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They all laughed one more time, before Coran clapped his hands and reminded them of the mission at hand. He’d looked at all of them fondly, like a proud uncle watching them all finally find their groove.
They’d been good. They’d all been connected, focused, and altogether, strong as a team.
And then Lance hadn’t come back from Beta Traz.
Or, Lance is captured by the Galra while escaping Beta Traz, and he's not the same when he's found again.
They're not sure if he ever will be.
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- Part 1 of The Grin and Bear It Verse
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It’s Lance and Keith, neck and neck. It’s Lance and Keith, a good team. Friends. Partners. Lovers, husbands, soulmates.
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Fragments of the past.
Companion fic to Grin and Bear It! Can be read alone, but it's meant to be paired with the main fic.
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- Part 2 of The Grin and Bear It Verse
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*NOTE: Don't Talk in the Car has been discontinued and is being revamped and re-written! Details to be announced.*
Lance McClain was good at what he did; he had a successful career as a restaurant owner, was a loving son and brother, was a good husband, and had managed to keep his family's criminal acts off the police radar for the past six years. Attempting to balance what little freedom he had in the gilded cage that was the family business and a tiny semblance of a normal life was made even more difficult when Keith Kogane began working at his New York restaurant.
Lance fell, and fell hard. But so did the dominoes that threatened to destroy the legacy he worked so hard to continue, that put him head-to-head with rival crime families, that put his family under a microscope held by the police, and that put himself in the crosshairs of a gun.
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“But when you meet his eye for a moment, there’s a look about him that reveals he’s a million realms away.”
You have to address it.
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The Grin and Bear It universe, containing the primary AU fic Grin and Bear It, as well as its extras.
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Keith uses the morning's silence to admire what he has.
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20 Mar 2026
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Your Name (A Prayer, A Curse) by ItsMayBiTheWay
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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Shane gets married to Rose—a PR marriage, after running from Rozanov’s apartment. He continues seeing Ilya, sporadically, painfully.
A few months, maybe a year in, unable to sleep, at 4 am he checke his phone to a sting of texts from Ilya. “You snore? Turn in your sleep? She knows. I don’t. I wish we could trade. For one night.”
They both want more. They need more. The need becomes even more urgent when the plane carrying Ilya and his team makes an emergency landing.
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03 Mar 2026
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it felt like we were something by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Jan 2026
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Ilya’s perspective of a few scenes from “something you can build” (and one scene that came after). Featuring: intense yearning for your committed long-term partner, supportive but confused himbos, Yuna Hollander’s momager energy, Scott realizing he’s a side character in someone else’s even crazier story, and a quick trip to California for Very Boring, Extremely Casual, Not-At-All-Romantic Reasons (aka, the epilogue).
(Companion piece! You will need to have read the rest of the series for this to make any sense—here be spoilers!)
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- Part 3 of something you can fix
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01 Mar 2026
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something you can build by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jan 2026
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Six months ago, Shane’s intimate conversation and break-up with Rose Landry was recorded and leaked. In those six months, his life had completely upended and everything had changed, for better or for worse. Except for Ilya. He still has Ilya, and he’s beginning to understand that he always will.
It’s 2018. Shane Hollander has to figure out his new life, in a new city, on a new team, while being out to the world but not by his own choice. Ilya, along for the ride, also has to learn what it means to be connected to a place, to a person, and to his own inner truth.
(Sequel to “something you can fix,” set post-Heated Rivalry, pre-The Long Game)
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- Part 2 of something you can fix
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01 Mar 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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- Part 1 of something you can fix
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28 Feb 2026