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Inevitably, Will wondered how Hannibal was coping with the trauma.
He had no doubt that Hannibal was handling it elegantly.
He said he wouldn’t abandon you, a vile thought twisted through Will’s mind. But there was no answer to that accusation. There was no way for Hannibal to hold true to his promise to see Will through this darkness. Maybe if they had never been lovers, his psychiatrist would help him now. Maybe in that world, Will could peel away the cloying tar from his skin and rebuild a home beneath his ribs. The winter might warm and expose the earth beneath, and Will would go digging for the bodies buried there, excavating and tilling the soil so that he was not just death.
There will yet be a spring for us, Hannibal’s voice came. For you, myself, and Abigail.
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Will Graham is imprisoned in the BSHCI and believes himself to be the Copycat Killer. He has killed Abigail, and though Hannibal survived Will's murderous psychotic episode, their relationship has not. Will may no longer be sick, but his life is over.(Or so he tells himself, hands over his eyes.)
Sequel to A Mirror in the Dark
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- Part 2 of Mirrors
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Will knew what had happened. He knew exactly how Abigail's ear had gotten into him, who had shoved it down his throat. He also knew that trying to indicate Hannibal as a killer again was futile. Jack seemed to want to believe him, going by the conversation in the BSHCI's visitor hall, but Jack needed something concrete, evidence. Hannibal had eluded capture for so long, he wasn't going to start leaving fingerprints or hairs at his crime scenes now.
No, Will was going to deal with Hannibal Lecter on his own terms. The man deserved to reap what he'd so carefully sowed, didn't he? He deserved to experience what he'd coaxed forth from the bottom of Will's soul, to see the result of his machinations.
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After his release from the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Will doesn't return to work for the FBI.