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On very bad nights, Lyosha lets himself look. He pulls up KHL scores, reads articles about Dynamo’s powerplay. After a while, he wanders into articles about ex-KHL players who play for the MLH now. He’s a Dynamo diehard, of course, and prefers the KHL, but he’s a casual Valery Garipov fan, and it would not be a surprise to anyone that he occasionally keeps tabs on how the Puffins are doing. It would not be a red flag, to anyone watching.
The Puffins are not doing so well, as it happens. Not like another team, that leads the league and dominates conversations, to the point that even articles about the Puffins can’t help talking about them. To the point that sometimes, sometimes, there are even stray pictures. Nothing that Lyosha will ever linger on. He is his father’s son. He lives in Moscow. He has a daughter who is fifteen.
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- English
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- 7,055
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- 3/3
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81871346
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Nine years ago, CSIS Trainee Shane Hollander stole a file from the Boston Bears Crime Syndicate and the heart of its leader's son. Now, Ilya Rozanov's father calls him to the Raiders nightclub, the Bears' headquarters, to give him a gift - his captured archrival. As Ilya is tasked with uncovering all Shane's and his organization's secrets, he has to fight to keep his relationship - and his betrayal - from being revealed - or risk losing the best thing that ever happened to him. There are many things Ilya is willing to do for his father. Losing Shane Hollander is not one of them.
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- English
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- 30,526
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81051501
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Shane Hollander, Ottawa Centaur, is struggling to settle into his new team. He also has more support than he knows.
Or
Five times the Centaurs noticed something was off and one time they did something about it.
(A companion piece to UNDER REVIEW)- Part 2 of After the Whistle
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- English
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- 15,528
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- 6/6
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- AO3:
- #80496001
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Light at the End of the Tunnel by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, The Shots You Take - Rachel Reid
2026-03-25
Troy finally faces the fallout from his time in Toronto but the Centaurs have his back.
(I decided to explore some of the loose plot lines from RM)
- Part 13 of Troublemakers
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- English
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- 6,450
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81825876
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can we just go home now by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-24
Marlow knows better than to push. Everyone’s got their own shit, especially on the road. But there’s only so many nights you can wake up to someone falling apart before it stops being something you can ignore.
// Ilya hasn’t seen his mother in over ten years. Lately, he sees her every night.
- Part 3 of hard conversations
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- English
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- 9,128
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- 1/1
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81787166
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Off The Ice by Panda8191
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Heated Rivalry (Book) - Rachel Reid, The Long Game (Book) - Rachel Reid
2026-03-24
When Shane is benched by a pregnancy he never planned for, the season keeps moving without him. In the longest intermission of his life, he has to figure out who he is without the ice—and who he can be with Ilya.
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- English
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- 82,835
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- 25/25
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #75972446
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Ilya Rozanov has watched the gay soccer television show four times.
Every time he gets to the end of episode six, he loops right back around to the first episode again. Would you like to start from the beginning? His TV mocks him with the request. Every time he sees it, he tells himself he won't watch again. But he does.
Again, again, again, again.
It is not helping.
Shane and Ilya end their relationship during the 2017 All-Star Game. Years pass with no contact off the ice.
When a new TV show premieres, following two queer professional soccer players in a years-long secret relationship, the show's success creates a ripple effect through the sports world, leaving both Shane and Ilya wondering about what might have been.
Or: Is this f*cking play about us?
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- English
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- 11,312
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- 3/3
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- 1
- AO3:
- #79985511
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“What? Hollander too scared to face me?” Ilya chirps, because if he goes another minute without at least mentioning the man that has been consuming his every thought for two weeks he might go insane. He needs someone else to acknowledge his existence, his absence, to fucking tell him what’s going on so he can finally get it off his mind. It’s just a stupid mystery. That’s why it bugs him.
And then Hayden Pike looks up. Dark bruised circles under his eyes, face pale like a sheet, eyes red rimmed and puffy like he has been crying all day. The face of a man mourning.
Ilya feels like the ice might crack under him. Something’s wrong with Shane.
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Set pre-Tuna melt: something has happened to Shane Hollander, but of course no one is telling his life long rival what happened.
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- English
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- 24,989
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- 6/6
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81340786
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Shane knew what people said about sharing true names: that it made sex better, like fucking bare except with all your witch senses involved, that even for people with no witch gift to speak of it was like your entire body was on fire. It probably wouldn’t be like that with Ilya, because sex with Ilya already felt like his entire body was on fire.
A universe in which the stakes for tuna meltdown are totally different and also kind of the same. Love, witchcraft, and true names.
Note: If you read this before 3/23, I recently realized that a key scene at the end of Chapter 7 didn’t make the leap from my google doc. Now fixed! Now with more feelings!
- Part 1 of Hungry Ghosts and related stories
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- English
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- 29,938
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- AO3:
- #80424921
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make the water your bones by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-22
After Ilya's plane crashes in the ocean, no one knows if the hockey star is alive or dead. Shane sets out to find him and reconcile their relationship.
***COMPLETE!***
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 59,873
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- 20/20
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- 1
- AO3:
- #80819946
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Love in a Time of Organized Crime by weiwei (ih8snakeu)
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-22
Raised as the Yakuza's Wakagashira, Shane Hollander only knows discipline. The Bratva Pakhan's son, Ilya Rozanov, has only ever been feared. When their worlds converge, what begins as a rivalry becomes something far more dangerous: a secret, forbidden relationship forged in violence, restraint, and yearning neither of them should be allowed. In the criminal underworld, love is leverage, and survival means knowing when to hide the truth and when to pull the trigger. A mafia AU about their forbidden romance, rivalry, violence, and what it means to choose each other in spite of it all. Enemies by design. Lovers by choice. -prev. titled “The Yakuza Enforcer and the Bratva Prince”-
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- English
- Words:
- 50,604
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 1
- AO3:
- #78908361
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Showing Up For Him by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-03-22
Shane wasn’t his boyfriend. But for a while it had felt like it. They’d been alone in his house. He’d made them tuna melts and watched TV. They’d cuddled like a real couple. And then he had to go and ruin it. Like he ruins everything. The press won't stop talking about Shane and Rose. He's turning into his mother and for some reason, Scott Hunter is the only one who sees him. And it scares him.
OR
Ilya spirals after the tuna melt scene and engages in self-destructive behaviors. Scott Hunter notices and refuses to go away.
*This is a stand alone fic and is not related to the others in the series.
- Part 3 of Seasoned Gay to the Rescue
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- English
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- 22,566
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- 6/6
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- AO3:
- #80864736
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They were once the greatest MLH draft prospects in the world - number one and two, in whatever order came to be on the day. But life had other plans, and all it took was a few weeks in ‘09 to see both Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander become nothing more than hypotheticals and statistical what-ifs deep in reddit threads and hockey chatrooms.
But still, their paths were destined to cross when Ilya took his daughter to her first skating lesson.
// Single dad!Ilya x Kids Hockey coach!Shane
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- English
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- 61,116
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- 12/12
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- 1
- AO3:
- #76686026
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Will You Love Me (At My Worst) by boredatuni
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-21
When Shane’s insecurities escalate after giving birth, Ilya decides to fuck him in front of the mirror.
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- English
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- 16,121
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 1
- AO3:
- #81037876
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Shane finds out on Twitter.
Not from a lawyer or a teammate or even one of the journalists who've been calling nonstop since the FanMail video went viral. He finds out at 6:47 am, still in bed, that Russia is coming for Ilya. Propaganda charges. Passport revocation. Return to the Russian Federation required.
What follows is weeks of watching everything fall apart. Ilya's career. Their safety. The system that was supposed to protect them. Shane keeps playing while Ilya can't. The lawyers file paperwork and say to wait. Montreal demands silence.
Shane faces a choice: keep his head down and trust the process, or burn down his career and force the world to pay attention.
He chooses fire.
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- English
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- 27,498
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- 7/7
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- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #78783251
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The rest of the world had Rozanov, but only Shane had Lily. He didn’t know what that meant.
AKA Ilya flirts with gender then he makes out with it sloppy style
- Part 1 of flower language
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- 1/1
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- AO3:
- #81492096
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love in exile has nowhere to go by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-18
“We’ve made a trade,” Coach announces. “For Shane Hollander.”
It’s like the ground drops out from beneath Ilya, and his heart falls from his chest. It tumbles past rock bottom, down to the cavern that shattered open inside of him on that night five years ago. The night when Ilya walked away from Hollander for the last time.
He can’t breathe.
(Or: Shane doesn’t get hurt, they break up, and they don’t talk for five long years. Until Shane is traded to Ottawa.)
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- 1/1
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- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #81445546
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Of all the florists in Boston by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-18
“Did Boston Lily send you all these flowers? Shane??” Hayden asks.
“Um,” Shane says helpfully.
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Or, Shane gets hurt in the Boston vs. Montreal game. Ilya crashes out and buys all the lilies in Boston for him.
No one knows about them.
Except for Ilya’s new florist, who never asked to get involved in dumb hockey boys and their messy drama. Also, Cliff is a good friend.
- Language:
- English
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- 6,856
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- 1/1
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- AO3:
- #81442676
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Ilya Rozanov's life takes an unexpected turn when a deadly plane crash in 2021 takes his life, right after a fight with his long-time partner, Shane Hollander. Though instead of the afterlife, Ilya is sent back to December 2008, just before his NHL career began, on the very day that he first met Shane. He finds himself in a familiar world, with knowledge of both the future and knowledge of the man he loves and the friends he holds dear. As Ilya navigates this new reality, he rebuilds his relationship with Shane, who is still finding his path in both hockey and his identity as a gay man. With their rivalry blossoming into a different experience than the one Ilya experienced the first time around, the two face challenges around acceptance, family pressures, and the struggles of being openly gay and lovers in the sports world. Throughout their journey, Ilya contemplates his first life, cherishes the present, and strives to alter the course of their futures (and the futures of their friends) for the better. Or, Ilya Rozanov discovers first hand what the butterfly effect is, and how it can drastically alter the future.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,594
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #79755001
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Shane Hollander's PDA Agenda by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-17
It happens in an instant.
Over Ilya’s shoulder, Shane sees the doctor and Wiebe give each other a look, and in a sudden bout of impatient anxiety, Shane ends up saying the words that come to ruin everything.
“Don’t touch me.”
The effect is instantaneous. Ilya’s hands fly to his sides, and Shane gets a front row seat as Ilya’s heart breaks before his very eyes. Eyes dimming and lips trembling in slow, painful technicolor.
It causes Shane’s heart to break, too, and he vows, immediately, never to see such a look cross his husband’s face again.
OR Shane embarks on a mission to heal his husband’s heart, one PDA at a time.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 39,658
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78297091