A Formal Study of the Heart
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Friendship In Retrospect by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Jan 2026
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Cliff Marleau gets assigned to keep the new Russian rookie out of trouble. Fifteen years later, he gives a speech at Ilya's wedding.
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- Part 1 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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A Treatise on Friendship by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Dec 2025
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Cliff Marleau finds out his best friend has been secretly dating Shane Hollander the same way everyone else does—via a video that's already gone viral—and spends the next three hours trapped in a car with two of Shane's teammates, one of whom is convinced Ilya is the worst person alive.
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- Part 2 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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The Hands That Made You by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
20 Jan 2026
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Ilya has been watching hands his whole life. His father's hands taught him that touch meant pain. His mother's hands were the only gentle ones—until they went cold. Now he has his father's hands, and he's terrified of what they might become.
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- Part 1 of Shake off the shackles my love
- Part 3 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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Observations on Fatherhood by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
03 Feb 2026
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From the day Shane is born, David promises to protect him from everything—especially from the kind of love that comes with conditions.
But as Shane grows up talented, visible, and quietly different, David learns that even the safest homes can teach a child how to make himself smaller.
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- Part 4 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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A Note On Precision Without Accuracy by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
25 Mar 2026
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Ilya and Shane settle whose name goes first with a one-on-one scrimmage. Shane wins. Ilya finds, to his own surprise, that he doesn't mind at all — and that turns out to be the easier question. The harder one is the middle name he's carried his whole life: Grigoryevich. Son of Grigori. He doesn't want to be Grigori's son anymore. He wants to be his mother's.
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- Part 5 of A Formal Study of the Heart
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Come Back Home (The Porch Light Is On) by HH_Arrow
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Mar 2026
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ROZANOV DOWN: Ottawa Captain Carried Off Ice on Stretcher After Third Period Hit. Rozanov unconscious on impact. Fencing response observed. Cervical collar applied. Transferred to hospital by ambulance. Shane Hollander received game misconduct following altercation and did not return to the ice.
A grade-3 concussion leaves Ilya Rozanov trapped in a "slow" brain, struggling to reclaim the elite hockey instincts that once defined his identity. Within the sanctuary of their darkened apartment, Shane Hollander anchors their life, managing every medical detail while privately bracing against his own silent terror. It is a portrait of the grueling, quiet patience required to wait out a neurological fog, hoping the person on the other side eventually finds their way back.
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- Part 2 of Shake off the shackles my love
- Part 6 of A Formal Study of the Heart