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Getting information out of Ilya about his family was like getting blood from stone. Maybe harder. It had been one of the first things Shane had noticed about him. Any questions about his parents – the kind of typical things Shane’s mom had taught him to ask to make polite conversations – would result in brusque, emotionless answers or, worse, actual anger.
But somewhere out there was Irina’s granddaughter. The only remaining blood relative that Ilya gave a shit about.
And Ilya could never go back, which was Shane’s fault.
So that bothered him.
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09 Jun 2026
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The Vocabulary of Exile by thesevenpercent
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
25 Jun 2026
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At twenty-one, Ilya Rozanov is the Soviet Union’s most perfect weapon, a soldier of the Red Machine who has spent three years locked in a silent, jagged war on the ice with Canada’s golden boy, Shane Hollander.
When the Montreal Metros claim him as a "wasted" mid-round draft pick, the rivalry transforms from a professional grudge into a desperate lifeline. On the final night of the 1988 Calgary Olympics, he risks everything, his family, his career, and his safety, to start a new life in the West. Forced into a high-stakes billet under the roof of his bitter professional rival, Ilya must navigate a world where freedom feels like a new kind of prison.
As Ilya struggles to adapt, the crumbling Soviet empire reaches across the ocean, searching for leverage to help pull him back.
OR: What if Ilya fled Russia in 1988 to play for the Montreal Metros?
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- Part 1 of Defective
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23 May 2026
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"I dom men too," Sid says dubiously, now clearly trying to find a secret offering of equal merit.
Zhenya snorts, endeared against his will by Sid, which happens too often for his liking. He decides not to share that he would sub to men, if it weren't riskier than subbing to women, on the off chance that Sid thinks that he has to come up with another confession in return. "Thanks for telling," he says sincerely instead.
Sid looks up from where he has been staring unfocusedly at the beer he has only had two sips of. "Have you been bratting because you haven't had a scene in too long?"
Being a hockey player has been more important to Zhenya than almost anything else about him - being a man, being Russian, being a sub. He hasn't regretted what he gave up to play in the NHL, but there are days when he's very lonely. Being able to play with Sid helps. It takes a while for them to figure out the rest.
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16 May 2026
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04 May 2026
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Snapshots by Openuntilmidday
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Apr 2026
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His voice feels thin when he speaks again. ‘He used to hit me when things went wrong. Even when I didn’t know what I did.’
‘Like when?’
Ilya shakes his head. ‘I don’t remember. Was long time ago. Just if I was bad.’
It takes him a little while to realise that Shane is shaking.
What’s worse, much worse than his father’s raised voice or raised hand, is having to confront the fact that his father no longer remembers a lot of what he’s done to Ilya.
Only his body remembers the history of what he’s endured. When he listens to his father cry down the phone like a child, asking for Irina, he can almost convince himself that he’s made all of it up.
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25 Apr 2026
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4 Minute Window by Speranza
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jan 2015
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"Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."
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- Part 1 of 4 Minute Window
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20 Apr 2026
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What We Asked For From Each Other by Speranza for Merry, lim
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Jun 2014
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"I don't like pain," he told Banner. "Or assassins. Or boyfriends, actually."
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20 Apr 2026
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The first week after Steve walked out of SHIELD, he went clubbing.
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- Part 14 of Captain America works
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19 Apr 2026
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without changing a part of me by gurlsrool
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
31 Dec 2025
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"We could have some fun tonight. You, wearing my clothes…”
“Shut up,” Shane says, annoyed by the thrill the words send through him. Life would be so much easier if he wasn’t wrapped around Ilya Rozanov’s finger—or fingers is probably more accurate.
Or: 5 times Shane didn’t plan on stealing Ilya’s clothes, +1 time he absolutely did
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02 Apr 2026
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“What is the League saying?” Shane asks. He’s almost scared to find out, but they need to know what they’re dealing with here.
“They want you back, obviously. They don’t know why Rozanov hasn’t made any demands yet-”
And it’s ridiculous and so, so like his Mom to be disappointed in someone for being inefficient at kidnapping her son.
“I am thinking about it!” Ilya protests. “Has been only two hours!”
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02 Apr 2026
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Skills clinic by thetimesinbetween
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Apr 2026
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Luca hadn’t been sure he would go through with the plan. He’d talked himself into it and out of it about fifty times.
But he's made it this far. He's sitting with Shane Hollander, just the two of them. Now all he needs to do it open his mouth and—
“Look,” Shane is saying, “if you wanted to talk through coming out, I th—”
“I can’t figure out anal sex,” Luca blurts.
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30 Mar 2026
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it'll cost you, not enough to bring you down by notlichenthis
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
31 Dec 2025
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"You are Hunter's boyfriend," the guy says, looming. He's holding a glass of vodka that probably costs more than what Kip earns in a day.
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11 Mar 2026
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Everything Special About You Came Out of a Bottle by rWolfWrites
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 May 2025
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The soldier did not like remembering. Remembering meant being somewhere else. He had never been anywhere good. He remembered places, faces, blood.
A child with Captain America’s face.*~*~*~*
Or, What If - HYDRA designs Steve clones but because of his *full suite* of pre-serum health issues, they add some Bucky DNA.
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24 Feb 2026
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Rhoklan looked down at the woven liana floor, and held his hands out, palm up.
Every time he apologised, he did that. Real error, false error, something that had nothing to do with him, he always stood like that, hands held out as an offering while he hid his face behind a curtain of white hair.
Suppressed irritation rattled in her chest. The problem was that she could not get angry with him for the habit without him doing it more.
It had taken her a month to work out why. The idea that it would even come up only angered her more. Even if she was purely a heartless pragmatist, why would she strike her secretary’s hands? He needed those to write!
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15 Feb 2026
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All the First Times by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
13 Apr 2014
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Bucky starts over and finds new ways to survive.
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- Part 1 of Our Numbered Days
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13 Feb 2026
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and here’s to my real friends by writinginasnowglobe
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Jan 2026
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Shane loved the Centaurs. He really did. They felt like a second family, and Shane would never take that for granted.
They had one flaw, however. Boundaries, for some reason, seemed to be a foreign concept to the entire team.
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10 Feb 2026
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He’d had hope, after those talks, that when the sting of Olympic loss had faded he and Auguste would be able to salvage something of their old friendship. This doesn’t seem likely now. Sorry I gave you a concussion when I checked you is one thing; sorry I beat you out for the gold medal and then had your little brother wear it while I fucked him is another.
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10 Feb 2026
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They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
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- Part 2 of my heated rivalry anon fics
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04 Feb 2026
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when I’m gone you’ll need love to light the shadows on your face by suzukiblu for fanfic-obsessed
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Jul 2015
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He doesn’t know why he’s thinking about it. It’s been two months; they’re barely even questioning him anymore.
It’s obvious that no one’s ever letting him see Steve again.
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03 Feb 2026
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The King is dead. The Citadel has fallen.
Sidney follows the Bear of the North home.
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26 Jan 2026