The Why Series
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Why do you? by purple_pAnCakE_hearts
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
12 Oct 2026
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“Why you do that?”
Shane looked up, a furrow in his brow. “What?”
Ilya’s face hardened. “Break yourself for people who do not build you back up, is stupid.” He turned to the rink. “You’re going to kill yourself on the ice for people who do not care, Hollander, and Good Canadian Boy image will be all you are known for, is bullshit.”
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Shane loved hockey; hockey was his life, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to play for the rest of it. Even if it cost him his mind, body, and soul.Ilya loved hockey; hockey got him away from the people draining his life away, and he’d rather face loneliness than his family’s negligence.
But love could only do so much, and perhaps their perception of it was skewed. Because torturing yourself to get that ounce of love, isn’t going to get the love you deserve. It gets you a mirage that will one day disappear, leaving you with a shell of yourself you don’t recognise anymore.
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- Part 1 of The Why Series