Hailey Thomas is twenty-two years old. She works at a small independent bookstore tucked into a quiet corner of the city. Her life is intentionally simple and safe. Her world is small and she likes it that way. Until it isn't so small anymore.

An Ilia Malinin Story... Aspen Jones is America's biggest pop star, invited to perform at the Winter Olympics. Just another flawless moment in her carefully controlled career. Until she sees the person she tried to forget. The guy she can't get out of her head, even after 2 years of not seeing him. Ilia Malinin. Once, they were something undefined. Late nights, almost-love, and feelings neither of them dared to name. Now, he's chasing Olympic gold, and she's trapped in the pressure of perfection, but being this close again brings everything back. What starts as avoidance turns into stolen moments, lingering tension, and a connection neither of them ever really let go of. Because this time, falling for each other isn't simple. It could cost them everything.

The ice never lies. It is a cold, honest mirror that reflects exactly what you give it: the grace of a perfect landing or the violence of a shattered dream. For Alex Evans and Ilia Malinin, the rink was their sanctuary, the stage where they became the world's "Golden Couple." When the cheering stops and the cameras fade, what remains of the icons we worship? This is a story of scars, secrets, and the terrifying courage it takes to stop running and finally learn how to breathe. Slow burn - Enemies to lovers

They say that in figure skating, if you stare at your partner's blades, you'll eventually fall. You have to look at the horizon, they tell you. You have to trust that he is there without checking. "Don't fall, Kate," he whispered. "I won't if you don't," I replied. That was our first promise. Our first lie. I didn't know that thread would become a chain. I didn't know that for the next ten years, my every breath would depend on his.

𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝖼𝖾 𝗂𝗌 𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍 𝗆𝗈𝗋𝖾 𝗌𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗉 The one to beat - yet somehow still untouchable. She made history before she was old enough to understand it. Defied gravity like it was a suggestion. Bent the rules of physics until they broke beneath her blades. By sixteen, Seraya D'Arienzo wasn't just favoured for Olympic gold-she was inevitable. And then she fell. One disastrous performance at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and she vanished without explanation. No interviews. No statements. No trace. Just silence where a legend was supposed to rise. Two years later, she returns. But this isn't the girl the world remembers. The light is gone. The warmth is gone. In its place is something sharper-colder. Controlled. Dangerous. She doesn't speak. Doesn't stay. Doesn't lose. They call her a ghost. A phantom on the ice. Now she's back. Stronger. Untouchable. And closer than ever. But some falls don't end when the music stops. And some truths were never meant to surface. Ilia Malinin X Fem Slowburn Disclaimers & Credits in the story. Please Read them!!!

They say seasons change. They don't tell you that sometimes they collide. He was winter before I knew what cold felt like. I was autumn before I knew how to let go. We met once. Young enough to laugh, reckless enough to believe we would never see each other again. We were wrong. Now the lights are brighter. The stakes are higher. And the distance between us is thinner than ice. Some falls don't hurt until you land.

After a shocking fall at the Milan 2026 Olympics, the world's top-ranked figure skater ends up in a quiet Minnesota town looking for anything to reignite the spark in his skating. There he crosses paths with a junior coach who's just trying to survive college after losing her own passion for skating years ago. * * *Ilia Malinin x OC (but can be read as xreader) *I know nothing about figure skating so there will probably be inaccuracies.

Iris Turner had proved at a young age that the figure skating infastructure in Australia just wasn't enough to support her talent. Hence why her family found themselves moving to California in 2008. Not only did she find herself a best friend in Alysa Liu, but she carved a name for herself in the media. Known as Australia's 'Shooting Star' Iris is one of their brightest skating prodigies in years. With training camps (not national team ones, thank you very much, she represented her home country) and competitions within the US, fifteen-year-old Iris stumbles across a certain male skater. And now, at twenty, going into her second Olympics with her name in the ring for gold, Iris still can't decide whether she'd tell her younger self to never speak to him at all.

Maeli Carter had one goal in life: to be known for helping people. That was it. She didn't want to be known for nothing else. She didn't want a spotlight. She wanted stable. And she most definetly will not let herself be defined by being someones girlfriend. So, she had her EMT certification, she was on her way to becoming a paramedic, and that's when she meets him. And at first its nothing, just a random guy saving her from a stuck zipper that won't budge no matter how hard she tries. But then the months go by. Suddenly he's not a random guy, he's Ilia Malinin. Olympic figure skater. And at some point Maeli Carter slowly finds herself changing her one goal. She finds herself the subject of TikTok edits and sports articles and a very not stable life. Because at some point Maeli Carter finds herself being called Ilia Malinin's girlfriend. And she's not mad about it.

⁀➷ 𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ⛸️❄️💫 ❪ 𝐹𝐸𝑀 𝒪𝒞 𝒳 𝐼𝐿𝐼𝒜 𝑀𝒜𝐿𝐼𝒩𝐼𝒩 ❫ 𝐃𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐕𝐒! ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯," 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, "𝘐'𝘮 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶." "𝘐'𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺." ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ ❝ 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 ❞ ꒰⛸️ ꒱༄ ✧･ﾟ· 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎 ✧･ﾟ·༄ ꒰⛸️ ꒱