Title: Because He Can’t Let it Go
Author: ThetaSigma
Rating: General
Word Count: 982
Chapters: 1/1
Tags: Rafael Barba/Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr., Rafael Barba, Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr., Olivia Benson, Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, Established Relationship, I Love You, Language mastery
Summary: Sonny hides his language capabilities from Barba. It backfires, but only a little.
Rafael faces Sonny immediately. “Why didn’t you tell me?” he demands. “That you understood every word?"
“Because I didn’t want you to stop saying those words,” Sonny says immediately, honestly. “Because I knew that if you knew I understood, I’d never heard those words again, and I couldn’t have that.”
Comments: A wonderfully cute fic where Sonny hides his knowing Spanish from Rafael. Hilarity ensues. A lovely read from start to finish.
So he says nothing. He pretends. He doesn’t lie, but he hides that Spanish is his third language (fourth, if you count Latin, and since Sonny is – was? – a good Catholic boy, perhaps counting Latin is not such a stretch). Some nights, he murmurs back in Italian, amore. He doesn’t miss the way Rafael smiles a little wider.
