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The Weight of Still by amberlightfic
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Mar 2026
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On a Monday morning in October, Shane Hollander drops a mug of coffee and doesn't get back up.
Ilya is upstairs with the twins. He hears the sound — not the mug breaking, but the body. The thud of the person who holds it all upright. He puts the children down. He goes to the kitchen. Shane is on the floor, looking at Ilya, trying to say everything, but nothing comes out.
Stroke. Left hemisphere. Thirty-eight years old.
Shane spends six weeks in a hospital bed learning how to say his children's names. Ilya spends six weeks splitting himself into three people — the husband in the chair, the father in the nursery, the hockey player on the ice
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- Part 1 of The Weight
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09 Mar 2026
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On June 24th, 2022, during game seven of the Stanley Cup finals, Ilya Rozanov takes a skate blade to the thigh and bleeds out on the ice.
The next morning, Shane wakes up in his husband's arms. It's June 24th again, and Ilya is still alive.
Now Shane just needs to figure out how to keep him that way.
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Or: Shane gets stuck in a time loop.
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- Part 16 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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04 Mar 2026
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Ilya Rozanov walks into traffic by kwiewi
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Dec 2025
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“You know, statistically, I’m much less likely to get hit by a car. I’m not the one that almost walked into traffic a few minutes ago,” Shane says. “That was all you, Rozanov.”
He winks. “It is okay. I am very strong. A car could not run me over, I would run the car over with my big muscles,” he pats his bicep. “I am like that big green man. Very strong. Very angry. Massive dick.”
Shane flushes. “You’re not the fucking Hulk, man, shut up. You could not fight a car.”
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or: the obligatory hollanov meet-ugly- Language:
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02 Mar 2026
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get him back! by flairlies
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
19 Feb 2026
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Stuck in an alt-world where he and Shane never hooked up as teenagers, Ilya is determined to get Shane back. To do that, Ilya has to figure out a way to get Shane to see him as anyone other than the Russian asshole who has spent a decade pissing him off. It can't be that hard to make your husband fall in love with you... right?
Basically: Shane Hollander makes a wish with good intentions. Ilya Rozanov wakes up confused, single, closeted, and miserable in Boston.
+Bonus Chapter where AltWorld!Ilya wakes up confused, married, out, and carefree in Ottawa
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27 Feb 2026
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This may not sounds like a happy story— but we don't believe in sad endings around here. This is a beautifully happy story born from tragedy, the way real life often is.
This fic is an alternate ending (major character death) to Built to Break. It begins in Chapter 18, in the OR, when surgeons discover Shane’s Ewing sarcoma cannot be fully removed. Clean margins aren’t possible, and the goal shifts from cure to comfort. If you’ve read Built to Break, you can start at Chapter 18. It also works as a standalone—though rereading from Chapter 1, knowing how it ends, might hit a little harder in the gut.
What follows is the story of his final year— intentional, painful, and deeply beautiful—and the love that carries him through it. But this story does not end when Shane does. It continues through the aftermath: the firsts, the grief, the anger, and the slow, stubborn choice to keep living a life he would be proud of. It’s about chosen family, about carrying someone forward, and about believing that love doesn’t end here on earth.
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- Part 2 of Built to Break
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21 Feb 2026