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Steinways, Convertibles, and Questionable Federal Policies by valntine
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)
20 Feb 2026
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Ava O’Rourke joins the Behavioral Science Unit with two pugs, an upright piano, and absolutely no intention of falling for Dr. Frederick Chilton.
Unfortunately, he owns a Steinway.
And a 1990 Mercedes-Benz 300 SE convertible.
Between unauthorized autopsy visits (by pugs), competitive piano duets, a catastrophic hospital PR event, and one extremely judgmental canine adoption process, Ava slowly realizes she might actually like the meticulously groomed peacock psychiatrist.
Will Graham suffers. Jack Crawford sends memos. The pugs decide everything.
It’s fine. It’s all fine. God help her.- Language:
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Detective Emilia Navarro has loved ADA Rafael Barba from afar for years—watching him pine for Olivia Benson while the SVU squad teases them. As an inseparable foursome with Sonny and Amanda. When Rafael finally sees her, they ignite a passionate romance… only for Olivia’s jealousy and interruptions to drive a wedge between them. Rafael chooses Olivia, severs ties with Emilia, and builds a new life—until Elliot Stabler returns, Olivia cheats, and Rafael shows up at Emilia’s door with nowhere else to go.
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Informed Consent by valntine
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, My Soul to Take (2010), Trouble in the Heights (2011), Hannibal (TV)
19 Feb 2026
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When Daniel Weiss files a civil suit against Rafael Barba for Sarah’s (Abel's wife) death, the courtroom becomes more than a legal battleground — it becomes a reckoning of identity.
The law sees one man.
Leah sees three.
As John Buchanan reframes misdiagnosis as deception and fragmentation as fraud, Rafael must confront the architecture of his own mind under oath. Abel remembers the marriage. Rafael does not. Nevada bears the act. And Leah — now twenty-two — refuses to let her grief be weaponized.
This is not a story about innocence.
It’s a story about consent, responsibility, and the difference between memory and accountability.Series
- Part 4 of The Mirrorverse
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Weaponized Consent by valntine
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, Trouble in the Heights (2011), Hannibal (TV), My Soul to Take (2010), Leap of Faith - Menken/Slater/Cercone, A Murder at the End of the World (TV), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Sherman & Sherman/Sams
12 Feb 2026
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The attack on Olivia Benson and Rafael Barba isn’t meant to kill—it’s meant to break something open.
Filmed and calculated, the assault is designed to force Nevada to surface and turn Rafael’s Dissociative Identity Disorder into spectacle and shame. When that fails, the violence goes quieter and more precise. Careers are threatened. Ethics are twisted. And Sonny and Rafael’s marriage is put on trial.
What the system doesn’t understand is this:
Sonny didn’t marry a version of Rafael that was easy to control.
Rafael didn’t survive to be dismantled.
This is a story about weaponized trauma, institutional cruelty, and a vow that doesn’t bend when power demands it.
They don’t just endure.
They stand—together.Series
- Part 3 of The Mirrorverse
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Kindness Without Consent by valntine
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, Trouble in the Heights (2011), Hannibal (TV), Leap of Faith - Menken/Slater/Cercone, My Soul to Take (2010), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Sherman & Sherman/Sams
06 Feb 2026
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When Drew Householder’s mother cannot bring herself to pull the plug, Rafael Barba does what he has learned to do best—he disappears.
When he wakes, the decision has been made.
One of his alters stepped forward while he was gone and ended a child’s life in the name of mercy. Now Rafael must turn inward, navigating a fractured internal landscape of faith, pity, grief, and guardianship to uncover the truth: who acted, why they did it, and what it means that kindness—not rage—was the hand on the switch.
This is not a whodunit about guilt.
It’s a reckoning with consent, moral injury, and the terrifying realization that sometimes the most dangerous choices are made out of love.Series
- Part 2 of The Mirrorverse
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The Mirrorverse by valntine
Fandom A Murder at the End of the World (TV), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Sherman & Sherman/Sams, Hannibal (TV), Law & Order: SVU, Leap of Faith - Menken/Slater/Cercone, My Soul to Take (2010), Trouble in the Heights (2011)
18 Feb 2026
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Rafael Barba didn't leave the DA's office to disappear; he left to become a father. For years, he and Olivia built a fortress of "blues and greens" around their quiet marriage. But when the ghost of Elliot Stabler returns with a car bomb and a decade of silence, the foundation cracks.
It's unforgivable
I stole and burnt your soul
Is that what demons do?
They rule the worst of me
Destroy everything
They bring down angels like you
— ‘Love Me Again’Bookmarked by valntine
21 Feb 2026
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Five times Rafael and Olivia had a friends with benefits situation, and one time they didn't.
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15 Feb 2026
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In the wake of a bridge burned at Forlini's, Rafael Barba finds himself haunted by the one person who refused to let him walk away. When the rain brings a persistent ADA to his door, the closed book of the defense attorney is finally read aloud.
I’m a closed book, but somehow you learned to read that
Know that I should relax, hate the way I react
Thinkin’ that I’m good, but you know I’m ’bout to relapse
—’Got You on My Mind’Bookmarked by valntine
13 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 valntine
13 Feb 2026
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Barba and Carisi are contemplating their future in a world that has drastically changed.
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13 Feb 2026