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I'm hardly brave (I know) by ilove_djungleskog
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-20
Shane Hollander had always struggled with controlling his emotions once they got past a point of no return. He would cry in the bathroom after a test knowing he failed and couldn't do anything about it. However, he'd always been able to keep the harsh emotions at bay until he was alone. Except on the way to his wonderful boyfriend's house, he seems to be confusing the giant house with home. Maybe he can learn to be more open around Ilya. Maybe home can be a person. Maybe it was always a person, since 2009.
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- English
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- 1,979
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #90941206
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Shane joins Ilya on a quick trip to Moscow, which soon transforms into a nightmare. Ilya is arrested and targeted so harshly that he's not sure Russia will let him go this time.
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Shane witnesses Ilya's family.
Alexei and Ilya's relationship is explored.
Yuna flies to Russia.
Lots of Svetlana.
Healing journey fluff afterwards.- Language:
- English
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- 142,860
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- 21/21
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78329636
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In Twenty Years by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-14
On the twentieth anniversary of his mother’s death, Ilya can no longer avoid what she left behind — a note, and a promise he would understand in time.
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- English
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- 4,446
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #83117341
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6 Months by Nituaii
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-02-03
Shane didn't know what he should say, what he could say. They hadn't talked since that night, hadn't been in contact much. Which at first hadn't worried Shane. It wasn't unusual for them to go longer periods of time without contact, and especially with the Olympics looming so close, with them both being chosen for their teams, it had only seemed logical to focus on their duties. He hadn't worried. Had lived in that blissful state of finally knowing what it felt like to be taken, of sharing the arguably most intimate part of himself with someone he trusted. Knew he could trust. Thought he could trust. OR: What happened during those 6 months when Ilya ignored Shane? How did that time change things for Shane?
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- English
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- 22,032
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- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78605076
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Shane nearly stops himself right there, runs through all of the ways he could navigate away from the question, but when he opens his mouth it comes right out anyway. "Was he hard on you too?" Or Ilya had been waiting for the other shoe to drop. He just hadn’t expected it to be about this, hadn’t expected, or maybe simply refused to accept, that his father would somehow still hurt him beyond the grave, that the punches and split lips and broken ribs would still, impossibly, ache within him after all this time. or Shane tries to talk to Ilya about his past. It doesn't go as planned.
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- English
- Words:
- 4,313
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77575121
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Toska (frozen tears) by Birds On a Concrete Wall (AmetistLex)
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-11
New Year holidays and wishes haven't been the same since he became twelve, but Ilya wanted to try and recreate that faint feeling he craved with Shane this year. He freed his schedule, bought decorations for the cottage and planned the activities for their short holiday, even fresh snow just fell from the sky — but today things turned out the way they did. Ilya could tell Shane felt guilty, so he reassured him it was okay to go and manage his career. It was. It still is. Ilya is the one who is not okay. * He shouldn't be feeling this way, but somehow, Ilya feels more fragile than a colorful bauble on a tree.
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- English
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- 2,213
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77505926
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Shane thinks he's doing a good job at hiding the truth behind his performance diet.
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- English
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- 13,755
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- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #72263701
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Yuna Hollander notices something amiss with Ilya. They work through his grief together.
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- English
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- 2,166
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- AO3:
- #77056301
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Looking back at it now, how he longed for his own bed, he thought maybe his mother wasn’t lazy at all, but maybe her own mind and heart were just simply too heavy for her to lift. He hoped that practice would help his mood lift, and his medication would kick in. He’d be back to being himself. The rink was cold when Shane and he entered, hand in hand, and the loud chatter of his team immediately made a headache bloom behind his eyes. Ilya is having a bad depression day, but at the end of it all Shane is right there to help him.
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- English
- Words:
- 5,437
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76686321
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why did you invite me to your wedding by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-28
“Why are you calling me, Hollander?” Ilya asks more harshly than he means to. But he’s tired, and impatient, and strung out on a mixture of emotions and longing for the voice on the other end of the phone. “If nothing is wrong, why are you calling?”
“Will you come?” Shane asks, and Ilya’s heart sinks before he can even say the rest of it. He shouldn’t have asked. He should have just let Shane ramble. “To…to the wedding?”
The lump in his throat feels insurmountable. But he manages to say, “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
Shane doesn’t acknowledge it. “I invited alllll these people, but the only one I actually care if they come or not is you.” He stops and giggles. “Isn’t that weird?”
“Yes,” Ilya replies, because it is. You shouldn’t want your years-long situationship at your wedding. He doesn’t want the drunken musings of Shane Hollander to give him hope.
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Or Shane gets engaged. Ilya gets a phone call. Everything breaks. But sometimes breaking is what finally makes room for the truth.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,625
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76611201
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Walk Away by multifaulty (Ravenclaws_owl)
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-14
Shane dialed. It rang… and rang… and rang again. With each passing ring the pit gnawing its way through Shane's stomach was growing. Just as he felt like it was about to stop ringing and go to voicemail, it picked up. Shane breathed out a sigh of relief. “Thank God, I was getting worried. Where are you?” There was an unsettling beat of silence before someone answered, “Hollander?” It was not Ilya’s voice. Shane’s stomach dropped. He did his best to keep his voice steady as he answered. “Yeah? Uh, who is this? Can you give Ilya back his phone please?” Another beat of silence. “Hollander… God, um, something’s happened-” After the events of The Long Game, Shane and Ilya play their first All-Star Weekend. Things are going great, until they go truly and horribly sideways. Ilya is left hospitalized following an attack off the ice, and Shane is left to pick up the pieces and wonder why.
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- English
- Words:
- 12,529
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75615521
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you haven't come this far to fall off the earth by canadianwolfbird
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-11-17
It’s not that Ilya wants the darkness to win; it’s just that sometimes he lets it.
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- English
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- 7,039
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #74294536