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When Eliot wakes up after being freed from the Monster, Quentin is there with him. Eliot gets to be brave. Because it's what they deserved.
"He had missed him. If he was honest with himself, which he was admittedly not in the habit of doing, he'd been missing Quentin long before things went so wrong at Castle Blackspire. He may have had his friend Quentin during the the last leg of the key quest, but he missed Quentin his partner, Quentin the love of his goddamn life."
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a knife cannot cut itself open by officialspicybear
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
19 Oct 2026
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Shane gasped and stumbled backwards. “Three weeks? You decided-” his hands flew to his mouth. “How could you do this without talking to me? This is what? To punish me because I won’t come out on your timeline?”
Ilya felt a stab of anger. “You won’t come out on any timeline!”
Shane blinked at him. “I literally drove here tonight because I wanted to know if you would accept six to twelve months!”
“A timeline,” he barked. “This is our lives, Shane. I want to be with you fully now. I know you are scared, but you need to be brave, and I am so deeply fucking unhappy being your dirty little secret.”
“That’s not fair Ilya, it’s going to be complicated for me. I’m already the only Asian captain in the league! The media, sponsors, the Voyageurs? It’s going to need to be carefully managed-”
After the Boxing Day fight, Ilya makes an impulsive decision and agrees to a trade to Vancouver, while Shane stays in Montreal and nurses his broken heart. But an ending isn't always an ending, and the spectre of their love burns far too brightly to go down easy. A tale of love, heartache, redemption, and forging the happiness you deserve for yourself.
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- Part 1 of For what binds us
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21 Oct 2026
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one touch and i'll take it personal by idlyfretting
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
19 Oct 2026
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"Why did you say that?" Shane asks quietly after they've showered and crawled into bed. He can tell Ilya is half asleep already, and he hadn't meant to say anything at all.
Ilya hums at him, a confused noise. Shane almost doesn't say anything, but Ilya squeezes his side, holding him still instead of pulling him closer.
"Why did you tell Harris that you've loved me since Saskatchewan?"
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Shane starts to spiral, thinking about what a person can do to someone that they love. (He should probably talk to someone about this, but he probably won't, at least for a little while.)
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14 Oct 2026
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Ilya stood next to Svetlana, jaw tight, fists clenched ... helpless. He had failed to lead the Russian Olympic hockey team to victory and now his child, little Mishenka (Mikhail), would pay the price.
His father did not tolerate failure. The terms were stated explicitly. If he wanted to see his child, he had to win. His father had no mercy. Svetlana had made the mistake of going home to bear their son, a son who had been confiscated at birth and prevented from following his parents west, held hostage to ensure compliance. Now, Ilya's father would once again prevent him and Sveta from seeing their two year old son.
It was a devastating loss. After his father's cutting words ended, Ilya walked away. Sveta and he both found a separate quiet corner to grieve as they packed their bags and got on a plane. Watching Russia fall away from beneath the wheels of the jet, he did not allow himself to cry.
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Shane habitually defied expectations. The Canadian Olympic hockey player surprised Russian Officials, survived a fire at sea, defied his mother, and found a whole new gear when he stole a small child with curly blond hair. Now he had to get the two of them out of Russia.
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10 Oct 2026
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Four months post Sochi, four months of being ghosted by Ilya Rozanov, the Metros are bought by Petrov 7, a multi-national corporation headed up by Mikhail Petrov, an openly out billionaire who has plans to transform the MLH, starting with the Metros.
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07 Oct 2026
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The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows by mailroomorder
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
07 Oct 2026
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There was no “No Son of Mine” lecture, no slurs were ever thrown around, and neither Shane nor Ilya were ever banished from Yuna and David’s house or life. Instead, a quiet questioning began, where all of Shane’s choices were investigated for motive and reason.
When did this start? When did it become serious? Are you sure about this?
When David first walked in on Shane and Ilya kissing, and Shane had to make what felt like a walk of shame to his parents house with Ilya in tow, he assumed that all he had to do was rip the bandaid off. There was no more hiding, there was no pretending this didn’t happen. The truth was out there whether he liked it or not, and he was vocal with Ilya about not liking it at all. But, he told himself, he just had to man up. He could do this. Rip the bandaid off, tell the truth, and tomorrow will be better.
He was really incredibly wrong about that.
Or: When Shane’s parents find out he’s gay and dating Ilya, they don’t accept it – instead, they push back. What follows is two of the most difficult years of Shane’s life. AU after Book 2/Season 1.
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08 Oct 2026