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please leave a message by subcorax
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Dec 2025
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Sarah
Does anyone have the number for Shane's girl from Boston? I feel bad that they've been seeing each other for this long and we've never added her here.Jackie
Oh good point! Let me ask Hayden.Jackie has added Lily to the conversation
Lily
what
what is thisOr: Ilya Rozanov is, apparently, one of the girls.
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- Part 1 of You Have (81) Unread Messages
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- English
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- 2,407
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- 1/1
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11 Apr 2026
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Only You (Could Ruin Me Like This) by OpalApparition
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
19 Jan 2026
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That girl at the club meant nothing. Shane drunk-texting Ilya at 2 AM means everything.
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A bandaid for my brain following the Club Scene in episode four.
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- English
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- 3/3
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- 8
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- 1,264
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10 Apr 2026
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I'll be Jane by gurlsrool
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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It’s not going viral because Jane’s true identity was exposed—or even because Ilya was blatantly sexting in public. That part’s as expected as Shane doing yoga or any human being on earth breathing.
No, the texts are going viral because no one can believe how bad this “Jane” is at sexting.
The women of the world are outraged. The men of the world are baffled. No one can understand why Ilya Rozanov, whose abs have their own fan club, is wasting his time on ‘a piece of cardboard that wished to be turned into a real girl’ (this particular joke has 300k likes and counting).
Or: After a social media trend mocks Shane's sexting skills, he tries to improve them. It goes about as poorly as you'd expect.
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- English
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- 1/1
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26 Feb 2026
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Barstool Sports Canada reports that Montreal Metros captain Shane Hollander has started learning Russian from new teammate and Russian rookie Sergei Dovonchezky.
Ilya has some thoughts. None of them are particularly kind.
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- Part 6 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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- English
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- 29,008
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- 4/4
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- 3,167
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25 Feb 2026
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Promises never made by ibumblebee
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Jan 2026
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If this is what Hollander is willing to give him, he will take it. It won’t be enough, not by a long shot, but if this is the little part of him he is allowed to have, by God he will take it.
OR, Shane messages Ilya a few days after the tuna melt scene. Ilya is trying to not scare him away again. He will restrain himself. He will take what Shane gives him and never ask for more. Just please, he can’t see him walk out of his life again.
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- English
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07 Feb 2026
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Shane isn't used to people touching him. Then he meets Ilya Rozanov.
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- 6,915
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02 Feb 2026
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the heart is hard to translate by catknives
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Jan 2026
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Shane is twelve when he realizes he can understand Russian.
Or, in a world where you can understand whatever language(s) your soulmate speaks, it takes Shane and Ilya an embarrassing amount of time to realize they’re soulmates.
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- Part 1 of all this and heaven too
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- English
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- 3/3
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02 Feb 2026
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Ilya thinks about the last night they spent together, thinks about Shane splayed out on a hotel mattress pleading for his touch, thinks about how they hadn’t even kissed, and it starts as a strange little tickle in the back of his throat. Barely-there. He could ignore it if he wanted.
Then the intensity grows, flourishes into full-blow irritation, and suddenly he’s sputtering on his Coke and attracting the attention of the woman in the first-class seat across the aisle from him. He thinks it’s just some odd coughing fit, or that he inhaled his soda on accident, so he’s shocked when he feels something soft and smooth and triangular against his tongue.
It’s not until he spits the object into the napkin he’d received with his drink that he can see what it is: a long, thin, green leaf. A sepal.
As soon as Ilya realizes what he’s looking at, he’s flooded with dread.
Ilya's known these feelings were doomed from the start. He never thought they'd literally kill him.
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- English
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- 2/2
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28 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
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- English
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- 20/20
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- 18
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28 Dec 2025
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Hop, Bunny, Hop by theemporium
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Dec 2025
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Ilya’s smirk grew. “Whoever wins MVP gets anything they want.”
Shane’s brows furrowed. “Anything?”
“Anything,” Ilya repeated, his eyes gleaming. “If you win, you can ask for anything you want.”
A thrill went down his spine. “And I’m guessing you already have something in mind if you’ve suggested this bet.”
Instead of responding, Ilya leaned down and kissed him—a filthy, obscene kiss that left his dick twitching pathetically against his thigh despite the fact he was completely spent.
“You will see, Hollander.”
“You’re on, Rozanov.”
And, at the time, Shane really did feel good about his chances—orgasm haze aside.
Now, standing in the bathroom of a Vegas hotel suite, he almost cursed his own damn competitiveness.
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Or, a bet was made and Shane is a good sportsman. That is the only reason he is putting on Rozanov's jersey. Promise.
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- English
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- 4,842
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- 1/1
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- 138
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26 Dec 2025
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Everything was almost perfect.
The Centaurs were already having their best season in two decades, Shane had fit right in and was killing it on the ice, Ilya was married to the love of his life, and they finally didn't need to hide anymore.
And yet…there was one thing standing in the way of perfection, and Ilya was trying very hard not to think about it too much in case it gave him a heart attack.
Shane had been playing for the Centaurs, in Ottawa, with Ilya, for six weeks now and he still hadn't moved in.
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- 139
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24 Dec 2025
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These are the same story from different points of view, both can be read as standalones
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01 Nov 2025
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eagles by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies)
23 Nov 2016
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Natasha presses her hand over her heart, and – Tony has heard rumors, that her skin is blank, or that she killed her other half, but he doesn’t believe them. “They deserve to know, don’t you think?”
He looks at the sleeping supersoldiers in his hospital room, thinks of going to bed safe and surrounded and waking up when it’s already light out, when the first pot of coffee is already cold, waking up to Steve’s bedhead and the body-warmed metal of Bucky’s prosthetic hand, waking up whole.
“They’ve been together for ninety years, Nat,” he says. “They’re practically married. There’s no room for me.”
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01 Jan 2025
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"Do you think I'm fit?"
The question nearly makes Edwin drop the very important artifact he had been cautiously transporting back into its proper place on the shelf, and he is, not for the first time, appreciative of the way his ghostly form does not allow such an indignity as a blush.
"What on earth has possessed you to ask me such a question, Charles? Especially when I am busy?"
Charles, at least, looks mildly sheepish.
"Well, it's just, I've been thinkin’ about it, haven't I?”
“Oh, have you?” Edwin says dryly.
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or Charles learns that Edwin thinks he's attractive and just can't resist showing off a bit
Psst, if you enjoyed this I made a list of fics that inspired it that you might enjoy :)
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17 Dec 2024
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The new occurrence is so miniscule Charles doesn’t think it should even register. And yet, it turns Charles’s world upside down.
Namely - Edwin starts to look at his lips. Sometimes. It’s very brief and very rare, all things considered. Yet still, Charles’s mind lingers on this latest development and doesn’t seem keen on letting it go.
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OR: 5+1 times Charles caught Edwin looking at his lips and one time Charles looked at Edwin's
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16 Dec 2024
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You make me glow by cordelianoir
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
13 Sep 2024
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Edwin’s mother had always told him that he’d know his soulmate not only by the glow, but because their mark would be on their hand between their thumb and index finger. Now that very spot was glowing with a soft blue light on his own hand.
As Edwin watched, the mark glowed brighter for a moment, then dimmed, then brightened again, swimming like sunlight streaming through water.
Somewhere to his left, Edwin heard a misery wraith scream. With a start, Edwin came back to himself.
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Soulmate AU where the state of your soulmate's soul is reflected on your skin. Edwin doesn't have one by the time he dies. Charles has a dead mark. This doesn't cause problems at all.
Inspired by JUBE514's beautiful art.
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15 Dec 2024
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Britain, 1976. Three years into boarding at Saint Hilarion's School, Edwin Paine is assigned Charles Rowland as a roommate.
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Featuring: mistakes better made, days hidden in libraries, and no rafter left unwandered.also featuring: charles doing sport and edwin being gay for it, edwin being a nerd and charles being gay for it, and me pretending i know what boarding schools are like
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- English
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- 181,249
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- 53/?
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14 Dec 2024
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It was about the torture. The torture he was experiencing presently, and also every minute of every hour of every day, standing alongside Edwin Payne and saying nothing out of the ordinary at all.
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11 Oct 2024
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a part of me that will never be mine by tragedy_machine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Oct 2024
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Edwin tells Charles he loves him in Hell, but when Charles quickly responds with his own breathless 'I love you', Edwin assumes his friend meant it platonically, so he gives up halfway through his confession, leaving out the crucial 'I'm in love with you' part. Dejected, he decides to keep his feelings a secret.
Meanwhile, Charles has been in love with his best mate for years, so when they unexpectedly exchange 'I love yous' on the staircase of Hell, Charles happily assumes that they've just started dating and are just going at a really slow pace.
Needless to say, they're not really on the same page.
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OR: because of a misunderstanding during the confession in Hell, Charles thinks they're dating now, while Edwin believes his love will stay unrequited forever
- Language:
- English
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- 22,877
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- 6/6
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11 Oct 2024
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“You trying to court me like one of your old-fashioned girls?” Charles says, and he doesn’t sound displeased with that idea.
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Edwin tries to navigate a relationship he refuses to believe is reciprocated, while Charles tries to prove that it very much is.
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- Part 2 of Momento Mori
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10 Oct 2024