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Ilya’s not stupid. Ilya is a fucking hockey prodigy who talked circles around everyone on his team in Russia — some coaches included — with his ideas for strategy and different plays. But all the words from back then are useless to him here, and the words he has at his disposal now don’t do justice to a single thing he wants to say.
Ilya and the English language, through the years.
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“We haven’t had sex in…” Shane pauses, does the mental math to get from yesterday morning to right now, and comes up with “thirty-six hours.”
Ilya blinks. Once, twice, like he needs it to check Shane’s math and wrap his head around the stupidly broad smile on his boyfriend’s face.
“Hollander,” he eventually bites out. “Blyat. Why the fuck do you say this like it’s good thing?”
Or; a soft little cottage interlude.
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They don’t sleep together, that night when he kisses her on the sidewalk outside her place. When he asks her to stay.
or; Gibbs and Lala, post season two finale.
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Bertha will never forget the look on George’s face when he left her in Newport.
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She knows exactly where her husband has gone in the wee hours of the night.
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outside, looking in by epigraphs
Fandom Law & Order: Organized Crime (TV 2021), Law & Order: SVU
20 Nov 2022
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A collection of outsider pov fics for Olivia and Elliot from Law & Order: SVU and OC.
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couldn't buy you flowers (while i was in the 9 to 5) by epigraphs
Fandom Law & Order: SVU
05 Oct 2021
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One Hundred and Thirty-Eight New Messages by CreteIsland
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Apr 2026
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Ilya is not going to do anything. He knows this. He's also standing very still.
He thinks about his mother's arm, hanging over the side of the bed. He was twelve. He'd thought she was sleeping.
He closes the cabinet.
The face in the mirror is someone he recognizes in the way you recognize a city you lived in as a child: the basic geography is familiar, but you can't find anything you're looking for.
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Or: A closer look at Ilya’s first year in Ottawa, set against his first in Boston—featuring a long-lost answering machine he claimed he’d never listen to, the family inevitably left behind when you move, and the mostly self-imposed pressure of loving a man as large and looming as the great Shane Hollander.
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21 Jul 2026
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a pox on all your houses by apocryphal
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
20 Jul 2026
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"Chlamydia?" Ilya has never heard Hollander's voice reach such heights in the absence of a cock. "You have chlamydia?"
"I did not get it on purpose," Ilya complains.
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20 Jul 2026
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six degrees of shane & ilya by flairlies
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 May 2026
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Six small moments of chance over the course of forty-or-so years that see Ilya and Shane's strings of fate intersect.
Includes snapshots from a Paris train station, a Hollywood night club, the lobby of an Ottawa Marriott, a Danish gift shop, and more.
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20 Jul 2026
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i wanna share an apartment, a room, and a bed by sargeantwoof
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
11 Jan 2026
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Shane's been on the receiving end of Hayden's assessing gaze enough times to be able to guess at what he's going to ask next as he wrinkles his nose and juts his chin out, narrowing his gaze at them. “You know, you never really did say how long it was that you two were hooking up for before you got serious.”
“Is a long time,” Ilya says, with more than a little bit of pride in his tone. Shane tips his head back to meet his eyes and shrugs. Neither of them has ever dropped anything more than several years in interviews, keeping the details to themselves, but it’s less of an issue than he expects. He sort of wants to brag about how long it’s been; he wants to celebrate the fact that they had all those broken years together and still managed to make it through.
At this point, they’re coming up on more years together than not, which is insane if he thinks about it too hard.
OR: As always, the truth shall set [Shane] free.
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- Part 11 of heated rivalry masterlist
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19 Jul 2026
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“If you don’t come here, I will come to you.”
“Rozanov.”
“I will drive,” Ilya tells him without sympathy. “Park illegally in my big muscle car. Everyone will notice. Lots of photos, probably.”
Shane rubs his forehead. He gets to his feet and glances at his bag, still packed, on the hotel dresser.
“I hate your car,” he says, at last.
“Yes, I know,” Ilya says. It sounds like he’s smiling.
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13 Jul 2026