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Hold Fire by explodingbookshelfs
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Feb 2026
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'We were supposed to stand alone at the top, but we will always be there together. We will keep climbing until no one else can reach us, but it will always be together.'
What if the rivalry was real, and they actually hated each other? What if the All Star Weekend was the first time Shane and Ilya actually talked? What if they actually did have more in common than Shane thought.
Or, how to bond about dicks and both having 'an' in your name.
(And something about them being inevitable, in whatever universe.)
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Chapter One was originally written as a oneshot! So, you can read that chapter by itself, if you want. -
Drunk on the Moon by explodingbookshelfs
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Jan 2026
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There was a bead of sweat on his brow. Shane watched it drop over onto his chin down to his neck until it had dissolved into his skin. His face was still his face. He pressed his thumb against the side of his lips. He didn’t know why he thought he would look different. He never had. This was the 5th time he had done this. Watched his skin turn to sweat until all he could think about was the heat of his body. The tightening of his stomach. The wet in between his thighs.
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Or the one in which Shane pretends to be a beta and becomes so touch-starved that very inconvenient things happen. -
Wet Dream by explodingbookshelfs
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Jan 2026
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Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are teammates but cannot get along. When their coach has to drag them off each other for the fifth time that month, he decides to take drastic measures: they must hold each others hands until the next match. Shane absolutely hates it. Ilya thinks its kind of funny.
Based on that one picture of the teacher getting two kids to hold hands because they couldn’t play nice.
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It became electric.
And their happiness was unbridled. The last months of school were the colour of a sunrise: orange and bright. They felt like the first rays of sunlight in early spring or like warm summer evenings with drinks and a campfire.
Nostalgia is treacherous, and hindsight tells lies, but Remus knew he had been happy. That things had never been and never will be as sweetly good. As innocently content.
Or, an AU where professor Remus Lupin recounts how he once loved famous rock star Sirius Black.
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CW: this story deals with sometimes heavy themes surrounding being queer, and young and growing up around homophobia. -
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Lesbians on a boat. That's all the information you need. This is pure self-indulgent smut, because there is not nearly enough lesbian smut in this fandom.
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I Like Jane For You by icopythefax
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
12 Jan 2026
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After a mix-up leaves Hayden with the wrong phone for three days, he ends up learning more about Ilya Rozanov and his secret girlfriend, Jane.
Another Hayden-Finds-Out, because we can't have too many.
*now with the extra continuing Hayden-Rozanov friendship text threads*
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- Part 1 of Haydenov Phone Swap
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17 Feb 2026
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To Be Loved, Is To Be Seen by BrokenColors
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Feb 2026
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Shane and Ilya have a good, boring, hard-won life, full of quiet joy. They always thought happiness would come softly.
But they didn’t expect it to arrive carrying grief, a thirteen-year-old girl, and a baby.
A brother’s death. Two abandoned children... This isn’t the future they had planned—but it might be the one that saves them.
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- Part 2 of To Be or Not To Be
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14 Feb 2026
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If it wasn't for that meddling kid by ARustySpork for TastyTeeth
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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“I feel really good about this kid, I think he could be great on your wing, he just needs some help settling in. Someone to show him the ropes.”
“Yes.”
The line went silent for a moment. Ilya wasn’t really sure why his coach felt the need to run this by him.
“Rozanov,” his coach said at last. “I want him to live with you.”
Ilya blinked, then nearly shouted into the phone. “What?”
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or, Ilya stays in Boston, gets a rookie, and tries to figure out how to make a secret long distance relationship work while there's a Russian teenager in his house
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- Part 1 of If it wasn't for that meddling kid
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12 Feb 2026
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in the middle of the darkest night (in the middle of the hardest fight) by GatheringBlue
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Jan 2026
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“Ilya,” he clarified, wincing as he swallowed, his throat feeling like he’d eaten a fistful of glass. “I need to call Ilya.”
He fumbled around for his phone, desperately needing to hear his fiance’s voice. Together, they could figure this out. They’d make a plan. Ilya could drive with his parents from Ottawa and–
But Ilya wasn’t in Ottawa. He was in Russia.
No.
No.
They’d kill Ilya in Russia. They’d kill him, or arrest him, or– or–
Oh god, they’d kill him.
__________________________________________________________________________A family emergency means Ilya is in Russia when Hayden's FanMail video ends up on Twitter, outing them to the entire world. It, predictably, ends horribly.
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- Part 2 of heated rivalry fics
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12 Feb 2026
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After the events of I Like Jane For You, the public reacts to Rozanov and Pike as secret friends.
Conveyed through text threads, social media, and news articles.
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- Part 4 of Haydenov Phone Swap
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27 Jan 2026