Rating:

Mature

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

M/M

Fandom:

Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid

Relationships:

Kip Grady & Shane Hollander, Shane Hollander & Fabian Salah, Kip Grady & Fabian Salah, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Kip Grady/Scott Hunter, Ryan Price/Fabian Salah

Characters:

Fabian Salah, Shane Hollander, Kip Grady

Additional Tags:

Ilya and Scott's Bromance, Texting Fic, WAG Shane Hollander, WAG Kip Grady, WAG Fabian Salah, Coming Out, Hollanov Relationship Reveal, Scotty doesn't know, hehehehehe

Language:

English

Series:

Part 8 of Ilya's Big Gay Bromance

Stats:

Published: 2026-02-25 Words: 1,305 Chapters: 1/1

Interlude: The HABs vs Hockey Butt

Summary

Did Shane intend for his coming out to be overshadowed by Ilya's Ass? No. But he'll allow it.

Notes

This took forever because I was writing three parts simultaneously so hopefully this time the gap between updates will be smaller because I have 2/3rd of 3 works. We'll see.
Thank you to Grace and El for talking me through the writers block I got at the end of this one y'all are the real ones. I've been 'definitely gonna post the next part tomorrow' for like a week now and you guys finally cracked it.

[Kip created a group chat with: Jane, ~Fabian Salah]

Fabian Salah contact saved: Fabian (note: Ryan Price)

Kip: Heyyyyyyy Fabian

Kip: Welcome to the Gay Hockey HAB chat

[Kip renamed the group: 🏳️‍🌈 Hockey HABs]

Kip: Well… uhh….

Kip: I guess the FAB chat

Jane: wait what????

Kip: oh shit I made Jane forget how to use punctuation

Jane: No I’m just confused…

Kip: F for Fiancé!

Jane: Oh wow!!!

Jane: Ilya is gonna be so mad that I found out before him. Congratulations!!

Kip: Well, we don’t wanna say anything until the whole team is back in NY for the season but there will be a party and you are obviously invited 😁

Fabian: hi?

Jane: Hello Fabian!

Fabian: It was great to meet you both at the camp, but I’m not a HAB?

Fabian: Not any more anyway.

Jane: Honorary HAB. If Ryan is coaching it still counts.

Jane: And I need someone else to help Kip with his Admirals WAG nonsense, I don’t think I’m cut out for it.

Kip: That’s not true they love you.

Kip: Also how did I not meet you at the camp but Fabian did???

Fabian: Shit

Fabian: Sorry Jane!

Fabian: I forgot!

Kip: Forgot what????

Kip: Jane

Kip: Fabian

Kip: What the fuck?

—

Jane: So, uh,

Jane: I’m gonna tell you a thing and then you’re not gonna tell Scott.

Kip: Okay?? Jane what the fuck is happening.

Jane: I mean you can tell Scott but Ilya and I think it would be funnier if you didn’t

Kip: …. okayyyyyyyy??

Jane: But we definitely hung out at the camp.

Jane: In fact, we went out for dinner on the last night.

Kip: But Ilya didn’t bring anyone, and everyone else was coaches and their partners.

Kip: Wait, you’re a coach?

Kip: But the only other gay coach is…

Kip: Wait

Kip: Fuck

Kip: SHANE????

Kip: THE FUCK??

Jane: … surprise!

—

[🏳️‍🌈 Hockey HABs]

Kip: So why are we keeping this a secret from Scott then?

Kip: Is Ilya being weird?

Shane: Well, at first I didn’t want to be outed to Scott so Ilya was very kind and didn’t say anything.

Shane: Then I was just… nervous

Shane: Generally.

Kip: You don’t owe it to anyone to come out, I guess I was just confused.

Shane: But I had it in my head that Ilya didn’t want the relationship to be out, and Ilya had it in his head that I didn’t want the relationship to be out.

Shane: We’re a mess

Kip: Yeah but I know like 4 things about hockey and even I know that the news that Hollander and Rozanov are dating is a big deal.

Shane: Yeah, that too.

Fabian: That’s what Ryan was telling me.

Kip: Yeah, ok. How did Ryan know?? That confuses me.

Shane: He figured it out. I came out to him and then he immediately put it together.

Fabian: He’s a smart cookie 😊

Shane: He is. I mean, he’s not playing hockey any more which is probably the smartest thing.

Kip: But the Hockey Butt 😩 it’s so gooood

Fabian: Oh my god Kip

Fabian: you’re right but oh my god

Shane: …

Fabian: Shane you don’t have to be coy we can see Ilya’s ass through those sweats

Kip: There’s a lot of ass to see

Fabian: How do you even plow an ass that deep?

Kip: OH MY GOD FABIAN YOU CAN’T JUST ASK

Fabian: What? We were all thinking it

Kip: I mean yeah but

Kip: Shane?

Kip: Shane???

Kip: We scared him out the GC

Kip: Rip the Hockey HABs, gone too soon.

Shane: Hello you are right Ilya has second best ass in the league second only to Shane Hollander also his dick is very big

Kip: Hi Ilya. Hope you’re not being murdered by Shane.

Shane: I never want to talk to any of you again.

Shane: Including Ilya.

—

[🏳️‍🌈 Hockey HABs]

Kip: Ok but now I really need to know how long you two have been a thing

Kip: Also wait is having you in the Admiral WAG chat a conflict of interest?

Shane: How often are they in there actually discussing hockey? It's all school pickups and who's in charge of picking up the team jackets.

Kip: Ok fine, but I want to note that I mentioned this.

Fabian: Wait does that mean I can be an Admiral Wag without an issue

Kip: Sneaking Jane in was hard enough they all think he’s dating Vaughn. Which is hilarious not gonna lie because he's dating a movie star so they half think they’ve just got her number

Fabian: Shane is like if hockey had movie stars

Fabian: You’re basically Hockey Taylor Swift

Shane: Who?

Kip: …

Fabian: Shake it off?

Shane: Oh yeah, I know that one.

Kip: The gaps in your knowledge of popculture astound me you have seen every episode of the HTTYD tv show but you had no idea there were multiple Real Housewives.

Shane: In my defence, I’ve never watched Real Housewives with Hayden’s kids.

Kip: Circling back to my original question: how long???

Kip: Look Kyle and I went on a voyage of discovery last night on the history of your and Ilya’s rivalry.

Kip: There are whole tumblrs dedicated to you guys

Kip: wait, scratch that, don’t ever look yourself up on tumblr you’ll have an aneurism

Fabian: … brb finding my old tumblr login

Shane: What’s a tumblr?

Kip: NOT IMPORTANT

Kip: THE QUESTION

Kip: Also I’m a romantic I wanna know all the things like your anniversary and your first kiss and your first [redacted]

Fabian: I think it’s a bit late to be redacting anything in this chat Kip

Kip: Yeh but last time we talked about Shane’s dick he disappeared for like 3 days

Shane: please stop

Shane: Also we became boyfriends last summer

Kip: Wait fr? fuck the tumblr girlies are gonna be inconsolable

Kip: There are theories you’ve been fucking since you broke up with Rose Landry.

Shane: well, I did break up with Rose because she told me I was gay so that was definitely a catalysing event

Fabian: sorry… you’re telling me ROSE LANDRY. TOLD YOU. you were GAY??

Kip: I will never be used to the weird proximity I now have to famous people Jesus Christ

Shane: She was really lovely about it when we talked. And I knew that I’d enjoyed, erm, you know. Stuff. With Ilya. More than I enjoyed it with her. Even though we got on really well.

Kip: Wait, so you’d already had sex with Ilya BEFORE you were dating Rose.

Kip: Oh what a tangled web we weave.

Shane: 0:-)

Fabian: Okay but if you didn’t know you were gay before did you think you were bi? Or maybe like… Pan or demi or something.

Shane: I know most of those words. But I’m not sure what cookware or halves have to do with anything.

Fabian: Mental note that Shane’s closet had zero reading material.

Fabian: Pansexual is kinda like bi (don’t @ me kip this is babies first queer lesson we can argue later) so it’s about attraction to multiple genders. Demisexuality is attraction that is reliant on an emotional connection occurring first.

Shane: Well… I’m definitely not either of those but they also never entered my thoughts.

Fabian: Fair. You really saw Ilya and were like ‘what an asshole I need to suck his cock’ and the brain shut off immediately afterwards.

Shane: Pretty much, yeah.

Kip: What tipped you over the edge? Was it when he won MVP? I mean he’s been an asshole from the beginning so you clearly have serious self restraint.

—

[🏳️‍🌈 Hockey HABs]

Kip: Attachment: engagementinvitation.png

Kip: I’m pretty sure Scott sent it in his chat too so Ryan and Ilya both have it already, but just in case!