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"You're an awesome player to watch."
"I watch you too…I like watching you."
One line changes everything.
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OR: Instead of turning him down, Ilya and Shane become fast friends at the Prospects Cup. Their relationship (and how they hide the truth) completely changes when the media poses them as best friends instead of rivals.
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Reads as a series of connected oneshots within this AU. Now including prospects cup 2008, draft celebrations, rookie all-star weekend, their first MLH awards, the cottage, commercial shoots, and post-game hookups.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,671
- Chapters:
- 7/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75463401
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Finally, something dawns on him, a way to handle two goals simultaneously. He’d seen Hollander’s mother flipping through papers rapidly when they first got here, seeming calm and in control and more than a little frightening in a way that made Ilya mildly glad he wasn’t one of the people responsible for a clipboard. If anyone can tell him if the long list of “Prohibited Items” he’d been sent in his email a few days ago is just standard practice for big shoots, it would be Yuna Hollander.
Or, hopefully, her son.
“Crazy we cannot even have peanut butter, eh?” He asks. “You also got giant list?”
Hollander stiffens, almost imperceptibly, and Ilya tilts his head, just slightly, confused, wondering if he’s stumbled somewhere unexpected.
(how ilya learns about shane's allergies) (and shane's sexual awakening tragically hits a speedbump in the process 😔)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 113,156
- Chapters:
- 10/?
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #87705801
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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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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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Ilya was glowing, and wild, and so bright he was almost blinding. Beautiful, Shane had known, even back then, when he was still too young to know much of anything at all. Ilya Rozanov belongs to the summer, and the summer belongs to them. (Or, two childhood best friends spend a summer by the lake, before the rest of their lives begin.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 51,643
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #89234436
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Shane Hollander is in love with his best friend, Ilya Rozanov. When he hears Ilya fucking some girl, he thinks nothing of it. Ilya is always fucking someone. That is, until he hears Ilya agree to go on a date with this girl. Cue the flowers. OR: Shane Hollander develops Hanahaki Disease.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,427
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89054271
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Irina Rozanova and her 12 year old son Ilya have to get out of Moscow. Though it pains her to leave her other son behind, he is already beyond hope. Irina and Ilya are going to start a new life in Ottawa, where Ilya meets his best friend forever, Shane Hollander.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,415
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84917681
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As the Romans Do by kooksie
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-06-01
As a straight man, Ilya Rozanov has never had a gay roommate before, but it’s going pretty well. Shane Hollander is kind, silly, and an even bigger hockey nut than Ilya. So when Shane starts bringing men over, and Ilya begins to want to bash their fucking heads in, Ilya comes to a startling conclusion: He must be homophobic. (He’s jealous.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,186
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84690476
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Everyone at McGill knows three things: their hockey team is the best in the country, the Rozanov family could buy half of Montreal, and Shane Hollander is completely off limits. So when new students start asking Shane out after winter break, Ilya Rozanov decides he needs to put a stop to it. Or: the horrifying realization that Ilya Rozanov might be in love with his best friend.
- Part 3 of college hollanov
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,880
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84723361
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mine (in another lifetime) by luverslilac
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-04
“Don’t marry her. Don’t leave me.” Ilya Rozanov has planned dozens of perfect weddings. This one just happens to belong to the man he's been in love with for his for years. *Reuploaded after random deletion a while back*
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,152
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83446491
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keep a place for me by agetwellcard
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-19
From across the rink, Shane watches Ilya get punched in the face. He keeps a distance from the mess playing out. He knows better than to go over and make it worse. He would be more worried about it if Ilya wasn’t laughing with blood running down his face as one of his teammates drags him away. He’s yelling at the player that punched him, and Shane is grateful he can’t hear what he’s saying because he knows it’s obscene. “Your boy is feral tonight,” Pike says to Shane. Shane groans. “He's not my boy.” When Shane is in junior high, Ilya's family moves to Canada. Instead of meeting as adults, they grow up together. Shane learns Russian and Ilya spends a majority of his time at the Hollander household. When they start their professional hockey careers, they have to learn how to be opponents instead of teammates, but also how to be apart for the first time in their lives. When Ilya suggests that they sleep together, Shane has to balance their friendship and their casual relationship.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,101
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80253536
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so it's gonna be forever by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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:
- English
- Words:
- 90,896
- Chapters:
- 20/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75442981
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Roz is out of his gear much faster than he usually is and he’s unlocking his phone with an urgency as if something were on fire. “Bro, you good?” Cliff asks while he’s still in the process of getting out of his own gear. Ilya looks up from his phone with a somewhat wild look in his eyes. “I cannot reach Jane.” Ilya says and there’s nearly no volume to it at all. It's more of a whisper than anything else. Cliff Marlow notices some things and connects some dots.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,648
- Chapters:
- 7/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78701706
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you all the way down by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-08
“Is my favourite thing.” Ilya murmurs.
The rain has started to slow down a little. Barely any lightning strikes anymore. Soon, the sky will clear.
“What is?” Shane asks.
Ilya brings their joined hands up to his face and presses a small, tired smile to the back of Shane’s hand. “You and me.”
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(or: they’re best friends who go on a roadtrip together.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,755
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79132491
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Shane Hollander is an omega. Ilya Rozanov is an alpha. One of them has been in love for years, but there’s a line that they can’t cross to remain friends.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,297
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77422166
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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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a college AU where Ilya and Shane, co-captains of their D1 hockey team, miss their final shot at playoffs. With their senior year slipping away from under them, their friends decide it's the perfect opportunity to finally go on an unforgettable spring break together. Ilya could have never imagined this single decision would change his life.
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or Ilya is pining after his best friend Shane- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,942
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #75397081