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The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed.
Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.
Reentry is harder than expected.
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- Part 8 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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27 Feb 2026
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Aching, Aching, Aching, and Alive by verbaepulchellae
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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They’re getting into a rhythm now, though, and Shane can see it. He can see this team winning the Cup this year. He tries not to get ahead of himself, tries to stay focused and go game by game, reminds himself that building up a team takes time and several seasons, but god. He wants this legacy: for himself, for Ottawa, for Ilya. For both of them and everyone else.
Which is why, goddamnit, now is not the time to crash out over fantasies of Ilya working his whole hand down to the wrist into Shane’s ass and fucking him on his fist. And yet. Shane should know by now that timing and “good ideas” are rarely factors in whether or not he gets obsessed with something.
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It starts, as a surprising number of things actually do, with a text from Rose.
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24 Feb 2026
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Crashing by WhimsicalSesquipedalian
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Jan 2026
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“Oh shit.”
Shane looked up, turned his head to where J.J. was sat across the aisle. The blue glow of his phone lit up the too-wide whites of his eyes staring down intently at whatever was on his screen. Shane’s stomach lurched again, anticipating a sudden stop his body hadn’t quite caught up to yet.
“The Centaurs’ plane crashed in Tampa.”
There was a moment where everything was still moving, where Shane and the world were still spinning at the same speed they both always had, and then it all came crashing down. Shane wasn’t sure whether it was him that had stopped, or the world around him, but either way, in a matter of seconds the distance between himself and the bus he had only a moment ago been sitting in became staggeringly, dizzyingly vast.
The Centaur's emergency landing plays out a little bit worse, and Shane is left with the harsh reality of the cost of loving Ilya in secret.
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- Part 1 of Crashing 'Verse
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24 Feb 2026
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Masquerade's end by Cerch
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Feb 2026
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But then someone had opened their stupid fat mouth and asked: “Where do you think you’ll be in thirty years?”
And Ilya, drunk and grinning, had barely stopped himself from saying: Dead, hopefully.
Ilya Rozanov. The boy. The man. The performance.
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20 Feb 2026
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ask anything of me (except to leave you). by Joooceee
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Oct 2025
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“Go away,” Ilya said, his voice muffled by something. Shane would bend space and time to give Ilya anything, but he would not grant him this.
Instead, he pushed the door open, his heart breaking at the sight of Ilya in his massive bed, somehow looking tiny beneath the covers.
“Ilya,” he said, the name escaping like an exhale. He had so much to say. So many things that needed fixing. So many apologies he owed him.
“Shane, please-“
“I’ll go.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
“No - not… not to Montreal. To the party. If you’ll still have me.“
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Shane attends Boodram’s Boxing Day Party. This is how it goes.
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