#barson fluff

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38565150

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Law & Order: SVU Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rafael Barba/Olivia Benson Characters: Olivia Benson, Amanda Rollins, Original Male Character(s), Rafael Barba Additional Tags: Speed Dating, Originally written for, SVU Character Appreciation, Olivia Benson Week, TW assholes, Liv POV, Companion chapter coming soon... Summary: Speed dating. Lieutenant Olivia Benson never thought she’d see the day. Yet, here she is. Will anyone catch her eye?

Barson drabble, fluff, continued from this - Rafael helps Olivia feel better with some tender love and care.

WC: 749

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“Sit. Drink.” he whispered.

She hummed her response as she closed her eyes and rested her hands on the bed, her fingers curling into the bedspread.

She could hear the water running in the bathroom, and his quiet footsteps as he moved about only a few feet away. She sighed and rolled her neck back and forth; the painkillers had barely taken the edge off. Her head felt like it was being crushed by a ten-tonne weight. Her eyes burned, the light on the nightstand even too much to tolerate. She gripped the glass slowly, letting the cool water flow down her throat, replacing the glass on the side, and closing her eyes once more.

How this definitely continued ♥

Title: Winter Comfort

Author: roseinutopia

Rating: K+

For: @raul-e-esparza

Prompt: "You are kidding, right? Please tell me it's a joke!" 

A/N: I hope you like this bit of Barson family fluff :)

“We're going to da park!” Noah chanted in excitement while Rafael helped him tie the laces of his winter boots, kneeling in front of the boy. A soft smile played around Rafael's lip as he listened to his excited babbling about building the biggest snowman Central Park had ever seen, and he couldn't help but share the enthusiasm.

“Yes, mijo, it will be the best snowman of all.” He ruffled through Noah's brown hair and the boy beamed up at him as he finished lacing his shoes.

“Thanks, Papí.”

Even more than a year after Noah had started calling him Papí, it still made his heart jump in joy whenever the word came over the boy's lips. It had been difficult to adjust to dating a single mother, but Olivia and Noah had been patient with him, and over time he'd become so comfortable with Noah that he could barely remember the occasions on which he'd been filled with horror by merely thinking of being around the curious boy.

Noah and he were slipping on their winter coats as Olivia stepped into the hallway, phone in her hand and an apologetic expression on her face. “I'm sorry, Fin just called, we have an important case and I need to go.”

Noah immediately started pouting and Rafael joined him, complaining: “But Liv, the snowman...You are kidding, right? Please tell me it's a joke!”

“I don't have much of a choice,” she replied with a sigh, grabbing her purse after leaning down and giving Noah a kiss on the cheek, which he immediately wiped away. “You can handle this, Papí, I trust you.”

Rafael rolled his eyes as she slung her arms around his neck and kissed him softly while Noah was occupied searching for his favourite wool hat. “I know I can handle going to the park and building a snowman with Noah on my own. I was just looking forward to having a family afternoon with my two favourite people and then dropping off Noah at my mother's place so we two can test our fireplace. And the bathtub.”

He'd lowered his voice towards the end of the sentence, giving her a meaningful glance that hinted at all the dirty plans they'd had for their free evening and night. A hint of regret and longing flickered in her brown eyes and for a second he thought that she would start pouting, too. They'd been in a lot of stress lately, trying to balance moving into a new, bigger apartment together and a heavy caseload, and today would have been the first evening to themselves in quite some time.

“I'll try to get out as early as possible,” she whispered with a smirk, pecking his lips. “I promise.”

The next hours were hard for her, and not only because the case was one of the harder kind. She felt regret about not being able to be with her boys on the first day that they'd managed to save for their family, and she missed them. Of course she didn't let that influence her work, but she was still looking for opportunities to delegate work so she could possibly leave earlier.

When she had time to check her phone she saw the pictures Rafael sent her, labelled 'Your boys love you, Liv' – a selfie of Noah and Rafael in the snow, one of a snowman that was taller than Noah, one of Noah making a snow angel with a happy laugh on his face. A sigh left her and Fin lifted his head.

“Liv, I think Rollins, Carisi and I can handle it from here. Come on, get out of here, girl.”

She smiled and hugged him after he'd handed her her coat and purse, whispering a thank you into his ear before storming towards the elevator. It was already late in the afternoon and she knew that Rafael had already brought Noah to his mother's place, but still she hurried to grab a cab and get home.

To her utter surprise, Noah ran down the hallway when she unlocked the door and stepped inside, and then he threw himself into her arms. “Mama! Papí and I had so much fun in the snow!”

“Hey baby,” she whispered and pulled her son close, looking up at Rafael who stood in the doorway to the living room. “Why aren't you with Abuela?”

“I called my mother and she will take him tomorrow, so we can still have our family time,” he explained and Liv lifted Noah so she could walk over to Rafael with him, kissing him softly.

“Thank you.”

“Everything for you, mi amor. Now come on, Noah decided that we'll have a picnic in front of the fireplace.”

They shared another kiss and a loving glance while Noah piped up: “We have pizza!”

Olivia let Rafael pull her into their living room, past the cardboard boxes they hadn't unpacked yet towards a big pile of blankets and pillows in front of the fireplace. And in this moment she felt the stress vanish; contentment took over as they ate pizza and then snuggled up in front of the fire, Noah falling asleep to Rafael reading to them from one of Noah's books.

“I love you,” she whispered over the crackle of the burning wood and Rafael smiled, trying not to wake the sleeping boy in his arms as he leaned over to kiss her.