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Shane flees to the cottage four hours before his marriage to his biggest hater, Ilya Rozanov. He doesn’t expect to find Ilya, who thought of jilting him first, at his destination.
- Part 3 of Gwen’s heated rivalry fics
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Playing Wing(Man) to Shane Hollander by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-05-30
Ilya clapped his hands decisively, the same way he did when the team was about to hit the ice. "Let me be your wingman. This will be fun."
He meant it. He wanted to encourage Shane to embrace this, to see if it could help take some of the edge off this tense, tightly wound man sitting across from him.
Shane bit his lip, and Ilya found his eyes fixating on his plush mouth. Ilya would have to organize a line, complete with a velvet VIP rope the first time he took Shane out on the town to get laid. He was stunning, and he seemed to have yet to realize it.
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Shane is drafted to the Centaurs two years after Ilya. Ilya takes it upon himself to be rookie Shane's bisexual fairy godmother/wingman, and then immediately regrets it because he catches feelings.- Language:
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- 15/15
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #82570956
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All Alone In Our Own Universe by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-11
When Shane Hollander wakes up in a world that never invented hockey, the only other person who remembers is Ilya Rozanov.
(Set in August 2012 – a year and a half after their last hookup, during the flirtatious-texts montage.)
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- AO3:
- #84332491
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“Shane had been used to being alone. He'd never thought of himself as lonely. He honestly often craved the solitude, found it grounding. But that was before he knew what it was like to have someone to call, someone to touch. He was never lonely before Rozanov, but he'd been lonely ever since.”
April 2017: Shane does not get laid out on the ice.
Ilya goes through with ending it.
Shane lets him.
What follows is eleven months of distance, denial, and a quiet kind of devastation neither of them knows how to name, let alone fix.
They learn how to live without each other.
(Or at least, how to pretend.)
And then, almost a year later, the infamous collision happens and Shane goes down cold.
And suddenly, neither of them can pretend it doesn’t matter.
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- AO3:
- #83638766
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“How can Montreal be snowed in?” Ilya asks. “They are not ready for winter?” “It’s Montreal, man,” Marleau snickers, like that's an explanation. Ilya’s phone buzzes. Jane- 9:44 a.m.- Look on the bright side. If you’re stuck another day, you can come back here. ________ After Ilya leaves Shane’s apartment for the first time, he knows he’s on thin ice and at risk of falling into more serious feelings. He’s ready to put distance back between them. A Montreal blizzard has other ideas.
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- 27/?
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- AO3:
- #76878451
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His mother hums. “And you’re staying the whole five days?”
“That was the plan. Why?”
“Food logistics. And there’s a chance we’ll have a guest, so, you know. Gotta stock up.”
“As if they could make a dent with a hockey player in the house,” Shane jokes, yawns again, and then lets himself be sent off to bed.
In hindsight, he should really have paid more attention to the carefully casual way his mother had said, there’s a chance we’ll have a guest.
Shane is looking forward to Christmas break: five days with no one except his parents. Unfortunately, his parents have picked up a stray… one that Shane is rather more familiar with than he’d like anyone else to know.
- Part 1 of A Viral Friendship
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To only ever know the cold by IbecomewhatIbelieve
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-12
Svetlana knows about Jane. It's frankly insulting for Ilyusha to think otherwise. She just never expected to have to call him for help. During the Olympics. In Russia. In the dead of night. - Or, it's Sochi 2014 and Russia has lost to Latvia. Grigori Rozanov, not yet compromised by illness, punishes his son for shaming the family. When Svetlana finds an injured and emotionally fragile Ilya, she knows she needs somewhere safe for him to recover. And there's only one person in Russia who Sveta trusts with her Ilyusha: Canada's Golden Boy, Shane Hollander.
- Part 1 of To know the sun
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- AO3:
- #79764141
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Sweet and Bitter by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-10
Shane Hollander can’t keep sitting on his couch, nursing a broken leg and watching his team drown without him. He’ll do anything to fill the gap hockey left behind, even something as stupid as competing on Celebrity MasterChef.
Shane wants a distraction so big he’ll forget hockey, forget Rozanov, and especially forget that afternoon in Boston, and the outstretched hand he walked away from. Unfortunately for Shane, ignoring Rozanov won’t be so easy when he’s one table away, wearing a matching apron, and talking to the cameras about the recipes that shaped his childhood.
(Or: Right after the tuna-melt scene, both Shane and Ilya get injured, and to fill the time they both decide to go on Celebrity MasterChef.)
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- AO3:
- #82700886
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When the Hollanders face a financial crisis that might end in bankruptcy, Shane finds himself agreeing to a deal that forces him into proximity with his archenemy to save his parents' legacy.
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So what is the plan now, Mr. Spreadsheet?
“Honestly I was kind of hoping your consciousness would just click back into your body once I touched you.” Shane scratches the back of his head.
You treat me like slap bracelet, Ilya complains.
After a bad hit knocks Ilya’s consciousness out of his body — literally — Shane finds himself sheltering the soul of his decade-long situationship in the back of his head. Turns out it’s a lot harder to keep secrets when you share a body.
(They definitely still try, though.)
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- AO3:
- #80586441
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when the right one comes along by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-06
Hayden: Jackie is very jealous of your manny.
Hayden: Says he’s incredible and that a bunch of the school moms are trying to get play dates with Violet.Shane: He is great.
Shane: Kind of a menace, too, but Violet loves him, so I overlook some things.Hayden: Oh, I’m sure.
Hayden: She also said he’s super hot.
Hayden: Like he missed his calling as a model hot.Shane: Geez, Hayd. You want to marry him or something?
Hayden: NO.
Hayden: I just thought maybe for you, ya know?
Hayden: You haven’t dated anyone like…ever.Shane: I’m not going to get involved with my daughter’s manny.
Shane: That would be irresponsible.
Shane: Even if he is stupid model hot.
Shane: And obnoxiously charming and funny.
Shane: Plus, he cooks, and has the best accent.
Shane: And is amazing with my daughter.
Shane: God. Fuck my life.- Language:
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Shane has a bad feeling about this year's All Stars weekend.
All Stars usually doesn't stress him out this much, not anymore. It's being held in St. Louis this year, which isn't ideal, but it's fine. It already got delayed into March, which has never happened before, but surely that's fine too. The timing is pushing uncomfortably close to playoffs, but it'll be fine. It's just a weekend. Everything will be fine.
That's what he tells himself, anyway, as he stares at the news on the TV playing in his terminal waiting area. The anchors drone on and on in front of hospitals and government buildings. Text crawls menacingly across the bottom of the screen. Numbers keep catching his eye like brambles snagging in fabric. And over and over and over, that terrifying word keeps popping up.
Pandemic.
or: what if lockdown happened during the all stars weekend?
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- AO3:
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Shane Hollander is the youngest Commander in ISS history; straight-backed, closeted, and so tightly on his own leash that seven months in orbit with Ilya Rozanov have not produced a single crack in his composure. Ilya Rozanov is the Russian cosmonaut who should have had his job, won’t stop bouncing a tennis ball off the walls, and is still looking for a fissure. Thankfully, a solar storm finds it for him. or: Near-death, zero gravity, and the wrong man’s hands in exactly the right places. A Cosmonaut!Ilya x Astronaut!Shane AU 🚀
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- #80797406
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Designed To Break Your Heart by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-02
Ilya's eyes snapped. Something hot behind them. "You think you are better than me?"
Shane shook his head. It was like comparing apples and oranges, he wasn't sure how to even measure who was better. "No, and you know that's not what I meant. It's true, I'm more likely to get called up before you, and-"
Ilya propped himself up, nose now inches from Shane's. Shane couldn't help looking at his lips, flushed from running. To his horror, Ilya seemed to notice, and he started grinning.
"I think I will catch you." Ilya said, casually. "I cannot let you play without me. Would be no fun."
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Baseball au. Shane Hollander is a tightly wound pitcher who has been dreaming about the major leagues since he was six. Ilya Rozanov is a cocky shortstop who is infuriatingly good at reading him.- Language:
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- 11/11
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- AO3:
- #80482341
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you know my heart belongs to you / one last time, say that you want me too by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-28
“What is the price you are willing to pay to be free?”
After a failed raid, Captain Ilya Rozanov refuses to return empty-handed. He settles for a far more promising treasure: Shane Hollander, crown prince and the Queen’s only son. Taken aboard as ransom, Shane is meant to be nothing more than leverage in the negotiation between crown and pirates.
However, the lines between Shane being a captive of the captain and something else entirely soon begin to blur. The closer the exchange comes, the harder it becomes for them to resist the pull between them. The noose around their necks gradually tightens, and soon they must navigate between love, the longing for freedom, and duty.
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A Hollanov slow burn Pirate AU- Language:
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- #78319166
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Odd-Man Rush: The situation that occurs when a team enters the attacking zone and outnumbers the opposing players in the zone.
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Shane doesn’t know why he still feels so off-kilter. He should be the happiest he’s ever been—he won the Cup, he feels like he’s maybe starting to have a few friends on his team, and he’s finally starting to believe his parents when they tell him he won’t get traded again. He should be on top of the world, but sometimes he still feels like the lone defender on an odd-man rush, skating as fast as he can to prevent what feels like an inevitable outcome.
The problem is that he’s not quite sure which outcome it is that he’s trying to stop.
- Part 2 of Home Ice Advantage
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- English
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- 2/?
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- #79830331
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trying to reason with hurricane season by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-26
Two days.
Shane and Rozanov filming together, surrounded by the CCM filming and design team, none of them aware that their star rivals were secretly fucking every chance they could. That every game the world saw them go head-to-head in was only foreplay, leading to apartments and hotel rooms. That the heated rivalry between them was inching further and further away from rivalry, and toward something entirely different.
Two days in sunny, perfect Florida.
Or, a joint CCM shoot set in sunny, perfect Florida gets derailed by a natural disaster, and Shane and Ilya are forced to spend actual time together, forced to imagine a future. They find that it’s quite impossible to reason with hurricane season, but that the effects are better than they could have hoped for.
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- AO3:
- #79730211
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“Rozanov needs a place to stay. His visa won’t allow him to go home to Russia over the break, and we don’t have the cash to put him in a hotel.”
Did the Harvard dorms completely shut down over the winter break? What about the dining hall? Shane supposed he didn’t really know. He’d never stuck around to find out, when he was younger.
“Okay?”
Coach raised his eyebrows. “So, he’s staying with you.”
Shane’s eyes went wide.
“What?”
“Come on, Captain,” Wiebe looked down his nose at Shane. “Try not to look too thrilled.”
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or, Shane's a senior captain with an empty house over winter break. and Ilya's the freshman who will be crashing his Christmas.- Part 1 of dana street
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- #76135386
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Ilya takes out his phone and swipes to Jane and types quickly, eyes on Hunter: I am trapped in elevator. With Scott Hunter. I am coming soon as I can. While Ilya is typing, Hunter has been staring at his phone as his eyebrows slowly move closer and closer together. Ilya is tempted to make a joke about Hunter getting wrinkles. “Does your phone work?” Hunter says, looking up from his own phone. For a brief, panicked moment, Ilya is worried, but then, the three dots of Shane typing, and then Shane has responded: Are you joking?? Ilya types back quickly: No. Elevator stopped. They say 20 minutes. Shane responds immediately: Please don’t kill Scott Hunter -- Ilya Rozanov and Scott Hunter get stuck in an elevator during the Tampa Bay All-Stars.
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- AO3:
- #79829631
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a moonbeam in your hand by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-19
"We have newest member of the team with us today, as you all have seen.”
Shane glanced up again, watching as the captain gestured vaguely toward Shane without looking at him. “Shane Hollander.” The name came out of his mouth like it was laced with poison.
Shane became very aware of many eyes turning to him now. He felt a few claps on the back and tried to force a tight smile. But his eyes wandered back up to Ilya Rozanov, who was looking at him with so much quiet contempt, that Shane started to understand the phrase ‘if looks could kill.’
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OR: Ilya spirals into a deep depression when Shane breaks things off with him definitively after a horrifying run in with their feelings (and tuna melts).
They go no contact for close to a year until Shane is unexpectedly traded to Boston the following season.
Shane finds his new captain is a version of Ilya he's never seen before: dark, icy, and distant.
But their newfound proximity mixed with old feelings creates a complicated dynamic that they can't ignore forever.
- Language:
- English
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- 38,313
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- 18/18
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78494131
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