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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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    05 Jun 2026

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    Original take, fun.

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    Don't Feed Me (I will come back) by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    31 May 2026

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    It’s the most famous cold case in hockey history. Up-and-coming Russian phenom Ilya Rozanov mysteriously vanishes the summer before his rookie season. Despite extensive police work, no trace of the young superstar is ever found.

    Shane Hollander remembers Ilya Rozanov. Better than most. And now, several years retired and with two highly successful hockey biographies under his belt, he’s taking a crack at the mystery that’s haunted his own career with strings of what-ifs and memories revisited so often they’ve softened like old cotton.

    Perhaps now, with the long eye of perspective between him and those memories, he can unravel the short lifetime of the man poised to become his biggest rival and best kept secret. Travelling to Russia he searches for stories and the answers they hold.

    If only this damn dog that’s apparently a local cryptid would stop raiding his trash cans.

     
    It has wandered this place for years. It knows every stream, every hill, every tree. Every pale, flat face in the place of straight lines. It does not know this face.

    But it remembers dark eyes and star-dots across the cheeks.
    It cannot remember its own name.

    But it remembers him.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    (WIP) I am invested in this.

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    Fourteen ten by

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

    19 Jan 2026

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    In which Ilya comes back to room fourteen ten.

     

    Canon divergent from, and following directly after, s01e01 when Ilya leaves Shane's hotel room. Contains Ilya being a provocative dick, Shane being unable to resist rising (ha) to it, too much discussion of chicken, some David Attenborough, Shane negotiating his feelings and interpersonal relationships with all his classic suavity and skill, and as much sex as two nineteen year old professional athletes can fit into one evening.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Excellent. I would love more of this.

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    Stickhandling and other hobbies by

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

    25 Apr 2026

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    Do you need arms like that, shoulders like that, to play the drums? Surely not.

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    Or, Shane gets fucked in a bathroom.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    So hot. Excellent characterisations. I could definitely red more if this.

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    black dog by

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

    18 Apr 2026

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    Ilya is not going to steal Shane Hollander's dog. That would be illegal. And wrong. And someone would probably find out and make Ilya give him back.

    So. Not stealing.

    But there is nothing wrong with giving Chernysh all the pats and treats that he deserves, is there?

    Nothing wrong with encouraging Chernysh to spend more and more time at Ilya's house until he doesn't even remember who Hollander is.

    Because Hollander is stupid and boring and does not deserve a dog as good as Chernysh. No, he doesn't, does he? Because Chernysh is the best boy in the whole world, yes he is.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Fantasy AU. Original, sweet, well paced and great 🌶️ scenes, epilogue TLG