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Not with a bang (with a whimper) by renvision89
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
08 Jul 2026
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Summary
What if the Vegas bathroom conversation happens instead in Sochi Airport?
What is Ilya is a little braver and a little more honest?
“Hollander. I do not reply to your boring texts. I tell you to go away. Not because I am asshole…”
The next words get caught in Ilya’s throat, he feels heat rising in his face as tears prick at the corners of his eyes.
“Because this is Russia. Because I never forgive myself if something happened to me… if something happened to you. If..” Ilya sniffs, clearing his throat in a vain attempt to regain what little composure he has left, unravelling in the mens bathroom of the departure gates of Sochi airport. The acrid smell of piss and toilet cleaner and stale cigarette smoke lingers in the air. This is not the place to be having this conversation. Not this room, this airport, not this fucking country.
‘If what?” Shane asks. His voice trembling, barely above a whisper.
Ilya opens his eyes. Fuck it, he thinks. If this is how it crashes and burns, if this is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper, in a disgusting, reeking, mens’ bathroom in Russia. So god damn be it.
“If I lost you.”