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For more than twenty years, Olivia Benson worked to hide what she was. It took a flashbang in a Queens warehouse to expose her, placing her on the verge of a fatal Zone out. And it took the return of the one man she swore she’d never trust again to pull her back. Now, Rafael Barba isn't just in her life—he's in her head, and the silence he offers might be the only thing louder than the noise.
Hold on, I still want you
Come back, I still need you
Let me take your hand, I'll make it right
I swear to love you all my life
Hold on, I still need you
–’Hold On’Bookmarked by mrs_stone
08 Feb 2026
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You come to Harvard in the summer heat with a blue dress, a grief you don’t talk about, and a future you’re building with your bare hands. Then you crash—literally—into Rafael Barba: brilliant, older, infuriatingly charming, and far too good at seeing straight through you. One spilled iced coffee turns into late-night study sessions, razor-sharp banter, and a friendship so intimate it starts to feel like fate… until it starts to feel like waiting.
Years later, you’ve built a life that looks solid from the outside: career, stability, motherhood, a partner who’s good on paper—but something in you is restless, aching for more than survival. When a career opportunity pulls you to New York, you arrive with your son, your ambition, and a promise to yourself that you won’t shrink your life for anyone again.
Except the past has a habit of showing up right when you think you’ve buried it.
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02 Feb 2026
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When a cartel hit squad targets the one thing Rafael Barba won't gamble with, he disappears into the heartland with Olivia Benson and her son. But as the silence of the prairie turns into a kill box, they realize that the only way to survive the wolf at the door is to let the watchdogs off the leash.
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
–’Gimme Shelter’Bookmarked by mrs_stone
23 Jan 2026
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You moved to New York for your boyfriend’s promotion, traded a nearly-guaranteed senior track at the ACLU for a junior slot at NYCLU, and told yourself that love was worth the pay cut, the skyline, and the late nights spent alone with your cat and your motions to reopen.
On your thirty-first birthday, you chose a wine bar, good fries, and a stranger in a vest with sharp eyes, sharper questions, and a habit of insisting you text him when you get home. What you didn't know was: he was Rafael Barba, Sex Crimes ADA, point of contact for an NYPD trafficking task force that just pulled a dozen undocumented girls out of hell and handed their A-numbers to ICE.
Forced to work together to keep your clients out of detention and off deportation flights, you and Rafael become an uneasy alliance: his prosecution, your protection, his rules, your ethics, his temper, your rage.
It would be easier if the only thing on the line were a case. But you’re sharing witnesses, strategy, and late nights with a man who keeps choosing your clients’ safety over convenience, keeps bending for you even when he’s furious, and keeps calling you “Counselor” like it’s both a challenge and a confession.
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04 Jan 2026
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Olivia Benson had decided Rafael Barba was dead to her after the Wheatley disaster.
Fate, and a Manhattan toy store, disagree.
Forced into reluctant teamwork over Barba’s lunatic shopping cart, old wounds flare just in time for masked gunmen to lock the doors and take everyone hostage.
AKA ... Die Hard?
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24 Dec 2025