Fics like Growing Fonder

He knows it was a perfect storm of their youth, their naivety, and their competitiveness that caused the rivalry to spiral into what it became. It was an insanely good story for a league with two teams that were struggling to make the playoffs each year and needed something new and exciting to revitalize their frustrated fans. Sure, there were many times throughout their early years in the league where they would purposefully rile each other up enough for their rivalry to feel pretty fucking real. Or got each other so annoyed that Shane might've dropped his gloves if he were the type of guy to do that sort of thing. Sometimes he wanted to slam Ilya hard into the boards less to protect the puck and more to avenge his heart over an unanswered text. But if they had just allowed themselves to feel the feelings they wanted and hadn't been forced to appear to hate each other? Well. No one would be talking about a Hollander and Rozanov rivalry almost ten years later. The public still believes there is a rivalry. One they are trying to put an end to. -- Or; an exploration of Shane and Ilya's first year as a couple while Ilya finishes out his final season in Boston.

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