there_must_be_a_lock
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- Supernatural (TV 2005) (74)
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Denial by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 May 2026
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When he releases his grip on Shane’s chin, drags his knuckles along Shane’s jaw, Shane follows the touch, chasing Ilya’s fingers with his mouth.
Fuck. He is so fucking transparent. So clearly fucking vulnerable. A careless move could break him, and Ilya is not the sort of person who can be trusted with fragile things. People don’t trust him with much at all.
[Or: five times Shane doesn't use a safeword, and one time Ilya does.]
Series
- Part 6 of Hollanov standalones
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This is the Map of My Heart by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Marvel, DCU, Red Hood: Lost Days
24 Apr 2026
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Odds are good someone will want to put Bucky in a box of his own again, before this is all over. Might be a prison cell, if the government has its way. Might be another cryo tank. Might be a cage built for a larger-than-average lab rat.
They’re welcome to try. He’s not going back.
[Or: the one where Bucky and Jason chase down Hydra, learn how to be in love, and eventually find their way home.]
Series
- Part 2 of Bulletproof Heart
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Where Nobody Gives A Damn by there_must_be_a_lock for HelgaPitakisLeftEyebrow
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Mar 2026
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Ilya’s expression goes so open and earnest that it’s hard to look at him, and he says softly, “Even if you were worst dancer in the world, I would want to dance with you. Because you are you, and we get to dance now.”
“Oh,” Shane blurts out, eyes hot.
“But if you are worried, I can dance bad too!” Ilya takes a step back and does a weird funky-chicken-meets-running-man move, utterly unselfconscious, while Shane buries his face in his hands and groans. Then he steps close again, curling his hands around Shane’s hips, with a wheedling smile and fluttering lashes. “We make perfect pair, yes?”
“Jesus, you’re such a fucking asshole,” Shane says, impossibly fond. “Yeah, okay.”
[Or: the Hollander-Rozanovs do Ibiza, Ilya fails at incognito mode, and Shane gets a dance lesson.]
Series
- Part 5 of Hollanov standalones
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swear i have control (just like a universe expanding) by there_must_be_a_lock for the_abster (heart_in_paradise9393)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
20 Mar 2026
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They do not talk about what they’re doing. To acknowledge the ground beneath their feet would be to crash and burn immediately, or so Ilya assumed. Like stupid coyote cartoon running off a cliff; it’s fine, until he looks down.
But tonight Shane sits on the edge of his bed and sets his jaw and asks, “It’s not just me, right?”
Shane, apparently, just noticed gravity.
[Or: a missing scene from Episode 5, in which Ilya is Totally Fine, obviously, and they have sex about it.]
Series
- Part 1 of bluebird
- Part 3 of Hollanov standalones
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Assumptions by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Mar 2026
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Countless times people made assumptions about Shane and Ilya's sex life + a few times they learned the truth.
[Or: timestamps, social media tangents, and other bits of fluff related to "5 Times Shane and Ilya Matched Each Other's Freak."]
Series
- Part 3 of Compatible
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Hollanov standalones by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
25 May 2026
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All my Hollanov fics that can be read on their own, regardless of whether they're also part of another series.
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- 6
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Missing scenes from the show, as told through Ilya's relationship with vulnerability and tenderness and caretaking and control.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?- "Bluebird," by Charles Bukowski
- Words:
- 6,138
- Works:
- 1
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- 15
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Compatible by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Mar 2026
- Words:
- 21,842
- Works:
- 4
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- 355
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Outlaws-centric Punk AU by meep0_0meep, there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Marvel, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
06 Nov 2025
- Words:
- 15,517
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- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 15
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All The Devils by there_must_be_a_lock
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Nov 2025
- Words:
- 50,233
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 128
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the best laid plans by Sporkess
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Mar 2026
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When Ilya and Shane decide they want a plan to let them soften the rivalry and (maybe, eventually) come out without it being an NHL emergency, they ask Yuna for help. Yuna's got a 6 stage plan and it is absolutely, definitely going to work.
Series
- Part 5 of It starts in an elevator
- Language:
- English
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- 96,337
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- 22/22
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
26 May 2026
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Rozanov made a dismissive noise. “No, no, I will pick you up. Send me your address.”
“I’m not giving you my home address.”
“Why not!”
“Because you’ll probably post it on social media to psych me out before our next game.”
That made Rozanov laugh. “It is good idea,” he said. Stopped laughing. Started again. Blew out a breath like he had to get himself together. “I might do this to you,” he allowed, “but you have nice boyfriend living with you now. I would not do this to him. You are safe.”
In which Ilya Rozanov adopts himself into Scott and Kip's household and refuses to leave. Kip finds this very sweet. Scott is going to kill him.
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
23 Apr 2026
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"Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."
"You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"
"I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."
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Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.
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- Part 10 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,171
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
18 Apr 2026
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Media: Here is the goodest most normal boy.
Me: Oh so he’s a lil fucked up, got it. Here he is developing a bruise kink on top of everything else going on.Something’s different, just in general. Like wearing sunglasses, a filter of sorts over everything, but if Shane was in any way honest with himself, he’d know it was more like going without for the first time.
He’s painfully aware of his body these days; how it looks, how it moves, how it responds to… stimuli. And it is responding, lately. His bruises, too: always just there, so used to them they’d barely registered anymore, but recently there’s been a sort of constant hum of them at the edge of his awareness. It’s a layer of input he really doesn’t need right now, busy as he is.
But he’s been woken up. Restless. Needy.
Late in bed, when all his chores are done, fingers travel up to his collarbone, where the newest acquisition is waiting for him.
Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
06 Apr 2026
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“No one else knows of these,” Ilya tells him, and there it is, that glint of possessiveness in Hollander’s eyes. It makes Ilya’s head reel. And it is why he doesn’t hesitate to say, “I could mark you just like that. If you want.”
“Would last longer than bruises,” Ilya continues. “Maybe forever.”
Series
- Part 1 of Through-and-Through
- Language:
- English
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Bookmarked by there_must_be_a_lock
29 Mar 2026