Hannibal's untold story: Hannibal's daughter

(28) the past

Vinnie was asleep his crib, Alyssa was downstairs quickly cleaning the kitchen after we both cooked dinner together and I was sat on the bed in a over sized shirt and shorts. I fiddled with my fingers as I sat on the bed and I then leaned over to the nightstand and I pulled open my drawers and I grabbed my phone. I opened my messages and I scrolled through mine and Clarice's. They were all simple and stupid texts, we texted everyday.

[Clarice]
Look at this photo I found!

Under the text, was a photo of me and Clarice dressed up for halloween. She was dressed up as a zombie-nurse and I was dressed up as a zombie-patient, I looked around five and Clarice seemed so lively and pulled a silly face for the photo. I bit my lip and I scrolled further down the messages and there was more photo attachments.

[Clarice]
You asked me to send you these for when you got home. Here you go :)

I scrolled down and it was a video and a photo. I clicked the video first and the background seemed to be a kitchen.

The video:
Will was setting up the camera and in the background was a girl laughing (me) and an older woman laughing (Clarice). Will smiled and then leaned away from the camera and it showed me covered in flour and Clarice with doughy hands.
"Did we have a spillage?" Will asked, chuckling. Clarice showed her sticky hands and I rubbed my face that was covered in flour.
"Mischa dropped the flour and it hit the bowl" Clarice laughed. Will chuckled and I pulled a disgusted look.
"I just tasted the flour, YACK!" I cried. Everyone burst out laughing and Will walked over to me and picked me up, he put me on the counter and he started the sink and washed my face off.
"Mischa, what is this?" Clarice teased. Me and Will looked over and she threw flour on us both.
"Oh it's war!" Will laughed. Will grabbed a cloth and began to throw water at Clarice and she squealed as she ran away, both laughing. I then jumped off the counter and I grabbed the bag of flour and threw it at them.
"You too?!" Will flicked water at me and I laughed then we all ran over camera and there was screams and laughter.

I looked at the photo and it was the result of the catastrophe. Will was covered with flour on his chest and Clarice had flour over her face and hair. We all had mixes of water on us too. I turned off my phone and I covered my mouth and I uncontrollably cried. I put my phone beside me and I curled into a ball on the bed and I tried to silently cry, then I heard the door open.
"Mischa?" Alyssa asked me. I only sniffled and cried as a response and Alyssa sat beside me and put her arms around me and hugged me. I cried in her arms and I rested my head on her chest.
"Hey, what's wrong?" She asked me sympathetically. I couldn't say what I wanted to say from how severely bad I cried. I missed Clarice and Will so so so so so much, they were both my life and I lost them both. All in one year.
"It's okay, it's okay" Alyssa slowly rocked me and I cried in her arms.

I woke up from Vinnie's cries. I groaned and I checked the time and it was 2AM. I slowly got out of bed and noticed Alyssa wasn't in bed. I walked to Vinnie's nursery and I saw his nursery light on and I peered my head into the room and saw Alyssa rocking Vinnie, he just seemed to never stop crying.
"I'm sorry if he woke you" Alyssa replied, stressed.
"Don't be sorry. Here, let me try" I strolled over to her and she gave me Vinnie. I rocked Vinnie and he still whined.
"Oh, This could help" Alyssa suddenly said. I looked up and saw her approach with a toy. She showed it Vinnie and waved the teddy's arms around and smiled at Vinnie and he stopped crying. I let out a sigh of relief and I kissed Vinnie's head and put him back into his crib.
"I need a drink. You coming?" She asked.
"How could I refuse?" I responded. She smirked and went downstairs and I followed, turning off the nursery light. Me and Alyssa headed to the kitchen and she poured us some red wine.
"My dad said my mum lived off red wine when I was a baby. She said it was key to motherhood. I now see why" I joked. Alyssa chuckled and she walked over to me and gave me a glass of red wine. I gracefully took it off her and I sipped it but Alyssa was a drinker and a smoker, so she had a gulp at a time.
"Now that we're actually alone... I think we should talk about this wedding" smirked Alyssa. I smiled and I sipped some more red wine while Alyssa finished her glass and put it on a counter.
"I haven't stopped thinking about it, ever since you proposed" I informed her, she smiled and looked over at me.
"Neither. I think we should do it over in Florence, there's a chapel I passed everyday when I went into the town as a kid. It was gorgeous and historic" Alyssa recommended it to me. I suddenly thought about my dad walking down my isle. Even though he's ruined my life in some areas, I still want him to be there.
"Alyssa, I see why you want to do it there but..." I looked at her and she was waiting a response out of me, patiently.
"You want your dad there?" She asked me. I hesitantly nodded my head and she refilled her wine glass and drank some alcohol.
"I don't want to put my family at risk, though Mischa" Alyssa responded, she sighed and looked away from her glass to me. I drank the rest of my glass and put it down on the counter.
"I know you think I sound crazy right now-" I tried to say but Alyssa stopped me.
"I know he's all you had left but he's the reason why you was so alone and now you have me, Vinnie and my family... our family, we can't let him ruin it again" begged Alyssa.
"Security would be there" I reminded her.
"I don't want some men surrounding the area in black suits, radios, stalking him and making sure he doesn't decide to kill someone" Alyssa cried back. I closed my eyes and leaned on the counter. It was silent for a few moments.
"I know why you think that and I agree too, I don't want security there. I don't want to put your family at risk. I don't want to make it harder for your family to get here, but he's still my dad" I said back. I opened my eyes and I saw Alyssa biting her bottom lip.
"He wouldn't want to ruin our wedding" I pleaded her. She just stared at me.
"Alyssa, baby please" I took a hold of her hand and she moved back away from me.
"I know why you want your dad there. I do. I'm also sorry for everything he's done to you but if you keep giving him chances, he's going to hurt you again" Alyssa whispered to me.
"He's also protected me, he didn't try to hurt me. He thought what was best for me-" I said back but Alyssa interrupted.
"He killed Vinnie's biological father, killed your mother. He's not well, Mischa"