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It has been a year since he told her he would wait, and the silence has calcified into something dense and pathological. Barba is done treating her absence like a penance he deserves. He is ready to burn the standoff down to the ground to see if anything survives in the ash.
When you run out of time
The soul becomes synodical
The weight is now phenomenal
And deafening again
–’The Way’Bookmarked by spookytune
03 Feb 2026
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A nor'easter traps them in her apartment, forcing a confrontation not with each other, but with the ghosts of injuries past. Rafael Barba learns that some breaks never fully heal; they just learn to predict the weather.
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real." — Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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- Part 2 of Febuwhump
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02 Feb 2026
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Rafael Barba never imagined that reading bedtime stories to Noah would become the most anticipated part of his day… nor that Olivia Benson would make him part of her little world of fairies and theater.
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- Part 1 of Noah
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02 Feb 2026
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New Year's Eve usually involves a docket review and a solitary scotch. But in this new timeline, it involves roast chicken, a dog named Lear, and a debate over the legality of the word "Babe." Rafael Barba looks through the windshield of his life and realizes the view is finally clear.
"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." — Rainer Maria Rilke
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- Part 31 of Fluffuary Reset
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02 Feb 2026
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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 spookytune
01 Feb 2026