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Worst Proposal Ever by RayByAnotherName
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Jan 2026
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A locked folder from Shane's phone ends up on the internet for everyone to see, including his teammates. It certainly undercuts their victory against the Bears, but it'll all turn out right. Eventually.
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19 Jan 2026
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more by learnthemusic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
18 Jan 2026
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For the prompt: Five times Ilya forgot an English word ... and one time Shane did.
"I am trying to find the right words to say something."
"All right."
"It's poetry."
"Yeah? From you?"
"No. I do not know who. Just something I remember reading once. Think maybe it inspired Russian poet."
"You read at some point in your life?"
Smirking, Ilya wiggles even closer. He whispers, "Want to hear or not?"
Shane's not sure his heart will be able to take it, but he nods.
Or: After the events of Heated Rivalry, Shane and Ilya's connection deepens and vulnerability rises. Sometimes things get so intense, Ilya forgets the English words to describe his emotions. Shane helps. And one time, Ilya does the same for him.
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Five Times One of the Centaurs Wanted to Murder Ilya Rozanov by The_Shittiest_Knight
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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+ One Time They All Had His Back
Set after the events of The Long Game.
Ilya Rozanov was well known to be a menace. He liked living loud and never shied away from a fight. After Shane's transfer to the Ottawa Centaurs he settled in some ways, in others he got infinitely worse. One thing they hadn't accounted for was how disgustingly in love with his husband Ilya was. Ilya was not going to let them forget.Bookmarked by Excelsior
19 Jan 2026
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Over the years he thought maybe, just maybe, being knotted by an alpha semi regularly might change something, like his biology would one day answer Ilya’s despite their ups and downs. He even helped Rozanov through a rut one time, and at the time he thought surely his inner omega would finally respond to his pheromones and the teeth shaped bruises on his nape that almost resembled mating bites and give him a heat.
But nothing.
Heats are the last thing on his mind right now though. Ilya is spending two weeks with him at his cottage, alone. Completely and utterly alone. Together.__________________________
Omega Shane has never had a heat. Over the years, he has given up on expecting to have one, but when he spends two weeks with alpha Ilya in the comfort of his cottage, something unexpected happens: he is thrown head first into his very first heat. Luckily, Ilya is there to help.
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18 Jan 2026
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you are the one mouth i would be a tongue to. by hcneymooners (romqntics)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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Ilya's hand continues its path up and down Shane's back, and Shane thinks again about how love is sometimes just this: a palm on the spine, moving in circles, waiting for you to come back to yourself. There is no promise of saving you—Ilya cannot save him, they both know this and are alright with it in their own ways—but there is a vow of staying, lingering in order to witness. Touching the bruise so that its pain triggers the memory that you are allowed to be touched.
Outside, the snow continues its work of erasure. Inside, Shane's breathing begins to even out, every limb recalling how to be a man at rest rather than an animal fawning and freezing. The trembling subsides, wave by wave, as if Ilya's hand is smoothing it out of him.
"Sleep, зайчик," Ilya says softly, his free hand coming to rest in Shane's hair. "I have you."
This is not true, Shane thinks, and it is also the only true thing.
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recovery, shane learns, is not a straight line. to begin to understand something, you must first name it.
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18 Jan 2026