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[buckysbbgirl]

What an incredible film. Please please please if you have the chance to see A Different Man, do it.

[b-skarsgard]

Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs attend the world premiere of "The Crow" at Village East by Angelika on August 20, 2024 in New York City.

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Locations where A Different Man will be playing in the US so far, according to Showtimes.

CA (Burbank - AMC Burbank 16, LA - AMC The Grove 14)

NY (New York - Angelika Film Center & Cafe, AMC Lincoln Square 13)

IL (Oakland Park - Marcus Orland Park Cinema)

You can check the source and see the availability for tickets by clicking here.

A Different Man will be released September 20 in the US.

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube 3

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1965 (Sesto Bruscantini, Valeria Mariconda, Ugo Benelli; conducted by Alberto Zedda; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva; conducted by Claudio Abbado; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1976 (Alan Titus, Beverly Sills, Henry Price; conducted by Sarah Caldwell; English subtitles)

Arena Sferisterio, 1980 (Leo Nucci, Marilyn Horne, Ernesto Palacio; conducted by Nicola Rescingo; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2005 (Pietro Spagnoli, Maria Bayo, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Arabic subtitles)

Teatro la Fenice, 2008 (Roberto Frontali, Rinat Shaham, Francesco Meli; conducted by Antonino Fogliani; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2009 (Pietro Spagnoli, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Margarita Gritskova, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Evelino Pidó; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2022 (Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Dmitry Korchak; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

Garsington Opera, 2023 (Johannes Kamler, Katie Bray, Andrew Stenson; conducted by Douglas Boyd; English subtitles)

Rigoletto

Wolfgang Nagel studio film, 1977 (Rolando Panerai, Franco Bonisolli, Margherita Rinaldi; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; Japanese subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Cornell MacNeil, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1981 (Cornell MacNeil, Luciano Pavarotti, Christiane Eda-Pierre; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly, English subtitles)

English National Opera, 1982 (John Rawnsley, Arthur Davies, Marie McLaughlin; conducted by Mark Elder, sung in English)

La Monnaie, Brussels, 1999 (Anthony Michaels-Moore, Marcelo Álvarez, Elizabeth Futral; conducted by Vladimir Jurowski; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2001 (Leo Nucci, Aquiles Machado, Inva Mula; conducted by Marcello Viotti; Italian subtitles)

Zürich Opera house, 2006 (Leo Nucci, Piotr Beczala, Elena Mosuc; conducted by Nello Santi; no subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2016 (Quinn Kelsey, Michael Fabiano, Olga Peretyatko; conducted by Nicola Luisotti; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2018 (George Petean, Ivan Ayon Rivas, Grazia Schiavo; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; English subtitles)

Così Fan Tutte

Vaclav Kaslik studio film, 1969 (Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Luigi Alva, Hermann Prey; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1988 (Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler, Luis Lima, Ferruccio Furlanetto; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Teatro alla Scala, 1989 (Daniela Dessì, Delores Ziegler, Josef Kundlak, Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1992 (Amanda Roocroft, Rosa Mannion, Rainer Trost, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1996 (Barbara Frittoli, Angelika Kirschlager, Michael Schade, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English and Italian subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 2000 (Melanie Diener, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Charles Workman, Nicola Ulivieri; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2000 (Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Roberto Saccá, Oliver Widmer; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Opera Lyon, 2007 (Maria Bengtsson, Tove Dahlberg, Daniel Behle, Vito Priante; conducted by Stefano Montanari; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2009 (Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Topi Lehtipuu, Florian Boesch; conducted by Adam Fischer; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2009 (Malin Hartelius, Anna Bonitatibus, Javier Camarena, Ruben Drole; conducted by Frans Welser-Möst; English subtitles)

Aïda

San Francisco Opera, 1981 (Margaret Price, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Luis Garcia Navarro; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1985 (Leontyne Price, James McCracken; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles) – Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV

Teatro alla Scala, 1986 (Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1989 (Aprile Millo, Plácido Domingo; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Busseto, 2001 (Adina Aaron, Scott Piper; conducted by Massimiliano Stefaneli; Italian subtitles)

St. Margarethen Opera Festival, 2004 (Eszter Szümegi, Konstantin Andreev; conducted by Ernst Marzendorfer; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 2012 (Liudmyla Monastyrska, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Fabio Luisi; Russian subtitles)

Tbisili State Opera, 2017 (Maqvala Aspanidze, Franco Tenelli; conducted by Marco Boemi; Russian subtitles)

Teatro Colón, 2018 (Latonia Moore, Riccardo Massi; conducted by Carlos Vieu; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro la Fenice, 2019 (Roberta Mantegna, Francesco Meli; conducted by Riccardo Frizza; French subtitles)

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2nd Week; 5 movies for Lolitas

Hiii (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ You know, I´m something of a movie buff. However, this time I didn´t go for the best, or even the ones I enjoyed most (even if I liked all of the entries, of course) or even the objectivelly (critically) best ones. I think that those are good films for lolitas for various reasons. And spoiler - you won´t find Kamikaze Girls nor Marie Antoinette there.  1. Gypsy 83 Gypsy 83 is actually a goth film, but I feel like everyone who is a part of some subculture should see it. It´s about two friends, one who is struggling as a gay goth kid from a conservative town and one who is a plus size woman (with a lot of mommy issues) and their way to New York for Stevie Nicks night. Speaking of quality in road trip genre, it´s not another Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but it´s about being true to yourself, even if your surroundings continue to let you down. Also, I love the soundtrack and wardrobes of our main characters! Honestly, maybe just skip it and watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? Less goths, but more drag queens.  2. Devil Wears Prada What does beggining of worst era for style and setting in a fashion magazine in common with EGL?  Honest love for fashion. Everyone who likes to watch out for trends, or likes their history, should watch this movie about people willing to do everything for fashion. Also, Meryl Streep is really chic here. Everyone feeling too old to dress nicely should watch her. 

3. Angelika Even though this might look a bit rough, the story is set in baroque and magnificent French castles. Gothic and baroque - the most lolita-sque of all historical styles.  If beautiful set isn´t enough, you will still love costumes! Angelika has a big wardrobe, so everyone will find something.If you don´t know this series of films, you should read about it first. It´s quite explicit, so you might prepare for it. 4. Adéla ještě nevečeřela/Ádela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet Czech film, a period detective sci-fi comedy. We made a lot of them, it was hard to film something contemporary (and even harder to make it any good) during socialism.   The influence of Edwardian era on lolita shouldn´t be underplayed, which is why I recommend Downton Abbey, but this feels closer to me. Adéla is a very funny detective comedy with great stylization, which makes it cool to watch even if you don´t enjoy the costumes.  Fun fact: Robert Redford was supposed to play main character.

Honorable mention goes to Titanic. 5. Amadeus I heard it´s one of the best films around? Well, it´s not my favourite, even if I adore Miloš Forman, but it´s gorgeous. From costumes, to pre-revolution Prague (don´t let them fool you, Vienna wouldn´t be so fabulour in 1988). Since it´s about the one and only Mozart, a lot of scenes are in opera, which is fabulous. And the mascarade scene? Roccoco i sone of my favourite eras, and it´s depicted beautifully here. Dear god. Theodore Pištěk won Academy Award for this and it´s easy to see why.

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Long Distance: Peter Stone x Reader

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“You could come with me.” You whispered against Peter’s lips as you lay tangled up together beneath his sheets. His fingertips caressed the line of your jaw, his thumb chasing over the apple of your cheek as he looked into your eyes and spoke.

“You know that I can’t.”

New York was a step back for him. He had spent his whole life running from his father’s shadow, from the burdens the other man placed upon his shoulders. When he had moved to Chicago, he had been burying his childhood memories, reinventing himself. To go back would be undoing all of his hard work.

Choosing to be a prosecutor in Chicago felt like he was openly defying his father, an example of how the older man could have done better. He had always had a strong sense of justice, he wanted to prove that you didn’t have to play the politics, that there were other ways to help the people that needed it. His decisions were always focused on the law, he never shirked the guidelines and his conviction record spoke for itself. He played hardball in court, he knew that defence attorneys dreaded facing him because it meant they had to work harder, be smarter about their cases.

In the past you had told him that his dedication and fierce intelligence had been what attracted you to him in the first place. He didn’t settle for second best; he came out swinging from the get-go and you admired that. At the end of the day, he could hold his head high and say he had done his job to the best of his ability. He could sleep ay night knowing that, and on the nights that he couldn’t when the cases he lost haunted him…

He called you.

“I always like to check.” You whispered, your lips grazing across the corner of Peter’s mouth.

You didn’t make your desire for Peter to return to New York a secret, secrets had a way of festering, and you were always honest with him. You hoped that one day he would, but you didn’t apply any pressure, it was the way the relationship worked. Your career was important to you and Peter would never try to push you into moving to Chicago.

Peter watched as you slipped out from underneath the sheets and sauntered towards the bathroom. There wasn’t a part of you he didn’t adore, everything from the scars that adorned your skin to the freckle on your left ass cheek. You were confident in yourself, in your decisions, your choices and Peter craved that. It was one of the things that had attracted him to you in the first place. You didn’t give a shit what anybody else thought, you were true to yourself, and Peter craved that. He collapsed back into his pillows and stared at the ceiling as he heard the shower turn on. You were leaving in just a few hours, and he knew he would miss you fiercely. Maybe it was time to consider his options.

“Are you going to join me?” You called out from the bathroom.

Peter thought of you stepping underneath the heated water, your hands pushing your hair back away from your face as the water cascaded over your curves. He wanted this, he wanted to experience this each and every morning instead of snatched pieces of time over weekends, the two of you had off. Which, by the way, were becoming few and far between.

He stared at the closed bathroom door, and he knew he had to make a choice.

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RAFAEL CASAL - BLINDSPOTTING / NEW YORK PREMIERE (2018)

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 16: Rafael Casal attends the screening of "Blindspotting" hosted by Lionsgate at Angelika Film Center on July 16, 2018 in New York City.

Pics by: Dimitrios Kambouris

[katiethebookworm]

Spooky Season Reads for 2023

Hello my lovelies,

Today I have some reading recommendations for ✨Spooky Season✨

The Silence in her eyes

Girl on the Run

King of Dead Things

Don't You Dare

Frankenstein

The Haunting of Hill House

White Is for Witching

The Shining

Mexican Gothic

Coraline

Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror

Fledgling

The Weight of Blood

Interview with the Vampire

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Hallowe'en Party

The Good House

Payback's a Witch

Dracula

There's Someone Inside Your House

The Hunger

Clown in a Cornfield

Cemetery Boys

Practical Magic

The Kiss Curse

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Annotated

Carrie

Wicked

The Witches of New York

The House on Foster Hill

Motherthing

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel

The Hacienda

Pet Sematary

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Turn of the Screw

Rebecca

Her Body and Other Parties

How to Sell a Haunted House

Dark Harvest

Haunted

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Halloween Tree

Rebecca: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Year of the Witching

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The ​Graveyard Book

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Bunny

When Things Get Dark

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

Aura

and Broken Summer: A Novel

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NYC friends, there will be TWO early screenings of All of Us Strangers followed by Q&As with ANDREW SCOTT, Thursday December 14, and Sunday December 17 at the Angelika Film Center.

🎟️Angelika Film Center

18 W. Houston St. New York, NY 10012

[nameless-and-joymaking]

advice for someone from another country visiting new york for the first time for like 2weeks?

ahh honored that you would ask my advice!

General/boring advice: be prepared for Weather (carry a sweatshirt and an umbrella bc the ones they sell on the street are shit, carry a handfan bc the trains aren't always air conditioned), avoid the G and L trains wherever possible, and the 1 train on the weekends, be alert but don't be afraid, pay attention to subway announcements and read the subway maps carefully (ppl will know you're a tourist if you're glued to the map inside the train car but who cares), avoid times square if you can help it, walk fast if you're in midtown everyone will be grateful, dont smile at strangers except old ladies and babies, thank your bus driver. Follow @got2gonyc on insta bc they have a map of public bathrooms that is VITAL (my personal favorite public bathroom in nyc is inside the shops at columbus circle.)

NOW for fun stuff/ Grand List of Recommendations. im going to split this into sections and go into WAY too much depth. im also assuming you're staying in manhattan but going to provide recs throughout the boroughs

Culture

if you have some money to burn, definitely see some theatre. If you like musicals, Kimberly Akimbo has $40 rush tickets (meaning if you show up at the box office right when it opens you can get cheap seats), Parade has $45 rush (if you're going to the city before it closes).

see a film at the Metrograph or Film Forum (metrograph has uncomfy seats tbh but always shows great stuff.) The Angelika is also fine, and Alamo Drafthouse is not NY-specific but it's cool.

go to The Strand! not on a weekend bc it's far too crowded but there are just so. many. books. or go to a community bookstore like Word Up in Washington Heights or Bluestockings downtown (lots of queer and political books)

You gotta do a museum or two. The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens is all about film and if you love movies, it is beyond delightful. You can spend a whole day at the Met just wandering, but if you like an agenda, I really recommend going to the Dutch painting collection in Gallery 964 and checking out my favorite painting I've ever seen up close, as well as the sculpture garden in the American Wing, the Asian Wing, the Islamic Wing, and the Egyptian exhibit (you have to walk through it to get to a bunch of other things anyway). There are some van Goghs there, too, and the costuming exhibit and and and-- ok i'll stop here. The American Museum of Natural History has the ability to make you feel like a kid again if you were into science as a child.

Lots of museums, including El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage have days where admission is free. Lot of the galleries in Chelsea are also free every day (including the Gagosian Galleries on West 24th and the Chase Contemporary)

Visit a library! The big one in midtown or a smaller one (Morningside Heights Library by the Columbia campus is nice, I like the Mosholu one in the Bronx as well)

Food

you cannot leave NY without having a good NY bagel. Downtown: Bagel Bob's. Uptown: Pick-A-Bagel. Bronx: Riverdale Bagels (you need a bus to get to this one, or a long walk, but worth it.) Downtown, midtown, and Brooklyn: Russ and Daughter's. any old dollar pizza place is probably great, but if you want to be fancy, go to Luzzo's on the upper east side.

if you eat fish, Astoria Seafood is a MUST. fresh, delicious, no frills, BYOB. easy to get lost on the way there if you don't know Queens, so be careful.

Queens in general is a great place to eat. Most diverse urban community in the world! Mama's Empanadas (right by the Museum of the Moving Image, on Steinway Street) is a strong recommendation there, as well. Hot pot, bubble tea, Greek food, and momos are, as a general rule, very good in Queens.

if you want relatively affordable sushi and sake, Marumi is my go-to in Manhattan.

if you want a bougie brunch or dinner, go to Lido in Harlem. Any Jamaican place in Harlem or buffet-style southern food is likely to be good if you want to be adventurous and just pick one. Pies n Thighs in Brooklyn is also good southern-inspired food if you eat meat.

Tasty Handpulled Noodles in Chinatown (there's one on Doyers and one on 9th ave) is some of the best Chinese food. Chinatown Ice Cream Factory is upsettingly expensive but very delicious.

If you like to cook, go to Kalustyan's in Little India and get yourself some spices. They have more kinds of pepper there than you've ever seen in your life.

there is a sandwich shop in the Bronx i will ONLY tell you about via dm bc i won't have my secret faves revealed in a public forum.

lmk if you want Fancy-fancy recs for food, I can make a whole other post.

Green Spaces/Nature

Wave Hill up in Riverdale is beyond beautiful, and free on Thursdays. A bit of a trek from any trains, buses involved etc, but worth it!!

If you're going with friends or peers, a picnic in Central Park (North Meadow by the 103rd st/CPW entrance is a good spot, also Sheep Meadow or the Great Lawn) or just a walk through the park can be amazing. A little touristy, but who's counting.

The Coney Island Aquarium (whether or not you also go to the amusement park) is really nice. Very far from Manhattan, but easy to find (lots of crowds lots of signs)

I don't know Prospect Park in Brooklyn super well, other than the area right by Ample Hills Creamery-- great ice cream, by the way-- but it's pretty and really huge. On that note, also try The Social in Brooklyn for ice cream and DEFINITELY eat an icee from a cart. Churros from a cart in the subway in particular also always hit.

It is tenuous to call this nature but the Union Square Farmer's Market pops up every Saturday and you can buy really good produce/honey/flowers/booze (also, incidentally, right by a good ice cream place, Van Leeuwen's) ((also incidentally, I'm at the market pretty much every Saturday. idk if meeting a tumblr friend is on your want list but yeah.))

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Angelika Chapman – 2023 New York Pro

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Bill Skarsgård at the premiere of "The Crow" held at The Village East by Angelika on August 20, 2024 in New York City.

[mediamemoir]

1996: January-March

My OCD is going berserk over skipping 1995 but I know you wanted it so here we go. Just a note: there are going to be a lot of omissions, as this is just my own personal journey.

First up, Tori Amos's Boys For Pele with the single Caught A Lite Sneeze, which featured the lyric "made my own pretty hate machine", refrencing NIN's debut album.

Then came the previously mentioned Beautiful Girls soundtrack. BTW, it's the one film I managed to catch while visiting my uncle in New York, got to travel the subway all the way to SoHo's famed Angelika theater. (Almost caught Ghost in the Shell too, but I guess it was not to be yet).

The came The Fugees with The Score, its biggest hit being their cover of Killing Me Softly, though I was more partial to Ready or Not (video directed by Marcus Nispel) which sampled Enya's Boadicea (without permission).

Nick Cave released Murder Ballads which included a very successful duet with Kylie Minogue, Where the Wild Rose Grow. (I wasn't crazy about it. Maybe because it was overplayed.)

Sting released Mercury Falling, which had a couple of nice tracks but nothing too exciting.

Gravity Kills released their self-titled album which included the single Enough.

Tracy Bonham released The Burdens of Being Upright, becoming the first solo female to reach the top of Billboard's Modern Rock chart with Mother Mother (video directed by Jake Scott, Ridley Scott's son, and features Bonham's real mother).

And here's Underworld with Second Toughest in the Infants, featuring one of my favorite tracks of the year, Pearl's Girl. The original track is looooong, so here's the music video version.

I'll acknowledge STP's Tiny Music but also admit I didn't really listen to it back then.

And I'll end with Cocteau Twins' Milk & Kisses, which featured a track I only discovered 10 years later, when it became a soundtrack to a mutual crush that took my heart by storm, but whom I lost after a very brief passionate period. It was the last track on their last album.

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Distance - Will Halstead x Reader

Trigger Warning: Mention of child death (case related)

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“Did you enjoy it?”

The question had been intentionally spiteful. Will remembered the wounded look in your eyes as he asked it. The conversation had taken a downward turn after that.  In the end you’d sensed you were getting nowhere and abruptly hung up.

He didn’t bother calling you back. You wouldn’t answer until you’d both had time to calm down. You weren’t as hot headed as him. You knew the two of you would get into it and with all that distance between you, it could be the thing that destroyed your entire relationship.

He hated himself for asking that question, for intentionally riling you. Out of everybody in this world you were the one person he had complete faith in, and he knew that Reilly’s kiss had come as a complete shock to you. The problem was it hadn’t been for him.

“Reilly finally made a move on her.” Will forced himself to spit the words out before he took a slug of his beer and set it back on the bar.

Jay said nothing. The two of them had talked about this, a couple of weeks back. It had been hard for Will to express how he felt about your assignment in New York. He told people you were fine, the two of you keeping in contact, talking most nights but the truth was things were far more complicated.

When Jay had asked, Will hadn’t had the mental bandwidth to tell anymore lies. It had all come pouring out, the missed Skype calls, the ones you did make you looked absolutely exhausted. He was worried, more than worried but you refused to listen to him. You were fine, you told him. The two of you had been together long enough for Will to know when you were lying.

Jay hadn’t told Will he was being paranoid when he showed him the photographs that you had sent him, the ones taken with Detective Reilly outside of work hours. It was in the way the other man smiled at you, the way his hand always seemed to linger with a familiarity that Will missed. He had known as time went by that Reilly’s feelings had changed. Being in your proximity how could he not.

He had never told you; he had managed to keep the jealousy at bay during the months you had been away. He knew that you and he were entirely committed to one another and upon talking to Jay he realised that feeling he had had when he looked at those photographs hadn’t been jealousy at all, it was envy. He was envious that the other man was in your presence, that he had your attention, that he could actually reach out and touch you.

It was the powerlessness of the situation that had driven him to Molly’s today. Helplessness that had made him lash out with a sharp tongue when you’d told him Reilly had kissed you. He had been hurt by the revelation despite the fact he had known that it was coming.

“I miss her Jay.” Will found himself confiding. “I’m worried she’s losing herself, that she’s slipping away.”

“We both know how much Mika’s death messed her up.” Jay reminded him, tilting his head so he could read the profile of Will’s downcast features.

It was true, they had both seen the way that you had shut down after you found four-year-old Mika Collins tucked away in a chest freezer, in some pervert’s basement. You had held out hope for that child, he was the one you thought you could get to in time…

Instead, he had been brutalised so badly that he had died from his injuries and been left on ice until his ‘owner’ could decide what to do with him. It wasn’t the worst one they had come across during that case, but it had been the one that had broken you.

You hadn’t been able to sleep after that, you picked at your meals and spent long days and nights at the precinct putting everything you had into locating the man you deemed responsible for Mika’s death, the person who had orchestrated the whole thing The Broker.

When he had disappeared off your radar, it had devastated you and it was then that Will had suggested that you took the time to see a counsellor. It had been helping, he thought. You had started to take joy in the little things again, sleeping better, eating properly. He had seen the essence of you begin to reappear again…

And then Intelligence had found that website and you had fallen apart all over again. They’d traced it to an IP in New York, Bronx SVU was already on the case. They welcomed any insight they could get.

Will had known you would go, and he hadn’t tried to stop you. You were dogged, determined, you would have to see this case through to the very end. Over the past couple of weeks though he had seen your old habits creeping through. He knew you were having nightmares; he could see it in the dark circles that underlined your eyes.  You had lost weight.

He could feel you slipping away from him all over again and it scared the living hell out of him. Back home, he could see those signs, reassure you and support you. They had a network of people to help including Jay and the rest of the team you worked with, people who had a vested interest in making sure you stayed healthy. In the New York you had no one.

“What happens if she doesn’t catch him this time?” Will found himself asking the question he’d been fighting to avoid confronting over the past two months. “Where does it end?”

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Beyonce and Jay Z head to the movies for his birthday in New York City