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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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25 Jan 2026
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“Y’alright, World Champion Lando Norris?” Max asks, leaning back in his desk chair with his hands tucked behind his head.
“Piss off,” Lando mumbles back, not liking the smile in Max’s tone. Besides, what can he say? ‘Bit lost, actually. Any idea how to handle the best day of your life feeling like the end?’.
Or: Lando runs away to the wrong Perth. Oscar takes in a lost man.
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16 Sep 2025
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Not just any stranger, either. Max Verstappen is standing in front of Oscar, holding the door open with one arm casually resting against it, a small, unnervingly knowing smile on his face as he seemingly waits for Oscar to say something.
“Uh,” is all Oscar can manage.
Max Verstappen laughs a bit, and Oscar is almost positive that he’s about to wake up in bed, with his mom knocking on his bedroom door and reminding him that despite the fact that he’s clearly sustained some kind of head injury, he’s not going to get out of doing his share of the chores for the day.
“You are here to clean the pool, you said?”
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14 Sep 2025
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Max wakes up, and everything is different. There is a flat in Monaco that needs to be paid off. A racing team that seemingly crumbles apart without him. A dog that he has been trying to train. And most importantly, Oscar.
He can only remember the all-consuming feeling of being 22 and in a brand new relationship and his first title fight, but everything points to him being 27 and settled enough to have a spreadsheet with the days of the week he is allowed to have sex on.
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5 times things are different, and 1 time Max makes things make sense.
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14 Sep 2025
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Six months. For six months Steve has been listening to this radio show and not ever one time did he expect to hear the host, Eddie Munson, growl out the words “Hawkins, Indiana," but here they are. The name said.
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17 Jun 2025