Eloise paced in the empty room, the sound of her short heels ricocheted off the floor filling the otherwise silent room with a dull rhythm. Everyone had left, she had finished teaching for the day. There was nothing for her to do, all she knew was that she was hungry, she had brought food with her but in all honesty she wasn't the greatest cook.

Music filled the room, bringing Eloise to a halt. She turned towards the source, it seemed to be coming from her desk. As she walked closer she realised it was her phone. She checked the caller identity, it was Jack Crawford an old friend and former colleague.

-Hello.

-Eloise, sorry to call at such a time, but we've got a problem.

-It's okay. I was just about to eat pizza.

-I know how much you love pizza, but this is important. They're back

-They?

-The Black Cat

As soon as those words were said, Eloise's senses heightened dread crawled into every crevice of her body, slowly filling it up and taking over.

-I'm on my way, where are you?

-20 minutes away from the university go straight ahead and then take the second left.

Eloise hurriedly ate a slice of her slightly burnt pizza before, grabbing her bag and car keys. She quickly walked to the car park, trying to avoid walling into anyone and not tripping over her own feet.

After a short drive, involving hardly any traffic. She arrived at the scene, a house with maroon coloured bricks. The door was wooden and had multiple scratches, it's handle was extremely rusty. Inside there was a long hallway, it's walls had cream-coloured wallpaper but it was peeling off. Jack stood at the end of the hallway, hearing Eloise's footsteps he turned.

"It's good to have you back." Jack grinned.

Eloise smiled "It's good to be back."

"At the moment, Will Graham is in the room the crime took place, so in the meantime we're down here." Jack informed her.

Eloise nodded entering the room they stood in front of. The room looked like a kitchen, there was a large sink cabinet that stood in front of a large window that looked out into a small garden, next to the sink cabinet there was a fridge that had a variety of magnets, in the middle of the room a square wooden dining table stood with four chairs tucked neatly beneath it.

"Eloise, I missed you." Beverly Katz exclaimed walking towards her.

"I missed you, too." Eloise said excitedly.

They briefly hugged.

"Eloise!" two male voices simultaneously called to her.

Looking towards the corner it had came from, she realised it was Jimmy Price and Brian Zeller, or the 'two dorks' as she liked to call them.

They waved, very pleased to see her, after such a long time. She walked over, putting her hands in the air when she was in front of them, they reached out attempting to give her a high five but Eloise, Jimmy and Brian, all missed each others hands. Everyone in the room's shoulders began to shake in silent laughter, Brian could not contain it and he burst out laughing. Soon booming laughter filled the room, everyone's laughter urged on each others, Jimmy fell to floor clutching his stomach and the laughter got louder until everyone's ribs began to hurt. It had been a long time since they had all shared a good laugh together.

"It's so good to see you all." Eloise breathed, wiping the tears from her eyes.

Minutes later, the door opened Jack walked in along with two other men one had blonde hair swept to one side, he wore a suit and Eloise guessed he was a very rich man. The other man had brown curly hair and wore a more casual outfit, he was younger than the blonde haired man.

"Eloise, I'd like to introduce you to Will Graham," Jack said gesturing towards the curly haired man, who nodded at Eloise in greeting, Eloise returned the action "And Hannibal Lecter." Jack gestured towards the blonde hair man. Hannibal walked over to Eloise and put out his hand, Eloise took it his handshake was firm but gentle.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Eloise, I have heard many things about you." He greeted.

Eloise took note of how gentlemanly he was. They released each others hands.

"Well now that we all know each other, Eloise I'd like your input, follow me." Jack said.