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Coach Hollander by Wren_Ashh
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 May 2026
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Summary
There are people who grow up learning how to be small in the world.
Quiet hands. Quiet eyes. Quiet ways of disappearing.
At hockey camp, no one quite knows what to do with the boy who does not speak unless spoken to correctly, unless spoken to like he is already understood.
Shane Hollander never asks him to become louder.
He only corrects his skating.
Speaks to him like a player instead of a problem.
And somehow, that is enough for the boy to stay.
Enough for him to talk.
Enough for him to begin unfolding, one hockey statistic at a time, toward a person who never once made him feel like he was too much or not enough.
And Ilya, watching it all, begins to understand that gentleness is not something loud people do.
It is something someone once needed very badly.
Series
- Part 3 of HEATED RIVALRY ONESHOTS