kicbates
Recent bookmarks
-
So Much Of You Is Left Behind by ChaoticRussian2481
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
Tags
Summary
Loud beeps from his phone startled Ilya, and he slowed down, reaching for the device he’d put on the bar between his legs. Jane. He smiled to himself when he saw the notifications, and, checking Marlowe was absorbed in his own fitness, opened it quickly, smiling in anticipation of Shane's words.
The smile was wiped off his face almost instantly.
The blood drained from his face, and Ilya felt like the bottom had just fallen out of his world.
*****
Maybe he was naive, but Ilya always thought he had time. Time with Shane. Time to tell him what he truly meant to him.
That, somehow, one way or another, Shane would always be there.
But a text message late one night threatens to destroy the future that Ilya has spent the time carefully constructing in his mind.
Maybe Shane wasn't always going to be there. That Shane would be cruelly snatched away from him before he had a chance to be honest.
That he would be left behind. Alone.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,378
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 2,504
- Kudos:
- 16,202
- Bookmarks:
- 5,203
- Hits:
- 428,584
Bookmarked by kicbates
08 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Hayden just wanted to surprise Shane with a guy’s night in. Shane had been flat lately, and he and JJ thought it would be nice to distract him with friendship.
How they ended up stuck in a fucking closet watching Shane get dicked down harder than anyone in the history of the world has ever been dicked down, Hayden would never quite understand.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,250
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 1,349
- Kudos:
- 29,101
- Bookmarks:
- 5,521
- Hits:
- 214,864
Bookmarked by kicbates
30 Jun 2026
-
Countdown by Letter4No1
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
23 Mar 2026
Tags
Summary
“You’ll text when you land, right?” Shane asks as he takes an exit ramp labeled Airport Departures.
“Yes. Promise.”
“And you’ll call tonight?” Shane’s throat works over the words, like he still doesn’t trust this new thing between them. Ilya thinks he understands. He also doesn’t know how to trust this love. How can he when it has been trapped in his own heart so long. Neither of them know what the next year will bring. There is so much time before Ilya can have his agent, or his future agent, he will need a new one with no connections to Russia, reach out to Ottawa and hope that they’ll be interested in a future Hall of Fame center. The one thing Ilya is certain of is that he will do everything in his power to make their plan work. He spent his entire adult life lusting after, and then pining for Shane with his whole heart.
“I will call.” Ilya reaches for the hand Shane has left on the gearshift and threads his fingers through his. He wants to say so much, but he has always been better with touch than words, especially when the only shared language was English. “We will talk every day.”
Or, There is a year before Ilya can sign with Ottawa, Shane counts down the days until their forever.
Series
- Part 4 of Hollanov Extended Universe
-
I Think I'm Having Revelations by kay_cees_all
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
Ilya has it all. Until it comes crashing down. After a terrible car accident that leaves him with a career ending injury, he finds himself trying to find light in the darkest place he's ever been.
Until his physical therapist helps him heal in ways he never imagined.
Shane is stuck. No, not stuck. Lost. And he's coming to the realization that in the midst of putting everyone else first, he's lost sight of who he really is.
With the help of a darkened ex NHL player, maybe he can figure everything out. Maybe he can finally unleash a part of him that he didn't even realize was there.
-
Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language by Basingstoke
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
17 Feb 2026
Tags
Summary
Ilya asked Shane’s father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: “Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct.”
“Well,” Mr. Hollander said. “‘Lovers’ is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers,” he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. “Somehow that’s right and using it for real people isn’t right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."
“Yes,” Ilya said from the bottom of his heart.
Series
- Part 33 of Author’s Favorites