LD Long Reads
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What ever comes i'll be here. by SnowyHusky
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jun 2026
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shane gets outed by a sports news paper reporter. what will happen, how will people take it, how will he take it.
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your eyes, they turn me by Cookiebycookie
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
01 Jul 2026
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The Boston Bears group chat had sixty-three new messages in the span of three minutes.
His coffee forgotten, Ilya swiped open the chat, scrolling quickly to find the source of the commotion. A link to The Athletic, posted by Jensen, their captain, followed by a string of exclamation points. Ilya tapped it, the headline materializing on his screen like a blow to the chest:
BREAKING: MONTREAL VOYAGEURS’ SECOND DRAFT SHANE HOLLANDER ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
Ilya's pulse jumped, hard and sudden in his throat. The mug slipped from his hand, not falling but landing too heavily on the counter, coffee slopping over the rim. He set it down properly, his movements mechanical, and forced himself to read the rest of the headline:
20-YEAR-OLD ROOKIE OF THE YEAR STEPPING AWAY TO PURSUE HARVARD BUSINESS DEGREE
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Shane Hollander has spent his entire life living and breathing hockey. At twenty, at the height of his career, he makes an unthinkable choice: he walks away to discover who he is beyond the ice.
But some things don’t stay behind.
What happens when the rivalry between him and Rozanov ends, but the pull doesn’t?
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Only Know You Love Him When You Let Him Go by ChaoticRussian2481
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 May 2026
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Losing in front of his family and country at the Sochi Olympics hurts.
Realizing he can no longer have Shane Hollander hurts more.
Ilya Rozanov is going to do what he’s always done - sacrifice what he wants for what the world expects. He lets Shane go and builds a life that looks perfect from the outside.
Dating actress Rose Landry should make everything simple and easy.
It would be, if Shane Hollander knew how to lose.
Unfortunately for Ilya, Shane has never been very good at that.
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We Just Did It For You And Me by ChaoticRussian2481 for justthingsifind
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jun 2026
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Ilya let out a quiet laugh, shaking his head. “I want to be perfect for you, Shane. To make up for all the time we lost.”
“I don’t want perfect,” Shane said quietly, stroking Ilya’s cheek. “I want something real. Something that we fight to make work, because we want it so much. Because being together is so much fucking better than being without each other.”
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Ten years ago, Shane and Ilya loved each other in secret and let each other go anyway.
Now Shane, captain of the Ottawa Centaurs, is a single dad to four-year-old Ollie, and good at pretending he doesn’t think about the man he lost when they were younger and terrified of the fallout of being caught. Then one chance meeting turns into drinks, lingering looks, old feelings, and suddenly Ilya Rozanov is everywhere again.
Some things, it turns out, never really leave you.
As Shane and Ilya fall back into each other’s lives - and into something softer, steadier, and openly theirs this time — they realise maybe they’re finally ready for the life they used to dream about.
Or: two hockey players who were each other’s first love reconnect ten years later and slowly build the family they always wanted.
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- Part 1 of Shane, Ollie and Illy
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Second Line by sydhollanov
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Feb 2026
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They met at thirteen in a locker room that smelled like sweat and cheap detergent.
Shane thought he'd forget the loud Russian boy with the crooked smile.
He didn't.
Years later, they're drafted to the same team. Teammates. Strangers.
Except Shane still knows exactly where Ilya is on the ice without looking.
Some habits never die.