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    Moscow lost and found by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    08 May 2026

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    When Shane Hollander’s grandmother dies, he deals with his grief by fufilling a promise he made her when she was still healthy. In his journey, the teenager finds himself enrolled in Moscow’s private school system under a shiny hockey scholarship.

    On the Russian ice, he meets a boy with wet blue eyes and a mean mouth that seems like he lost someone too. Between some prideful fights, tentative jabs, silently holding hands in the dark and relative hunting, the teens seal an unlikely bound.

    They keep finding each other after that. Again, and again.

    _______
    Or Shane is a second-gen immigrant from Japan trying to fulfill his Buryat grandmother’s last wish and in doing so he ends up in a grieving teenage Ilya’s Russia.

    They take even longer to realise they’re as inevitable as the sunrise.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    We Both Go Down Together by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    19 Jan 2026

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    Hanahaki disease is not supposed to happen to actual people, sitting on actual stairwells with sweat cooling on their skin, with an actual game in two days that has a sponsorship contract riding on it. It’s not supposed to happen off-screen, without violins and an audience.
    And it definitely isn’t supposed to happen to the first Asian-Canadian MVP of the National Hockey League.
    Shane curls his fingers slowly around the petal, like if he hides it, if he doesn’t look at it, it might stop being real.

    Or: the one where Shane is one of the lucky few humans in the world predisposed to Hanahaki disease. He copes with it as well as you might expect.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    Heated Pandemic by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    13 Jan 2026

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    What if Shane and Ilya ended up quarantined together as prospects during the pandemic?

    When news comes down from the MLH that Prospects will have to quarantine and that they'll be paired with an anonymous online "buddy," Shane is determined to stick to his routine and not stress over the chatty asshole who keeps messaging him.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    The same number of stars everywhere by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    23 Dec 2025

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    “Ilya?” Shane said in that same dreamy, loopy voice as that morning. Ilya exhaled in a rush.

    “Shane,” he said, and wanted to sag against the glass with relief. “What happened? Is something wrong?”

    “Not! Any moooooooore.”

    Ilya swallowed. Shane hadn’t gotten any quieter in the past seven hours.

    “Why are you calling me? You need to be resting,” he said, and it sounded softer than he’d meant it to.

    “I forgot to tell you something. Important.”

    “You should not be telling me anything, you should be—”

    “My cottage has really good water pressure,” Shane announced.

    Ilya stared out the window while a small plane taxied past.

    “What?”

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    Shane's cottage has a lot of amenities, and he needs to tell Ilya about all of them.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Mama's Boy, Mama's Boy by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    15 Feb 2026

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    Shane's first mistake was going to talk to Ilya Rozanov before their game. His second was immediately, stupidly, meeting the eyes of Rozanov’s very much dead mother hovering at his side.

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    29 Jan 2026