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1. Safer in Chains Than to be Free by 4242424242424242424242424242424

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

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   09 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • David Hollander & Shane Hollander & Yuna Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Yuna Hollander
   • Alexei Rozanov | Andrei Rozanov
   • Ottawa Centaurs Team Ensemble (Game Changers)
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Police Brutality
   • Franz Kafka References
   • POV Alternating
   • Ilya Rozanov Has PTSD
   • Anxious Shane Hollander
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Russia
   • Alternate Universe - Soulmates
   • Soulmate-Identifying Marks
   • Major Character Injury
   • Post-Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
   • Rumors
   • Shane Hollander Is Bad at Feelings
   • Irina Rozanova Haunts the Narrative
   • Bureaucracy
   • Protective Ottawa Centaurs (Game Changers)
   • Blood and Violence
   • Love Confessions
   • Coming Out
   • Escape
   • Leaving Home
   • Alexei Rozanov | Andrei Rozanov Being an Asshole
   • Mix of Show and Book Canon
   • Hockey
   • but like barely
   • Subspace
   • but not how you're thinking
   • Slurs
   • Homophobia
   • but we can be honest mostly hurt
   • Rated E for violence - Sexual content is mild

   Summary

   The name of your soulmate only appears once your realize you are in love with them.
   "Shane Hollander" appears on Ilya's chest before the Sochi Olympics. He tells nobody, and then he disappears.

   Six months later, Shane gets a call from an unknown number. Ilya. In Montreal, and completely different.
   It doesn't matter, though, and the next morning there's a line of Cyrillic across his chest.

   Timeline goes back and forth.

   Series

   • Part 1 of This is Love

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