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This fic lives in the spaces Rachel Reid leaves quiet. It follows Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov from the end of Heated Rivalry through The Long Game, then imagines a future shaped by love, community, and consequence.
Chapters 1–16 focus on the four-year gap between Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. These chapters trace the long, uneven process of staying in love while being forced apart by careers, secrecy, and fear. They linger on stolen moments, missed calls, private rituals, and the emotional labor of choosing each other over and over again after committing exclusively to each other.
Chapter 17 is a deliberate rewrite of a key scene from The Long Game that I couldn’t live with as written.
Chapters 18–45 imagine what comes after The Long Game in the upcoming Unrivaled era through my thoughts. This section centers on Shane and Ilya learning how to live publicly, build a community. Luca Haas becomes a vital part of that future, not as a threat, but as proof of how love expands rather than divides. Together with their growing chosen family, they confront an antagonistic podcast, TopShelf.
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- Part 1 of My Long Game.
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22 May 2026
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“I’ve forgiven you for a lot of things, dad. I’ve forgiven you for always stealing the thunder when I was a kid and you’d roll up in your turnout gear to my school plays and sports games. I’ve forgiven you every time you decided your crew was more important than me. I’ve forgiven you for not being there when I took my first pill, and every other time after that because you’ve shown that you’d do anything for me to not have to go through that pain. I even forgave you when you decided that you’d play detective with the Texas Rangers and hunt down an arsonist that retaliated by burning down my boyfriend’s and my home and all of our possessions because I know you were doing it to help people. But I’m sick of making excuse for you, to my friends, my boyfriend, and myself, why you’re not actually a piece-of-shit father.”
“Come on, TK—”
“No, Owen! I’m speaking this time!”
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coda 3x05
TK finally speaks up for himself because Owen messed with his boyfriend
Bookmarked by milkshakealavanille
18 Feb 2022