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growing pains by ausgezeichnet
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
28 Nov 2025
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In which Shane Hollander strains a tendon, cracks a tooth, breaks a rib, and tries not to put a dent in his marriage.
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09 Jan 2026
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Ilya’s Guide to Menacingly Soft Launching Your Relationship (and One Extremely Effective Hard Launch) by Lil_lightning15
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
17 Dec 2025
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“I think we tell world now,” Ilya declared grandly, pacing across Shane’s living room in Montreal. “Big announcement. Maybe fireworks. Maybe airplane banner over city—”
Shane, sitting curled on the couch in sweatpants, nearly choked on his tea.
“No,” he said immediately. “Absolutely not. No fireworks. No banners. No announcements. I’m not letting you hard launch us into oblivion.”
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Five times they soft launch and one time they hard launch, or Ilya is given free rein to soft launch their relationship.
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08 Jan 2026
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Lily: i am alive
Lily: hurt
Lily: but they gave me drugs it’s nice
Lily: i want you
Lily: my hands miss yours
or; ilya gets injured on the ice. shane can't handle it.
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08 Jan 2026
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something you can fix by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.
“Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.
And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.
Just once. Just a single nod.
Why did he have to nod?
“Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”
“Of course.”
Of course.
“Was it better?”
“Yes.”
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Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.
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08 Jan 2026
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The term, he’s told, is temporary retrograde amnesia. Ilya doesn’t need the direct translation to understand: he forgot things. Ten years of things.
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08 Jan 2026