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1. Owning All the Fines by Lewd_Intentions

   Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU  

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

   18 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Rafael Barba & Olivia Benson
   • Rafael Barba
   • Olivia Benson
   • Mutual deception
   • Masking
   • Depression
   • social exhaustion
   • The Dinner
   • "If You're OK I'm OK"
   • Loneliness vs Solitude
   • Angst
   • Post-Canon
   • Emotional Distance
   • resignation
   • hollow comfort

   Summary

   Rafael arrives twenty minutes early to a bistro in Tribeca, giving him ample time to analyze the aggressive emptiness of the chair opposite him. When Olivia arrives, they attempt to clear the air, but ultimately sign a treaty of silence: a mutual agreement that if he is pretending to be okay, and she is pretending to be okay, then the equation balances.

    

   And I told you to be patient
   And I told you to be fine
   And I told you to be balanced
   And I told you to be kind
   And now all your love is wasted
   And then who the hell was I?
   –’Skinny Love’

   Series

   • Part 18 of Dreadfully Depressing December

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