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Take that, Scott Hunter by makenalei
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-09
No one ever thought that anyone in the NHL would top Scott Hunter's epic coming out, Scott included. He watches in real time as he's ousted as reigning NHL queer icon. Naturally, it had to be Rozanov to do it. Or: An alternative ending to the plane crash that wasn't in the Long Game. Scott Hunter January 2021 He’s very comfortable on the couch, enjoying a rare night off. Kip had cooked that night and he had halfheartedly tried to follow along. His husband was definitely a better cook then he. It never ceased to amaze him, Kip was his husband. He was publicly out, married to the love of his life, and still a high ranking professional hockey player. Sure, his endorsements had suffered a brief nose dive, but he was almost back to where he had been with other new, more exciting endorsements. “Movie?” Kip had his head pillowed on his lap, idly scrolling through the channels. It was only 7pm. Kip had teased him about being old but hadn’t protested getting comfortable on the couch after dinner. It was a Tuesday after all. Kip had work in the morning, and he had an early practice. “What about that tv show you wanted to start?” He questioned, fingers playing with his husband’s very soft hair. They used the same shampoo and conditioner but his hair was never as soft and silky. “Mhmm, let me see,” He started clicking around at a dizzying pace, “Oh, look, it’s your new best friend,” Kip teased as he stopped at a station broadcasting the Ottawa Centaurs landing on Canadian soil after their near deadly incident in Florida a few days prior. He had begrudgingly texted Rozanov, captain to captain, to express his “sincere” relief that they were all okay. It was mostly sincere. He hated the guy but he hardly wanted him dead. Kip had laughed as he spent thirty minutes debating what to text. “Surprised they flew back,” He admitted. He would have definitely reconsidered flying after that close of a call. The news had broadcasted their harrowing descent into Tampa a few days ago. One engine was literally engulfed in flames, and the landing had been very bumpy. Slides had even deployed to get the players off quickly. No one was seriously injured luckily. “Florida to Ottawa is a very long bus drive,” Kip hummed, “Aww, those are some cute kids,” The camera was showing the WAGS and kids, all present with signs and such, cheering for their safe return. One of the players had adorable twins with blonde pigtails and impossibly small Centaur jerseys. He couldn’t make out the name on the back though. “Yeah they are,” They had had the kid talk, and were on the same page. Kip wanted to be more established in his field, and by the time that happened, he would probably be retiring. There would be no toddler in a small Hunter jersey at any game. He knew it was the best path though. He wanted to be present in raising his kid. There was no way to do that while maintaining his career though, not without Kip sacrificing his. He watched in real time as the plane landed safely on the tarmac. Kip halfheartedly clapped at they touched down with zero issue. Everyone on the ground was cheering as well. The reporter was detailing the touch down. It was very overdone in his opinion. All of the players were eager in exiting the plane, their looks of relief visible. Rozanov stepped off of the plane towards the end. The camera was following him despite the many other happy reunions going on around them. Children and wives were sobbing but there was more to be seen. He was easily spotted with his cocksure grin and golden curls. It was subdued though, a word he never thought he would use to describe the brash Russian. He stepped off of the plane looking looking a bit more morose then usual. The ordeal had aged him. He wondered who Rozanov had waiting for him. The guy had no family in America or Canada as far as he knew. A model girlfriend perhaps? The guy had been quiet in the media since being traded to Ottawa. He almost felt bad. “Oh my god” He heard Kip murmur as the camera stuck to Rozanov, to the giant Russian freezing as a smaller form collided with him. He watched on live TV as a distinctly male form crashed into Rozanov, limbs all a tangle with the Russian captain. He watched as Rozanov embraced the form, clinging to dear life as if nothing else matted. He sat stunned, watching it play out with the rest of the world. Ilya Rozanov was embracing someone distinctly male on the tarmac in Ottawa. Rozanov was openly weeping into the man’s neck. The other guys fingers were so tightly wound in Rozanov’s curls that it had to hurt. Ilya Rozanov was making out with another man on live TV. The camera had clearly caught wind of what they were seeing, and had zoomed in. The reporter seemed baffled, reporting in a very confused tone that Ilya Rozanov was kissing a man. Rozanov’s mystery man wore a
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He repeats it like a mantra, “Hockey players don’t like boys.” Ilya squints, brows furrowed with fury. He challenges, “Who cares?” “Well, do you—like boys?” Shane asks, then. It’s so earnest, his bottom lip trembling like he might cry again. Ilya doesn’t know how to answer, because he doesn’t know the answer, but he would move Heaven and Earth to make those tears go away. Ilya turns his chin up, resolute, “Who cares? I like you.” At eleven years old, Shane realizes he’s not like other boys. Naturally, his best friend is the first person he tells.
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Reveal Themselves (One Star at a Time) by ashes2ashes15
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-09
She had always expected the same life for Shane. Perhaps she couldn’t have predicted birthing and raising the number 2 draft pick, and future captain of her hometown team, but she saw him ending up in an easy and loving marriage. He took after David mostly, being shy and introspective. Despite knowing her son’s intricate list of tells and behaviours, Yuna couldn’t pretend she would ever truly know what was going through his head. Shane was like that. He always had been. Still, Yuna expected some cute, pretty girl to come around and throw Shane over her shoulder one day - similar to how Yuna had found her shy husband. ... Or how Yuna tries to understand Shane's love life for years, until she finally does.
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In Which Hayden Pike Reconsiders Ilya Rozanov's Character by ancientzebra (ancient_sewing_machine)
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-09
"Hayden felt bad for possibly intruding on his friend’s privacy, but he was worried. His 'dad sense' as his eldest had dubbed it, was tingling. It had been a couple of minutes and he’d rung the doorbell twice yet still no answer from Shane. He tried the front door which swung open. Kicking off his shoes and leaving them on the mat, he entered the house, calling out 'Hollzy?' as he went. 'Shane? Bud?' Hayden rounded the corner into the kitchen where he was greeted by the last sight he’d ever expected. Ilya fucking Rozanov. In Shane Hollander’s kitchen. Not only that, Rozanov had clearly just been hugging Shane. Hayden’s best friend Shane, who was supposedly Rozanov’s biggest rival. What the fuck?" --- Does what it says on the tin lol.
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Rather than stay in Montreal, Shane joined the Ottawa Centaurs when Ilya did. They are both on the plane when it loses its engine.
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My take on what David and Ilya talked about while Shane and Yuna were outside. Ilya is not used to healthy parental domesticity...
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Shane finds himself thinking, wishing, hoping, for more than shadows with Ilya after leaving his hotel room during the All Stars. He makes the decision to come out on Instagram, belatedly coming out to his parents in a text, and then goes down to hit the punching bag in the hotel gym until his brain fizzles into a decision about Ilya. He's alone for long enough, but Ilya stays afterwards.
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Shane took a long sip of his ginger ale. “Lily isn’t… I mean… she’s not-” “She’s not a she, is she?” Shane shook his head. “No. She’s a he.” Or: Shane decides to come out to Hayden after breaking up with Rose, and Hayden is determined to find out who Lily is.
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Ilya somehow unstraps Shane’s helmet with one hand, pulling it off and doing the same with his own. Then, he grins, sharp and wolfish and handsome. “Scott Hunter has nothing on this,” He says, and surges forward.
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taking what's not yours. by bearprofessor
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-07
Montreal, December 2016. --- Ilya zoomed into Hollander's chest, at the shirt under his blazer, a shirt that was slightly too big on him. Not like the overly fitted things he would normally wear. Then, on the collar, Ilya noticed the subtle logo design of a company he bought from frequently. That was his fucking shirt - he knew it. As annoyed as he was at being sent more reminders about Hollander and Rose, it gave him a little bit of pleasure to know Hollander was walking around in something that he definitely knew was Ilya's - he is the most meticulous man Ilya knows, after all - and knew he thought he could get away with it without anyone knowing who it actually belonged to. Not to him. To him, Hollander is and always has been a terrible liar. aka: Shane wears one of Ilya's shirts out when he's with Rose after their breakup. Ilya breaks the silence to share his thoughts with Shane about that. (ft. a healthy dose of yearning.)
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Hayden is Not Stupid by Verdant_Words
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-07
Hayden may be unobservant, but he's not stupid. After 10 years, he's figured out why Shane has hidden Lily for so long.
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Love is Just Too Weak of a Word by OfInkandStars
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-06
But maybe it’s not insanity that drives him now. Maybe this is just what love is at its core; doing anything to make sure the person you love is safe, whatever the cost. Even if that means driving thirteen hours across the country. Especially then. Or — A rewrite of post chapter 24 of The Long Game where Shane actually does drive thirteen hours to get to Ilya.
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As he kept gazing at Ilya, he suddenly felt like his pants had gotten weirdly uncomfortable. Like they were suddenly too tight. He glanced down at himself and felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest when he noticed the bulge on him. What on earth was that? He stared down at himself for a moment, in shock. Then, he decided he would try to push it down; maybe that would help. He startled even more when his own action made him let out an undignified, weird sound. Like a groan, but not really. Why had that felt so good? He just stared at himself for another moment, horrified. He tried it again. He had no idea what he was doing, but it felt wrong. Like, he shouldn’t do something that made him react like that. He glanced up, realising he was still very inappropriately watching the naked priest, and exhaled when he hadn’t been spotted yet. ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡ ⋆ OR Shane has led a sheltered life with his family, growing up deeply religious in a small village somewhere in medieval Europe. His quiet world is disturbed when a new priest takes over the town's church. OR Shane is really fucking gay, and he has no idea that it is even an option. ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡ ⋆
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"He seems to understand immediately what's going on, because he turns Ilya towards him, even though he's considerably taller and has much more body mass than David. No matter how big a child grows, to their parents they will always remain a child. Even though Ilya isn't his son, this unwritten rule definitely applies here." or: Missing scene between Ilya and David in Episode 6: The Cottage.
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don't leave me this way by frenchleaves
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-06
The sound of joy has begun to settle down into a tense silence, some muttering and asking about what was going on. “Be careful with his head,” Hayes is saying, voice thick with something. It is disturbing to see him so serious. Bood nods, and starts moving a lump out of the seat. Ilya raises an eyebrow, confused. “Who is passed out in my seat?” That is when Ilya finally sees what Bood and Hayes are crowding over. It is himself, his own body, passed out and slumped against the seat in the row in front of him. There is a worrying amount of blood coming out of his nose and a cut by the back of his head. Head wounds are terribly dramatic, but Ilya feels worried about this one. Mainly because he’s floating around like a ghost. ilya gets hit on the head during the emergency landing in Tampa and thus begins his week- long stint as a ghost. whatever bad thing that can happen, the proceeds to do so. it's definitely not fun for ilya, and definitely not fun for shane either.
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“I can’t believe Hollander is your Montreal girl." “This is not helpful, Marley!”
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Don't stop me now (Cause I'm having such a good time) by unicorns_and_icecream
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-06
Ilya and Shane are put in opposite teams during the All Star's Game in 2021. Nobody knows they are together. At least not before the game.
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It's A Nice Day For A ... Fake Wedding? by fishcollective
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-06
Ilya Rozanov is getting married! But it's to be able to stay in the country if something happens (or so he says). He invited his teammates on the Centaurs to the wedding. “So, I am getting… how you say? Marriage of convenience,” “Alright… so who’s the poor lady stuck with you then?” “Shane Hollander.” Evan Dykstra's POV (yes I chose a random teammate)
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A few days before Shane’s seventeenth birthday, he told his parents he’d broken up with Elise. “It just didn’t work out,” Shane said, not really looking at either of them; instead, he was staring at the TV, obviously not really watching the hockey game he’d put on. There was a faint rosy tint to his cheeks. Or: in which Yuna and David try to figure out what's going on with their son through the years while trying to be good, supportive, non-overbearing parents.
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“I was thinking,” Hayden says slowly, carefully, “that it might be nice to add Lily to the WAG group chat? He couldn’t come to events or anything still, and he’d have to go by Lily, but it might be… nice? A way for him to— to be a part of things.” Jackie sits back in her seat, taking a sip of coffee as she considers her husband’s proposal. It wasn’t a terrible idea. It’d involve lying to all the other WAGs, but Jackie wasn’t too bothered by that. If Shane ever decided to come out, they would either understand or they wouldn’t—a line that would probably pretty closely mirror those who would be okay with Shane being gay and those who wouldn’t. And those who wouldn’t—well, fuck them anyway. “That does sound like it might be nice,” Jackie finally says, smiling when Hayden immediately sits up straighter at her approving words. “Yeah?” Hayden checks anyways. “Yeah,” Jackie says. Or, despite his refusal to let her add him to the WAG group chat, Jackie manages to quickly befriend Shane’s boyfriend. It takes longer for her to understand exactly what that means.
- Part 2 of The Lily Files
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