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Post-Savoureux. Will fights back.
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12 Feb 2014
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“Will,” Jack says. “Listen to me now. Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper.”
“He is!”
“He is helping us catch the Chesapeake Ripper.”
And Will starts laughing, high and furious. “Ohohoho no, Jack. No, he's really not.”
“Will, you’re not thinking straight.”
Will stops laughing. “I’m not thinking straight? Jack, I’m not the one who brought the Chesapeake Ripper in to consult on his OWN INVESTIGATION.” From here on in, he can’t stop shouting. “You think it can’t be him because he’s your friend. That’s what he does. He gets so close to you that you can’t see him for what he is. That’s exactly what he did to me!”
Ringing silence.
“I’m sorry, Jack,” Hannibal says. He is in full martyrdom mode, staring a penitential hole into the floor between his feet. “I should not have come today. Clearly my being here has triggered him into making an association between the Ripper and his own case.”
“Oh don’t you dare,” Will says, “Don’t you start twisting this around.”
“You’ve been under a great deal of stress, Will. I apologize that I didn’t have the foresight to notify you in advance of my presence in the investigation today. I’ve disturbed your peace of mind—”
“—Stop it! Stop it! Shut up!”—
“—I’ve inadvertently clouded your judgment, and I know how important it is to you that you be able to do your work—”
“He’s just trying to make me sound like I’m crazy!” Will shrieks.
“He doesn’t have to make you sound crazy,” Jack shouts—louder than Will. “CAN’T YOU SEE YOU’RE DOING ALL THE WORK YOURSELF?”
And for the first time, Will sees, really sees, just how much trouble Hannibal has landed him in. He sees Jack’s pained expression. The way he is alight with a kind of tragic outrage. He is disappointed in Will. Beyond disappointed.
“You don’t believe me,” Will says, quietly. He looks at the faces of the rest of the team, who are now all backed completely up against the wall. Beverly looks blank, so upset she can’t emote it. Price is white as a sheet. Zeller is the only one who looks like he might be enjoying himself; there is a wild light in his eyes, as if all his suspicions have just been confirmed.
Will’s eyes shudder in his skull. “None of you believe me.”
“He’s the Ripper,” Will screams, raggedly. He points at Hannibal again, who is watching him through lidded eyes. “He killed Miriam Lass, Jack. He has been playing this game with you for years. He orchestrated all of this. He has you marching to his beat and you refuse to see! He dropped this body so that you’d bring it here, to me, knowing I’d figure him out, knowing you won’t believe me.”
Jack’s patience is running out. “Will, if you don’t calm yourself down right now, I’m gonna have to do it for you.”
Will doesn’t hear him. He is staring at Hannibal, he sees the glimmer of triumph in Hannibal’s eyes. “Don’t you see?” he shouts. “He is trying to discredit me forever! He needed to be here, he needed to watch me work it out. He made sure he had a front row seat! Well, was it everything you hoped it’d be? Are you having fun?”
The look on Hannibal’s face is indescribable.
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Will is slowly losing his mind in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He makes a deal with the devil to get out.
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Bookmarked by cerebellum (utterday)
15 Jun 2014
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here endeth the lesson by cracktheglasses (cormallen)
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
08 Jan 2016
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Kylo Ren works on his meditation technique. It goes pretty well, all things considered.
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“I can't believe you did that.”
“Kissed you?” Carlos asks. He feels Cecil shudder under his hands.
“Yes,” he hisses. “Right there, where anyone could – oh, beautiful, perfect Carlos, I never thought you were kinky too!”
Or, Cecil's erogenous zones are in nonstandard places.
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In other moments, Bedelia sits across from him, face poised in the typical mix of curiosity and resignation he is sure she reserves only for him and for Hannibal. “What would you say this is,” she asks, “this place where you stand now? Is it the gates of hell? Or the mouth?”
Will’s throat is dry, and the morning breeze moves through him as if totally unhindered by his individual atoms, and he does not know the answer to that question.
OR Will and Hannibal survive the fall and take shelter in a small house in the woods. They have some things to discuss, and Will has some decisions to make.
Bookmarked by cerebellum (utterday)
03 Dec 2015