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    An antidote for the HeAteUs and the lovesick cannibal, written for the #ItsStillBeautiful challenge on the one year anniversary of TWOTL. A story in which William 'Wing-It-With-Indecision' Graham actually planned the fall - and their survival - with malice and forethought. Feat. medical intimacy, Graham cracker wrath, and two murderous idiots in love. Told from a very hurt Hannibal's point of view.

    “Dahlias are the August birth flower. Are we celebrating a birth day?”
    “Oh yes,” Will said. “Ours. We were reborn this month. Born properly at last - together. Baptized by blood in the womb of the sea.”
    Hannibal smiled at the whimsy in Will's words. “Some would say you have selected a controversial color.”
    “Such a deep crimson it almost looks black.”
    “Black dahlias for the dragon's blood we were born in.” Hannibal stroked the miniature knife blade petals on one of the blossoms. “Black dahlias also symbolize betrayal, Will.”

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