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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Svetlana Vetrova, Yuna Hollander
Rating: Explicit
Length: 6087
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Shane is probably unfaithful to Rose - he doesn't seem to think their relationship's over at that point in the fic.
Creator Links: tackytiger on AO3
Themes: Pining, Ambiguous relationships, (not really) Unrequited love, Unreliable narrator, Canon LGBTQ+ characters

Summary: Does it count as Shane Hollander walking Ilya like a dog if Ilya buckles the collar on himself and hands Hollander the leash?

Reccer's Notes: Tackytiger describes the fic as a small character piece looking at Ilya's feelings at various points in his life. It's not tagged for "pining" but to me, that's very much part of Ilya's feelings. There are dog metaphors throughout, with young Ilya longing for a dog (but knowing his father would never allow it), then, in the Rose era, Ilya longs for Shane and snatches any scrap of Shane he can. It ends at the Cottage with their relationship restored and acknowledged, but there's still a sense of Ilya being dependent on Shane's attention and affection, still feeling like a stray who got lucky. Poignant, and really well written.

Fanwork Links: Lick, Lick - locked to AO3.
And there's a podfic by me.

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Stella Kowalski
Rating: Gen
Length: 5180
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Head injury with long-term disability.
Creator Links: dessert_first on AO3
Themes: Pining, Amnesia, Friends to lovers (imminent), Friendship, Hurt/comfort, (not really) unrequited love

Summary: Amnesiac Mountie with broken long-term memory storage moves in with lovesick Polish cop.

Reccer's Notes: In this story Fraser, after a head injury, develops both retrograde amnesia so that he recalls working with Ray Vecchio but not Ray Kowalski, and anterograde amnesia so that he can't lay down long-term memories and starts each day afresh. It's fanfiction amnesia of course so handwave how a relatively minor injury could cause this, and ignore the wildly unlikely notion of a hospital letting an amnesia patient occupy a bed for several weeks. In the fic, Ray K has already been pining for Fraser and he takes Fraser home to his flat to look after him, despite how it aches when every morning Fraser's forgotten him again. Or has he, entirely? It's a bit sad, yes, but there are so many great details like the techniques Fraser develops to orient himself each morning, and the muttered arguments with his father's ghost. It's all told from Ray Kowalski's inimitable perspective and Ray's support from Stella is another heartwarming aspect. The ending isn't a cure or fix-it, but it is hopeful. Beautiful writing, and a lovely, heart-tugging read.

Fanwork Links: Lost

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Rose Landry
Rating: Explicit
Length: 14,416
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Note that their hookups continue for a while despite Ilya being married to a woman, so there's infidelity.
Creator Links: Anna__S on AO3
Themes: Pining, Mutual pining, AU: Fork in the road, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Established relationship, Future fic,

Summary: They've already been so careless, unbelievably, intoxicatingly careless. Shane can’t shake the sense that they’re on the lam. It feels like their bodies belong to each other, but at the end of the day, they are both stolen property.

A 'what if' that diverges from canon at the beginning of Episode 6 and explores what could have happened in the absence of the Ottawa plan.

Reccer's Notes: This is kind of the opposite to a fix-it fic - it takes canon and makes it worse, more angsty and painful! It also transforms the genre from a romance into a much more realistic literary fiction story. In this AU, Shane's dad never discovers them at the Cottage so Shane's fear of others knowing, even his parents, is never forcibly overcome and they just go on much as before, seeing each other only rarely and having summers at the cottage. There's no longer-term plan except the terrible "once we retire" one. The author shows how this wears on them both and harms their relationship, and there's masses of yearning and pining both while they're together and after they stop seeing each other. Their special connection doesn't ever die, though, so there's a hopeful ending by the time they get to 2027, close to retirement, but it's a far sadder, realer story than the romance of canon which relies on happy accidents. The writing is excellent, and it's told from Shane's POV.

Fanwork Links: No smoke without you