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    To only ever know the cold by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    12 Apr 2026

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    Svetlana knows about Jane. It's frankly insulting for Ilyusha to think otherwise.

    She just never expected to have to call him for help. During the Olympics. In Russia. In the dead of night.

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    Or, it's Sochi 2014 and Russia has lost to Latvia. Grigori Rozanov, not yet compromised by illness, punishes his son for shaming the family. When Svetlana finds an injured and emotionally fragile Ilya, she knows she needs somewhere safe for him to recover. And there's only one person in Russia who Sveta trusts with her Ilyusha: Canada's Golden Boy, Shane Hollander.

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    all's well that ends well (to end up with you) by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    09 Apr 2026

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    Ilya Rozanov wakes up to a best friend, a team, a family, a puppy, and best of all, a husband that loves him. The only problem? He doesn't remember any of it.

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    An amnesia fic that sees Ilya wake to a life that he loves, one that he fought for even if he can't remember what that fight looked like. With the hesitant help of Troy Barrett, he'll do everything he can to keep it.

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    Nothing That Can’t Wait by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    06 Feb 2026

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    Shane has always trusted the Montreal Voyageurs, but it seems that trust was misplaced. In a post-game interview, a reporter informs him that his parents were in a car accident before his team ever did, and everything fractures in that moment.

    Months of patterns that have excluded him finally come to a head. Shane makes a decision that detonates across the league — and his life.

    A two-shot of Shane being ready to burn it all to the ground and finally choosing himself!

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    courage [it couldn't come at a worse time] by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    22 Feb 2026

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    "Why are you not scared?"

    "I am scared," Ilya admits. "I just am tired. Of hiding me. Of hiding you. Of hiding how much I love you. I want to go to the rink— how do you say it? Authenti."

    "Authentically," Shane supplies, automatically.

    "Yes. Authentically. I want to go to the rink authentically, as me," Ilya confirms.

    Ilya looks at Shane, pauses until Shane meets his eyes. "I want to say: I, Ilya Rozanov, love a man, and that man's name is Shane Hollander."

     

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    Or, sometimes it takes a little more time, and some courage, to be with the one you love.

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    Concussion Protocol by

    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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    16 Feb 2026