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Anyway Harris finds Ilya in the gym doing pull-ups or something and Shane is in the background on a treadmill. Harris goes to Ilya "So your most popular question is, Can Ilya Rozanov fight?"

Ilya drops down to the floor and crosses his arms (slightly swollen and sweaty from the pull ups) and mostly fake scowls at the camera, "I see this question all the time because people are very tempted by my very hot husband." He wags a finger at the camera, "But he is mine you cannot take him. I can fight very well." He smirks at the camera now.

Then Shane pops up behind him, having stopped his run, "I can also fight." And Harris is like, "oh no one asked you that Shane."

And Shane shrugs, "No I know, but if they're asking Ilya because they're going to fight him to like, steal me or whatever, they should know I would also fight to stay."

And he also smirks at the camera and Ilya looks at him with such a gooey lovestruck look that it immediately becomes a meme.

In the books, Shane actually knew hayden before he got married, and shane was at the club the night hayden met jackie. In the show, hayden gets portrayed as older and already married, so wouldn't work in show universe, but anyway--

the concept is shane and jackie are cousins. Jackie was out that night at the club because shane invited her, and he inadvertently set her up with his best friend (huge win-win for him). They're the same age, grew up together, have always been good friends, and hang out a lot.

Ilya has no idea jackie and shane are related. Yeah, the pikes are around during holidays, yeah, they seem to know yuna and david pretty well, but also shane's an only child and hayden is his best friend, it's not that odd. And yeah, shane is kind of weirdly close with his best friend's wife, but he's gay and hayden seems cool with it, so what does it matter?

Then randomly, one day after the long game shane is talking about going up to montreal because jackie is hosting 'cousin brunch' because her brother is in town and some younger cousin just started at McGill and Ilya is like "my love, i know jackie is our friend but why on earth would we would drink mimosas on a sunday with her cousins?"

Maligne Canyon, Jasper, Alberta, Canada

"Your Blood in my Veins" Banner Art

"Unrivaled Temptation", Ilya Rozanov [Connor Storrie] & (vampire) Shane Hollander [Hudson Williams]

Screencap from Heated Rivalry Season 1, photoshop skills done by me (including adding fangs, lightening the scene, overlining and watercolourising)

Image created Feb 2026, Banner created Jun 2026

Fic Summary

In that moment, it felt so good to punish his body for not having been enough to come first. Sure, he would get to play in Montreal, close enough to his parents to drive for visits, but still. He had lost.

Not his team, but him. He had failed.

An unholy squeaking rang out in the small gym — the door.

Fuck.

Ilya motherfucking Rozanov was on the bike next to him.

When Ilya Rozanov discovers Shane Hollander's secret after the draft, it drags them close — and brings the stakes of the dangerous game they're playing ever higher. A vampiric retelling of the beginning of Heated Rivalry.

via Cal Potter instagram!

Cincinnati 2026 | JACK DRAPER & MATTEO BERRETTINI Post practice session

Matteo (posing): “Like this?”

Jack: “No no no don’t do that. Just good toes there. There you go.”

Matteo: “A nice picture you took Jack. Thank you very much. I’ll keep it.”

Jack (proudly explaining his design in shooting): “I got that (cincy open logo) in the background.”

Jack: “You look like you’re on holiday somewhere.”

No nuance. If you don’t have a mother/are no contact etc this is not a poll for you.