9 Works by explodingbookshelfs
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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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Young Gods (I'll Worship Like a Dog) by explodingbookshelfs
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Nov 2024
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Sirius Black first learns about religion when he is 14. To someone who has grown up without religion, he finds the whole idea of worshipping a bit silly.
Enter 17-year old Sirius Black who understands that Remus Lupin is a god, and everything about him asks to be worshipped.Or the one in which Sirius is just really in love.
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by explodingbookshelfs
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Nov 2024
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Sirius watched as the fainting stars let way to an early sun. Regulus wasn’t there tonight. Perhaps that was an unfair way of putting it, pretending things were one way, when they were not. Placing the blame in places where it doesn’t belong. The sun was just too close this month for the star to be visible. Still he kept staring at the sky, willing the little dot to appear just out of his own stubborn will.
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Regulus gets wounded in a fight between the Death Eaters and the Order. Sirius does the only thing he can think to do. He brings him home.Series
- Part 2 of Espresso shots, drink hot
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Remus was angry. Fucking livid. Cursing God type of livid. He was so fucking done with it, the war, the lying, the lack of trust, everybody dying. A small part of him, a small angry part of him, felt angry enough that if this would continue too much fucking longer he would go and go after Voldy himself.
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Or the one where I have read to many sad-ending fanfiction these last couple of days and needed desperately to just fix-it. So Remus hears about Peter's betrayal and manages to escape the Death Eaters and save his friends, and swear a lot in the mean time.Series
- Part 3 of Espresso shots, drink hot
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"She had spent the entire night coming up with worse scenarios, the stress and uncertainty of the blood moon getting to her head. She thought she was prepared for anything.
What she was not prepared for was the sight in front of her now, though, as she stood in the open door of the shack.
Remus was lying asleep, looking small and childlike, an aggressive cut over his face, and curled up against him was a black dog, its head on Remus arm, also fast asleep."
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Or, a little one shot where Sirius doesn't want to leave Remus' side after a particularly bad full moon and Madam Pomfrey finds him in dog form curled up with Remus.
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- Part 1 of Espresso shots, drink hot