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  1. a light refracting by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-10-16

    “I know you’re there,” he spoke gently, proud when his voice sounded nearly confident in spite of the way his hands were shaking under his desk, “I’ve seen you.”

    The air in front of him seemed to shimmer in a way that was almost corporeal. Beneath his lab coat, the hair on his arms was standing on end.

    Suddenly, so softly that it could hardly be called a whisper, a man’s voice answered, “So what if I am here? What would it matter anyway?”

    Or, a scientist and a skeptic, new Team Physician Dr. Ilya Rozanov holds no belief in ghosts or ghouls or anything remotely supernatural, but soon even he can’t ignore the strange and inexplicable occurrences happening around the university’s sports complex.

    Hollander Arena isn’t haunted… except for it sort of, probably is.

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    Chapters:
    4/?
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #83408831

  2. Don’t Let the Sun Go by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-10-11

    After dying in a plane crash in 2021, Ilya wakes up in a nondescript hotel room, identical to hundreds he has stayed in during his decade-long NHL career. Is he in Hell? Mama is not here. Neither is Shane.

    But then the phone rings; a representative from CCM wants to confirm Ilya will be on time to his photo shoot with Shane Hollander.

    On the way to the rink, Ilya, who learned from the very best, makes a multi-step plan:

    1. Texting
    2. No sleeping around
    3. Friends
    4. First names
    5. Boyfriends

    Ilya made Shane fall in love with him once. He can do it again.

    He has to.

    Language:
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    64,615
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #93742091

  3. The Bad In Each Other by

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    2026-09-10

    Six months after Boston went dark, Shane Hollander walks into the Raiders' arena with a handgun to do the one thing he won't let a patrol do for him. The thing walking the visiting-team corridor says his name.

    What follows is eight days in two borrowed rooms and a school with a fence: a pulse where there wasn't one, a nurse who wants to know for how long, a friend who will walk you to the door and no farther, and a relationship the two of them never managed to be honest about when they both had a pulse.

    Language:
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    18,333
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #92354491

  4. How I Learned to Stop Worrying (but Didn't Love the Bomb) by

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    2026-09-06

    “Mom?” His mother moved the tea and plate of cookies closer to him, but Shane didn’t let himself get distracted. “I think I’ve had another memory lapse. Why wasn't Ilya in the play-off games? Did something happen?”

    Mom dropped her phone.

    Why does she have such a weird look on her face?

    ...

    Shane has memory gaps and keeps journals. Then, after the seventh game of the playoffs, he discovers they can send him back in time.

    At first, he only wants to fix his relationship with his team.

    Every attempt makes things worse.

    Shane tries again.

    And again.

    Language:
    English
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    5,955
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #92103291

  5. disappearing act by

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    2026-09-01

    “Ilya?” his voice is thick and heavy on his tongue. He's so agonizingly beautiful, his face tender and red from the impact of his helmet hitting the ice moments before. “I’m okay,” he insists, blinking slowly.

    And then, starting at his fingertips, Shane starts to fade away, just like St-Simon and Marlow and Pike moments before. Eyes soft, Shane gazes at Ilya, not seeming to realize what’s happening at all. And Ilya, overcome with terror, can only watch as Shane’s whole being simply disintegrates into thin air.

    __

    Half the universe is snapped out of existence, including Shane.
    Ilya struggles to cope.

    Or, a character study on grief, ending with reunion.

    Language:
    English
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    31,228
    Chapters:
    6/6
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91546936

  6. Take Me to War (Honey I Dare You) by

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    2026-08-29

    Shane Hollander was the best monster hunter in Canada. Past tense, as of last week. Now that he's been turned into a vampire it's Ilya Rozanov's job to hunt him down, a tricky task considering vampire Shane still possesses all the skills he had in life. And Ilya hasn't dealt with the fact that he's in love with him yet.

    Hayden Pike is convinced there's a way to bring Shane back to humanity, but Ilya doesn't believe in miracle cures and happily ever afters. Why should he? He's a monster hunter. His kind of life only ends one way, and it isn’t with a kiss.

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    6,486
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89898686

  7. In Another Life (It's You, It Will Always Be You) by

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    2026-08-09

    The last thing Shane and Ilya expected when they died after living a long, happy life together was to wake up back in their 17 years old bodies the day they first met.

    They get to redo everything together and to fix what they got wrong the first time.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    186,031
    Chapters:
    36/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #80706826

  8. I love you. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. by

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    2026-07-31

    Ilya goes through maybe the worst twenty-four hours of his life.

    Then he does it again.

    Or: instead of Shane's canon injury, there's a time loop.

    Language:
    English
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    15,510
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89607056

  9. We'll Just Use It To Our Advantage by

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    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.
    or
    The long game isn't quite so long anymore, and the boys use the Irina Foundation as it was originally intended.

    Language:
    English
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    78,878
    Chapters:
    20/20
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87871661

  10. Heal Deal by

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    2026-07-30

    It’s his Person.

    Missed you missed you missed you, he tries to convey with no mouth and no voice and all his heart. He’s reborn the way he died; the name of his Person nestled safe against his tongue.

    “Ilya,” Shane gasps, and his heart beats again.

    Shane Hollander dies the second Ilya Rozanov’s plane goes down. It just takes a while for his body to catch up.

    Thankfully, death isn't permanent — for either of them. Their tangled souls have been given a second chance at life, and they’re going to act like it. Which means never separating again. Ever.

    After all, death can’t part them. Why should hockey?
     

    (Shane's POV of BOGO, can be read as a standalone.)

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89531501

  11. BOGO by

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    2026-07-22

    A fiery plane crash claims Ilya Rozanov’s life in January. By April, Shane Hollander is dead of a broken heart. The truth dies with them.

    Yuna Hollander will do anything to get her son back, including hiring a shady shaman to resurrect him. There’s just one complication — Shane isn’t coming back alone.

    Now there are codependent (not)zombies in her house wearing Ilya and Shane’s faces. When they inexplicably act more like a married couple than the bitter rivals she expected, Yuna is convinced that they came back wrong.

    It’s easier than admitting she never understood them from the start.

    Language:
    English
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    41,605
    Chapters:
    6/6
    Files:
    3 versions
    AO3:
    #87599691

  12. Motorcycle Boy (It's Fine) by

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    2026-07-20

    “Because you want to ride my bike. You stare at it with those pretty Bambi eyes. I know those looks, and those looks cause trouble.”

    “What if I like trouble?” Shane asked innocently, their breaths mixing together. He could see the sparkles in Ilya’s eyes. In this moment, Shane had officially voiced his decision, there was no turning back now. From this gang, from Ilya.

    “You don’t.” Ilya answered for him. But then they were crashing together.

    -

    Or where Ilya Rozanov is the leader of a ruthless motorcycle gang called the Centaurs. Shane is the love of his life who sits on the back of his bike.

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    Chapters:
    11/11
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #84165701

  13. Ilya; My Ilyusha by

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    2026-07-04

    He could still feel it now, the warm-wet slide of Ilya's tongue as he licked a stripe from the sensitive skin on Shane's palm to the tip of his middle finger, shocking a laugh out of him. The head-rush of feeling how quickly his cock hardened against the warmth of Ilya's bare ass, Ilya's full weight bearing down on Shane's hips. The heat of the blush traveling from his cheeks all the way down to his chest in response to the smoulder in Ilya's eyes.

    Мой любимый, this is excuse to put sunscreen on my naked body, yes?

    Shane gnawed at the memories like a dog with a bone, allowed himself to get lost in them until he felt physically sick, at which point he realized that he needed to switch lanes to avoid hitting the fawn, still unmoving, still unblinking.

    —

    After the Raiders v. Metros accident, Shane comes back different.

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    42,792
    Chapters:
    14/14
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85558796

  14. there may never next time be by

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    2026-06-01

    He figures Ilya would be pretty surprised if he showed up to his house out of the blue. Surprised enough to be put off, probably. Shane is way too bad of a liar to think of any plausible excuse. If this is really happening, if Shane is actually by some miracle getting another shot at this, then he’s going to have to play this smart. His impatience to see Ilya again will have to be tempered. He’s not sure how time travel works, but he has the sneaking suspicion that one wrong move could unravel everything.

    Ilya is alive.

    Just the thought of it is enough to make Shane crack his first smile in a year.

    --

    AU in which Ilya dies in the Centaurs' plane crash. A year later, careless with grief, Shane drives his car into a blizzard and wakes up in Boston, in 2016. When faced with the opportunity to do it right this time, and keep Ilya for good, Shane knows that every decision he makes will be crucial. It's terrifying, but Ilya once told him that he's brave. Now it's up to Shane to prove it.

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    23,149
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85966106

  15. Ruined Everything by

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    2026-05-22

    It was supposed to be a good day. Ilya loves his boyfriend. He loves hanging out with David and Yuna. Scott and Kip were in Ottawa for a visit. And Ilya knows he’s supposed to be happy but… he can’t. He feels like he’s drowning in tar.

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    7,636
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85173556

  16. one week, two hours, and six minutes by

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    2026-05-19

    On June 17th, 2017, Ilya Rozanov is declared dead following the crash of Air Canada Flight 11040.

    On June 24th, he comes back to life.

    Shane spends the intervening week on a silent retreat, more or less.

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    20,841
    Chapters:
    8/8
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83873461

  17. Crash Landing by

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    2026-04-28

    The Centaurs had already been through one plane emergency. What are the chances of them being in another?

    Language:
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    25,785
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #80123401

  18. all the wrong things on fire by

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    2026-04-16

    "That's Shane Hollander," someone murmured next to him. "What's he doing here?" "He said Ilya," a neighbor called back. "Ilya Rozanov lives there." "Oh god," someone else said loudly, watching the flames continue to consume the house. Shane vaguely heard them talk, but the words in his head were all Ilya, Ilya, Ilya. "Ilya's in there!" Shane didn't even process that he was now screaming. He was too focused on getting to Ilya, on why the body he'd spent so many years working on wasn't strong enough to burst through the barricade. A window suddenly blew out, and Shane was staggering like he was in the room, his body slumping towards the ground before his mother's arms caught him.

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    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83241706

  19. so it's gonna be forever by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-03-31

    Ilya is plummeting to his death when he closes his eyes, heart full of regret.

    When he opens them in what feels like just a second later, he is standing outside a rink in Regina, Saskatchewan. There’s a banner on the building across the street:

    World Junior Hockey Championship 2009.

    What?

    Language:
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    Words:
    90,896
    Chapters:
    20/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #75442981

  20. agony by

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    2026-03-24

    After Ilya dies, Shane tries—very hard and for as long as he can—not to kill himself.

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    4,172
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #81783876
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