ICantBreathSometimes
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How We Fall Apart by ICantBreathSometimes
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
17 Jul 2026
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His house was too big when he’s alone. The walls echo every breath, which makes no sense really because that’s not fucking possible. Maybe his head is echoing, instead.
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He wasn't thinking when he took the pills. Maybe he couldn't think. Maybe all he could do is feel the world get quieter and quieter, until there was no one left to hear anything in the first place.Or: When Shane walks out of his life for good on Boxing Day, Ilya doesn't know if he'll live to see him walk back in. And Shane Is pretty sure he's never been alive himself at all, actually.
Or: Codependency only works if you're attached at the hip, dumbass
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gori, gori, moya zvezda (shine, shine, my star) by shortykuma
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
27 Jul 2026
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Hesitantly, he brought a hand up and watched a figure from his memories reflected back in front of him copy his movements. When this young Shane in the mirror touched his face, he felt it on his own. He squeezed the skin on his right cheek, feeling distant and disconnected from reality. He continued pinching harder until it stung, only to be disappointed when he didn’t wake up back where he was supposed to be.
He really was Shane Hollander, aged 22, all over again.
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Shane Hollander dies in 2022, on the day of his first wedding anniversary with Ilya Rozanov. Somehow, he's transported back nearly a decade into the past, to 2013, his memories and a ring letting him know it was all real. He speaks Russian now, having learned from Ilya in his past life, and has the benefit of hindsight. But does that mean he can really change anything, make things go more smoothly than last time, or will he be forced to fight for his relationship with Ilya for years, having to hide it once again now that he'd just gotten used to living with it openly? What would he do about his family, his friends? As it turns out, even knowledge of the future isn't always enough.
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love you ‘til my lungs give out by scarlettroses
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 Jun 2026
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Weeks later, when the news finally breaks, the headlines will call it a “catastrophic brain injury”.
They’ll analyze the hit from every angle, trying to find just what went so wrong. It was clean, it was legal… and yet it somehow slammed Shane Hollander into the ice hard enough to end his career.
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or, another take on shane’s injury in episode 5 being much, much worse.
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Bookmarked by ICantBreathSometimes
29 Jul 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
please just kill me jghclifkc its so cuuutttteeee
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Ilya Rozanov, proud owner of a floundering Russian bookshop, had his world upended when Shane fucking Hollander, captain of the Montréal Metros, hockey’s golden boy, and hottest guy in the MLH walked into his bookshop one December, crashed into him on the footpath, then kissed him on the mouth.
(Heated Rivalry but it's Notting Hill this time.)
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I still do. by yourethemoon
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jul 2026
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Sequel to Crawling back to you.
Shane and Ilya found each other again in their darkest moment, but what happens when those moments are brought to light? Can they protect the trust they rebuilt at the cottage when they are forced to return to real life?
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- Part 2 of Crawling Back to You
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Hey Neighbour by storriebooked (charliespringed)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
27 Jul 2026
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14 year old Ilya is bored and decides to text his number neighbour. Shane won't tell him anything more than his name and age, not unless they stay friends until they're 18. Queue: teenage strangers to friends to lovers told entirely through text!