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Men do not cry. Ilya knows this, as much as he knows that being strong is only part of the battle ahead of him; being seen to be strong matters more. Ilya is twelve years old, and no longer a child. It has been four long, brittle days since his mother— since her accident.
The practice rink is busy, tonight. Under the stern tutelage of Coach Baranov, everyone here is fighting to justify their time on the ice. Hockey, Baranov tells them, often, is not a team sport. Hockey is an act of violence, and of endurance.
Ilya believes he is practiced at both.
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Six times Ilya gets his teeth knocked out (not metaphorically), and learns to heal a little trauma
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- English
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- AO3:
- #79939306
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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.
Good thing the rookies are cute, Rozanov can't yell at cute.- Language:
- English
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- 13,891
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- 6/6
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #79981851
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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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- 1/1
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- AO3:
- #80683876
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it's all fun and games until someone weaponizes their trauma with therapy-speak by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-04
“Shane says you are smart. You went to university before you were drafted, yes?” Rozanov’s eyes were twinkling again. He wasn’t Shane’s boyfriend right now, he was the Russian Menace.
“Yeah, I mean, I did two years. You didn’t go to college, did you?”
“No, so I have to do my own readings, my own studies. You must have done philosophy courses?”
Was Rozanov mining for chirping material? What the fuck? “I, no I took like…a writing seminar. And um, a civics course. Plus, like, math.”
Rozanov blinked at him, again. “Math.”
“Yeah, math.”
“Oh. So you are a mathematician? You study calculus? Linear algebra? Discrete mathematics?”
What in the fuck is discrete mathematics? “I dunno, no. It was like, y equals mxb squared, or whatever. You know, algebra.”
“Algebra.” Rozanov’s eyebrows shot up his face. “Like for a child? American university gives you primary school lessons?”
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Hayden Pike confronts Rozanov about his relationship with Shane. It doesn't quite go as he expected.
- Part 2 of it's all fun and games
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I Admire Your Willingness To Share Information by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-03
[Cliff chews on the inside of his cheek, staring down at his dark phone. The reddit people said ‘just wait’ and ‘be supportive’, like waiting and being supportive weren’t two total opposites. And ‘waiting’ feels too close to ‘pretending’, too much like doing nothing, and Tess always said doing nothing was a choice and not an excuse and—well, she said a lot of things. But either way, it feels like giving himself an out, so Cliff takes a deep breath and makes himself use the only play he thinks he has left:
Cliff (12:02): dude come on
Cliff (12:02): please]
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In the aftermath of realizing who Roz's Montreal Chick actually is, Cliff knows that Roz doesn't know that Cliff knows about Hollander. But Cliff's not going to let something like knowing stop him from having a bros back with the whole...secret closeted gay love thing.
He's got reddit, he's got twitter. He can figure this out. And he's got one other person he knows is in the know—Hayden Pike.
- Part 2 of An Admirable Quality
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- #80572846
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The stitches used in your wound will be absorbed naturally by the body. They do not need to be removed.
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Cliff and Ilya, four years after.
- Part 3 of win conditions
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- #80572816
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Ilya lies on the ground and looks up at the stars and waits to die.
The pavement is cold.
Ilya wonders if his mother was cold when she died. He thinks maybe not, since she didn’t die in a deserted alleyway in Vancouver. But she did die at home, and maybe that was even colder.In a world where the Cold War ended but the Iron Curtain never fell, Ilya Rozanov is the most promising figure skater in Russia. At only 19, he’s an easy candidate for gold at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, one of the only times Russia allows its citizens to leave the USSR.
And then one mistake means Russia will never let him come back. Hollander won’t stop trying to talk to him, but the last thing Ilya wants to do is talk to the man who ruined his life. He might be stuck in Canada, a refugee, for the rest of his life, but that doesn’t mean he has to talk to Hollander ever again.
He wanders Vancouver aimlessly and doesn’t think about Russia, or Hollander, or the ice that can never be home again.- Language:
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- AO3:
- #80382621
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Missed Understandings by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-02
Being famous means that a lot of people develop certain perceptions of you. Ilya Rozanov generally doesn't mind this. He has, after all, spent years curating that very perception. He minds it a lot more when people have certain misunderstandings about his husband, and sets out to rectify them in his signature chaotic way. --- Or; 4 times Ilya taught the world about his husband, and one time Shane did.
- Part 1 of Hollanov (the hockey is implied)
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- 5/5
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- AO3:
- #79983486
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Designed To Break Your Heart by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-02
Ilya's eyes snapped. Something hot behind them. "You think you are better than me?"
Shane shook his head. It was like comparing apples and oranges, he wasn't sure how to even measure who was better. "No, and you know that's not what I meant. It's true, I'm more likely to get called up before you, and-"
Ilya propped himself up, nose now inches from Shane's. Shane couldn't help looking at his lips, flushed from running. To his horror, Ilya seemed to notice, and he started grinning.
"I think I will catch you." Ilya said, casually. "I cannot let you play without me. Would be no fun."
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Baseball au. Shane Hollander is a tightly wound pitcher who has been dreaming about the major leagues since he was six. Ilya Rozanov is a cocky shortstop who is infuriatingly good at reading him.- Language:
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- 11/11
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- AO3:
- #80482341
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break up with your boyfriend (we can't wake up early anymore) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-02
NO KILLING: you sound so desperate dude
i am desperate
its been five weeks and four days of this shit
i can't fucking take it man
Carl: me neither
Carl: send it
the conversation with rose.
- Part 3 of fixer upper (the boston remix)
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- #80510801
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Hammersmith: ALL STARS!!!!!!!!!
they fucking kissed.
rozy fucking kissed hollander on the fucking helmet and the entire world went
hah :) yeah :) they're just rivals:)
Carmicheal: the bestest of rivals :)
Carmicheal: absolutely no hanky panky going on here folks just hatred :)
in which the Bears figure out who Jane really is. and attempt to think of a game plan.
- Part 2 of fixer upper (the boston remix)
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a golden star, you think you're clever by sargeantwoof
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-02
“Jesus fuck,” Marley says, before he gets a look at Ilya's smug face and rolls his eyes. “At least tell me you didn't bite her back." He shakes his head, grinning. “She is most fussy,” he says. “No marks, Rozanov; no shoes in the house, asshole; stop picking me up and throwing me on my bed, I just made it, dickhead,” he mocks, before he gestures at his shoulder. “And then she rides me for three hours and bites me like a vampire. These things I must suffer through.” OR: Boston's got the Montreal Jane pattern basically locked down. The bite mark on Ilya's shoulder is new, though.
- Part 18 of heated rivalry masterlist
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80477371
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A Little Less Like Lonely (A Little More Like Home) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-02
When Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov arrive in Ottawa, everyone expects the hard part to be hockey.
What they don’t expect is how difficult — and how hopeful — it will be to finally build a life together.
As the Centaurs rebuild, Shane and Ilya navigate new teammates, new expectations, and the unfamiliar challenge of letting their relationship exist outside of stolen moments and long-distance phone calls.
Because it turns out, being on a losing hockey team might be the easy part.
Learning how to have a future together is something else entirely.
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77896136
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figure out why they broke up
get them back together
get them married so they can never leave each other
and then we never have to deal with 4:30 am bag skates again
Hammersmith: works for me
Hammersmith: all in favor?
St-Simon: Aye aye assistant Captain.
Connors: fuck yeah
Carmuffin: hell yes
in which the boston bears are sick of their captain making them do early morning drills and vow to get him back with his ex, the girl they only know by the name of jane.
- Part 1 of fixer upper (the boston remix)
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Ilya Rozanov was an asshole. Everybody knew this. Sometimes, though, secretly, he wasn't.
Or, 4 times strangers were kind to one another, plus a few times Ilya Rozanov started publicly bashing bigots online.
- Part 2 of Ilya Rozanov, through the eyes of others
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- #80202061
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Wiebe could tell he was wearing Ilya down, but he still looked nervous. "Ilya," Ilya stilled. To his team he was always Rozanov or Roz or Rozy, never Ilya. "You're our guy. There's nobody I'd rather be our captain, to lead this team to another Stanley Cup. It's clear you don't like the guy, but we both know how good this could be."
Ilya jerked his head in a nod. "We will destroy everyone, this is true." Wiebe seemed satisfied. Ilya stood to leave and delivered one last look at Wiebe "But I do not have to be happy about it."
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Shane and Ilya are estranged for years after Tuna Meltdown. Then Shane confuses everyone by signing with the Raiders.- Language:
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- #79946546
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all-stars weekend, 2017 by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-27
“I saw you with Rozanov earlier,” he mentions, trying to sound casual. “I was surprised he wasn’t immediately telling you how weak your backhand is.”
Shane grins a little. “Oh, do you also think my backhand is weak, Hayden?”
Well, it’s not the best part of Shane’s hockey skillset, but Hayden assumes that Shane knows this too. “I don’t think there’s anything about the way you play hockey that anyone should consider weak,” he says.
“Thanks, Hayden,” Shane replies genuinely, like he isn’t the best player in the NHL. “Rozanov was fine. We were just catching up.”
Does anyone just catch up with Ilya Rozanov? Is that possible without him chirping you? Hayden has never experienced this.
Hayden is invited to his first All-Stars game in 2017 and he is very excited to go. As he gets to know the All-Stars from the other teams, makes fast friends with Carter Vaughn and even admits that Boston is kind of good, he also accidentally discovers that Shane is in a relationship. With Ilya Rozanov.
In chapter 2, Ilya deals with the consequences of Hayden finding out as he slowly befriends Hayden, though he will of course deny this.
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- AO3:
- #79965386
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Rozanov wanted to hurt himself, or tried to hurt himself, or did hurt himself. Acknowledging the idea feels like staring directly at the sun. If Shane lets the thought settle, it’ll burn its way through every other thought he has.
Rozanov is catching a pillow that Sveta throws at him and smiling. He told Shane that therapy is working. He’s here. He’s fine.
Shane takes careful breaths and taps his right thumb to his fingers one by one as he sets aside that confusion and terror. Rozanov did not invite him here to freak out, so Shane’s not going to freak out.
Or: The summer after he wins the Cup for Boston, Ilya almost dies. Shane tries to cope.
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- #80214556
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Shane’s hearing is muffled, sound bubbling in and out like he’s swimming through the lake, dipping under the surface and back into the air. He can make out a word here and there, enough to know that Rozanov is trying to get him to breathe with him. He can feel the expansion of Rozanov’s lungs against his hands as he takes deep breaths in and lets them out. Shane tries to copy him, he does, but every inhale carries the scent of him, his cologne, his skin, his hair products. The scents are so familiar to him, and he wants more than anything for them to calm him, make him feel safe, but they are doing the opposite. Why are they still so familiar to him after not being anywhere near Rozanov for half a year? Why does he still want to shove his face against Rozanov’s throat and suck in every last last hint he can get? - Ilya takes longer to arrive in the bathroom after they present the award together, leaving Shane time to sink into a full-blown panic attack. This leads to a very different night in Vegas and an earlier beginning to Shane and Ilya’s relationship.
- Part 1 of Vegas Canon Divergence AU
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heat seeker (the many names of ilya rozanov) by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-23
Ilya Rozanov has always understood the power of a name.
On the ice, it’s a threat.
In headlines, it’s a brand.
In Boston, it’s a chant.But in Moscow, it was once a lullaby.
And in Shane Hollander’s voice, it becomes something softer. Something dangerous. Something that makes Ilya want more than he was ever meant to have.From a golden kitchen in Moscow to the roar of Boston crowds, from hotel rooms and tuna melts to hospital monitors and wedding vows, this is the story of how a boy who learned what silence feels like finds someone who refuses to stop saying his name.
And maybe—just maybe—that’s what saves him.
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- AO3:
- #80091786