Nina's breath hitched as Hannibal coaxed her into leaning up just enough to get her shirt off. She didn't know how this got this far, but with her shirt gone Will's mouth found a nipple while his hand found her other breast. Hannibal wasn't content with just that it seemed, though. His mouth found her hip as he played his fingers at the hem of her shorts. He hadn't taken them yet, but he tugged one side down further to salve the lingering scratch marks there with his tongue. He glanced up to see her hands occupied with Will, but her eyes found his, just before he scraped his teeth against her hip. Her own teeth found her lower lip, and Hannibal moved between her legs and sucked at the side of her hip with more fervor. Intent on leaving a mark.

Will switched breasts when a moan touched her lips and her fingers tightened in his hair. This time when his hand came to play with her breast her hand moved over his pressing him closer. He glanced up at her to find her looking at him now, and teased her with light pressure from his teeth as he manipulated her a little more firmly.

Her hips tried to buck, but Hannibal held her down, and a whimper struggled out when his teeth sunk against her skin a little harder. Not hard enough to break skin, just hard enough to put an edge on feeling good.

Nina couldn't help the sounds bubbling up out of her. Her hands left Will to cover her mouth, in an effort to keep the sounds from them. Hannibal's teeth threatened to break skin, and it drew a sharp noise out of her, even though her hips bucked under them. Will looked up at her, then back at Hannibal before he leaned up pushing her hands aside so he could kiss her. Their kiss was so forceful that their teeth clicked against the others.

When Will pulled back from her, and Nina knew she wanted to pull him back she gasped out, "W-wait… Ss-stop…"

They both pulled back and froze over her, both of them watching her, and waiting.

"I-I can't do this…" Nina whimpered. "I shouldn't be…" Who knew what was happening to her friends and here she was doing this.

"Oh Nina," Hannibal breathed as he moved so he was next to her instead of over her as Will did the same. "You're allowed to feel good."

Nina sat up, shaking her head. She didn't feel that way. How was she allowed to feel good at a time like this? What was she even doing?! Her arms crossed over her chest when she couldn't find her shirt nearby.

They had kidnapped her!

She shouldn't even be entertaining the idea of this.

Hannibal watched as Will plucked her shirt from behind him, giving it to her, before he asked, "Why not?" They watched as Nina pulled on her shirt before she crossed her arms over her stomach, pulling her legs up closer to her.

"I don't belong here," Nina breathed shaking her head. She wasn't supposed to be here. She didn't belong. Only she couldn't stay still either, and she scrambled off the bed, and up to her feet. She avoided looking at them for all she was worth. She couldn't look at Hannibal knowing that he got Will to agree to being with him. She couldn't look at Will knowing that he knew, at least to some extent, what it felt like to be standing where she was standing.

"And yet, here you are," Hannibal said as he stood, but didn't move closer to her when she stepped back from him.

"I want to go home!" Nina shouted, finally looking at Hannibal. She caught a glimpse of Will moving to the edge of the bed, but it wasn't him she felt she needed to convince. "I just want to go home!"

Hannibal frowned at that, but he wanted to smile. Tears were brimming her eyes, and she sounded so desperate… but not to go home. "Oh Nina…" Hannibal breathed stepping closer to her, only she shot back from him until she hit the wall.

Now Will frowned and meant to. He wanted to tell her not to run like that. Even disappearing in on herself was as good as running away from a wild animal with Hannibal. He'd chase her and drag her back to him. "It's okay Nina…" Will tried to sooth her as he stood up too.

"No it's not," Nina cried shaking her head. It wasn't okay. Hannibal saying her name like that wasn't okay. Them looking at her like that wasn't okay. "I want to go home!" She'd keep saying it until it was true if she had to.

Hannibal moved closer, too swiftly for her to make it passed him. His arms caged her in as he put his hands on either side of her against the wall. "Nina…" he called her name softly, but she still wouldn't look at him. "Nina, you do not have to go home."

It felt like he'd punched her in the stomach, she even jerked a little. Nina tried to push back against the wall more, but she was as close as she was going to get. Her hands fisted in her shirt since her arms were still wrapped around her stomach. She didn't want to hear that! She couldn't hear that! What about her friends?!

"You're allowed to stay with us," Hannibal insisted against her temple as he listened to Will venture closer. "We want you here," He whispered against her cheek as Will stood at his back. Moving he pushed his forehead to hers telling her, "You do not have to go back."

Nina's hands moved to Hannibal's sides, unsure if she wanted to pull him closer or push him away. She whimpered, not knowing what else to say. She couldn't reply to that. What was she supposed to do? Hannibal brushed his fingers through her hair, and got her to lean her forehead to his shoulder. Will leaned against the wall next to them, his hand finding her hair too. "I don't want to go back to bed," Nina managed, barely above a whisper.

"I'll make us some tea," Hannibal offered her as he pressed his lips to the top of her head. When she nodded and reluctantly let him go he left her to Will.

Nina stood there for a moment, before looking to Will. She didn't say anything, she just waited for him to speak. When he did, he told her, "He's right you know."

"It's selfish of me to want to stay," Nina mumbled, feeling hopeless. "It's not the right thing to do." Who would help her friends? Did anyone even know they were gone? What would her parents think if she never went home? Didn't go to college in the fall like they had planned for her.

"I spent a lot of time trying to do the right thing," Will said as he moved to stand in front of her, leaving her an escape if she felt she needed it. "I jumped off a cliff trying to do the right thing, and it didn't make a damn bit of difference. I'm still standing right here, and you're still standing right there. I'm going to save you some grief and pain and tell you, with Hannibal, you might as well do what feels good. Otherwise he's just going to torment you until you do." Will could see her thinking it over, and quickly added, "He's using the kid gloves with you now, but soon they're going to come off. Trying to hide the truth from him has never worked in anyone's favor, especially when you're trying to hide it from yourself too."

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The next morning Nina frowned into the mirror as she got dressed. They'd had tea, they'd piled back into bed, and finally gone to sleep the night before. They'd slept through breakfast, and now they were getting ready to go down for lunch. Right now though she was stuck in front of the mirror after her shower. She'd put on underwear and a bra, but her eyes were caught in the mirror on her hip. Pushing her underwear down just a bit there was definitely a hickey on her hip. She ran her fingers around it, noting where there were teeth marks, and how sensitive it felt.

What big teeth you have.

He didn't even have to tell her what they were for.

A soft knock jolted her from her thoughts, and she quickly started pulling on her pants as Hannibal called out, "Nina, are you alright?"

"F-fine, I'm almost done," Nina called back as she fumbled with the button to her black pants, before she pulled on the green shirt she'd picked simply because it wasn't red. It was longer on the sides than it was in the front and back… It was something to think about so she didn't have to think about opening the door. Flipping her hair over she ran her fingers through it before flipping it back up and giving herself a part. Casting one last look into the mirror she opened the door to find Hannibal still standing there. Only he was frowning down at her, and Will was hovering in the doorway to her room just behind him. "Wh-what?"

"How well do you know Emily's step father?" Hannibal asked, cutting right to the chase.

Nina shook her head. "I… I don't know him very well. I don't really like him. He's really intense, and he makes inappropriate jokes…" She didn't dare ask why he wanted to know. Really, she didn't need to, she could guess it wasn't just a random question. "We don't hang out at Emily's a lot, and when we do, I try to stay away from him."

"Did he ever hurt you?" Will asked moving closer.

"No," Nina said shaking her head again. "He… uh…"

"What is it Nina?" Hannibal asked reaching out to touch her shoulder. He could see her backing away, and he didn't need her to go locking herself in the bathroom.

"He never hurt me, but it always felt like he touched me too long. Like shaking my hand when we first met, or when he would manage to come up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder…" Nina insisted as she grabbed onto Hannibal's sleeve when his hand came from her shoulder. "It didn't feel right when he did it." It didn't feel like when Hannibal would touch her, certainly not like the few fleeting times Will touched her.

Hannibal shot Will a look that said what he didn't want to in front of Nina. That she wasn't safe here. That there was a reason the police weren't looking for their girl. Her parents weren't even aware she was missing, none of the girls seemed to be missing. "What did Emily think of her step father?"

"She thinks he hung the moon," Nina shrugged. She could never understand it, but Emily always thought he was the best thing. Nina had thought it weird that she seemed to have a crush on her step father, but never had the guts to say anything since Nina had always liked men older than herself too. Not to mention Emily was best described in the area of the opposite sex of "chasing anything with a zipper." Emily was not just blowing smoke when she said she'd had brothers… She had slowed down a lot since her mother got remarried though…

"Nina…" Will tried to call her back as he stood next to Hannibal.

"He's not a good man…" Nina breathed. She wasn't sure how good of a friend Emily was either anymore. What did he want with them though?

"No," Hannibal offered as he let her grip the sleeve of the black button up he was wearing. "He has your friends. Though I don't think Emily is there against her will." Just more proof of his dismal outlook on gingers being true.

"H-how do you know?" Nina asked looking up at them trying not to be reduced to tears once again.

"I was looking around while you were shopping with Hannibal," Will explained. "You weren't targeted at the club just because you were young and alone." People were looking for Nina, but not to help her.

"Well… where are they?" Nina asked not wanting to dwell on how exactly she ended up with them.

Will's mouth snapped shut, and Hannibal gave her a stern look saying, "Let's not lead each other towards temptation."

"But no one is looking for them!" Nina insisted finally pulling away from Hannibal.

"No one is looking for you either," Hannibal told her as he reached out and captured her hand.

"No one is hurting me!" Nina yelled at him as she tried to pull away again, but he wouldn't let go. "They're being hurt! I know they are! No one is helping them!" She didn't resist as much when Hannibal pulled her up against him, hiding her in his arms. "No one is making them tea at four in the morning because they can't sleep," a sob caught in her throat when Will brushed his fingers over the back of her hair, "or watching movies with them because they're too afraid they're going to mess up!"

"We're going to keep you safe," Will insisted as she clung first to Hannibal, and then to him when the older man coaxed her into it.

Hannibal kissed the side of her head before looking to Will insisting, "Stay in until I come back. I'm going to meet with Chiyoh, and get started on getting us out of here."

Will frowned, but he nodded. He'd stay with her. Nina clung to him, but they both watched Hannibal leave, grabbing his cane from the wall where he left it. Once they heard the door click, they stood there just a little longer before they let each other go.

"I'm sorry…" Nina breathed, trying to reign in her tears.

"What for?" Will asked with a lopsided, worried, smile.

Nina blushed before looking away. "I think I'm getting your kisses."

Will fought not to sputter at her, took a breath and said, "No, he just harasses me when you're not in the room." Hannibal was respectful in the worst way. Will didn't know about doing things like that in front of Nina, so Hannibal waited until Nina stepped out of the room. No one expected proper respectful Hannibal Lecter to shove his tongue down another man's throat, but the moment Nina needed to use the restroom he was using his height to his advantage every time!

Nina's eyes widened at that, "Is that why you're always glaring at him when I walk into a room?"

"Yeah," Will sighed before he motioned her to follow him out of the bedroom. "Come on let's order lunch. Then we can figure out what to do from there."

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"What is Hannibal doing?" Nina asked when she couldn't handle it anymore. They'd made it through lunch and Will had just taking out his stuff to make fishing lures. She had her journal, but she couldn't write.

"He said he was meeting with Chiyoh," Will muttered quietly as he sat on the floor in front of the low coffee table. He of course knew why he went to see Chiyoh, but he also didn't want Nina to get nervous. If she got nervous she might act out. He had.

"What he said he's doing, and what he's actually doing can be two different things," Nina insisted as she set aside her journal and leaned forward a bit to look at Will. "Even then, why is he seeing Chiyoh."

"He's known Chiyoh for a very long time. They were children together." Will explained, hoping to appease her curious mind. She wouldn't be appeased though.

"They're not going out to lunch," Nina told him skeptically.

"I doubt they are," Will sighed leaning back against the couch, and tilting his chin back to look at her. Here he'd been worried about her asking to leave, but she was wondering why Hannibal left. "He's probably talking to her about us moving on from London."

"Why?" Nina asked with a tilt of her head.

"Why are we leaving, or why talk to her about it?" Will asked reaching up to brush his fingers against her cheek. His eyes brushed after his fingers, but noticed her lips quirk up.

"Both I suppose," Nina breathed leaning into Will's fingers.

"You're not safe here, so we're need to leave here," Will explained before he paused thinking about why Hannibal was likely talking to Chiyoh. It wasn't that seeing Chiyoh was a lie, it was that seeing her wasn't the only thing he was doing. "She's our go between for getting papers. Passports, I.D.'s and things like that." Chiyoh had friends that were less likely to be bought than Hannibal's old contacts. "There's a possibility she'll want to join us too. She doesn't like living with us, but she likes to be nearby."

"I get the feeling there's a reason she doesn't like living with you two," Nina said as she moved off the couch to sit next to him on the floor.

Will sighed and put his arm over her shoulders at that, "We were bad patients after she rescued us from the ocean. Then when we were able to move around we started fighting with each other… which made us even worse patients."

"Basically you two were unbearable because you felt righteous in throwing yourself and Hannibal off a cliff, and Hannibal was not pleased that you busted up his leg and tried to kill him. He probably wasn't pleased with you trying to kill yourself either." Nina guessed after blowing out an amused breath.

"That's more or less right," Will nodded. Hannibal had been just moments away from beating him with one of his crutches on more than one occasion. "How did you know I took Hannibal with me?"

"I asked Hannibal about his cane," Nina explained with a shrug. "It's times like this I wish I followed the news. Then I'd know who you two were."

"We'll talk about it a different day," Will said shaking his head. It was a small blessing that she didn't know who they were. "After you decide to stay."

"What if I don't decide to stay?" Nina asked softly, even as she leaned into him more.

"We'll let you go," Will said trying to sound fluid, and not like he practiced saying that in the mirror for ten minutes every night. She tensed against his side, and he knew he hadn't done as well as he would have liked.

Nina sat thinking about that for a moment before she asked, "Why me?"

"When Hannibal looked at you he saw himself, and he saw me. He saw the potential for you to be the best of both of us," Will told her his lips against the top of her head. "Then you went and told us you'd resent a prince coming to save you, and I knew I wouldn't stop him. We have each other, but…"

"You both want more," Nina breathed biting her lower lip. When she felt Will nod against the top of her head she frowned. "What happens if you both don't want me anymore. What if I'm not what either of you expected?"

"You're more than I expected," Will told her leaning back to look down at her. "We're not the kind to grow bored. We won't play with you like that. You're important to us."

Nina frowned. "How do you two know?"

"You don't want anything to happen to us," Will sighed. "You're honest. You stayed. You want to learn, and we want to teach you." He didn't say it but he wanted to mention her view of evil was how people viewed beauty, and they were confident they'd be able to work it out.

Nina picked at her shirt for a moment before asking, "Why were you so upset when Hannibal told you about Chiyoh?"

"Like I said when I met Chiyoh it didn't go nearly as well," Will said as he clasped his hands in his lap. He'd been worried that even if Chiyoh didn't do something that if Nina had slipped up Hannibal would do something. Hannibal hadn't started to treat Nina differently though. In fact, he'd coddled her. Hannibal coddled so very few.

"She shot you?" Nina asked softly.

"And she pushed me off a train before that," Will nodded.

"How are either of you alive?" Nina asked shaking her head as she looked at him with wide eyes.

"Hannibal wanted us that way," Will mumbled softly.

Nina looked back in front of them at the coffee table for a moment before she asked, "How did he know that he wanted you that way?"

"I could understand him," Will told her as he watched her look at the coffee table, and the things he'd set on top. "I have an empathy disorder. I can assume the point of view of anyone…"

"Even me?" Nina asked as she pulled her knees up to her chest.

"I don't need to assume your point of view to know how you feel," Will said as he reached over and put his hand on her shoulder. "You can see everything spinning out of control and you know what the right thing to do would be, but that's not really what you want to do."

"You didn't do what felt good," Nina insisted. "Not at first."

Will looked over at her for a long moment before he leaned back and pulled up his shirt. He saw Nina's eyes instantly latch onto the smile Hannibal gave him. "That's what came of doing the right thing."

Nina went to reach over and touch the scar, but she stopped herself her legs going down as she pushed her hands to her lap. "Hannibal was not exaggerating when he said he'd rip out my heart."

"He was not," Will agreed pushing his shirt down. He wasn't sure that Hannibal would cook her heart in order to eat it. Will could see how Hannibal looked at her. Perhaps he'd eat it raw, if only so Will wouldn't have to eat their girl. Hannibal would know Will wouldn't want to. "If you want to be here, it's best that you just be here."

"Would you?" Nina asked watching him from the corner of her eye. "Would you do something like that?"

"No," Will told her, "I'd do it quicker… I… If I had to, I wouldn't let you suffer."

"Thank you," Nina breathed.


The things! Just all the things! I know where I had them stop was probably just a tease, but these things happen. Then! We got a peek of some things that are coming. It'll be great! Fun stuff it about to happen! Just a bit of Nina and Will bonding, which will continue into the next chapter.

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Nameless Fable: I know it was a rather evil spot to stop and then Nina went and told them to stop! She almost didn't though. Still she wants to do the right thing, just the right thing is hard, and she's not sure it's going to be worth it. So we'll see what happens, because it's all going to start happening. And I don't think it's weird. Not exactly what I intend, but not weird. Nina wasn't exactly yelling for him to stop biting her after all. She had more moral reason's for stopping.

city bookworm: You were right, Will was out looking for her friends, or well more he was out looking to see if anyone was looking for Nina. Hannibal might find out more though. Like I said, it's all coming up shortly. As for Hannibal wanting to eat her up, well that certainly happened in a way.

americanlatinajapanesegirl: I didn't hear that version until I saw the anime Jin Roh, but yeah, fairytales were never so sweet as we picture them now huh? I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for reading.

LittleYautjaHunter: I'm glad you liked it! Thank you for reading!

: OH! I'm glad you found this version! Thank you for reading both! I'm glad you like it!

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