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I love this trope, it might be my favorite.
My grad school admission application included a short story using this trope.
Humans can't see in Color until they meet their perfect match.
This is Ilya and Shane's story.Bookmarked by NowhereInParticular
13 Mar 2026
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If It Hurts to Breathe, Open a Window by kristen04
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Heated Rivalry (TV) RPF
13 Mar 2026
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For Shane Hollander, the MLH’s new summer leadership retreat is supposed to be simple: a week in the mountains, good publicity for the league, and some off-season bonding with players. With his teammates, Hayden and JJ, Shane hopes the trip to Champion’s Ridge will be nothing more than a break from the pressures of hockey.
But there’s one problem Shane tries very hard not to think about.
If every captain in the conference is attending… that means Ilya Rozanov will be there too.
Months after their last meeting in Boston ended badly, neither Shane nor Ilya has reached out. Both have spent the off-season pretending the silence doesn’t matter. Pretending they don’t miss each other. Pretending they don’t still have things left unsaid.
When they land in the same cabin for an entire week, pretending is no longer an option.
Surrounded by teammates, rivalry, and the quiet isolation of the mountains, Shane and Ilya are forced into close quarters where every conversation feels like it’s happening in a room with no air.
Because sometimes the hardest thing isn’t facing your rival.
It’s facing the person you can’t seem to breathe without.Bookmarked by NowhereInParticular
13 Mar 2026
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Not a New Man (Or Crispy Realization) by SilverDancers
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Mar 2026
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Ilya Rozanov told the hockey gods his plans: sign in Ottawa, start a charity named after his mother, date Shane Hollander, play hockey until the shelves in the trophy room collapse, retire, come out (?), kiss his someday husband in every boring restaurant and boring grocery store and public place imaginable.
After being carted off the ice with a career-threatening injury, Ilya has the distinct feeling he is being laughed at.
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- Part 1 of Good Winter
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- 27,256
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- 7/?
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12 Mar 2026
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the best laid plans by Sporkess
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Mar 2026
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When Ilya and Shane decide they want a plan to let them soften the rivalry and (maybe, eventually) come out without it being an NHL emergency, they ask Yuna for help. Yuna's got a 6 stage plan and it is absolutely, definitely going to work.
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- Part 5 of It starts in an elevator
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- 96,337
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- 22/22
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11 Mar 2026
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It has been six years since the war ended and peace was given. Ghosts of the past play with the living as they try to move on. Hermione Granger took her job at the ministry with a strong grip and nothing would change that… well, almost nothing. The turn of events might cause her to second guess everything, including agreeing with the rules sent forth… trouble is afoot.
One-half of the Wonderous Weasley tWins is about to have a really really bad day… or is he?
This is a different take on the marriage law trope. It's less about forcing two people together and more along discovering why it took a law to see the biggest mistake of their lives... what that is, I guess we'll find out!
Full disclosure: I’m toying with a character death. Ron, I’m sorry but you’re getting the chopping block for this fic. #Sorrynotsorry. What would happen if Fred lived and Ron died? Well, I guess we’re going to find out!
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11 Mar 2026
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No Longer Bracing by W0LFS0NG
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Mar 2026
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Months after becoming a Boston Raider, Shane was still bracing, waiting for something to go wrong.
Eventually, however, he realizes he doesn’t have to.Series
- Part 2 of Boston AU
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08 Mar 2026
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When Ilya Rozanov goes down on the ice, the Boston Bears are already moving to defend their captain. No one expects Shane Hollander, captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, to be the one who throws the first punch.
Or: the Boston Bears figure out Ilya and Shane’s relationship first—and decide that instead of letting their captain move to fucking Ottawa, they’ll just kidnap a his boyfriend instead. Shane Hollander would make a better Bear anyway.
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08 Mar 2026
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"You're an awesome player to watch."
"I watch you too…I like watching you."
One line changes everything.
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OR: Instead of turning him down, Ilya and Shane become fast friends at the Prospects Cup. Their relationship (and how they hide the truth) completely changes when the media poses them as best friends instead of rivals.
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Reads as a series of connected oneshots within this AU. Now including prospects cup 2008, draft celebrations, rookie all-star weekend, and their first MLH awards.- Language:
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05 Mar 2026
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Change of Plans by residualchaos
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Mar 2026
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Shane Hollander had a plan. It was a good plan, just as every other plan he’d ever made was a good plan. Then he watched a video of a burning plane carrying the love of his life and it became the only plan he’d ever changed.
or...
Shane goes to Tampa. The next morning, Troy Barrett receives a text from Ilya:
“Bringing boyfriend to breakfast. Tell team to be not weird.”
The Centaurs are, unsurprisingly, weird about it but become the best support system they could ask for as Shane and Ilya navigate the choice to fully begin their lives together and love each other out loud.
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- Part 1 of Change of Plans
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- English
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- 34,566
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- 12/?
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02 Mar 2026
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Recalculating the Ten Year Plan by MegsChaos
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Feb 2026
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What if after tuna melts, whispered names and the Rose of it all - in a post All Stars Game world - Shane thinks the world is finally starting to make sense again to him. Once the ground is firm under his feet - or so he thinks anyway - it's turns out to be less than stable? What if when Shane was getting his hook ups in Mexico and Hollywood - he wasn’t as unnoticed as he had originally thought?
When Montreal shows it’s true colors sooner, a No Trade Clause is waived and Boston gets an opportunity to build a dynasty that rivals the one of their largest rivals up North.
What if Shane and Ilya’s worlds are turned upside down and things with their over 8 year long situationship (now maybe relationship?) suddenly got more complicated and somehow simplified at the same time? Shane honestly thinks this is possibly the most ‘them’ resolution to a situation he has ever found. Ilya is just doing his best - he thinks. Maybe.
Also, the Power Play in Boston is about to be the thing of nightmares, if a certain Russian can stop blocking Shane's damn shot…
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- Part 1 of New Paths Forward
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- English
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- 37,885
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- 5/?
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02 Mar 2026
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Bostons worst nightmare by immersivemedia
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
04 Mar 2026
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Ilyas adventures as a WAG!
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28 Feb 2026
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take it slow, take it easy on me by sargeantwoof
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Feb 2026
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“I did something stupid,” Shane confesses, inhaling rapidly. He's still crying, still frozen in the doorway, besides his hitching chest and watering eyes. Hayden's never seen him like this, overtaken with emotion, bitter exhaustion in his voice. He makes a soft choked noise, and Hayden immediately wants to kill something, whatever it is that's making him feel so awful. “I—Hayds—you're gonna hate me—”
“No,” Hayden says before he can even finish the thought, almost hurt by the accusation. “No way. You're—I wouldn't. I won't.”
Shane sniffs, offering him a sad smile, his eyes watery and solemn. It's an unfamiliar look, burnt through with sorrow and twisting doubt, sharp worry in the furrow of his brow. “You are,” he says, soft and certain. “I do, and I'm the one who's doing it.”
OR: Shane returns to the hotel room, post-tuna melt. Hayden spirals.
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- Part 5 of heated rivalry masterlist
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- English
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- 52,388
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- 4/6
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27 Feb 2026
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Move Over Montreal WAGs...We've Got a HAB by Ubiquitously_Ubiquitous
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
10 Jan 2026
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Or…the one where Shane gets added to the Centaurs WAG group chat and keeps leaving...and they keep adding him back in...and Ilya keeps answering for him…and a year later, they finally learn they’ve had a HAB (and a Hab) in their group the whole time
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Cens WAGs, Jane!
Chapter 2: We'll See You This Summer, Jane!Series
- Part 6 of Shane/Ilya Stories
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27 Feb 2026
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frequently, secretly fond of each other. by milominderbinder
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Mar 2026
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Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?”
“Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking.
He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.
Nobody knows why Shane Hollander dropped out of the 2009 draft at the last second, and a year later it stuns the whole hockey world when he's signed by the Boston Raiders. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston - but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.
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26 Feb 2026
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When practice is done and he’s showered, he checks his phone.
The 16 messages from Lily are expected with Ilya traveling to Detroit this week. Ilya has a strong but unsupported hatred of Detroit. The ‘vibes are bad Shane’ was the last claim Shane had heard and he is prepared to read even less substantiated claims.
He’s unprepared to see a group chat he’s been added to.
Shane is only a part of a few group chats. One that Rose put together with a bunch of her not out queer friends that he keeps muted but likes to scroll through every once in a while (they have good memes). The group chat with the whole team he only keeps up with for Captain Reasons but keeps it muted too. The one with both of his parents that his mom uses more often than her single thread with him cause ‘Your Dad deserves to be in the loop too’. And finally the one with Jackie and Hayden which is mostly him and Jackie bullying Hayden and Hayden being increasingly frustrated with their antics.
This is not even close to those
OTTAWA WAGSor Shane gets added to the Ottawa WAGs group chat and maybe learns something about himself along the way
Previously: Shane Hollander and the Magic of Friendship- Language:
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24 Feb 2026
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fresh bruises we learned patterns to by downtheroadandupthehill
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Feb 2026
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The first time they’d done this, in Ilya’s bed, Shane had been mystified at Rozanov’s insistence that he not enter the nest without Shane’s permission. Now, Shane feels something akin to smugness flexing its claws in his chest. A primal satisfaction at the rightness that he is the one with the power - at present, if not for much longer - alpha just outside the nest and at his mercy.
Like Shane will only yield for someone who has earned it. He can draw out Ilya’s suffering just a little longer, make him earn it.
Shane rakes his gaze over the delicious chest and bicep muscles bunching above the edge of the nest. “Waiting for something, Rozanov?”
“Are you going to let me into your nest, omega?” His pronunciation of the endearment is more Russian than English, accent thickening around the syllables.
“Depends. You gonna give me your knot?”
“Hm, does not sound like begging yet to me.”
Some months after Shane recovers from rejection sickness in Ilya's bed, they share their heat/rut together at the cottage, both clinging to the delusion it's still casual.
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- Part 2 of mutual instincts
- Language:
- English
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- 2/3
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22 Feb 2026
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Shane and Ilya had mutually agreed to keep their whatever-they’re-doing out of Sochi. It was an easy decision to make: this was bigger than any MLH rivalry and definitely bigger than a few hotel hook-ups. There was no room for distractions, not with Olympic gold on the line.
So it’d be really fucking great if their daemons could get on the same page and stop trying to cause an international fucking incident.
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- Part 7 of my heated rivalry anon fics
- Language:
- English
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- 15,735
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- 2/4
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22 Feb 2026
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Rozanov frowns, and for a fleeting second, Shane thinks that he has made a mistake. But then Rozanov reaches out for him, and the world splits open.
Fire ignites in his palm, flaring through every nerve in his hand, cutting through skin and sinew and bones. His chest is so full it might burst, and his lungs forget how to work. The heat shoots up his arm like lightning, down his spine and across his ribs, continuing down, down, down. He feels it—feels his seed erupt into something sharp and blinding, roots threading under his skin and stem unfurling onto his flesh.
Shane immediately jerks back his hand, as if he was electrocuted. Air crashes into him all at once, as the burning fades into a tingling throb. He stands there stunned, his mind in tatters and unable to comprehend all the sensations happening to him.
His right ankle, his soulmark... And it just reacts to Ilya Rozanov.
Or: In a world where soulmarks are living seeds that grow with touch, Shane's flowers bloom when he is with Ilya. Yet, he cannot find the traces of any mark on Ilya's body.
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22 Feb 2026
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Five years after the war, convicted Death Eaters are auctioned off instead of receiving the Dementor’s Kiss. And the rest of the wizarding community watches Hermione Granger make a move no one expected.
“You’re wondering why,” she said, almost amused.
His voice was quieter than he expected. “Yes.”
She walked past him slowly, her heels whispering on the marble. She circled him like a predator inspecting prey.
“Because now I can,” she said, her voice honey-coated with cruelty. “Because now, I can make you kneel to me. A pureblood bending at a mudblood’s will and command.”
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21 Feb 2026
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Bleeding Through by The_green_fairy
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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The image of blood spreading across white ice is burned into Shane's mind. So is the way Ilya Rozanov looked at him across a hundredth faceoff—sharp, challenging, alive.
Now Ilya needs a place to recover, and Shane needs to stop having nightmares. It's practical. Convenient.
It's also the most dangerous thing Shane's ever done.Because you can't feed someone smoothies, wash their hair, and watch them nearly die (twice) without catching feelings. And Shane's been running from those feelings since 2010.
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- 15/?
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21 Feb 2026