The Space Between
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Twenty-Three Days by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Feb 2026
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Twenty-three days apart. Twenty-three days too long.
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- Part 1 of The Space Between
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Two Hours to Three Thousand Miles by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Feb 2026
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Shane Hollander gave Montreal seven years. They traded him three weeks before he could ask for the one clause that would have let him stay.
Now he's in San Jose — wrong sun, wrong time zone, wrong everything — and Ilya is three thousand miles away.
They survived hotel rooms and secrets and twenty-three-day separations. Three thousand miles is just geography.
It has to be.
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- Part 2 of The Space Between
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We Are Going To The Cottage by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Feb 2026
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The season is over. Shane is coming home to the cottage — to Ilya — for the first time since the trade.
No schedules. No time zones. No screens between them. Just a lake and a dog and the terrifying luxury of being in the same place at the same time.
Ilya has been the ground for nine months. He held it together through the trade, through the distance, through every midnight phone call and unsent text and empty apartment. He was steady. He was fine. He was always fine.
He is not fine.
(Or: Ilya Rozanov discovers that falling apart is easier when someone is there to catch you.)
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- Part 3 of The Space Between
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The Shortest Distance by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Mar 2026
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The season after the cottage, they have split again. Shane keeps every promise he made on the last night. Ilya lets himself not be fine. The distance is the same — three thousand miles, three time zones, the whole width of a continent — but they're not.
And then the playoffs come, and Shane and Ilya end up on opposite sides of the Stanley Cup Final, and everything gets very complicated very fast.
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- Part 4 of The Space Between