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Time and Motion by slightly_ajar
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Apr 2026
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During a rainstorm Ilya thinks about taking risk, finding safety, old choices, new needs and fast cars
The drive wasn’t hasty lines of brake lights, streetlights and an endless black ribbon stretching into the horizon, it wasn’t Ilya alone with the roar of firing pistons and his own thoughts, it was him and Shane talking about the beauty around them, and enjoying it in silence, moving forward in comfort together.
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A Change to the Narrative by slightly_ajar
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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It’s a perfectly normal day until it isn’t. Shane is hurt in a mugging and he and Ilya have to find a way through injury and healing together.
He should just give the man his wallet. That’s what they say to do, isn’t it? Shane should hand over his wallet then the man would leave. There was no reason to be a hero or a tough guy, there was nothing in his wallet worth the kind of trouble someone who hides their face and attacks from behind is capable of.
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Mac hadn’t looked in a mirror since it had happened.
He knew how the bruises felt, the swollen tenderness shadowing his eye, the scabs tugging at his lip and cheek, the sore marks mottling his jaw in sickly greens. He didn’t want to see them.
Set in batnsons (greywritesstuff) Stablehands + Stable Homes AU and alongside Violetvaria's Stable AU
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- Part 3 of Stable AU
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Mac had never been sent to the principal’s office before
Back then he’d done everything he could to avoid being noticed. He’d worked hard, earned good grades, kept his head down and never put so much as a single toe out of line.
He tapped out a hup-two-three-four that began with the little finger of his left hand and marched it’s way over to the pinky on his right then went back to where it started and drummed out the staccato rhythm all over again on the arms of his chair.
On the arms of the chair that was outside the principal’s office.
The chair he was sat in outside the principal’s office.
An incident in school makes Mac think about the new shape of his family, and wonder if he really is a nerdy as everyone says.
Set in capnamvrica's Stablehands + Stable Homes AU and alongside Violetvaria's Stable AU
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- Part 24 of Stable AU
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Jack was so glad he wasn’t a teenager anymore.
His hair was dusted with grey, his hip cracked when he twisted and the grunt he made whenever he hauled himself off the sofa came from the very depths of his soul, but getting older did have it’s advantages.
Having the certainty that all things pass was one bonus of having lived for more than a couple of decades, having had time to perfect a never fail recipe for a really good pasta sauce was another, but having a well grounded confidence was one of the best. Jack knew who he was, wherever he was so wherever or whatever the situation he felt at home in his own skin.
Mac hadn’t got that yet.
Poor kid.
When Mac gets jealous while he’s out on a date with Katie he and Jack have to deal with the dark place the green eyed monster came from.
Set in capnamvrica's Stablehands + Stable Homes AU and alongside Violetvaria's Stable AU
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- Part 22 of Stable AU
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Stories based on capnamvrica's Stablehands + Stable Homes AU.
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Shane and Ilya had mutually agreed to keep their whatever-they’re-doing out of Sochi. It was an easy decision to make: this was bigger than any MLH rivalry and definitely bigger than a few hotel hook-ups. There was no room for distractions, not with Olympic gold on the line.
So it’d be really fucking great if their daemons could get on the same page and stop trying to cause an international fucking incident.
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- Part 7 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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Look at that. Another white guy with his little Asian sugar baby.
Twenty-seven years, and not once has a stranger looked at David Hollander and his son and seen a father. Then Ilya Rozanov sits beside him in a restaurant and a server says, "Can I get anything else for you and your son?" David does not correct him.`
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Bookmarked by slightly_ajar
09 Apr 2026
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“Is this one from hockey?” he asks softly. Beneath him, Ilya exhales lightly.
“No.”
“What’s it from?”
“A belt,” Ilya replies casually, as if the word doesn’t make Shane’s whole body go still for a moment, his muscles tensing to hold him frozen.
Bookmarked by slightly_ajar
07 Apr 2026
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Five times Shane Hollander doesn't ask for help (but gets it anyway) and once when he does.
Or: A collection of incredibly gratuitous soft moments between your two favorite hockey players.
Sister work to "The Only Exception."
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Bookmarked by slightly_ajar
07 Apr 2026