It starts in an elevator

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• the best person to be stuck in an elevator with by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  08 Jan 2026

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Yuna Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Yuna Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov is background but it's happening
  • largely canon compliant
  • I just want Ilya to find his family
  • Literally this is just 7000 words of Ilya and Yuna stuck in an elevator
  • Character Study

  Summary

  There's no good way to be stuck in an elevator. Not when you're stuck in an elevator with someone who treats being annoying as an art form he wants to perfect, and definitely not when that person is your son's rival who you've hated for years.

  But, when Yuna finds herself stuck in an elevator with Ilya Rozanov, she realises there's more to the story than she'd seen.

  Series

  • Part 1 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,298

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  430

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• do you want to stick with me? by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  10 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
  • Established Relationship
  • Well more like established situationship
  • Pre tuna-melt
  • Blowjobs
  • Face-Fucking
  • Arguing about recycling but in a sexy way
  • This is technically a sequel but can be a stand alone if you just want to read the sex scene
  • Pretty much canon compliant
  • Might diverge later if I do more with this idea

  Summary

  Ilya is two hours late to meet Shane and now has to make it up to him. Shane doesn't always have the words to explain what he needs, but fortunately Ilya has learned his body enough to figure it out and give it to him anyway.

  Series

  • Part 2 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,274

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  128

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• message failed to send by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  13 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Texting
  • just a little bit

  Summary

  The text exchange between Jane and Lily on the night Ilya got stuck in the elevator (just an extremely tiny sequel).

  Series

  • Part 3 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  204

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  56

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  3,251

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• come home by inches by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  01 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Yuna Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
  • Yuna Hollander & Shane Hollanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Yuna Hollander
  • David Hollander
  • Featuring Yuna Hollander and relational risk-taking
  • Yuna is doing her best
  • Ilya so badly needs a mother and Yuna would like to apply for the position please
  • 5+1
  • Canon Divergence
  • But it's a small and slow canon divergence
  • Yuna POV
  • Some angst but consistent with the show / consistent with the taking of relational risks
  • Yes this is two 5+1s smooshed together because I wanted to
  • David POV
  • The real slow burn here is Yuna/boundaries and Ilya/emotional vulnerability with parental figures

  Summary

  An unexpected encounter with Ilya Rozanov - and a newly changed perspective of him - leads Yuna into a series of conversations with both halves of the rivalry - and slowly into both an unexpected friendship and a new understanding of what the 'rivalry' entails.
  Or: (5 times Yuna reached out to Ilya, +1 time he reached out to her first; 5 times Yuna tried to get Shane to talk to her, +1 time she didn't need to.)

  Series

  • Part 4 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  29,613

  Chapters:

  13/13

  Comments:

  1,641

  Kudos:

  8,646

  Bookmarks:

  1,314

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  82,795

• the best laid plans by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  11 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Shane Hollander
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • Yuna Hollander
  • David Hollander
  • Canon Divergence
  • Show / book canon mashup but it's mostly show
  • This is not a fix it is a speed run
  • Yuna's got a plan
  • Yuna's plan is absolutely going to work and isn't going to make anything worse
  • I'm going to put them in a jar labelled 'institutional homophobia' and shake it vigorously

  Summary

  When Ilya and Shane decide they want a plan to let them soften the rivalry and (maybe, eventually) come out without it being an NHL emergency, they ask Yuna for help. Yuna's got a 6 stage plan and it is absolutely, definitely going to work.

  Series

  • Part 5 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  96,337

  Chapters:

  22/22

  Comments:

  2,830

  Kudos:

  5,250

  Bookmarks:

  969

  Hits:

  99,425

• next question by Sporkess

  Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  05 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
  • Ilya Rozanov
  • BTS footage from my own fics
  • This one really will not make sense on its own
  • Content warning: use of a slur

  Summary

  An extra from the previous instalment in the series (the best laid plans) - llya's interview with the Department of Player Safety.

  Series

  • Part 6 of It starts in an elevator

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,001

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  127

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  1,008

  Bookmarks:

  41

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