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This thing that they have—whatever the hell it is—it’s good. It’s easy. It feels like the only thing keeping Ilya afloat sometimes.
He can’t let it get to a place where it’s more than just a good, convenient fuck and some fun teasing in between. Even if sometimes, in brief moments of tenderness, it already feels like it’s more than that. Or at least like it’s something that can be, if they just let it.
But they don’t. They can’t.
Although sometimes, Ilya does find himself giving in to the urge to look at Shane just a little bit longer, to let his touch be just a little bit gentler, more reverent, than what it would be for something as casual as they claim this to be—albeit sparingly.
Sometimes, just for a moment, he lets himself indulge. He lets some of that affection bleed out of him because he feels like he’ll implode if he doesn’t.
But he always catches himself before it can linger.
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where six months of ghosting is shane’s final straw and he cuts contact with ilya after vegas, tired of the wall that just keeps getting higher each time he tries to chip away at it
so ilya is forced to reckon with his feelings much sooner
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05 Jul 2026
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my love, my life by LunarMoonstone
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
20 Jun 2026
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Cliff watches him squeeze the phone between his cheek and shoulder, lifting the jersey over his head as he continues to talk, a bit distracted now by the multitasking.
“And was good practice, you know, for when I am your husband."
Immediately, the locker room goes dead silent. And so does Rozanov, in fact.
In which Ilya accidentally calls himself Shane's future husband in the middle of the Bears locker room. Worse still, they're not even dating yet.
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27 Jun 2026
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to have & to holler by badmetaphors
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
21 Feb 2026
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Two years of playing together, and it still hit him every time. The casualness of it. My husband. Said out loud, in public. After years of hiding—stolen moments in hotel rooms, careful distance in public, the constant exhausting performance of just teammates, just rivals, nothing to see here—now Ilya could say it like it was nothing. Like it was easy, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Because it was. Finally.
In which Ilya Hollander-Rozanov cannot shut up about his husband. (Subtitled: No one asked, Ilya. Ilya. No one asked.)
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13 Jun 2026
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Until You Breathe Again by underthewolfstars
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
08 Apr 2026
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Yuna's hand meets Ilya’s. The rivalry status that the league had painted over her son's relationship with the Russian now cast aside. They clutch to each other in silent acknowledgement of their shared pain, hope and fear in what had just manifested before their eyes. There's a uniting force in pain and grief—It's one that wipes slates clean, makes you forgive, makes you love harder and appreciate more than you ever thought possible. Everything she ever knew or felt about the Russian whose hand she now clung to was dissolved
Shane Hollander briefly dies on the ice after the hit from Marlow in the Montreal vs Boston Game. Ilya handles his emotions poorly and has a very public meltdown revealing their relationship to the world.
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- Part 1 of underthewolfstars hollanov fics
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07 Mar 2026
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That's Why It's Called Gay by Neurodivergence
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jan 2026
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Ilya realizes that people assume Shane is a bottom because [insert your favourite homophobic prejudice here]. Whatever the reason is, Ilya sticks to his guns and declares a stealth full-scale war to everyone involved. Of course, one day, Shane finds out.
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05 Mar 2026
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Merlin was a kind and gentle soul, sometimes too kind and too gentle for his own good. Or you know, his own wellbeing. Arthur on the other hand, well…there was a reason that Arthur’s manservant was considered off limits. Any who dared harm him was not long for Camelot (or this world for that matter).
Or the five people Merlin unintentionally gets exiled, and the one he gets exiled on purpose.
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- Part 13 of 5+1 Murther Stories
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29 Jan 2026
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your words are the lifeblood rushing through my veins (your shine burns brighter than a hollywood star) by stolenstars for OnceFutureEmrys
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Dec 2022
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This is wrong, this is so, so wrong. He needs to tell Merlin who he really is. He shouldn’t be doing this – whatever it is that this is – when Merlin doesn’t even know the half of what he’s getting into. When Merlin doesn’t know who Arthur really is. When Arthur can feel himself falling in love with a man who knows him better than anyone else in the world yet doesn’t know him at all.
But Merlin’s hand in his feels like everything he’s ever wanted, and there’s always tomorrow to tell him. Everything was too perfect, too earth-shatteringly wonderful to risk.
Until it wasn’t.
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27 Jan 2026
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It’s not that Lancelot thinks he’s entitled to anything. It’s not even that it burns to watch the two people he loves most revolve around a man he highly respects. Truly, it has nothing to do with either him or Arthur, he considers, watching Merlin quietly clean the knights’ swords by the light of the moon.
It’s just that he thinks Merlin deserves better, sometimes.
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- Part 4 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
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27 Jan 2026
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Merlin supposed they could have gone on like that for years, quietly together, but Arthur has been ready to tell Camelot that Merlin is his for a long, long time.
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- Part 4 of There's Magic in Camelot
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15 Jan 2026
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The Prince, despite his best efforts, could not stop his hand from shaking as he held his sword to Merlin’s- no, not Merlin’s- pulse. The boy tried to crawl backwards a bit, away from the sharp edge, but Arthur just moved forward with him. The sword trembled with adrenaline against the sorcerer’s pale skin.
Arthur couldn’t help but notice the boy’s ruddy cheeks, bright red from the cold and exertion. The snow made light dance in his tear tracks. The neckerchief that Merlin commonly wore was discarded on the snow; It must have fallen during the fight. It left his smooth neck exposed to the cold, riddled with goosebumps, and unmarred save for the blood-soaked steel, pressing in on his pulse point. Arthur could not deny that the… thing wearing Merlin’s face was beautiful.
Merlin is forced to reveal his powers during an attack. Chaos and angst ensue. I feel like most people give Arthur too much credit in magic reveals.
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14 Jan 2026
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“If not me rushing out to knock out that man, you’d have been riddled with bullets by now.”
“You? That's bloody hilarious. I could take you apart with one blow.”
Merlin wiped blood from his lip, adrenaline surging, mixing with something hotter. Arthur's grip tightened, bodies pressed close in the shadows, the alley reeking of garbage and gunpowder.
“Okay. We'll try.” Merlin muttered, dropping to his knees on the gritty pavement. His nose throbbed, blood trickling steady, but he didn't care. He fumbled Arthur's belt open, yanking down the zipper with bloody fingers.
Agent Merlin nearly lost the man he loved.
So did Agent Arthur.
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- Part 38 of Merthur fic
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06 Jan 2026
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What matters is that you waging a war in the kitchen on my behalf by gloriask
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
28 Dec 2025
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He would do something useful. Something modern. Modern husbands took care of their partners when they were sick. They cooked. They provided nourishment. How hard could it be?
Arthur propped his phone against the kettle and squinted at YouTube.
“Easy chicken noodle soup,” the video chirped cheerfully.
Arthur narrowed his eyes. “We’ll see about that.”
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- Part 36 of Merthur fic
- Part 3 of Arthur Returns 21st Century
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05 Jan 2026
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“Sometimes,” Uther said, leaning forward, “no matter how strong you are alone, you will need someone else by your side. Someone who will make your days easier.” He looked at Merlin expectantly. “Do you understand what I’m suggesting?”
“… You want us to… visit more often?”
“No!” cried Uther.
“No,” Merlin echoed, shaking his head.
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Merlin doesn’t want to think about his relationship with Arthur, because there is nothing to think about. His relationship with his friend/boss/blond jerk whose life he happened to save when they first met, is completely normal. The people in his life disagree.
AKA “5 times the people around Merlin try to tell him something + 1 time Merlin tells Arthur something” (though not strictly structured as such)
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01 Jan 2026
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The first bad thing is that Merlin doesn't bring him breakfast.
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30 Dec 2025
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"All's fair in love and war."
"And which is this?"
"That's for you to decide."
"Well then, I know what I pick," he hummed, stepping closer to Arthur. "And who can blame me?" Merlin reached to touch him at last, hands going to Arthur's soft hips.
"Mm. I don't know. I'm not the young, virile knight I was when we met."
"No. You're better."
"You're getting sentimental, Merlin."
"Yet you're the one who married me. Sire."
In Camelot's golden age, Merlin and Arthur are heading towards middle age together. Merlin still loves Arthur’s body, with all the fervour of that young boy who answered him back when they first met.
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14 Dec 2025
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Everyone knows Jayce can’t keep a secret. He can’t help it, most of the time the urge to gossip gets the better of him.
On the other hand, no one has ever doubted Viktor’s ability to do so. He’s a trustworthy man; he’d never be the one to let something slip.
It is known. It is respected.
Well. Until the one time he really, really ought to hide something from Jayce, for the very first time in their years-long relationship.
And the worst part? It’s not even his fault.
-Written for Pregnant Viktor Week Day 1: 'Finding out Viktor is Pregnant' (and 'Telling Friends and Family')-
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- Part 1 of Slices of life
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29 Nov 2025
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“See, Merlin?” Arthur says, holding up his empty hands. “Nothing to worry about.”
It’s never nothing, Merlin thinks very loudly, but does not say.
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28 Nov 2025
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In which Arthur is in love with Merlin and decides that now he is king, it's time he shows Merlin just how much he loves and appreciates him
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The one where Arthur courts Merlin and gives him the best gift he ever could
~ Arthur, the king of Camelot, the Once and Future King, is kneeling before him on the grass, looking up at him with nothing but devotion.
Merlin’s heart skips a beat.
“Arthur what-” ~
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21 Nov 2025
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When Arthur decides he is ready to try to court the one he wants, Merlin swallows his feelings for his friend and offers to help. Some one-on-one quality time ensues, his feelings grow instead of the opposite, and everything hurts a little more than he had expected (right up until it doesn't anymore).
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21 Nov 2025
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Tom the Blacksmith gets so much more than he bargained for when he decides to adopt the baby he finds floating down the river in a basket. Eighteen years later, Merlin has grown into quite the proficient swordsman-- and quite the powerful sorcerer. When Crown Prince Arthur Pendragon convinces his father to hold an open melee with a knighthood as the prize, Merlin, his brother Elyan, and a ragtag group of commoners decide to enter. They soon discover that there is much more at play in the tournament than stuck-up knights and a contemptuous king. As Arthur becomes smitten with Merlin-- whose skill with a sword is unparalleled-- he discovers that there is so much more to this strange, mouthy blacksmith's son than he had initially imagined.
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20 Nov 2025