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i pray this love changes me (this grief will) by Sapphic_terror
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-09
Shane put God on a back burner sometime between the ages of eleven and twelve. It was around that time that he barely stepped foot off the ice. His dad would joke that he was born with skates on, while his mother cursed out a grown man for a bad play. God, religion, faith came second to the rush of adrenaline as he flew on the ice. It takes seventeen years and the love of his life being dead for twenty-eight minutes to relearn how to pray. - Or, Shane's game is cancelled and he reads Ilya's would have been last messages in a tiny hotel room with JJ and Hayden at his side.
- Part 2 of found family *hockey edition
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- English
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- 5,220
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77359391
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the best person to be stuck in an elevator with by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-09
There's no good way to be stuck in an elevator. Not when you're stuck in an elevator with someone who treats being annoying as an art form he wants to perfect, and definitely not when that person is your son's rival who you've hated for years.
But, when Yuna finds herself stuck in an elevator with Ilya Rozanov, she realises there's more to the story than she'd seen.
- Part 1 of It starts in an elevator
- Language:
- English
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- 7,298
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77352166
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Yuna wants to want this. David already calls him 'son'. Ilya is clearly trying, so over a hockey game and a bottle of Merlot, she tries too.
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- English
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- 1,233
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77332161
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She says, almost without thought, “He can stay with us, if he wants. While you’re gone.” Yuna Hollander does want to open her heart to her son’s boyfriend, even if he is Ilya Rozanov. The first step is opening her home.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,804
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77017736
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"What is it about you specifically that inspires such vitriol among the other teams’ fans?” Ilya shrugs easy with one shoulder, tries to make sure the pull of his lips strikes the right balance of contrite and nonchalant. What do they even want him to say? He leans closer to the microphone shoved towards him, starts. “I don’t know, maybe…" He considers his next words. Imagines his coach’s reaction. What his teammates will say. The headlines the media will pick. He says them anyway. --- On Ilya and Shane and their different media strategies, set to the backdrop of their slow- moving romance.
- Language:
- English
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- 2,352
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77285486
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"His hobbies were hockey (which was also his job, so didn’t count), clubbing (which he did less now, in favour of Shane), and sex. It wasn’t directly homework, more like a challenge. Find something that brings you joy, that you can do on your own. Or, in the least, without having to involve Shane. What do people even do in their free time?" Or 5 times Ilya tried to find a hobby that fits him, and one time he succeeded.
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- English
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- 2,584
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77213886
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David goes to Shane's cottage to get his phone charger. Or maybe, it's really not about the phone charger. Podfic Available
- Part 1 of The Family Hollander
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- English
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- 5,994
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77224451
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She looks, if he unfocuses his eyes, if he tries very hard, if he pays close attention to the bridge of her nose and the baby fat still in her cheeks, not much different than she did when he last saw her. A little stone angel marking time at a mean old man's wake.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,355
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77168886
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Shane texts him his second day in Sochi, after the Opening Ceremony is over and the sports are beginning. Are you staying in the Village? he asks. Capitalization, proper grammar. Innocuous. Nyet, Ilya texts back. Here in his country Shane can learn a little Russian. Latin alphabet, he can be generous.
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- English
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- 3,129
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77042096
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Because Ilya knew how Shane liked to be treated, and the Shane Hollander who dropped like a fucking rock from being denied in a filthy bathroom, even after begging for it with half the hockey world outside, would love dirty talk. Honestly, fuck his father, fuck homophobia, fuck English, and fuck his shitty brain from keeping them from having what Ilya was sure would be the best fucking sex of their lives. At the cottage, Ilya lets the most terrifying confession of his life slip when he tells Shane he loves him. On the bright side, now that Ilya's no longer afraid of blurting out his feelings during sex, this obviously meant he could step up his dirty talk beyond foreplay and muttered directions. But when Shane takes one of Ilya's commands literally and shuts down, they have to learn what they never had the safety to indulge in before this: honesty not only in how they fit together but what they choose to share.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,156
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77061701
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The Elevator by Lexi_Leckstar
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-01-04
Yuna shot up. “The elevator!” she screamed in horror. “What?” David shuffled on the bed next to her, fumbling for his glasses on the nightstand. “Are you okay?” “He was there. In the elevator, when—” She broke off, startled by the sudden crash when David knocked over the clock from the nightstand, the sound of the shattering glass echoing loudly through their bedroom. Yuna wakes up the night after Shane and Ilya came out to them.
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- English
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- 1,596
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77068311
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Shane picks up a hobby one off-season, he claims it isn't a thing, but it slowly turns into one. Ilya lets him navigate how it makes him feel on his own, but he's always there, steady and warm. Post The Long Game, spoilers for Ilya/Shane's relationship if you care about that. That's the only spoiler.
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- English
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- 10,227
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77098881
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Sometimes they’re curled up on the bed together afterwards and Shane runs his hands up and down Ilya’s body, rhythmic and smooth, touching just to touch. Ilya is stunning in the literal sense of the word: Shane is paralyzed by him, struck dumb. Desire may never be a problem here, but understanding is: Ilya feels distant and incomprehensible to Shane. — A cross-section of Shane Hollander’s sex life.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,058
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77101141
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Ilya used to not miss anything when he returned to Moscow during the off-season. He was standing in a convenience store, some July day in 2015, flipping through the newsstand, when it hit him that he didn’t particularly care about anything going on there. He was counting down the days before he could get on his flight back to Boston, as if there was anything there to greet him on his return. Maybe it wasn’t Boston he was missing. The realization is not welcome. “Do you think you will stay in Boston?” Shane asks, stroking Ilya’s upper arm. His touch is soft. Ilya wants it endlessly.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,701
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77093496
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Ilya falls in love with Shane’s hockey, first. Everything complicated comes later.
(A non-chronological timeline of Ilya Rozanov, falling in love with hockey and with life and with Shane Hollander.)
- Language:
- English
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- 10,551
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #77022201
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Four times Ilya Rozanov denies himself Shane Hollander, and the one time he finally crumbles.
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- English
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- 2,275
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #76988616
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know it's for the better / no, it's for the better by selfishambition
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-01-03
Ilya Rozanov has been carrying his mother's ghost since he was twelve years old. Sochi is where the weight finally breaks him. Russia is eliminated in the most humiliating loss in their history, and their captain sits on a twelfth-floor balcony railing thinking about letting go. Shane Hollander has a gold medal game in fourteen hours. He comes anyway.
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- English
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- 11,371
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- 1/1
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- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #77026136
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He has his diet that he hates but that's fine, too, because he also has the self-control to stick to it. And maybe that's it's own reward, how good it feels to be able to be in complete control of at least one part of his life. Or, Shane isn't okay, no matter how much he tries to convince himself otherwise.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,620
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77028181
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“Hello. Ilya Rozanov here. Be fast, or I will drop call.” “Dyadya Ilya? It is you, isn’t it?” a scratchy, nasal voice said. She had the tiniest sliver of an accent, one Ilia wouldn’t have noticed, had it not mirrored his own, that he had spent a good decade trying to eradicate. --------------- Ilya had long since given up any hope of having a connection to his family back home in russia. His new family in canada, his marriage to Shane is enough. So he doesn't quite know what to feel when hope comes calling (in the form of his little niece, who is not quite so little anymore)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,951
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- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77014776
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When Shane lets himself think about what it might be like at All Stars, there's a blurry gap where he's standing. Ilya will be wearing something stylish and sexy — probably a shiny shirt that makes Shane want to grab him and never let go. There's nothing Shane owns that fits in that category. But Reebok and Rolex have both had him work with stylists for appearances in the past. He pulls up the photos of those events, and flips through the photos. He sends them to Rose. Which of these is better? She replies to the Rolex photo with six exclamation marks. Shane Hollander's five rules of how to not look gay (and how he breaks them for Ilya Rozanov) + one time he doesn't have to.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,166
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #76273881