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Strength In Numbers by whimzies
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
15 Jun 2026
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No, the hardest part for Ilya is that he still feels exactly the same.
His brain still feels slow in the way that it has for most of the off-season, like an engine trying to run on empty. Every task, the motor sputters, fighting to start. Hockey is still hard. Life is still hard. Terry had told him not to expect the medication to work straight away; it can take a couple of weeks to get into your system, he had said, and sometimes things might get worse before they get better. Things aren’t worse a few days in, but they aren’t better either; just the same. The same emptiness, the same ache, the same worry that perhaps he’s always going to feel like this.
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In which the Centaurs take care of their captain.