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the future, right here by sandstrand
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
14 Feb 2026
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Luca Haas is excited to join the Ottawa Centaur's roster, but moving across the world isn't easy. And maybe he isn't the only one who is lonely and in need of a friend.
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Luca navigates life as a rookie with the Cens, while slowly figuring out that maybe his captain isn't doing as well as he would like everyone to believe.
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- Part 1 of Something about Ottawa
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- English
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- 16,634
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15 Feb 2026
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if you ever try to leave me again by My_Chemical_Comeback
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Mar 2026
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Shane heard a strangled shout tear free from his mouth, and then his body was moving without his brain’s input. He flew across the ice, ripping his gloves off and reaching for Ilya’s throat. He wrapped his fingers around the warm skin, feeling the flow of blood pulse harder with each beat of Ilya’s heart. His eyes raced across Ilya’s face, desperately looking for a sign that his boyfriend was still with him. Ilya’s eyes were wide and glazed, staring past Shane instead of at him. His face was losing color rapidly, turning a sickly shade of white that mirrored the ice beneath him. His mouth was open, loose and slack, mouthguard still jammed into his upper jaw. Shane watched in terror as Ilya grew limper in his arms.
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During a Boston-Montreal game, Ilya's neck is cut by a skate, and Shane is forced to witness the love of his life bleeding out on the ice in front of him. All of the plans they have made seem to be slipping away before his eyes, right when they were so close to finalizing Ilya's transfer to Ottawa. As they race against the clock to save Ilya's life, Shane reckons with the secrets they have been forced to keep and fears that they might never get to live their truth out in the open.- Language:
- English
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- 10/10
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09 Feb 2026
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Duty of Care by boopboop
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
09 Feb 2026
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Ilya Rozanov, get loved.
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- Part 1 of Duty of Care
- Language:
- English
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- 145,224
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- 25/25
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- 17,240
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09 Feb 2026
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Broken Glass by prinny_a
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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When a visit to his father turns violent, there's only one place Ilya wants to go.
set post-rose breakup and pre-all stars game.
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- English
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- 16,046
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- 2/2
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- 208
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01 Feb 2026
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“You look terrible,” Shane says bluntly when he greets Ilya at the stairwell. “Are you hurting?”
Ilya shrugs. He is hurting, actually. The adrenaline from the win wore off somewhere between his texts with Shane and the medic’s second consult. His face feels swollen and it hurts to speak when he says, “I am not wilting daisy, Hollander. I can handle getting hit at hockey game.”
“Well, I’m glad you’re okay.”
A strange pang hits Ilya’s chest then, unassuming and small. Ilya chooses to think nothing of it.
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Or Ilya Rozanov on pain, love, and family throughout the years.
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31 Jan 2026
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let me go, soldier, let me go by wishbones
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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Until the nights stretched longer and longer, when the tightness returned to his chest, heavy and familiar. Until he started waking up with the sense that something was wrong even when everything looked right.
Shane slept beside him, steady and sure, breathing deep and even.
Ilya lay awake, staring at the ceiling, one hand pressed over the gold band on his finger like an anchor.He had everything he’d ever wanted. And still, somewhere deep in his bones, he felt the dark beginning to stir again.
or, during Shane's first season playing in Ottawa, Ilya's mental health begins to decline.
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19 Jan 2026
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Shane finds himself having to nurse Ilya through the chicken pox
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- Part 1 of Heated Rivalry Sickfics
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19 Jan 2026
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there's nowhere to go but on by wishbones
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
14 Jan 2026
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Shane picks up almost instantly. “Ilya?” His voice is sharp, already awake. “What’s wrong?”
Ilya clears his throat. His voice comes out quiet, reserved, almost childlike. “You were right,” he admits. “I… I have been throwing up.”
There is silence from Shane and Ilya feels a wave of panic run through him.
“I feel very terrible,” Ilya adds, blinking fast as his eyes burn. “Could you please just come?”
or, Shane and Ilya's first food poisoning adventure as husbands.
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18 Jan 2026
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The series to my main story “It’s never too late for Tiramisu”. It’ll involve silly oneshots, more insight into the main piece, as well as a very possible sequel revolving around Max. Stick around to find out!
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08 Jan 2026
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As he rounded the next corner, into sector two, he caught sight of the crash. From the collapsed barriers and the dust of the kicked-up gravel, it was a bad one. Then he saw a flash of red, the briefest of glances at the livery.
A Ferrari.
“Who?”
“Repeat?"
“Who’s in the wall?”
“Focus. Gap to car ahead, 1.3 seconds.”
“Who is in the wall?”
“Leclerc.”
Witnessing the aftermath of Charles's crash, Max makes a choice he could come to regret. As the media swarms their relationship, there may be more demons to face than they ever expected.
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- Part 1 of Hear The Engines Purr
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- English
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- 76,596
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- 20/20
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01 Jan 2026
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It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
It was supposed to be planned around his schedule- aligned with winter break, maybe. Or even after he’d retired. He should’ve been with his partner, whoever they were; he’d never dared hope it would be Max. He should’ve been wrapped in their embrace, murmuring hushed words of excitement to one another as they waited for the minutes to pass and a result to show on the test.
They should’ve found out together. Ready. Eager. Full of love.
Instead it was like this: alone, curled on a cold bathroom floor, a painfully impersonal PDF staring at Charles from his phone. The only positivity to be found in the situation was sitting in the results column of the file, neatly slotted next to the word pregnancy.
The email. The result. The loneliness. It was all too much. Charles began to cry once again.
At the top of his screen, a response popped up with impeccable timing.
i told you not to text me.
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Charles is in love with Max. Max is in love with Charles. It really is that complicated, and then it gets worse.
Meanwhile, Lando just wants Oscar to kiss him, and he's not quite sure how to make that happen.- Language:
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02 Jan 2026
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“George? George, are you okay?” his engineer asks.
George takes a deep breath and mentally checks each part of his body for injury. He moves his fingers and toes. He notes that his left elbow hurts a bit when it touches the side of the cockpit, but that’s all.
“Yeah, I’m okay! I’m okay!” he repeats.
“George?” It’s Aleix’s voice, “We’ll need to take you to the medical centre. Just a precautionary measure, that was a huge shock. Check if you and– check if everything’s alright.”
“Ok,” George says, cutting off the radio and removing the steering wheel to get out of the car. He knows what Aleix didn’t say.
To check if the baby is okay.***
November 2023. George crashes during the post-season testing and he can't help but worry about his unborn baby. The baby nobody knows about. The baby he conceived after a one-night stand. The baby he's determined to bring into this world and raise alone.
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- 25/25
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29 Nov 2025
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He has a wonderful life, Seb thinks, as he lets his eyes slide shut in the darkness, Mark already snoring softly beside him.
He’s long-since made peace with it not featuring a baby.
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- Part 2 of never to part
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27 Nov 2025
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Thought I belonged to the roads (but you made a house feel like home) by iaintlosingyou
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
08 May 2025
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Lewis would forever deny the noise that came out of him seeing that she was ok and alive and here.
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25 Nov 2025
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Stepping into Max’s hotel room feels wrong somehow. But it's not like he didn't know this was a real possibility when he showed up. What did he want if not to be let in? He'd been in Max's hotel room before. This was nothing new. Not really. But… It had been awhile. Max closes and locks the door behind him.
Daniel waits for about two seconds before deciding to treat this like back in the golden days where they practically lived with each other. Red Bull could have saved money and booked them rooms together for all the time they spent in each other's rooms. Might as well pretend nothing had changed.
Waltzing in, he collapses onto the couch. “Nice room Maxie, I think-” he turns his head just in time to see Max stumble, reaching for the wall and bringing a hand up to his bowed head. “Hey,” he's back on his feet and moving towards him, “Max? What's wrong?”
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Daniel checks on Max after the Silverstone crash. Max is not doing so great.Series
- Part 1 of Silverstone Crash
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16 Nov 2025
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It's the Silverstone GP weekend.
George is pregnant and definitely not in labour.
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16 Nov 2025
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Oscar Piastri has had chronic nosebleeds since he was a child. It doesn't affect him in F1 very much, except for when it does.
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Oscar laments the Texas heat, takes a career-defining race win, and becomes intimately familiar with the American healthcare system.
Lando has some thoughts about this.
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11 Nov 2025
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God, this sucks. Worrying sucks. Love sucks. Caring sucks.
If this is the price he has to pay for love, for being in love, for being love— but then he thinks of Max’s smile. Of Charles’ laugh. Of their caring touches, their bad jokes, their terrible singing in the car. The thinks of this morning, in bed, when he felt warm, and safe, and happy. Their first kisses, first times, fumbling and messy and so, so good. Of dinners and lazy evenings on boats, gazing at the sunset.
If this, worrying, is the price to pay for that kind of happiness, he’ll gladly pay it, every day.
Or: Max crashes, Oscar worries and Charles is there to hold them together
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- Part 2 of The Lestapiastri Verse
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06 Nov 2025
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Daniel’s on him in a second, pulling him into his arms, squeezing tight. “This isn’t about the P5, is it?”
or: max is having daniel's baby and no one knows yet. he's just had a meltdown and crashed his car in hungary. he's maybe not alright.
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03 Nov 2025
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Charles had two big dreams in life. One was to race in Formula One, which he had now more than achieved and two:
Beginning a family of his own.
The whole world was left shocked when he announced his retirement, pulling a Rosberg and retiring once he won the World Drivers Championship - and they were even more shocked when he announced his pregnancy months later with his husband, Max Verstappen.
Years later, the family had grown and the pair now had the joy of raising their four beautiful boys.
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Follow along as Charles fulfils his dream of becoming a parent and being the best husband you could ever imagine him to be.
Bookmarked by UltimateOptimist
23 Oct 2025