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Concussion Protocol by cjr2
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
02 Jan 2026
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Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. Dazed and agitated, Ilya briefly starts speaking and responding only in Russian and the medics can’t calm him down. Luckily, Shane started studying Russian after Ilya spoke to him in Russian on the phone from Moscow. For no particular reason. Certainly not because he’s fallen in love with Ilya Rozanov.
In Montreal with lingering concussion symptoms, Ilya is advised not to fly home for a few days, and the hospital won’t release him without assurances that he has someone to stay with him until his symptoms improve. Luckily, Shane conveniently has a condo in Montreal no one knows about and a few days before he has to travel again.
But Ilya’s symptoms don’t resolve after a few days. Which is okay; Shane can handle it. He can take care of Ilya, study Russian, lead his team into the playoffs, and keep Ilya’s continued presence in Montreal a secret. He can do everything, no problem. He is Shane Hollander after all.
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A whump fanfiction that is secretly a fix-it.
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- Part 1 of Return-to-Play
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- English
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- 49,003
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- 20/20
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23 Feb 2026
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The Game Plan by FestiveFerret, pouringinsheets
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Dec 2022
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Shane Hollander is the number two overall NHL draft pick and a newly minted Montreal Voyageur. He’s also laser focused on his goals: being the best by beating the best. For him, this means a continued rivalry with number one draft pick—and new Ottawa Centaur—Ilya Rozanov. But when a problem with Rozanov’s immigration paperwork threatens his future in the NHL, what does that mean for Shane’s own career? He can’t risk finding out…so they get married. Just for immigration. A fast, practical, mutually beneficial solution.
No one will ever suspect, let alone find out, that the NHL’s greatest rivals are secretly married. And there’s certainly no risk of feelings getting involved. They have a game plan.
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- English
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- 64,024
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- 16/16
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20 Feb 2026
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Mike is desperately trying to push down his newfound feelings for his best friend.
It's not working, and the swimming pool is NOT helping.
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The ball comes faster than he expects. Mike reaches up, fingers skimming rubber, and immediately loses control of it. It bonks off his hands, rebounds off his shoulder, and in his attempt to recover he stumbles backward—Right into Will.
Will lets out a surprised laugh as Mike lands against his chest, water sloshing up around them. Mike freezes, every nerve in his body lighting up at once. Will’s hands come up automatically, steadying him by the arms, trying to push him upright again.
“You good?” Will asks, still laughing, breath warm against the back of Mike’s neck.
Mike’s skin feels like it’s on fire. Will’s chest is solid and warm against his back, their bodies pressed close in a way that is absolutely not helping anything. Mike scrambles for footing, face burning, heart threatening to burst straight out of him.
“Yeah—yeah,” he says quickly, pushing himself forward and away before his brain completely abandons him.
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explicit rating is for the second chapter!Series
- Part 3 of truth or dare
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31 Jan 2026
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An anonymous writer starts writing in to Will and Robin's queer gossip/advice podcast, 'Dear Dorothy', for help on confessing his love to his best friend. Will tries to offer advice on how best to go about it, aided by his own similar experience being in love with his best friend, who coincidentally is acting really strangely...
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OR: Five times that Will unknowingly helps Mike attempt to seduce him and the one time he knowingly does.
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- English
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- 30,236
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- 6/6
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29 Jan 2026
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say there's no future for us as a pair (and though i may know, i don't care) by MrAdequateBar
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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In January of 1992, college junior Dustin Henderson and four of his classmates embark on a month-long study abroad research trip in Iceland.
What he finds, among the salty waves and the studying, is a face he never expected to see again.
Suddenly, they have four days to live four years.
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28 Jan 2026
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Will has felt this before. He’s felt it in basements and bike rides and hospital rooms. In late nights and shared looks and the way Mike always seemed to turn toward him, even when he didn’t mean to. He’d named it a long time ago, quietly, carefully, like you label a box you don’t plan to open. It fed everything else. The hope he’d already strangled. The recognition he’d buried. The longing. The wanting. The terrible, stupid belief that some things could be mutual without being spoken. That you could be seen without asking for it. That someone could know you and still stay. Understanding.
Maybe if he killed this one, the rest would finally starve.
or the finale rewritten because what the actual absolute fuck was that.
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13 Jan 2026
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The Only Girl I Ever Loved (Was Will in Drag) by ultimate_heartache
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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He’s stumbling through the house with unsteady feet, and as he nearly takes himself out on the upturned corner of a rug, somewhere in the back of his mind, he still has the common sense to realize that he shouldn’t have drank so much. He shouldn’t have drank so quickly. Stupidly of all, he shouldn’t have drank while the contents of his stomach boasted only the half-digested nutrients of a Twinkie and approximately four Bagel Bites.
In his crumbling defense, how was he supposed to know how strong that punch was?
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Or, the fic where Mike gets incredibly drunk at a Halloween party and mistakes Will for his on-again off-again girlfriend, and begs to get back together.
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10 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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- English
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- 52,632
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- 8/8
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06 Dec 2025
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The summer before they started high school she saw him every day, without fail— had fallen asleep next to each other more times than she could count, gotten the flu together when they went swimming in the public pool, worn different sets of matching temporary tattoos every week— and now it had been years since they’d even been in the same time zone. But standing here with him, studying the lines of his face, already smiling so wide her cheeks hurt, Kiara would swear it’s been seven minutes instead of the visceral seven years.
or the definitely maybe au no one asked for
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- Part 1 of definitely maybe
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03 Oct 2025
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JJ buffers, looks at her like she were to rip it all away, this sentiment. "If you don't hate my guts after. Kind of a risk since you're my best friend, Kie."
She shakes her head. "I won't hate you. I want it." but then there's a long, wallowed sigh that sits in the air. "It's probably, like, a really shitty idea though. Right?"
"Shit. You're founder of the leaders, so, maybe not."
Kiara gradually grins all funny, turns to him looking at her, and all he does is smirks back.
—Kiara and JJ add benefits to their friendship.
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06 Jan 2025
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JJ opened one eye at her and smirked, “Somethin’ botherin’ you this fine evening?”
“Oh, you know, just homeless, hungry, poor, no family, and John B and I got in a fight ‘cause he keeps acting so weird … other than that, everything’s just peachy.” Sarah looked at him, turning her head to see him looking at her with a sad expression. It was an expression she’d never only really seen on JJ once before, it was a face of recognition.
“Welcome to the club,” JJ pulled his hat down over his eyes as he said, “too broke to be Kook, and apparently now, too orphaned to be a Pogue.”
Or, Sarah doesn't go with Topper. Instead, she goes back to the chateau where she finds JJ waiting for John B to come home.
OR Sarah chose one small different path that changes the trajectory of every one of the Pogue's lives.
or... Sarah just really ships Kie and JJ and will be JJ's therapist if it means he stops being an idiot and tells her he loves her. Lots of jiara, lots of pogues being pogues.
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02 Jan 2025
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“Would you…” Kie stopped, because how the hell was she supposed to ask this question? And especially to this boy. John B would have been a little too earnest and specific, Pope would have been awkward and scientific, but with JJ, everything was a joke. She couldn’t bear it if she got made fun of for this.
But JJ just blinked at her, his gaze steady and soft blue. He wasn’t the right boy, exactly, but he was the one in front of her. The one who stayed.
"Do you think you would kiss me?"
(five times Kiara kissed the wrong boy, and one time she kissed the right one - for jiara week 2023, day 6: 5+1)
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- English
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- 7,100
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- 1/1
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19 Dec 2024
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There’s the fourth member, too. JJ. Bass, the boy who sounded like every sun she had watched crawl over the horizon from the beach. The boy whose gaze she had met in the crowd like their eyes were magnets seeking each other out. Quietest onstage, but used his instrument like he was born with it. He doesn’t go for a towel or a journalist: instead, one of the roadies come up to him, takes his bass, then tapes up his thumb with gaffa tape and cotton wool. There’s a line of dried blood that runs down the inside of his palm, and he sucks it into his mouth, pink mouth becoming even pinker. His hair, dusty blond, dark gold with perspiration, sticks to his forehead.
Kie thinks, oh.
or, Kiara is a music journalist waiting for her big break, and JJ is the bassist in a band that might just be the answer.
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- English
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- 87,911
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- 11/11
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14 Dec 2024
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It starts with Pope, like most insanity does.
“I just don’t get why it’s a compulsory course for pathology,” Pope says. “I’m here for the dead bodies, I don’t care why the killers did it.”
JJ chuckles. “Dude, don’t say that to anybody but us.”OR- the Pogues go to college and Sarah and Kie are their neighbours who have a serial killer podcast
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12 Dec 2024
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“Bless your heart, you really are new to this. Good for y’all, though. I’m glad this ship is… accepting.”
Eddie straightens in his seat. “What does that mean?”
All four wince as a young man taps the microphone onstage.
“Testing, testing,” he jokes. “Welcome to the Cruisin’ Couples Trivia Tournament!”
The patrons around them cheer. Eddie digs his nails into Buck’s skin harsh enough to make him wince.
“Oh,” he breathes. “This is for couples.”
or: After getting dumped, Buck is left with two tickets to a weeklong cruise. Eddie steps in to support a friend in need, but complications arise when his friend becomes his fake husband. All's fair in love, war, and trivia.
OR or: The Cruise Fic
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- English
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- 23,202
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- 1/1
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- 295
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13 Jul 2024
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r/Relationships
u/elpaso-dad • 40dMy (M30) best friend (M27) came out as bi, and I think I’m homophobic. HELP
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Eddie Diaz takes to Reddit to figure out why he hates his best friend’s new boyfriend so much.
- Language:
- English
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06 Jul 2024
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One day, Buck will tell an interviewer that he would be happy to make movies with Eddie Diaz until the day he dies.
But first, years before that, he sees Eddie for the first time on the set of Chimney’s fifth movie.
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or, the actors au
- Language:
- English
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- 130,340
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 711
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28 May 2024
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“Family doesn’t have to be you, and Christopher, and a woman that could maybe be his mother. It can just be you and Christopher. It can be you, and Christopher, and the people around you that love you enough to never stop trying.”
“Like Buck.” Eddie doesn’t mean to voice it, but it feels nice to do it anyway.
“Sure,” Frank nods. There is a smile on his face, one that Eddie doesn’t think he’s seen before. “Like Buck.”
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Eddie Diaz’s life is going great. He’s in therapy, he’s got a great girlfriend, a great kid, his friend is getting married to the woman of his dreams, and his best friend just came out to him.
Now his best friend is dating their new friend.
Things are going great. He promises.
- Language:
- English
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- 63,960
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- 17/17
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- 502
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24 May 2024
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“For you, Eddie? I'd probably wait a thousand lifetimes."
___In 2018, Maddie is a legendary pop singer and invites Buck along to her US stadium tour as her photographer. Except, she forgets to tell him the little, slightly significant detail that one of her tour dancers happens to be his childhood best friend, Eddie Diaz, who he hasn't spoken to since Prom Night, 2008.
___A love story revealed through snippets of then and now.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 91,682
- Chapters:
- 20/20
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- 773
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14 May 2024
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we are a fresh page on the desk (filling in the blanks as we go) by melkings for MonsterRae1
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
25 Jul 2023
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"Interesting read?" Buck asks and when Eddie shoots him a confused look, he nods towards the book in his lap. "Leave The Light On?"
"Oh! Yeah, it's one of my favorite books." Eddie smiles, shy and charming. "I've read the series like, a thousand times."
"Really? Huh?" Buck feels his heart thump erratically inside of him.
Holy shit, holy shit. Eddie Diaz read his books.
Honestly, how is Buck supposed to act normal after such revelation?
"I'm actually flying to an audition right now. Hopefully to be part of the movie for the book." Eddie says and then frowns. "Oh shit, I don't know if I should've told you that."
"It's okay." He leans forward and grins, squinting one of his eyes and shrugging. "Your secret's safe with me.'or; Buck's a best seller author under a pen name, Eddie is an actor auditioning for the movie adaptation of his books, and somewhere along the way, they fall in love.
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- Part 12 of a universe of first meetings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,056
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
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19 Apr 2024