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1. Opening the Wound by Lewd_Intentions

   Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   16 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Rafael Barba & Olivia Benson
   • Rafael Barba
   • Sensory Overload
   • auditory hallucinations
   • breakdown - Freeform
   • Screaming
   • Panic Attacks
   • Alcohol Abuse
   • The Apartment
   • "Gary Cooper" References
   • Grief
   • Heavy Angst
   • Despair
   • Rafael Barba/Olivia Benson (Memory/Angst)

   Summary

   The volume of the world has been calibrated wrong ever since Rafael came back from Iowa. In the deafening silence of his apartment, he is haunted not by a ghost, but by a memory played on a loop: the whisper of his name from a woman he pushed away. When the noise becomes unbearable, he realizes that some silences cannot be broken, even by a scream.

    

   I don't know what's worth fighting for
   Or why I have to scream
   I don't know why I instigate
   And say what I don't mean
   I don't know how I got this way
   I know it's not alright
   –’Breaking the Habit’

   Series

   • Part 15 of Dreadfully Depressing December

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,317

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