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spinning out, waiting for you by residentrookie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Apr 2026
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Shane is conscious for the entire crash. That doesn’t mean he remembers it.
The brain has a funny way of blocking out trauma like this, of shielding the body from things that would hurt it to remember. But Shane’s ears are still ringing with the sounds of metal crunching and tires screeching, even if there’s a large blank space in his head where the memory should be. The crash was a blur, a blink. Terribly long and then suddenly over, a heavy silence now descending over the eerie stillness.
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A week after returning from their honeymoon, Shane gets in a car accident that threatens the future he and Ilya so painstakingly fought to build.
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04 Apr 2026
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The Weight of Still by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Mar 2026
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On a Monday morning in October, Shane Hollander drops a mug of coffee and doesn't get back up.
Ilya is upstairs with the twins. He hears the sound — not the mug breaking, but the body. The thud of the person who holds it all upright. He puts the children down. He goes to the kitchen. Shane is on the floor, looking at Ilya, trying to say everything, but nothing comes out.
Stroke. Left hemisphere. Thirty-eight years old.
Shane spends six weeks in a hospital bed learning how to say his children's names. Ilya spends six weeks splitting himself into three people — the husband in the chair, the father in the nursery, the hockey player on the ice
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- Part 1 of The Weight
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Bookmarked by cargra
03 Apr 2026
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A Change to the Narrative by slightly_ajar
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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It’s a perfectly normal day until it isn’t. Shane is hurt in a mugging and he and Ilya have to find a way through injury and healing together.
He should just give the man his wallet. That’s what they say to do, isn’t it? Shane should hand over his wallet then the man would leave. There was no reason to be a hero or a tough guy, there was nothing in his wallet worth the kind of trouble someone who hides their face and attacks from behind is capable of.
Bookmarked by cargra
02 Apr 2026
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Sweet Collapse by AmaDayDream
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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After Shane is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes following a terrifying on-ice collapse, he and Ilya struggle with the aftermath — not just medically, but emotionally. Fear turns into control. Pride turns into distance. And love becomes something that feels dangerously unpredictable.
This is the story of what happens after the diagnosis — and whether they can learn to face uncertainty together instead of apart.
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- Part 1 of Sweet collapse
Bookmarked by cargra
02 Apr 2026
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The day after attending a charity event in Vancouver, Shane, Ilya, Scott, and a few other players board a plane to take them to Tampa for 2017 All Stars.
The plane goes down somewhere in the wilderness, in the middle of a storm.
Bookmarked by cargra
01 Apr 2026