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  1. Shane's cousin George by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-07-25

    ‘What is the song about, uncle George?’

    Shane listens, transfixed, as Rozanov on the other side of the speaker explains to the yawning twins that the song he was singing was his mother’s favourite. He deflects when they ask what the song is about and if they can learn it. There is something in the way he says it that tugs at Shane’s heart.

    ‘I can maybe teach you something else, da? Is like a poem, something I learned when I was small like you?’ he offers another suggestion and the girls sound delighted. Shane doesn’t have the heart to complain that they should be sleeping, not learning poems and that it’s long past midnight already.

    OR

    When a night destined to be a hookup turns to an unexpected babysitting emergency, Shane gets to know his rival in ways he wasn’t really ready for. So does Ilya.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,009
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #89232791

  2. The other Boston Lily by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-29

    ‘My teammates think you’re my girlfriend,’ Shane Hollander leads with a fucking bomb of an information and Lilian chokes on her coffee.

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    Lilian Harris, the goalkeeper of Boston PWHL team and a newly minted PWHL champion wakes up with the worst hangover of her life. In a hotel bed in Montreal. Which she is sharing with three of her teammates and the freaking Walter Cup.
    Her phone is full of messages from Montreal Voyagers players who watched the match last night, saw the name Lilian and the word Boston, and came to the completely wrong conclusion once again.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,562
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87604806

  3. The Great Pretender by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-02

    Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense. The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion. Or: Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander. Shane, for the record, is alive and really confused.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    31,278
    Chapters:
    6/6
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #84483691

  4. The Distance Between Us by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-03-30

    Ilya Rozanov has spent ten years circling Shane Hollander. Ten years of hotel rooms and secret phone calls. Ten years of pretending he doesn't feel it, doesn't need it, doesn't wake up reaching for someone who's already gone. Ten years convincing himself he's not good enough. That he's not worth it.

    Then a plane needs to make an emergency landing near Montreal, and Yuna Hollander is on it.

    So when Shane calls him from a bathroom floor, unable to breathe, Ilya stops pretending.

    After five hundred miles of frozen highway, three and a half hours of driving like a man possessed, a hospital waiting room full of people who have every reason to hate him, and a boy who looks at him like he's something worth keeping, Ilya may have learned a thing or two about what it means to be loved—and to let himself love freely.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    104,414
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Files:
    3 versions
    AO3:
    #81207291

  5. They say it’s my fault (but I want him so much) by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-03-23

    Ilya Rozanov always knew that Shane Hollander carried the Montreal Metros on his shoulders, but when the whole world gets to see the same thing, the game changes.
    And having to watch his boyfriend exhaust himself playing practically alone while his teammates ignore him makes anger bubble in Ilya's chest.
    But it's at his own press conference that things... heat up.

    OR,
    Ilya's POV interview after the Centaurs' victory and Shane's stumble, in which the author continues to rant about the Montreal Metros/Voyageurs being assholes.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    12,805
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #81702171

  6. Call It What You Want by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-03-15

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,503
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #80607221

  7. we prophesy in part by

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    2026-02-23

    Ilya hasn’t planned on meeting Shane’s parents after only three days at the cottage. He sure as hell hasn’t planned on dying that very same day, only to wake up in his childhood home in Moscow. The year is 2004, he’s twelve again, and his mother is still alive.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    14,174
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #78187056

  8. Everyone Loves a Losing Dog by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-01-09

    Three times Ilya was definitely not jealous about Rose Landry, and one time he didn't have to be. (3+1)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,522
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #77312411

  9. Why am I like this? by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-01-08

    Shane Hollander was a weird kid Shane Hollander being weird was the price to pay due to his talent. Or at least that's what he always thought -- Or also called: The Late term Autistic Diagnosis of Shane Hollander

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,492
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #77295761

  10. Such a Pretty Crier by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2025-12-29

    Shane is still learning that he doesn't have to be perfect in his own relationship. Ilya is still learning the rules of Shane's bad days. So when Shane tries to push him away after a crushing loss, it leads to a tense argument. But ten years of rivalry are no match for Shane’s tears; the second he starts to cry, Ilya folds like a house of cards. Or: Shane tries to starve himself as punishment for losing, Ilya tries to feed him, and it turns into a very soft night of pampering because Ilya is legally incapable of staying angry at a crying Shane.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,302
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #76626856