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Presumed Consent by valntine
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hannibal (TV), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Sherman & Sherman/Sams, Company - Sondheim/Furth, Leap of Faith - Menken/Slater/Cercone, My Soul to Take (2010), The Path (TV), Trouble in the Heights (2011), Pushing Daisies (TV 2007), Seared - Rebeck, Galileo: A Rock Musical - Strong & Weiner & Sarnak, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
17 Aug 2026
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Summary
A thirteenth alter shows up in Rafael Barba's head, and all twelve of the others know immediately that he's wrong.
He has no origin. Nothing made him. He sits down at Tyler's, buys a round, and asks the bartender which one of the household hurts her. He means it kindly. He cannot understand why the answer is nobody.
He's a symptom. The thing he's a symptom of has been asleep at the bottom of the building since 1972, and when it finally sits up it counts twelve people in the ring, calls that a solid number, and asks whether they're all enjoying the planet.
Rafael has spent five years learning to live with a diagnosis. He's about to be told that the man he's been his whole life was a cover story, that the household is standard-issue anatomy where his lodger comes from, and that something has been running a search pattern across his ceiling for a month.
Sonny Carisi would like everyone to understand that he married this body and he intends to keep the promises he made to every single person in it.Series
- Part 7 of The Mirrorverse