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Shane doesn't fall apart loudly. He spirals, shuts down, missteps. Ilya pays attention. He stays. He helps Shane learn what it feels like to be noticed without being corrected.
or, 5 times Shane needs help regulating his autism, and Ilya is there for him + 1 time Shane is there for Ilya.
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28 Dec 2025
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For Better, For Flu by nj_1996
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Dec 2025
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Winter 2019:
Shane’s bye week lasts about twelve seconds before it turns into fever-fuelled melodrama and 1,187 unread messages ranging from “I’m dying” to “your backhand was trash.” Ilya loses a game, hides in an airport alcove, and goes full worried boyfriend, praying to get to Shane as quickly as humanly possible, and counting the kilometres from Ottawa to Montreal while keeping it quiet from the team.Then it’s Nurse Ilya time: cool cloths, small sips, soft Russian endearments, and the clingiest naps known to man until the fever finally breaks and they know it's going to be okay.
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- Part 1 of The Flu Saga
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27 Dec 2025
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“Ilya?” Shane calls, and Ilya spins around to see Shane holding the most damning thing he could’ve found in Ilya’s suitcase—that damned Montreal Metros hoodie. “This is mine, isn’t it?”
Ilya freezes. “Eh?”
“How do you have this? I thought I’d lost it ages ago.”
There’s no good way for Ilya to say the truth, which is that: you left it at my house in Boston after you broke my heart for the first time and I kept it so I could wear it occasionally and jerk off while thinking about you when I thought I would probably never be able to have you again and it was the last bit of you I could have, so Ilya settles for the next best thing, which is:
“It… it is not yours.”
Shane shoots him an unimpressed look.
Ilya is really struggling with the fact that he wants to keep Shane forever and steal his clothes and leave dumb hickies on him and wake up to him in the morning. He's working on it.
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27 Dec 2025
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listen how the heart beats lying next to him by pumpkinless
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Dec 2025
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Every time a text came through about flight times, Shane thought that would be the last one. That Ilya would say, no, actually, but I cannot come to your home over the summer and fuck you in your bed for two weeks and kiss and play house like we are boyfriends, because we are hockey rivals and this has been a seven year long mistake. Also, I will be blocking your phone number and never want to see you again unless I am beating you on the ice.
He had doubted every second until Ilya was finally in his car in the airport parking garage.
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27 Dec 2025
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summer windows by cloudies
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Dec 2025
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Shane blinks his eyes open to find Ilya hovering above him. “Let me make you a burger for dinner.”
“Ilya,” he smiles. Translation: Diet.
“I will make you bird burger, the way you like it. Bean patty. Fake bread bun.”
“You think they have my bean burgers and weird bread at this thing?” Shane had been expecting to just survive on veggie platters until they got home.
Ilya scoffs like he said something stupid. “Yes, Hollander, I told Dykstra to order them last week.”
Shane and Ilya attend the 2019 Dykstra-Pike collaborative Canada Day cottage party.
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26 Dec 2025