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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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15 Feb 2026
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Call Your Mom by bookstaylorsversion
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov doesn’t like asking for help, especially at four in the morning. Unfortunately, his appendix doesn’t care about pride.
When the pain gets bad enough to force his hand—and Shane is hours away—he calls Yuna. She answers before the second ring.
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15 Feb 2026
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so much of living is being unknown by dandelionclub
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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Ilya gets injured during the Centaurs hot streak and spirals. Shane takes care of him, and has to get creative about it (aka they both have to grapple with some role reversals + Ilya gets railed for a change)
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- English
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- 52,389
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- 4/4
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12 Feb 2026
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Dead ends and detours by Sunnypop38
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
12 Feb 2026
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It’s not that Shane was expecting a text. He and Ilya have never gotten together before a game. But, they’ve also never had the time to before, and never had so many feelings out in the open. They have been talking nonstop over the phone for weeks, and both of them had been clear about how much they missed the other. So why hadn’t Ilya texted yet?
Tabbing over to Google on his phone, Shane clicked on his recent search of “Ilya Rozanov,” hoping to find anything that could answer why he hadn’t heard back from the man he loved yet. There was nothing about their plane, but there was a weird recent Reddit post that caught Shane’s eye.
ILYA ROZANOV IS GAY??
3 mins agoOkay y’all, Twitter in Russia is going fucking insane right now, and I don’t think it’s breached the US yet, so here we go. A video was posted like an hour ago (attatched below) of Ilya Rozanov, captain of the Boston Bears and star center, in an intimate position with another man….
AKA: an alternate telling of episode 5 with a much more sad Ilya
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12 Feb 2026
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Talk to anyone (I can't talk to you) by Taynado
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
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Shane watches helplessly as Ilya is sent headfirst into the boards, spine twisting, skates lifting off the ice as his body folds under the force. The sound of impact is thunderous and wrong - echoing - louder than the crowd, louder than the goal horn, louder than the pounding of his heart against his chest, as Ilya’s body finally crumples into the ice.
Ilya had no time to brace, Shane knows he had no time to brace because Shane had no time to brace.
And he’s not moving.
“Ilya!”
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Or what it means to break, and come together again.
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- English
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- 46,291
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- 12/12
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09 Feb 2026
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Are you stupid? by Gayewizards
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Feb 2026
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Shane Hollander feels more settled with sharing a part of himself than he would've thought.
Ilya Rozanov gets a tast of sunlight and can't help but bask in it.
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Shane and Ilya post about their shared charity, realize they can go out together, try to push the limits of their public "friendship" and chaos ensues.
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08 Feb 2026
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I think of you all the time (now that you're gone) by Andi_xx
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Feb 2026
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Ilya finds himself falling into old habits. Featuring: drug abuse, and eventually !!Recovery!!
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04 Feb 2026
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In an instant by ArcticSwan
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Feb 2026
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(Post long game).
During an away game against Washington, Ilya and Shane's lives change forever.One second Shane is headed for the bench after passing the puck, the next there's a bad crash and Ilya is laying motionless on the ice.
This fic follows the acute period of Ilya’s injury, and the way the boys try to comfort each other, as they try to understand and come to terms with how life is going to be from now on.
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- Part 4 of The Hollanov files
- Part 1 of Anatomy of a life
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04 Feb 2026
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Hold On (I Still Want You) by velminort
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Jan 2026
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Shane and Ilya broke up. It was the adult, mature decision they made together and moved on from. Except Shane is still Ilya's emergency contact and Ilya's coach just called.
Ilya had a seizure. Well, seizures. Multiple. He is in the hospital, in the operation block and suddenly Shane is met with the possibility that last words Ilya Rozanov ever heard from him were "Maybe love isn't enough."
And then complications occur. And Ilya is not waking up.
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They’d sat on a perfectly ordinary Wednesday afternoon in their perfectly ordinary kitchen, with coffee that had gone cold on the table between them, and calmly dismantled the life they’d built together. One sentence at a time.
“Maybe we need space.” “Maybe we’re just hurting each other.” “Maybe love isn’t enough.”
He wants to go back and shove that version of himself against the wall. Shake him until his teeth rattle.
Love is the only thing that matters when someone is under general anaesthesia and a stranger is touching their brain, Shane thinks wildly. Love is literally the only currency worth anything in a room like this.
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- Part 1 of Hold On (I Still Want You)
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31 Jan 2026
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After The Quiet Fight, the battle was supposed to be over.
Ilya survived cancer. He made it back to the NHL. He finished his first season back on the ice. From the outside, it looks like a victory.
But survival doesn’t mean peace.
This sequel picks up in the aftermath—when the adrenaline fades and the real cost begins to surface. Ilya is fighting a body that still hasn’t fully forgiven him. Shane is fighting a mind shaped by months of fear, hospitals, and the constant threat of loss. And together, they’re fighting each other—trying to love, plan a future, and breathe again while remission looms quietly in the background.
This is a story about what comes after the battle, when Shane and Ilya are learning how to live when they are no longer in crisis—but not free from it either. A story about the tension between gratitude and grief, strength and fragility, love and resentment.
The fight feels louder than ever.
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- Part 2 of The Quiet Fight
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,228
- Chapters:
- 19/19
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31 Jan 2026
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After the longest season of his career, Ilya retreats to the cottage with Shane, expecting rest, recovery, and a month of stolen peace. Instead, exhaustion lingers. Small things feel wrong. And the body that has always carried him through pain begins to falter in ways he can’t explain.
As concern grows and outside eyes begin to notice, the life Ilya and Shane have carefully built—careers, borders, futures—starts to feel fragile. When a medical crisis shatters their summer before answers arrive, love is no longer something they protect quietly. It becomes something they fight with.
A story about what happens when the body speaks before you’re ready to listen, and the people who refuse to let you face it alone.
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- Part 1 of The Quiet Fight
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- English
- Words:
- 55,275
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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- 422
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31 Jan 2026
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Concussion Protocol by cjr2
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
02 Jan 2026
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Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. Dazed and agitated, Ilya briefly starts speaking and responding only in Russian and the medics can’t calm him down. Luckily, Shane started studying Russian after Ilya spoke to him in Russian on the phone from Moscow. For no particular reason. Certainly not because he’s fallen in love with Ilya Rozanov.
In Montreal with lingering concussion symptoms, Ilya is advised not to fly home for a few days, and the hospital won’t release him without assurances that he has someone to stay with him until his symptoms improve. Luckily, Shane conveniently has a condo in Montreal no one knows about and a few days before he has to travel again.
But Ilya’s symptoms don’t resolve after a few days. Which is okay; Shane can handle it. He can take care of Ilya, study Russian, lead his team into the playoffs, and keep Ilya’s continued presence in Montreal a secret. He can do everything, no problem. He is Shane Hollander after all.
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A whump fanfiction that is secretly a fix-it.
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- Part 1 of Return-to-Play
- Language:
- English
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- 49,003
- Chapters:
- 20/20
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- 12
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- 5,062
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27 Jan 2026
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Impact by saintmontbeau
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Jan 2026
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A rookie's bad hit sends Ilya into the boards during the Boston-Montreal game. Shane's three weeks of broken Russian are barely enough to calm him down, but it's something.
But when the scans reveal something much worse, Shane and Ilya have to figure out how to be there for each other in ways totally unforeseen.
Or: nothing like facing mortality for two idiots in love to be honest about how they really feel!
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- Part 1 of Blue Line
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,842
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 282
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27 Jan 2026
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One second Ilya Rozanov is flying down the ice with the wind in his hair and the puck in his control, almost certainly on his way to score the tying goal, and the next, he’s crumpling to the ground. He falls, slides limply until his body cracks against the boards, and lies terribly, unnaturally still.
Getting your bell rung by another player is one thing; it happens. Falling limp and heavy to the ice when no one’s even touched you is another thing entirely.
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27 Jan 2026
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hit me where it hurts by residentrookie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Dec 2025
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Ilya takes a nasty hit on the ice, but it's nothing he hasn't brushed off before. Or at least, that's what he thought.
Off the ice, Shane finds himself overwhelmed with the unexpected complications of Ilya's injury.
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 153
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24 Jan 2026
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"Rozy," Brian, the team doctor says, "talk to me, buddy. That puck clipped you pretty good, how’s the pain?"
Ilya blinks. He clenches his jaw against a wave of nausea. He rests his cheek on the ice, and the cold helps a little.
"Bad. Very bad." He swallows. "Is Shane here?"
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or, in the final MTL/BOS game of the year, ilya takes a puck to the head.
- Language:
- English
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- 49,065
- Chapters:
- 11/?
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22 Jan 2026
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What We Refuse to Lose in the Fight by WatchingKnight_911
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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“How long has this been here?” Shane asked.
Ilya frowned. “What?”
“This,” Shane said, pressing gently.
Ilya flinched, more surprised than hurt. He twisted awkwardly, reaching back, fingers searching. “I don’t feel anything.”
“You don’t feel that?” Shane asked. His voice sounded wrong to his own ears.
Ilya sighed, irritation creeping in. “You’re poking me. Of course I feel that.”
“Ilya.”
“It’s probably nothing,” Ilya said, already pulling away, sitting up. “Muscle knot. I don’t know.”
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Ilya is used to surviving alone. Shane won’t let him. When illness forces their lives to change overnight, they learn what marriage really means. Not in vows, but in the relentless decision to stay.- Language:
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- 40/46
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21 Jan 2026
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clap when you land by quietafterdusk
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
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AU — The Centaurs’ plane crashes. No deaths are reported, and that should be a relief.
Ilya survives. He just isn’t waking up.
As Shane waits, the world continues on, and he’s forced to confront just how fragile their life truly is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,070
- Chapters:
- 21/?
- Comments:
- 1,645
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- 4,081
- Bookmarks:
- 1,183
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- 122,110
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19 Jan 2026
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Keep Me Forever by lady_flash
Fandoms: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee
30 Dec 2021
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Monty has a bad day. A terrible day. It improves when he runs into a certain someone at a bar, but is he too good to be true?
(*Definitely* not a sugar daddy AU)
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- Part 1 of NOT a Sugar Daddy AU
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25 Jul 2025
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Malcolm gets kidnapped, and the kidnapper likes to be in control of everything, including Malcolm's breathing.
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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27 Jun 2025