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  1. Hard to Breathe by

    Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
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    2026-08-03

    Sequel to Breathing Room

    Ilya Rozanov has spent five years holding Shane Hollander at arm’s length - not because he didn’t love him, but because he loved him too much to ask him to risk everything for something that could fall apart. He was good at that: the careful distance, the walls that looked like indifference, the way he’d learned to be close without being close. He’d had a lot of practice.

    What he didn’t have practice for was what came after he was done lying to himself. He didn’t have practice for this - for something warm and bright and absolutely terrifying. Something that fits in the spaces between games and cities and the distance between Boston and Raleigh. Something that makes Ilya think, for the first time in a long time, that maybe the risk is worth it.

    He just needs to figure out what to do with it all before their careers swallow them whole

    He doesn’t get the chance to think about it for very long.

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    English
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    137,840
    Chapters:
    10/11
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #85730431

  2. i've been playing dead my whole life by

    Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
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    2026-02-21

    “We knew when his words came in that he’d–” Yuna’s voice cracked around the idea, that specific word escaping her. “That he won’t have to know what it feels like to lose his soulmate.”

    Because Shane was always going to go first. How must it have felt, to look upon her son and see those words, and know with complete certainty he would go first? Maybe it was better, having as vague of a word as Ilya did on his chest. At least he couldn’t think about it, couldn’t imagine scenarios in which it could be said. 

    “I assume,” Yuna said, pausing to take a deep breath as though to steel herself, “he said yours last night.”

    Ilya nodded, admitting what he didn’t dare say out loud. 

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    AU where the last words you ever hear from your soulmate are tattooed on your chest. Ilya and Shane still argue over the party, Ilya still already chose Shane, and everything goes so much worse after Shane leaves.

    Language:
    English
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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Files:
    1
    AO3:
    #79994411