what’s the price of being young

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• begin again by aurora_chiroptera

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

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  07 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Shane Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
  • pre-Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Ilya Rozanov & Irina Rozanova
  • David Hollander & Shane Hollander & Yuna Hollander
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Irina Rozanova
  • David Hollander
  • Yuna Hollander
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
  • POV Alternating
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Developing Friendships
  • Pre-Relationship
  • meeting as kids au
  • Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Irina Rozanova Lives
  • but she is in a very dark space for her pov at the start of the fic
  • POV Irina Rozanova
  • POV Ilya Rozanov
  • POV Shane Hollander
  • POV Yuna Hollander
  • Fluff and Hurt/Comfort
  • okay for show watchers and book readers
  • Loneliness
  • what if two lonely kids found each other and changed each others lives for the better?

  Summary

  Irina flees Russia with 9-year-old Ilya, hoping for a new start in Canada’s capital. While she is working through asylum paperwork, Ilya runs into a boy his own age in the hallways of a government building.

  Series

  • Part 1 of what’s the price of being young

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,747

  Chapters:

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