Folie à Trois: a Will X Hannibal

Bon Appétit...

Narrator's POV

Soon, the day of the dinner party arrived.

Around noon, both Will and Hannibal gave Abigail and Mischa a hug, kiss on their cheeks and made sure they had everything they needed —luggage, diaper bag with a few bottles of milk, and fake passports.

After that, they drove Abigail to an apartment block across town and ordered her a taxi.

Hannibal reminded her that locker 213 was rented under the alias Louise Harms that would hold her next set of fake passports, different clothes and a key to the house in Florence.

With their fathers gone, Abigail held her baby sister in her arms as the taxi arrived to take Lily Smithson to the airport.

***

The final dinner in Baltimore would be exquisite.

There was several dishes there including: clay roasted thigh, heart tartare and 'beef' wellington.

Hannibal spent hours cooking with Will acting as sous chef, regularly leaving to go carve from their meat supply.

Because they had used up Gideon already to fill their fridge and over the week, they were using Miriam now.

Around twenty minutes before the guests would arrive, they received a call from Jack saying something had come up and he wouldn't be coming.

***

The show still went on, Alana, Bedelia and Frederick soon arrived for dinner.

Like always, Hannibal was a perfect host and served everyone drinks while Will fetched something from the oven.

"Where's Abigail?" Alana asked as Hannibal poured some home-brewed beer into her glass

"Unfortunately, she seems to have caught a cold yesterday, she will not be able to join us this evening." Hannibal skillfully lied, knowing his daughters were in a plane heading to Croatia

After a minute or two more, Will returned with a tray of heart tartare tarts and placed it in the table where other trays of food lay.

It was tradition for Hannibal to say, "I must warn you, nothing here is vegetarian." in the beginning of his parties, so that's exactly what he said.

The guests chuckled a bit and began to eat.

An hour later, Hannibal excused himself by saying he had to go greet another guest.

No one thought much of it until Hannibal returned pushing a wheelchair.

Alana's eyes widened as she recognized the dead woman as one of the Ripper's victims, Jack's trainee.

"It's such a shame Jack wasn't able to join us for dinner." Will said as the wheelchair was stopped at the table

Chilton, perhaps sensing the danger he was in, tried to make a run for it.

Will was one step ahead of him, tackling him down to the ground, "Don't be rude, Frederick."

Alana screamed, but Hannibal was approaching her with a knife in hand.

"I always keep my promises, Alana." Hannibal calmly said, "You might not remember it but I do."

The woman gasped as the blade entered her stomach, piercing her uterus.

Hannibal then dragged the blade horizontally, gutting her far worse than he had Will.

Form his time as a surgeon, he knew exactly how to carve someone open and allow them to live, Alana wasn't receiving that luxury from him as Will had.

Bedelia was in the top five people who knew what a monster Hannibal could be, and perhaps she had known all along that he would desire to kill her one day.

The blonde made no move to resist them.

Hannibal regretted the fact he wouldn't have the opportunity to eat Bedelia like she deserved, but he did take a few bites of her liver as he cut her open.

It was well flavored by her years of alcohol abuse, it was like it had functioned as a good marinade.

With all three of their guests dead, the couple quickly changed clothes, for their son and dogs and the necessary luggage and used a unregistered car to get to the airport.

***

Hours later, the F.B.I. were called to a scene by local Baltimore Police claiming it was the Ripper.

Horrified that the attack was at Dr. Lecter's home, Jack soon arrived

"I don't think you want to see this." Price warned, looking pale

Going in anyways, the head of the behavioral science unit walked into the dining room and saw a disgusting display.

Written in a horrifying mixture of what Jack presumed to be Alana's guts and blood was, "Maybe you should have suspected us."

He nearly vomited when he saw Miriam Lass' disfigured corpse sitting in a wheelchair at the table.

***

Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham disappeared into thin air it would seem, it was widely suspected they were laying low in the United States since their passports were being tracked.

Across town in Thurgood Marshall Airport, Henry Graves and his dogs, Leroy and Billy, boarded a plane heading for Croatia at midnight.

On a that same plane, though in first class, François Boucher was traveling with his son, Pierre.

The two men never spoke or even looked at each other during the flight, why would they as they were strangers in different classes.

And after that twelve hour flight, they barely gave each other a glance as they were heading to the same bathroom.

Ten minutes later, two men emerged from the bathroom who didn't look the same as the ones that entered.

Blake Shepard and his dogs, Buddy and Patty, got on a plane heading to Florence.

Coincidently, Giovanni Piazza and his infant son, Angelo, were returning home to Florence on that same flight.

This flight was very short, just little over an hour.

The two men and their companions got separate taxis and went to separate locations —Blake to a pet-friendly hotel and Giovanni to an apartment— where they spent the night...