7 Works by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
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my soul stirs so gently, it blends in with yours by softhollander (cautiouslycas) for totheverge
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 Jun 2026
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This might hit the spot too. Shane laid down on the bed, legs slightly parted. The perfect landing ground for Ilya.
Shane had bought the panties after Ilya saw them while scrolling on his phone, at the cottage. They had been lounging on the deck, a cold beer next to them. They had been doing nothing, but such a perfect good nothing that it was forever engraved into Shane's brain.
Ilya had shown them to Shane, told him how hot he would be in them and Shane had placed an order for three different colors and patterns the next day.
They had waited their time in the back of his underwear drawer.
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somewhere in the silence by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Jun 2026
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"Ilya, honey?” Yuna sounded calm, composed, but there was a crack in her voice. A crack that he had never heard in it before. It chilled the blood in his veins, froze him to the spot. “Are you home?”
"Da. Why?” His free hand was tapping against the kitchen counter. 1,2,3 - repeat.
"Shane was in a car accident.”
"My Shane?” Ilya’s brain was spinning without grip, like tires during heavy rain. It did not make sense, in his thoughts–this was not real. She was lying. “No, he is a careful driver. He would not. I joke all the time. Even a grandma will take him over.”
The silence on the other end of the line thickened. It felt like it was eating him alive.
Late at night, after Shane left Ilya during the Christmas fight, Shane gets into a car accident.
While the world keeps turning and Ilya deals with the uncertainty of grief and guilt, Shane meets the one person Ilya no longer has: Irina.
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I think about you often, lately by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jun 2026
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Deep in his chest, he knew there was a chance he would not be a first draft pick.
It was not a big deal. Other hockey players made it into halls of fame not being the first pick, not even third, fourth. His entire career did not hinge on this one decision made for him.
His brain, his dumb, perfectionist brain that loved to fight him, kept fixating on it. Like the blade of a skate continuously getting caught on the same patch of shitty ice. It felt like he was circling, like a shark, around the same idea, the same ideal.
Shane Hollander, on the evening of the draft. Before, during and in the gym after.
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a heart you can always come home to by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
01 Apr 2026
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If Shane was honest, he had not seen much of the movie at all. He kept getting distracted, looking at Ilya instead. It was stupid, really, but lately, he had been noticing the little things.
The way that the freckles on his back seem to make perfect constellations on his shoulders. Shane noticed the reflection of the colors on the screen in the set of his curls. The grin that slipped onto his lips so easily at any of the witty and dumb lines being said by actors who were seriously underpaid for the things they needed to do.
Shane and Ilya have spent the last seventeen years of their lives together, from daycare, all the way to senior year.
With life threatening to pull them in different directions, Shane needs to be brave.
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When the weight of the world is so close by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Mar 2026
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When an injury benches Shane Hollander, his thoughts spiral and he struggles keeping a grasp on the world around him.
For most of his life, he had thought that something major would need to happen. Life altering, for him to quit hockey. Now, he was not so sure anymore. Hockey had given him a lot, it was true. Hockey had given him Ilya.
Hockey had also taken a lot away. In just the past few weeks and months, he had lost friends, respect and maybe also passion.
Ilya was home here. He saw it, in his eyes. Ilya was tired, but he was home. He enjoyed himself. Even if his body would decide to give up, he would appear as a coach, as staff. He would find his way in.
Shane was not so sure that he wanted that anymore.
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snapshots of love by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Mar 2026
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Shane and Ilya, through life, as seen and shown in snippets from the Cottage that cares for them.
It remembered, with trembling breath, when David walked in, saw its boys on the deck. It breathed its sigh of relief when they came back, shaken, but smiling, confident. It noticed, how the rest of their time felt easier. How they breathed easier. How much it had freed them that someone, besides the house, knew.
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we set a fire to our sorrow by softhollander (cautiouslycas)
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
12 Feb 2026
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“Come on,” Kip muttered to himself as the puck was stolen from the Admirals and then travelled all the way to Benett. As much as Kip knew that Eric was solid – if there was anything that he trusted Scott with, it was the way he thought about his team members – just one goal could make the difference.
Just like that, they turned the game around, back on the offense, and Kip was biting his nails. It didn’t help that Scott had not looked at the stands once, which kind of voided Kip’s entire romantic gesture.
Scott has never had family at an away game. Kip decides it's time to change that.