It_only_took_five_years
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Shane leaves for the Ottawa Centaurs and for the first time in Hayden Pike’s professional career he and Shane are no longer playing side by side.
That’s fine.
Right?
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16 Jul 2026
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"And is like I said, very easy to do. You just lay back and let someone else do work. Could do it in my sleep, would not be problem at all for me to come hands-free.”
Hollander scowled, full competitive personality shining through. “Prove it.”
“Fine, I will,” Ilya snapped back.
Hollander's eyes went wide, and so did Ilya's when he realized what he had promised. His words hung in the air between them, suddenly heavy with implication.
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Ilya doesn't think switching with Hollander one time for the sake of settling a bet will change anything about their arrangement, and it certainly wouldn't make him discover anything about himself. Afterall, it would only be one time, right?- Language:
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03 Jun 2026
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Springsteen by SineRequie
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
17 Apr 2026
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The summer everything becomes real, Ilya discovers that the Shane Hollander he's spent almost ten years constructing in his head is missing a few things. A lake. A bonfire. A speaker the size of a small aircraft and an inexplicable amount of country music.
He's finding he doesn't mind.
or, the one where we all remember that Shane is a hockey player from Ontario who grew up spending summers at a cottage on the lake, and even undiagnosed autism isn’t a cure for that
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02 Jun 2026
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"I’ll stop bothering you,” Sid says. “I can put the block back up and we can forget this ever happened.”
Put the block back up? Every small bit of hope Nate had felt since Sid opened his door disappears in an instant. Of course Sid doesn’t actually want Nate, he just wants to make sure Nate is fucked up enough that no one else can have him either.
“Right,” Nate says coldly. “Just block me permanently again. Forget I exist. That’s been working great for the last two years.”
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Nate and Sid used to be soulbonded, but Sid broke the bond two years ago... or so Nate thought.
Chapters alternate between "present" day (2021-2022) and past moments.Series
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23 May 2026
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Staring at the Sun by Nerve_Itch
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
20 May 2026
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The first sound Ilya hears is a thin, discordant symphony of beeps and whirs. Something vibrating.
The next thing he hears is…wet. A sort of shaking, gargling sound, that feels like the ugliest crying he’s ever heard. And through it, Shane’s voice.
“I’m with him now, mom. He’s— he’s not fine. He’s not. I know—”
Ilya wants to ask who's not fine, but he can’t feel his own body, his mouth, enough to ask.
“Yeah,” Shane is saying, only slightly calmer. “I know. He wasn’t breathing—"
Ilya knows there's a link, between the clinical musicality of medical settings, Shane’s audible, awful distress, and his own physical incapacity. It’s just, it’s so tenuous, and the air around him is so thick, so heavy. It would be easy, to sleep, a little.
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Footage of the last game between Ottawa and Montreal is everywhere; it’s breached containment from the sports world, and now it seems like everyone is baying for Montreal’s blood. Except, Ilya is oblivious. Not exactly blissfully so, but as the fight for accountability within the league rages on without him, Ilya just wants someone, anyone, to tell him what happened.- Language:
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21 May 2026