Folie à Trois: a Will X Hannibal

The Ravenstag...

Narrator's POV

Just like before, Beverly's body was left in display in the observatory.

Her body cut into slices, showing her body in sections in a display case.

Unlike before, when Will arrived to analyze the scene, Jack was even angrier then last time.

Ignoring it for now, Will 'did his thing' and reconstructed the scene in his mind.

He remembered using the woods as to cut up her body with his husband, setting them up on display carefully between glass panels.

"It's the Ripper, Jack." Will answered

"And his Fan? Or is this a one man job?" Jack asked, rubbing his face with his hand

"Yes, it was them both. The Fan left a calling card in the form of her heart: it's been replaced with a pomegranate." Will pointed out

Jack sighed, "First flowers and now fruit."

"All plants have meaning, Jack, not just flowers." Will informed

"And what does a pomegranate symbolize?"

"Literally, it represents fertility. But unless this is the Ripper's idea of a baby shower, I think they're going for the mythological meaning."

"Which would be?"

"Have you ever heard the Greek Myth of Persephone?" Will asked, looking at the few pomegranate seeds littering the floor between panels

Jack's voice was exasperated as he said, "Give me a recap."

"Persephone is the sheltered daughter of the goddess, Demeter. Her mother never utilized Persephone to her full potential and never let her grow up. Persephone was eventually kidnapped —or rescued, depending which version of the story you read— by the god of the underworld, Hades, and made his Queen."

***

Things were working out perfectly for the Lecter-Grahams.

A mere day after they made their decision to leave, Margot received a call from Margot saying she was in labour.

Because she was across the country in Texas, Will wouldn't be able to witness the birth but Margot said she'd be on the first plane to Baltimore tomorrow.

So, nearly twelve hours later, Will received another call from Margot telling him about the baby, "It was an easy birth, no complications according to the doctor. It's a boy, healthy baby boy that weighs seven and a half pounds and is twenty inches long."

"Have you filled out the birth certificate yet?" Will asked, putting her on speaker so his family could hear

"No, that's what I'm gong now." Margot replied, yawning halfway through her sentence, "You wanted to choose the name."

"Mariner." Will added, "Mariner Dante Verger-Lecter-Graham."

While his voice didn't give it away, Abigail and Hannibal both saw Will roll his eyes at 'Verger'.

Margot went silent but the sound of writing could be heard, so it was easy to presume she was writing that in.

***

The heiress kept to her word, by the following night little Mariner was asleep in his nursery that he shared with Mischa.

After all, the agreement between them stated that Will would have majority custody and Margot said she'd be killing Mason soon.

Neither killer cared much about that though, Hannibal had already had his fun killing Mason once before, it was only fair to give Margot a shot.

Unlike his 'twin', Mariner wasn't fussy baby, he only cried whenever he needed something.

Another interesting thing to be learned is that if the 'twins' shared a crib, Mischa didn't get as fussy.

Which was great since holding a baby at all times while simultaneously caring for a younger one was a bit difficult even for the master multitasker known as Hannibal Lecter.

Mariner was a very happy baby, sharing his father's brunette curls and blue eyes.

***

Unfortunately, all plans for their Bon Voyage Dinner Party were put on hold when Will found himself called in to a crime scene where he discovered Abel Gideon had escaped.

Because Tattlecrime was yet to report any murdered physiatrists, Will and Hannibal wondered why he wasn't following his plan from last timeline.

The cannibals spent a few hours of every night searching for Abel by following his kill trail from before —leaving Abigail temporarily alone with both infants.

They found nothing.

***

Until the fifth night, when after their nightly check they returned home and found Abel Gideon sitting in the living room pointing a gun to Abigail's head.

Immediately, Hannibal and Will began to attack, but the other killer stopped them before they could move.

In a fake sad voice, the other male greeted them, "I went by your office, Doctor, no one was home."

"You didn't make an appointment." Hannibal cooly replied

"I remember our last conversation, Dr. Lecter, and I have desire to end up on your menu again." Gideon monotonely said

Will's eyes narrowed, "Put down the gun, Abel."

"And give you both the chances to pounce? I think not."

"We all know you will not be getting out of this house alive." Hannibal calmly said

Out of the corner of his eye, Will could have sworn he saw the ravenstag, it's hooves clopping softly against the wooden floor.

He hadn't seen the ravenstag since Abigail's death...was this a warning of what was to come?

No, he wouldn't let his daughter be taken again.

"Then I might as well take one of you with me." Abel replies, pressing the gun's barrel closer to Abigail's head

"Stop!" Will shouted, "What do you want?"

"A guarantee that I will not be on the menu again, I have no desire to have myself for dinner again." Gideon demanded, "And I want assurance you won't kill me."

"You have our word you will not meet your end by our hands today." Hannibal promised

Will immediately noted Hannibal's wording, the 'our hands' and 'today'.

That open two doors.

In the first, he and Hannibal would not be killing Gideon today, instead waiting for another chance to have him for dinner or...