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shed some light on me, please by ificouldwrite
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 May 2026
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It’s home ice advantage, he tries to tell himself. They’re playing at home, luckily. He doesn’t think he could handle it if they were going to Boston. TD Garden is different from their home rink. It’s rowdier, certainly, and it also has a whole bustling train station inside it as well. That many people when he’s already feeling not the best–
At home, here, Shane already thinks his heart is going to turn to ice, just like Elsa does in Emma and Ruby’s favorite movie, the one that he sees on the screen when he goes to the Pikes’ for dinner sometimes. He can’t imagine being somewhere and having to go back to a shared hotel room when he’s frozen solid.
Maybe they’ll make him into a sculpture. It might be more bearable than this.
Tonight, he will be facing the Raiders and therefore Rozanov for the first time since Vegas.
Shane Hollander vs. Sochi, Vegas, and the Svetlana Vetrova he has built up in his head.
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Merlin slips into the chainmail, remembers how Arthur once helped him put on his gloves in Ealdor when they were trying to protect his village from being sieged. His magic tingles under his skin, recently recovered after the Crystal Caves. He wonders if wearing this armor, the king’s spare armor, if he could be disguised when using magic to stop the fighting before there are more casualties. Maybe he could even convince Morgana and Mordred that he’s Arthur, and distract them while Arthur leads Camelot to victory elsewhere on the battlefield.
A "Song of Achilles" x Merlin and Arthur fic.
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picture frames by ificouldwrite
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Dec 2025
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David wasn’t kidding when he said that with Ilya in his life now, he was blessed with another son, and he was going through with that promise with a father-son trip. Which is how they find themselves in the place that had originally drafted Ilya: Boston, MA.
Or, David Hollander takes Ilya on a good ol' American vacation like he deserves.
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everywhere i go by ificouldwrite
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Dec 2025
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Shane thinks about that conversation on the couch sometimes, and how casually Ilya had been when bringing up the possibility of marrying Svetlana. They're past it, several months past it, but insecurities flare up sometimes. Especially when Svetlana is brought up because she's cool, smart, beautiful. And Shane, as so many people say, is boring.
Or: Svetlana is Shane's lacy.
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what happens in vegas stays with me by ificouldwrite
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Dec 2025
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Shane doesn't send the "We didn't even kiss" text, but he's still hurt by it by the next game he has to play against Boston and more importantly, Rozanov.
Ilya notices him playing like a robot, and wonders if there's something that needs to be fixed.
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“I’ll fix it.” Merlin croaks. “I’ll fix everything. We’ll switch places. You’ll be back in Camelot in no time. You’ll see Gwen again. I promise.”
Arthur makes a noise of protest but Merlin shushes him. “I know you don’t trust me anymore but I will make everything right.” Merlin vows.
The sorcerer truly means this, Arthur knows. Sincerity is practically dripping from every word. It’s such a Merlin thing to promise, with that earnest and determined tone. It only scares Arthur more.
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15 Nov 2025
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Arthur heaves a sigh. “All right. Show me where it is.” They tie their horses to a scraggly willow that seems to look melancholically back at them while the horses snort and stamp their feet, eager to be moving again, and Arthur and Merlin begin to trudge through the thick wood.
It’s only a few minutes of shallow ice cracking under their feet and watching Merlin trip and clutch at nearby trees before they reach a thin brook that is indeed frozen solid. It threads lithely through the forest, caught in its last rush and swell of current before the cold turned a greedy eye on it, and Arthur finds it oddly hypnotizing in its inertia.
“Pretty, huh?” Merlin sits down on the bank, drawing his knees up to his and resting his chin on his arms. He stares out at the water.
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23 Sep 2025
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“…Do you think I’m hard to love?”
Arthur doesn’t breathe.
Because he knows. He knows that Merlin means it, knows this isn’t a question for reassurance. It’s a confession of fear. And it breaks something in him to know why Merlin is asking.
Arthur turns his whole body to face him. Looks him in the eye.
“No,” he says, with the certainty of the sun rising — not questioned, not earned, just as a fact.
Merlin swallows.
Arthur continues, softer now, “I think you’re hard to read. But never hard to love.”Bookmarked by ificouldwrite
23 Sep 2025
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“You told the hotel it’s our honeymoon.”
Alex shrugs, in that carefree and charming way he does, as if certain no reasonable person could ever be mad at him.
Henry couldn’t.
The thought of spending a week sleeping alongside Alex and not being able to reach out and touch him — to caress his skin or to run his fingers through Alex’s hair while he sleeps, admiring the way his unruly curls will fall over the pillow – is a tragedy.
This will be torture.
Slow, painful, torture. Like someone had peeked inside Henry’s brain and picked the most painful possible way to torment him, tailored and customised specifically for him.
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While on vacation together in Hawaii, Alex tells the resort it's their honeymoon so they can get a free upgrade. Pretending to be married is fine, until it's not, and Henry has to confront his feelings for his best friend of 20 years.
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31 Aug 2025
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The Last Rejection by staergirly
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
30 Aug 2025
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“There are… certain forms of affection I can’t express in public,” Henry said finally, quieter now, his eyes not quite meeting Alex’s. “It’s just the way things are.”
Alex held his gaze, heart pounding, pulse hot in his ears. He wanted to understand. He really did. But all he could feel in that moment was utter humiliation, and betrayal—of being held at arm’s length yet again.
He downed the rest of his champagne in one sharp swallow and set the glass aside.
“Yeah,” he said softly. “I’m starting to realise that.”
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5 times Henry rejected PDA, and the one time he initiated it.
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31 Aug 2025