6 Works by avoidant_ary
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Following a brutal hate crime case during Pride Month and a harrowing confrontation in the interrogation room, Amanda is left feeling dangerously exposed and Olivia struggles to make sense of everything.
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She had tried, she really had. She had woken before dawn and spent the following hour dry heaving over the sink until her throat burned. Staring at her reflection she barely recognized herself. Every morning the mirror showed her something new to worry about: sunken eyes, dull skin, hair that had started thinning at the temples.
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Amanda’s illness changes everything. What starts as a quiet act of concern, quickly becomes something more intimate, as proximity, vulnerability, and unspoken feelings begin to blur the line between care and attachment.
As Amanda struggles to recover, Olivia refuses to step back, and the space between them shifts into something neither of them is ready to define. -
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After three straight days of relentless badgering, Amanda finally convinces Olivia to go with her to watch The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway.
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It’s a late night at the precinct, and Olivia is drowning in paperwork. When a late-night babysitting emergency brings Noah to the precinct, Amanda offers to stay with him until Olivia is done.
It’s a simple offer. It doesn’t feel like it should matter as much as it does. But it changes everything. -
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“What’s your name?” Olivia prompted, her head tilting slightly, clearly amused.
Amanda opened her mouth. For the second time that night, her brain short-circuited. Or maybe… it had never really turned back on at all.
She knew this, she’d known it for thirty-some years. Somehow, though, looking into Olivia’s eyes made her brain completely, terrifyingly, spectacularly blank.
New city, new life and new, apparently crippling inability to function around attractive women.
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Amanda Rollins is a master at pretending. Pretending she’s fine. Pretending the case didn't get under her skin. Pretending she doesn't still hear the laughter of the boys from the football team echoing in her hears.
When Olivia Benson shows up at her door, the mask finally slips.