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1. commotio cordis (comes with the territory) by Anonymous

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

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   2026-01-21

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   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble (Game Changers)
   • Book 6: The Long Game (Game Changers)
   • Established Relationship
   • Timeline Set Mid-'The Long Game'
   • Post-Plane Incident
   • Extended Plane Incident
   • As In: Shane Actually Has Time To Believe That Ilya Is Dead
   • Shane Genuinely Thinks That’s The Worst That Could Happen
   • Which Would Obviously Mean The Worst Is Behind Them!
   • (spoiler: is it so very NOT)
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Commotio Cordis
   • Watching The Love of Your Life Collapse On The Ice
   • Mourning
   • Shane is going through it
   • emergency contacts
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Five Stages of Grief
   • Hockey Injuries
   • Heartbreak
   • True Love
   • Feat. Ilya Rozanov: World’s Least-Bothered Victim of Blunt Force Chest Trauma
   • Observe:
   • Shane: You Almost Died Your Heart Stopped I ALMOST DIED WITH YOU
   • Ilya: Nothing STOPPED; Heart Just Threw Hissy Fit; Very Annoying
   • Shane: THEY HAD TO BRING OUT THE DEFIBRILLATOR
   • Ilya: Yes. As I Say. Very Annoying
   • Reunions
   • Caretaking
   • Cuddling
   • Desperately Seeking Proof of Life
   • The Unrivaled Intimacy of Listening To The Love of Your Life’s Still-Alive Heartbeat
   • Shane Falls Apart
   • Ilya Catches The Pieces and Tenderly Puts Him Back Together
   • Marriage Proposal
   • touch as a love language
   • Ilya Knows Shane Better Than He Knows Himself
   • (that’s what trying to hide from your own heart from a decade will do…probably)
   • Happy Ending

   Shane had truly believed that the worst was behind them.

   Mostly because his barometer for ‘worst’ had been recalibrated from a weighted mass of worry lodged in the base of his throat about league reactions, and the strain of hiding his heart, rewritten in an instant where he'd known that the worst was actually a notification bubble in a corner where it never showed, next to a name that taught Shane what it was worth to be alive at all; that opened up and spelled terror and the end of the whole goddamn world—but then it wasn't. They didn't end. Shane didn't lose. They made it through the worst.

   Surely that meant everything would be okay moving forward, since they'd already survived the worst.

   __________

   Or: Shane genuinely does believe they've made it through the storm, that the worst came for them and they walked out okay. Breathing. Alive. Together.

   Shane—waiting for his fiancé in a hotel room, watching the man he loves more than life collapse on the ice in high definition, the light vanishing from his eyes, the feed cutting just before a crash cart descends upon him—

   Shane realizes swiftly—painfully—that he was really fucking wrong.

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