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    The MILF Theory (And Why the Internet Got It Wrong) by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    29 Dec 2025

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    The internet has decided that Ilya Rozanov is absolutely, definitely, 100% banging a Hollander.

    They’ve got photo evidence. Multiple sightings. Instagram stories from the same café. The man stayed OVERNIGHT at the Hollander residence.

    It’s the most legendary power move in NHL history: seduce your rival’s hot mom to assert dominance. There’s just one tiny problem with this theory. Ilya’s fucking a Hollander, all right. Just … not that one.

    Or in which Ilya’s boyfriend's mother keeps adopting him, the internet keeps assuming the worst, and Shane Hollander is having the worst month of his entire life. At least until he does something that breaks hockey forever.

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    Title: The MILF Theory (And Why the Internet Got It Wrong)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Summary:
    The internet has decided that Ilya Rozanov is absolutely, definitely, 100% banging a Hollander.

    They’ve got photo evidence. Multiple sightings. Instagram stories from the same café. The man stayed OVERNIGHT at the Hollander residence.

    It’s the most legendary power move in NHL history: seduce your rival’s hot mom to assert dominance. There’s just one tiny problem with this theory. Ilya’s fucking a Hollander, all right. Just … not that one.

    Or in which Ilya’s boyfriend's mother keeps adopting him, the internet keeps assuming the worst, and Shane Hollander is having the worst month of his entire life. At least until he does something that breaks hockey forever.
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    Don't Poke the Bear by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    24 Dec 2025

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    PS: Prompt is related to the events of The Long Game, so there will be spoilers for the plot of that book! Please heed tags as well <3

    After Shane and Ilya are outed in the events of The Long Game, Montréal and Ottawa play seven games against each other in the Eastern Conference.

    The Centaurs still love their captain, of course. The Voyageurs, however, are not so united.

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    A.K.A - Five times Shane’s team was an asshole to him, the one time Ilya got to do something about it, and the obvious humiliation ritual that is the Centaurs playing a game against a post-Hollander era Voyageurs.

    please do not repost, translate, or redistribute!

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    30 Dec 2025

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    Title: Don't Poke the Bear
    Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
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    PS: Prompt is related to the events of The Long Game, so there will be spoilers for the plot of that book! Please heed tags as well <3

    After Shane and Ilya are outed in the events of The Long Game, Montréal and Ottawa play seven games against each other in the Eastern Conference.

    The Centaurs still love their captain, of course. The Voyageurs, however, are not so united.

    _______

    A.K.A - Five times Shane’s team was an asshole to him, the one time Ilya got to do something about it, and the obvious humiliation ritual that is the Centaurs playing a game against a post-Hollander era Voyageurs.

    please do not repost, translate, or redistribute!
    Word count: 13,317

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    All I Do is Stay Winning by

    Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

    25 Dec 2025

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    “Can you believe it? How the hell did he end up bagging her?” 

    Ilya stared, brain not comprehending what his body already seemed to, that Hollander was dating-

    “Rose fuckin’ Landry! How does the lamest guy in the League-”

    He knew that smile. He thought it was for him, just for him. But it wasn't. 

    “No,” he whispered. His stomach spasmed. 

    “You good, Roz?”

    Why would he- How could he- 

    They were holding hands…

    “Rozanov? What the fuck?”

    He jumped up from the table and stumbled for the front door, just barely making it through before the first mass of petals came up. He heaved as he ran, trying desperately to get away from the pavement, somewhere he could hide what was happening. 

    Unfortunately, his teammates had followed, because of course they would. He saw a photo of Shane Hollander holding hands with a movie star and promptly threw up.

    Who wouldn't be curious?

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    Title: All I Do is Stay Winning
    Rating: Mature
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    “Can you believe it? How the hell did he end up bagging her?”

    Ilya stared, brain not comprehending what his body already seemed to, that Hollander was dating-

    “Rose fuckin’ Landry! How does the lamest guy in the League-”

    He knew that smile. He thought it was for him, just for him. But it wasn't.

    “No,” he whispered. His stomach spasmed.

    “You good, Roz?”

    Why would he- How could he-

    They were holding hands…

    “Rozanov? What the fuck?”

    He jumped up from the table and stumbled for the front door, just barely making it through before the first mass of petals came up. He heaved as he ran, trying desperately to get away from the pavement, somewhere he could hide what was happening.

    Unfortunately, his teammates had followed, because of course they would. He saw a photo of Shane Hollander holding hands with a movie star and promptly threw up.

    Who wouldn't be curious?
    Word count: 5,144

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    Until You Breathe Again by

    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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    28 Dec 2025

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    Title: Until You Breathe Again
    Rating: Mature
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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.
    Word count: 17,948

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    Deep Misunderstanding by

    Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)  

    12 Mar 2026

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    “Am I a bad friend?”

    Hayden has always been the guy Shane joked with, the guy he trusted to feed him without mocking him, the guy he roomed with on the road, and Shane is the only man who has ever seen Hayden cry, and Hayden loves Shane. He fucking loves him. They are like brothers, and they have been for almost ten fucking years. He’s always been Shane’s guy, Shane’s best friend.

    Except all along, maybe that wasn’t true. Ilya Rozanov, apparently, had been the guy. Before Hayden had ever met Shane, Ilya Rozanov had been there. And Hayden had never even noticed.

    Shane is all over every inch of Hayden’s life. Hayden thought that was reciprocal.
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    “You know I think about you all the time,
    And my deep misunderstanding of your life,
    And how bad it must have been for you back then,
    And how hard it was to keep it all inside.”

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    24 May 2026