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under the chinook arch by quietferality
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-13
In another life, Irina Rozanova dies. In this one, she takes twelve year old Ilya and runs. They arrive in Calgary, Alberta, with two passports and no luggage. Years later, hockey still carries Ilya toward Shane Hollander, but this time, they don't meet as rivals and instead build something neither of them is ready for. But Ilya has learned never to trust warmth in the middle of winter. The cold always comes back.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 182,279
- Chapters:
- 39/39
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #89750271
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Drawing a Line by LovelyRose28
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-02
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been best friends since they were twelve. They were attached at the hip, as much as two straight guys could be. Everyone accepted that Shane and Ilya were just being Shane and Ilya. Or: Shane and Ilya think they know where to draw the line between straight best friends and whatever the hell they keep doing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,359
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #87404031
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Hollander and the Rockstar by zwischenimmerundnie
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-30
It was supposed to be just another night out with his friends. Music, a couple drinks and some conversation, but when Shane reunites with someone from his past, feelings are brought back to the surface and he will have to decide whether or not to confront them.
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- English
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- 27,150
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86440966
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The Other Option by AllieHollanov
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-17
Ilya. He is still sleeping fitfully in Irina’s bed, face crumpled and lips turned down. Irina leans over him and presses a single kiss to the crease between his eyebrows, and then leans back just enough to watch Ilya’s big, blue eyes blink open at her. She holds a finger against her lips, waiting until Ilya nods before she straightens up and beckons him to get out of bed. When Ilya is standing, Irina helps him into a clean sweater, his coat, scarf, and hat. Ilya looks terribly confused, but allows himself to be dressed like a toddler, watching his mother curiously but without question. He is twelve years old, certainly old enough to dress himself, and maybe Grigory has a point when he insists that Irina coddles Ilya too much, but, good heavens, that face, how could she not? It is not until Ilya notices the suitcase by the bedroom door that his expression changes. His eyes darken at first, and then his face screws up minutely, looking at Irina with thinly veiled horror. “Be completely silent, solnyshko,” Irina breathes. “We have to go.” Irina Rozanova chooses differently.
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- English
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- 206,821
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- 27/27
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #86205906
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THIS IS WHO / HAD A CRUSH ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-08
There's another baby photo trend going around social media, and since the last one went over so well, Harris wants the team to try it. It's the one where they put a statement about an adult over a picture of them as a baby, like a cherubic little baby Ilya captioned "THIS IS WHO PUNCHED A REFEREE." But this time, the Centaurs staff are getting in on the action, and Harris shows his own version to the team as an example.
When Shane sees little tiny Harris, he's struck literally speechless. He's been hanging out with Harris since before he was officially a Centaur. How did he never recognize that the team's social media manager was his favorite teammate from junior skills clinics? How did he not realize, with the benefit of hindsight and also knowing his sexuality, that Harris was his biggest childhood crush?
(No angst, no cheating, no insecurity. It's all good times and fond memories here!)
- Part 3 of HR surprises/reveals
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- English
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- 4,539
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #86377466
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He isn't going to talk to Shane about it –or God forbid, stop it– before this goes any further. To be completely honest, Ilya can imagine things a lot worse than Shane with his big doe eyes staring at him, his perfect plush lips opening just slightly. Or Shane has an obsession and his best friend is more than willing to help.
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #86169026
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Shane flees to the cottage four hours before his marriage to his biggest hater, Ilya Rozanov. He doesn’t expect to find Ilya, who thought of jilting him first, at his destination.
- Part 3 of Gwen’s heated rivalry fics
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- English
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- 40,026
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- 6/6
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83426591
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“Oh my god, oh my god. Seriously, this is the best. I can’t believe you’re my neighbour. I’m calling it now, Hollander. This right here is the beginning of a friendship that will go down in history.” Ilya is 10 years old when his family moves from Jacksonville, Florida to small town Ontario. There, he forms an unexpected friendship with Shane, the boy living on the ginseng farm across the street. As they grow up and grow apart, their paths continue to cross at high school hockey games, in tabloid articles, and at one particular intimate Muskoka cottage. OR: A childhood friends to strangers to lovers AU in which Shane Hollander (up and coming indie rock star) and Ilya Rozanov (brooding artist) take nearly fifteen years to figure their shit out.
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- English
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- 157,018
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- 33/33
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77742121
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From his first nervous smile, Shane started tearing down Svetlana's understanding of who he was beyond hockey. Within moments, she made up her mind to build a friendship with Ilya's other favorite person. Fortunately, he was just as determined meet her halfway.
Welcome to the beginning of a friendship built on two people's love for Ilya and a desire to see him happy.
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- English
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- 4,201
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #84631776
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Ilya returns to Boston after the cottage and finds Svetlana waiting in his kitchen. With wine and vodka and ready to look him straight in the eye and ask, “So it went well then, with your Shane?”
Ilya caves and tells her everything. Because clearly she already knows. She always knows.
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“I want him to meet you,” Ilya says.
She beams at him then, nodding, but he winces, adds, “Although maybe I didn’t do a very good job of... he’s jealous of you, I think. My fault. He might not want to meet you. He might... Ah, blyat.”
Sveta is giving him another look. Another ‘you are very stupid but I love you’ look. He waits her out.
Sveta sighs. “So you are telling me that you were here in Boston, burning down everything around you because he was dating Rose Landry. And that boy was sitting at home jealous of me.”
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- English
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- 1,052
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83851621
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You're all I ever wanted in my life by mickeysmyheart
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-27
When Shane Hollander moves to Boston to be with his longtime boyfriend, he doesn't expect to start developing feelings for his boyfriend's oldest friend and roommate, Ilya Rozanov.
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- English
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- 45,741
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81960711
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A day after Ilya asks Shane if he’d marry him when they turn thirty, Ilya’s mother dies. Within a week, Ilya and his family return to Russia, leaving behind nothing but an empty house next door. Eighteen years later, Shane stumbles across a comment on his Instagram that brings back a flood of memories, emotions, and feelings that he’d thought were long buried.
- Part 1 of where we return
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- English
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- 22,301
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- 4/4
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81051661
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hard to keep it all inside by aurora_chiroptera
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-20
Irina had always been scared that Grigori’s violent anger would be passed down to their sons. She’d hoped Ilya would be different. But things were more complicated than that. Or, three times Irina was called to get her son because Ilya had punched someone. And one time when someone had his back instead...
- Part 3 of what’s the price of being young
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81514426
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“This is Ilya. Ilya Rez-Ruz…” “Rozanov”, The boy said. Shane was surprised by the strange accent and deep voice of a boy his age. “Yes. Ilya Rozanov. He is your age, and he comes all the way from Russia. He doesn’t really know a lot of English, so Cooper and I have thought that it would be very helpful for both of you to be together. You can help him with the language, and, believe me, he can teach you a lot from hockey. He’s European; they do things differently there. Yes?” or; Shane and Ilya go to the same hockey summer camp every year. How much can their relationship change during those 5 years?
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- English
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- 39,960
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- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76228921
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The straps of Shane’s hockey bag dug into his shoulders as he stood by the welcome table and hoped that this year, it would be easier. It was reasonable, in his second year at camp, to expect that he wouldn’t be so caught up in everything that wasn't hockey, what to eat and where to go and who to talk to. Maybe this year, because he knew how everything would work, the routines and the expectations, he could actually make some friends.
Shane hugged his parents goodbye and assured them that he would be fine, just like he was last year—he hadn’t been fine, he’d been miserable, but there’d been hockey so it had been worth it—and then watched them drive away with only the smallest pit of fear in his stomach. He was hopeful. He was optimistic.
And then Shane locked eyes with Ilya, and something in that look told him that he was wrong, that he shouldn’t be sure of anything, that this person was going to divide his life into two pieces and he was helpless to stop it.
(or, after ilya's mother died, he was sent to live in canada with his aunt)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,798
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77240571
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in this life and the next by lisa6
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-11
“Why do you think it’s the same person every time?” Ilya asked, smiling. His phone disappeared back in his jeans pocket. “I’m hot. Lots of women want me to fuck them.” Svetlana leaned in close to his ear. “And men?” Or: ever since they were children, Svetlana Vetrova has always been there for Ilya Rozanov, her best friend in the world.
- Part 2 of
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- English
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- 7,178
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77462976
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Before ascending the throne, omega Shane Hollander must choose his bethroted, the one with whom he is destined to spend all his springs, but who will also be the father of his children, the one who must leave a mark on his neck. Therefore, it is not a decision to be taken lightly.
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- English
- Words:
- 66,197
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #75299001
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Babe for the Weekend - Hollanov by Wellington28
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-03
Ilya was going to murder him. He should have just corrected Scott. Should have said, "No, that's my best friend, we grew up together." Simple. But instead he'd agreed to bring his nonexistent boyfriend on the trip like an idiot. How was he going to talk Ilya into this? -or- The one where Shane accidentally lets his coworkers assume Ilya is his boyfriend and instead of telling them the truth, he convinces Ilya to play along for the weekend.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,101
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76974601
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Ilya wishes this could be easy for them, like back when they were kids, camping under the stars in Shane’s parent’s backyard. Things didn’t seem so big then, so terrifying. Ilya fell in love with Shane when he was 16 too, he found him boring and naïve and innocent, but he was also beautiful and endearing and he gave Ilya everything he didn’t know he needed. A friend, a companion, a partner, a family. He’d been with him through all the big moments in Ilya’s life, and no matter how hard he tried to fight it, he knew. Falling for Shane Hollander would always be inevitable for him. — Or Shane and Ilya meet a year before Heated Rivalry and Ilya spends two summers with the Hollanders before their rookie year. AU
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,065
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76873246
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-22
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?
- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,455
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 6 versions
- AO3:
- #76003496