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Countdown by Letter4No1
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Feb 2026
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“You’ll text when you land, right?” Shane asks as he takes an exit ramp labeled Airport Departures.
“Yes. Promise.”
“And you’ll call tonight?” Shane’s throat works over the words, like he still doesn’t trust this new thing between them. Ilya thinks he understands. He also doesn’t know how to trust this love. How can he when it has been trapped in his own heart so long. Neither of them know what the next year will bring. There is so much time before Ilya can have his agent, or his future agent, he will need a new one with no connections to Russia, reach out to Ottawa and hope that they’ll be interested in a future Hall of Fame center. The one thing Ilya is certain of is that he will do everything in his power to make their plan work. He spent his entire adult life lusting after, and then pining for Shane with his whole heart.
“I will call.” Ilya reaches for the hand Shane has left on the gearshift and threads his fingers through his. He wants to say so much, but he has always been better with touch than words, especially when the only shared language was English. “We will talk every day.”
Or, There is a year before Ilya can sign with Ottawa, Shane counts down the days until their forever.
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Recalibrate by Letter4No1
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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Shane's entire life there has been some missing piece. When they were in his parents living room yesterday it was like a phantom limb had been brought home. The Hollander’s coach was always meant to seat another person, and that person was destined to be Ilya. At least that’s how it felt to Shane.
Now his parents are coming over for a proper dinner to get to know his boyfriend and there is something still nagging at the back of his mind.
“What did you and my dad talk about yesterday?” Shane asks, his thumb rubbing small circles against Ilya’s sunkissed thigh. “When I was outside with mom.”
Or, a missing Cottage Days dinner with the Hollanders after Shane comes out.
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Peace is a Person by Letter4No1
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Feb 2026
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They’ve gone years surviving on stolen moments, so now everything feels vibrant, wonderful, secure. It’s everything Ilya ever dreamed of and thought he could never have. Loving Shane openly, being loved loudly and publicly in return, is everything his heart ever wanted.
So Ilya doesn’t get jealous. He doesn’t need to.
Except that today Shane is out to lunch with Rose. He drove out to Montreal this morning, a place that now makes Ilya want to see red, so they could go shopping and catch up before going to one of the chic restaurants that Ilya never got to frequent with Shane when he lived there.
Or, Shane spends a day with Rose and Ilya is forced to recognize he isn't as unflappable as he thought.
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The Only Plan is You by Letter4No1
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
26 Jan 2026
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Ilya never texted Shane back. He didn’t call. Twenty minutes turned into two hours, then eight.
Shane had spent that time spiraling. It’s something he hasn’t done recently, at least, not about this. No, up until yesterday he thought his relationship was unflappable, that Ilya was just as happy as he was. Well, as happy as they both could be keeping such a major part of their lives a secret.Every time he closed his eyes he saw the hurt that flashed across Ilya’s face right before he kicked him out.
I already chose you, Hollander.
The words had landed in his gut like a rock. They never discussed the things he’d given up, not because Shane wasn’t, at least peripherally, aware that that was the case. He moved to a new country and signed with a team that was so historically bad they were a laughing stock. One of the greatest players in the league tore up his American visa, sold his car collection, and moved to Ottawa just to be within driving distance of him. Ilya did that to give their relationship a real chance.
Or, Ilya kicked Shane out on Boxing day and now he has to wait two weeks to make things right. Those two weeks are going to change everything.
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Ilya Rozanov does not come pre-installed with good communication or healthy coping skills. Is he going to seek out help on his own? Hell no! But when a family member kills himself, fellow Boston Raider and friend Cliff Marleau decides that Ilya is going to therapy come hell or high water. And Ilya... well, Ilya is just playing along to keep the peace. Right? He doesn't need therapy. But if it helps his friend be less worried, so be it.
OR: What if Ilya came into the tuna meltdown with slightly upgraded social skills and no one actually ran away before they had a conversation?
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27 Feb 2026
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i will choose you by whateveridk
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Feb 2026
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“I’m sorry,” Shane whispers against Ilya’s hair. “I’m so, so sorry. I didn’t—”
Shane cuts himself off with a faint stutter in his breath that Ilya feels in his own chest.
“Please,” Ilya begs, but he isn’t sure what he is even asking for.
He wants Shane to leave. He wants Shane to stay. He wants Shane to hold him and never let go.
Ilya feels Shane’s fingers fist in his curls, holding tight as if Ilya could ever bring himself to pull away.
Shane doesn’t know that Ilya could never, that he cannot fathom turning his back to take even one step away from him.
All he can do is push Shane away, make him walk first, and pick up the pieces left behind.
Or an alternative to that fight from the long game, but instead of Shane leaving as Ilya asks, they actually talk it out
Bookmarked by Letter4No1
27 Feb 2026
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Traps and pitfalls by Rain_And_Books (Huni_obri)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Feb 2026
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Despite living in America and later Canada for way over a decade, Ilya still struggles with language sometimes.
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5 times Ilya misunderstands the meaning of a sentence Shane said, and 1 time where their roles are reversed.Bookmarked by Letter4No1
26 Feb 2026
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Russians do not blush. Russians do not get sick. Ilya gets concussions. He gets stitches. He skates on cracked ribs and calls it fine. He does not get sick. Which is why, when he wakes up at three in the morning in the middle of June, shaking so hard his teeth knock together, his first instinct is irritation.
Bookmarked by Letter4No1
25 Feb 2026
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Faulty Planes and Paper Rings by Dr0psofaninkpen
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Feb 2026
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Wyatt’s gaze shot up and it was like one of those moments in a fucking movie or something.
Because the person bursting through the door like an absolute tornado at two in the morning was Shane Hollander. The man looked sweaty. And breathless. And panicked. No, haunted. His eyes were wide and tortured, chest heaving like he’d run here from Canada.
What was he doing here in Tampa and not in Canada?
Oh. OH. Oh shit.
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**Spoilers for Book 6: The Long Game - Canon-Divergence**
What if when the Centaurs plane trouble occurred, Shane immediately jumped on a flight to Tampa?
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22 Feb 2026