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Devil in Disguise by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-25
Ilya Rozanov is a 23-year old grad student playing hockey at Boston College, comfortably bisexual, and definitely human. Shane Hollander is none of those things.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,540
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #86581231
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Ilya Rozanov has been drafted by Boston, the number one pick overall, but his father doesn't want him moving to America and so takes steps to block his visa. He's going to have to go back to Russia and stay there forever and that, thinks Shane Hollander, is wrong.
It's so wrong that Shane can't stop himself from doing something about it. Even though that something is the most reckless, the only reckless thing he's ever done in his life. He marries Rozanov in secret, to keep him out of Russia and put him on a path to Canadian citizenship.
Shane's got a five-year plan to get him there and when you have a plan nothing can go wrong. Right? Right. When you have a solid plan and a marriage that's on paper only there's no risk of feelings getting involved. Not on Rozanov's part and certainly not on Shane's.
Right???
(or, the story of how Shane Hollander fell in love with his own husband)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 157,099
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #77174981
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One side of his brain is going: this is insane, don't do this, just stay in this room, what can he do? Whether you like it or not, he's hurt you, and chances are you've hurt him too, because you can't read a situation for shit, so what are we trying to do here? Get some fucking sleep instead.
The other side of his brain is going: He's hurt you, and you've probably hurt him too, and what if this is your only chance to talk about it? What if Paris makes the difference?
Five months after Sochi, Shane's set to play a charity hockey game in Paris. So is Ilya.
They run into each other in the lobby of their hotel the night before. Twelve hours stretch out in front of them, and Ilya suggests something different: no phones, no expectations, no past, no hockey. Just the city, and whatever they can be when nobody else is watching.
It's obviously a terrible idea, but Shane says yes, anyway.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 75,690
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84075556
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Marcus Lewis knew he would be a superstar. The media pundits, hockey heads, and even casual fans gave him the moniker of generational talent. It was evident when he was drafted as the 6th pick of the 2023 MHL Draft to the Carolina Reapers. He was destined to greatness. After a rocky rookie season, unironically crushing hard on his teammate Anong “Star” Okafor, and a controversial trade that sent him to his home team – the Boston Bears – Marcus now had to reflect on what it meant being a superstar as a Queer Black man and how to love his own shining star.
Yamhead Ash Cooper’s contribution to the GCU – introducing Marcus Lewis and Anong “Star” Okafor
Inspired by: Shining Star by Earth, Wind and Fire.- Part 7 of Shane and Dem Boyz
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,419
- Chapters:
- 5/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87620341
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Forever home by Michyb, Strange_johnlock
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-16
Ilya has talked to a lot of people during his time at the shelter. They come here, they fall in love with animals, and feel sympathy for their situation. It is so easy to see the emotions in their expression, in how their brows furrowing or smiles dance around their mouths. He usually focuses on the animals he works with, not the people coming here, but he cannot stop himself from following Anya as she makes her way towards the guy currently watching the guinea pigs. He is less expressive, as if he is holding back feelings towards the creatures around him, but Ilya is convinced that there is deep emotion in the depths of his eyes, as he looks at Anya. He sees the way his dark eyes sparkle like cool pools of water in the moonlight and Ilya needs to pull himself from their depths to answer his question without looking like a fool. ___ Or: Ilya owns an animal shelter. Shane is suddenly very motivated to do volunteer work. This fic is finished. We will be posting chapters on Sundays and Wednesdays
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,895
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86710226
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Homerun to You by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV) RPF
2026-08-03
@baseballnerd44
HE ADOPTED HER AS A ROOKIE???@historybuff617
The adoption story is actually pretty well known around Boston.After he was drafted, Shane flew to Japan to visit his grandparents in Kyoto before reporting to the organization.
On the trip back, he stopped in Paris and met a young woman who was trying to escape an abusive husband.
He helped her get safely to Canada, connected her with organizations that support women fleeing domestic violence, and stayed in contact while she got back on her feet.
When she gave birth by the end of his first year as a professional baseball player, she made the incredibly difficult decision to place the baby for adoption.
Shane adopted her.
Her name is Sofia Yuna Hollander.
- Part 6 of Hollanov Lulu-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 53,775
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89418541
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Hard to Breathe by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-08-03
Sequel to Breathing Room
Ilya Rozanov has spent five years holding Shane Hollander at arm’s length - not because he didn’t love him, but because he loved him too much to ask him to risk everything for something that could fall apart. He was good at that: the careful distance, the walls that looked like indifference, the way he’d learned to be close without being close. He’d had a lot of practice.
What he didn’t have practice for was what came after he was done lying to himself. He didn’t have practice for this - for something warm and bright and absolutely terrifying. Something that fits in the spaces between games and cities and the distance between Boston and Raleigh. Something that makes Ilya think, for the first time in a long time, that maybe the risk is worth it.
He just needs to figure out what to do with it all before their careers swallow them whole
He doesn’t get the chance to think about it for very long.
- Part 2 of The Distance Between Us
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 137,840
- Chapters:
- 10/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85730431
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In Case of Emergency by Caraphernellic
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-28
If you are reading this, it means that Danny is following my emergency plan that we practiced. I’m not safe and neither is he. Please, I beg you, take him to his grandparents at this address. Yuna and David Hollander 2242 Grandview Ottawa, Ontario If I ever get the chance, I will repay you. Please tell him I love him. My parents too. And if you could tell them I’m sorry. ~Shane
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,495
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86122586
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it's always been you by canadienne_loon (hey_dj)
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-07-21
Ilya left the Boston Raiders and joined the Ottawa Centaurs in search of something else. He just would have never imagined that after leaving his heart in Montreal after university, he would find it again in Ottawa, grocery shopping with a child and speaking Russian. OR: Shane and Ilya meet and fall in love in university and get a second chance when Ilya comes to Ottawa, where Shane is the co-owner and head chef of a popular restaurant.
- Part 1 of The Hollanov Household
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 104,241
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88075206
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Shane makes a drunken mistake in the name of protecting his carefully constructed closet, his life explodes in spectacular fashion. Suddenly faced with an unplanned pregnancy, a movie-star girlfriend, and a team of publicists convinced that "devoted family man" is a better headline than "gay hockey player," Shane commits himself to a future that looks perfect on paper. The only problem is that his heart still belongs to Ilya Rozanov—the man he left behind a few months earlier with a broken heart, several unresolved feelings, and a belly button full of cum.
Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast of ridiculous characters—including the endlessly supportive Rose, a delightfully meddling book club of old biddies who adopt Ilya as one of their own, and a sweet baby who changes all of their lives—this is a funny, emotional story about parenthood, forgiveness, grief, healing, and two grown men who could have avoided most of their problems by having one honest fucking conversation.
or- Shane knocks up Rose, almost dies, and he and Ilya find their way back to each other the way they always do...only now they have an adorable baby to love too.
- Part 1 of Just Pretend
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 203,831
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86610151
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Ilya has two problems.
The first is that his best friend is freshly single and needs to get laid. The second is that Ilya is having some...weird feelings about it.
These are completely platonic and heterosexual concerns for his friend, of course.
(or a college au featuring shane and ilya as best friends, and shane as ilya's bisexual awakening)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,369
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #88327651
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The One That Got Away by PeaceLilies
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-07-18
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov haven't spoken in fifteen years. After an emotionally charged hookup at Ilya's penthouse in Boston, the two hockey phenoms stop talking. They meet again as coaches for the struggling Ottawa Centaurs, both of them still harboring feelings for one another, but can they overcome the hurt that was caused on that day in Boston to try again?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 122,517
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88604346
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arms length, small talk, and then some company by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-17
Ilya hesitated, staring at the number. He was captain of Hollander’s new team. It would have been completely normal, if not expected, that he would reach out to him soon. But his hand had turned to lead, his finger hovering over the “Call” button. What would he even say?
“Hey Hollander. Sorry your team dumped you out of nowhere after building them a dynasty and you’re being shipped back to your hometown to play on an historically shitty team, captained by me, the guy who you’ve been pitted against your whole career and built up a decade’s worth of resentment towards, not to mention the fact that we sucked each other’s dicks that one time years ago and then pretended that it never happened. Haha, yeah, good times. Anyways. See you at practice.”
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In June 2010, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov hook up for the first and last time.
In July 2021, Shane Hollander is abruptly traded to the Ottawa Centaurs.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 95,148
- Chapters:
- 13/15
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78777791
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Yuna slides a folder on the table closer, pulling out two packets of paper. She’d gone all out with the contracts. Mainly, Shane suspected, to ease his nerves about the lines of the relationship. Plus, she was always nothing if not prepared.
She hands one contract to Shane, then another to Rozanov. “As a reminder, this is not legally binding. If either of you wants out early, can’t meet obligations, or wants to change things down the line, that is perfectly fine, and we can work with that. This just lays out the exact timeline of the relationship,” she begins, “down to the start and end dates."
- or, Shane and Ilya never start hooking up in 2010. So eight years later, after they both come out on their own, Yuna Hollander (momager of the century) decides that a PR relationship would be very beneficial for her son and his infamous rival. And everything definitely goes exactly according to plan... or something like that.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 108,003
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #82164541
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worse to be nothing (with you) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-07-09
After winning the cup two seasons in a row, Shane Hollander is inexplicably traded to a west coast team just two days before Montreal and Boston are to meet for the first time of the season. Shane reaches out, Ilya doesn't reply. Then Ilya reaches out, Shane ignores him.
What now?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,376
- Chapters:
- 20/36
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83455676
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even now. by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-04
After divorce and retirement, Ilya Rozanov finds himself back in Shane Hollander's orbit. It's been thirteen years since they've spoken.
Ilya finds ways to stay.
Shane finds ways to let him.
Or.
Pathetic Divorced Man Ilya Rozanov spends an increasing amount of time with his ex.
title from even now by william fitzsimmons
- Part 1 of even still
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 109,442
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86097511
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Shane Hollander is eighteen, second overall draft pick, and quietly, a father. He's learned to carry both versions of himself with practiced ease. Then there's Ilya Rozanov: first overall, unbothered, and already taking up more space in Shane's head than he has any right to. Their rivalry is the story everyone wants to tell. Shane is starting to suspect the real one is something else entirely.
- Part 1 of In the Crease
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 110,930
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80563506
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Shane Hollander knew that this thing he had with Ilya Rozanov couldn’t last. There were a thousand reasons why he should walk away and never look back. But maybe hope was enough of a reason to stay. And maybe he wasn’t the only one hoping they could be something more than what they were.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,889
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86975541
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O Icarus by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-22
Shane Hollander gets outed on video a day before the draft. As his draft position keeps falling, an unlikely team makes a blockbuster trade back into the first round to select him and create the MLH's next big dynamic duo.
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Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,451
- Chapters:
- 3/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83385176
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We Just Did It For You And Me by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-21
Ilya let out a quiet laugh, shaking his head. “I want to be perfect for you, Shane. To make up for all the time we lost.”
“I don’t want perfect,” Shane said quietly, stroking Ilya’s cheek. “I want something real. Something that we fight to make work, because we want it so much. Because being together is so much fucking better than being without each other.”
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Ten years ago, Shane and Ilya loved each other in secret and let each other go anyway.
Now Shane, captain of the Ottawa Centaurs, is a single dad to four-year-old Ollie, and good at pretending he doesn’t think about the man he lost when they were younger and terrified of the fallout of being caught. Then one chance meeting turns into drinks, lingering looks, old feelings, and suddenly Ilya Rozanov is everywhere again.
Some things, it turns out, never really leave you.
As Shane and Ilya fall back into each other’s lives - and into something softer, steadier, and openly theirs this time — they realise maybe they’re finally ready for the life they used to dream about.
Or: two hockey players who were each other’s first love reconnect ten years later and slowly build the family they always wanted.
- Part 1 of Shane, Ollie and Illy
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 114,785
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84449721