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“Game is cancelled.”
“Yeah.” Shane tucked his own phone into his pocket. He, at least, had the decency to put on pants before taking a call from his boss. “Looks like the storm isn’t going to let up tonight. There are already issues with some of the main roads.”
“Fuck." Ilya’s head dropped to the back of the couch with a muffled thump. “I thought Canadians were used to winter. This is embarrassing for you. For your whole country.”
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In which the isolated apartment building Shane buys for them to fuck in is a little more haunted than in canon, Shane and Ilya get snowed in, and their night doesn't quite go as planned. -
Rule 46 by williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
13 Jan 2026
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Tiger Williams holds the NHL record for the most career penalty minutes: 3,971, which adds up to just over three days in total. Ilya is not going to beat that, no matter how dirty he plays.
It feels like a bit of a letdown, sometimes, like he can’t even be the best at the one thing everyone tells him he’s good for: being an asshole. Someone else set that record twenty years ago.
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piece by piece by williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 Sep 2025
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It starts as most things do, with Charles shooting him a grin so warm it might have melted the glass panes of the original Crystal Palace, and quickened the fire of the Great Exhibition within.
“Don’t worry, mate,” he says. “I’m aces with kids.”
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My take on a "hand-waving memory magic lets the boys meet a younger version of Charles and it's all very sad" fic. -
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“Thanks,” Charles said, quietly.
“It’s just a shirt,” Edwin muttered, though it wasn’t really what he meant.
He ducked his head, suddenly unable to stand the sight at all: Charles, with exhaustion written into the cut-glass lines of his features and pain in the stiffness of his back and still he managed to look at Edwin with gratitude for handing over a fucking t-shirt.
Something was burning inside him, deep in the recesses of his chest, something protective and furious, that made him want to wrap Charles up in his arms - and in a t-shirt and his maroon jacket with the red plaid lining and his new black coat with its steadily-growing collection of lapel pins and maybe a blanket on top of that, and bundle him away somewhere that he would never be cold or hurt again. Somewhere Charles could be safe; maybe somewhere they both could.
-devastating domestic au strikes again: the boys are alive together late 90s/early 2000s, they talk in circles around trauma, go to a party, fight off the horrors to protect each other, and Edwin comes up with the plan
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simple reminiscence and a few indecipherable references to sport by williamvapespeare
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 May 2025
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“C’mon,” he says. “Just ask me something. Doesn’t have to be anything heavy to start with. Anything you wish you knew, to watch out for.”
Edwin busies himself tidying the cards on the ground between them, stacking them into neat piles alongside the game board. He pointedly does not watch Charles’ face when he clarifies: “Like the Devlin house.”
“Yeah,” Charles says, too fast. “Yeah, like that. Only maybe, uh, not that one yet? I will tell you, obviously, ‘cause I’d be a proper useless detective if I got stuck like that every time something reminded me of -”
“Alright. I have a question.”
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In an attempt to talk more about their trauma, the boys make it into a game. This goes about as well as you would expect.
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The first time Charles and Edwin see a red light.
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- Part 20 of KiaraSayre Does Febuwhump 2026
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21 Feb 2026
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Holding Patterns by boopboop
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
26 Feb 2026
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Shane and Ilya's peace is hard-won and devastatingly fragile. A phone call from Russia threatens to bring the whole house of cards down around them.
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21 Feb 2026
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"Did you see?" says Dick, and he lets go of Tim's shoulders to take him by the arm, tugging him toward the kitchen instead of the Batcave. "Alfred made cookies."
"Think he's trying to lure you in," says Tim, with a huff of a laugh. "Like one of those traps they bait for raccoons."
"Raccoons are too smart for that, baby bird," says Dick, blithely, and swipes up one of the bait-cookies anyway, biting into it with an appreciative little hum.
Tim finds somewhere else to look — fixes his gaze on a spot on the far wall, trying hard to ignore the way the kitchen smells of cinnamon and nutmeg and sugar. His stomach twists a little, hopeful, and he tells it firmly that these aren't for him. They're Dick's welcome-home cookies.
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14 Feb 2026
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So the thing is, Tim survived months with Ra’s and the League of Assassins. He’s fine with poison. It's the whole sibling thing that's going to kill him.
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i can hear them singin' (to love me is to suffer me) by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
25 Jan 2026
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He thinks the thing that his father hated more than he did Ilya was his inability to control him.
But even as the colossal fuck-up that his father saw him as—he was brilliant at hockey. The best that his coaches had ever seen. He thinks it is the only semi-reedamable quality that his father sees in him. But even that had not made Grigori Rozanov want to look at him.
(Or, Ilya Rozanov learns how to be loved.)
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26 Jan 2026