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Into your lover's arms (Where nothing will do you harm) by rubygoby
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Jun 2026
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Summary
If only—if only Shane can slide back to bed, to fall asleep beside Ilya and wake up beside him, to just pretend that the outside world does not exist. Shane would like to learn the shapes of Ilya’s routines, the things that make him laugh when he is tired, the expression he wears first thing in the morning before he remembers to hide himself from the world, yet safe in the knowledge that he doesn’t need to hide it from Shane.
Somehow, without meaning to, his mind has leapt much further than that, to tomorrow, and every tomorrow after tomorrow, all the same with Ilya in his arms. Shane realizes, with a careless certainty like a dream, that he can do this forever.
And oh, isn’t that a terrifying thought? To look at another person and discover that your mind and your heart have begun to create pieces of the future around them without your permission?
Or: Shane confronts the truth that he has spent years running from, following the aftermath of his disastrous night with Rose. In the stillness of Tampa, he shows Ilya just exactly how much he means it.
Series
- Part 3 of Woe like velvet, tears like jewels