PamplemousseOfTheNorth



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."

    "You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"

    "I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."

    -

    Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    14,171
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    219
    Kudos:
    4,148
    Bookmarks:
    1,127
    Hits:
    27,904

    19 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The British prince sat next to Ilya. Not the balding one, but the pretty one.

    He was quiet. Staring ahead at nothing in a way that Shane does sometimes.

    So Shane’s nerves, he understood. He wasn’t nervous himself. Excited, maybe. Not for the prince.

    Excited because Alex Claremont-Diaz just turned up late to sit on his other side.

    (Or, Heated Rivalry mentioned Wimbledon and a prince, and I had to make it happen.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,623
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    68
    Kudos:
    3,766
    Bookmarks:
    484
    Hits:
    33,654

    18 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “Be careful,” Shane frets, one hand hovering over Ilya’s shoulder. “It’s icy, and I don’t want to be a widower.”

    “Oh, we’d have to be much higher than this for the fall to kill me,” Ilya says, gaze still fixed on the cool black skyline. “At least seven stories.”

    It’s not until much later, as the waitress is clearing the dishes from dinner, that Yuna finds herself wondering why Ilya knows exactly how high a fall needs to be in order to kill him. 

    Or: Yuna learns about Ilya's past bit by bit over the years.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,932
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    175
    Kudos:
    6,589
    Bookmarks:
    1,166
    Hits:
    30,699

    18 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Both of them are there the next time Shane wakes up about an hour later, and this time he opens his eyes, rasps Mom?

    The room fills quickly, a flurry of nurses coming to check vitals and adjust his IV, the doctor stepping in to conduct all of the mandatory concussion protocol. Shane grunts and groans every time he has to move his sore body but otherwise complies as he always does, sitting through the basic questions and the light shining in his eyes. He’s up just long enough to finish those and to get something in him to eat, and just after Yuna and David both manage to sneak in tearful, relieved hugs, he’s slipping back into sleep once again. 

    Normal, they keep saying. This is all perfectly normal.

    But there’s something, Yuna thinks—something here that she’s missing. 

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    6,979
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    216
    Kudos:
    5,970
    Bookmarks:
    1,049
    Hits:
    26,191

    15 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Their rivalry, as history has written it, has finally come to an end.

    "I won," Shane breathes, and the smile, the smile that's been plastered on his face since he scored, grows wider.

    Montreal knocks Boston out of the playoffs. Shane learns how to be Ilya Rozanov's boyfriend. Ilya wears Shane's jersey. Set about a year after the finale.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    16,120
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    214
    Kudos:
    4,072
    Bookmarks:
    1,093
    Hits:
    50,085

    13 Mar 2026