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I'm Coming to the Cottage (No, Not That One) by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Barghest | Barguest (Yorkshire England Folk Tale)
2026-09-26
Shane Hollander desperately needs to disappear.
After a spectacularly awful week, a remote Yorkshire cottage seems like the perfect place to hide from the press, rediscover himself, and drink an irresponsible amount of tea.
Unfortunately, the cottage isn't empty.
The Russian stranger insists it’s his, but Shane has paperwork that says otherwise.
It's just after midnight, there's a storm outside, the roads are probably flooded, and the only available weapon is a stuffed fish.
Clearly, this is all Svetlana's fault.
They're both convinced the cottage belongs to them and they're both refusing to leave.
A Yorkshire romcom.
Inspired by The Holiday (2006), with lashings of Wallace & Gromit.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 79,447
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87748931
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sunlight in the gloom by imbihesgay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-29
LILY: bored of me already, Hollander? LILY: is not nice to ignore me, sexy LILY: shane, seriously, are you ok? Another half hour passes, and he’s had enough. He calls in the next best reinforcement he can think of. Yuna Hollander answers on the second ring. “Hi sweetheart.” “Hey.” He tries to keep his voice even and calm, rather than panicked and uneasy, which is how he feels. “Have you heard from Shane?” “Shane? No, not since this morning. Why?” “I-” Ilya hesitates very briefly, sure suddenly that he is overreacting. How will it look to Shane’s mother, when he is home safe and sound, and his overly possessive boyfriend is calling every family member to check up on his location? “Ilya.” Her voice grows more serious. “What’s going on?” --shane gets into a car crash and doesn't answer his phone- worried & protective ilya ensues!-
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,294
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87582526
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something told me to come by Tizniz
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-22
"Hollander." Rozanov says, voice quiet to match the atmosphere. Swallowing, Shane curls his fingers towards his palms, hiding the shaking there. "Rozanov." "It is late." "Yeah." "Why are you in gym?" "Why are you?" Rozanov shrugs, a casual little thing, "Something told me to come."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,507
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #87152796
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try to capture every minute, that feeling in it by imbihesgay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-19
“If the plums are good, we will get them,” he assures her and she smiles in relief. “Kay Daddy.” She goes back to looking at the numerous, colorful brands of cereal around them in the aisle. Shane sighs, one hand pressed against the underside of his swollen belly as a barrage of movement steals his focus momentarily. He’s so distracted by the movement of their baby within, that it takes him a second to realize the gentle presence of his daughter has disappeared from his side. He turns, so quickly that it makes his hip muscles pull uncomfortably, trying to spot her in the aisle. His heart lodges in his throat when he realizes she is no longer even in the same aisle. “Ren?” he chokes out, feet moving in the direction of the aisle’s edge, hoping to god she’s somewhere extremely nearby and he’s just missing her. The hurried waddle to the end of the aisle feels like it takes an eternity, his heart racing, sweat beading on his forehead, pulse stuttering. Fuck, what is she wearing right now? What color is her shirt? Oh, fuck, what if he has to tell the police what she was last seen in? What if he- what if she’s- -aka a pregnant shane has a scary day with their older daughter-
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,613
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86980951
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Shane was fine until the fire alarm. Or, mostly fine. He was holding on. Because he knew that once practice was done, he could go home, have a nice long shower, and then hide away in his bed. There’d be no expectations of him, no one looking to him for what to do next, no one needing something from him. They’d been taking from him all day and he could feel the pieces of himself disappearing. He wasn’t sure how he’d managed to run the drills he did during practice.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,338
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86662931
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After becoming a Boston Raider, Shane was still bracing, waiting for something to go wrong.
Eventually, however, he realizes he doesn’t have to.
Ilya has some feelings about it too.- Part 2 of Boston AU
- Part 2 of My Autistic Shane Hollander Writings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 63,186
- Chapters:
- 31/31
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79941521
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shane is feeling less than confident at six months pregnant. ilya shows him who he is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,385
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85872696
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Maybe Eight Years Is Enough by ItsMayBiTheWay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-05-16
The pounding on the door is what jolts Shane awake. Instinctively he tries to jump to his feet and rush to get it, but a heavy weight around his torso and on top of his legs prevents him from moving. As consciousness slowly returns to him, breaking through the haze of his hangover—and possible still-drunken state—he realizes that he is being held by Rozanov. “Shane Hollander, open the door, now!” “Oh my god, oh my fucking god. Jesus fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fucking hell. That is my fucking mother.” OR After getting drunk at the 2016 NHL Awards, Shane Hollander wakes up married to Ilya Rozanov
- Part 1 of What Happens in Vegas
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,592
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #84971856
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one small step and one giant leap by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-20
Scott watched as Hollander leaned in, further, to hear Rozanov. This was the part that didn’t entirely make sense to him. The missing piece of something that felt like it was just beyond his reach. This was quiet ease and small moments of comfort and a look that makes the rest of the world fade away. This was how he felt with Kip.
Scott stilled.
It was as if someone had whispered it in his ear. It was as if the final piece of this insane, deranged puzzle finally clicked into place. His heart was pounding in his ears. He was probably wrong. In fact he was entirely wrong. This wasn’t like him and Kip. It couldn’t be Kip. Scott had been watching too many romantic comedies. His head was in the clouds.
But they weren’t touching.
Hollander and Rozanov were as close as they could be, without laying a single finger on one another. They were specifically, rigidly, separate. The warmth between them was bridled. Entirely. And this, Scott realized, his heart sinking into the floor, was also how he had felt with Kip.
Oh. Oh fuck.
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OR: Scott Hunter figures out Shane and Ilya are together at the NHL award ceremony and tries (and fails) not to freak out about it- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,146
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82346716
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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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“No, malyshka. Not sad.” Ilya turns and kisses her palm. “I am happy.”
Ilya stills after the words leave his mouth, skin prickling with warmth. He means it, he realizes.
He’s spent so much of the last decade convincing himself that he was not sad. But being happy, being happy like this—effortlessly, accidentally, on purpose—is different. Ilya can’t remember the last time he’d thought it and meant it. I am happy.
“Ilya?” Shane asks softly.
“I’m okay. I—” Ilya sniffs, wipes at his cheeks. It’s all useless when he looks down at Emi again, when he sees himself staring back. His lip trembles. “My mama would have loved her.”
- Part 3 of mélange
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,344
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81476536
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Shane Hollander goes on LTIR just before the Sochi Olympics with no public statement and an outpour of fan theories and media speculation. For the next two years of radio silence, Ilya grapples with the ghost of a relationship that could never be but almost was, wondering what he’d done wrong, yes—but mostly just coming to terms with the fact that his worry fits best by another name; one that neither of them can afford to call it.
In 2017, Shane returns to reclaim his position on the ice opposite Ilya, but things are different now. Ilya worries that there's someone else, and there is.
Just not in the way he'd expected.
- Part 1 of mélange
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,974
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81220436
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the pregnancy poster boy by imbihesgay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-08
“Nothing serious,” Yuna says before Shane can reply. “I was just telling Shane about this great opportunity to work with a maternity athletic brand.” “I don’t really feel comfortable right now, Mom,” Shane tells her, grimacing as he looks down at the stretched fabric of the hoodie he’s wearing. “I’m not myself. I don’t think this is the Shane Hollander brands are expecting.” “You are beautiful, perfect, moy lyubimyy,” Ilya is quick to disagree. “Ilya is right,” Yuna says, “and Shane, they know you’re pregnant. That’s exactly why they want you! You’re breaking barriers for omegas in the NHL. A pregnant, star NHL player? Just think of how much hope young omegas would feel looking at you!” Ilya winces. He hadn’t meant for his comment to encourage Yuna this way. -Yuna books a brand shoot for Shane during his pregnancy, he says yes even though he really doesn't want to-
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,139
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80829491
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Hayden only recognizes the signs because he’s seen them in Ilya.
- Part 2 of all lights turned off can be turned on
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,837
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80776281
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if you ever try to leave me again by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-04
Shane heard a strangled shout tear free from his mouth, and then his body was moving without his brain’s input. He flew across the ice, ripping his gloves off and reaching for Ilya’s throat. He wrapped his fingers around the warm skin, feeling the flow of blood pulse harder with each beat of Ilya’s heart. His eyes raced across Ilya’s face, desperately looking for a sign that his boyfriend was still with him. Ilya’s eyes were wide and glazed, staring past Shane instead of at him. His face was losing color rapidly, turning a sickly shade of white that mirrored the ice beneath him. His mouth was open, loose and slack, mouthguard still jammed into his upper jaw. Shane watched in terror as Ilya grew limper in his arms.
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During a Boston-Montreal game, Ilya's neck is cut by a skate, and Shane is forced to witness the love of his life bleeding out on the ice in front of him. All of the plans they have made seem to be slipping away before his eyes, right when they were so close to finalizing Ilya's transfer to Ottawa. As they race against the clock to save Ilya's life, Shane reckons with the secrets they have been forced to keep and fears that they might never get to live their truth out in the open.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,772
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78629256
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Carrying your love with me by Thiamsalpha
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-21
While Ilya is away in Moscow, Shane struggles with the quietness in their apartment. What starts as a moment of weakness turns into a nightly habit when Shane begins wearing Ilya's jersey to sleep.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,498
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79971186
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“Can you speak?” Ilya asks, voice soft and careful. He keeps combing his fingers through Shane’s hair. Shane opens his mouth, tries to produce a word, snaps his mouth closed as more tears rush to his eyes. “Okay, okay,” Ilya moves closer, kissing Shane’s cheek, his nose, his mouth. “You do not need to talk. You do not need words with me. You talk when ready.” OR: Shane goes non-verbal.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,628
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79808646
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Shane's eyes squeeze closed again. “We had reason to put rules in place. Protocol. If ever—if it got to a place where, if he was ever feeling like he might—"
Hayden’s body understands before his mind catches up. His blood runs cold for a second, stuck on the scrunch of Shane’s face, the clench of his fist, how desperate he’d been to see Rozanov—Ilya—just now. To make sure that he was okay. Here, in person.
Not hurt. Alive.
“Oh,” Hayden hears himself say distantly. “Oh, fuck, Shane.”
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or, Ilya needs a place to go, and Hayden's happens to be the closest. It turns out to be a good thing.
- Part 1 of all lights turned off can be turned on
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,339
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79787036
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The brush off Shane received when he suggested Ilya try medication was hardly surprising to him. What he found shocking was that he had actually done it. Without telling Shane, no less. And if that wasn't startling enough, finding out the entire hockey community knew because of one ill-timed picture Cliff Marlow took practically knocked him off balance.
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“Who knew Rozanov would be the poster boy for Prozac?” Hayden muttered with a huff. “God, he’s gotta be floating on cloud nine with that dose. Normal people take like what, ten or twenty? Sixty must mean he was damn near suicidal.”“Probably,” JJ agreed, shrugging. “I wouldn’t know, I don’t need to medicate myself to cope with life.”
“If he’s all doped up, how come he’s still always such an asshole?” one of the rookies questioned, earning a few laughs.
Shane just felt sick to his stomach. And angry. At his team and Marlow and mostly at himself. Ilya had done exactly what he asked and now, he was getting mocked for taking care of himself. In what world was that fair?
“Maybe that’s why he’s so aggressive on the ice,” another theorized. “He's trying to kill himself and take another player with him to make it look like an accident.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,183
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79777351
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You Are My First Pick by ItsMayBiTheWay
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-14
The first time it happens, Shane doesn’t even realize what is happening. The mystery package does not have any return address, but is directly shipped to Shane’s home. Curious as to what it is, he carefully opens it. OR Five times Shane gets anonymous Valentine's Day gifts and one time he figures out who they are from!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,382
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79542326