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Ilya has two problems.
The first is that his best friend is freshly single and needs to get laid. The second is that Ilya is having some...weird feelings about it.
These are completely platonic and heterosexual concerns for his friend, of course.
(or a college au featuring shane and ilya as best friends, and shane as ilya's bisexual awakening)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,369
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #88327651
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something you can grow by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-07-11
(summary and tags contain SPOILERS for earlier works in the series!)
Shane and Ilya are champions. They are partners, and they’re in it for life. And people are starting to notice.
After being traumatically outed two years ago, Shane and Ilya's relationship and their lives have been fundamentally changed, and most days, Shane thinks that's a good thing. But sometimes, the pressure of being out, and the endless online speculation about #hollanov, and rumors running rampant through the NHL, and a new generation of rookies looking up to them, and the knowledge that everyone is relying on Shane Hollander to be perfect at all times—sometimes it's a lot.
But Shane's dealing with it. Ilya seems happier than he's ever been, and Shane just needs to get his act together to support his husband. He can do that. He needs to, and he will, if he doesn't crack under the pressure first.
They've got a second Stanley Cup to win, after all.
- Part 4 of something you can fix
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 134,953
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #83760886
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There was a small recoil, nothing Shane would consciously register as a recoil, just a slight drawing-back of his head and a micro-expression crossing the bridge of his nose.
His brows pulled together for one second, and he pulled the carton away from his face, examining the opening.
Ilya Rozanov has seven cameras. Ilya Rozanov has a blog.
His gay roommate doesn't know about any of this.
- Part 5 of evil ilya
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,517
- Chapters:
- 3/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82935416
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to protect my infancy by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-06-17
Hayden Pike's mother left when he was seven. She didn't come back. This, really, was not important, because Hayden built a family and a life and was happy - until it was important, when Laura Newfield (formerly Pike) reached out with a letter and an address. For Hayden, the question was whether whatever his mom had to say to him after all this time could tell him something about the parts of himself that he didn't quite understand and had never wanted to understand. How this ended up with him and Ilya Rozanov on the road to find these answers together, he wasn't entirely sure.
or - Hayden goes on an odyssey of exploring his relationship with his mother, with Ilya as his guide.
- Part 1 of The Hayden Pike Cinematic Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,493
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81859206
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The Devil on Your Shoulder by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-17
At twelve years old, Shane Hollander learned how to shoot a gun.
At eighteen, he was drafted into the NHL.
For most of his life, he's believed those two things could exist separately.
He is wrong.Yuna Hollander is one of the most revered mob bosses in North America. (It changes nothing) (It changes everything).
The Yakuza!Yuna AU that I can't get out of my head.
- Part 1 of Just in Case
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 48,803
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86018431
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In which Shane gets a good grade in fucking women, something which is both normal to want and possible to achieve.
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or: shane attempts heterosexuality. his best friend jessica helps him, and then helps him stop.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,276
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86395061
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Staring at the Sun by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-05-20
The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating.
The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice.
“I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—”
Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask.
“Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—"
Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little.
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Footage of the last game between Ottawa and Montreal is everywhere; it’s breached containment from the sports world, and now it seems like everyone is baying for Montreal’s blood. Except, Ilya is oblivious. Not exactly blissfully so, but as the fight for accountability within the league rages on without him, Ilya just wants someone, anyone, to tell him what happened.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 90,785
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81902146
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“You handled it well. You flunked a bit the questions we had prepared, but you did well.”
“Flunked?” Shane asked, voice pitching up as the words salted over the open wound, the infected gutting from the top of his throat down to his stomach.
“You should have rectified and make your position clear about Scott Hunter. We don’t want you to sound like you’re antagonizing him,” Yuna added, matter-of-factly, her eyes narrowing on the knot of his tie, adjusting it like it still mattered.Shane’s body shook violently against his will, dislodging from under her touch. Yuna looked up, surprised by his reaction.
Surprise that shifted to horror immediately.“No, that’s not what I meant–”
“I need to–” he gasped, bringing a hand to cover his mouth, while Yuna tried to grab his arm. Any other time, he could have avoided her, but Shane was falling.- Part 2 of Everything is fine
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,556
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84590841
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The Hollander-Rozanov Post Wedding Brunch: Competitive Edition by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-05-12
Marly is hungover and absolutely not ready for a trivia brunch about Roz and Hollander the morning after their wedding. The Bears know almost nothing about the couple, so they fall back on what they do know, the lovely Montreal Jane, but the more they answer, the stranger it gets.
Or, just how similar were Jane and Hollander, and how did Roz end up with what was a carbon copy of the same person? The lucky asshole.
POV Cliff Marlow, who is the real MVP!
- Part 21 of Just Game Changer things that my brain needs to write
- Part 13 of Hammer/Sebbin is my close personal headcanon
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,137
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84711781
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the people who have come and gone by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-08
Svetlana knew Liliya Rozanova like the other half of her soul, the back of her hand, the blood in her veins. She would know Ilya Rozanov just as well. When her best friend calls her to share the secret that he has kept tight to his chest their whole friendship, and the grief and the fear that he feels around it, Sveta knows that there is nothing that will stop her from trying to make at least some of it easier to carry.
or - Svetlana Vetrova, Ilya Rozanov, the constancy of change, and the spectre of Irina Rozanova
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,356
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83162891
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Once More Around the Sun by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-23
After Shane walks out post-tuna melt, Ilya Rozanov walks through hell to remind himself who he is, a man ready to salt the fucking Earth for his people.
Shane’s not even pretending he’s capable of being rational about it, he isn’t, his world is falling apart at the seams and he’s fairly sure he’s losing his mind.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,533
- Chapters:
- 9/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80301421
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the silence that remains by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-16
The guys had always chirped Hollander for being a bit of a mama's boy. Well. They aren't chirping anymore.
(I was thinking about how Shane would handle future business ventures if Yuna wasn't there/how the Irina foundation would work if Yuna wasn't there & how Ilya would try to help Shane through a pain he knows uniquely)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,163
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82566671
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Bird by Bird by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-06
Speaking of Hollander, what was it like training with him this summer?
Wow. Hollzy is intense, you know. Everyone knows. Always pushing harder, pushing for more, nagging about diet. But it paid off, don’t you think?
You do look ready for the season. Spending so much time with him, did you learn anything new about him?
New? Yes. You know he is bird watcher now.
A little ficlet inspired by this video of Kevin Hayes trolling Sidney Crosby.
- Part 2 of Captain vs Captain
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- English
- Words:
- 1,037
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82627781
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Nutcracker! by OpalApparition
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-31
"You will bend for me many times, I think, before this production is over." Shane means to say no. He means to tell Ilya Rozanov—arrogant Bolshoi principal dancer and professional pain in his ass—to fuck off and stop moving set pieces without permission. Instead, he ends up on his knees in a dressing room, which is definitely not how the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s stage manager is supposed to handle conflict resolution. Three weeks until opening night. One impossible rivalry. And absolutely no way this ends well. or: Ilya comes to Winnipeg for The Nutcracker. Shane tries very hard to hate him. The mind- blowing hate-sex doesn’t help.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 101,654
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76120581
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The Distance Between Us by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-30
Ilya Rozanov has spent ten years circling Shane Hollander. Ten years of hotel rooms and secret phone calls. Ten years of pretending he doesn't feel it, doesn't need it, doesn't wake up reaching for someone who's already gone. Ten years convincing himself he's not good enough. That he's not worth it.
Then a plane needs to make an emergency landing near Montreal, and Yuna Hollander is on it.
So when Shane calls him from a bathroom floor, unable to breathe, Ilya stops pretending.
After five hundred miles of frozen highway, three and a half hours of driving like a man possessed, a hospital waiting room full of people who have every reason to hate him, and a boy who looks at him like he's something worth keeping, Ilya may have learned a thing or two about what it means to be loved—and to let himself love freely.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 104,414
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #81207291
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Shane and Ilya had mutually agreed to keep their whatever-they’re-doing out of Sochi. It was an easy decision to make: this was bigger than any MLH rivalry and definitely bigger than a few hotel hook-ups. There was no room for distractions, not with Olympic gold on the line. So it’d be really fucking great if their daemons could get on the same page and stop trying to cause an international fucking incident.
- Part 7 of my heated rivalry anon fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,309
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #79026596
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Ilya can hear the squeak of wheels on linoleum floor, feel his body being moved along a hallway. Maybe the light dims in front of his eyelids when he’s pushed into an elevator. Maybe he’s just falling asleep.
How is he supposed to tell?
“Wait; is he okay?”
Ilya knows that voice, hears the panic in it.
“Please; how is he? Where are you taking him?”
Shane’s here? Why would Shane be here in the hospital?
If he’s in the hospital, how badly is he injured?Ilya gets injured during the playoffs, upending all of his and Shane's plans.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 109,211
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78731691
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love in exile has nowhere to go by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-18
“We’ve made a trade,” Coach announces. “For Shane Hollander.”
It’s like the ground drops out from beneath Ilya, and his heart falls from his chest. It tumbles past rock bottom, down to the cavern that shattered open inside of him on that night five years ago. The night when Ilya walked away from Hollander for the last time.
He can’t breathe.
(Or: Shane doesn’t get hurt, they break up, and they don’t talk for five long years. Until Shane is traded to Ottawa.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,904
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #81445546
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Come Back Home (The Porch Light Is On) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-11
ROZANOV DOWN: Ottawa Captain Carried Off Ice on Stretcher After Third Period Hit. Rozanov unconscious on impact. Fencing response observed. Cervical collar applied. Transferred to hospital by ambulance. Shane Hollander received game misconduct following altercation and did not return to the ice.
A grade-3 concussion leaves Ilya Rozanov trapped in a "slow" brain, struggling to reclaim the elite hockey instincts that once defined his identity. Within the sanctuary of their darkened apartment, Shane Hollander anchors their life, managing every medical detail while privately bracing against his own silent terror. It is a portrait of the grueling, quiet patience required to wait out a neurological fog, hoping the person on the other side eventually finds their way back.
- Part 2 of Shake off the shackles my love
- Part 7 of A Formal Study of the Heart
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,110
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80582376
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Kip sometimes teases Scott for how he prefers to stay off social media. But after some of the responses to his very public coming out, it's a survival mechanism more than not caring. Even Kip is less connected online than he used to be.
So the first sign Scott has that something had happened is when his coach catches him after practice — he stayed late to help two of the rookies — and tells him that management wants to talk to him as soon as possible.
Shane Hollander has been traded to the Admirals.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,515
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80935971
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