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Why am I like this? by gothicgirlGXD
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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
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- 2,492
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77295761
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"Please text!" David and Yuna coming over for dinner after Shane and Ilya's visit. Ilya gets to know Shane's parents and realizes just how much he loves being a part of a family.
- Language:
- English
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- 4,138
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77258216
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have I found you, flightless bird? by clockworkaim
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-07
Shane Hollander has wings. Ilya Rozanov loves him. There's no 'despite' about it. Wings as a metaphor for autism. Because. Fuck it. Or The mortifying ordeal of letting the people who love you care.
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- English
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- 5,142
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77238386
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The Love of a Mother by MabtheWinterQueen
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-07
Ilya's mother does not haunt him like she should. She comes to him in other ways.
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- English
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- 1,213
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77278001
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Fall 2021 is the first season Shane plays Montreal as an Ottawa Centaur. It doesn't go well.
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- English
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- 4,929
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77169791
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Shane distantly contemplated how much he would ache tomorrow, the tightness of his muscles already becoming a sure thing. Tomorrow. What an impossible thought, when he was currently present in a way that he rarely got to be in his day to day life.
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- English
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- 1,792
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77042726
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Everything is fine. They’re playing a normal game against Montreal. Shane is trying his best and the Centaurs are winning, despite Montreal‘s best effort. One dirty hit, one dirty move. Sends Shane spiraling but not in the way you think.
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- English
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- 2,115
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77042916
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Shane has grown accustomed to his neurodivergence being used as the butt of a joke. Ilya has not. Yuna Hollander suffers no fools. OR Living as his authentic self is liberating and Shane wouldn’t change it for the world, but it doesn’t come without complications. At least he has his husband, his parents and his friends to back him up.
- Part 2 of Heated Rivalry/Hollanov
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,360
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76988996
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Shane’s head is too loud after the season ends and they don’t make the playoffs, so he tries to shut it up by pushing himself too far, too often, too hard. Ilya’s there to take care of him instead.
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- English
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- 1
- AO3:
- #76914626
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I could be the one, or your new addiction it’s all in my head but I want non-fiction Ilya said Shane was bad at sexting. Shane, never one to back down from a challenge, decides to prove him wrong.
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- English
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- 3,260
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76951271
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Ilya has been thinking. Since Christmas has rolled around and no work on the ice has been done, Ilya and Shane have retired to the cottage, and Ilya has been thinking. Maybe it’s time to voice those thoughts. SET POST ‘THE LONG GAME’ The cottage houses both Shane and Ilya, and has been since the NHL sent their players home for the winter. Shane, who sits on the left side of the couch, is engrossed in his phone, meandering over Instagram. Ilya sits across from him, on the right, sprawled over the cushions with his eyes closed, pondering his thoughts. Shane sends Ilya a look or two from the side, watching over as Ilya’s eyes work under his lids, pouring over whatever it is he’s been thinking of the past week. Seems it has come to the surface, now. He shifts from his splay and sits up properly, opening his eyes. Shane looks away. Ilya stretches his arm out over the back of the couch, alike to a panther. He awkwardly taps his fingertips against the material, pursing his lips in thought. Shane, naturally, notices. Ilya’s knee is bouncing. The rhythm is disrupting. “What are you thinking about?” “Nothing,” Ilya is quick to defend. Shane tilts his head, defying Ilya’s answer. “Ilya.” “Nothing important,” he insists. “Just . . .” He inhales to blow up his cheeks then exhales to pop like a balloon. “You’re very . . .Neurotic, sometimes.” “Gee, thanks,” Shane scrubs his nails over the nape of his hair, now short, stubbly like he likes it. “No, is good.” Ilya amends, sitting up and leaning closer. “Is good to have attention to detail. Sometimes you pay too much attention.” Shane chews on the inside of his cheek, feeling the line of a scar marred across it with his tongue. “Where is this going?” “You feel a lot.” Ilya adds, tugging at one of his curls, trying to convey his point. “Yes, Ilya. I’m not a robot.” Ilya hums low in his throat, looking momentarily very confused and frustrated with where the conversation has gone. He reels Shane back in: “remember when you told me to get therapy?” “Christ,” Shane expels in unprepared shock, “how could I forget?” It’s how casually Ilya says it that catches him off guard. “I think you could benefit.” Shane nods. “I don’t disagree,” he shrugs, wanting to melt into the pillows. Sadly, long ago, they promised to be honest to one another. It is both a blessing and a curse. “I’ve been seeing Ottawa’s counsellor every once in a while.” “‘Once in a while’.” Ilya parrots, lifting his bouncing knee from the floor to tuck it beneath himself, crossing his legs. “I, uh . . .” He huffs, computing his next words. “Spit it out,” Shane urges softly, straightening his leg and taking his foot at a point to poke Ilya’s thigh. “You know how my mother had depression. I got depression,” Ilya articulates, inching closer to Shane on the couch, shimmying over. “Yes?” Shane says, gaze tender, shifting to meet Ilya in the middle. His hand finds itself snaking around Ilya’s thigh and gripping him close. Ilya’s arm comes around Shane’s shoulders around the backrest. “Your father . . .He has autism?” “You think . . .I have autism?” Shane’s eyebrows knit. “Wouldn’t be so far fetched.” Ilya shrugs. Shane is trying to be somewhat angry with this conclusion. Thinking, how dare Ilya diagnose him like this? Yet, all he can think is how sickeningly sweet being so intimately known by another for them to recognise something monumental like this is. His eyebrows stay knitted but he’s almost smiling. “When did you start thinking that?” “It wasn’t . . .How you say? Conscious? I just started noticing.” Ilya tries to explain, dropping his arm to rest across Shane’s waist, drawing patterns with his fingernail politely tracing into Shane’s side. “Things I didn’t pay attention to before. Your routines. Bad social skills.” Shane looks offended for a moment, before reality sets in and he wonders if Ilya really is so far off. “My social skills aren’t bad.” “Not . . .Bad. Fuck. I’m bad at this.” “No, no . . .” Shane comforts, trailing off. He can’t seem to get enough of the conversation. It’s almost amusing. “Keep going.” “Internet said about social cues. Sometimes you don’t get conversation. Like, jokes don’t land.” Ilya explains, swallowing anxiously, chuckling slightly for it to wear off. Shane nods at him. “And this might not mean anything, but you like being clean . . .The cottage is always clean. Your car; clean. Bedroom; clean. You shower every day. Wash your face morning and night.” “Yeah,” Shane agrees, “comforts me.” “Another thing,” Ilya is reminded by Shane’s word choice, “they said comfort. Like, your weird rituals. The way you make your breakfast then eat it. Your routines. Game day is different but same, you know? Always the same.” Shane has begun smiling, now. “My parents have always said the same thing—I’ve had the same routines since I was maybe a teenager.”
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- English
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- 1,109
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76692166
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“We are not taking the same flight,” he said, pushing Ilya’s phone away. “That would be insane.” “Oh, come on,” Ilya whined. “You are being too paranoid. Nobody cares if two people are on the same flight—we are friends, remember?” -- After Ilya gets an injury that puts him on the bench for a month, he convinces Shane to let him go watch a game against the Washington Capitals. Shane agrees, on one condition: they fly separately. Which works out, until he's stuck at the airport having a sensory meltdown and everything just keeps going wrong.
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- English
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- 6,137
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76626111
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While they are at the cottage, Ilya gets his hands on Shane's phone a few times. Ilya enjoys it a lot, to Shane's dismay, that he gets to refer to himself as Shane's lover via text messages.
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- English
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- 13,017
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- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76544096
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Ilya annoys Shane by smoking after one of their late night hotel meet-ups (before The Cottage), and Shane finds out that he actually doesn’t hate smoking as much.
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- English
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- 4,316
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #76679321
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as you wander through this troubled world by justhockey
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-27
Having a child is like having a second heart beating outside of your body. You carry them, and you hold them in your arms for the very first time, and you soothe them when they cry. You protect them, and keep them safe, and you try and instil them with all the skills and attributes they need to succeed, to thrive, to be happy. You do that for as long as you can…as long as they will allow you. And then you let them go. You send them out into the world, and hope with everything in you that it doesn’t break them.
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- English
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- 1,507
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76498021
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Press conferences are easy. Shane could do them in his sleep. Right now, however, his body feels like it’s being suffocated by tight plastic wrap and his brain is already numb from overstimulation, and it’s taking everything in him not to lose his shit. [Or, in September 2015, Shane gets overstimulated during a press conference, and Ilya brings him back.]
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,628
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76298016
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Ilya Rozanov walks into traffic by kwiewi
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-23
“You know, statistically, I’m much less likely to get hit by a car. I’m not the one that almost walked into traffic a few minutes ago,” Shane says. “That was all you, Rozanov.” He winks. “It is okay. I am very strong. A car could not run me over, I would run the car over with my big muscles,” he pats his bicep. “I am like that big green man. Very strong. Very angry. Massive dick.” Shane flushes. “You’re not the fucking Hulk, man, shut up. You could not fight a car.” - or: the obligatory hollanov meet-ugly
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,215
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76279941
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Shane Hollander loses a game. He can’t lose a game. He can’t speak. He can’t think. Ilya takes care of him.
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- English
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76249506
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the edges of your soul, i haven't seen yet by only_the_golden
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2025-12-13
Shane experiences a shutdown after a tough game. Ilya is there to pick up the pieces. Set sort of between Heated Rivalry and The Long Game (?) Title from 'Forever' by Noah Kahan
- Part 3 of Autistic Shane Hollander One-Shots
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- English
- Words:
- 1,221
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- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75719196
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something different bloomed by only_the_golden
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2025-12-13
Shane was diagnosed with autism as a kid, and kept it a secret once he decided he wanted to play hockey as a career. He decides it's finally time to tell Ilya. Set in Chapter 17 of Heated Rivalry. Title from 'You're on Your Own, Kid' by Taylor Swift
- Part 2 of Autistic Shane Hollander One-Shots
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,000
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75675526
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