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That’s what’s so dangerous about Shane. Not the kind eyes, not the temptation, not the little voice in the back of Ilya’s head that he feeds that keeps telling him to fuck it all and choose happiness over duty, over stability, over birthrights and stipulations. The danger is that Ilya has spent a lifetime perfecting the art of keeping things to himself, and Shane—with his empathy and his endless need to know—opens his mouth once and Ilya’s body spits out the truth before he can vet it first. Before he can make sure it’s safe. Not too much, not too vulnerable, not self-pitying, not a lie, but not necessarily the truth either. There is no just right when it comes to Shane. There is only impulse and hunger and, against every single fucking odd, a trust so deep that it’s in Ilya's blood now, helpless to pinpoint when it had first punctured and spread like a poison.
No. That isn’t right.
Like, maybe, the only antidote that Ilya has ever been offered without strings attached.
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19 Dec 2025
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we haven't spoke (since you went away) by beyondinfinity
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Dec 2025
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Ilya was down again.
This happened every year, every month even - Shane knew this. He expected it.
Sometimes, he saw it coming beforehand. He’d notice a vacant look in Ilya’s eyes, dishes left unwashed, little lapses in Ilya’s daily routine that most people would brush aside but that Shane knew meant he’d need to be a little more “on” than he normally was. Sometimes, though, Shane didn’t see it coming. Sometimes, out of nowhere, he’d interact with Ilya and Ilya would just be - well, he’d be there, but he’d be gone.
Yuna and David are in Moscow when they stumble upon Ilya's mother's grave.
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17 Dec 2025
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Ilya picks up on the third ring, breathing heavily into the phone. Shane hears a door slam shut through the device. “Do not yell at me.”
Shane stares at the half-empty bottle of vodka on the coffee table. “You suck.”
“I suck? I scored hat-trick! In your stupid body! I have not eaten in six hours, Hollander. I have not pissed. I have not laid down. I want to go home.”
“Rozanov–”
“Your mother has called twenty times. Your manager has called thirty times. Your father text me picture of crossword puzzle and ask for help. Clue is about American President from the 1980s. I cannot help!”
OR: the hollanov bodyswap fic.
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- Part 3 of cjo + hr
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- English
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- 22,370
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- 1/1
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- 4
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17 Dec 2025
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He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop.
He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess.
Shane is making space for Ilya.
(or, lessons in budget-friendly shopping, home decor, and resisting the urge to neatly combine all your situationship’s shit into a drawer in your bedroom because you might be falling in love with him: a seven-ish step guide by shane hollander, who is so, so fucked)
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- English
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- 31,048
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- 1/1
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- 4
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17 Dec 2025
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i am (not strong enough to be your man) by InheriGirl
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Dec 2025
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Ilya turned sharply towards the refrigerator and yanked open the door, hand moving on its own accord to the shelf where he kept his vodka. His hand stopped midair when his eyes finally caught up.
The bottle sat exactly where it always did.
And beside it?
Five cans of ginger ale.
Something sharp and vicious, dripping in rageful self loathing, twisted through his chest at the sight.
He loved Shane Hollander.
The realization was a punch to the gut. He almost laughed, bitterness coating his insides. Of course he did. Of course he was that stupid. Confusing sex for emotions. Pathetically falling for his rival.
And worst of all, he was the biggest fucking idiot for believing there was even a remote possibility that Shane may love him back.
OR - 2 times Ilya knew Shane could never love him (+1 time he was wrong).
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17 Dec 2025
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When Alex doesn’t say anything, Henry reaches out across the table to tentatively wrap his elegantly long fingers around Alex’s hand. His thumb is resting on the knob of Alex’s wrist, and he swipes this thumb over the skin, almost absentmindedly. Alex can’t think of anything else, revelling in the feeling of Henry touching him again.
“Love,” Henry starts, voice sincere. “I have never needed space from you. I needed space from some… emotions I was feeling, and I’m so sorry I didn’t stop to think about how that would make you feel. Truly, it was nothing to do with you, I promise. If I haven’t thrown our friendship out of the window, I would want nothing more than to go back to how things were before. I mean it.”
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the Henry-as-Liam au.- Language:
- English
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- 60,000
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 489
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05 Jan 2025
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Sweet Rivalry by bleedingballroomfloor
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
31 Dec 2024
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“Hunter’s entering again,” Alex explains before Henry can finish, “and somehow, that fucker beat both of us, even though he has half the skill of both of us combined. We’ve dominated the bake off year after year. If we want to see him go down, this is the only way to ensure that.”
Henry blinks. “So you want to —”
“Gang up so we can beat the shit out of Hunter, yeah. Were you even listening to anything I just said?”
Or, Alex and Henry are rival bakers day-to-day, but a newcomer in the Park Slope Christmas Cookie Bake-Off has them becoming a lot closer than originally planned.
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01 Jan 2025
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kiss me at midnight by KJBee81
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
31 Dec 2024
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Henry hates New Year’s Eve.
To him, it’s just another excuse to throw a party and to get absolutely sozzled on whatever alcoholic drink happens to be handy. Or a shoddy reason to choose some empty resolution for the new year and often used as an opportunity to kiss a truly horrid amount of people.
While Henry is not morally opposed to kissing strangers or having a tipple or two–he does hazily remember his Oxford days–it’s simply not his cup of tea any longer. He’s grown and matured as a person. In other words, he’d much rather curl up on his sofa, Earl Grey in a mug beside him, Bake Off on the telly and his dog David at his feet than subject himself to a loud party or a rowdy crowd.
And if Henry is being honest, kissing strangers no longer holds any appeal. Not since he met Alex.
OR Henry hates New Year's Eve, until he doesn't.
- Language:
- English
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- 4,799
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 18
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- 35
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01 Jan 2025
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i'm running home to your sweet nothings by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
31 Dec 2024
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There’s room to grow here. To plant roots. The beginning of a new chapter all over again.
There’s a wreath hanging on the door and a pair of matching Stetson’s on the wall and laughter echoes from the living room. Alex’s picture shifts on the screen on the counter in front of him.
“You and me,” Alex says.
“You and me,” Henry agrees.
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[Or, Henry's bonus chapter with the addition of Alex's T1 diagnosis.]
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- Part 2 of diabetic!alex
- Part 6 of the chronic illness club
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01 Jan 2025
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Mr. Alex & Miss Fox-Mountchristen by sherryvalli
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
31 Dec 2024
- Words:
- 21,428
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- 2
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- 123
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31 Dec 2024
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Home for the Holidays by railmedaddy for indomitablelove
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
16 Dec 2024
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When Alex discovers that Henry's Christmas plans involve staying in their apartment alone, he does what any good roommate would do and drags Henry along to his family Christmas at the lake house. It's a win-win situation, since everything is better for Alex when Henry is around. Henry is his person. Completely fucking platonically, of course.
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- English
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- 9,314
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 101
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- 900
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29 Dec 2024
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cheeks pink in the twinkling lights by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Dec 2024
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“This is my only drawing, and you knew exactly where you were putting the cup.”
Henry clicks his tongue, lifting his own mug to his mouth before replying, “I will neither confirm nor deny that.”
“Oh my God,” Alex says with a laugh, something warm and strange bubbling beneath his sternum. “You’re actually sabotaging me.”
Henry smiles, and that heat burns hotter in Alex's chest. “Just some friendly competition between coworkers.”
Alex stands and walks over to Henry's desk, thrilled at the way that Henry’s eyes follow him with every step. He plants his palms on the dark wood and leans in until his face is only an inch from Henry's. Henry’s lips part on a soft gasp, and Alex can’t help it—his gaze dips down to Henry’s mouth before darting back up to his eyes.
He can’t get distracted by his attraction here.
There are bigger games at play.
He'll just file the view of soft lips away for later, when he's alone in his apartment and can think about the way Henry’s mouth would look on his skin in peace.
For now, he only smirks. “You're fucking on, Fox.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,350
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 70
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- 541
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- 77
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29 Dec 2024
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29 Dec 2024
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maybe love is a broken thing by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Mary & George (TV)
28 Dec 2024
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He finds Alex standing alone in the kitchen. Initially he smiles when he sees George, a pleased furrow between his brows. He steps away from the food he’d been preparing and wipes off his hands.
“George?” At the image George paints in their entryway—red-faced and heaving—Alex’s smile fades into grim understanding. “Where is he?”
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- Part 3 of henry/alex/george
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29 Dec 2024
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s'mores (let me taste you some more) by miharaikko
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
27 Dec 2024
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He puts his skewer down and grabs at it with both hands, tentatively bringing it closer to his mouth. He looks at Alex and again at the s’more and he finally bites into it, tearing it in half.
“Mmm, goodness gracious,” he moans as he finally tastes the treat. “It’s so sweet”.
“Well, it is an American thing,” Alex says, as he lets out a laugh.
There’s a glint of joy in Henry's eyes as he finishes the second half.
A splotch of melted chocolate rests at the corner of his mouth, threatening to run downwards and Alex tries to warn him but at the same time, like he’s guided by a force he cannot fight against, he extends his hand and gathers the chocolate with his thumb.
“You had some—” and shows Henry his thumb full of chocolate. “Yeah, that’s better,” Alex adds, as he sticks his thumb in his mouth and sucks it clean.
Or: Stuck in a cabin due to a storm, Alex and Henry only have marshmallows, crackers and chocolate as supplies. They make the best of it, while also tending to some old wounds.
- Language:
- English
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- 8,826
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- 1/1
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- 49
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- 562
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27 Dec 2024
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in between pages, and deep inside a heart by carzla
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
10 Nov 2024
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A little collection of movie-verse canon compliant fics from Henry’s POV
- Words:
- 26,342
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- 3
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- 23
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24 Dec 2024
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Since I Memorized Your Face by chamel for stutteringpeach
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Dec 2024
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“Oxford, like twenty years ago—” Twenty-one, actually. “I was there for a term abroad. We had a class together.” Alex huffs a disbelieving laugh and pushes a hand back through his curls. “We, uh, well. There was that party after final exams…”
“I’m so sorry, I don’t recall that one” Henry lies, flashing an apologetic smile. “I don’t remember the details of most of those uni parties these days.”
(Twenty years ago, Henry met—and let go of—his soulmate. Now he's in his 40s, with a new job in a new city, and certainly not expecting said soulmate to come barreling into his life again. A small white lie seems like the simplest way to keep things from getting awkward, but real life has a way of getting complicated.)
12/23: New holiday epilogue added!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,685
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 391
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- 1,718
- Bookmarks:
- 325
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- 21,231
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24 Dec 2024
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Venom!Alex by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
14 Feb 2025
- Words:
- 26,118
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 46
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24 Dec 2024
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the 1 by vibrantsaturn for aforgottennymph
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
14 Dec 2024
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"Hey, Hen?" Alex asks, voice soft.
"Yes, my love?"
"Can you promise me something?"
"Anything," Henry says, tightening his hold around Alex. "Anything you want."
"Can you promise me we won't end like that?" Alex pleads. "I never want to hate you. I don't think I could ever survive that."
There's an ache in Alex's chest at the thought of ever breaking up with the love of his life, but it hurts more at the thought of them being together, but loathing each other like his parents do.
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How Alex and Henry find their way back to each other despite breaking up even when they're so in love they could die.Bookmarked by NoCoastPosts
14 Dec 2024
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...for so long by miharaikko for ExitAriel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
14 Dec 2024
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“We’re back?” Henry asks. “And where are you going?”
“To pick up Nora?! As I told you last week?” June replies, exasperated. “I swear to God, Henry, sometimes you are more forgetful than my brother.”
“I—now, that’s preposterous!” he yelps. He would clutch his pearls if he had any. “I resent being compared to Alex.”
“Oh, don’t be so scandalized, Henry! You guys are so similar, I honestly don’t understand how you’re still not together.”
Or: Henry is tasked with baking gingerbread and he gets a helping hand from a friend
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,184
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 46
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- 402
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- 70
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- 3,709
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14 Dec 2024