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5 times Shane doesn't come out to his parents +1 time he has to
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,044
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79478961
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In which Shane makes the headlines, Ilya has a history of terrible bedside manners, and the line between murder and manslaughter is the razor thin edge of intent.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,286
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79294341
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Ilya was a machine. He was an animal trained. He brought the cigarette up to his lips and sucked in. His chest burned. Yesterday the door was ajar when he passed by his parents’ bedroom. Standing still in the hallway he watched for a minute as his mother, sitting like a soldier at her vanity, used her fingers to spread a thick peach-colored paint across her left cheekbone and around her eye. Ilya took another breath. He lit his lungs on fire.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,013
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79134436
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Proof (That I Was Here) by OpalApparition
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-02-10
Ilya Rozanov has never had a drink that didn’t mean something, or didn’t make him think of someone. He’s had a lot of drinks. A history, told in cocktails.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,279
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #79273056
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Do you want something, Ilya had asked. The answer was, as it always was, yes. But that had not been the question.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,028
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79216771
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She hauls him back to his place – a gorgeous condo that overlooks Montreal and is 70% glass. All the reflecting, soft light makes her dress look like liquid silver. She lets it drop onto the stairs behind her.
As she turns—
She sees his reflection. She sees the face she knows she was never, ever meant to see. His heart isn’t in this. But then he’s glancing up at her, some stranger to a smile on his face, and she knows something she was never, ever meant to know: he will make himself go through with this. He’s going to come up the stairs—he’s already coming up the stairs.
Fuck. She misread this entirely.
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Rose, Sveta, and David on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov. All set to Noah Kahan's "The Great Divide."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,186
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79219406
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Why Ginger Ale? by obsessiveoverenjoyer
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-08
shane was always so specific about what he put in his body, but ginger ale never wavered. why? or a cute, domestic conversation taking place sometime after the events of TLG :)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,455
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79138581
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In 2017, the Admirals win the Stanley Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years. Scott Hunter kisses a man at centre ice.
In 2017, Shane Hollander shatters apart in her father’s arms after twenty-six years of trying to be normal. Yuna Hollander finds herself with a daughter.
- Part 2 of mortal girl
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,291
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78977481
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Some days, Ilya feels carved open.
Not all coping mechanisms are healthy. But sometimes, they just have to get you through.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,342
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79020866
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shane hollander for lesbians by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-04
"I’m ready to come out as your cousin," Missy says over the phone, "There’s gotta be some lesbians following you, you’re butch as fuck."
"I don’t know what that means."
"I’m gonna send you some selfies, okay? I’ll even write the caption for you."
"My profile isn’t your dating app, Missy."
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or: Shane Hollander comes out as an ally. For his gay cousin, of course.
- Part 2 of shane and his lesbian cousin
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,427
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76183576
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Observations on Fatherhood by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-02-03
From the day Shane is born, David promises to protect him from everything—especially from the kind of love that comes with conditions.
But as Shane grows up talented, visible, and quietly different, David learns that even the safest homes can teach a child how to make himself smaller.
- Part 4 of A Formal Study of the Heart
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,950
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78821036
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4 Times Yuna Has a Conversation about Rozanov + 1 Time She Talks with Ilya by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-03
“I just can’t wrap my head around this…this whole thing.” Yuna takes a gulp of her coffee and picks at the pain au chocolat without actually taking a bite. She should really eat something at this rate but it looks too dry.
David moves the pastry plate closer to him so he can break a croissant in half without flakes flying everywhere and only mostly succeeds. “There isn’t much to get. He’s closer to thirty than he is to twenty now. He doesn’t have to tell us everything.”
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What it says on the tin. Yuna embarks on a journey to learn about Shane, Ilya, and Shane&Ilya. Set in the liminal space between Book 2 and Book 6.
- Part 2 of Ilya&Yuna
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,792
- Chapters:
- 3/4
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78262166
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-Kip Grady Started a Group Chat-
Kip starts a group chat for the husbands and boyfriends of the queer players in the league, and they get along like a house on fire.
Takes place over the course of The Long Game and Role Model.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,552
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78775956
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Shane cannot remember a time when he didn’t think he was broken.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,328
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78710651
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After a moment, Hayden pulls back. Then he hands her the phone—Shane’s phone. “I grabbed this when I was getting his stuff and I saw, well.” He looks away from Yuna, briefly glances at David, then looks away from him too. There’s an oddly guilty look on his face that has Yuna suspicious at once. “Um, has Shane told you guys about Lily?” -- AKA, Yuna and David find out about Lily, Shane’s... girlfriend?, while he's in the hospital. It's a while before they find out about Ilya. Featuring: - high Shane - Ilya angst - theories about who Lily could be - Yuna & "Lily" texting - identity shenanigans
- Part 2 of heated rivalry social media fics
- Part 1 of i need sunshine (Ilya & Hollanders)
- Part 3 of all dwk heated rivalry fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,720
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #77532186
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“Oh shit.”
Shane looked up, turned his head to where J.J. was sat across the aisle. The blue glow of his phone lit up the too-wide whites of his eyes staring down intently at whatever was on his screen. Shane’s stomach lurched again, anticipating a sudden stop his body hadn’t quite caught up to yet.
“The Centaurs’ plane crashed in Tampa.”
There was a moment where everything was still moving, where Shane and the world were still spinning at the same speed they both always had, and then it all came crashing down. Shane wasn’t sure whether it was him that had stopped, or the world around him, but either way, in a matter of seconds the distance between himself and the bus he had only a moment ago been sitting in became staggeringly, dizzyingly vast.
The Centaur's emergency landing plays out a little bit worse, and Shane is left with the harsh reality of the cost of loving Ilya in secret.
- Part 1 of Crashing 'Verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,449
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78109881
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a polaroid love (that old-fashioned feeling) by roztwofour (swiftpixie)
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-27
Ilya Rozanov has spent years wanting Shane Hollander quietly, carefully, never letting himself reach too far. After an injury changes everything, Shane stays with him for a week, and Ilya finally learns what it means to care openly, love honestly, and choose the thing he’s been afraid to want. Or, When Shane is forced to stay with him after a hospital discharge, Ilya finds himself doing the one thing he’s always avoided, loving Shane out loud. A story about caretaking, fear, constellations, printed memories, and finally choosing each other.
- Part 3 of journey to the cottage
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,288
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78414526
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Four Possibilities For Shane's Renter, And One That's True by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Inception (2010)
2026-01-22
There are a lot of fun possibilities on who could rent the other flat in Shane's Montreal Sex Building. Here are a few possibilities. One is true.
- Part 1 of Dream Rivalry Verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 790
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78110001
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one of your eyes is always half-shut (something happened when you were a kid) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-01-21
Shane Hollander is not a small fucking guy; he is all muscle, with big, calloused hockey-player hands and eyes nearly pretty enough to disguise the violence hidden in breadth of his shoulders.
Alexei is impressed.
Not a bad get, for someone fished out of a pool of hockey men who look like thumbs, their noses like squashed tomatoes and ears like boat sails. If it could not be beautiful, nosy bitch Svetlana, if it has to be a man, if it has to be a hockey player, then rich as God Shane Hollander isn’t the worst Ilyusha could have pulled.
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or Alexei is in deep shit. He can’t get to Ilya, so he tries the next best thing.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,886
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78056966
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81 - ROZANOV by OpalApparition
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-01-21
They were always Rozanov and Hollander. Last names like armor, like the numbers on their backs, 81 and 24, nothing more. Then: tuna melts, ginger ale, and Shane.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,988
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78061431