IC - INBOX/VOICEMAIL/TEXT/THREATENING LETTER

[il_mostro]

Please leave all IC correspondence for Dr Hannibal Lecter here.

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[il_mostro]

[Ah, young Hannibal. You had so much to learn from your older self. Including burying your anger deep, deep inside to come out later in horrible violence.]

Well, then I am relieved. I am also pleased she will have a friend in you.

As for Will ... he might not be interesting to you, but come back to this conversation in twenty, thirty years, when you have been alone as long as I have. I assure you, his appeal will make itself known.

A fisherman, dear self, is just another kind of hunter. A more subtle one.

[Hannibal's smile appeared on his side of the screen, before he answered.] The offer stands. What are your terms?

[camebefore]

[That and how not to be led about by his other self with a few well placed words. There weren't many out there that could claim to have changed the mind of Hannibal Lecter when he was deciding on a course of action.]

She does find it disquieting to be older than ourselves.

If you are content with Will Graham, that's enough for me. He seemed to find me just as uninteresting as I did him the single time we met. But again, if he makes you happy, then good luck.

[That stopped him, made him think. Terms weren't something he had considered much. After seeing the Down, he had no desire to remain there, and his elder self had all the knowledge he wanted. While he could survive the Down easily, he found himself already considering how to execute a few. Food had also seemed in a short supply down there.]

I should like to live with you instead of the Down. I would want access to your books and knowledge. I've lost half a century, and you seem to understand it all in terms of technology and advances in medicine. From what I understand, I would also require your permission to work at the clinic in the Down. They might have use for a surgeon. I should also like to continue my artwork which would require supplies. I suppose whatever I make goes to you and can repay for these things.

[He didn't think to ask for other things. Hannibal may or may not find his threadbare clothing acceptable. What money he had always went to education or art versus things like clothing, rich food or even the arts. Not yet anyway. Securing his position had been his first concern, having just come to America with its lights, warmth and rush of action.]

And yours?

[il_mostro]

[It was all a matter of knowing where people's pressure points were, and hitting them exactly when you needed to. Honesty was a good way to hit this points, so Hannibal mixed it together with light falsehoods and had a potent level of manipulation at his disposal. Even against himself.]

As my only child, I would not be surprised at that reaction from her.

As for Will, he is his own person. I keep away from him on his request. Thank you for honoring that agreement, in your own way.


[Here, he paused, because getting anything sexual was not part of why he wanted the younger Hannibal as his Submissive. Control ... control was always more satisfying than sex.]

I will have to get a bigger home, so you may have to wait while I get that arranged. You can have free access both. You will have my permission, naturally, as we do need a surgeon. I can give you some of my supplies and get you your own.

In exchange, I want full disclosure on your actions and who you interact with, along with the depth of said interaction. I do not need messy details, just salient knowledge. You are not to reveal our past revenge to anyone, and you are not to bring her into any conversation with someone I do not deem completely under our individual thralls.

You will only have safe sex with Marlo.

You will not kill anyone without discussing it with me first. I need to be able to run damage control if it goes public.

[camebefore]

You could have began with Graham requested you remain away from him and would like me to agree. For your sake, I would have.

[But that's neither here nor there. When it comes to Graham, Hannibal has no stake in him. Whatever is going on there doesn't need him digging into it. Yet.]

Don't put yourself out for a bigger home. [Meaning he doesn't trust what that would mean here.] My place in the Down is serviceable if you can allow me use of your library and bringing me up to date with what I've missed.

I find all those terms agreeable except for the stipulation of Marlo. She may have no desire to have me in her bed, and I will take to my bed whomever I please with the exception of your Will Graham and Abigail Hobbs. As for safety, I always am. While I'm not sure if social disease exist here, I'd rather not be the first to find out.

And if an accidental killing happens?

[il_mostro]

Well I could have done that, but then how would you know how desperately I am in love with him? Thus an advantage you now have but cannot use because he does not want to be around you either.

[Which will remain true.]

I shall investigate, and let you know what is happening. You may have full access to my library, and my office.

I am not saying that you have to have sex with Marlo, or that you cannot. I frankly just want to make sure that we are both being careful about whom we share sexually. However, that you are aware of sexually transmitted diseases is enough to ease my concern about us sharing partners.

Then let me know so we can plan accordingly. Also, to get fresh meat.

[camebefore]

Don't lie to me.
No one could love us or us them. That died in the snow with... No one can, and we're not capable.

As for the access and anything they require signed for me to work at the hospital, I would appreciate it. I dislike limits.

I will take every precaution. I don't know what it's like in your era, but more than a few STDs can destroy a life in mine. I would not endanger you or Marlo in that way.

I don't do that anymore. But I will keep it in mind.