Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandoms:

Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)

Relationships:

Troy Barrett/Harris Drover, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Harris Drover & Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble, Shane Hollander & Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble & Ilya Rozanov, Just everyone on the team

Characters:

Harris Drover, Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Troy Barrett, Luca Haas, and all the other Centraus I won't be naming

Additional Tags:

Ottawa Centaurs (Game Changers), Ottawa Centaurs Group Chat (Game Changers), POV Harris Drover, Ilya Rozanov Has Good Gaydar, TikTok pressured me into making this, Top-Bottom dynamics, mentioned pegging, They're All Gay, Kinda, Harris Drover is a marketing God, photoshoot

Language:

English

Series:

Part 4 of THAT Hollanov Universe

Stats:

Published: 2026-03-08 Words: 1,982 Chapters: 1/1

Is this the peer pressure my parents warned me about?

Summary

The Ottawa Centraus social media profiles have been falling low and Harris, their devoted manager, is set to change that.
His methods are alternative.
A photoshoot with all the tops in one row and all the bottoms in the other.
For a moment he thinks nobody will even notice but EVERYONE does.
Chaos ensures both under the social media post and in the team group chat.

Notes

Hi, so... I'm scared.
This story comes from a Tiktok video by @ally_ameli where I originally asked if I could write her idea. She said yes and I wrote it down in my notes app to get written one day when I have time...
My phone has been blowing up.
I'm constantly getting notifications by people liking that comment or replying to it for a link or to get notified when I post it.
So, excuse me if this is shit. I wrote it in three days with no beta reader, no sleep and no confidence.

I'm a teenage girl who's first language isn't English and I know that's a stereotype at this point but please don't judge me too hard.

And please someone tell me if this is the peer pressure I've been warned about? Because this is the closest I ever got to it, hence the title.

"Our social media has been dead recently." One of Harris's team members said. "The tickets are still selling but not nearly as much as when we used Hollander and Rozanov for promotion."

"I told you all- we can't do that anymore." Harris said. "They're all great hockey players, our whole social media marketing cannot be just about the fact two of them are married." 

"What else can we do? Social media used to be our top spot and in the past month it has fallen down by 40%." Another teammate issues.

"Leave it to me." Harris stands up. "We can do a few photoshoots, hop on some trends, it will be fine."

 

And fine it was, but fine wasn't good enough. 

The traction they were getting wasn't falling anymore but Harris knew it could be better. He knew he could get it back to their prime days, back at the start of the season when Hollander just joined them. 

 

So, he made a plan.

 

It was quite simple, two groups, two kinds of men. It was subtle enough that none of the hockey jocks would notice and just explicit enough for the fangirls to go feral. If they don't notice, Harris will pretend he never even tried.

 

"Alright. Group one standing, group two squat or kneel in front." Harris said, moving to the camera he sees them mix up and completely ruin his plans. "Seriously? Only Hollander is in the right place."

 

Harris sighs and repeats. "Rozanov and Troy up, take your sticks. Luca next to Hollander, Wyatt next to Luca. Boodram next to Troy." he watches everyone take position before reading out once more. "Group one: Rozanov, Troy, Boodram. Group two: Haas, Hollander, Wyatt." 

 

Perfect, he thought to himself, hoping to God the fans would catch on.

Group one: tops,

Group two: bottoms.

 

Well, technically. From what Harris knew Rozanov was placed correctly, and Troy was half true but Harris knew his knee still hurt from the last game so he won't make him kneel for now.

Zane, who was next to them in group one, even tho he was married to Cassie, has come out to them a few months prior as bisexual (Ilya was very happy and claimed for days he 'knew it') and when deciding his position in the photoshoot, although he shouldn't assume, Harris could see him nowhere but in the top line.

 

On the bottom was Hollander, an easy pick because ever since they were outed and he transferred here, he and Rozanov showed so much PDA Harris had to hired someone to media train them.

Next to him was Luca, Harris never asked and never will but he does have access to their arena's network system and Luca is the only one of them with an iPhone so, Harris has to assume, he had been the one searching up "How do I know if my limp is visible?" "How not to limp after anal?" "Would Ilya Rozanov care if I'm gay?" 

Okay, not the last one but Harris imagines the young boy has searched up worse at home, especially with the way he looks at Rozanov. 

And then the last on the bottom row was Wyatt. A married straight man with a wife who Harris adores but if we are talking about sexual dynamics, which we are, Wyatt is his wife's bottom. 

The thing is... Harris was added to the WAG group chat when he and Troy went public, so he was there for Lisa's first visit to a sex shop, and her retelling of the first time she pegged him. 

He tries to forget, to look at Hayes the same way, but it's hard when you remember someone describing your colleague and friend as "a whimpering, bent bear.". 

Harris still isn't sure what Lisa ment with that, he hopes she'll never explain.

 

So off Wyatt went into the bottom row.

 

Perfect, planned, parasocial.

 

And it should have been. 

None of the boys said anything, Harris took his photos, sent them to editing.

 

He set off to get more ideas, to make a better marketing move next time but then he saw Rozanov's smirk. 

 

His steps were slow, measured, as he walked to Harris. "Top and bottom, no?"

 

"What?" Harris said, planning to play dumb.

 

"I didn't say anything." Ilya grins wider.

 

"It's just a photoshoot, no need to read into it." 

 

"But there is. Tops and bottoms." Ilya laughs before Harris can come up with a suitable lie. "Христос, I am right? You divided us into top and bottom?" Rozanov doubles over laughing and the other men notice.

 

"He did what?" A bit palling Luca says as they all approach. 

 

"Okay, Maybe!" Harris admits and watches his team start laughing.

 

"Harris, what the fuck!" Boodram laughs. "Spirituality assigned I assume?" 

 

"Oh, fuck off all of you." Harris says and begins laughing with them. "I took the photos. They're getting posted either way."

 

"Good separation, Drover, couldn't have done better myself." Ilya teases as they finish laughing and head to the changing rooms.

 

 

Two weeks later the photos are posted. 

It wasn't supposed to be a lot, just them with a cheeky caption.

But the fangirling comments delivered.

 

centraus_lover_since2011: So happy they're training! The Cup is coming to us soon.

 

MJLikesPhotography: Love the team but their photographer sucks, they're not separated by height or playing position. It looks messy like this, hire me next time lol 

 

QueerHockeyFan: Wait, are they separated by tops and bottoms?

 

HollanovLover: GIVE US MORE HOLLANOV, I love them like this but COUPLES CONTENT.

 

OttawaMama: Whoever said they were separated into tops and bottoms is onto something, that line up cant be accidental.

 

CentrausCenter: Hear me out, we pretty much know for Ilya and Shane because of THAT interview, and with Troy and that PR guy I think he'd top. So maybe they're telling us something with this!?

 

FanGirlNo¹: Those are tops and bottoms, your honour. Now, I know Boodram and Hayes are married to women but let me dream!

 

Later that night, Harris made the mistake of checking the team group chat.

 

CENTRAUS EMERGENCY CENTER

 

Wyatt: still thinking about the fact our PR manager assigned us sexual dynamics

Troy: i cant believe he actually did it

Boodram:

not even subtly either

Luca:

i was kneeling next to Shane the whole time

Luca:

the WHOLE time

Rozanov:

yes

Rozanov:

exactly where you belong

Shane:

Ilya.

Wyatt:

im still stuck on the fact you made me kneel

Harris:

you volunteered

Wyatt:

i absolutely did not

Troy:

so what was the system here

Troy:

vibes?

Boodram:

no way

Boodram:

this man did research

Harris:

i did NOT do research

Rozanov:

he did research

Harris:

I DID NOT

Luca:

okay but hypothetically

Luca:

IF you did research

Luca:

what did you find

Harris:

nothing

Rozanov:

coward

Wyatt:

i want to know what category i was

Boodram:

bottom apparently

Wyatt:

i am NOT

Rozanov:

Lisa disagrees

There was a full minute of silence in the chat.

Then:

Troy:

HELLO???

Boodram:

EXCUSE ME

Luca:

WHAT

Wyatt:

ILYAAAAA

Wyatt:

IM GOING TO KILL YOU

Rozanov:

she told the story in the WAG's group chat

Troy:

OH MY GOD SHE DID

Shane:

I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

Luca:

WHAT STORY

Wyatt:

STOP TALKING

Rozanov:

whimpering bent bear

The chat exploded.

Harris muted the conversation for five minutes.

When he opened it again, the argument had moved on.

CENTRAUS EMERGENCY CENTER 

Troy:

so who else was correctly placed

Boodram:

ilya obviously

Luca:

we all knew that

Rozanov:

thank you

Wyatt:

what about you boodram

Boodram:

im versatile

Luca:

wait

Luca:

WAIT

Luca:

are the fans going to notice this

Wyatt:

notice what

Luca:

THE LINEUP

Luca:

if they figure out what it means im literally never leaving my house again

Boodram:

brother

Troy:

buddy

Wyatt:

pal

Luca:

stop using calming words that make it worse

Rozanov:

fans will absolutely notice

Luca:

NOOO

Rozanov:

relax

Rozanov:

they already assume half of us are gay anyway

Boodram:

that is actually true

Troy:

yeah ive seen the edits

Wyatt:

i dont watch those

Boodram:

yes you do

Wyatt:

i watch them ironically

Troy:

you bookmarked one

Wyatt:

SHUT UP

Luca:

okay but im serious

Luca:

if they think im...

The message stopped there.

Then another appeared.

Luca:

you know

Boodram:

gay?

Luca:

YES

Wyatt:

and?

Luca:

AND WHAT IF IM NOT READY FOR THAT

The chat quieted.

Then another name appeared.

Shane:

hey

Shane:

deep breath first

Luca:

HI SHANE

Luca:

THIS IS A BAD TIME

Shane:

seems like it

Shane:

what did Ilya do

Wyatt:

existing mostly

Rozanov:

unfair

Boodram:

accurate though

Shane:

okay someone explain

Boodram:

harris likes to assume and Wyatt likes tomget pegged by his wife

Shane:

oh my god

Luca:

SHANE THIS IS SERIOUS

Shane:

okay

Shane:

what’s the problem

Luca:

if fans notice the way Harris divided us

Luca:

they might think im gay

Shane:

fans think a lot of things

Troy:

that’s the most accurate sentence ever typed

Boodram:

they thought I liked cock rings last year 

Wyatt:

you wore a ring on a necklace around your neck

Boodram:

IT WAS MY WEDDING RING

Rozanov:

still funny

Luca:

im serious though

Luca:

like

Luca:

what if im not ready for that

Shane:

then you’re not ready

Shane:

that’s it

Shane:

nobody gets to decide that except you

Troy:

yeah

Boodram:

exactly

Wyatt:

fans guessing stuff doesn’t mean you owe them answers

Shane:

trust me

Shane:

people were guessing about me and Ilya for years

Rozanov:

they were correct

Shane:

yes

Shane:

but still

Wyatt:

Didn't you two have the whole enemies thing going on?

Shane:

Yes

Ilya:

People like that

They call it enemies to lovers

There's a website, archive of our own

People wrote about us ahahankgif

A few minutes passed 

Ilya:

Sorry Shane threatened me to stop, he trew a pillow.

Anyway.

People were writing about us fucking way before we even admitted it to ourselves.

Wyatt:

How do you not admit to yourself that you're fucking someone?

Shane:

Years of denial.

Please don't go on Ilya's website.

Luca:

were you scared

There was a small pause.

Then Shane replied.

Shane:

yeah

Shane:

A lot, and it sucked at first I won't lie

Ilya:

Especially when Pike outed us

I don't recommend.

Shane:

But it was worth it.

Shane:

Montrel was a bitch about it, finishing last season there was hard but after transferring here I'm genuinely happier than I was.

Shane:

You've got a good locker room and a strong team to support you

Boodram:

we are very lovable

Wyatt:

speak for yourself

Troy:

he’s right though

Troy:

Our reaction to Ilya was basically 

Troy:

“cool, anyway pass the tape”

Rozanov:

We'll be more enthusiastic you, Haas

Shane:

No we won't.

Unless you want that.

Luca:

I don't know what I want.

Troy:

point is luca

Troy:

if you ever say something

Troy:

or don’t

Troy:

we’re still the same idiots

Wyatt:

yeah

Boodram:

nothing changes

Rozanov:

except i get to say i told you so

Shane:

ignore him

Luca:

im trying

Luca:

its hard

Wyatt:

he’s very loud

Boodram:

and very russian

Rozanov:

rude

Shane:

accurate though

Luca:

okay

Luca:

i feel slightly less like dying now

Troy:

good

Boodram:

progress

Wyatt:

proud of you buddy

Then Ilya sent another message.

Rozanov:

also

Rozanov:

harris placed you correctly

Luca:

ILYAAAA

Shane:

ilya.

Shane:

be nice.

Rozanov:

i am being nice

Shane:

no you’re not

Troy:

HE WAS DOING SO WELL

Boodram:

you ruined the emotional moment

Wyatt:

menace behaviour

Rozanov:

truth hurts

Luca:

im muting you

Rozanov:

you cannot mute the truth

Harris:

i regret everything

Troy:

oh look

Troy:

its the man who assigned sexual positions

Boodram:

our fearless leader

Wyatt:

the alignment chart master

Rozanov:

top strategist

Shane:

harris

Shane:

be honest

Shane:

did you do research

A long pause.

Then:

Harris:

no

Rozanov:

he did research

Harris:

I did.