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You've Got Our Mothers Eyes by InTheLooneyBin
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Apr 2026
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Ilya was certain of one thing: he never wanted to see his family ever again. He couldn't trust anyone related to him. Nothing could ever change that. Right?
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Ilya finds out he has a long-lost sister. They meet and form a bond he never knew he needed.
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05 Jul 2026
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This fic lives in the spaces Rachel Reid leaves quiet. It follows Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov from the end of Heated Rivalry through The Long Game, then imagines a future shaped by love, community, and consequence.
Chapters 1–16 focus on the four-year gap between Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. These chapters trace the long, uneven process of staying in love while being forced apart by careers, secrecy, and fear. They linger on stolen moments, missed calls, private rituals, and the emotional labor of choosing each other over and over again after committing exclusively to each other.
Chapter 17 is a deliberate rewrite of a key scene from The Long Game that I couldn’t live with as written.
Chapters 18–45 imagine what comes after The Long Game in the upcoming Unrivaled era through my thoughts. This section centers on Shane and Ilya learning how to live publicly, build a community. Luca Haas becomes a vital part of that future, not as a threat, but as proof of how love expands rather than divides. Together with their growing chosen family, they confront an antagonistic podcast, TopShelf.
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- Part 1 of My Long Game.
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05 Jul 2026
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Second Chances by TylerReed
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Mar 2026
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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.
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The Night Brings Change by iamaslashaddict
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Nov 2024
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Penelope Featherington has tried both subtly and not-so-subtly to tell Colin that her cousin is pregnant with another man’s child and wants to pass the child off as Colin’s with a hasty marriage to hide the deception. However, no matter what she tells him, her friend is unwilling to see her actions as anything else but jealousy and a want of Colin for herself.
In a last-ditch effort to save Colin from a horrible marriage and a life of painful obligation should the deception come to light, she slips out of her family’s Mayfair home the night before Colin and Marina have agreed to run away to Gretna Green to elope… set on publishing a last-minute edition of Lady Whistledown’s column bringing light to Marina’s duplicitous acts. But, as she stands there in the dark of the Mayfair street, she decides to choose another option instead; an option that in one night brings change the likes of which she never imagined and the sort of love that will last a lifetime.
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04 May 2025
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Like The Stars Miss The Sun (Think I'll Miss You Forever) by tulipslilliesiloveyou
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Dec 2024
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As the bangle falls from Kate's wrist just before Anthony can say "I do," to her sister, he realizes the mistake he's made. He thought by marrying Edwina he'd be sparing both him and Kate heartbreakㅡhow wrong he was. With the wedding halted, the brides sister missing, The Queen demanding answers and the Bridgerton name on the line, Anthony is ready to fight all odds for the love he knows Kate deserves. However, it seems perhaps it was not his morality in question when rumors swirl that Kate Sharma did not run away to India, but rather succumbed to grave injuries during a great storm.
"And Anthony who'd only just learned what it was to love, learned what it was to die inside."
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30 Apr 2025