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1. (the losing touch) the waiting game by pavements

   Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   06 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Ilya Rozanov & Svetlana Vetrova
   • Shane Hollander & Rose Landry
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Svetlana Vetrova
   • Rose Landry
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Major Character Injury
   • Hockey Player Ilya Rozanov
   • Physical Therapist Shane Hollander
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Mentions of hospitals
   • Description of Injuries
   • Slow Burn
   • Developing Friendships
   • Good Friend Svetlana Vetrova
   • Chronic Pain
   • Character Study
   • the beauty in non-linear healing
   • POV Alternating

   Summary

   The first time Grigori Rozanov calls him pathetic, Ilya is twelve years old and hyperventilating in the backseat of his father’s beat-up Lada Riva, three months after his mother dies.

   The first time Grigori Rozanov calls Ilya pathetic, something in him cauterizes. Ilya learns the cost of weakness, and he swears, silently and definitively, that no one will ever see him like that again.

   (or, Ilya Rozanov gets injured, and the Centaurs’ last sure thing stops being sure at all. Enter Shane Hollander.)

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