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Shane Hollander was not a boring person. He knew this at heart. He had his own private world of intricate thoughts and was a man of discipline, with a dry wit and a capacity for passion and love that had once felt bottomless. But he had never ever considered his life dull. That was until he started seeing himself through Ilya Rozanov’s eyes.
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Or: years after him and Ilya got together, Shane starts to resent the 'boring' banter.Bookmarked by Submarine9
27 Feb 2026
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Talk About It by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Feb 2026
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“You will not be so nice when we beat you,” Ilya told Shane Hollander, holding onto his hand, not letting him pull away. Not yet.
But Hollander’s brow furrowed, not in anger but in confusion. “Ah, um, sorry,” Hollander said. “Merci. My English is bad. Worse… than you. Maybe slower?” And he leaned in, like that would help him understand.
Ilya’s eyebrows rose, and his smile widened.
Or, Ilya Rozanov grew up in Russia. Shane Hollander was raised in France. When they first meet, neither of them can speak English very well. Somehow, it’s easier to understand each other when words aren’t getting in the way.
(Stand-alone remix of “I’m Reading Your Lips (You’re Speaking My Language)” but this time neither of them are native English speakers, and learning a new language is sort of like falling in love, if you think about it.)
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- Part 3 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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Bookmarked by Submarine9
22 Feb 2026
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Shane was looking down. His eyes were squeezed shut, his brow furrowed in intense, painful concentration. His lips were moving, silently shaping the words. Good. Night. Forming them slowly, carefully, in the secret space of his own mouth.
Ilya’s breath hitched. He’d never seen this. Why would he have? Shane had never been sad around him. Never hurt. Never in this kind of quiet, defeated pain. Around Ilya, Shane had been pleasured and angry and frustrated and gloriously competitive. But never this. Never shattered.
(or, everything is same but Shane has a slight stutter that gets bad when he's sad. Ilya has never heard it because Shane has never been sad around him. Until their night in Vegas.)
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- Part 6 of Crashing out over Hollanov
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20 Feb 2026
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“He’d probably wear a rash guard on the beach because too much sunlight would kill him.” Ilya murmured on their drive over the private resort. He had an obnoxious Hawaiian shirt on that shifted with every slight wind that came from the rolled down window.
“You’d hate him for doing anything, it’s honestly impressive.” Sasha snorted in laughter. He really admired Ilya’s dedication to finding things to be annoyed about.
“He makes it easy.” Ilya resorted to his default response.
Five times Sasha meets his boyfriend’s work enemy, Shane Hollander, and the one time he meets his ex’s husband, who is also Shane Hollander.
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20 Feb 2026
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It made Shane's head spin sometimes, thinking about an alternate version of life where he wasn’t in the room with them. That somewhere in the wrinkle of time, it was just Ilya and Svetlana. The way it was meant to be. They might have even gotten married, like Ilya once suggested. He couldn’t help but feel like it was a fluke of the universe, an impossible streak of luck, that made Ilya his.
As they continued to talk, Shane couldn’t help but wonder if Svetlana ever felt the same.
Or, Ilya books a birthday cottage trip for Shane with Rose, Hayden, and Jackie. Shane can’t shake the feeling that someone important is missing. Over the course of an eight hour road trip to the cottage, Shane and Svetlana come to understand each other.
Bookmarked by Submarine9
15 Feb 2026