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clap when you land by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-24
AU — The Centaurs’ plane crashes. No deaths are reported, and that should be a relief.
Ilya survives. He just isn’t waking up.
As Shane waits, the world continues on, and he’s forced to confront just how fragile their life truly is.
Completed
- Part 1 of clap when you land
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 120,401
- Chapters:
- 31/31
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #76375311
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"I'm okay. I'm right here."
"You have not been. You have not been okay, and you have not been right here, and I did not know—"
"Nobody knew. I disappeared, Ilya, I wanted to. I needed to."
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it's been years since ilya saw shane hollander. he's different now.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,913
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #94610046
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(If The Plane Goes Down) I'll Remember Where The Love Was Found by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-27
"If this is it," Shane whispered, so quietly only Ilya could hear, "you won't face a single second of it alone."
Ilya closed his eyes. His fingers tightened around Shane's hand with everything he had left.
He saw the fear in Ilya’s eyes.
Then he saw nothing.
*******
It was supposed to be an ordinary flight. Instead, it becomes the worst day of their lives.
They were never meant to be on the same plane. Then the unthinkable happens. It goes down.
As terrified passengers flee the wreckage, Shane refuses to abandon the man he loves, even as rescuers and survivors alike order him to get out. Trapped beneath twisted metal, Ilya is running out of time. And while they wait for help, the secret they've spent years protecting slips into the hands of strangers with phones.
In an instant, the whole world is watching. Hockey can burn. The headlines can wait.
Shane Hollander has exactly one job: keep Ilya alive.
Because if they survive this, he'll have to protect more than Ilya's life. He'll have to protect everything they've built together against impossible odds.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 137,668
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87880721
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It's just something about you (All the things you do) by cowboylikeme4me
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-09-26
12:00 AM- January 1st, 2004, 12 years old. Ilya clumsily shifts forward, knocking their noses together. Shane's breath hitches at the contact. Then all he feels is Ilya’s lips making contact with the corner of his mouth. All his senses leave his body. His mind is blank. The only things that exists are hazel eyes, golden curls, and the Russian boy in front of him, whose lips feel soft against Shane's or Shane and Ilya meet at boarding school in Canada in 2003. They would die for each other, they are best friends...they are also totally in love with one another and are just too stubborn and scared to admit it out loud.
- Part 1 of All the things you do AU…
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 126,198
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78604276
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The Husband's Out Of The Bag by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-20
“Hollander, go back to your bench or—”
And… he just snaps. Throwing away the helmet he wasn’t aware he’s taken off, he barks, his voice booming. “That’s my fucking husband laying on the ice. I have every fucking right to he here. He’s my husband. I make the decisions here. If he…”—he can’t bring himself to complete the sentence, his eyes welling up with unshed tears—“If anything happens to him, all of you, every single fucking one of you, will answer to me. And rest assured, if you fuck up because you are too busy yelling at me to get him the help need needs, I will not be as gracious as I am being right now.”
The uproar in the arena is deafening as the ref finally skates out of his way, but Shane is by Ilya’s side now, his hand clutching his husband's. “I am here, baby,” he repeats over and over again. First in English, then in Russian. “You are okay. You are going to be okay, my love.”
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(Secret) Married life has been very generous to Shane and Ilya following a drunken night in 2015. Until Ilya collapses on ice, that is.
- Part 2 of What Happens in Vegas
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,572
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #92977711
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“The medics are coming Shane. Terrys coming okay, he’ll help you” Luca’s voice shakes as he watches in distress. He makes eye contact with Ilya, clearly looking for help.
“Shane Moya Lyubov, I’m here” Ilya kneels down next to Shane. Hands hovering, unsure where to touch his husband.
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Comeau hurts Shane in a targeted attack on the ice and Ilya seeks revenge.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,261
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90700521
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Mr. Facilities Tech by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-12
Ilya was barely back from the World Juniors and had barely met Shane Hollander when his hockey career was taken from him. He was so close to escaping everything in Russia, only to be caught by his brother, ruined by his father, and forced to marry Svetlana to escape.
Now he's finally on his own, with his shitty studio apartment, his shitty job as a facilities tech in the Raider's Stadium, and his overall shitty life. Nothing could get worse from here, and he has no reason to think it'll get better. Until he runs into Shane fucking Hollander while smoking behind a club, maybe he could get a second chance with the man he's been secretly crushing on for years?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 101,090
- Chapters:
- 14/16
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83603761
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give me no sympathy (it's the mercy I can't take) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-01
When the MLH announces all games are cancelled for the rest of the evening, Shane Hollander knows something is weirdly wrong. There's no precedent for it in league history. A string of messages from Ilya and a phone call from his mother confirm the worst: something has happened, and he doesn't know what.
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The Centaurs plane crash is serious. In the aftermath, life changes for Ilya completely, and Shane has to learn how he fits in.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 78,070
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81762981
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We'll Just Use It To Our Advantage by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-07-31
When Shane goes down on the ice, he isn't the only one to get hurt, and Ilya, broken and concussed, doesn't exactly keep his cool. Drugged up and so deeply in love they can't bear the thought of recovering apart, they come up with a plan to explain their sudden public friendship.
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The long game isn't quite so long anymore, and the boys use the Irina Foundation as it was originally intended.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 78,878
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87871661
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I Don’t Wanna Be In Love by MoreFicsPlease
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-29
Ilya Rozanov is traded to the Ottawa Centaurs after becoming a free agent and finds himself thrown into an almost instant brotherly bond with his new alternate captain, Cliff Marleau; finding they easily connect both on and off the ice as if they’ve known each other their entire lives. Happier than he’s ever been in what, for the first time in his life, feels like a real pack, Ilya suddenly finds himself faced with a decision that will break his heart no matter what path he chooses. Will it hurt more to lose his new brother, and likely the pack with him, or turn his back on the chance at his perfect mate? Or: Ilya unwittingly falls for Cliff ’s ex
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,623
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87195941
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Shane and Ilya have everything they wanted. A home together, engagement rings on their fingers, and a locker room that feels like family. But outside their safe bubble, an unsettling tension is quietly building, leaving Shane constantly on edge. When their illusion of safety is shattered, Shane and Ilya are left to lean on the fierce loyalty of their team to survive the fallout
- Part 2 of The Minnesota Nomads
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,482
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85541491
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Burning My Cathedrals by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-02
In 2016, Shane walked out of Ilya's life and never looked back.
In 2017, Ilya poured gasoline all over his career, struck a match, and walked away from the ashes.
In 2026, their paths cross again at the scene of a car accident that kills Shane’s wife Rose and injures both Shane and his 4 year old daughter, Sophie.
Suddenly, the quiet, unassuming life that Ilya has worked so hard to build for himself crumbles as he confronts the fact that he's never gotten over Shane Hollander.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,880
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85074746
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Shane leaves professional hockey before locker room homophobia and contractual obligations can destroy him.
Somehow, inexplicably, he winds up on the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team.
He coaches skating for kids in the off season.
For the first time in years, Shane has fun again.
(He doesn't think about Ilya Rozanov or those two nights they shared together)
(He doesn't give Rozanov his number when, years later, they reunite)
(Except actually he does)
(It's the best thing he's ever done)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,835
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83299681
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The day after getting kicked out of the playoffs by the Centaurs, Hayden Pike shows up for a post-series debrief along with the rest of the Metros. They are greeted by a roomful of cops, a recording of a late-night 911 call, and an empty chair where Shane Hollander should be.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,539
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84745561
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I love you through everything by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-07
Ilya sat up a little straighter and scoffed, “Yes yes. Mr. FBI man thought I was big Russian assassin. I tried to tell him business man life was not that exciting. Not everyone that goes to military school is hit man like in movies.” He rolled his eyes as Scott continued.
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There's a hit man on the loose. Shane is a government agent, Hayden and Scott work at the FBI. Will they be able to find who ever is responsible for multiple murders?
Title - I love you through everything. I'm not actually the biggest Drake fan, but this line in Jungle seemed appropriate for this.
One of my lovely readers was inspired to draw me a cover art for this fic. I'm so happy they loved it enough and wanted everyone to see it. You can see the original link here Thank you again to wiccawicca!!!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 464,919
- Chapters:
- 66/66
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80088966
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The Centaurs had already been through one plane emergency. What are the chances of them being in another?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,785
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80123401
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how you loved me then by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-27
Shane Hollander has everything. A loving husband, a settled routine, and a life that finally makes sense. And then he wakes up.
Or: The hit Shane takes during the game vs. Boston leaves him in a coma, where he spends four years with Ilya by his side, building their life together. When he wakes up and learns that none of it was real, he’s left to face a reality that no longer matches what he knows.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,925
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83858126
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called it an international emergency in his address to the Canadian public. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed Russia was devoting every resource to it. The endless loops of crawling chyrons titled it Hockey Held Hostage. Eventually, Wikipedia settled on ‘The Sochi Affair’:
The Sochi Affair (Russian: Сочинское дело; French: affaire Sotchi) was a multinational hostage and extortion crisis that began on Thursday, February 20, 2014, when Olympic ice hockey players, Shane Hollander of Canada and Ilya Rozanov of Russia, were abducted from the Iceberg Skating Palace during the Sochi Winter Olympics and held hostage in southwestern Kazakhstan for 3 months, 19 days.
The world was captivated when Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander went missing, but no one will ever know what they found in the face of survival.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,300
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83440566
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Not a New Man (Or Crispy Realization) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-19
Ilya Rozanov told the hockey gods his plans: sign in Ottawa, start a charity named after his mother, date Shane Hollander, play hockey until the shelves in the trophy room collapse, retire, come out (?), kiss his someday husband in every boring restaurant and boring grocery store and public place imaginable.
After being carted off the ice with a career-threatening injury, Ilya has the distinct feeling he is being laughed at.
- Part 1 of Good Winter
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,070
- Chapters:
- 9/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76752126
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A Danger to Yourself or Others by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-15
Galina stopped writing to look at Ilya. "Do you think he'd be willing to talk to you next time it happens, even if it's late?"
Ilya's stomach turned over. He didn't even want to consider it, but he knew the answer. "Yes. But he silences his phone at night."
"Most phones these days have an option to let certain numbers ring through, even on Do Not Disturb. Do you think he'd be open to setting that up for you?"
Imagining that conversation made Ilya nauseous. Yes, no fucking doubt, Shane would be open to it if Ilya explained the reason. "I'm not going to ask him to do that."
Set during The Long Game, an alternate version where the plane scene doesn't happen. Instead, there's this: a car crash, a therapist's duty to report, and an urgent reckoning with priorities.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,182
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81233801