1 – 2 of 2 Works in Shane Hollander/Ryan Price
- Shane Hollander/Ryan Price ×
-
"I don't mean to come here and freak you out," Scott said, though he knew there was no avoiding it. He'd been where they were before. It had felt like he was dying, back then. "I just don't want you to think you're the only ones, okay? There's lots of us."
Their eyes snapped to him in unison, startled and intense. Hollander croaked, "What?"
"There's over sixteen hundred guys in the MLH and AHL," he reminded them, because it had felt improbable to him when he first heard until he remembered the sheer size of the hockey world. "There's — well, we don't know how many of us there are, but there's at least seventeen of us that know each other. Plus you two. We watch out for each other."
His eyes enormous, Hollander asked, "There's, what? A secret underground gay hockey network?"
Scott shrugged. "Yeah, basically."
----
Ilya and Shane find their way into The Tennis Club, a network of closeted hockey players that hook up - so long as everyone keeps it casual. Which is no problem! They can do casual, right?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 155,752
- Chapters:
- 19/27
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83730551
-
After bolting from Rozanov's house, Shane was desperate to figure out what the fuck was wrong with him that kept him crawling back for more despite his better judgment. He downloaded Grindr, hoping sleeping with someone else would finally give him clarity.
Ryan had been striking out for weeks. Every hookup with his usual type ended the same way: humiliating and incomplete. He was starting to wonder if he needed to try something different and branch out from what normally attracted him to shake him out of his own head.
Neither of them gets what they want, but they figure things out, anyway.
Or: An alternate take on Shane's sexuality crisis coming to a head.
- Part 1 of From the Sidelines
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,800
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75820926