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Oh no I've said too much, I haven't said enough by lc2l
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Apr 2026
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Ilya sits down carefully and takes Shane’s hand. “I am going to ask you something, and I want you to try not to freak out, okay? Take a breath, think about it.”
That sounds… serious.
“The Centaurs are having a barbeque,” Ilya says. “I would like to go, and I would like you to come with me.”Shane meets the Centaurs. As Ilya's close personal friend slash charity partner from Canada.
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He tilts his fingers a little to touch the tips to Ilya’s chin. To hold him there, looking up at Shane like Shane is everything Ilya could ever want.
“You said once,” Ilya says. “Before your parents found out about us, that you wanted me to meet them. Not as your boyfriend or your lover, just to shake their hands at a game or an awards night.” His other hand has reached under the sheets somehow to curve around Shane’s ankle, rubbing against the hair there. “Proof that the people you loved all existed in the same world.”
That silent aching need to know that the world could have both things in it. He does remember.
Ilya lowers his head again to touch his lips to Shane’s wrist. “I want to know that the world I live in when you leave still has you in it.”
Fuck. Shane can’t… he has no defences against that, against Ilya. He doesn’t want to defend, he wants Ilya to be everywhere, always. He wants to exist, in Ilya’s life.
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We’ll have to take separate cars,” he says. Because if they’re just friends having a business meeting they can’t show up together.“Oh no,” Ilya drawls, kissing his stomach again. “The environment.”
Shane shoves him. Well, pushes him back a little. Not too far. “Shut up.”
Ilya rests his chin on Shane’s stomach, looks up at him with his big beautiful eyes, his hair slicked back from the shower, and how is Shane meant to deny that face anything. “So we will go?”
Ilya just wants him to exist near them. He can do that. He’s almost certain he can do that. “Okay.”
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"When did you two meet?”Shane is distracted trying to hear what Ilya was so fired up about so it takes him a second to register the question and then he says, “Who?” before realizing his staring is probably not all that subtle.
Wyatt nods at Ilya anyway.
“Prospect cup,” Shane says. “2008.” And then stops before he can add that Russia won, Canada had more shots on goal but couldn’t get their defence together. Shane got more points, Ilya got more goals. They shook hands twice, outside in the parking lot, and Shane could still feel it for hours after.
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The thing about losing your balance, on skates, is that to stay on your feet you have to let the momentum carry you forward without hesitating, without second thoughts.Shane stands up. Ilya glances back at him and doesn’t look away, a question forming between his eyebrows, and Shane isn’t afraid at all.
“Ilya,” he says, deliberately choosing the correct pronunciation instead of the bastardized americanization everyone else uses. The one he pretends to use, in public. Then in Russian, slowly to make sure he’s getting the words right, “This man doesn’t believe you’re my fiancé.”
And no matter what happens next, no matter how these people react or if the whole world finds out and everything Shane has built comes crashing down, it’s worth it in this moment for the way Ilya looks at him. Like Shane is the Stanley Cup and the Hart and every single day at the cottage all rolled into one.
“Are you sure?” Ilya asks, also in Russian.
“Completely.” Shane takes a step forward. He doesn’t know what Wyatt’s doing, doesn’t know what anyone’s doing because he can’t tear his eyes off Ilya’s face and the smile breaking across it. He switches back to English, just to make certain. He can feel his own smile, can’t stop it. “Come here.”
Ilya almost trips over Anya in his haste to get up, cocky grin almost breaking through the sheer joy. “You come here,” he says, but he’s already moving and so is Shane, catching hands in the middle of the deck in front of everyone.
It’s not a live televised cup final. It’s not center ice at Madison Square Garden. It’s twenty people in a backyard strung with fairy lights and it turns out Shane does want to kiss Ilya in front of them all.
He wants it so much.
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Just Let Me Hold You While We're Falling Apart by Hellobeany
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Jul 2026
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The airport looks like it always does. A sea of people oblivious to anything going on around them. Ilya is about to put his headphones over his ears when he sees something so familiar his brain almost doesn't register it. That is until he realizes that he's in fucking Moscow so this doesn't make any sense.
Because right there at the gate, spread out over several chairs, his duffle bag as a pillow, is the figure of Shane Hollander sleeping. The hood of his sweatshirt is up and he's wearing sunglasses, but Ilya would recognize the shape of Shane Hollander anywhere.
“Hollander?” he asks in shock, stepping closer.
Or, Shane shows up in Russia after learning Ilya's father died. Ilya did not ask him to do this. He just showed up. And now Ilya doesn't know what to do with himself. He proceeds to just go with it, and maybe listen to Shane for once.
Another song inspired fic, this time Ever the Same by Rob Thomas which I argue is underrated.
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Manufactured by rivalryink
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 May 2026
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Another stretch of silence settles. Comfortable. Safe. And maybe that’s why Shane says it. Because he’s tired. Because Ilya’s hand is still moving gently through his hair. Because this apartment is the only place in the world where he sometimes forgets to keep things locked behind his teeth.
“The director said my face looked too full on camera today.”
The words leave him absentmindedly, quiet enough to almost disappear beneath the sound of rain. But the hand in his hair stops immediately. And Shane realizes, far too late, that he shouldn’t have said anything at all. For the silence that follows feels wrong instantly. Not quiet. Not comfortable. Sharp.
Shane feels Ilya go still beneath him, every trace of sleepiness gone in the span of a second. The hand resting at the back of his neck tightens slightly before slipping away altogether.
“What?” Ilya asks.
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07 Oct 2026
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“Sweetheart?”
Ilya’s voice drifts through the apartment warm and rough with sleep, carrying out from somewhere deeper inside the condo, and the tightness in Shane’s chest loosens so suddenly it almost hurts. It always amazes (and scares) him how easy it is for Ilya to snap him out from drowning in his own thoughts. Even better when sometimes, Ilya doesn’t even realizes it himself.
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The worst advice is what you see online by Loulou1991
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Mar 2026
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Shane goes on the internet looking for advice on long-distance relationships. He then tells Ilya that he's allowed to cheat on him if he wishes.
Spoiler: Ilya doesn't want too
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07 Oct 2026
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After years of passion, Ilya suddenly starts turning away Shane’s advances.
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