(This all started with a dream I had so will go from there then into years later...Which happened in the dream but yeah.)
The day I met a gentleman, a stranger, and a monster. Was the day I lost myself.
I was a girl and went to Venice with my family and friend. We were staying at this hotel and I was with a friend of mine running around. When we ran into this man. I found him, intriguing. So I follow him until he led us to this area. Open with people walking past. I looked to him and our eyes met. I said 'Hi' and he said 'Hello' in this charming yet dark creepy way. He then smiled and took off with ease walking away from us children.
That was when Italian police darted past my friend and I. We had no clue they were searching for this man but I had a feeling. He was something more than he seemed.
It didn't end there because next I got questioned by the police. Being just a small girl I was scared and didn't know what to think. I found myself after speaking with the authorities, then wondering the hotel. My parents aloud me to only because the federalizes were span out watching every corner of the hotel.
Myself even as a child found it odd. Why watch a place you know he'd never come back to. Even the chief of the police said a man of Lecter's genius would not allow him to.
Lecter's genius, I didn't understand that when heard. Who was Lecter? Moments later I was to find out.
It was getting late I started for the elevator, then stepped inside. I was alone and looked to the buttons on the control panel. Being thirteen, I may have had the maturity to be a lady. I still had the free spirit of being a girl.
So I lit up all the buttons, pressing all of them and watching them just light up. The first few stops on my trip I saw, a couple walking by. A man standing waiting for some one. Then on my last stop a janitor. It wasn't my stop but it was my last. The man that stood before me looked only slightly like the man I saw before.
It was only when my eyes met his, then I knew who he was. "Lecter.." I said it with out thinking. Though he spoke quite well with thought. "Now Nell who told my name?" Nell gasped a walked back into the wall of the elevator. Lecter following her. "It's rude to not answer such a question." He told the girl a smile as he stepped in then pressed the button for the basement.
I looked up to Lecter slightly afraid, a took a breath then found it gave way. My eye lids fluttered and I fainted. The next thing I remember was being given to another. Lecter had picked me up after I fell then given me to a maid. She took me gratefully knowing who he was. Yet before leaving me Lecter took my hand and gave me something. I can never forget.
"Ahhhhh!" He bit down on my pointer finger of my right hand. Broke the skin to taste my blood. I woke up instantly from the pain and looked into his eyes one last time that day.
Every time I looked into his eyes that day I saw something different. I saw a gentleman upon first meeting him, I saw a stranger upon second glance, and then I saw a monster. Who's blues eyes turned pale and almost white.
When I blacked out once more I then awoken in hospital. With my mother, father, brother, and friend standing near me. My father was talking to a police officer and told him. "Hannibal Lecter had gotten away."
That is how I found out his name, who he was. The man I met, the man who change my life. Was Dr. Hannibal Lecter. That day I lost my life.