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Instant Family: Deal by stabthroughme
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Feb 2026
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Luca Haas is playing on a team with both his hockey idols, he's not the youngest on the team anymore, they made it to the playoffs last season, this season they're locked in from the start. Luca's also realizing that he's a bit alone on his team. He's known he's queer,for years. He knows his team would accept him, the way they've accepted Troy, Ilya, Shane and Harris but... His best friend asks about girls he's hooked up with, the other "kids" all talk about their conquests. He could talk to his captain about it but Ilya's busy figuring out marriage, parenting a teenager, and navigating the foster care system.
Ash Holmberg still, kind of, wants to die. He's cycling through medications, attending therapy and doing everything he's supposed to be doing after inpatient treatment. His twin brother's moved him into the frat house he shares with two other professional hockey players. He knows that his brother would be wrecked if he actually died. So he draws and works and pretends like he's doing okay. And then he realizes how frat-bro-y his brother and his friends are and gets conscripted into helping turn all six of them into dateable adults.
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- Part 2 of Instant Family
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one night, shane hollander finds a unconscious man on the shore and brings him home. his first mistake was thinking it was a man.
or: ilya's a selkie. shane doesn't know.
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“How did you know that Novikov needed tape earlier?” Ilya asked as he came back up. “He did not say anything himself, yes? Or you would not have texted me about it.”
“I heard him say it in Russian to himself,” Shane replied with a grin, switching to Russian.
Ilya’s face lit up like a Christmas tree. “You did? And you understood him?”
“Yes! I was so happy that I understood what he said. Of course, I had to tell you because nobody knows I can speak Russian.”
“Yes, it would be suspicious.”
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A new Russian player, Dimitri Novikov, is drafted onto the Ottawa Centaurs in the same season that Shane Hollander is unceremoniously traded from the Montreal Voyageurs. His reasons for leaving Montreal are unclear, and the reasons he chose Ottawa are even less so. However, as Dimitri begins to suspect that Shane secretly knows Russian, his curiosity ends up getting him wrapped up in a relationship he didn’t even know existed. But perhaps a little turbulence is what Shane and Ilya needed to realize their relationship is strong enough to weather anything that comes their way.
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- Part 1 of Language of Love
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Won't be Alone by halfheartedlycynical
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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There are so many things these days that Nikolai Petrov can’t believe. He can’t believe he’s actually going to get to play professional hockey. Can’t believe he isn’t going to be relegated to some second rate Russian league in Moscow. But most of all, he can’t believe that he’s standing on Ilya Rozanov’s doorstep.
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The Ottawa Centaurs have a new Russian rookie - the first Russian rookie Ilya's ever had, and Ilya is determined to make him feel welcome. Petrov finds that Rozanov and Hollander aren't at all what he expected (Hollander is somehow even more Canadian than he thought possible), but they somehow make him feel just a little more at home in this strange new country.
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“Is okay. I also am not surprised you are gay.”
Shane shoots him what Ilya is sure is supposed to be a glare, but it was nowhere near as threatening as it was intended to be. He removes his hand from Shane’s arm, allowing his fingers to trail down over his wrist. The sight of goosebumps on the other man's arm sends a thrill through Ilya and, before he can stop himself, he leans in and kisses him. It’s soft and short, but he swears he can see stars. When he pulls away, the look on Shane’s face makes Ilya sure he's made a mistake, and his stomach drops. They don't say anything for a while, their faces still inches apart. Finally, Shane asks:
“Do you want to get out of here?”
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au where they are just regular dudes who live in Boston. Shane is a newly out and (sort of) proud gay man, and Ilya is absolutely smitten with him.