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  there were moments of gold (there were flashes of light) by daughterofrohan

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  05 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander & Hayden Pike
  • Cliff Marlow & Ilya Rozanov
  • David Hollander & Yuna Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
  • David Hollander & Shane Hollander & Yuna Hollander
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • David Hollander
  • Yuna Hollander
  • Hayden Pike
  • Cliff Marlow
  • Brandon Wiebe
  • Montreal Voyageurs | Montreal Metros (Game Changers)
  • Boston Bears | Boston Raiders (Game Changers)
  • Ottawa Centaurs (Game Changers)
  • 5+1 Things
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Yearning
  • very minor spoilers for The Long Game
  • the most important relationship is between a canadian hockey family and their favourite player to hate watch
  • the 2018 team canada bronze still haunts me and i’m making it everyone’s problem
  • don’t come for me for half of this being set in ottawa you can pry my boring ass hometown out of my cold dead hands
  • as someone who has actually been concussed at the ottawa hospital i promise i am qualified to write about it

  Summary

  They’re seventeen and they’re forty-five and they’re every age in between, and Ilya isn’t sure if he believes in fate – not quite – but there isn’t a single moment from the past three decades that hasn’t felt like it’s been ushering him quietly towards some form of destiny.

  There are other ways to die, beyond the physical; slowly and agonizingly, locking the truth away until it’s indistinguishable from the lies. And there are other ways to live; slowly and carefully and secretly, and then out loud, all at once.

  Or: love between the lines, glimpses of the moments spent in secret before the arrival of the abstract ‘some day’. Five times Shane and Ilya hid themselves from the world, and one time they didn’t have to.

  Language:

  English

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  Bookmarked by selene784

  24 Mar 2026

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  • Game Changers