OnceThereWasAPondering
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The player character of Need for Speed: Heat had to come from somewhere, maybe this was their beginning.
Showing up in Palm City without even a car to race in? She just rolls into town and then takes over the scene like she was fated to be there.
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The Great Pretender by lady_st4rdus7
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
02 Jun 2026
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Ilya Rozanov is in love, closeted, catastrophically lonely, and apparently incapable of referring to Shane Hollander in present tense.
The Centaurs come to a- given the circumstances- reasonable conclusion.
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Five times the Centaurs thought Ilya Rozanov was mourning his dead wife, and the one time they discovered his wife was actually Shane Hollander.
Shane, for the record, is alive and really confused.- Language:
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
10 Jun 2026
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The premise of this fic isn't funny, but I still expected it to be funny in the way of "sometimes I still hear his voice..." "stop telling people I'm dead!" In some ways it is, but it was more about how you can grieve the living; mourning the loss of a feeling or time in the same way you can mourn a passed loved one. The poor Centaurs aren't just dumb hockey boys, Ilya doesn't mean to be misleading, and they all just want to be the best support they can.
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Kakashi Hatake makes exactly one (1) impulsive decision in his life, and now he has an overly energetic kid, a sassy fox spirit, and an honorary uncle who is absolutely not a good influence.
Also, he may have committed treason. Oops.
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
10 Jun 2026
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Bookmarking as of 4 fics in the series.
The way the author approached Kakashi's foray into fatherhood was really unique; lots of different POVs and just the slightest nudge off of canon for everyone. There's a lot of focus on PTSD and living with grief, balanced by the good old Naruto optimism. The action is really well written, the family feels are feral, and each character has their own motivations and fears. -
Ilya Rozanov is Now Live by Itsallfine
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
31 May 2026
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Post-cottage, Shane and Ilya quickly discover that hiding sucks, so they launch their friendship via a series of chaotic Instagram Lives. It predictably spirals out of control.
Ch 1: Friends!
Ch 2: …Uh, friends?
Ch 3: Definitely not friends.- Language:
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
09 Jun 2026
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I have no idea how to tag this fic. It's cute as hell, definitely not our canon anxious stressed boys, and somehow incredibly wholesome. Ilya is a Menace(tm) and Shane is willing to wrastle.
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do you have to let it linger by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
02 Jan 2024
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It’s the end of the summer now, and her schedule’s free, so she can think about the fact that her new friend Percy Jackson has been to the Underworld and back, yet still doesn’t know how to get his armor to sit quite right.
(annabeth fixes percy's armor for him, among other things, over the course of five impossible years)
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
09 Jun 2026
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This fic is small snapshots of the moments in between the big things happening in Percy and Annabeth's lives; Annabeth ruminates on what it means to want to protect someone and how to keep Seaweed Brain in one piece. It's incredibly sweet, a little heart breaking, and spans the kids meeting up to after the battle of Manhatten.
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I Keep You Safe by ShutUpGwen
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
16 Apr 2026
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How did he let this happen?
Shane's not sure.
One moment, he was on the gym floor not staring at Rozanov's
gorgeoussweaty body. Then Shane was standing up, but his legs were weak for some god forsaken reason and Rozanov was there, just an arm around his waist to keep him upright, and now...Well.
Now Shane's on his knees on the floor of Ilya Rozanov's shower.
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Heated Rivalry, but the boys are forced to have an honest conversation around 8 years earlier than they do in canon.
Series
- Part 1 of Finding Family
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
04 Jun 2026
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Well. That was just sweet. In this universe the boys are a bit more vulnerable, and a bit more aware of eachother's situations leading to a nice, early, resolution. Illya's family still sucks, depression sucks, Rose is still amazing.