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It's Brave to Be Nothing to No One At All by hollano_ov
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
11 Apr 2026
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A road trip through California, a nice second hand car, and the beginning of the end.
or: Shane and Ilya agree to end it on a good note.
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23 Apr 2026
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The exhaustion is already clawing at Ilya, but in his half-awake state, the darkness reminds him of the events of the day. He reaches out between them, finds Shane's hand, and holds it. He can feel Shane turn his head to look at him curiously, even if there isn't much to see.
"So we do not drift apart when we are asleep," Ilya explains sleepily, knowing it probably makes no sense. It makes sense to him though, so it has to matter in some way.
"Oh," Shane says back quietly. "Like the otters?"
Ilya smiles in the darkness. "Yes," he says. "Like the otters."
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One Night by MeropeMerope for kosegruppie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jan 2026
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Stick to your guns, Ilya thinks. Sex. With Hollander. That’s simple. Straightforward.
Except nothing about this night has been straightforward. The more time he spends with Hollander, the more he wants him - and not just the sex. He wants it all: the reading glasses, earnest ramblings, moral compulsions. The sweetness Hollander tries to hide. The way he holds back from almost everyone, even from himself, but never from Ilya.
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or: After Vegas, Ilya knows he should end it with Hollander. He likes trouble, yes. Doesn’t mean he likes feeling scraped raw by wanting impossible things. Then they are marooned together for a very long, very strange night during which Ilya begins to suspect – shakily, reluctantly – that they might be… something.NOW COMPLETE!
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Bookmarked by scarliefrancis
18 Mar 2026
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The image of Ilya as the Barberini faun 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
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courage [it couldn't come at a worse time] by veilofimagination
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Feb 2026
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"Why are you not scared?"
"I am scared," Ilya admits. "I just am tired. Of hiding me. Of hiding you. Of hiding how much I love you. I want to go to the rink— how do you say it? Authenti."
"Authentically," Shane supplies, automatically.
"Yes. Authentically. I want to go to the rink authentically, as me," Ilya confirms.
Ilya looks at Shane, pauses until Shane meets his eyes. "I want to say: I, Ilya Rozanov, love a man, and that man's name is Shane Hollander."
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Or, sometimes it takes a little more time, and some courage, to be with the one you love.
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Ilya used to not miss anything when he returned to Moscow during the off-season. He was standing in a convenience store, some July day in 2015, flipping through the newsstand, when it hit him that he didn’t particularly care about anything going on there. He was counting down the days before he could get on his flight back to Boston, as if there was anything there to greet him on his return. Maybe it wasn’t Boston he was missing. The realization is not welcome.
“Do you think you will stay in Boston?” Shane asks, stroking Ilya’s upper arm. His touch is soft. Ilya wants it endlessly.
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Bookmarked by scarliefrancis
10 Mar 2026
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Fantastic work. Profound and bittersweet
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They walk through the park, Ilya eating vanilla ice cream out of a wafer cone, and his mother tells him about all the birds, even though Ilya rarely remembers more than the most common: the house sparrows and the gulls and the finches. The brown-wood park benches they sit on face a thin river, and by the time mother has named every bird in view, Ilya is licking the last sticky drops of ice cream off his fingers. His hands are dirty.“Only a few of them stay here during winter,” his mother tells him. “Moscow is quite cold. Sometimes it is better to go elsewhere.”
Ilya looks up at her, but she is staring into the river, her hands stained with paint she had not bothered washing off, and he imagines her taking flight.
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Sexy Boy by hoko_onchi, veradubhghoill for greattemptation
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
15 Feb 2026
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“Terrible name, by the way,” Ilya told Svetlana. “We will need to think of new one. This is not 1970’s porn. He is pretty and innocent. Sweet.”
“Oh,” Svetlana said, craning her neck to stare at Ilya’s laptop. “Oh. He is just your type.”
“I don’t have a type,” Ilya lied. If Ilya did have a type—and he did, maybe a little, because if a man didn’t have a preference, he didn’t get to have an opinion—it was this. Muscular but not in an obsessive bodybuilder sort of way, a strong brow, and an ass that Ilya could practically see jiggle when spanked.