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    первый лёд | First Ice by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    12 Dec 2025

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    Centuries pass, nations rise and fall, names change, but Ilya remembers.

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    Hasegawa Shigeru opened his mouth to reply, but Ilya was lost.

    No longer warm, an icy wind cut through rough clothes to bite at the patches of skin that he’d bared to the elements. White snow and black, tall trees. A man trudged beside him, his hood up, his feet sure in the snow. He turned and smiled and Ilya’s heart tipped over with love. Hasegawa Shigeru. It was Shigeru, but dressed in clothing in a style much older than those Ilya had worn on his own shores, but still undoubtedly home.

    Shigeru spoke to him, but not in a language he knew. Old words and old clothes, and an old love, so deep that it brought tears to Ilya’s eyes.

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    ticket for your train of thought by

    Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    08 Jul 2026

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    benediction (noun)

    bene-dic-tion ——— bɛnəˈdɪkʃən

    The utterance of a blessing

    solemn invocation of blessedness upon a person

    devout expression of a wish for the happiness, prosperity, or success of a person or enterprise

     

    Ilya feels like the seagulls outside his old Boston apartment window, in May when the day warms early and they sun their wings. He arches his shoulder blades in a half-hearted attempt to mimic the birds. Shane hums a contented-happy noise as Ilya settles deeper. That sound was a—he knows the word in English, has been waiting to use it again on Shane. Reva—no, that's not right, starts with a b… benediction. Shane's happy noises are a benediction.

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Proud. by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types  

    26 Jun 2026

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    Say what you will about racism in hockey, but at least representing every Asian in Canada never forced Shane to bring the entire world into his bedroom—including other fucking gay people.

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    Modal verbs by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types  

    02 Jul 2026

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    Hayden stares, the sight in front of him not quite computing.

    There is the couch. There is Shane on the couch. There is Shane on the couch, sleeping on his back with one arm wrapped securely around the waist of another person sleeping on top of him. The waist of another man sleeping on top of him.

    A man.

    As in, not Boston Lily.

    As in, not a woman at all.
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    Or, a prank goes awry and Hollanov is outed even earlier. At least everyone can agree that it’s still entirely Hayden Pike’s fault.

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    Unpicked and Restitched (apart and back together) by

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

    12 Apr 2026

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    Then Scott Hunter looked at him, really looked at him with no panic or consternation or grief, just something heavy and piercing that made Ilya feel like his heart was on the outside of his ribcage. “Be safe out there, okay?”

    “Okay,” Ilya said, softer than intended.

    In real life, they both turned around and walked away into the night. But in Ilya’s memory, that never happens. They just stand there, eye-to-eye, until the sun comes up and it’s too bright to see anything else.

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