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"I am going to call him," Ilya said.
Or how Ilya drunkenly comes out to the Raiders and they stop him from making a call he'll regret.
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can we just go home now by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-24
Marlow knows better than to push. Everyone’s got their own shit, especially on the road. But there’s only so many nights you can wake up to someone falling apart before it stops being something you can ignore.
// Ilya hasn’t seen his mother in over ten years. Lately, he sees her every night.
- Part 3 of hard conversations
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“What? Hollander too scared to face me?” Ilya chirps, because if he goes another minute without at least mentioning the man that has been consuming his every thought for two weeks he might go insane. He needs someone else to acknowledge his existence, his absence, to fucking tell him what’s going on so he can finally get it off his mind. It’s just a stupid mystery. That’s why it bugs him.
And then Hayden Pike looks up. Dark bruised circles under his eyes, face pale like a sheet, eyes red rimmed and puffy like he has been crying all day. The face of a man mourning.
Ilya feels like the ice might crack under him. Something’s wrong with Shane.
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Set pre-Tuna melt: something has happened to Shane Hollander, but of course no one is telling his life long rival what happened.
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“Wait, I could totally see that,” Connors says. “She wears reading glasses and he’s, like, obsessed with them. Sometimes on the road, he calls her from the bathroom and I hear him begging her to put them on.” “The glasses! I heard that too.” Shit, it must be a fetish, right? She doesn’t just happen to be old. Rozy likes that she’s old. Or: Cliff figures out why Ilya’s keeping his Montreal girl a secret. She’s not a girl at all...she's an elderly woman. Or maybe an elderly man?
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Lily:
I want to see you tonight.Oh, that was safe. A classic really. Ilya went to type something deeply horny as a followup to get Shane riled up before he got to the hotel room, but he blinked and saw he had already sent a second text.
Lily:
I want to hold you close, and find out if you have any new freckles. I need to know, so next time I picture you, I do it right.Ilya throws his phone across the room. It hits the wall, where it falls to the floor and lays face-up, screen dark. Oh, this was bad.
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Ilya gets truth spelled. What secrets could possibly slip out?- Language:
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Look in the mirror at you looking at me by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-20
Cliff isn’t proud of it, but his first thought when he sees the video is that he knew Roz was going to be involved in some kind of sex scandal one day. He always kind of assumed there was a sex tape out there somewhere, that would end up spreading like wildfire.
It’s just that the scandal in Cliff’s mind involved something more like the adulterous wife of a Voyageur, and less like the anonymous dick of some guy in a club bathroom.
So, point to Roz, he guesses, for still managing to surprise him after all these years.
- Part 2 of The body aches when you tell it to quit
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It's not the worst thing Cliff's ever done, by far, but he wouldn't exactly say he's proud of it either. It's surprisingly easy to get the number from Roz's phone, despite it being practically glued to his hand all the time. But 8 shots and 3 beers will do that to a man, Cliff supposes - even a Russian one. He's doing this for Roz, and for the team. Sure, the boys had probably been joking when they'd mentioned going "straight to source" to solve The Montreal Jane Problem, but the last 6 weeks had been frankly unbearable. He wasn't sure what exactly Roz had done, but it had to be fixable. They'd been texting for years, for christ's sake. Undoubtedly messy and unconventional, but clearly this Jane was way more important than Roz was willing to admit. Maybe even to himself. Maybe that was the problem. _________________ (Or, Cliff starts texting "Jane" before the 2017 All Star Game, and things sort of go from there.)
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Alright. Okay. He’s doing this. If he thinks about it, there could be worse places to come out than in a room full of people ready to scold him for a perceived use of a slur.
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Or: Ilya comes out to the Raiders. It takes Cliff Marlow some time, and many questions, but eventually he puts two and two together.- Language:
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It's all Marly's fault.
He just had to mention 'Jane from Montreal' during an interview. And then JJ went and tweeted about 'Boston Lily'.
And sure, Shane and Ilya are out and married now, but there are some things they had managed to keep private, their burner twitter accounts for one. But with the names Jane and Lily out there and their apparent 'very recognizable talking patterns' it took the internet 0.5 seconds to find them. And now Shane and Ilya have to deal with their friends publicly reacting to things they thought would forever remain anonymous.
Surprising everyone, Ilya is the one suffering the most.
Or.
The Admirals, Metros and Raiders react to Hollanov burner accounts tweets.
- Part 4 of Heated Rivalry Oneshots
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Wish babies don’t exist, but Ilya still somehow ends up with a kid – 9 months after winning the cup. And since he’s never been one to back down from a challenge, he’s determined to also win at parenthood… and along the way, realises that he has the village it takes to raise a kid right around him already.
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it's just pain (memories ring like tinnitus) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-14
Most days it felt like Alexei didn’t want a younger brother at all—like he would have been happier if Ilya had never been born, or if he’d gotten a brother that was less clingy, less soft.
But Alexei could’ve pushed him down the stairs and broken every bone in his body, and Ilya would’ve probably begged him to do it again, if it meant he’d spend more time with him.
or: Ilya's father doesn't die during the 2016/2017 season. His brother does.
- Part 2 of my moon my man
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At some point, with JJ and Carmichael punching each other on the other side of the rink, Marleau skates nonchalantly closer to Shane. He doesn't seem aggressive, but Shane braces himself just in case.
Marleau surprises him, though. He talks under his breath, not even a chirp. "Hollander, are you flying back tomorrow?"
Shane looks at him. Most of the cameras are looking away and Marleau is clearly trying to be surreptitious. Shane nods at him. Marleau looks away and he says. "I'll go to the bar in your hotel at eleven thirty. I want to talk to you about something. Be there, yeah?"
Before Shane can actually answer, he skates away.
Cliff and Shane have an enlightening conversation. Shane might need to kill Ilya afterwards.
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my best friend's new best friend by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-13
Roz couldn’t take three hours off when he was in Boston to see Cliff, but somehow managed to kick off a whole ass friendship with his worst enemy when the guy lived two hours away? Make that make sense! As far as Cliff knew, Hollander didn’t even like any of the things that Roz liked – partying or clubbing or drinking. What did Hollander have that Cliff didn’t? Besides a second Cup? And several MVP awards? And multiple broken records?
Oh god. Had Roz picked Hollander as his new best friend because he was better than Cliff at hockey?
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Cliff is very proud to be Ilya Rozanov's best friend (or at least his best male friend). But then Ilya moves to Ottawa, dodges Cliff's attempts to hang out and, oh yeah, suddenly announces a close friendship with a guy he's hated for most of a decade. This would be much simpler to deal with if Cliff had any idea how to talk to Roz about feelings. Or how to talk about feelings at all.
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Ilya Rozanov returns from the 2017 All Stars different from how he left for them.
Then his father dies, and he takes the call in their locker room after a game, and Cliff Marleau sees more than people think.
And then Shane Hollander goes down, and Ilya Rozanov fucking loses it - not to the untrained eye, no, but Cliff Marleau has lived out of the locker next to this kid for the past seven years.
He’s also not a fucking idiot.
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Missing moments from Boston
Or,
How Cliff Marleau figures it out
- Part 1 of The Rivalry Files
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Contrary to popular belief, Cliff Marleau is not a complete idiot. He’s not exactly the sharpest knife or tool or whatever the fuck—too many concussions, not enough, like, reading or whatever—but he knows how to smell a rat. And Ilya Rozanov quietly moving to Ottawa as a free agent? Rat fucking central. Especially—especially, because Cliff’s 90% sure he knows why.
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And I could give you my apologies by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-08
After the first game Ilya plays in Boston since moving to Ottawa, he and Cliff Marlow talk.
Technically takes place within the "Shane's Lily"/"Yuna's Boys" universe, but works as a standalone.
- Part 3 of Yuna's Boys
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Ilya ‘My husband Shane Hollander’ Rozanov by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-07
The Boston Bears find out that Ilya Rozanov is extremely obnoxious about being married.
or, Ilya Rozanov is forced to remember that his former Stanley Cup winning roster was made up of dumb hockey players.
POV Cliff Marlow because I think he's hot.
- Part 1 of Just Game Changer things that my brain needs to write
- Part 2 of Chronicles of the Boston bar with the sticky tables
- Part 2 of Hammer/Sebbin is my close personal headcanon
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Cliff notices things. Like the fact that his best friend isn’t straight.
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Operation Romeo & Juliet by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-05
Cliff hates the waiting game, mostly because it goes on way too long. A year. A year of trying to find a moment to bring up the ring, casually mentioning Jane where it won’t push Roz away, making exasperated eye contact with his teammates with each failed lead.
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The Boston Bears just want their captain to be happy, they don't mean to uncover the most well kept secret in the NHL.
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It's Nice to Have a Friend by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-05
When Cliff Marlow falls in love for the first time, he can't stop talking about it. Ilya can relate but Shane is still a secret. Slowly, he starts to consider letting Marlow have the occasional detail about his clandestine romance. After all, it's nice to have someone to confide in, even if you leave out most of the truth.
Or--Shane gets Hayden, Ilya needs a pal too.
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