11 Works by amberlightfic
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Three Weeks by baybee0 (amberlightfic)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Mar 2026
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They fight. They have angry sex. In the aftermath, lying in the wreckage of the argument, they finally say the things they've not been saying for months.
Or: the one where Shane is emotionally constipated, Ilya moves to Ottawa and uses it as a weapon approximately once, and three weeks is exactly long enough for everything to come to a head.
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The Shortest Distance by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Mar 2026
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The season after the cottage, they have split again. Shane keeps every promise he made on the last night. Ilya lets himself not be fine. The distance is the same — three thousand miles, three time zones, the whole width of a continent — but they're not.
And then the playoffs come, and Shane and Ilya end up on opposite sides of the Stanley Cup Final, and everything gets very complicated very fast.
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- Part 4 of The Space Between
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We Are Going To The Cottage by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Feb 2026
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The season is over. Shane is coming home to the cottage — to Ilya — for the first time since the trade.
No schedules. No time zones. No screens between them. Just a lake and a dog and the terrifying luxury of being in the same place at the same time.
Ilya has been the ground for nine months. He held it together through the trade, through the distance, through every midnight phone call and unsent text and empty apartment. He was steady. He was fine. He was always fine.
He is not fine.
(Or: Ilya Rozanov discovers that falling apart is easier when someone is there to catch you.)
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- Part 3 of The Space Between
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Two Hours to Three Thousand Miles by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Feb 2026
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Shane Hollander gave Montreal seven years. They traded him three weeks before he could ask for the one clause that would have let him stay.
Now he's in San Jose — wrong sun, wrong time zone, wrong everything — and Ilya is three thousand miles away.
They survived hotel rooms and secrets and twenty-three-day separations. Three thousand miles is just geography.
It has to be.
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- Part 2 of The Space Between
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Twenty-Three Days by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
22 Feb 2026
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Twenty-three days apart. Twenty-three days too long.
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- Part 1 of The Space Between
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Static by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Feb 2026
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Shane Hollander has a penthouse apartment, a seven-figure salary, and his face on a cereal box. None of it has ever quieted the voice in his head that says not enough.
When Ilya shows up at his door on a Tuesday night, Shane has a plan: keep it fast, keep it physical, don't let it get slow. Slow is dangerous. Slow is when Ilya sees too much.
Ilya sees too much anyway.
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The Cruelest Promise by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 Jan 2026
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I will always come back to you.
Ilya made that promise to Shane as their plane fell from the sky. He meant it with every fiber of his being.
For four days, Ilya fights through a frozen wilderness, driven by one purpose: save Shane. Save his teammates. Get help. Come back.
He fires the flare. The helicopters come. He keeps his promise.He came back.
An alternate ending to "I Will Always Come Back."
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- Part 3 of Against All Odds
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Until The End by baybee0 (amberlightfic)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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Two months after the cottage, everything is finally falling into place. Ilya has a new house in Ottawa, ninety minutes from Shane's apartment. He has a new car — a ridiculous silver Porsche he can't wait to show off. He has a future with Shane that's closer than it's ever been.
"Ask me again," Ilya says that morning, when Shane mumbles "marry me" into his shoulder. "When you are awake. When you mean it. And I will say yes."
Shane plans to ask him properly. Tonight, maybe. Or at the cottage. On the dock, at sunset. He thinks about it the whole drive — the ring, the words, the life they're going to build together.
They take the back roads to Montreal. The scenic route along the river. It's a beautiful day.
Shane was going to ask Ilya to marry him.
Ilya was going to say yes. -
The Loudest Silence by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
24 Jan 2026
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Harris Drover has always known his heart was borrowed time.
The mechanical valve clicking in his chest is a constant reminder: every day is a gift. So he lives loudly, loves fully, and never wastes a single moment with the grumpy, beautiful hockey player who learned to smile because of him.When the Ottawa Centaurs' plane goes down in the Canadian wilderness, Harris is trapped beneath the wreckage—alone, dying, calling for help that doesn't come. And when someone finally finds him, it isn't Troy.
Troy arrives too late to say goodbye.
A companion piece to "I Will Always Come Back", telling the plane crash from Troy and Harris's perspective. A story about borrowed time, words left unspoken, and the love that endures even when we don't.
"Tell him I love him. Tell him it was worth it. Every single moment."
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- Part 2 of Against All Odds
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I Will Always Come Back by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
24 Jan 2026
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The Ottawa Centaurs' flight goes down somewhere over the Canadian wilderness, and Shane wakes up with metal in his leg and Ilya's name on his lips.
Four days. That's how long they're stranded—fighting injuries, infection, freezing temperatures, and the creeping despair of a rescue that may never come.
When Ilya disappears into the wilderness to find help, Shane is left behind with nothing but fever dreams and the desperate hope that his husband will keep his promise to come back.
"I will always come back to you. No matter what."
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- Part 1 of Against All Odds
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Before The Ice by baybee0 (amberlightfic)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Dec 2025
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The season starts in two weeks. Shane has driven to Ottawa to spend seven days with Ilya before they have to go back to being rivals in public and secrets in private.
Seven days in Ilya's new house—the one with the backyard where they can hold hands, the guest room waiting for a purpose neither of them will name, and the high-thread-count sheets Ilya bought because Shane mentioned once that he liked them.
Seven days to learn how to exist together. To talk about the things they've been avoiding. To figure out if they can build something real out of stolen moments and whispered promises.
Seven days before the ice.