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The Many Plans of J.J. Boiziau by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-04
“Okay, look. I promise I won’t interfere in any way, but he really wants to meet you. Come to the party, chat a bit, and maybe you’ll hit it off.” J.J. shrugged. “Why not?”
The sound of the glass slamming down on the nightstand startled J.J., but it didn’t even make Hayden twitch in his sleep. Neither did Shane’s next outburst.
“Maybe because I have a fucking boyfriend!”
J.J. just wanted the best for his Capitaine. He’d thought that meant helping him find a man to be in a happy and fulfilling relationship with. His plans, however, abruptly changed when he found out about Shane’s secret long-term boyfriend – and about who that boyfriend actually was.
- Part 1 of The Queer Hockey Agenda
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,639
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84019306
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He’s about to unlock the door when his phone buzzes, no doubt with an apology or an explanation. Someone screams outside of the bathroom. There’s a loud noise. More screams. What the-
His phone buzzes again.
Jane: don’t come out
Jane: hide
Jane: guns
Jane: idk what’s happening
Jane: call the cops
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Shane, Ilya, Scott Hunter and a bunch of MHL players find themselves in a hostage situation in the middle of the Las Vegas award ceremony. (Mid-situationship, the year pre-tuna melt).
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,722
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Files:
- 6 versions
- AO3:
- #83076471
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(hopelessly) waiting for your love by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-05-02
When Shane takes a hard hit on the ice, he wakes up three days later to find his reality has been shattered. But the truth is, it wasn’t reality at all. Just an elaborate set of false memories conjured by a brain injury. 'False memory syndrome' they call it. Shane calls it a nightmare he couldn't have imagined.
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Shane doesn’t have amnesia. Instead, he wakes up wanting his boyfriend only to realize his brain concocted a bunch of fake memories of a nine year situationship and Shane has no idea how to live in his actual reality that Ilya hasn’t been a part of. Luckily, Ilya is…curious.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 63,617
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81604961
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He’d been telling himself for years now, this time would be the last time. That after this time, he would finally have enough to sustain him, enough to manage. They should not be doing this. He should not be doing this. He should not even want to be doing this.
Still no text.
This thing with Rozanov had been going on long enough. Shane hadn't been able to put a stop to it yet, but maybe he could try a new approach. He could write a list: "why this has to be the last time".
- Part 5 of SnailyMaily HR fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,346
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84067551
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If This Is It... by S_D_Blackthorn
Heated Rivalry (TV), Heated Rivalry (Book), The Long Game (Book)
2026-05-01
When a petty morning argument is the last thing Ilya says to Shane before he boards the Montreal Metros’ team plane, he thinks the worst consequence will be a bruised ego and an awkward apology. Instead, the aircraft declares an emergency. As social media explodes, the hockey world halts, and Shane’s Instagram messages turn from apologies to goodbyes, Ilya is forced to confront the one truth he’s been hiding longer than his feelings: Shane Hollander is his. And he may have just lost him. A mixed-media, Long Game–era angst spiral featuring breaking news alerts, trending fan edits, locker room confessions, and the most devastating Instagram DM thread you will ever read.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 125,080
- Chapters:
- 30/30
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80245286
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“Luch-Shane,” Ilya says, catching himself only at the last moment before he breaks their no pet names in the workplace rule. “Why don’t you get some air, yes? We can-”
Shane’s anxiety takes a quick backseat to annoyance once more, at being handled like a child instead of a grown man, like he hasn’t been doing this just as long as Ilya, like he needs someone to tell him when to take a break.
Like he deserved to have everything taken away from him because he couldn’t handle it to start with.
“I’m fine,” he says, voice icy.
The step he takes away is too big, farther than he meant to get from Ilya’s side, and the air between them feels both charged and icy.
He isn’t quite bold enough to try and fix it.
(shane is married and on the same team as his husband) (and all it cost him was his whole career and the life he spent years building beforehand) (but it's fine, really) (it's all so very, very fucking fine)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,140
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #84048936
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workout routine 2009 by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-30
Before you leave my hotel room, I have to keep myself from falling at your knees and repeating thank you thank you thank you.
God, I love the way you take me apart. Can you tell how badly I need your touch? Nothing has ever come close to the way that it is with you.
When we get together, there is always a moment before we even touch. We make small talk or even just look at each other. Can you tell how badly I am aching for you to touch me? Is it obvious that I am nearly shaking with restraint, from having to force myself from not reaching out the second I see you?or Shane decides to write down all his feelings instead of talking to Ilya.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,253
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83993411
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Two negatives make a positive and six positives make Shane Hollander throw up in Ilya's specially imported Japanese toilet.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,435
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76287101
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All year Shane had been fighting the desperate creeping desires spreading inside him, hoping they would wither and die in the airless forgotten dark of his dreams and now Rozanov, the only player at camp who might've been better at hockey than Shane, with his newly-long legs and newly-defined abs and his indifferent smirking gaze, was lying (maybe) hard above him, asking wildly inappropriate questions and claiming it was all normal and fine and good? Nonsense. If this was normal, Shane was missing way more social cues in his day-to-day life than he thought.
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In which Shane and Ilya meet at hockey camp as teens and a bunch of other things also go differently. Not a teen fic tho I promise!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,699
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 5 versions
- AO3:
- #80334051
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That thought settles into his brain dangerously. Ilya’s been with everyone. Girls. Guys. Others. What's another person on the list? If Shane wants experience… If he wants to stop feeling behind… Why not Ilya? Yes, he was a complete asshole that Shane wished he could choke to death sometimes and his brother's childhood bestfriend, but it wouldn’t mean anything. It's for the experience, the education of it all. For hockey. Obviously. Or: Ilya Rozanov has always been Shane Hollander’s older brother’s best friend. He was never supposed to become Shane’s first everything.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,737
- Chapters:
- 11/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79702626
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The Centaurs had already been through one plane emergency. What are the chances of them being in another?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,785
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80123401
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Ilya Rozanov's 12 Step Plan For Public Flirting by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
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.
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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
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the courtship of ilya rozanov by Anonymous
Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-04-28
After the tuna melt meltdown, Shane meets Rose Landry, has several deeply inconvenient revelations, and decides to do the only sensible thing: win Ilya back with sincerity, logistics, and a frankly alarming amount of emotional effort.
Ilya, meanwhile, mistakes every tender gesture for the kind prelude to an inevitable goodbye.
Or: Shane is living in a romcom. Ilya is living in a Russian tragedy.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 75,309
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #81874976
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“Shane?” Ilya dropped down beside him instantly, panic flooding his voice. “Shane! l’ubímyj? What is happening? What did she say?”
Shane couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t think. His brain repeating it over and over and over again.
Gone.
The word echoed, hollow and impossible.
“I-it’s - fuck. M-My dad…” he choked out. “He- he’s-”
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Shane finds out he is pregnant with his and Ilya’s first baby the same day his dad unexpectedly passes away.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,392
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83863296
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Wolfbird by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-27
Shane Hollander is hockey’s closeted golden boy with everything to hide. Ilya Rozanov is a professional Dom with everything to lose and an expired visa.
Through their arrangement at a discreet Montreal kink bar, where NDAs protect secrets and sessions are charged per hour, they discover the most dangerous thing isn’t being caught—it’s wanting more than those hours allow.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 180,137
- Chapters:
- 14/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75354806
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The Discipline Of It by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-24
Shane was fourteen the first time a number felt like safety.
The nutritionist worked out of an office in Kanata, framed certificates, a calm voice, laminated charts with columns. She explained it simply: fuel in, output required, timing of each. She said it was a starting point.
Shane took notes in the margins the way he took notes on everything—completely, past what was required. Yuna had found the nutritionist herself, sat beside him, and took notes too.
Like mother, like son.
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Or: Shane’s system works until it doesn’t; Ilya notices first.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,472
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83666366
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J.J. reminded himself every morning to be thankful. To be thankful for life, to be thankful for being a successful defensive man on a successful hockey team, to be thankful for his family and most importantly - to be thankful for the brothers he accumulated by playing the sport that he loves. However, in this continuous basking of thankfulness and gratitude, J.J. has sometimes found himself feeling empty. He was told many times that he was a complex puzzle, full of excitement and whimsy but very hard to put together. On many days, he felt completed; all the pieces matching together - creating a picture of beauty, wonder, and sometimes grace. But there were plenty days where he felt the piece or pieces were missing. He sought day in and day out to figure that out.
or the J.J. looks for the missing piece and finds it in Carter Vaughn.
- Part 2 of Shane and Dem Boyz
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,552
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80046161
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tail between your legs you're leaving by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-04-24
“Where was this in Sochi, huh? Where was this in Las Vegas? You’ve had me every way you could’ve fucking wanted me, made me turn myself inside out with wanting you, with goddamn embarrassing myself all for a fucking shred of your attention, and all of a sudden now that you have decided you want it, what, I have to play along like a good little boy? Fuck you, how about that?”
There is a moment of ringing, brutal silence. Shane’s chest is heaving like he can’t quite get air in. Rozanov is staring at him across the few feet of space between them, gaze darting across his face quickly. “Las Vegas?” He finally asks, voice sounding smaller than Shane ever thinks he’s heard it. “What are you talking about, Las Vegas?”
God. Fuck. That’s infinitely worse, that Shane has carried this hurt for all these years and Rozanov - he doesn’t even fucking remember.
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Another post-tuna-melt-Shane-stays story.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,114
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83694471
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fault lines (tremble underneath my glass house) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-22
Shane never got hurt during the game after Ilya’s father died and Ilya went through with breaking things off with Shane. Three months after their relationship fell apart, Shane found out that he was six months pregnant.
Five years later, Shane is balancing hockey and a major secret and Ilya moves to the Ottawa Centaurs after several unsuccessful seasons with Boston. Neither of them are ready for how much a chance encounter at a hockey rink is going to change everything.
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The Hollanov secret baby fic that no one asked for but I am legally obligated to provide
- Part 1 of fault lines
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,186
- Chapters:
- 11/20
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #75831346
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ay, recházame (oh, reject me) by vanillatunamelt
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-20
Shane Last chance. Take your tank top back. Lily no, it's a fucking gift keep it Shane Fine. I'll show you what I do with gifts from alphas like you. Lily what the hell is that supposed to mean??? hollander fuck Shane doesn't get injured after Tampa, and Ilya breaks up with him to save both their hearts. (Un?)Fortunately for Ilya, Shane isn't letting him go without a fight.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,322
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #81446146