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strong bones and milk teeth by palebluepebble
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
16 Aug 2026
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Unfortunately, Luca also chose that moment to turn to grab the seatbelt, which was when Ilya spotted it. His eyes almost popped out of their sockets as he leaned in for a closer look.
“Is that…”
Ilya trailed off, and Luca’s hand flew up to his neck, belatedly trying to cover what was quite clearly a hickey. A very obvious, very red, very prominent hickey. Ilya had seen less-detailed dental moulds than the gouge that had been left on Luca’s neck.
“No!”
Ilya gave him a don’t-play-dumb-with-me look.
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seasonal bugs in a canvas tent by palebluepebble
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Aug 2026
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“I cried in a supermarket once,” he told Luca instead.
Luca raised his head and stared at him and, God, Ilya really couldn’t give him much, but he could give him this. It was pretty fucking embarrassing, but if it meant Luca would stop beating himself up about feeling homesick then Ilya would have happily given up every humiliating anecdote from his rookie year.
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empty, look at me by palebluepebble
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Aug 2026
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The morning he’d left, Ilya had kissed him on the doorstep, still sleep-soft from the early alarm, and promised he would be just fine. Shane, someone who should really have known better, had believed him. Because he was fucking gullible as a newborn fawn at times, because he had wanted so desperately to take Ilya at his word that he’d happily tied the wool over his own eyes.
Something had slipped since then.
Something scary.
Series
- Part 6 of fear the dark, fear the deep
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roadkill fawn by palebluepebble
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Aug 2026
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Ilya shook his head and picked up the coffee again. Took a gulp of it like he wasn’t even tasting it, fingers shaky where they were curled around the handle.
“I will not do it,” he insisted. “I promised Shane I would not.”
How Yuna wished she could take him at his word. How dearly she wished she could just pat him consolingly on the knee, tell him she believed him, everything rose-tinted and wholesome and pretty as a picture. But Ilya was capable of being the sort of liar Shane had never managed to become, and, while she trusted him with a lot of things, she didn’t trust him with his own safety. Not right now.
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- Part 5 of fear the dark, fear the deep
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a little less alive than we were before by palebluepebble
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jul 2026
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And yet here they were anyway. Ilya, sobbing into Shane’s side like the world was ending. The kitchen knives hidden away, therapy sessions twice a week, a new medication that didn’t even seem to touch how far into an episode Ilya had fallen this time around. Worried texts from Shane’s parents clogging up his phone, a thousand and one anxieties swirling in a maelstrom that never stopped spinning in his head. Apologies passed back and forth like live grenades, like they each held an infinite supply in their hockey-calloused hands.
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- Part 7 of fear the dark, fear the deep
Recent series
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fear the dark, fear the deep by palebluepebble
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
09 Aug 2026
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Snpashots of Ilya's depression, can all be read independent of one another
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and my waves meet your shore (ever and evermore) by palebluepebble
Fandom Supernatural (TV 2005)
10 Dec 2025
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Little slice of life moments
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can’t change the weather (might not be forever) by palebluepebble
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 Feb 2026
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Things have gotten worse (since we last met) by palebluepebble
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
14 Jun 2025
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Sherlock Holmes and the Wizarding World by palebluepebble
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
26 Mar 2023
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Shane and Ilya learn what it means to love each other in every version — scared, hurting, healing, and still staying.
Bookmarked by palebluepebble
24 Jul 2026
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a pox on all your houses by apocryphal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
20 Jul 2026
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"Chlamydia?" Ilya has never heard Hollander's voice reach such heights in the absence of a cock. "You have chlamydia?"
"I did not get it on purpose," Ilya complains.
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Bookmarked by palebluepebble
23 Jul 2026
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It’s not like his mom had been celebrating Ilya having a fucking heart attack. It’s just that if Shane hadn’t been such a coward, he would have told his parents about Ilya sooner, and then maybe none of this would have happened at all.
After a fluke cardiac event leaves Ilya with an anoxic brain injury, he and Shane attempt to cope with their new normal.
Bookmarked by palebluepebble
23 Jul 2026
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jack of all trades, master of some by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
03 Jul 2026
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Shane likes to think of himself cross-sected and splayed open like a surgical diorama with pins in all the important parts. This is the part that causes the specimen to respond to anger, fear, hurt, love, with tears. This is the part that sometimes feels a little better after throwing up. This is the part that likes anal sex. This is the part that processes social interactions. See how it’s atrophied and dysfunctional?
He likes thinking about that sometimes, too. About every part of him being located somewhere along his genome, or pieced together like plastic organs in a 7th grade biology model all crammed in but only if assembled in the right sequence. Like the things that are wrong with him are traceable to something concrete that he can blame. The shape of his eyes? From his mom. Athleticism? From his dad. Being maybe gay? Probably a mutation. Definitely not supposed to be there.
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Essentially, how Shane Hollander learns to be a man.Series
- Part 3 of restgently's hollanov
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- English
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Bookmarked by palebluepebble
21 Jul 2026
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Ilya was a lot like his mama. Blond curls, bumpy noses, sharp cheekbones.
They both loved to dance around the kitchen and cook for the people they loved. They joked and laughed and when they were happy, their smiles shone.
They were both very, very sad.
Ilya saw his mama in everything. Especially himself.
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Ilya goes through a depressive episode. Shane helps.
Bookmarked by palebluepebble
20 Jul 2026