel again.

But Ilya’s symptoms don’t resolve after a few days. Which is okay; Shane can handle it. He can take care of Ilya, study Russian, lead his team into the playoffs, and keep Ilya’s continued presence in Montreal a secret. He can do everything, no problem. He is Shane Hollander after all.

or

A whump fanfiction that is secretly a fix-it.

Detained by FestiveFerret

Summary:

"Did you see what happened to Rozanov after the game?"

Shane's head snapped up and he lost his rhythm on the rowing machine. He slowed to a stop so he wouldn't hit himself in the face. One of the weight benches exploding wouldn't be enough to pull his attention away from his teammates' conversation.

"No, what happened?"

"Dude got fucking arrested."

General

it wasn't right (the way it went down) - post The Long Game, Shane needs to clear the air with the Montreal Voyageurs. Rated M.

Hollanov

Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

it’s too close for comfort - In which Shane and Ilya are accidentally outed to some anti-doping officers. Partially outsider POV. Canon-compliant. Rated T.

are you scared (are we playing with fire?) - That hotel room number 1822 in Montreal, February 2011. What if Ilya did stay a little longer? Rated M.

if I had a type (then baby it would be you) - Four men wonder what Ilya Rozanov's type is. Rated M.

don’t need to hide what you can’t control - A short pwp omegaverse. Rated E.

leave your marks - Shane’s bruised Ilya on the ice, and he’s out for payback. Or, the manhandling fic. Smut. Rated E.

now you're mine (they can wait) - Ilya rewards Shane after a win, right before interviews. Soft dom Ilya, smut. Rated E.

endgame-series:

endgame - A collection of moments where Shane is getting more comfortable being with Ilya in public, especially in front of their team. Chapters 2 / ?. Rated M.

the way you do it with ease - Or, the one in which Hollzy gets kisses. Rated M.

Got any more fic recs?

omg RIGHT like. idk what killed me the most is that at the end we got to see a glimpse of them out at a bar, we got to see them flirting and joking around in public. we got to see a tiny little glimpse of what they could have. and then it ends with ilya, in public, saying “i love you” and shane shushes him as he leaves. idk maybe it was meant to be like a jokey little moment but it hit me square in the chest like ough. he can’t even say he loves his boyfriend.

but yes okay anyway i don’t have as many fics as i would like but i do have some!!

~ be mindful of the tags ~

two wrongs don’t make a right by errantgods

come over now (and talk me down) by kurtstiel

decorate my heart by beetlesandstars, kryptonian

i’ll follow where you’re light goes by countdracilya

memento amoris by beetleandstars, kryptonian

parental advisory by cutshot, lovecommahannah

in a silver swirl i take a lungful in by garlic09

touch me by akirasstories

ask anything of me (except to leave) by joooceee

it’s hard to believe (but it’s all coming back to me now) by placebythering

Find me @Aeresys on Ao3

Title TBD - Hollanov hurt/comfort fic

Also do not worry this will be a happy ending even if I have to fight the fanfic gods about it 😤🫡

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78308911/chapters/205271536

I'm a slut for slightly canon divergent fanfics that give the characters more time to develop their relationships:

Leave a divot for your eye

“So you’re saying Hollander would’ve beaten Haller fucking unconscious or some shit?” Bood laughs, clearly amused by Ilya’s dramatics. He looks at Chouinard like it’s the funniest joke the evening has brought them so far and then looks back at Ilya. His voice dies down when he gets a wink as an answer, making Chouinard choke on his beer. “Oh, fuck, seriously? Are we actually talking about Holly?”

Ilya Rozanov regularly gets called out on fighting his husband’s battles. He thinks people should be glad it’s him they’re facing.

Change Your Win Conditions by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)

Rating: Explicit Status: WIP, but only 1 chapter left with quick updates Word Count: 81,358 Chapters: 9/10

Tags: Career Ending Injuries, Therapy, Coming Out, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slow Burn, Getting Back Together, Spoilers for Book 6: The Long Game

Summary:

Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck. So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stability was hard to come by, but he was managing. Then along came Shane Hollander to knock him on his ass, one more time.

Why you should read it: If you like canon divergence, what-if, fics with beautiful writing and A+ characterization, there's no better fic than this. Vee also weaves in so many plot points from the original book series like Tough Guy and Role Model, allowing the side characters to feel like actual people and not just like decoration to the plot!

I'm a slut for slightly canon divergent fanfics that give the characters more time to develop their relationships:

Note: This masterlist is only for long(-ish) fanfiction (20k+ word fanfiction only). Updated regularly with the latest updated date noted above.

✸ - complete

⨳ - ongoing

✦ - 10/10 fanfic, please read

⨳Cause it's on again, off again (love you like oxygen) - 56k -

“Y-Yeah, totally,” Shane replied. “D-Do you uh– do you know who that kid with Rozanov is?”

Scott laughed a little, tilting his head in confusion.

“Probably Rozanov’s kid,” he informed Shane, causing his brain to stall completely.

“You didn’t hear?” Scott asked, and Shane blinked, trying to reboot his mind from the crash that Scott had just caused. “It’s why he took time off,” Hunter informed him. “Found out he had a kid, I guess. Or something like that, I didn’t really get the details.”

Of all the reasons he’d thought of for Ilya disappearing for the past month, this had never crossed his mind. A million different thoughts raced through Shane’s mind. How the hell was Ilya a dad, and why hadn’t he told Shane and how the fuck did Scott Hunter of all people find out before him and—

And what the fuck was Shane supposed to do now?

2. ✸Across the spectrum - 34k - Hayden's young son is diagnosed as autistic, and he begins to realize that he's seen a lot of these symptoms before...in his best friend. Now Shane's having to come to terms with being one of those people who slipped through the cracks as a child and is diagnosed as an adult. How can Ilya and the rest of their friends support him through this?

3. When silence starts speaking - 40k - Plagued with the issues of his family past and present, Ilya Rozanov finds himself in the media's eyes for all the wrong reasons recently with no end in sight. When the team decides enough is enough with the drinking and whoring, Ilya is suddenly faced with a new issue to tackle—team omega Shane Hollander. Shane is up for the task of getting the Russian alpha under control for the season, but are they both up for the unexpected heated connection between them that follows?

4. a case of you - 43k - Ilya and Shane soulbond with a handshake in a freezing parking lot in Saskatchewan. It actually doesn’t change very much, until Shane’s concussion drives everything haywire, forcing them into close proximity and an earlier confrontation with all the feelings they’ve been trying to ignore.

Or: as it turns out, it’s easier than you’d think to be in someone’s head and still not know how they feel.

5. ⨳ line change - 21k -

"You're an awesome player to watch."

"I watch you too…I like watching you."

One line changes everything. --- OR: Instead of turning him down, Ilya and Shane become fast friends at the Prospects Cup. Their relationship (and how they hide the truth) completely changes when the media poses them as best friends instead of rivals.

6. love you like a loophole - 23k -

“Pretend we don't know each other?” Shane repeats, a little confused in all honesty. Wasn't therapy about talking?

“Yes. You are meeting for the first time in this room. Introduce yourselves.”

Shane shifts in his seat, slowly turning to Ilya. It's not all that different from the first time they'd actually met; the awkward vibes radiating off Shane are almost identical. They're just missing a snowy forecast and a cigarette.

He decides to go a step further, standing up. It feels the right thing to do under the circumstances. Who meets for the first time sitting down? He takes a step forward, holding his hand out to Ilya. Or not Ilya. This random man he’s about to meet, who happens to look a lot like Ilya. Ilya takes the cue, standing from his own chair with a shake of his head. He takes Shane’s hand, shaking firmly.

“I’m Shane, uh, Shane Hollander.”

Ilya nods. “Ilya Rozanov.”

—————— Or: Shane and Ilya get sent to reconciliation therapy, and of course, handle it super well.

7. ⨳You can lie (not to me) - 39k -

Every time your soulmate lies, their words are written on you.

Shane doesn’t lie often. His soulmate does though.

8. candle in the window (won't you stay till the am?) - 184k -

Shane Hollander meets Ilya Rozanov when he is four years old and he cannot be any more unimpressed by this turn of events.

Thirteen years later, like the most cliché heartbreak in the making, they are best friends and Shane is thoroughly, utterly in love with him.

*

Ilya Rozanov's life has been a study in leaving things behind and one way or another he learned to deal with it.

One exception is Shane Hollander who came along thirteen years ago, settled in all too cozy, and ensured himself as the one thing Ilya can't ever leave.

9. ✸✦Ice Baby -38k -

Shane is the only omega on his hockey team and one of the few to play for the NHL.

He will do anything to remain at the top and protect his reputation from harmful rumors.

But when he finds out that he is pregnant, Shane’s world crumbles around him, and the only person he can trust with his secret is the alpha, who shares his heat but does not want to be his mate.

10. fever dreaming - 21k -

The last time Shane had a fever would have been years ago. It still didn’t feel like this, where he was soaking through the sheets, and the world seemed to be going black around the edges. Everything seemed wrong. Too hot, too tight. The flu, but incongruently dissimilar. Something is odd. Shane shifts, and then— Something distinctly wet between his legs.

What the fuck is an omegaverse, anyway?

11. ⨳Day to Day - 51k -

The past summer should have left Shane Hollander at his strongest. Married and heading into his second season with the Centaurs. But as training camp approaches, strange symptoms begin to follow him everywhere: nausea that comes and goes, crushing hunger, a tightening in his chest, an ache low in his back, and a quiet, growing sense that something in his body has slipped out of his control.

Shane knows his body. He has always known it.

And once the truth comes crashing in, he won’t be able to hide from anything anymore. Not from his teammates. Not from the season.

Not from the family he didn’t know he was already carrying.

Not even from Ilya.

12. Melting a winter king - 29k - Prince Shane Hollander arrives in the frozen kingdom of Rozanova as a political sacrifice, a foreign prince married off to a man raised to hate everything he represents. King Ilya Rozanov is all broad shoulders and dangerous confidence, yet beneath the armour is a heat that catches Shane off guard. Their wedding binds two nations in suspicion, but the nights behind closed doors begin to spark with something neither can ignore.

Shane fights to survive a hostile court, the relentless cold, and the weight of living among enemies. Ilya is brutal in public, but unexpectedly gentle in private, slowly becoming the one person Shane wants to trust. Fear and pride pull them apart at the worst possible moment, and when danger finally strikes from the shadows, every buried feeling breaks open.

Duty shifts into desire, then into something fierce and consuming. With tensions rising and loyalties tested, Shane and Ilya must decide if they can stand together as more than symbols of peace. This is a marriage that turns into longing, tenderness, and a slow burn that finally turns into fire, all within a kingdom that would rather see them fall than hold each other.

13. love is kind, love's not fair - 23k - Ilya sat straight up after falling, and he looked to his immediate left, seeing the motionless body sprawled out on the ice. It didn’t register to him right away, though it should have. Then, he noticed the blood, a small pool starting to form under Shane’s head. No. no no no nonononono. He glanced down at his skates, noticing a small trace of blood on the tip of his right blade. He felt like he was going to puke.

14. Summer camp - 30k - “This is Ilya. Ilya Rez-Ruz…” “Rozanov”, The boy said. Shane was surprised by the strange accent and deep voice of a boy his age. “Yes. Ilya Rozanov. He is your age, and he comes all the way from Russia. He doesn’t really know a lot of English, so Cooper and I have thought that it would be very helpful for both of you to be together. You can help him with the language, and, believe me, he can teach you a lot from hockey. He’s European; they do things differently there. Yes?”

or; Shane and Ilya go to the same hockey summer camp every year. How much can their relationship change during those 5 years?

15. ⨳late bloomer, bloody valentine - 33k -

Shane Hollander is a beta. And he couldn’t be more happy with his designation. It keeps things simple. No stupid alpha territorial bullshit or omega pheromones to disrupt his routine. He has more room to focus on hockey, rather than worry about silly inconvenient things like ruts or heat cycles. While his teammates have to take medical leave a few times a season and wear things like scent blockers or take suppressants, he just gets to play the sport he loves and call it a day.

Yes, being a beta kept life simple. And he spent 24 years of his life as a simple, hockey loving beta. Until he suddenly wasn’t. And of course, because fate loved to fuck with him, he finds out in the middle of a game against fucking Boston.

Or, a beta Shane Hollander accidentally presents as an Omega and goes into heat during a game, sending everyone in a frenzy. Thankfully, Ilya is right there with him.

16. That's all it takes - 49k - Based very loosely on events from The Long Game that my brain wanted to put into the first book, somewhere between Shane’s injury, and before Scott Hunter wins the cup - for maximum angst, obviously.

What if Ilya’s plane had actually crashed? And what if it had happened before he and Shane had the chance to confess their love and know what it was like to be together.

Or

A fic so I could write a really needy Shane who can't hide his feelings anymore, and an Ilya who is faced with the undeniable truth that someone cares for him.

17. Just to feel you breathe from underneath me - 20k -

It’s funny, if he doesn’t think about what it entails, that only three months after seeing Ilya play with those kids in the pool, Shane finds out he’s pregnant with Ilya’s baby.

18. magnolia & heartache - 23k -

“When did you start feeling like this? Did it come out of nowhere or you think something happened?” she asks. “It started in Detroit in December, last year. I do not remember it from games in Vancouver and Edmonton before that.” “Do anything out of the ordinary then?” “No, I do not—” he comes to a complete stop, and Ash walks ahead of him for a few steps before turning. “What? What is it?” The picture swirls in front of him like vibrant water colours splashing on a canvas. Cliff beckons him over to where he and Victor are perched on their bikes, and Victor holds his phone out to him. The headline is clear: Is Rose Landry dating MLH star Shane Hollander? A pit forms in Ilya’s stomach, cramping uncomfortably as if carved with a rusted knife, and distantly he recalls feeling the same way back in December. There is no fucking way that’s been the problem.

or, hot off the press from my tl after episode 4: ‘ilya is the first alpha to go through rejection sickness’

19. ⨳Just guys being dudes - 21k -

Ilya and Shane get outed via instagram live… as friends. The world reacts as their friendship becomes the most talked about thing in the hockey world.

Being openly friends affords them more freedoms to be together, but all the more easy to lose it all.

AKA

Note: This masterlist is only for long(-ish) fanfiction (20k+ word fanfiction only). There are 40 fics on this list so I will be continuing with a Part 2 masterlist. Link will be on my pinned fanfics masterlist post on my page.

✸ - complete

⨳ - ongoing

✦ - 10/10 fanfic, please read

✸I'm reading your lips (you're speaking my language) - 30k -

Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”

“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.

“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”

“Go fuck yourself.”

+++

Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.

And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?

2. ✸Fanning the flames - 21k -

The Voyageurs ask Shane to join FanMail in order to foster a better connection with fans. Internet sleuths start to notice some interesting details in the background of Shane’s videos, and then the internet does...what the internet does.

Or Shane and Ilya are granted an opportunity to come out on their own terms. Sort of. And in they do it in a very Ilya way. (Surprisingly, it is Shane’s idea)

3. ✸Loving this body - 22k -

Ilya picks up on the third ring, breathing heavily into the phone. Shane hears a door slam shut through the device. “Do not yell at me.”  Shane stares at the half-empty bottle of vodka on the coffee table. “You suck.” “I suck? I scored hat-trick! In your stupid body! I have not eaten in six hours, Hollander. I have not pissed. I have not laid down. I want to go home.”  “Rozanov–”  “Your mother has called twenty times. Your manager has called thirty times. Your father text me picture of crossword puzzle and ask for help. Clue is about American President from the 1980s. I cannot help!”

OR: the hollanov bodyswap fic. 

4. ✸tucked beneath my muscle memory was you - 26k -

Still, he’s felt like absolute shit for weeks, and the idea of sitting in his hotel room, where he would probably masturbate, cry, and have another night of fitful sleep, did not make him feel any better. Getting to be skin to skin with Ilya Rozanov did. And surely Rozanov wouldn’t be demanding Shane make a nest in his damn bed if he didn’t fully intend on actually kissing him in it and keeping him there until morning, right? Maybe that would be enough to pick Shane up out of this drop, keep it from happening again.

OR

After not sending the "we didn't kiss" text, Shane's omega hormones go into distress mode. Despite trying to hide his symptoms and play through the misery, when Ilya Rozanov finds out what's going on, the alpha Shane's body wants most is determined to fix it.

5. ✸The secrets we kept - 58k - Shane Hollander disappears from the NHL at twenty with a career-ending “injury.”

Four years later, he’s the new assistant coach for the Ottawa Centaurs when Ilya Rozanov signs with the team. His former rival. His secret hookup. The father of his daughter. Ilya doesn’t know Lily exists and Shane plans to keep it that way.

But three-year-olds don’t keep secrets, and neither do pale blue eyes.

6. ✸Only you (could ruin me like this) - 35k - That girl at the club meant nothing. Shane drunk-texting Ilya at 2 AM means everything.

or

A bandaid for my brain following the Club Scene in episode four.

7.✸ wanna get stuck in your head - 31k - He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop.

He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess.

Shane is making space for Ilya.

(or, lessons in budget-friendly shopping, home decor, and resisting the urge to neatly combine all your situationship’s shit into a drawer in your bedroom because you might be falling in love with him: a seven-ish step guide by shane hollander, who is so, so fucked)

8. ⨳The centaurs have a PR problem (and it's married) - 41k - Shane and Ilya are finally on the same team! The Centaurs’ communications and PR department hasn’t known peace since.

Featuring: email threads, the unhinged internet, chaotic group chats, Ilya being a menace, Shane being very tired, Harris trying (and failing) to contain the chaos, and Luca accidentally starring in his own little rom-com.

9.✸ Concussion Protocol - 49k - Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. Dazed and agitated, Ilya briefly starts speaking and responding only in Russian and the medics can’t calm him down. Luckily, Shane started studying Russian after Ilya spoke to him in Russian on the phone from Moscow. For no particular reason. Certainly not because he’s fallen in love with Ilya Rozanov.

In Montreal with lingering concussion symptoms, Ilya is advised not to fly home for a few days, and the hospital won’t release him without assurances that he has someone to stay with him until his symptoms improve. Luckily, Shane conveniently has a condo in Montreal no one knows about and a few days before he has to travel again.

But Ilya’s symptoms don’t resolve after a few days. Which is okay; Shane can handle it. He can take care of Ilya, study Russian, lead his team into the playoffs, and keep Ilya’s continued presence in Montreal a secret. He can do everything, no problem. He is Shane Hollander after all.

✸Full Contact (sequel of Concussion Protocol) - 50k -

Newly traded to the Ottawa Centaurs, Ilya Rozanov is so close to having everything he’d never thought he was allowed to want. He can see the man he loves more than four times a year, he’s surrounded by a team who supports him through his injury, and Shane’s parents have unhesitatingly accepted him as part of the family. Except his lingering concussion symptoms have kept him sidelined from hockey, his boyfriend is still two hours away, their schedules are a disaster, and Shane’s team is, well…it’s full of assholes. There must be a way to make this all work out. or A sequel to a whump fanfiction with more whump…that is also, secretly, a fix-it.

10. ✸My Hopes are prone to elevate - 106k - Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander are two consecutive number one draft picks for the Ottawa Centaurs. After a year playing in Russia, Ilya joins Shane to begin their rookie year, and they navigate the start of their careers together.

Answering the question: what if Ilya and Shane had been drafted to the same team?

Inspired by every rookie bestie dynamic duo in the NHL that made you think, "what if they kissed???"

11. ✸Back and forth from New York - 154k - After coming out to Rose, Shane decides he doesn't want to lie anymore, even if he isn't sure coming out will mean he gets happily ever after with Ilya. When coming out to the Voyageurs leaves him wondering what his future in Montreal might look like, he lets himself be a little selfish, he lets himself wonder if there might be somewhere else he might be happy. If Montreal wants to get rid of a generational player, he's not about to stop them, especially if it means he can get a little closer to joy.

--

Or: Shane Hollander leaves Montreal in search of something better.

12. ✸There you are, my morning star - 22k - In a move that shocks the hockey world, Shane Hollander ends up signing to the Centaurs at the same time as Ilya Rozanov. Not only do they have years of rivalry behind them, but they've also shared a night neither of them can forget.

  Or, a soulmate AU where their soulmarks grow stronger as their bond grows.

13.⨳✦ so it's gonna be forever - 47k - Ilya is plummeting to his death when he closes his eyes, heart full of regret.

When he opens them in what feels like just a second later, he is standing outside a rink in Regina, Saskatchewan. There’s a banner on the building across the street:

World Junior Hockey Championship 2008.

What?

14. ✸The heart is hard to translate - 20k -

Shane is twelve when he realizes he can understand Russian.

Or, in a world where you can understand whatever language(s) your soulmate speaks, it takes Shane and Ilya an embarrassing amount of time to realize they’re soulmates.

15. ✸baby, not baby - 27k - The knock at his door comes about five minutes after Shane gets home, three minutes after Shane pees on the stupid sticks, one minute after Shane looks at the fucking pink plus signs, and about thirty seconds after tears spring to his eyes.

Shane Hollander, professional hockey player and captain of the Montreal Metros, has a bun in the fucking oven.

Or Shane and Ilya's enemies-with-benefits arrangement has some unintended consequences.

16. ⨳The season ender - 51k - Shane let out a put-upon sigh and stepped into Dr. Terry's office, closing the door behind him. “So, I was really nauseous this morning. Threw up a little. And Ilya is making me come talk to you about it.”

Terry quirked an eyebrow at him. “Husband Ilya or Captain Rozanov?”

“Both.”

“Oof.” Terry gestured at him to take a seat. “You sure you’re not dying, bud?"

17. ✸but when the sun came up - 21k - Shane finds a new family in Ottawa. It just takes him a bit.

18. ✸Duty of care - 65k - If there’s ever been any doubt in his mind just how much Shane loves this man, it vanishes with the glossy blankness of Ilya’s expression. Blood from a stone indeed.

“My father was very fair,” Ilya says immediately, and it’s got the rigid, almost mechanical emphasis of something practiced a thousand times. “If I was bad, I pay price. No problem.”

“I think maybe we have a different definition of the word fair.”

“Yes,” Ilya admits. “Probably. Shane thinks so.”

19.⨳ Night Shift - 150k - Shane Hollander is just trying to survive—NYU biochemistry, hockey practice, and the graveyard shift at a Manhattan 7-Eleven. He's too tired to notice that his new regular customer is clearly Russian mafia, or that Ilya's interest in him goes beyond terrible coffee.

When Ilya gives him a $10k scarf and gloves, Shane sells them for rent money. Any normal person would be terrified. Ilya is fascinated.

20. ✸Dig two graves - 28k -

There’s no humor in Shane’s voice. It’s cold, hard, determined. “When we meet them on the ice next season, I want to fucking destroy them.” After a moment, he feels Ilya nod thoughtfully behind him. “Is good plan. Let’s fucking destroy them.”

The Montreal Voyageurs won't stop slinging mud at Shane in the press, so Shane and Ilya decide to get revenge the best way they know how.

21. ✸change your ticket - 25k - Under the guidance of his doctor and mostly out of desperation due to his last annual heat being severe enough to nearly land him in the hospital, Shane Hollander knows he needs to take a heat partner for the first time if he doesn’t want to end up in a cycle facility. With his options between hiring a comfort alpha or asking one Ilya Rozanov for help, the choice is clear to Shane. Even if it feels like he’s losing every shred of his dignity to ask his - rival? fuckbuddy? - whatever Rozanov is to help him through his heat, Rozanov is the only alpha he trusts enough to take care of him. Rozanov is due for his own rut and is more than happy to finally, finally have heat sex with Hollander. Which is why he says yes with no hesitation. No other reason, of course. Now they both just need to survive the week with their hearts intact, which is something far easier said than done.

22. ✸Slipfast - 44k - "You're supposed to smoke over there." Someone said from behind Ilya.

Ilya almost dropped his cigarette. His English was shitty, but he had studied that sentence enough times over the years to understand it immediately. He didn't even think about his words much anymore, but it was impossible to avoid them.

He turned instinctively, and was face to face with Shane fucking Hollander.

Out of almost seven billion people, of course Ilya's soulmate had to be his fated rival. It was almost poetic. Still, Ilya had enough sense to realize just how bad this was.

or, Shane says Ilya's soulmate words. Ilya vows to never speak a word to him to keep him from finding out. They fall in love anyway.

23. ✸The Game Plan - 64k - Shane Hollander is the number two overall NHL draft pick and a newly minted Montreal Voyageur. He’s also laser focused on his goals: being the best by beating the best. For him, this means a continued rivalry with number one draft pick—and new Ottawa Centaur—Ilya Rozanov. But when a problem with Rozanov’s immigration paperwork threatens his future in the NHL, what does that mean for Shane’s own career? He can’t risk finding out…so they get married. Just for immigration. A fast, practical, mutually beneficial solution.

No one will ever suspect, let alone find out, that the NHL’s greatest rivals are secretly married. And there’s certainly no risk of feelings getting involved. They have a game plan.

24. ✸Blossom of snow, bloom and grow - 31k -

“It’s not something we’ve discussed too much,” Shane admits reluctantly. “I mean, I think we talked about it once or twice, after being around Hayden’s kids. But…I was afraid…I don’t know if you want…” His sentence falters and he presses a hand to his stomach, inhaling slowly like he’s trying to soothe more nausea.

It takes Ilya’s brain a few moments to process, to catch up, to piece together this half-filled puzzle Shane’s laying out for him.

“We talked about having babies,” Ilya supplies, arching an eyebrow, “are you trying to say we are…having a baby?”

Shane sucks in another slow, controlled breath. “Um, yeah. That’s what I’m trying to say.”

“You are pregnant?”

Wincing, the shorter man nods. “Mhm.”

-or, vignettes of shane's unexpected pregnancy-

25. ✸Gatorade Galas & Moscow Mules - 34k - Shane is the one naked and dripping wet, and he still feels like Ilya is the one who exudes sex. Just standing there, brushing his teeth. When Shane turns off the water, Ilya hands him a towel and then turns around to rinse his mouth with the hotel mouth wash. He leaves the bathroom before Shane is done, and this is the moment where a tiny inkling Shane has ignored all day becomes a full blown suspicion.

Or:

Shane and Ilya are having trouble balancing their very private relationship and their very public lives.

26. ✸Four minutes - 33k - "Ilya had loved him through his worst moments. Ilya had helped him find a therapist when he’d collapsed on the floor of their hotel bathroom after losing a particularly brutal game, scratching at his chest. Ilya had held him, even when Shane yelled at him because there was panic crawling under his skin and he felt as though it might claw its way out. Ilya had told him it was okay; that it didn’t make him a bad player to resent the spotlight sometimes, that it didn’t make him a bad teammate to hate the team when they were too loud and too drunk and too physical, that it didn’t make him a bad person to need space to breathe. Ilya saved him.

And look what you give him in return. You’re a shitty husband, Shane Hollander.

You don’t deserve his last name."

27. ⨳Struggle for supremacy - 90k -

“Well, you are getting something from me. Two things actually: Life-changing sex skills and an opportunity to fuck me—” “—Oh, give me a break—” “—But,” Ilya says. “What am I getting out of this?” “The opportunity to f-fuck me,” Hollander snaps, and yeah, a pretty fair point.

ilya is failing a class, shane is failing at exploring his sexuality. despite their seven-year-long animosity on the ice, they turn to each other for guidance. a deal is struck.

28. ⨳Wolfbird - 82k - Shane Hollander is hockey’s closeted golden boy with everything to hide. Ilya Rozanov is a professional Dom with everything to lose and an expired visa.

Through their arrangement at a discreet Montreal kink bar, where NDAs protect secrets and sessions are charged per hour, they discover the most dangerous thing isn’t being caught—it’s wanting more than those hours allow.

29. ✸5 times Ilya thought Shane didn't understand him + 1 time Ilya knew Shane did - 21k - Ilya slips into Russian from time to time during their hookups. Shane doesn't seem to mind, so Ilya keeps it up and doesn't ask too many questions.

This is a story about hiding in plain sight.

Oh, and smut. Tons and tons of smut.

30. ✸Hold on (I still want you) - 20k -Shane and Ilya broke up. It was the adult, mature decision they made together and moved on from. Except Shane is still Ilya's emergency contact and Ilya's coach just called.

Ilya had a seizure. Well, seizures. Multiple. He is in the hospital, in the operation block and suddenly Shane is met with the possibility that last words Ilya Rozanov ever heard from him were "Maybe love isn't enough."

And then complications occur. And Ilya is not waking up.

***

They’d sat on a perfectly ordinary Wednesday afternoon in their perfectly ordinary kitchen, with coffee that had gone cold on the table between them, and calmly dismantled the life they’d built together. One sentence at a time.

“Maybe we need space.” “Maybe we’re just hurting each other.” “Maybe love isn’t enough.”

He wants to go back and shove that version of himself against the wall. Shake him until his teeth rattle.

Love is the only thing that matters when someone is under general anaesthesia and a stranger is touching their brain, Shane thinks wildly. Love is literally the only currency worth anything in a room like this.

31. ✸Home Ice Advantage - 51k - “You’re going to Boston.”

Long after Farah hangs up, the words keep echoing in Shane’s head. If he had thought his thoughts had been chaotic this morning, when his biggest problem had been his rival potentially fucking him when he came to Montreal in two weeks, that’s nothing compared to the code-red panic that started the instant he found out he was being traded to Rozanov’s team.

Rozanov, who was supposed to be his great career rival. Rozanov, who he’s hooked up with twice now. Rozanov, who had been planning on coming to Shane’s apartment in Montreal to fuck him the next time they saw each other. God, how on Earth is Shane going to walk into his locker room in Boston in a few days time?

The impending awkwardness of dealing with Rozanov is almost enough to eclipse the hurt he’s trying to ignore. The knowledge that Montreal values him so little that they’re willing to dispose of him only six months into his rookie season. Almost, but not quite.

-

Or, Shane gets traded to Boston AU.

32. ✸Confidence, Poor Judgement, and a Death Wish - 32k -

Troy Barrett comes to Ottawa wanting stability. He tells himself he wants the team, the routine, the structure, the safety of fitting in without needing too much from anyone. This is his clean start, and he needs to do whatever it takes to keep it.

What he finds instead is Shane Hollander, amazing perfect Shane Hollander, and the uncomfortable realisation that the thing he’s been trying hardest not to want might be the only thing that actually feels like what he needs.

As lines blur and tempers rise, Troy learns the hard way that wanting to belong can turn into wanting to keep, and that some things aren’t up for negotiation, especially when there’s a Russian captain who’s already decided what’s not on offer.

or

“Hey, Ilya?” Troy asks, already regretting it. “I was actually going to ask you about someone.”

The moment he says Shane Hollander’s name, the locker room goes quiet, and Troy knows he’s crossed a line he didn’t fully understand.

Or

Troy’s POV of the events best called ‘Ilya’s worst nightmare’

33. ✸The soviet montage - 79k -

"You have to come to the locker room. Now." Shane frowns. Holds up his notebook. "I'm busy." "Forget that, man. It's all over the news. Ilya Rozanov has just defected from the Soviet Union."

Red Army superstar Ilya Rozanov defects from the Soviet Union. A Cold War-era hockey au

34. ⨳Don't leave me high (don't leave me dry) - 140k

hollyadmirals24: Male seeking help improving at oral sex. Clean, ready to learn and willing to host. M only. Strictly platonic. Message for details.  

or: after a disastrous night with rose, shane puts a drunken ad on craigslist asking for help with oral sex. his teammate, ilya, replies.

35. ✸Personne Saint Comment On Fait Des Papas - 50k -

“Am I speaking with Ilya Grigorievich Rozanov?”

Ilya went silent immediately. That was not his brother’s voice. Nor was it Katia’s, his sister-in-law’s. It was an aristocratic, cold voice. He went completely still.

“Yes.”

“I’m calling from the Child Services Department, Ilya Grigorievich,” the woman continued, and Ilya frowned deeply. “Your brother Alexei Rozanov and his wife died yesterday in a car accident.”

Twice in his life, Ilya had felt like this. The ice around his heart melted just enough for the numbness to vanish and give way to a sharp, stinging pain. It lasted only two seconds before he managed to compose himself. He didn’t want to feel anything for Alexei, so even if Katia’s death carried a trace of sadness—she was a mess, but she always tried to smile at him and cook warm meals for him when he visited Russia—, he dismissed the feeling entirely.

“So what?”

“You are the only living family member of their daughter. Your brother named you as her legal guardian, Ilya Grigorievich.”

36. ✸Shane Hollander goes Casual - 21k -

Shane Hollander is tired of wanting someone he cannot have, and he’s dying as he waits for someone who will not stay. Someone who doesn’t want to stay, not when there are so many others waiting for him. Fun of another variety, Shane left a treat amongst many.

It’s humiliating. It’s distracting. And it feels like shit.

He wishes he could erase his feelings, move on as easily. In an effort to gain back control over the ‘situation’ that has become his romantic attraction to a notorious player, Shane attempts at imitating Ilya Rozanov’s methods until he perfects them and becomes as good as keeping it light and casual as his rival.

Or Shane tries to Hoe Phase himself into a self discovery journey to choke and kill his feelings for Ilya Rozanov. Ilya is not the only who suffers from it, but he sure feels like he’s being choked and killed.

37. ✸Heart on my sleeve (not where it should be) - 26k -

Hollander had made one attempt to give back his clothes a year or so ago but Ilya had brushed him off with an excuse he couldn't remember now. Hollander hadn't asked again. And Ilya liked seeing Hollander in his clothes- or well, he didn't usually see them on Hollander, but knowing that he had them was enough. Ilya didn't have an explanation why he liked it so much. He tended not to think about it too much.

- or: 5 times they wear something of each other secretly and one time they take it off

38. ✸Under Pressure - 27k - Shane Hollander is struggling to make ends meet. After his best friend Hayden sets up a dating profile for him on a sugar baby website, he learns that there are some men who will pay for anything - even companionship.

39. ⨳Bare - 123k -

“Fuck.” Shane melted into the strong hand at his neck, the pressure over his throat and the heat of the Alpha’s palm. “Fuck, that’s–” his eyes started to flutter closed, his knees going weak, but he heard the Alpha huff a laugh and immediately stiffened again.  “Don’t do that.” he warned. “Don’t laugh like me letting you put your hand on my throat is predictable submissive Omega behavior and you're making fun of me." “That is not why i was laughing.” Ilya squeezed Shane’s throat lightly, his thumb pressing over the suppressant patch covering the Omega's bonding spot and blocking his sweet scent. “I thought you would fight it, fight submitting. But you didn’t.” “No I–” Shane swallowed hard. “I like it.”  “Good.” Ilya smiled slow and a little dangerous, running his tongue over his bottom lip and then over the sharp ends of his fangs before he leaned in and growled into the Omega’s ear. “Now get on your knees.”

40. ⨳Moment - 34k - All Shane had wanted to do was watch his fiancé play hockey. But when Ilya takes a hit their secrets start crashing down around them.

Yuna loves her son, she thought she knew everything about him.

Last Updated: 1/27/26

Note: This masterlist is only for mid length(-ish) fanfiction (10k-19k word fanfiction only). This list will be updated regularly with the last updated date noted above. All of these fics are complete.

✦ - 10/10 fanfic, please read

The Waiting Game - 16k - “Lily,” Hayden says automatically. “You know about Lily?”

Something flickers across Rozanov’s face. His jaw twitches. “Yes, I know about Lily.” He raises his eyebrows.

Hayden feels like a complete asshole, all of a sudden. There’s just been too much going on to even think about Shane’s mystery girlfriend. “Shit, I should probably, like, call her, or something? I don’t know this girl at all, but Shane’s been obsessed with her for years. If she was watching the game, she would have seen him get hurt.”

“You don’t need to call her,” Rozanov says, and when Hayden glances at him, he still looks fucking miserable but now he’s rolling his eyes, a much more familiar expression of disdain on his face. “She’s sitting right here.” -- Hayden Pike and Ilya Rozanov are waiting for Shane to wake up after he took a bad hit on the ice. They get to talking.

2. Blood on the ice - 11k -

Lily: i am alive Lily: hurt Lily: but they gave me drugs it’s nice Lily: i want you Lily: my hands miss yours or; ilya gets injured on the ice. shane can't handle it.

3. The Shane Hollander Thing - 11k - Cliff Marlow has been on Boston’s team with Ilya Rozanov for the last seven years. Last week, he figured out the Shane Hollander thing.

4. clear to a hedgehog - 12k - Every Boston Raider knows that although their captain has a girl in every port, he’s got a soft spot for the one in Montreal. Dr. Shane Hollander knows it’s better to have a semi-regular source of casual sex than try to make a relationship work during residency. Ilya Rozanov knows that the doctor he’s fucking in Montreal is unaware that he plays hockey, and in fact probably thinks he’s Bratva.

5. decorate my heart - 15k -

“So,” Ilya says, dragging the word out. He’s swiping at non-existent crumbs on the counter, avoiding his eyes. “You have dinner at parents on Christmas, yes?”  “Yeah.”  Ilya nods. “I can house-sit while you are away. Make place pretty, if you have decorations. Make it less boring.”  Shane’s eyebrows fly up. “What? You don’t want to come with?”  Finally, Ilya looks up at him. Hesitantly, he asks, “You want me to come with?”  Frowning, Shane says, “I– yeah. Yeah, of course. You think I invited you here just so you could spend Christmas alone?”  Looking away, Ilya shrugs. “I am intruder here, Hollander. You have family. I do not. Makes situation… difficult, maybe. You forget the world thinks we are rivals.”  “Not difficult,” Shane says immediately. “You want to come, you’re coming.” 

Or: Ilya's in Montreal alone during the week leading up to the Winter Classic. Shane doesn't let him spend Christmas alone.

6. Learning to fly - 11k - Yuna has let go of a lot in her life, including her own dream to play professional hockey. But that's alright; she has Shane and David and they have built a storybook legacy together. Then Ilya Rozanov gets hurt and suddenly Shane's calling her asking if they'll go pick up his archrival from the hospital.

7. Soulmates (or Shane and Ilya winning the Love Game) - 10k -

He knew it stung Ilya, people not understanding. It stung him too. Because to Shane, loving Ilya was like breathing and also like standing on solid ground after years of drifting. It flooded him and steadied him at the same time. It hurt, knowing the world reduced them to a rivalry, a strange story, a piece of scandalous gossip when what they had was so much more. He wanted to be by Ilya’s side for everything, the mundane, the bright and the hard. And maybe not everyone who was in love felt like this, so overwhelmed and so steadied all at once. But Shane did. And if love was a contest, well… he is the winner. Best couple. Number one. Most epic love story ever.

Or 4 times Shane told people him and Ilya were practically soulmates and the 1 time the universe told him.

8. Bell Ringer - 15k - “Shane?” Ilya asks again. “What happened?” His gloveless hand twitches and he lifts it a fraction of an inch towards Shane.

Shane tosses his own gloves to the ice and reaches forward, lacing their fingers together. “You took a bad hit,” he says, gritting his teeth against the fear clawing at his guts. “Flipped headfirst into the ice. Are you okay?”

Ilya groans in answer and squeezes his hand, though Shane can't tell if he meant to do that or not.

Suddenly, there are people all around them. Shane shifts protectively close before he realizes it’s the medical team.

“Hollander, get back to your bench,” someone says, but there’s no way Shane’s going. Even if he wanted to, Ilya’s gripping his hand like a lifeline, eyes finally locked on Shane’s face. Shane isn’t leaving him.

9.✦ Until you breathe again - 15k - Shane Hollander has a heart attack and "dies" on the ice after the hit from Marlow in the Montreal vs Boston Game.

Ilya handles his emotions poorly and has a very public meltdown.

10. If you were gone, I would know - 12k -

Once outside, he leaned forward and put his hand against the cold stone wall. His phone was still to his ear, the message still recording. 

“Ilya. Please. Please. I can’t do this. I don’t know what to do. Please. You can’t be dead.” His voice broke on the word. “I love you. I love you so much. More than anything. I need to hear your voice. I need you to…I need you…I need you…fuck. Please Ilya, please.” 

Shane took the phone away from his ear and held it between both hands as though he were praying. He realized he was on the floor and didn’t know how he got there. He was crying. He was fairly certain he was hyperventilating. 

His brain was desperately trying to grab at anything. Any thread of logic. Any idea of what to do next. 

I have to see him. 

Yes. That made sense. Shane needed to get to Tampa. Now. He would go there. He would find Ilya. Ilya would be fine. They would be together. He would see him. Tell him how much he loved him. He had to go. He had to go now. 

***

OR: What if Ilya lost his phone during the emergency landing, Shane couldn't reach him, he panicked, and chartered a plane to Tampa to find him instead...

11. What they'll see they can't understand - 11k -

It… it was a joke, right? A weird prank? Hollander and Rozanov… It didn’t make any sense. They hated each other! They had nothing in common! It couldn’t be real. And even if it was, it couldn’t be love, right?

Or: five times the world got a glimpse of how much Shane and Ilya love each other and one time they kept it to themselves

12. Lingua Russia - 16k -

“That’s wild, man. That is just weird.” Yannic paused. “You really think someone speaks Russian but is hiding it from you and just using it to do nice things for you?”

“Well, that is the question. Why would anyone do that? Why not just say they speak Russian?” Rodion had been wondering this all morning.

… … … …

A side story wherein Shane accidentally reveals that he speaks Russian while still playing for Montreal, which results in a cat and mouse game with a minor leaguer.

OC Rodion Tsetsov - Laval Arrows minor league center called up to replace a player.

13. маскировка - 12k - He’s already in the room, shutting the door behind himself as quietly as he can before he realises that not only is there someone other than Shane in the room, but there are three someones other than Shane.

And, as if he hasn’t already fucked up spectacularly, the someones happen to be the Hollanders and Hayden fucking Pike.

// or; Ilya visits Shane in the hospital and meets his parents. He's traumatized and grieving, everything hurts, and Shane takes after his mother.

14. It's so hard to believe (but it's all coming back to me now) - 12k -

“My apartment,” he says, keeping his tone deliberately even. Casual. “I mean… it’s close by, right? You could stay there instead of dealing with the hotel nonsense.”

The words hang in the air between them, fragile and irrevocable. Rozanov goes very still.

Shane feels a flash of panic—wonders if he’s misjudged, if he’s pushed too hard and too fast. He rushes to fill the silence, almost tripping over the words, trying to frame it the way he rehearsed in his head.

“It’s more practical, right?” He adds. “Less media. No teammates. You’d have your own space. And it’s only until flights start up again. You can leave first thing when they resume.”

--- After Rose, after Florida, but having barely reconciled since, Shane and Ilya are stuck in Montreal during a snow storm. Shane offers for Ilya to stay in his apartment, and offers up the rest of his heart with it. Or, an alternate take on what happens after Episode 4.

15. Ottowa Centaurs - The Mocumentary - 16k -

'This is what happens when the social media manager for the Ottawa Centaurs just finished rewatching the entirety of The Office for the 3rd time'  

“What a fucking nerd,” Ilya laughed, his eyes following Shane across the ice. The camera swung between them before eventually landing back on Ilya.

“I want to eat him,”

Luca blinked at him, horror slowly etching onto his face.

“Like...sexually or...literally?

Behind the camera, Harris cleared his throat to remind them of his presence. Ilya’s eyes never left Shane, who was still berating Troy by citing some charts from his clipboard.

“Yes,” 

Haas looked into the camera in utter fear.

16. Rose garden filled with thorns - 14k - “I’m sorry, but my answer is no. Someone else might be willing to switch if you ask.”

“I can’t believe—this is unacceptable! I’m going to call the flight attendant over and get this sorted out right now!”

Flustered and cornered, Shane injects his Captain Voice into the conversation. “Ma’am, I understand that you’re upset, but I paid for this seat and am going to stay here. You’ll have to find someone else willing to change places or just fly with the seat you booked. I’m sorry I couldn’t help you.”

She hisses like a goddamn tea kettle, and starts to say, “You are the most selfish man I’ve ever—” when another voice behind her says, “You are blocking my seat. Move.”

Shane and the woman turn to assess the new arrival. It turns out that his seat partner is well above six feet tall, ripped as hell, and knows how to deliver an excellent bitch face. He’s also the hottest man that Shane has ever seen in real life, including a chance run-in with Jensen Ackles at a Stars game.

Or, still!famous Shane meets non!famous Ilya on a cursed flight from Ottawa to Boston and kind of (totally) falls in love with him at first sight (and first chirp)

17. How will I know (if he really loves me) - 13k -

Ilya Rozanov is a natural caretaker. Shane Hollander is a natural clutz who keeps getting into situations where he needs taking care of.

Or: 5 times Ilya took care of Shane, and 1 time the favour was returned.

18. the cockroach of your heart - 13k - Ilya died, yes, but then the doctors saved him. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ambulance, three electric shocks, two emergency surgeries, twenty-six units of blood. Ilya died, but then he came back.

If only Shane could get his subconscious to understand that.

19. Ilya Rozanov, Fanmail's Worst Nightmare - 14k -

Troy convinces Ilya to launch a Fanmail account..... chaos ensues.

Or 5 times Ilya Rozanov goes viral for a ridiculous Fanmail, and 1 time he goes viral for being the absolute soft hearted sap that he is

20. ✦By Halves - 16k -

She’d never say anything, of course, because she could be wrong. In fact, most days Yuna was certain she was wrong. Shane had only ever dated girls, and had never shown any outright signs of liking… anything else. But that didn’t stop her from wondering, occasionally, whether her son was entirely straight. But the last hour or so had certainly put paid to that suspicion. Because Shane was receiving a frankly alarming number of texts from someone named ‘Lily’.

Note: This masterlist is only for long(-ish) fanfiction (20k+ word fanfiction only). Updated regularly with the latest updated date noted above.

✸ - complete

⨳ - ongoing

✦ - 10/10 fanfic, please read

⨳Cause it's on again, off again (love you like oxygen) - 56k -

“Y-Yeah, totally,” Shane replied. “D-Do you uh– do you know who that kid with Rozanov is?”

Scott laughed a little, tilting his head in confusion.

“Probably Rozanov’s kid,” he informed Shane, causing his brain to stall completely.

“You didn’t hear?” Scott asked, and Shane blinked, trying to reboot his mind from the crash that Scott had just caused. “It’s why he took time off,” Hunter informed him. “Found out he had a kid, I guess. Or something like that, I didn’t really get the details.”

Of all the reasons he’d thought of for Ilya disappearing for the past month, this had never crossed his mind. A million different thoughts raced through Shane’s mind. How the hell was Ilya a dad, and why hadn’t he told Shane and how the fuck did Scott Hunter of all people find out before him and—

And what the fuck was Shane supposed to do now?

2. ✸Across the spectrum - 34k - Hayden's young son is diagnosed as autistic, and he begins to realize that he's seen a lot of these symptoms before...in his best friend. Now Shane's having to come to terms with being one of those people who slipped through the cracks as a child and is diagnosed as an adult. How can Ilya and the rest of their friends support him through this?

3. When silence starts speaking - 40k - Plagued with the issues of his family past and present, Ilya Rozanov finds himself in the media's eyes for all the wrong reasons recently with no end in sight. When the team decides enough is enough with the drinking and whoring, Ilya is suddenly faced with a new issue to tackle—team omega Shane Hollander. Shane is up for the task of getting the Russian alpha under control for the season, but are they both up for the unexpected heated connection between them that follows?

4. a case of you - 43k - Ilya and Shane soulbond with a handshake in a freezing parking lot in Saskatchewan. It actually doesn’t change very much, until Shane’s concussion drives everything haywire, forcing them into close proximity and an earlier confrontation with all the feelings they’ve been trying to ignore.

Or: as it turns out, it’s easier than you’d think to be in someone’s head and still not know how they feel.

5. ⨳ line change - 21k -

"You're an awesome player to watch."

"I watch you too…I like watching you."

One line changes everything. --- OR: Instead of turning him down, Ilya and Shane become fast friends at the Prospects Cup. Their relationship (and how they hide the truth) completely changes when the media poses them as best friends instead of rivals.

6. love you like a loophole - 23k -

“Pretend we don't know each other?” Shane repeats, a little confused in all honesty. Wasn't therapy about talking?

“Yes. You are meeting for the first time in this room. Introduce yourselves.”

Shane shifts in his seat, slowly turning to Ilya. It's not all that different from the first time they'd actually met; the awkward vibes radiating off Shane are almost identical. They're just missing a snowy forecast and a cigarette.

He decides to go a step further, standing up. It feels the right thing to do under the circumstances. Who meets for the first time sitting down? He takes a step forward, holding his hand out to Ilya. Or not Ilya. This random man he’s about to meet, who happens to look a lot like Ilya. Ilya takes the cue, standing from his own chair with a shake of his head. He takes Shane’s hand, shaking firmly.

“I’m Shane, uh, Shane Hollander.”

Ilya nods. “Ilya Rozanov.”

—————— Or: Shane and Ilya get sent to reconciliation therapy, and of course, handle it super well.

7. ⨳You can lie (not to me) - 39k -

Every time your soulmate lies, their words are written on you.

Shane doesn’t lie often. His soulmate does though.

8. candle in the window (won't you stay till the am?) - 184k -

Shane Hollander meets Ilya Rozanov when he is four years old and he cannot be any more unimpressed by this turn of events.

Thirteen years later, like the most cliché heartbreak in the making, they are best friends and Shane is thoroughly, utterly in love with him.

*

Ilya Rozanov's life has been a study in leaving things behind and one way or another he learned to deal with it.

One exception is Shane Hollander who came along thirteen years ago, settled in all too cozy, and ensured himself as the one thing Ilya can't ever leave.

9. ✸✦Ice Baby -38k -

Shane is the only omega on his hockey team and one of the few to play for the NHL.

He will do anything to remain at the top and protect his reputation from harmful rumors.

But when he finds out that he is pregnant, Shane’s world crumbles around him, and the only person he can trust with his secret is the alpha, who shares his heat but does not want to be his mate.

10. fever dreaming - 21k -

The last time Shane had a fever would have been years ago. It still didn’t feel like this, where he was soaking through the sheets, and the world seemed to be going black around the edges. Everything seemed wrong. Too hot, too tight. The flu, but incongruently dissimilar. Something is odd. Shane shifts, and then— Something distinctly wet between his legs.

What the fuck is an omegaverse, anyway?

11. ⨳Day to Day - 51k -

The past summer should have left Shane Hollander at his strongest. Married and heading into his second season with the Centaurs. But as training camp approaches, strange symptoms begin to follow him everywhere: nausea that comes and goes, crushing hunger, a tightening in his chest, an ache low in his back, and a quiet, growing sense that something in his body has slipped out of his control.

Shane knows his body. He has always known it.

And once the truth comes crashing in, he won’t be able to hide from anything anymore. Not from his teammates. Not from the season.

Not from the family he didn’t know he was already carrying.

Not even from Ilya.

12. Melting a winter king - 29k - Prince Shane Hollander arrives in the frozen kingdom of Rozanova as a political sacrifice, a foreign prince married off to a man raised to hate everything he represents. King Ilya Rozanov is all broad shoulders and dangerous confidence, yet beneath the armour is a heat that catches Shane off guard. Their wedding binds two nations in suspicion, but the nights behind closed doors begin to spark with something neither can ignore.

Shane fights to survive a hostile court, the relentless cold, and the weight of living among enemies. Ilya is brutal in public, but unexpectedly gentle in private, slowly becoming the one person Shane wants to trust. Fear and pride pull them apart at the worst possible moment, and when danger finally strikes from the shadows, every buried feeling breaks open.

Duty shifts into desire, then into something fierce and consuming. With tensions rising and loyalties tested, Shane and Ilya must decide if they can stand together as more than symbols of peace. This is a marriage that turns into longing, tenderness, and a slow burn that finally turns into fire, all within a kingdom that would rather see them fall than hold each other.

13. love is kind, love's not fair - 23k - Ilya sat straight up after falling, and he looked to his immediate left, seeing the motionless body sprawled out on the ice. It didn’t register to him right away, though it should have. Then, he noticed the blood, a small pool starting to form under Shane’s head. No. no no no nonononono. He glanced down at his skates, noticing a small trace of blood on the tip of his right blade. He felt like he was going to puke.

14. Summer camp - 30k - “This is Ilya. Ilya Rez-Ruz…” “Rozanov”, The boy said. Shane was surprised by the strange accent and deep voice of a boy his age. “Yes. Ilya Rozanov. He is your age, and he comes all the way from Russia. He doesn’t really know a lot of English, so Cooper and I have thought that it would be very helpful for both of you to be together. You can help him with the language, and, believe me, he can teach you a lot from hockey. He’s European; they do things differently there. Yes?”

or; Shane and Ilya go to the same hockey summer camp every year. How much can their relationship change during those 5 years?

15. ⨳late bloomer, bloody valentine - 33k -

Shane Hollander is a beta. And he couldn’t be more happy with his designation. It keeps things simple. No stupid alpha territorial bullshit or omega pheromones to disrupt his routine. He has more room to focus on hockey, rather than worry about silly inconvenient things like ruts or heat cycles. While his teammates have to take medical leave a few times a season and wear things like scent blockers or take suppressants, he just gets to play the sport he loves and call it a day.

Yes, being a beta kept life simple. And he spent 24 years of his life as a simple, hockey loving beta. Until he suddenly wasn’t. And of course, because fate loved to fuck with him, he finds out in the middle of a game against fucking Boston.

Or, a beta Shane Hollander accidentally presents as an Omega and goes into heat during a game, sending everyone in a frenzy. Thankfully, Ilya is right there with him.

16. That's all it takes - 49k - Based very loosely on events from The Long Game that my brain wanted to put into the first book, somewhere between Shane’s injury, and before Scott Hunter wins the cup - for maximum angst, obviously.

What if Ilya’s plane had actually crashed? And what if it had happened before he and Shane had the chance to confess their love and know what it was like to be together.

Or

A fic so I could write a really needy Shane who can't hide his feelings anymore, and an Ilya who is faced with the undeniable truth that someone cares for him.

17. Just to feel you breathe from underneath me - 20k -

It’s funny, if he doesn’t think about what it entails, that only three months after seeing Ilya play with those kids in the pool, Shane finds out he’s pregnant with Ilya’s baby.

18. magnolia & heartache - 23k -

“When did you start feeling like this? Did it come out of nowhere or you think something happened?” she asks. “It started in Detroit in December, last year. I do not remember it from games in Vancouver and Edmonton before that.” “Do anything out of the ordinary then?” “No, I do not—” he comes to a complete stop, and Ash walks ahead of him for a few steps before turning. “What? What is it?” The picture swirls in front of him like vibrant water colours splashing on a canvas. Cliff beckons him over to where he and Victor are perched on their bikes, and Victor holds his phone out to him. The headline is clear: Is Rose Landry dating MLH star Shane Hollander? A pit forms in Ilya’s stomach, cramping uncomfortably as if carved with a rusted knife, and distantly he recalls feeling the same way back in December. There is no fucking way that’s been the problem.

or, hot off the press from my tl after episode 4: ‘ilya is the first alpha to go through rejection sickness’

19. ⨳Just guys being dudes - 21k -

Ilya and Shane get outed via instagram live… as friends. The world reacts as their friendship becomes the most talked about thing in the hockey world.

Being openly friends affords them more freedoms to be together, but all the more easy to lose it all.

AKA

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78308911/chapters/205271536