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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword.”Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Companion fic to ‘In your room’, from Brian’s POV, but can be read as a stand-alone.
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- Part 2 of Songs of Faith and Devotion
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A month. It is all it takes before Justin and Brian make their way back to where they belong.
Set between 307 and 308, and delves into the events that split our boys up before bringing them back together.
There have been many takes on that period of time in the show. Two of my personal favorites are Severina’s The Only Way Is Up and AHS’s Creative (Go read them and send them love!)
As I am not as concise as they are, and I needed to make sense of the damned month-gap the creators left us with, here is my (long-winded, hopefully okay) view of the events, in two parts to explore both their points of view.***
Thank you so very much for AHS’s insightful beta. You rock, dear!
All errors are obviously mine.Series
- Part 1 of Songs of Faith and Devotion
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People often come into your life uninvited. Most don’t leave a trace. Some leave an indelible mark.
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Introspective fic and gap-filler of sorts stemming from my constant fascination with Brian and Jennifer’s interactions over the course of the show, in that case from 108 to 205. Warning for the (non-too graphic, but still) reference to Prom-related traumatic events.
Title obviously borrowed from Ms. Aretha’s anthem (though the fic has nothing to do with the amazing lyrics of the song). -
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Sex with Brian was never about connection.
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No specific time frame, set somewhere after the fiddler's debacle.
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Set between 513 and the beginning of my serie “The Paths Untraveled” (the scene is mentioned in Chap 3), but can easily be read as a stand-alone fic (in which case you only need to know the canon course of the show and that Justin has been in NYC for the last three months).
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- Part 3 of The Paths Untraveled
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Things We Can Never Assign to Oblivion by khaleesiofalicante
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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“There’s no need to help. Everything is fine,” Ilya tries to reassure him and wraps his arms around Shane’s waist, pulling him closer. “Come here. Give me a kiss.”
Give me a kiss.
The words echo loudly inside his head.
It’s not how he used to say it.
Back when words didn’t come so easily and back when he was too scared to ask for what he wanted, everything was simpler and smaller.
OR: As Ilya's English gets better, his Russian gets a little rusty. So, he has a crisis about it.
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They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
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- Part 2 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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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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i was hopin' you would come through, it's true by sargeantwoof
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Jan 2026
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A memory springs to mind: two weeks ago, drunk on Hayden's couch, curled up with Jackie. His voice, soft and quiet, heartbroken with desire, wavering through words about the impossibility of wanting. About the greed that rises in him. About how he clings so badly when he's around Rozanov that all of his common sense falls to the wayside.
Jackie's voice, rising through the dim gray, as Hayden had snored next to them. All it takes is one of you to make a move, she'd said, their hands laced together, her head on his shoulder. Something's gotta give eventually.
“I—” Shane starts, before pausing. He thinks he's going to throw up. He thinks that they got it right all those years ago, with it's the hope that kills you. He thinks he has to be brave enough for the both of them, to actually ask, and he's so fucking scared, but he can't let Rozanov's quiet offer of something go unanswered—he'll regret it for the rest of his life if he doesn't take a chance. “Ilya.”
OR: Shane wants, despite how badly he pretends otherwise.
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- Part 14 of heated rivalry masterlist
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21 Feb 2026
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Shane nuzzles the top of his head before leaning in and pressing his mouth to Ilya's forehead.
The kiss is brief and feather-light and casual and yet it's everything for Ilya.
He's quite sure it's impossible for him to smile any wider than he's smiling right now. His heart is fluttering happily in his chest, a content warmth spreading through his body as Shane lingers there, hugging him and humming softly and still placing little kisses on Ilya's temple.
_________Five times Shane gives Ilya forehead kisses and one time Ilya asks for one.
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16 Feb 2026