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the life we're making by p3erhapschaotic7
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Mar 2026
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Summary
After a long season, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov start thinking about what comes next.
They’ve talked about having kids before, usually late at night, somewhere between road trips and early practices, but it always felt like something for the future. Something complicated. Something they’d figure out eventually.
Then one quiet night at the cottage, surrounded by friends, Svetlana offers to carry their baby.
Suddenly, the future they’d only talked about becomes something real.
Between a packed hockey schedule, fertility clinic appointments squeezed in between road trips, and Rose organizing the entire process from whatever city she’s filming in that week, Shane and Ilya find themselves navigating surrogacy, family dinners, and the terrifying realization that they might actually be ready for this.
With a lot of help from the people who love them, they start taking the first steps toward the life they’ve always wanted.
Or: Shane treats having a baby like a playoff strategy, Ilya is emotional about it, Rose takes notes, and somehow—miraculously—it might all work out.