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1. Small Flowers (or, how to grow a family) by thedeepandlovelydark

   Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

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

   08 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Post-Canon
   • Slice of Life
   • Established Relationship
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Adoption
   • Parenthood
   • Retirement
   • Happily Ever After
   • Growing Old Together
   • Married Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander
   • Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov
   • so many forehead kisses

   Summary

   Shane Hollander is, by his own husband's longtime assessment, the most boring man he'd ever met. Disciplined. Earnest. Aggressively principled. Ilya married him anyway, which says everything you need to know about how the last fifty years went.
   After the career, the championships, the years of hotel rooms and close calls and things left unsaid, Shane and Ilya are retired, married, and thoroughly domesticated.

   Mostly.

   Or, a story told in snapshots across half a century. Paperwork and nurseries and birthday cakes and wedding aisles and summer evenings at the lake. All the small ordinary moments that add up into an extraordinary life.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   19,547

   Chapters:

   8/?

   Comments:

   13

   Kudos:

   104

   Bookmarks:

   38

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