more than i meant
"i was always looking for you
in faces that almost felt right,
in feelings i couldn't name.
and then one day... there you are.
i was home."
in which, Madeline Keane joins Manhattan SVU as its new technical analyst, expecting difficult cases, questionable computer systems, and detectives who need everything five minutes ago.
Rafael Barba is only another name she learns along the way.
another prosecutor.
another impossible personality.
another person asking her to find something yesterday.
until somewhere between late nights, difficult cases, unfinished conversations, courtroom losses, terrible timing, and a friendship neither of them remembers choosing, Madeline becomes the person Rafael looks for without meaning to.
and Rafael becomes far more than Madeline ever planned to let him be.
rafael barba x madeline keane
law & order: svu / season 14 onward
professional acquaintances to friends to lovers / slow burn / ongoing