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I already chose you, Ilya by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-25
“I might be busy having sex with Troy,” Ilya said tightly.
Ilya makes a joke about having sex with Troy. What he doesn't know is how deeply the joke hurt Shane. Two days and many unanswered calls later, they finally talk. And Ilya learns how much Shane has been silently carrying all these years.
"Would you even choose me, Shane?"
"I already chose you, Ilya."
Or: Shane crashes out after years of stupid jokes about his diet, homophobic slurs thrown at him, racist environment, and one unfortunate joke about Troy Barrett.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,333
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #91331431
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cap's (not) girl needs entertainment by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-18
Following his injury and stay at his parents' house, Shane Hollander is bored out of his mind.
A conversation with his best friends turned out unsuccessful and when he then talked to his not-yet boyfriend about it, Ilya has the brilliant idea to have him added to the Boston Raiders WAGs group chat.
Hopefully they can help?
- Part 3 of other HR fics & oneshots
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,575
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88501886
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It is December, and Scott has been out for long enough to pretend to be used to it, and things are not perfect but they’re fucking good, and Ilya Rozanov is at his apartment for dinner—has been for over an hour—and he’s still waiting so stupidly hopefully to introduce a boyfriend who very, very clearly isn’t coming.
(Or: studies on coming out, learning patience, one-sided conversations, and other absurdist waiting games.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,255
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84635891
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Grin and Bear It by Giveemhale
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-06
Ilya tries to get Shane to be friends with Troy. It goes horribly. AKA Shane crashes out at Troy Chap 2: Shane and Rose talk about fame and rage
- Part 1 of The Darker Side of Hockey
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,176
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #83891141
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Before practice, Shane is caught off guard by the devastating news of an abrupt plane crash that took the lives of five Raiders players, including Ilya's. Unable to explain his grief to those closest to him, he retreats into himself, becoming a ghost of the person they loved until he's pushed to the brink of his own unmanageable pain.
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“The Raiders Plane Crashed,” was what he had heard in the locker room. From Comeau, specifically.
Shane was pretty sure he kept talking, but if he was being honest, he didn’t hear anything past that. He just stared at his teammate’s lips moving, no sound seeming to reach his ears aside from the heavy thudding of his own heartbeat in them. There was this urge to snatch the phone out of his hand and read the news article for himself growing as the locker room managed to warp around him. But he couldn’t move, fear paralyzing him.
“You alright?” Hayden questioned, his voice tearing through the sharp silence his mind had forced upon him.
Shane flinched as he felt his friends hand on his shoulder, the sudden contact making him even more ill to his stomach. He didn’t dare try to nod or lie and say he was.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,067
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82234791
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“I’m sorry,” Shane chokes, closing his eyes. Rozanov draws his hand, pulling Shane’s with it, to his face and wipes his cheeks.
“There is nothing to be sorry for, любовь моя, it is okay,” Rozanov murmurs, tugging at Shane’s hair again. Shane exhales, letting him clean his cheeks. “You got overwhelmed, yes? It happens.”
“I can’t be fucking normal,” Shane says quietly, whining, head falling back, pressing into Rozanov’s hand.
“No, if you were fucking normal, you would not be my Shane.”
// shane is a liar, and he's tired of it all. his life falls apart, and he finds that he doesn't actually mind.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,474
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81580056
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Set after Heated Rivalry, mini spoilers for The Long Game since it's set around the start of that book
An exploration of J.J and Hayden as not-so-great friends, from Shane's POV. Ends on a hopeful note for Shane overall but not in regards to his two longtime friends.
Also featuring a cute text exchange between Shane and Ilya + a sweet conversation in the Hollander family groupchat!
(I advise reading the tags)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,812
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81609261
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And I could give you my apologies by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-08
After the first game Ilya plays in Boston since moving to Ottawa, he and Cliff Marlow talk.
Technically takes place within the "Shane's Lily"/"Yuna's Boys" universe, but works as a standalone.
- Part 3 of Yuna's Boys
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,223
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80878536
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Ilya lies on the ground and looks up at the stars and waits to die.
The pavement is cold.
Ilya wonders if his mother was cold when she died. He thinks maybe not, since she didn’t die in a deserted alleyway in Vancouver. But she did die at home, and maybe that was even colder.In a world where the Cold War ended but the Iron Curtain never fell, Ilya Rozanov is the most promising figure skater in Russia. At only 19, he’s an easy candidate for gold at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, one of the only times Russia allows its citizens to leave the USSR.
And then one mistake means Russia will never let him come back. Hollander won’t stop trying to talk to him, but the last thing Ilya wants to do is talk to the man who ruined his life. He might be stuck in Canada, a refugee, for the rest of his life, but that doesn’t mean he has to talk to Hollander ever again.
He wanders Vancouver aimlessly and doesn’t think about Russia, or Hollander, or the ice that can never be home again.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,808
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80382621
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Shane has been getting sick in the mornings. But he’s an alpha, so it can’t mean anything – right?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,385
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78884701
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j.j.'s discovery of bisexuality and what shane hollander's lips feel like by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-01-29
After inviting Shane out to dinner and some well-timed questions about his friend's relationship status, J.J. realized he might be missing amjor puzzle piece in the task of known Shane Hollander. Good thing J.J. is pretty open minded... wait... not that open-minded, right??
(How J.J. Boiziau realizes his friend is gay, that he is bi, and gets a kiss out of it)
- Part 1 of j.j.'s bisexual adventures
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,289
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78323586
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"Wait, he's not color-blind?" by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-24
"Technically, technically, this was a good thing!
Robbie kept telling himself, and Jenny, more importantly Jenny, that this was a good thing.
Their kid wasn’t color-blind like Robbie and Jenny’s father and brothers! This was good!
This was fine! It was totally fine!
So his kid wasn’t his, so what?
Fuck, no!
Fuck that!"
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Ilya Rozanov has a threesome with a married couple in 2015. He doesn't really think about it again until 2019.
- Part 2 of Hollanov Open Endings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 726
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78226406
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Momager is not a title that would have suited Irina Rozanova.
It's the kind of thought that Ilya knows to be true, but still fills him with a sickly, childlike guilt — part of him still 12 years old when he thinks of his Mama. It's a betrayal to think of her as not being good at something even when he knows it's not a thing she would have enjoyed. Mama was soft, gentle, the type to press kisses to skinned knees and put balm of frost bitten noses.
She was not weak. But she did not have the lethal energy of Yuna Hollander.
Though he suspected there weren't many who did.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,113
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78100161
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After a very silly goal, Shane laughing in Ilya's arms makes his all-star teammates realize they are friends.
An accidental soft launch of their relationship during the 2017 All Stars. It's just very soft and lovely. No drama here.
Based on a real goal that has happened. Hockey is sometimes a very silly sport.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,076
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78030216
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Ilya is, for all intents and purposes, a perfect sexual partner. Sometimes, Shane mused, too perfect. OR: Shane wants Ilya to be a bit rougher in the bedroom. Ilya complies.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,410
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77853956
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Shane is prepared for it, of course. After a million analyses, one thing is clear: following Rozanov’s lead in the first part of the game gives him the best chance of winning. So. That's what he does—he follows, and he hides a quiet grin in the collar of not his hoodie, seeing Rozanov furrowing his brows as he analyses Shane's movements with brutal ferocity, probably wondering why Shane is playing so passively. Child chess prodigies Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov grow into being grandmasters. Their rivalry grows during chess tournaments and also makes them feel something more, especially since Rozanov somehow can quieten Shane's anxiety.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,318
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77510646
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The Things We Can't Say by ConquerSpaceAndTime
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-08
Six months after the Olympic Games, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov haven’t spoken a word to each other...and Shane Hollander is doing a terrible job of pretending he’s fine. With the NHL Awards looming and everything left unsaid hanging between them, one drunken night in Montreal spirals into an unexpected karaoke performance, and everything he’s buried comes spilling out in front of the one person he never stopped thinking about. For Ilya Rozanov, hearing Shane sing might be the moment that finally breaks the stalemate before the NHL Awards bring them back into each other’s orbit. Sometimes it only takes a song, a crowd, and one look across a room to realize that silence was never the same thing as moving on. OR: Between the Olympics and the NHL awards, Shane does drunk karaoke and pours his heart out, and Ilya sees the whole damn thing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,589
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77311136
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The trouble with leaving voicemails by Moonrose8
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-20
“Hi, this is Ilya. I’ll never listen to your voicemail.” Hayden dropped his phone out of shock. ******** Or, what if Hayden was just trying to be a supportive friend and stumbled onto a major secret.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,439
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76101266
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Jane: We didn't even kiss. The words stare back at him. They fucking taunt him, the same way Ilya does with that wink of his, with his smirk and his deep voice. Abruptly, Shane feels pissed off and a little like he’s grasping for something that’s slipping away. He feels the way he did in that bathroom, the first time he had Ilya’s attention for months and didn’t want to let Ilya escape without stealing more of it. The elevator door opens. Shane does not get off. Instead, he presses the button for Penthouse 1 and hits send on We didn’t even kiss. He watches the floor numbers increase as the elevator carries him back to Ilya. Shane has no idea what he’s going to say to the asshole but he knows he has so many words that are about to burst out of his mouth. Fuck you being the first two. OR Shane goes back for that kiss.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,763
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75098856