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Set some time immediately after the ending of season one. Sandokan and Marianne begin to learn what it means to share pleasure.
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Your husband’s going to do the same thing on your wedding night.
She’d been thinking about those words for far longer than a lady of good breeding would care to admit—then again, she’d never belonged in civilized society.
She’d thought of Sandokan, running his large hands across her pristine skin; she visualized the deep yearning in his eyes as he slowly peeled off each layer of cloth to bare her naked flesh—he would be patient with her despite the longing of his own lust. She ached to give herself to him in the promises of marriage.
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29 Jan 2026
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Ilya likes when Hollander is around, he really does. But this is different. This is him taking an unprecedented layover in the city Ilya’s staying in for a game. This is Shane Hollander pulling an expressly non-Shane Hollander move. And that’s the type of thing that fucks Ilya up if he lets himself think about it too hard. So he doesn’t think about it. He fucks Hollander and it’s great as usual and everything is fine.
And then both their flights get canceled due to a blizzard.
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26 Jan 2026
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Just… cold. And also hot by missc902
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jan 2026
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Ilya coughed into his elbow, and looked back at Shane, pathetically. “I think,” he whispered, “I think I am sick. I do not feel good.”
“I know,” said Shane, rising and placing a gentle kiss on the top of his head. He stood close to Ilya, but busied himself, measuring out doses of medication and checking for interactions on the sides of pill bottles, “but I… am going to help with that.” As he said that, reading the side of a box of decongestant, he felt Ilya tip forward and wrap his long arms around Shane’s hips – the only part of him, he could reach.
Ilya’s forehead pressed into his waist and he felt the warmth radiating off of him immediately. Shane’s heart split open and his eyes prickled.
“My Shane,” Ilya whispered to himself. Shane ran one hand gently through Ilya’s hair, and when he was ready, stepped backwards. “Mphhh” whined Ilya, arms outstretched, “come back.”
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Or, Ilya had the flu, and Shane steps up.
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23 Jan 2026
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collateral by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 May 2026
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His mother’s eyes darken with weariness Shane recognizes instinctually, a grief separate but not wholly unlike his own. A tear makes its way down her cheek, but Shane’s stay put, stubborn, cradled in his lashline like if he doesn’t cry, maybe none of this is as bad as he thinks it is.
“Just—I just have to ask,” she says. Her voice lowers to a whisper, that ever-steady corner of her mouth wavering as her palm envelopes his cheek. “How long have you been hurting?”
My whole life, probably, Shane thinks. I'm sorry. I just didn’t know.
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[Or: Shane learns that skill, passion, and meticulous control aren't necessarily immunity, and that rest isn't something he's owed so much as he has to carve out for himself; sometimes with a whisper, sometimes with his pride on the line, sometimes on his hands and knees. And still, regardless, despite—he refuses to give up on this either, even if this time it means believing in himself instead of familiar schedules or rituals. Even if it means his whole life has to change to do it.
Even if it means having to believe that he's worth that much in the first place.]
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- Part 7 of the chronic illness club
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22 Jan 2026
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That's All It Takes by kingskindly
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
16 Jan 2026
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Based very loosely on events from The Long Game that my brain wanted to put into the first book, somewhere between Shane’s injury, and before Scott Hunter wins the cup - for maximum angst, obviously.
What if Ilya’s plane had actually crashed? And what if it had happened before he and Shane had the chance to confess their love and know what it was like to be together.
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A fic so I could write a really needy Shane who can't hide his feelings anymore, and an Ilya who is faced with the undeniable truth that someone cares for him.
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16 Jan 2026