A Little Bit Ruthless

3

I'm coaxed awake by the smell of khalua coffee and the soothing sound of The Cello song coming from the kitchen. Pots and pans clamour, the stove clicking until it comes on, he rummages through the kitchen with grace of a sly fox.

Too quiet.

Pulling the covers back over my head to block out the sound and sunlight the blanket is tossed away from me leaving me shivering in the cool air."Why do you feel its neccessary to rip the blanket away like that?" I grumble reaching for it again.

He yanks it away balling it up in his hands walking away,"Um hello? I don't want to be up right now if you don't mind!"

"Shh little sadist, the police are on their way up. I need you on your best behavior or I'll have to put you away."

Biting my lip my heart pangs against my chest in fear,the only reason they would come to this house has to be because they suspect Hannibal of the murders. There's no way they know I was here all night...although, that'll make for an excellent alibi now.

He must've suspected that the cops were hot on my trail so he made me come here to give me a solid alibi that I couldn't have killed Nico.

Genius.

"Did you hear me my izzy?"

"No what?"

"I said get cleaned up, you know what to do with those clothes. You have a change already in the bathroom." Disappearing upstairs, I walk down the hallway to the other personal bathroom. It used to be mine before I moved out, its weird living with Hannibal..he still screams at night. Bone chilling hair raising screams, I feel awful that I can't help him, hell I can't even help myself.

Changed and refreshed a loud bang shakes the picture on the sidetable closest to the door. Padding towards it Hannibal reaches for it before I can frowning,"Sit." He whispers.

"No." I say sternly.

"Old mule." He bites back opening the door for the men in uniform.

"Officers,how can I be of service to you today?" Playing the helpful citizen role(I couldn't have done it better myself) the cop attempts a relaxed smile which comes off more as constipated.

"We're just doing neighborhood sweeps, if you don't mind sir,would you mind if we just look through your house?"

"Some kind of trouble around here?"

The cops exchange a grim look between eachother turning back to Hannibal to say,"Unfortunately yeah, more senseless killing about a block from here off on the trail near the park."

"How awful,who?"

"We're not sure who the remains belong to, there's no head,fingers,or toes." The cop looks genuinely disgusted by the whole ordeal. The other cop who winked at me heads back to the cruiser. Creep.

Tsk tsk.

Hannibal shakes his head crossing his arms over eachother,"It is a pity, this senseless killing. Feel free to search away. I assure you I have nothing to hide." Stepping to the side The cop identified by his badge as Francis. Officer Francis motions for his creepy partner who is overjoyed to being welcomed in the house.

Hannibal's lip twitches at the young cop's excitement,this must be his first real mini mission.

Officer Francis turns to me looking me up and down through squinted eyes as if he's analyzing me. I return the stare which only makes his intensify,"Have we met?"

"Possibly,I was in the news alot as a child." I shrug.

"For?" His eyebrows knit together as he tries to scramble in his mind anything specific about me that rings a bell.