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Olivia Benson is sitting across the bar.
It’s just something that Rita has noticed, watching her turn away the few people who have approached her, apparently happy to sit at the bar alone, slowly sipping her single glass of red and staring into space.
She's tempted to try her own luck.
(Neither of them have any idea of all the ways their impulsive one night stand is about to change their lives).
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christmas dreams by awkwardspiritanimals for adrianna_m_scovill
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
25 Dec 2024
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As awful as she feels, she manages to gather enough energy to stand, reminding herself that her son will be up at any moment, expecting Christmas.
What she is not expecting is to emerge out of her bedroom and realize that she really was smelling pancakes because Rafael Barba is standing in her kitchen, staring down at her stove.
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I spend nights stitching up the loose threads in my soul
Olivia is Spider-Man, Rafael is Spider-Man, Rita is their woman in the chair.
A collection of non-linear one shots in that universe.
In the first chapter, Rafael falls off a bridge.
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Sometimes arguing with your favorite person isn't so bad.
(For Barson Battle Round 1: squabbling/arguments)
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Rita sighs.
"How exactly do two otherwise competent and responsible adults end up with a marriage, an apartment, and two children without ever actually talking about their feelings?"
Rafael leans forward until his forehead rests against the coffee table.
"I think it was supposed to be a joke."
She sighs again. "This is the most inconvenient marriage of convenience in the history of the institution."
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as sunshine into trees by awkwardspiritanimals for Lauri_Adores_Barba (Joelalorian)
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
25 Dec 2022
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Rafael joins the Bensons for a camping trip. A few minor disasters ensue, followed up by softness.
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these are the days that must happen to you by awkwardspiritanimals
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
09 Dec 2021
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A perp's younger brother wants revenge on Olivia. He decides the best way to get this is to take Rafael hostage.
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It’s not the door opening that rouses her from her doze, or the thin line of light that spills in as whoever it is slips into the room. It’s the way that the throbbing in her shoulder eases, the way her body relaxes as the smallest bit of warmth seeps into her various bruises and scrapes.
“Rafa?” she says, because there is, quite literally, no one else in the world it could be.
(A soulmate AU where being near your soulmate eases pain and heals wounds)
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Rafael finally loses it in court. Olivia is the one who tracks him down.
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This was the exact scenario he’d worried about when he realized how sick he really was, Olivia feeling some need to come over and take care of him, as if she didn’t have enough on her plate.
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He’s staring.
Rafael knows he’s staring, and he knows that he should stop, should shake himself out of it and stop standing in her doorway like an idiot. He can’t quite manage it though, because Olivia is wearing a dress.
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Rafael, Olivia, Noah, and a Ferris wheel.
A prompt fic for Michelle, who wanted "things you said when you were/I was scared," although I doubt this is what she was picturing when she chose that one.
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Olivia thinks she probably should have expected to find Rafael leaning against her apartment door.
(A soft, warm morsel of a fic about two people who adore each other)
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“I feel bad that I don’t have any traditions to share with him.”
(Olivia, Rafael, Noah, and Christmas traditions)
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“So,” he starts, trying to catch his own breath and managing half a smile, trying to put her at ease even though he’s pretty sure she isn’t looking at anything besides the bruise, “Failing to mention this right away was definitely a mistake on my part, but… I got caught in a car accident last week.”
“... An accident?” Olivia says, her voice hollow, and Rafael’s heart clenches painfully in his chest. She’s still holding on to his mostly open shirt like she’s worried he’s going to disappear.
(Rafael comes home. Things do not go as smoothly as he or Olivia were expecting.)
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and i might believe the things i said i didn't mean by awkwardspiritanimals
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
09 Feb 2020
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“Hey,” she says, “I have an idea.”
This is stupid, says the sober part of her brain. Or reckless. Or something. All of the above, really.
“Yeah?” he responds, pressing the rim of his glass against his bottom lip for a moment before he drinks, and the sober part of her brain doesn’t really stand a chance, not when its stuttering over itself as much as any other part.
“Maybe we should just get married.”
(Rafael Barba and Olivia Benson get a little bit drunk and decide to get married if they're both single by her 49th birthday.
As her 49th birthday actually approaches, both of them are trying to figure out exactly what to do about that.)
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let me fight now until the end of time by awkwardspiritanimals
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
25 Oct 2019
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When he was a kid, Rafael Barba never dreamed of being a knight. But it's the sort of thing that can happen when your best friend is the king-to-be.
Now, with a war on the horizon and a dragon much closer than that, he has to grapple with the question of whom exactly a knight owes his service to.
(or, more simply, the knights!au)
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and we found our song and we found our truth by awkwardspiritanimals
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
30 Aug 2019
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Rafael Barba wakes up one morning and finds that he’s compelled to tell the truth.
It’s a less than ideal situation.
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Rafael has been sleeping on her couch for five nights now. The first two nights, Noah had insisted on sleeping on the floor next to it, like that was the only way he could make sure that Uncle Rafa didn’t disappear again.
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every tiny word you sent to me (measure out a life, both of ours) by awkwardspiritanimals
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU
12 Apr 2019
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“It’s just so romantic, Rafi! A love story through books!”
He resists the urge to roll his eyes, even though the rack of books he’s looking through block him from the front counter’s line of sight.
“It’s not a love story, Tía Claudia. It’s only my soulmate.”
(He's right and he's wrong, is the thing. A story about soulmates and words and choices.)