Hannibal's Return ( hannibal lecter fan fiction )

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Clarice Starling paced back and forth in the dark living room. She kept staring at the blood stained floors trying to figure out the steps the killer took. No fingerprints ,footprints ,cigaret butts ,nothing absolutely no evidence anywhere. Clarice was a good investigator ,but she knew she was no match for this criminal. He was so good at what he had done that it almost been like he was never there. He had done so good at leaving no evidence it scared her ,it made her hands start to get clammy. It felt like her rubber gloves were stuck on her hands. She had nothing else to do but guess the steps the murderer took. She listed them into a tape recorder.

"First he observed the house when the family had gone on a vacation to Orlando ,Florida. He went through every inch of the outside and inside of the house. It was easy to do without getting caught because the family had a fence around their house ,and it was in the middle of nowhere. The nearest house was 2 miles away from there's. he knew that there were 3 doors a font door ,a back door ,and a patio door with a screen on it. They were all solid wood doors. The murderer also knew all of the windows in the house ,and he knew that one on the second floor bathroom was missing."

"He took a practice run of what he was going to do the night of the murder. He went to the patio door ,because he knew that it was the only door in the house without a dead bolt. He slid open the screen door ,and then he chose a large flexible gift card. He slid the card into a vertical crack between door and the door jam. After doing that he tilted the card so the side closest to him was almost touching the doorknob. Then he bent the card the opposite way. That made the card slip under the angled end of the bolt ,forcing it back into the door. Then he was in the house with out a problem.

Clarice knew the steps he took ,because as a cop she has done it many times herself. "After getting in the house he looked around to see any signs of a dog or pet ,so he wouldn't disturb the family on the actual night he broke in. There were no pets so it made the murders even easier to complete. He found each individual room ,closet ,and staircase. He looked for an alarm system ,and there was one but it was disarmed." "Why would they keep the alarm system disarmed?" Clarice asked herself. She wrote down that question in her notebook ,then continued her audio recording. "Soon after he snuck out of the house ,and waited for the family to return.

"1 day later the family had returned. I know this because there are suitcases still full of clothes laying on the floor when I arrived to the crime scene. The murders happened the night the family returned. He took the same steps he took to get in the household the first time. Through the patio doors and up the stairs. He took a left and entered the adult bedroom. He took out a simple Smith&Wesson pocket knife ,and 2 cloths 1 for each person in the room. He pried the woman's mouth open and shoved the cloth down her throat. He then cut her throat. Through the trachea and to the esophagus. He did this within 30 seconds and she didn't even make a sound. Then he did the same to the male. Then he walked out of the room and walked straight down the halfway to the kids bedroom. There was one on each side of the hall. He turned and went int the boys room ,shoved one of the cloths in his mouth and slit his throat just like he had done to the adults. Except he had taken the children's eyeballs." "But why?" Asked Clarice. "And then he slit the throat of the little girl and took her eyeballs. The only thing different from the children and the parents was that the parents had glasses. Maybe the killer wanted perfect vision eyeballs. Then he left." Said Clarice into the tape recorder.

"Nobody had heard about the murders until two days after the murders took place. The woman's mother could not get ahold of them and she stopped by the house to find the bodies. The woman suffered of a dangerous fall and she hit her life alert. Soon after calling for help she suffered of a heart attack. She was rushed to the hospital..." Clarice's cell phone rang. It echoed off the walls ,and it had scared her half to death. She answered it quickly. It was her partner Billy.

"Hello." Said Clarice. "Clarice I went through some files and we got the DNA testes back from the family." Billy said. "So you know who they are?!" Asked Clarice. "Exactly ,the mother is Joan Wallace ,the father is Eddie Wallace ,the son is Rod Wallace ,and the daughter is Kate Wallace." Said Billy. "Well that's great news...in a way." Said Clarice. "Billy I'm going to come down to the station right away." Clarice said.

Clarice hung up the phone ,turned around and was going to walk out the door when she saw what she was looking for. In a tiny sparkling silver piece of hair. The moonlight shined on it perfectly. She couldn't believe she missed it. Clarice was actually mad at herself for not seeing it before. She gently took out a tweezers and a plastic bag. She softly picked up the piece of hair ,put it in the bag ,and ran out the door. She hurried up grabbed her car keys. Clarice sped out of the drive way to get to the station as quickly as she could.