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coming home to you (with my own blood in my mouth) by nightrose
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Sep 2026
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Ilya’s heart is breaking. He doesn’t want the first thing he does, the very first thing, after Shane’s choices have been so brutally ripped away from him, to be something Shane is begging him not to do. But Shane is seriously injured, much beyond what they can handle with first aid at home or even if they found a discreet doctor to make a house call. He will need an MRI, a broken bone set, probably surgery. And evidence should be collected too, for the police. That part Ilya will not push him on. But he cannot let Shane risk his life for his pride and the fear of shame that has controlled him for so long. “I am sorry, moy lyubimyy,” Ilya says, “So sorry. But Marleau is calling ambulance, and you are going to the hospital.”
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Shane and Ilya are spending Christmas together in Boston during Ilya's last season playing for the Bears. They're finally out, and they're in love, and soon they'll only live two hours apart.
When Shane is assaulted, the plans they had built for their future collapse. Now the road ahead is a long, grueling process of physical and psychological recovery. What they had before-the sex, the playful power exchange, the easy trust-is gone, and they have to build something new, together.
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04 Sep 2026
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After the events on the roof in Vegas, Shane finds himself wandering the streets and ends up at a bar where he later becomes the victim of sexual assault.
"Something is wrong with Shane Hollander.
He no longer returns Ilya’s texts, not even to tell him to fuck off. Over the summer, Ilya thinks this is about Vegas. Thinks maybe he somehow pushed Hollander too far that night. The look on Shane’s face was anger, but Ilya had seen the terror below it too. He understood that terror.
It’s the pre-season when Ilya realizes something else is going on. The charming, bright-eyed golden boy is no longer present in interviews. Hollander answers questions like he’s a wooden man reading from a book. No fire, no passion, no personality, no smile. He is a dense brick. The light of him has gone out and Ilya clocks is immediately."
This will follow Shane's path of recovery from unimaginable violence through his eyes, Ilya's eyes, and those of close friends and family.
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04 Sep 2026
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Made for You by OneBrokenEgg
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
14 May 2026
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Shane isn't an easy person to like.
He does his best to appeal to those around him, but he always somehow falls short.
He’s fundamentally “other”. It’s one of those things that is woven into his very being, factual and insoluble. No matter how hard he tries, he can never fit into the mold others were born into.
And he was at peace with that.
Most of the time.
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Or, Shane pushes himself to have sex with Ilya. Misunderstandings follow.
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23 Aug 2026
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give me your love for being so good by luminoussbeings
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Sep 2026
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“You don’t have to say all that,” Shane mumbles, face burning. “I know you had a favorite body and it didn’t look like this.”
“You are always my favorite body,” Ilya says firmly. “Whichever one is carrying you, that is my favorite. But this,” he rubs his hands down Shane’s flank, the thick breadth of his thighs, and shivers erupt across Shane’s skin wherever Ilya touches. “Fuck, Shane, this is hotter than you can imagine.”
or: When Shane's out for the season with a broken ankle, his issues around food and control escalate into a cycle of binge eating and restriction.
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23 Aug 2026
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All These Broken Pieces by Sanqhian
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
14 Sep 2026
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Shane is violated, his world shattered, and he can't tell Ilya. But Ilya knows something is wrong and will burn himself to make it right, consequences be damned.
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21 Aug 2026