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Three times Ilya can't resist marking what's his, and one time Shane decides to return the favor.
Or: Shane and Ilya's first season together on the Centaurs. Includes teasing teammates, introspection, therapy, personal growth, lots of sex and an attempt to bring home the Stanley Cup.
(Also: A story about learning how to accept your true self and all the joy that can come from that.)
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16 Feb 2026
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Never Forgotten (except the sound of her voice) by TheQueenoftheAbyss
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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'I have seen your charity in her name, Mama should not be forgotten.'
The note was short and to the point, no love for Ilya from his brother was scrawled into the familiar letters. But there was love for their mother there, and there was the fact that Andrei had sent it at all.
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Ilya's brother sends a parcel containing home video from Ilya's childhood to Canada. Ilya never expected to receive a parcel from his brother after five years of no contact, and He never expected to hear his mother's voice again.Bookmarked by merlinreader99
16 Feb 2026
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It’s Getting Late, Baby by katski for Olithepoet
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Feb 2026
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Ilya has surgery after a bad hit on the ice. Shane handles it the way he handles everything — calm, controlled, composed. Right up until Ilya wakes up from anesthesia, tugs him closer, and mumbles, “Can we go home now? It’s getting late, baby.” Shane realizes there are some versions of Ilya that only come out when the armor slips — and he falls in love all over again.
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Based off the song "Sweet Boy" by Malcom Todd.
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15 Feb 2026
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gone so long, but not so far by marigoldens
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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Shane pats Parker’s shoulder, such a genuine gesture that Ilya wonders where he’s going with this. “Do a favor for me?” He leans in a little closer, physically blocking Parker from seeing Ilya.
“What?”
Shane’s smile fades away. His voice is stern, final when he answers. “Get back to your team, and step the fuck away from my husband?”
He doesn't bother to mince his words. Not tonight, with Ilya being as exhausted as he is, and not with Ilya being uncomfortable. He rarely gets to see him this outwardly protective. He expected Shane to come over, grab his hand and lead him away from the booth with some random excuse. But this—this is Shane losing his patience for all of those manners. His only concern is Ilya.
—a collection of moments where Shane takes care of Ilya during a depressive episode.
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15 Feb 2026
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when you hold me it holds me together by hollidayparty
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Dec 2025
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They sat in silence for a few seconds and watched the surf rolling in and out, in and out. Shane eased one knee up, resting his arm across it, watching Ilya out of the corner of his eye with infinite patience.
“You wanna talk about it?” he asked, voice soft enough that the wind almost stole it.
He did want to talk. His chest was full of words. Too full. But the idea of opening all that up? Of watching Shane recoil, or worse, watching him care? It was unbearable. The thought of being comforted by Shane, of feeling that warmth and knowing he couldn’t keep it, nearly crushed him.
Ilya kept his eyes on the water, jaw tight.
Shane reached out slowly and carefully and let the tip of one finger trace the outside of Ilya’s forearm. Just a whisper of contact. A question, not a demand.
Ilya looked at him. Shane gave a small tilt of his hand, beckoning him closer.
“Come here.”
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A deviation from the All-Star weekend in Tampa:
Instead of finding Shane on the bench, it’s Ilya alone with his ghosts and falling apart in ways he never lets anyone see.
Until Shane sits beside him.
The tide is ceaseless and the night is heavy. Canon diverges; feelings don't.
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15 Feb 2026
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5 times Shane calls Ilya baby + 1 time Ilya calls Shane baby back
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- Part 1 of little
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08 Feb 2026
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the golden age of mosaic broken hearts by writinginasnowglobe
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Feb 2026
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If you ask anyone who knows even the slightest bit about hockey, they would say that Shane Hollander is one of the nicest players out there. A generational talent with talks of a dynasty.
If you ask Ilya Rozanov, he’d announce loudly that Shane Hollander is the best thing that happened to him. Don’t get it wrong; he’d still call him boring and polite and “very Canadian” and only the second best hockey player in the league. But there’d be a sparkle in his eye and a soft smile on his lips, and it wouldn’t be hard to see the pure adoration the man had for Shane Hollander. He’d mock him with “golden boy Shane Hollander,” but there’d be a thread of something hidden in his voice. Almost as if he doesn’t truly believe it.
Or, Shane Hollander left Montreal. He's not sure if all of him did, though.
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07 Feb 2026
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"If things only stay exactly like this, nothing will go wrong.
Nobody will get hurt."
Or: Ilya Rozanov has already lost a loved one to suicide. He can’t let it happen again.
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07 Feb 2026
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Mamushka by OrchidScript
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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Ilya Rozanov was not foremost in Yuna Hollander’s affections at the start. But, eventually, he has come around.
(i.e. Yuna and Ilya take their time to warming up to one another but, as the virtue goes, patience is a virtue.)
____________________Now updating with better Russian language and transliteration!
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03 Feb 2026
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Question of the Day by wilmonstan12345
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 Feb 2026
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Harris launches a new series for the Centaurs' social media: having the team answer his question of the day!
This follows the season after The Long Game, when Shane joins the team on their road to the Stanley Cup, as they answer questions like who's the hottest/funniest/most perceptive Centaur, different preferences, rituals, and more.
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- 43/43
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31 Jan 2026
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Such a Pretty Crier by Bruja_oscura
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Dec 2025
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Shane is still learning that he doesn't have to be perfect in his own relationship. Ilya is still learning the rules of Shane's bad days. So when Shane tries to push him away after a crushing loss, it leads to a tense argument. But ten years of rivalry are no match for Shane’s tears; the second he starts to cry, Ilya folds like a house of cards.
Or: Shane tries to starve himself as punishment for losing, Ilya tries to feed him, and it turns into a very soft night of pampering because Ilya is legally incapable of staying angry at a crying Shane.
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29 Jan 2026
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Hollanov by dabforpalermo
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
09 Feb 2026
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28 Jan 2026
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hot mics and hotter rivalries (or how i learned to stop worrying and let my boyfriend out us on national television) by pucksandpower
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Jan 2026
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Shane Hollander is going to murder his agent.
And he means that literally. Because his agent is the reason he’s currently wearing a hot mic during Hockey Night in Canada. Against the Ottawa Centaurs. Against Ilya.
Ilya, who has no filter. Ilya, who thinks workplace professionalism is a hilarious suggestion for other people. Ilya, who has spent a decade perfecting the art of saying absolutely unhinged things to Shane on the ice, safe in the knowledge that nobody can hear him.
Ilya, who definitely doesn’t know about the microphone.
What follows is sixty minutes of Shane’s life flashing before his eyes while his secret boyfriend enthusiastically discusses their sex life, their broken furniture, and exactly what he wants to do to Shane after the game — all broadcast to millions of viewers.
The problem? Shane can’t get a word in edgewise to warn him.
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- Part 1 of hot mics and hotter rivalries
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27 Jan 2026
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Hollanov Oneshots by GingerBaggins
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
12 Feb 2026
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A place to stir the Hollanov brain soup
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27 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I teared up in all of these, something so lovely here.
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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26 Jan 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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- 16/16
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26 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Fake marriage of my freaking dreams. Gorgeous.
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if home is a person, i don’t want a house by ThePromptWasntThisLong (shredded_potato)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jan 2026
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Shane has a notes app list titled 'Safeties.'
It's a series of physical sensations to pull him back if he drops too deep:
1. Press tongue to roof of mouth
2. Grip something cold
3. Say your own name out loud
The last one simply says:
4. Wait for him. He always comes back.
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- Part 13 of Cross-Checked & Kissed (smut oneshots)
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25 Jan 2026
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don't leave me high (don't leave me dry) by emonlispenardstreet
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Feb 2026
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hollyadmirals24: Male seeking help improving at oral sex. Clean, ready to learn and willing to host. M only. Strictly platonic. Message for details.
or: shane and ilya are hockey players for the mcgill marauders. after a disastrous night with rose, shane puts a drunken ad on craigslist asking for help with oral sex. his teammate, ilya, replies.
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- 16/19
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- 1,436
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25 Jan 2026
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something you can fix by some1_around
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
28 Jan 2026
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24 Jan 2026
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They gave me the option to transfer you.
I said yes.
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It felt like a betrayal, the lawsuit - and Bobby didn't want to give Buck the chance to hurt any of them again. Not on the job, not face to face, not at all. So when he's asked if they want the kid back, it's easy to spit out the answer.A refusal.
But when Buck finds his way to the 217, he gets a little bit of time to learn if he really wants to be a firefighter. Or if he really just wanted to go home.
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- 18/18
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Bookmarked by merlinreader99
31 Dec 2025