The Things We Survive
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White Silence, Dark Heat by Zavia
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
24 Apr 2026
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After Ilya breaks Shane's heart in Sochi, Shane builds a life out of control.Three cups. Captaincy. Precision. Routine. Emptiness.
When no achievement manages to make him feel anything, he turns to a mysterious phone service instead.
Intimate in ways that should be impossible between strangers. A man who understands exactly how to pull Shane apart without ever touching him. Who gives him structure instead of chaos. Relief instead of performance.
Shane finds himself pulled toward something he thought he buried years ago.
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Set 4 years after Sochi, where both Ilya and Shane were left with shattered hearts, this is a story about second chances and being brave enough to trust again. To want anew.Series
- Part 1 of The Things We Survive
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The Shape of Ruin by Zavia
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
18 Jul 2026
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Cliff sees the name on Shane's phone before Shane says it aloud, and his thumb tightens against the wet label of his beer bottle.
VIKTOR SOKOLOV. LW. MOSCOW.
The Falcon, his brain supplies, with no respect whatsoever for timing, privacy, or the fact that they are sitting in a perfectly normal restaurant in Ottawa with bread on the table.
Viktor Sokolov is supposed to be an old message thread from 2018.
A bad idea with a profile picture. A door Cliff knocked on until something behind it said, very politely, very firmly, to stop contacting him.
He had never told Shane that part. At the time, it had seemed like discretion. Now, sitting between Shane's phone and Ilya's face, it feels more like leaving a loaded gun in a drawer and hoping no one opened it with their bare hands.
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Ottawa offers Viktor Sokolov a clean professional exit, which would be ideal if the city were not infested with old ghosts, inconvenient kindness, and Cliff Marleau.
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- Part 2 of The Things We Survive