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the strange idea of continuous living by walkingthroughwindows
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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Ilya has a particular way of holding himself when he’s listening to Shane like this, when the air is thin and fragile between them. He goes very still, eyes wide open, the perfect absurd bow of his lips the only trembling thing. It isn’t enough, Shane thinks. This little soft-shuffle step towards better, God, it feels like a fucking mockery. It isn’t enough when Ilya is this, this warm-breathing world that Shane loves so completely, this thing that roars through his body like waves on rocks, sending him tumbling.
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Shane and Ilya are three years out from retirement, on their second billet kid, and they're trying to figure out the future.
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- Part 3 of hwa verse
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here we are and what the hell are we going to do with it by walkingthroughwindows
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Jan 2026
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“Shane.” Ilya takes Shane’s head in his hands, squeezes his cheeks so that Shane looks puffy, absurd. Beloved. “I am saying that to me, even though you are retired, you will always be No. 1 hockey player. Fuck Wayne Gretzky.”
That’s what does it, as Ilya knew it would. Shane rears back, spluttering, outraged, trying not to laugh.
“Oh, I have committed blasphemy now. They will take back my citizenship, big crime, very sad.”
Shane smoothes his hands along Ilya’s calves, rests his fingertips on Ilya’s ankles. “Fuck Wayne Gretzky,” he says. He looks like he can’t believe what he’s saying. Ilya wonders, distantly, if he can get it on tape to play back to himself when things feel particularly bleak. “We can live in exile together. I don’t care. You’re my, my best, my second best hockey player forever too.”
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Shane decides he has to retire. Ilya, of course, will go with him.
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- Part 1 of hwa verse
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The biggest reason, the reason Eddie won’t give this nurse, is that they want it. Buck wants a baby, wants Eddie’s baby, wakes Eddie up in the middle of the night with the wanting of it, and Eddie — Eddie gave Buck his firstborn years ago. He doesn’t see any reason why they should delay it again.
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Buck and Eddie are going to have a baby. And Eddie's happy, he is. He's never been happier in his life. He just can't stop thinking about all the mistakes he made the first time around.
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Maddie goes back to work at dispatch, and Carla starts watching Jee and Robbie. May tells Buck that, cross-legged on the couch and tapping concentratedly at her phone. That’s OK. Buck can feel the space the anger is supposed to be, and he closes his eyes, and it goes. He knows. He knows he’s not the kind of person you can tell things, not any more. Ravi says 'oh my god dude there was this totally sick play last night I’ll send you the TikTok' and Eddie says 'how about linguine on Saturday' and Maddie says 'shit I forgot to get cash out I’ll Venmo you' and Buck thinks he’s dead he’s dead he’s dead
He knows that isn’t fair. Same grief taste. Same bleeding mouths.
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After Bobby dies, Buck moves in with May, and buries himself in busyness. Eddie decides enough is enough.
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hwa verse by walkingthroughwindows
Fandom Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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Bodies by a_good_soldier
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Feb 2026
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a texting fic about falling in love when you are a closeted professional hockey player.
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28 Feb 2026
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"Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."
"You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"
"I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."
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Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.
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- Part 11 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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17 Feb 2026
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Ilya was good at noticing things about people, and he was good at understanding them. Shane was not. That was okay. Shane had developed his own way of getting to know Ilya. It involved a lot of inane questions and, more importantly, no longer involved condoms.
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05 Feb 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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19 Jan 2026
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Eddie meets Buck at a bar and takes him home. It's supposed to be a one-night stand, one reckless night that only exists to be forgotten. Buck's not supposed to be working at Eddie's new firehouse.
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Bookmarked by walkingthroughwindows
01 Aug 2025