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nothing you can live without (nothing you can do about) by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
30 Jul 2026
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“So, uh, look, we should forget that happened in there, okay?” he says, glancing quickly up at Rozanov before remembering he absolutely cannot do that.
“Is what you want?” Rozanov says, so goddamn nonchalant. For a second, Shane hates his guts.
Shane fully intends to say ‘yes’. He needs to forget what happened, and even more so, he needs Rozanov to forget what happened. He can’t have Rozanov telling anyone that Shane Hollander got a hard-on in the locker room showers.
He intends to say ‘yes’, but what he says instead is, “No.” He swears he opened his mouth and formed the word ‘yes’, but that’s definitely not what came out. He tries again, hoping it was just some Freudian slip, but what comes out is, again, “No.”
Soulmates can't lie to each other. Somehow, this fixes absolutely nothing.
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dive back in by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 Jun 2026
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Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov announce their marriage on Instagram mere hours before the first Metros v. Raiders game of 2017. The internet reacts.
(A bonus fic for those who enjoyed headfirst into shallow pools !)
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- Part 2 of shallow pools-verse
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absolutely certain by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Apr 2026
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“Hollander, you’re thinking too loud. Is keeping me awake.”
Shane and Ilya have sorted out most of their misunderstandings, but that doesn't stop Shane spiralling just a little.
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- Part 3 of the system breaking beneath us
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More Careful by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
27 Mar 2026
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Scott Hunter wishes that a lot of things about his life were different, and right now one of the main things is that he really wishes he didn’t know exactly what Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov sound like when they’re fucking each other.
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Enter, pursued by turkeys by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Feb 2026
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As Ilya wanders the streets of Ottawa on January 1, 2010, two fuck-off enormous birds pursue him straight into the arms of his rival (or, more specifically, into his rival's mother's car).
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shallow pools-verse by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
16 Jun 2026
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the system breaking beneath us by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), StormVandal
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
29 Apr 2026
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mea culpa (pick yourself off the ground) by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), poppunkpadfoot (StormVandal)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Jul 2025
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young man.... there's no need to feel down
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a body from the balcony by poppunkpadfoot (StormVandal)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 May 2022
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“Ah.”
“‘Ah’,” Ilya repeats, giving him a look before he looks back to the tidily stacked frozen mouse packages in the freezer and makes a face as a little badly-hidden shudder moves through him. “Why the fuck do you have mice in your freezer, Shane? You are doing serial killer shit now? This is why you have cottage in the middle of nowhere? For serial killer things?”
“It’s for Spaghetti,” Shane says.
Ilya gives him an absolutely horrified look at that and turns a little green, which makes him remember that Spaghetti isn’t just his snake's name.
“Not food!” He rushes to explain. “Not food spaghetti! Snake Spaghetti!”
“What the fuck are you even saying right now,” Ilya says, looking honestly a little concerned that Shane might have something going wrong in his head.
(Distancing himself from almost twenty years of owning a snake, Shane can indeed see why this situation might be a little alarming for someone on the outside looking in.)
(It also clues him in to the fact that maybe it’s not just Spaghetti who should have gotten a little adjustment period.)
(in which i give shane allergies AND a snake)
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18 Jul 2026
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story by flawlessassholes
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Jul 2026
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His stomach takes a sharp, screeching left. His heart stalls and then shifts into gear, zero to 180, every tired tract of him seizing and squealing to go, run, leave.
“Hey, I found him,” Tony says, finishing a conversation Ilya wasn’t in, easy like all conversations without Ilya are. Easy like the world isn’t ending. Like Ilya isn’t standing there, wishing every time he tried to self-destruct or kill himself had worked.
Greasy black hair. Sallow freckled skin. A turned head and horror-widened eyes taking in the big bad monster who finally arrived onscreen.
“Shane, Ilya; Ilya, Shane,” Tony says, totally oblivious. “You both like hockey, right? So that’s something in common. I’ve got to take lunch, but I’ll check in on you both before my shift is over.”
Nobody knows if Ilya Rozanov tried to kill himself before the draft. Nobody sane goes first overall. And nobody knows if Shane Hollander is going to survive another mediocre season with the Boston Raiders.
Isn’t it funny how a single nick in the ice can change the entire game?
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18 Jul 2026
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To my dearest by mochababy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
29 Jun 2026
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“Ilya–” Shane breathed, high and wheezy. “You can’t– You can’t leave me! Please, God, please, don’t take him. Please, please, I can’t lose– I can’t–”
A blaring alarm yanked him out of his panic like a fish out of water. He shot upright, flailing his limbs that were caught in something soft. Blurred splashes of colour steadily painted a picture of a bedroom he’d recognise anywhere. It was brighter now, light pouring in through partially shut curtains. His breath was heavy and he struggled making sense of how the hell he’d ended up in bed when just a moment ago, Ilya had–
“Hollander.” Ilya slurred, narrowing his eyes at him. “Turn that thing off.”
Or, Shane is stuck in a time loop that resets whenever his fiancé dies.
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- Part 1 of a letter to my only (safe grounds)
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13 Jul 2026
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Shane and Ilya had mutually agreed to keep their whatever-they’re-doing out of Sochi. It was an easy decision to make: this was bigger than any MLH rivalry and definitely bigger than a few hotel hook-ups. There was no room for distractions, not with Olympic gold on the line.
So it’d be really fucking great if their daemons could get on the same page and stop trying to cause an international fucking incident.
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- Part 8 of my heated rivalry fics
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05 May 2026
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spinning out, waiting for you by residentrookie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Jun 2026
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Shane is conscious for the entire crash. That doesn’t mean he remembers it.
The brain has a funny way of blocking out trauma like this, of shielding the body from things that would hurt it to remember. But Shane’s ears are still ringing with the sounds of metal crunching and tires screeching, even if there’s a large blank space in his head where the memory should be. The crash was a blur, a blink. Terribly long and then suddenly over, a heavy silence now descending over the eerie stillness.
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A week after returning from their honeymoon, Shane gets in a car accident that threatens the future he and Ilya so painstakingly fought to build.
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Bookmarked by StormVandal
02 May 2026