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commotio cordis (comes with the territory) by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jan 2026
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Shane had truly believed that the worst was behind them.
Mostly because his barometer for ‘worst’ had been recalibrated from a weighted mass of worry lodged in the base of his throat about league reactions, and the strain of hiding his heart, rewritten in an instant where he'd known that the worst was actually a notification bubble in a corner where it never showed, next to a name that taught Shane what it was worth to be alive at all; that opened up and spelled terror and the end of the whole goddamn world—but then it wasn't. They didn't end. Shane didn't lose. They made it through the worst.
Surely that meant everything would be okay moving forward, since they'd already survived the worst.
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Or: Shane genuinely does believe they've made it through the storm, that the worst came for them and they walked out okay. Breathing. Alive. Together.
Shane—waiting for his fiancé in a hotel room, watching the man he loves more than life collapse on the ice in high definition, the light vanishing from his eyes, the feed cutting just before a crash cart descends upon him—
Shane realizes swiftly—painfully—that he was really fucking wrong.
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Bookmarked by runebeardK
01 Feb 2026
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Five times Ilya Rozanov doesn’t know how to ask for help (but gets it anyway) and one time he does.
Or: the author writing gratuitously about all the times big strong Ilya Rozanov finds out it’s okay to be not so big and strong.
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Chapters can be read in pretty much any order or as standalones.
Sister work to "Brick By Boring Brick!"
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01 Feb 2026
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lover, come home to me by cherrydialectic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
25 Jan 2026
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Shane loses his game to a blizzard and his boyfriend to a bad hit, all in the same night.
Snowed in with his parents in Montreal, he watches Ilya get stretchered off on live TV, and discovers that when your relationship is a secret, no one at the hospital thinks to call you.
In Ottawa, Ilya wakes up with broken bones, a serious concussion, and a neatly edited brain. The months where he was lonely and depressed and fighting with Shane? Gone. He’s mentally living in the soft, hopeful beginning of things—and the more everyone tiptoes around him, the more wrong it feels.
The Centaurs step up. The Hollanders dig in. Shane tries to convince himself that “temporary amnesia” is not the same thing as losing him.
They’re still together. They’re technically fine.
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26 Jan 2026
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After a case, Thomas suggests that Juliet teach him something she's good at and she proposes chess. She teaches him fundamentals and finds he's a quick learner... very quick, which impresses her but she still tests him. Thomas realizes how sacred chess really is to her, partly due to Richard. And now, chess becomes a symbol of something more and why teaching him matters so much.
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29 Dec 2025
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An epilogue to “Grey Street,” in between 4.20 and 5.1
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28 Dec 2025