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    Home is... by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    06 Jun 2026

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    Ilya and Alyosha learned it from Mama as children: you take care of your home and the family domovoy, he will take care of your home and your family in return.
    It’s not Ilya’s fault he fails at it for the first months he’s in Boston. How could he have known the domovoy had followed him? Why would he even leave Moscow, Dad and Alyosha? Just to follow Ilya to a different country?! No!

    Or: a magic realism AU in which Ilya has to deal with the protective spirit of his family and home.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    What she knew by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types  

    13 May 2026

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    The first thing Svetlana had done when she’d seen the video was call Ilya. He, predictably, hadn’t picked up, but she had to at least make the effort, lest he bitch about her “abandoning him in his time of need” or whatever later. The second thing she’d done was buy a plane ticket to Moscow.

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    The one where Svetlana goes to get what Ilya had to leave behind

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    14 May 2026

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    all around you, all the time by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    06 Mar 2026

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    “I am out for the season?”

    “Probably."

    “Are you by any chance looking for a trophy husband?”

    “Ilya.”

    “Yes? No?”

    “It’s one season, Ilya, we’re not—it’s bad because you’re hurting, not because—I’m not letting this fuck anything up for us, okay? We’ll figure something out,” Shane says, resolutely.

    or, you know what they say about the best laid plans

    ilya’s first year in ottawa looks a little different than originally planned, maybe sort of because he ends up spending it recovering a broken leg in his boyfriend’s apartment, but probably mostly because he meets jackie pike

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    14 May 2026

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    Night Shift by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    09 Mar 2026

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    Shane Hollander is just trying to survive NYU biochemistry, hockey practice, and the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven. He's too exhausted to notice that his new regular customer is Russian mafia, or that Ilya's interest in him goes beyond terrible coffee and cookies.

    When Ilya hands him a $10,000 designer scarf and matching gloves, Shane doesn't panic. He sells them for next month's rent. Any normal person would be terrified. Instead, Shane uses the leftover money to buy a Hello Kitty watch, pastel pink, childish, utterly incongruous with the danger circling him. He wears it to his next night shift without irony or apology.

    Ilya notices immediately. He is fascinated.

    (Currently under major editing. Can still be read.)

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    13 May 2026

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    Give You Up by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    24 Mar 2026

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    Shane watches Ilya shove a hand through his hair, waits for him to meet his eyes. “You pretend to want things, pretend I can have things that we both know you won’t let me have,” he says, his newfound self-esteem carrying him past the point of no return. He wishes he’d never discovered it, because it’s making Ilya’s face do something awful.

    “Oh, you mean I hurt your feelings?”

    Close enough, Shane supposes, his chest aching again. He goes to lift his hand again, sees Ilya zero in on the movement, doesn’t. “I guess so.”

    Ilya scoffs, mean and sharp. “So sorry, Hollander, I didn’t mean to make you get so emotional about a casual fuck.”
    Asshole. So many times he has lobbed the word at Ilya in exasperation, reluctant affection and disbelief, but now he thinks it with vitriolic anger. “I think you should go.”

    Shane finally decides that Ilya's ability to weaponise sex isn't enough for him anymore. Ilya doesn't take it well, but Shane holds firm. Then they start to text about it. Sort of.

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    08 May 2026