7 Works by tarantuladad
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nobunny like you by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
05 Sep 2026
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“You really don’t mind?” Scott asks, hunched over his breakfast but not eating, looking around nervously as if scanning for a threat.
Normally Kip would make a comment about how Scott eats like someone is going to steal his food, but he can feel anxiety coming off Scott in waves and holds back. Kip blinks. “Don’t mind what?”
Scott’s fidgeting. “Me.” He pauses, gnaws on his lower lip. “Being, um. Being a Shifter. You don’t mind?”
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getting tired of livin til i die by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Aug 2026
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What’s left? He has the Olympic gold medal and the Stanley Cup, and everything still feels bad.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, he’s not stupid enough to think winning a gold medal or the Cup would fix him, okay? He knows that no matter what he does or where he goes, he’s still him and that’s the problem. He’s still the only child orphan and love isn’t for people like him and his stupid fucking hockey team is his family, but he also can’t let his family know him because they won’t like the real him anymore as if liking this fake version of him really counts for anything and Jesus fucking Christ—
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Cat Got Your Tongue by tarantuladad for woodenducks
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Jul 2026
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Scott's aware it's stupid that he's so nervous about this. He's 44 years old and nervous about a cat.
Or: Scott and Kip adopt a cat.
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dig in with your heels / and carry your own weight by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
12 Jul 2026
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[Messy, frantic.]
In the event this journal is recovered, give it to Christopher Hunter-Grady. Kip I’ll love you forever. I’m so sorry.
[Several lines are skipped. Writing is now neater, less frantic.]
Writing in the event of our rescue or retrieval as a record of what happened.
Yesterday there was a storm, the Admirals team plane went off course to avoid it, and the plane went down.
Wish I had more information. I don’t know what happened mechanically to cause the crash. I don’t know where we are.
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I wanna be your dog / oh, to be completely at your beck and call by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
01 Jun 2026
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“He’s all bark and no bite, really. He’s a good dog.”
Carter snorts. “Really?”
“Nah, he’s good.”
Scott lets himself imagine, if just for a second, being Kip’s dog. He can feel a phantom collar around his neck. Kip’s hand is still in his hair. His chest feels warm and he’s so so glad Carter and Kip are looking at the TV, not at him. He wills himself to appear normal because he’s sure the way his heart is thumping, the heat in his face, the giddy desire to do whatever Kip asks, even to be his dog if he wanted, isn’t normal.
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luck and misfortune by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 Mar 2026
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Scott knows he’s a lucky guy. Between the scholarship — yes, even though he’s well-aware getting said scholarship was very much a result of him being an orphan— and finding Kip and finding a family that consists of his lovely husband, father-in-law, assorted former teammates, the spouses of those teammates, and now the children of those teammates, Scott knows he’s lucky. He thinks about how lucky he is all the time.
He was the first person to hold Jacob Vaughn other than Carter and Gloria. He and Kip are Jacob’s godfathers, and Scott definitely didn’t cry when Carter asked them if they would be his godfathers, thank you very much.
And now Jacob is 12.
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numbers you squeeze from your head by tarantuladad
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
11 Feb 2026
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Scott Hunter has a system, okay, and this system prevents bad things from happening. He's well-aware of what happens when he maintains his system and what happens when he fails to do so.
When he flickers the lights three times before leaving before a road trip, the team plane doesn’t crash. When he puts the silverware away just right, Kip stays safe. When he drums on the counter in that specific pattern, no career-ending injuries occur. When he cleans, makes sure the floors are spotless, he knows he’ll be okay and feels the buzzing energy in his hands dissipate. When he silently prays as he lies in bed next to Kip before falling asleep even though he’s not been a practicing Catholic for years, he knows things will be okay in the end.
As long as he does what he needs to do, it will be okay.
It's been getting worse.