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Shane found himself laying next to his husband. Yes he was finally married to the man he has been in love with for his entire NHL carrier even if he hadn't been ready to admit it for quite some time.
"So, tomorrow is going to be a first." Shane looked over to Ilya with a big grin on his face.
Ilya looked a little deep in thought. "Yes. First game, your new team."
"Im thinking the first game where the first NHL married couple are playing together."
"I guess thats is pretty exciting."
"Why am I more excited about this then you are?" Shane started to scrunched his eyebrows. "Ilya... what's wrong. Talk to me."
"Is fine." Ilya looks at Shane and smiles. "Just trying to get my head in the game."
"Are you sure. You know you can talk to me."
"Yes. I'm sure." He leans over and gives him a deep kiss.
***
First game of the season and the Centaurs beat the Gaurdians 4-3. It was a close game but they made it through. Shane scored twice and so did Troy.
"Babe where were you tonight." Shane held Ilya's hand on the drive back to their house.
"Sorry was just thinking about lot."
"About what?" Shane looked concerned but didnt want to push to hard.
"Is nothing." Ilya's face seemed a little cold as there were pulling up infront of the house.
"Are you sure? I want to help if I can."
There was now a tear rolling down Ilya's cheek. "Im afraid we rushed things."
Shane froze for a moment. What is he saying right now? "What do you mean? What's going on?"
"Our wedding." Another tear rolled down his cheek.
The whole world stopped in Shane's eyes. Does Ilya regretting it? Is their entire marriage about to fall apart just a few months after? Everything both have them have worked so hard towards. Is it all about to come crumbling down? Has all these disasters of being outed, his old team completely ripping him apart after the discover, Crowell threatening them, has it all been just to have it all fall apart shortly after.
Shane finally found his words. Now tears in his eyes, "Do you regret..." he cant even finish the sentence. Everything starts to spin. He doesn't know what's going on.
Ilya looks over at him and sees him starting to lean over onto the dashboard taking deep breaths but very uncontrolled. "No, no, no" he is also trying to find his words but it seems Shane isn't hearing anything right now. Ilya places a hand on his back and starts rubbing. "Breathe Shane. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. Just breathe." He continued to rub his back. "I'm sorry. My English. Im struggling." Shane's breathing was getting a little more controlled. "Just breathe. I'm here."
Shane started to lift his head again but everything was still spinning. "Whats happening right now."
Ilya takes a deep breathe. "I try to explain." Ikya takes another deep breathe. "First, no regret. Marring you was best decision of my life."
Shane let out a heavy sigh of release he didnt know he was holding in. "OK. You had me so scared."
"I know. I'm sorry. I'm really struggling with English today."
"Just take your time. I wanna help any way I can."
"OK. We'll second, we didn't plan much." Ilya took another slow breathe. "It doesn't feel real."
Shane looked a little confused. "What does you mean? We had so many people there." He tapped the ring on Ilya's finger. "You even have the ring to prove it."
"Yes." Ilya paused again. "But..." Ilya took another deep breathe. "There was no effort."
Shane was even more confused now. "I dont know what your trying to say."
"Like we plan wedding date, then nothing." Ilya rest his head on the steering wheel. "Like not even chairs."
It started to dawn on Shane. "OH my god, your right. We were so concentrated on just being us, we just kinda threw it together."
"Yeah." Another tear rolled down his cheek. "Is like it's know we are married. But I look back and I feel we rushed and I wish we had so much more."
Shane leaned over and kissed Ilyas forehead. "Well if we had more time, what would you want?"
Ilya gave a little smile. "Maybe chairs at least." They both laughed. "And also maybe actually pick a song."
"I thought you liked that song."
"I think we could have done better if we stopped to think."
"How about this." Shane was just trying to think on the spot of good ideas. "Our next few days off, let's go up to the cabin. We can invite whoever, then we will plan something more meaningful." Ilya gave a real big smile at that as he rubbed the rest of the wetness from his eyes. "We can have a song. And why not, we can write our own vows. Anything that will make you, the love of my life, happy."
"I love you so much, yes let's do it." Ilya gives Shane a deep kiss. "Now let's go inside finally."
***
"So what would be a good song?" Shane looked over at Ilya as they relax on the couch. It had been a week since the first conversation about it but they haven't made much progress yet.
"Well, not diamonds." Ilya smirked.
"I'm trying to be serious for you here."
"Fine, how about "bossy bottom" by Johnny McGovern?"
Shane hit him with a couch pillow. "Fuck you, asshole."
"Lover by Taylor Swift?"
"You know I hate that word." Shane started hoogling love songs because he didnt listen to a lot of songs.
He started playing "At last."
Ilya was quick to a "no, everyone does that."
Shane started to play "Hawaiian wedding song" by Elvis Presley.
"No, no dead artist."
Shane scrunched his eyebrows again. "OK I'll keep looking."
He starts playing a song called "day and Night" by Billie Piper.
Ilya took a moment to listen since he hasn't heard it yet. He starts repeating some lyrics. "My shining star, my guiding light." He stops and smiles. "That is you. You are my shining star."
Shane kept playing it. "So you like it?"
"I actually do. Is perfect."
***
"So who should we invite?" Shane leaned against Ilya in there hotel room investment away games.
"Anya obviously." Ilya smirked.
"I mean is she gonna be your best man or mine?" Shane smirked back.
"No best man, and definitely mine." Ikya ran his fingers through Shane's hair.
"So who else should we invite?"
"I don't want other people to see me think im a failure." Ilya's face got very serious.
"You are in no way a failure." Shane sat up and got into his lap and put both of his hands on Ilya's face. "We just want to do something deeper for us." Shane gave him a deep kiss. "That does not make you a failure."
"Would you be mad if I wanted it to just be us?" Ilya still looked a little serious.
"If that is what you want, that that will be all I need." Shane gave him another kiss. "As long as your happy that is all that matters to me."
***
Two weeks later they finally had a few days off and made their drive up to the cottage.
"Does this count as eloping?" Ilya smirked at Shane.
"I guess so. Just dont tell my parents." Shane winked back at Ilya.
They pulled up infront of the cottage and made there way inside.
"So tomorrow you become Shane Rozanoff-Hollander?" Ilya gives Shane a kiss the second the step inside.
"Nah, reverse that. Hollander-Rozanoff." Shane kisses him back.
Ilya gives Shane a look that looked super hurt and offended. Then he switched to a very twisted grin. "Well you do usually come first."
"Fuck you!"
"More like Fuck me, please."
Shane gives him a little push but then they both go to the bedroom.
***
In the morning Ilya looked over to Shnae while they were still in bed. "Today is the big day."
"Are you ready? Do you think we have everything?" Shane gave him a little kiss.
"I think." Ilya paused and was deep in thought.
"Are we missing anything." Shane looked at him was just a little concern
"No, it's perfect." Ilya gave Shane a copy smile. "But I feel we should have at least invited Yuna and David."
"Well it's a good thing your husband knows you well." Shane smirked. "They will be here in a couple hours."
Ilya gave him the biggest smile. "I love you so much."
"I love you too." Shane gave him a deep passionate kiss that of course led to staying in bed for another hour.
***
Ilya and Shane walked out the back door of the cottage and the first thing Ilya noticed was about 50 chairs spread about with just David and Yuna sitting near the dock.
"I know I said chairs but that was a joke." Ilya whispered to Shane.
"Well you get your chairs now." Shane nudged him as they started walking to the dock.
When they got to the front they l99ked at each other and just smiled deeply. Anya walked up to them and just sat down beside them.
"Can I go first?" Shane smiled up at Ilya and gave his hand a squeeze.
"Da." Ikya squeezed back and smiled.
"OK." Shane took a deep breath. "Ilya," he smiles up at him. "I vow to love you with all of my heart. I will always choose you. I will always put you first before anything else. On your most joyful days and your darkest nights I will always be by your side. You are not just my love, you are my world. Even when your being an asshole, because let's face it, everything I have called you an asshole, that was just my way of saying I love you before I was ready to say that out loud. So I will always be yours, forever."
Ilya wiped a tear from his cheek and smiled. Yuna and Divid had tears in their eyes as well.
"Okey." Ilya took a deep breath. "Shane, from the moment I saw you." Ilya smiled and squeezed his hand. "You changed my life. No matter how hard times have been you have always been my light. From your freckles to your weak backhand that might not be that weak after all. You might be boring but I would give up all the excitement for a beautiful boring life with you. I am yours forever. Even when I dont feel my own light, you will always be my home."
Shane wiped tears from his eyes.
Anya looks up and gives them both a little bark.
"So was that the kissing line?" Ilya looks down at Anya and everyone starts laughing.
Shane and Ilya give each other a deep kiss right there on the dock.
"Our boys are so dramatic." David whispers over to Yuna.
"I know and I love it so much." Yuna smiled at them. She hit play on a song on her phone and they started hearing "day and Night" play on the dock. Shane and Ilya started to slow dance with each other.
"This doesn't feel like a slow dance song." Shane whispered into Ilya's ear.
"No?" Ilya smiled at him and started to slide his hands down his back. When the song hit the chorus Ilya grabbed shane up into the air and started to spin him around more quicker with the song and the both started to laugh. Everything but them was fading away. It was just them, together forever.
"Boys!" They here Yuna shouting but it seems further away till they felt them selves in the air. Or more accurately falling into the lake as the danced off the dock.
They both came up for air when Shane pushed Ilya hard. "OH my god, you asshole!"
"I love you too." Ilya gives him a kiss then they both start laughing.
"Are you guys alright?" Yuna was running down the dock.
"We're perfect." Ilya didnt even look away from Shane.
"We might need to plan another one of these though." Shane was a little worried it wouldn't be perfect enough, especially with the little fumble at the end.
"No, this was everything I needed. Thank you." Ilya had a huge grin on his face.