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Every Atom by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-10-20
They had quietly, in the vacuum that he now realized always existed between them, made a universe. Rearranged their souls and lives into one.
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Shane Hollander knows that having a soulmate can be a death sentence for his hockey career.Ilya Rozanov knows that having a soulmate can just be a death sentence.
But no one gets to choose their soulmate.
OR Shane and Ilya shared the deepest kind of soulmate bond that makes it physically painful to separate for long periods but still have to discover what it means to choose each other.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 109,949
- Chapters:
- 21/24
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #89448801
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the toughest part is that we both know (what happened to you, why you’re out on your own) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-09-20
Ilya wasn’t trying to kill himself that night. Suicide is something that belongs to his mother- he’s just lazy, and he wishes Shane would stop making excuses for him.
Shane has everything under control. His body is a tool, the one that’s given him both his career and his relationship, and he wishes Ilya would stop prying into the way he maintains it.
or: Ilya learns a whole lot more about his mother, Shane remembers a whole lot more about his childhood, and they both get diagnosed.
- Part 3 of Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,519
- Chapters:
- 9/19
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79324761
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Shane Hollander is a Slut by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, NHL Hockey Setting
2026-09-16
Shane Hollander comes out and unleashes Shane Hollander Hysteria across the NHL.
All-stars circle like it's free agency and he’s the only contract available.
DMs combust. Rival captains get bold.
Connections start forming faster than anyone can keep up.
The Metros couldn’t care less because Shane keeps dominating on the ice while getting fucked in multiple time zones.
It becomes the worst-kept secret in professional hockey: everyone wants their turn.
Or:
Shane Hollander comes out and discovers freedom can look like a lot of things.
Sometimes it looks like sex across time zones.
Sometimes it looks like queer community forming around him across the league.
Sometimes it looks like becoming the most confident version of himself he has ever been.
Shane Hollander is having a great time.
This fic is loud, messy, and sometimes a little ridiculous until it isn’t.Shane-centric.
Multiple partners/poly dynamics.
Character studies of many different men.
Finding queer joy and community.
Autism, mental illness, and different attachment styles.
Or as I like to say..
A slow emotional horror story inside a romcom porno.- Part 1 of Shane Hollander is a slut
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 506,097
- Chapters:
- 47/?
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #80154636
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A House in Nebraska by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-09-01
Shane Hollander doesn't know what he is. He knows what he wants. For a long time, he tells himself those are different things.
Ilya Rozanov knows what he is. He can't control what he wants. For a long time, he tells himself those are the same thing.
They’re just boys who handle it badly—from a junior tournament in Canada to the NHL draft to the moment a security camera at the end of a hallway changes everything
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Shane and Ilya are discovered before they even play their first game
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 114,579
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #87605006
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Fake It (Till You Make It) by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
2026-08-21
“I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a while,” Wiebe admitted. “Though originally I was going to reach out to an actress. Get a nice, pretty, girl next door type on his arm for a year or so. Straighten out his image just enough to get him back to ‘loveable bad boy’ instead of 'on the edge of being cancelled‘. But hey, now I can kill two birds with one stone!”
Shane Hollander is a working actor in need of some exposure to get his big break. Ilya Rozanov is an international rock star in need of a reputation boost after his latest scandal. The powers that be think a PR relationship between the two will get everyone what they want.
So begins a year long, very public romance as Hollywood's latest young 'it' couple. Can Shane survive the scrutiny that comes with fame in exchange for a shot at success? Can Ilya keep it together long enough to fulfill the contract? And will either of them make it to the end date without a broken heart?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 137,639
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83637516
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Shane was the first omega ever drafted into the NHL. His designation usually considered only good for two things: breeding and mating — and most people didn’t even think male omegas were worthy of the latter. He had a lot to prove. And he really couldn’t afford distractions. Especially when those distractions came in the form of a cocky Russian alpha.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,270
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #86632731
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Shane has been working his entire life to finally, finally get a position as an NHL referee. But what happens when the attractive Russian he can’t get out of his head turns out to be hockey’s most chaotic captain?
Content Warnings (Contains Spoilers)Addiction and addictive behavior, including alcohol and non-prescribed medication.
Hockey injury requiring hospitalization.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 128,510
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Files:
- 2 versions
- AO3:
- #78759606
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Burning My Cathedrals by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-06-02
In 2016, Shane walked out of Ilya's life and never looked back.
In 2017, Ilya poured gasoline all over his career, struck a match, and walked away from the ashes.
In 2026, their paths cross again at the scene of a car accident that kills Shane’s wife Rose and injures both Shane and his 4 year old daughter, Sophie.
Suddenly, the quiet, unassuming life that Ilya has worked so hard to build for himself crumbles as he confronts the fact that he's never gotten over Shane Hollander.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,880
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #85074746
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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:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #80334051
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Spring, 2021. The Ottawa Centaurs are playoff-bound, Shane Hollander is suing the MLH for discrimination, and Ilya Rozanov wants the rookie that's sleeping with Hollander and stringing Luca Haas along off his f*cking hockey team. He's barely keeping it together as it is.
Meanwhile, the Boston Raiders are playing the long game: trading for Hayden Pike, making sure that if Hollander comes back to the league, they've got their bargaining chip in place. A month later, Pike would agree with them, as news outlets report Hollander's attachment to a player in the league with a familiar alias.
- Part 2 of Everything they Say
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,536
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81268246
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Moscow, 2007.
Ilya wasn’t expecting that along with a new assistant coach, he’d also be getting a new teammate for the summer. Shane Hollander turns out to be only one in the rink who can keep up with him. The tension between them builds fast, and it doesn’t just spill over the boards. It follows them home.
Or: The thing with Ilya's coach's son, but it's Shane.- Part 1 of Plexiglass Box
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 109,385
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78002516
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“No, no. Answer. Tell me. How’s it feel to be a fucking winner, and then to bend over and take my cock? You feel like a winner, Hollander? Do you feel like a winner now?” Ilya hisses. He’s being cruel. There is no choice, he just is, no matter how much he hates it. It doesn’t help anything. He can’t stop it.
“Yes,” Shane hisses. “Fuck, yes. I’m a fucking winner,” he gasps.
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Ilya takes Sasha up on his offer to do cocaine during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and then he fucks Shane instead of dealing with his feelings.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,067
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81851801
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Everything Shane has ever done has resulted in something else. People would call that karma, or physics, but Shane knows better. There are moments he’s sure he has the ability to control everything with a right or wrong thought. And there are moments of clarity where he knows this isn’t true.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,187
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #81297256
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Ilya googles Scott Hunter in his hotel room at night. He reads some interviews too.
Scott Hunter is an orphan. He lost his parents when he was twelve. A drunk driver killed them both.
Twelve.
Ilya’s stomach tightens into a knot. He can’t keep the memories away. They’re rising from the grave he tried to bury them in so many times. Mama.
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Ilya, Scott, and the transformation of their relationship(s).
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,399
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77845401
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The Montreal Metros have been on a never before seen losing streak. Desperate, Shane Hollander cuts out anything in his life that could be causing the wins to slip away from them. There's just one vice he can't seem to get rid of. Or, Shane goes to Ilya's hotel room to break up with him after one too many losses. It doesn't exactly go to plan.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,162
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77866086
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To Sleep, Perchance to Dream by papisadhu
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-11
In some cruel twist of fate, Ilya can only recall his mother’s face in his nightmares.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,944
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77483526
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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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Shane’s head is too loud after the season ends and they don’t make the playoffs, so he tries to shut it up by pushing himself too far, too often, too hard. Ilya’s there to take care of him instead.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,582
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76914626