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  1. The Tennis Club by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-10-21

    "I don't mean to come here and freak you out," Scott said, though he knew there was no avoiding it. He'd been where they were before. It had felt like he was dying, back then. "I just don't want you to think you're the only ones, okay? There's lots of us."

    Their eyes snapped to him in unison, startled and intense. Hollander croaked, "What?"

    "There's over sixteen hundred guys in the MLH and AHL," he reminded them, because it had felt improbable to him when he first heard until he remembered the sheer size of the hockey world. "There's — well, we don't know how many of us there are, but there's at least seventeen of us that know each other. Plus you two. We watch out for each other."

    His eyes enormous, Hollander asked, "There's, what? A secret underground gay hockey network?"

    Scott shrugged. "Yeah, basically."

    ----

    Ilya and Shane find their way into The Tennis Club, a network of closeted hockey players that hook up - so long as everyone keeps it casual. Which is no problem! They can do casual, right?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    155,752
    Chapters:
    19/27
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83730551

  2. Fifty for Whoever Strips the Bed by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-10-19

    Josée has cleaned the eighteenth floor of the Hôtel Montcalm for nineteen years. She knows what hockey players leave behind. She doesn’t know who Lily Jane is, or why somebody keeps folding the pillowcases.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,388
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #95003201

  3. a soft place to fall by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-10-10

    Ilya clenches his fists, jaw tensing and loosening around the words he wishes he could say. His brain is far too jumbled for basic English right now, let alone the words to explain just how much he needs to bury himself in the arms of the one person who understands. He can deal with the fallout tomorrow. He just needs…

    A soft place to land.

    LeClaire doubles down, shifting his stance to block Ilya’s path. “Your personal life is your own, Rozanov, but right now, your personal life is under a microscope. It’s not right, or fair, but think about that before you do something that lands you in even hotter water.”

    “You mean the team,” Ilya grits.

    “No.” His coach’s face softens. “No, that’s not important. I’ve known you for nearly a decade, Ilya. Take the bench for once. We’ll take care of you.”

    But who will take care of Shane?

    -

    OR: Ilya gets outed, Shane comes up with a solution to keep him safe, and neither of them are happy.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    66,682
    Chapters:
    7/16
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87576866

  4. you were a vision in the morning (when the light came through) by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-09-13

    Shane Hollander says Ilya Rozanov's name out loud the first time they meet, and Ilya's world bursts into color.

    The stars demand Shane and Ilya be together, and so they will be :).

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    55,653
    Chapters:
    37/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79263261

  5. Steady Ground by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-11

    The events of week five of Ilya attending his mandated Queer Studies course.

    Ilya nearly gets caught texting his queer studies professor in the locker room, befriends Sandra’s girlfriend and learns some new and very relevant terminology.

    Or, what happens when you’re in love with Rose Landry’s ex-boyfriend and someone explains to you the concept of compulsory heterosexuality. 

     

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,693
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #92416111

  6. The Spell in our Seasons by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-09-05

    5 times people met Scott as a bunny, and 1 time they met Kip.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    11,254
    Chapters:
    6/6
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91145251

  7. Number 5704 by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-09-05

    Scott spent twenty years alone, so he should be used to it by now.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,909
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #91252386

  8. Bright Particular Star by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-09-02

    1987. New York Admirals Captain Scott Hunter is fifteen seasons deep into the kind of hockey career most players can only dream of and keeping one hell of a secret. He navigates his life in NYC, intimately aware at every turn that a single photograph or a trace of a rumor could end his livelihood.

    Kip Grady has never known how to hide. A grad student and early organizer for ACT UP, he spends his days marching through the Village and organizing mutual aid, fighting for a queer community battling for its life against a devastating epidemic. When their paths cross, Scott is forced to consider the limits of his carefully constructed closet and decide if he is finally ready to stand in the light.

    OR: Scott and Kip meet in 80s NYC at the height of the AIDS crisis.

    Additional Spoilers Here

    I promise that these characters do not, at any point, contract HIV: Scott, Kip, Ilya, and Shane.

    Scott and Kip, as well as Shane and Ilya, will all have the happiest ending possible given the constraints of the time period.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    55,740
    Chapters:
    4/8
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87891491

  9. Just Pretend by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-07-21

    Shane makes a drunken mistake in the name of protecting his carefully constructed closet, his life explodes in spectacular fashion. Suddenly faced with an unplanned pregnancy, a movie-star girlfriend, and a team of publicists convinced that "devoted family man" is a better headline than "gay hockey player," Shane commits himself to a future that looks perfect on paper. The only problem is that his heart still belongs to Ilya Rozanov—the man he left behind a few months earlier with a broken heart, several unresolved feelings, and a belly button full of cum.

    Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast of ridiculous characters—including the endlessly supportive Rose, a delightfully meddling book club of old biddies who adopt Ilya as one of their own, and a sweet baby who changes all of their lives—this is a funny, emotional story about parenthood, forgiveness, grief, healing, and two grown men who could have avoided most of their problems by having one honest fucking conversation.

    or- Shane knocks up Rose, almost dies, and he and Ilya find their way back to each other the way they always do...only now they have an adorable baby to love too.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    203,831
    Chapters:
    21/21
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #86610151

  10. Ecology of Devotion by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-07-02

    A guard dog's submission isn't weakness — it's a whole ecosystem built around one animal's safety. Shane learns the shape of it slowly: which hunger to feed, which to starve, when stillness is the only right shape for his own strength to take. Ilya learns something rarer — that being watched doesn't have to mean being hunted. Then it breaks all at once: something Shane's own teammates were never meant to find finds its way into their locker room anyway, and the appetite that spent a year holding itself in check finds out exactly what it was protecting.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,278
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #87781586

  11. The Infiltration by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-06-27

    Lily
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    I want to see your cock leak on me again 😉
    Will swallow if you are lucky

    Jane
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Don't sext me while I'm with Pike. He read those messages you just sent

    OR

    After Jackie and the other WAG’s insist on adding Shane’s secret girlfriend to their group chat, “Lily” is ready to join and get a rise out of Shane. Well, that and get new secrets on all of Montreal's players…

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    33,420
    Chapters:
    17/32
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79884531

  12. Offsides, or How Shane Hollander Ruined His Own Life at a Party in LA by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-06-18

    Shane Hollander is nineteen and trying to get through one Hollywood party without being noticed. He gets noticed anyway, by the worst possible person. His last-minute Halloween costume is working too well. Ilya Rozanov, the rival he's never met but supposed to hate, takes one look and thinks Shane is a girl.
    Shane doesn't correct him. He doesn't stop him from kissing Shane. And he accidentally gives him his real phone number. Oops.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    70,965
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82492281

  13. Unlikely Animals by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-06-02

    "Rozanov?" he says, almost without meaning to. Surely he's mistaken and is about to be told to fuck off. Or, even more alarmingly, he is correct, and then he is certain to be told to fuck off, and possibly punched in the face. The man shifts, eyes drifting from his drink up to Scott and— well, there's no denying it. The captain of the Boston Raiders is drunk in Scott's neighborhood dive bar.

    "Fuck," the response is slow, the delayed reaction of molasses spilling out of a jar carelessly knocked over on the kitchen counter. "I must have overdone it. I have summoned the Ghost of Hockey Past."

    Scott could just leave. He could turn on a heel, and leave this drunk asshole to discover on his own what consequences are.

    Because he's stupid, though, because he's nothing if not a responsible captain even when the drunken idiot in question isn't even one of his own teammates, and yes, because a small part of him can't help but love a good train wreck when he sees one, he sits down instead.

    __
    Or, Scott Hunter runs into Ilya Rozanov sometime around midnight after a game, and the two saddest, loneliest, most closeted hockey players in New York end up sharing more than they mean to.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    15,679
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85148181

  14. I know you (I give a damn) by

    Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-05-20

    Scott Hunter is on his annual anonymous European gaycation. Eric Bennett is on a photography trip in the same city. Surely nothing can go wrong.

    Language:
    English
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    2,258
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85215616

  15. Ilya Rozanov's 12 Step Plan For Public Flirting by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-04-28

    Ilya still loves a terrible decision. Nearly ten years of exposure to Shane just mean that now, the terrible decision comes with a plan. This time it comes with bullet pointed lists, research. Fresh ideas scribbled late at night and stuck, one over the other, onto the fridge door.

    This crucial, terrible decision comes with deliberation and forethought and a twelve-step fucking plan.

    A plan that starts with ‘attend every game he can between the women’s league’s rivals-turned-wives Clara and Katya’ and ends with ‘kiss Shane on the mouth at center ice.’

    Because Icarus has nothing on Ilya fucking Rozanov. The internet is not ready. Yuna is going to have his head for this. Step one begins on Friday. He cannot fucking wait.

    --

    Half Ilya Rozanov POV and half social media fic tracking the chaos, managed and otherwise, that is unleashed as Ilya enacts his plan.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    7,896
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83798931

  16. What The Fuck Is An Elder Queer by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-04-22

    Rozanov made a dismissive noise. “No, no, I will pick you up. Send me your address.”

    “I’m not giving you my home address.”

    “Why not!”

    “Because you’ll probably post it on social media to psych me out before our next game.”

    That made Rozanov laugh. “It is good idea,” he said. Stopped laughing. Started again. Blew out a breath like he had to get himself together. “I might do this to you,” he allowed, “but you have nice boyfriend living with you now. I would not do this to him. You are safe.”

     

    In which Ilya Rozanov adopts himself into Scott and Kip's household and refuses to leave. Kip finds this very sweet. Scott is going to kill him.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    32,878
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Files:
    2 versions
    AO3:
    #79825931

  17. I don't know how you claim to love me by

    Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-04-14

    Cliff's family is...complicated.
    He's probably not helping by acting out. But he also really doesn't want to be here.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    943
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #83082981

  18. Shall We Talk About Home? by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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    2026-04-09

    “My boyfriend thinks I’m an idiot,” Ilya says. "Well, not really but a bit, maybe.”

    “Your boyfriend?” Sandra, the queer studies professor sits down, hard.

    “Yes, he thinks it is not smart to say faggot in the locker room when you are locked in the closet and Russia has the keys.”

    Ilya had been talking about himself when he’d said it. Making a joke. Sailing a little close to the wind, sick of listening to the background hum of homophobic bullshit. But someone had been filming. The video went viral. The Raiders panicked under the terrible PR. Now he was here.

    Sent to Queer Studies 101 to appease twitter. Because he’d been cancelled. For being a homophobe. If was fucking ridiculous.

    He turns to the professor. “So, can you help me take on Putin and NHL at same time or I need more advanced class for this?”

    Plus Chapter 2 – Social media chapter. Once they've been outed, Ilya gets to demand an apology from twitter.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,579
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82767631

  19. violate all the love that I’m missing by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-04-06

    “I want you to stay here tonight.”

    Scott squeezes, and Kip thinks he can feel the bones in his wrist press together. Is he strong enough to break them? Would he try?

    Of course not, Kip thinks. That’s crazy. It’s just a game. But he really wants it to bruise, at least.

    -
    Have you ever looked at Kip and Scott and thought to yourself, what if these lovely two people who are so good for each other were a toxic mess instead? If so, this one is for you.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,959
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #82594901

  20. unprecedented times by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-03-28

    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?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    21,458
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #80983161
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