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Over the course of the three days, there are plenty of opportunities to tell Shane about Moscow.
There’s dinner the first night. They’re having pasta and salmon and Ilya’s whining about the amount of chicken and beef they’ll have to eat now that bulking season is approaching. Shane says well, they’re high protein foods. Like Ilya isn’t also a professional athlete who’s been doing this for just as long as he has. That’s not what he shoots back, though. He says, lamb is a great source of protein but we never have lamb. Okay, good lamb’s hard to find. You know what has lamb? Pelmeni! We should get Russian take out sometime soon, Shane says. I’ve always wanted to try. And always means nothing in this sentence, because always is only as long as they’ve known each other for.
Forget about take out, Ilya could say then. The best pelmeni can only be found in the motherland. Russia, Moscow! I am going there in ten days for a box of my dead-dad’s things and maybe, my dead-mother’s suicide note. But of course, he doesn’t.
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06 Apr 2026
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“Sometimes, I wish he was a worse person,” Ilya admits one night, while he and Yuna are doing the dishes. Shane and Ilya had come over for chicken parmesan, and it had been a lovely dinner, right up until David, clearing the plates, mentioned that he had met a guy at the store the other day who was a big fan of Shane’s, had a kid who idolized him.
David asked if Shane could sign a piece of merchandise for him, maybe record a video. Shane said yes, because he had a rule, about doing things for child fans. Now, Shane was off shooting a video while Ilya did the dishes, and Ilya already knew the way it would require Shane to drag his public face up from the depths of his stomach, the work it would take him to shed it afterwards, the way it would taint this evening.
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- Part 15 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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03 Apr 2026
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Shane had mostly dreamt of hockey as a child. It was so like him, his father had said, to practice in his sleep. Then for all of his twenties he’d dreamt of Ilya, always Ilya, in different places but somehow the same every time, like he was haunting him. Lately, he’d dreamt of a lot of things. The Voyageurs, their voices muffled and echoing around dark corners in his head. Arenas he’d played in years ago, from Sochi to Vancouver. His old apartment in Montreal, with its great open windows like a fortressing surveying a dark, glittering city. And still Ilya. He always dreamt of Ilya.
“This is gonna sound stupid,” Shane laughed lightly, “but I think I feel so happy that I’m sad again.”
Ilya smiled. “I know this feeling. Like you have so much love, and no where for it to go. So you do not know what to do."
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- Part 1 of Calgary
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02 Apr 2026
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pin me with your black sphere eyes (I was only for to die beside) by undomielles
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Mar 2026
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“Look at me,” said Ilya shakily, breath short over Shane’s mouth. “Baby. It’s- it’s okay–”
“Ilya,” Shane exhaled. His eyes were black in the low light and glassy, wet and red and staring at Ilya, and Jesus fucking Christ, this was more than Ilya could take, this was everything, this was an ocean and Ilya was drowning in it.
They've spent a lot of time learning how to love each other. Just because they're married now doesn't mean they get to stop.
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- Part 2 of Calgary
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02 Apr 2026
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“You know, there are a lot of kids that look up to you—“
It’s the refrain of Shane’s life. Everything circles back to this: a lot of kids looking up to you. That’s why you need to spend your summers doing ad campaigns. That’s why you need to let a social media manager handle your every interaction online. That’s why we need to sit here after family dinner with flash cards rehearsing the different ways you’ll answer reporters’ questions after you face Boston next week, and, oh, when we’re done, let’s do some French vocabulary flashcards, too, because it’s important to the Francophone fans that you’re thinking about them. There are lots of Asian Francophones in Quebec, Shane. Almost 13% of primary schoolers are of Asian descent, compared to less than 4% of hockey players. Isn’t that pathetic?
As if Shane doesn’t know that it’s pathetic. As if Shane doesn’t know what he fought through to get here.
Abruptly, Shane is furious.
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- Part 19 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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