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Haunting Your City by mightyd0lphin
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
26 Feb 2026
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“What is there to talk about?”
“What’s there to talk about?!” Hollander scoffed, shaking his head. “You’re playing for my fucking team!”
“I know.”
“Why did you have to go and get traded?! You realise we’re going to have to see each other every day from now on, and play together, and-”
“Yes,” Ilya interrupted. He didn’t want to know how long Hollander’s list was. “I know.”
Hollander took a deep breath. “Okay, listen,” he said. “Just so we’re clear - we don’t know each other outside of playing against each other, right?”
“Right.”
“And we can’t- can’t hook up anymore.”
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OR: Ilya gets traded to Montreal in October 2014. He's lonely, and angry, and he misses Boston. He doesn't know if it helps that Hollander is there or not.
title from Buckle by Florence and the Machine
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04 Apr 2026
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Ilya drank his tea. He was glad they didn’t have a game this evening - he didn’t think he’d be able to play. Shane didn’t press him to talk, but he was watching Ilya intently as Ilya sipped from his mug. Ilya’s brain felt overworked, drained from church and God and graves with the wrong name. Thinking was too hard, right now. He only knew want.
“Mama would have liked you,” he said after a while, breaking the quiet.
“Oh,” Shane said, his eyebrows flying up. “Um, that’s nice.”
Ilya nodded. He wished Shane was closer, not all the way on the other side of the sofa. “I like you,” he added. He put the mug down, turning to look at Shane properly.
Shane laughed, stilted, and ran a hand through his hair. “Yeah, Roz, I like you too.”
“No. Shane.” Ilya stared at him, begging him silently to understand. “I like you.”
Shane’s face went hard. “No,” he said shortly. “You, uh- you don’t.”
“I do.”
Shane jumped up suddenly. “Well, yeah,” he said, smiling in a way that didn’t reach his eyes. “We- we’re friends. Listen, I think I should, um, get out of your hair.”
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Ilya wanted so badly to just tell Svetlana: It’s Shane Hollander, it’s always been Shane Hollander. He wanted to invite her over after the game so he'd know it was possible for her and Shane to exist in the same room without the world collapsing.
He was calling Shane back before he even thought about it, his heart in his throat.
“Ilya?”
“Can I invite Svetlana?"
He could never have expected what happened next.
Or: Only a few months after the cottage, Shane meets Svetlana—and goes to great lengths to defeat his jealousy.
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04 Apr 2026
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There is a very attractive woman in front of Ilya. A woman that wants to fuck him. His body is consciously aware of this very fact, however, his entire brain seems to neglect it, opting to scream look at what’s behind her like a screeching freight train.
On the screen is the dark outline of a person, shot against a blinding sun. Any distinguishable features are obscured, cloaked in dim shadow. Still, Ilya knows exactly who it is.
He would recognize that silhouette anywhere.
Or, Ilya keeps seeing Shane everywhere — on the TV, in advertisements. It may or may not be interfering with his attempts to get laid, and also does nothing to change the fact that he hasn't seen Shane in months.
Set during the 2014-2016 montage era.
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03 Apr 2026
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Jaw Man flicked his middle finger up at Ilya, who didn’t seem to mind, and gestured towards Shane and Hayden with raised eyebrows. “The f*** are you even doing right now, man.”
Ilya said briefly, “Orgy.”
“Uh,” said Shane, “no, that’s not—”
Ilya grinned at him. It was a mean-edged grin but something about it seemed to suggest that he was joking with Shane, rather than about him. “Oh, he speaks.”
“We’re not here for an orgy,” Shane said to Jaw Man. “We’re missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
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31 Mar 2026
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Ilya made a considering noise and sucked a kiss onto the side of Shane's pec. Shane shoved gently at his head. “Not a real answer, come on.”
“I can tell you but you will not like.”
“Just tell me,” Shane said, half-braced for some stupid joke.
“I think, maybe if you keep coming and I ask enough annoying questions, you will leave.”
“Leave… the Church?”
“Yes, Hollander. Obviously leave the Church.”
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It’s dim inside, faint morning light coming from the barely slitted blinds.
She sees them right away. Ilya is slumped over another man in bed, fingers combing gently through his hair while their mouths slide together. It’s a slow, sweet kiss. Not a precursor to sex. Sympathy clenches in her chest.
Oh. She shouldn’t be watching this.
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Svetlana finds out.
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30 Mar 2026
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“You do not have to worry. I know Ilya sleeps with men. We are friends for many years. I will tell no one.”
“Okay,” he says.
But his shoulders have not relaxed, and he hasn’t looked up at Ilya. Fuck. She’s fucked something up. The moment feels delicate. Ilya’s face is closed off, jaw tense. What the fuck. Just say something. Your lover is about to cry. Or maybe–
Run. He’s about to run. And Ilya knows this.
Do you know that the two of you are lovers, Shane Hollander? Ilya knows, but he may have forgotten to tell you. That is very like him.