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And yeah, Shane knew that Ilya hadn’t been okay last time he was in Russia, but Ilya had had the very real excuse of a funeral to blame things on. Ilya had downplayed it as much as he could, and Shane hadn’t been there, he’d heard the fatigue and he’d seen Ilya’s tired smile, but he hadn’t felt the way Ilya’s hands were cold the entire time he was there, hadn’t seen through the screen the way Ilya dropped eight pounds in three weeks, hadn’t kept time when there were twenty hours in Ilya’s day instead of something closer to sixteen. Or, on the flip side, for the week or two after, when there had been approximately ten conscious hours in a day.
It was one thing to see something. It was another to feel it in your hands.
Ilya and Shane are so, so happy for their first year married. They’re playing in Ottawa together, they’re fucking winning, they’re together and out.
So now, after a year, Ilya should be fine. He should be great. He should not be flinching at small noises or nearly punching people off the clock or feeling like he’s drowning whenever he’s not on the ice.
Or: Ilya Rozanov, meet your PTSD.
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Futile Devices by comesatnight
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Feb 2026
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"I do not know how to say what I mean." Ilya said, staring past Shane, willing himself to look tough and one-dimensional and not like he was wilting away. Shane rubbed a thumb over Ilya's cheek and tilted his head so that he was in Ilya's line of sight.
"You don't know how to say it in English?" Shane asked curiously. Ilya shook his head.
"No, I don't know how to say it at all. Even in Russian. Is... Is hard." Ilya said, hopelessly. He was certain that no matter what he did, Shane would leave him again.
Or: What happened after Shane and Ilya talked in the hotel room after the All-Star game, and what happened moments after the "marriage" discussion.
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- Part 1 of Futile Devices
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Better Than This by comesatnight
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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Shane squinted at Ilya, and tilted his head slightly in thought.
"I know "tebya" is "you", and "etot" is "this"... I'm too sleepy to translate the rest. What does that mean, Ilya?"
Ilya froze. He didn't realize he had said it out loud- didn't know why he had said it. He had said it thoughtlessly, had been too caught up in his thoughts and in the dream of his mama, had forgotten his painfully smart and 'good at everything' boyfriend had been trying to learn Russian for him. How could he explain what the words meant? That they encapsulated all of Ilya's fears about his relationship with Shane?
"Is nothing, moya lyubov." he said, continuing to stroke Shane's face. He hoped Shane would believe him at his word this once, that Shane would allow him to keep his emotions that were now bubbling to the surface under wraps. But Shane was staring at him with that look on his face, and he knew he would have to explain.
"It means... "Someone will love you better than this."
Or: Ilya has trauma and is not sure he is good enough for the love Shane provides; Shane straightens him out.
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- Part 3 of Futile Devices
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End of the World by comesatnight
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 Jul 2026
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Ilya thought he would be the rock in their relationship.
Ilya resented Shane.
Ilya was on the verge of a breakdown.
Ilya didn't want to feel like this anymore.For Ilya, in an instant, it's the end of the world. Everything Ilya had shoved down bubbles dangerously to the surface. The message is clear: Shane isn't going anywhere, but he is also unable to do anything if Ilya wont let him help.
OR: No matter what Ilya says, no matter how hard he self sabotages, Shane always sticks around. He just needs to help Ilya realize that he's not going anywhere.
Inspired by the song "End of the World" by Searows.Series
- Part 4 of Futile Devices
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In the dark, I’m not scared. I just reach and you’re right there. by Gracesmk
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
30 Jun 2026
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Ilya is having one of those days where he can’t get out of bed and on top of that is missing his boyfriend so much he feels like he might die. Shane drives all the way to Ilya to comfort him.
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“You shouldn’t have to do all that,” Ian mumbles.
“You shouldn’t have to live with this fucking illness,” Mickey shoots back.
“Fuck,” Ian breathes.
Mickey lets him pull him close and completely envelop him.
He burries his head on his shoulder, his cheek against his collarbone.
His husband presses a kiss into his hair.
“You know I trust you,” Ian states. “I trust you so fucking much.”
“I know,” Mickey reassures him.
It’s true.
There've been so many moments when Ian reached for him in the dark, his body relaxing just a little whenever Mickey touched him and told him, “It’s okay,” as many times as it took.
“I’m fine,” Ian says. “You worry, but I’m fine.”
// Post canon, Mickey takes care of Ian during a adjustment of his meds. Ian supports Mickey when he deals with some anxiety after that.-
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you know i think about you all the time (my deep misunderstanding of your life) by yrsaffectionately
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Feb 2026
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The entire time Hayden has known him, and known of him, he has been Ilya Rozanov; violent player and serial womanizer. The media was saying those things about a child, and no one had given a shit, because Ilya had never spoken up for himself. He’d never protested their unfounded claims, and he never tried to prove them wrong, either.
Which, now that Hayden knows the things he does, makes perfect fucking sense.
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Hayden finds himself unlearning everything he thought he knew about Ilya Rozanov
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not a lot, just forever by yrsaffectionately
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Jul 2026
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“Shane, honey, what happened?”
Shane inhales sharply, his breath hitching. “That house next door to you? The one that was just sold?”
“What about it?” Yuna asks, unable to tell where the conversation is going.
Usually, Shane is one of the easiest people to read on planet earth. He wears his heart on his sleeve, even though he typically doesn’t intend to, and it’s one of her favorite things about him. Now, though, she’s at a loss, and she finds that she kind of hates the feeling.
“Your new neighbor is Ilya Rozanov."
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David never catches them at the cottage. Months later, Ilya moves to Ottawa. Yuna figures it out as she goes.
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The Courage to be Loved Kindly by shanebug_2481
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
05 Jul 2026
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When Ilya woke again, his body ached from somewhere deep. Exhaustion burrowed into the fiber of his muscles and the marrow of his bones, consuming him entirely. He lay still, staring blankly at the ceiling, willing himself to move just enough to cover up with the blanket.
Shane would be back from his run soon, he figured. Most of the time, when he was having a hard day, Ilya would plaster a well-timed smile on his face and do his best not to worry his already anxious boyfriend. Today, he did not possess the willpower. He felt hollowed out, feckless, unmoored. This was the version of himself he kept carefully tucked away, hidden behind a fortress of self-assuredness, sarcasm, and charisma. This was the version of Ilya Rosanov no one got to see – not even Shane.
Any minute now, his carefully constructed facade and perfectly positioned walls would come crashing down. This time, he was too overcome by the sheer intensity of this bout of depression that he couldn't shield Shane from it. He was too exhausted to move, let alone conceal his shortcomings.
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the old religion, humming in your veins by justhockey
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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Ilya feels like a zombie; he’s an approximation of something living.
He knows what this is, of course. He isn’t stupid. He was just a child when he watched the life bleed out of his mama, long before she stopped breathing. He watched her sweet smiles grow hollow, and her kind eyes fall blank. He felt her slipping through his fingertips like grains of sand in an hourglass; her time was up before Ilya had truly even realised that it was running out.
When he looks in the mirror, he sees her staring back at him: blond hair, and blue eyes, and an emptiness that kills.
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By now, they've been hooking up for something like six years, and so surely, surely, Hollander is aware of the fact that Ilya is not an alpha in the ways that count.
(Or: Hollander does not know. He finds out when Ilya unexpectedly goes into heat, and everything that they had falls to shit.)
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there is love that doesn't have a place to rest by Anonymous
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
11 Jul 2026
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Ilya closes his eyes.
He blinks back his tears. He wants to nod or shake his head or something, but he can't.
This can't be happening.
He blinks and blinks and blinks again but he's still in the hospital and he still feels like shit and his mom is dead and Shane is far away and he thinks he's depressed and there is something inside of him that he doesn't know what to do with.
Fuck, he thinks, in russian and in english and in french, even. Fuck.Or, in 2020, Ilya has a (very) unplanned, (very) complicated pregnancy, Shane has to learn that sometimes things don't work out the way he planned, and some other things. Set in The Long Game, kind of.
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The body keeps the score (and I can't win without you) by Confusedmonkey
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
18 Jul 2026
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There was nothing Ilya loved more than fucking Shane Hollander – except, as he’d finally said out loud, maybe Shane Hollander himself.
The time at the cottage was perfect – more than perfect. Lifechanging. Universe-shifting. He had a boyfriend. A family. Everything he’d ever wanted – except that now it was time to go home, and deal with the one thing he still didn’t want to talk about.
His heat.
His disgusting, miserable, painful heat – that he would handle alone. Like he always did. But then Shane was asking him why, and that was the question, wasn’t it? Why, why, why?
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i was young and sweet, and then something happened by taetaeloving
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Mar 2026
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The teasing tone of his voice should be enough to convince Shane he is okay. He's inconvenienced Shane enough, it was time to manage his problems on his own. He can mask whatever is going on with him today, deal with it, and be better tomorrow.
He just has to make it to tomorrow.
His husband, unfortunately, has other plans. "We actually finished early. I'm gonna come back today instead of two days from now. I have a flight in two hours, so I should be home by evening."
The panic hits Ilya almost instantly. Evening is too soon, he thinks, I'll still be like this by evening. Shane is going to deal with my mess again. He won't even have time to rest from his flight. I can't be seen like this. I can't do this to him. I can't let someone else deal with my problems. I can't let someone else come home to this.
I'm just like my mother.
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When a poorly timed phone call and an open window leads Shane's parents to a massive misunderstanding, he's stuck pretending he's still dating Rose. Which works fine for a month, until Ilya's jealousy starts to flare and Shane's parents witness a fight entirely different from the one they have on the ice.
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"See? Shane's probably just in the kitchen,” Yuna murmured softly, putting her purse down on the side table beside the door. “Maybe he’s—”“Okay, you were maybe telling me the truth,” a voice suddenly called, cutting her off before she could finish her sentence. “At least partially.”
Yuna frowned, the deep, accented voice catching her off guard. Before she could piece together where she recognized the voice from, though, she saw Ilya Rozanov walking through her son’s apartment. He was barefoot, his hair slightly damp and his clothes casual. Sweatpants and a white T-shirt that clung to him after a shower.
From the kitchen, David heard his sons’ voice ring out, too. “What do you mean partially?” Shane responded, gesturing at his phone as Ilya showed him something on it. “That’s exactly what I told you.”
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Within Reach by fishiefishtheconsultant
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 May 2026
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“At home, there’s nothing stopping him. Out there, maybe there is.”
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Post-tuna meltdown: Ilya is trying to stay functional after losing Shane Hollander, but the way he’s coping is starting to turn into something he can’t fully control.-
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forgive me if i jump at the rattle of your keys by justhockey
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 May 2026
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Ilya knew, right from the very moment he met Shane Hollander, that he would never be good enough for him. He’d seemed so…pristine, when they first met. Untouched. And Ilya knew his unclean hands would only dirty him up. He’s always been selfish, though; his father used to tell him that.
So it’s no surprise, really, that Shane has finally gotten tired of it. Of him, always needing more from Shane than he deserves - always begging for more than he has earned.
Ilya would leave himself, too, if he could.
(Or, five time Ilya thought Shane would leave, and one time he knew he wasn’t going anywhere.)
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we only know the love we’re shown by justhockey
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 May 2026
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Ilya has always known Shane could do better than him. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s finally found it.
Found someone else.
Because that’s what this is, isn’t it?
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Laundry by the_weight_of_small_things
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Apr 2026
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Shane Hollander has contracts, property, insurance, and a cottage full of expensive furniture; by every reasonable measure, he is a fully grown man.
Then Ilya Rozanov arrives at the cottage for the first time, wildly underpacked, entirely too beautiful, and somehow capable of making Shane’s carefully designed house feel less like proof of adulthood and more like the beginning of a life.
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Ilya’s first visit to the cottage makes Shane see a man he has known for years as someone he might actually get to keep.Series
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Echoes in the Mouth by the_weight_of_small_things
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
24 Jun 2026
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Before they get married, Shane has to reckon with all the names he and Ilya have used to survive each other. Last names sharp enough to hide behind, fake names soft enough to keep, first names dangerous enough to run from, and one shared name sturdy enough to build a life on.
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The night before their wedding, Shane discovers Ilya still has him saved in his phone as Jane.Series
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