Anon is Mentally Still at the Cottage
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Two Weeks, Five Hours by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
12 Jul 2026
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Shane grabbed a teaspoon from the drawer next to him and dipped it into the sauce, turning to face Ilya with his hand cupped underneath it to catch the drips. As he moved around the island, Ilya’s pulse picked up again and his brain smashed together a montage of nights like this from some imagined future. Shane cooking for him in their kitchen, offering his creation up for Ilya’s judgement. Maybe there would be a nice playlist on. Maybe the pasta would be actual pasta, not chickpea. Maybe they’d be cooking for more than just the two of them. Christ.
Balancing on the cusp of a something new, Ilya boards a flight to Shane's cottage for two weeks.
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- Part 1 of Anon is Mentally Still at the Cottage
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I'm on the Edge by Anonymous
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Aug 2026
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Ilya knows that he’s throwing Shane for a loop, because in time gone by this was the prime opportunity for Ilya to flip them, pin Shane to the wall with one hand tightly gripping Shane’s wrists, and shut him up firmly. But all he can do now is stare at Shane and think I miss you, I’ve missed you, I will keep missing you. It’s like his eyes and his mind are having two different conversations. His eyes see Shane, and fuck, it’s good – but his mind sees tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and finds them all lacking.
Ilya isn’t doing so well during his first few months in Ottawa. He tries not to make a thing of it.
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- Part 2 of Anon is Mentally Still at the Cottage
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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
22 Aug 2026
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The research showed him that the foundations of a strong spine were in the controllable factors: appropriate core strength, flexibility, hip mobility. A strong diet, no smoking. Yoga in the morning, thirty minutes designed to mobilize and stabilize. These are the things that would keep him safe.
A fact is a fact is a fact, and Shane has lived his life largely following the idea that a fact, once proven, is immutable to change.
His facts do not account for the fact that, during a Centaurs game in February, he’s skating like a man possessed trying to score a last minute clincher against Tampa. They do not account for a D-man who delivers a fucking shit hit just a few inches too low, unable to check him cleanly and sending him into the boards. By the time his pelvis hits the board, there’s still time for his head to watch the puck fly to Luca before his shoulders make contact too, still facing forwards.
An injury puts Shane out of action - forcing him to reckon with the idea that, just maybe, his years of careful control have all come to naught.
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- Part 3 of Anon is Mentally Still at the Cottage
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The Boston Year by Anonymous
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
09 Sep 2026
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Jane ❤️
Friday August 1st, 8.21pmI have a game for us.
Oh yes?
Do I need to get my dick out?No!
Well, not yetPost-cottage, a year of texts between Ilya & Shane.
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- Part 4 of Anon is Mentally Still at the Cottage