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    Chishiya doesn’t get fascinated easily. But he’s been thinking of black holes, lately, deep wells of gravity sucking everything and anything into them, and what’d happen if one ever collided with another.

    Or: Chishiya has secrets. Niragi does, too. And what’s wrong with some good, old-fashioned blackmail between enemies?

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  2. Public Bookmark 84

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    There’s fifteen seconds between falling and breaking; the rising of the tide; an opening mouth; a clock ticking backwards.

    Porcelain waves shatter against black rock. The water yields to violence, then reshapes itself.

    There’s fifteen seconds, and in that time, as he is sheltered by the man he loves, Hannibal welds himself together again, memory by memory, piece by piece, body baptised by blood, moon and sea.

    The rooms of his memory palace shatter until every door swings open, revealing the mutilation he carries inside. Ugly. Wretched. Monstrous.

    There’s fifteen seconds, and this is it.

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    Or, in the moments before the fall, Hannibal reflects on how he got here, and all the ways Will has ruined him.

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  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    Niragi sighed as he watched his phone ring and ring and ring. He figured if he let it go to voicemail on its own time, he could pretend that he was away from his phone and didn’t notice the call coming in.

    “Why are you ignoring your mother?” Chishiya asked. Of course that bastard had noticed.

    “I’m not ignoring her,” he pouted. With the way Chishiya was lounging against his chest he couldn’t see his face, but he just knew one of his eyebrows had quirked up in his patented look of disbelief. He sighed. There was no hiding anything from him. “It’s my dad’s birthday next week and she’s probably calling to ask if I’m coming to family dinner.”

    “Are you?”

    “Not if I can avoid it,” Niragi grumbled. “It’ll be a bunch of bullshit about how I’m unmarried in my thirties and it’s all my fault. They’ll list out all the fucked-up decisions I’ve made in my life that have ruined all my chances of being happy and successful or whatever and I really don’t need to hear that shit.”

    The phone rang again.

    He was ready to throw the stupid thing across the room but Chishiya was faster. He plucked the phone out of Niragi’s hands and accepted the call in one smooth motion.

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