Yulecogs

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They tried Shane’s way once together and Ilya fell asleep in the passenger’s seat still holding his macchiato (Shane had the car professionally cleaned during the game for fear that the seat would be permanently ruined if it waited until the next day). They tried Ilya’s way once and Shane had to pee all through warmups and nearly had a panic attack during the first period. It was deemed a necessity for their job security that they continue to drive separately and offset by 10 minutes so they don’t see each other on the road. (Ilya takes Anya out one more time after Shane leaves and then speeds the whole way there, so they only arrive five minutes apart.) When they are on the road, Shane gets the hotel room after their nap and Ilya hangs with Troy. (Troy doesn’t actually have a routine, he just goes with Ilya’s because it drowns out his other thoughts (that’s why Ilya goes with Ilya’s too))

Baby Irina: Uncle Scott :) *Ilya loses it*

But then after the first game of the Ottawa Centaurs, Ilya says something outrageous about the captain of the opponent team, and Shane snorts off screen. The camera moves to his face and it catches the barest of Shane’s smile before he schools his expression. That night, hockey twitter explodes because not only Shane (and Yuna) aren’t “controlling” Ilya, Shane even laughs at Ilya’s comment on camera. The PR trained Golden Boy of Hockey broke his composure because his husband chirped at another player on screen. The power of love or whatever they say.

everybody say thank you, fanfiction

There’s a good thirty seconds of shocked silence and then so much laughter Shane goes completely soft and they just giggle and roll around together like kids

Ilya absolutely adores looking at these photos and cannot get over how cute Shane was. His favourite photo of baby Shane was from Shane’s first Halloween where he was dressed up as a little cat. The first time Ilya saw it he was like “omg Shanya you were actually an angry kitten!! This is the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen. Look at your little pout!”. And ever since he’s been trying to get Shane to dress up as a cat again for Halloween to recreate the photo.

i also think david makes a joke exactly once about ilya trying to steal yuna and yuna shut it down so fast and harshly that ilya a genuinely worried he had caused a rift in their marriage. (it’s because yuna knows. she knows and she loves her son and she cries on david about it later).

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

They have wild kinky sex about it too. Obviously.

This is how Yuna finds out that Ilya grew up drinking sunny d as a rare American treat in Russia and how Ilya starts screening all brand requests.

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈