The arena was deafening. Flashes of cameras burst through the darkened corridors backstage, voices overlapping in English, Spanish, Georgian-everyone speaking at once as production assistants sprinted through the chaos of fight night. "Doctor's on the way." "Media in ten." "Where's his manager?" "He needs stitches now." But Ilia Topuria barely heard any of it. Blood dripped steadily from the cut above his eyebrow, sliding down the side of his face and onto the white tape wrapped around his knuckles. Sweat darkened the collar of his compression shirt, chest still rising hard from the five-round war he had just survived. The UFC belt sat heavy across his lap. Untouched. Ignored. Because his attention was somewhere else entirely. "You're bleeding on the floor." Her voice cut through the noise effortlessly. Calm. Unimpressed. Familiar. She stood in front of him wearing an all-black Venum quarter zip with a credential hanging from her neck, dark hair slightly messy like she'd spent the last hour dealing with production disasters instead of watching one of the biggest fights of the year. Everyone else backstage looked at him like a champion. She looked at him like he was a problem that needed stitches. Ilia leaned back against the wall slowly, exhausted eyes dragging up toward her. "There you are."

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𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐲𝐚 𝐑𝐲𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬; 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 -- 𝐌𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐣𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐭 2 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 #2 in catching fire #2 in finnick odair #5 in mockingjay #8 in hunger games

TURBULENCE | MATTHEW TKACHUK originally posted to tumblr @baevillier (2020) reeling from her recent breakup, Y/N ends up on a redeye flight next to none other than matthew tkachuk- the only issue? she doesn't know who he is. Being his pesky self, Matthew sets out to annoy the woman sharing his aisle for the remainder of their flight, only to realize that he might actually like her.

summary: you absolutely hate Matthew Tkachuk so it's just your luck when you wind up pregnant with his child. cover made using @art-and-the-hockeys amazing wallpapers!! go check them out on tumblr

❝𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴?❞ the story in which the girlfriend of jack hughes starts having doubts about their relationship the moment his older brother steps into the picture.

Mila and Macklin had the kind of university connection that felt effortless-long walks, secret glances, and the kind of chemistry that made it hard not to fall. But when Macklin was drafted to the NHL and moved to San Jose, distance-and dreams-pulled them apart. Now, two years later, Mila's in San Jose for a fresh start of her own. She isn't expecting to run into Macklin-especially not on a quiet afternoon when he's off the ice, hoodie up, still the same but not quite. What happens when two people who never got closure suddenly cross paths again?

"he's good to her, and she wants it more than everything in-between" - inbetween by gracie abrams ⤻ in which emery zegras finds herself caught liking and favoriting an edit of a certain nhl rookie ⤿ how will the media handle this? how will he react? is emery a meme? a so called puck bunny? how will trevor and his friends feel about emery and the enemy? ⤿ strangers to lovers, rivals? to lovers, celebrity romance

request it, i'll write it. i can make your nhl dreams come true :) BOOK IS FULL

Margo Johnson knows exactly how to control a narrative as the social media manager for the New Jersey Devils. Luke Hughes, the team's quiet defenseman and her longtime college friend, knows exactly how to ignore one. For years, they've kept things strictly platonic-built on late-night phone calls, inside jokes, and off-the-record banter. Then a candid photo of them laughing goes viral, and the internet completely loses its mind shipping them. To capitalize on the hype and distract the press from a few messy team headlines, they agree to a harmless PR stunt: fake dating. But staging hand-holding for the grid and playing boyfriend for the cameras is a lot harder than Margo expected. As old, buried feelings resurface during long road trips and late-night arena edits, the lines completely blur. Now, Margo has to face the one headline she can't spin-the one where she falls for her best friend.