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"What the fuck happened?" Kailani demanded when she got out of her Navigator.
There was a Jeep parked not too far off and Will was staring down at a red bundle on the ground. That red bundle turned out to be Freddie Lounds, and she looked like shit.
"Oh," she managed to say.
"I think she managed to leave a message on Jack's phone while it happened, though nothing but screaming. I smashed it all up with a sledgehammer while waiting for you."
He held up a ziplock bag filled with broken plastic.
"How are we doing this?" Kailani asked, already dreading the answer.
"I don't know, that's why I called you. I have no car and I need someone to help me!"
"Why are you panicking, isn't this what you and Hannibal live for?!"
"It was the first time that I didn't have to do it out of necessity. This was just… she was snooping... and I decided to kill her. End of story."
"Yep," agreed Kailani. "It was that simple. Murder Virginity gone in seconds."
Taking a whiff in Will's direction, she groaned, "You smell like flowers. You smell like her. You're going to need to shower and everything!"
While Will was trying to deny that, Kailani was already planning further. Will had a rather small waist and Freddie's clothes weren't too destroyed.
"Will, you are going to put on her clothes and cut off most of her hair. You are then going to glue it to the underside of her hat there, and you are going to drive her car back to Quantico where you will drop it off somewhere where no one will notice it. I will pick you up a block away and bring you back here."
"What? Bu-"
"No buts! You decided to do this and you need to get rid of the evidence! You'll have to shave, it's the only way and luckily for you, there is an opera tonight and should we get questioned I'll just say you're joining me again and that since your car is fucked up, I came to get you."
Will was already looking resigned, but he nodded.
"Let's cut her hair first. Are you going to bury her or burn her or what?"
The man ran a hand over his face, "I… kind of wanted to surprise Hannibal."
"A Murder Gift to your Murder Husband or something?"
He shot her a petulant look and she merely stared.
"Yes, I guess. I wanted to give him her lungs."
"Doesn't the Ripper usually take lungs, kidneys, livers, and hearts?"
"We could add those too."
"And burn the rest I guess. Or feed it to Winston."
Will gasped, "I am not feeding my dog, people!"
"If Hannibal watched them while you were indisposed or away, are you sure they haven't already? Besides, dogs are carnivores and it'll get rid of evidence."
"Fine! Just… fine."
"Where are you disassembling her anyway?"
"I'm getting a garbage bag, saran wrap, and a fishing knife, I'll be back."
"Good, let's do this quickly. It's colder than a witch's tit out here!"
So, Will managed to remove the organs though because neither had a bone saw, he had to cut out the lower half of her torso and treat her like a turkey that was about to be stuffed. Luckily, since they had removed the skin from her ribcage(and their hands and arms were firmly wrapped in saran wrap to protect against evidence) Kailani was able to lead him on where to cut.
"And then cut that thick thingy."
"Which one, they're both thick?"
"Both, I guess. I didn't care for Chemistry!"
"This is Biology."
"Oh. Well I didn't care for that either. All I know is that something is called the Aorta and another an Atrium and I don't even know where they are!"
"The Aorta looks like a cane."
"The red thing with the three little things coming out of the top?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. Well, you need to cut those three little red things off now."
"Got it."
And basically it went like that.
Will was clean and shaved and Kailani had already glued the hair to the beanie. Will very reluctantly put on Freddie's clothes, the blood on the wintery jacket having been washed off.
Kailani was wearing Will's gloves as she situated the red hair.
"I can't even pull the coat closed," he whined.
"That's fine. Someone just needs to see you dressed the same and her hair is distinctive. Do you know of any stores that have two entrances or exits or something? Preferably where you can remove the hair and coat where no one sees while leaving?"
"Yeah. There's a bathroom in the back of the store and you actually have to go past the working area where they unload the merchandise. There's an employee exit beside it. I don't like public restrooms though."
"Well too bad, when you off people, you have to cover your tracks. Put this lipstick on."
"What?!"
Once they disposed of the Jeep and Kailani meticulously went through his head to get rid of stray red hairs, she forced him to go shower again because he smelled like flowers and he shouldn't, especially when her own perfume was citrus.
"Dress in your best suit. Might as well go to the damn opera anyway, just because we can."
He groaned, because the opera was boring!
"Alibi, dude! Hurry up! I have to go home and get ready too you know!"
"Fine!"
He used the new cologne that Hannibal bought him, smiling a little.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, your Murder Husband has great taste, can we go now?"
And so they set off for Baltimore, with a large, red box in the back seat that was full of Freddie Lounds' bones and whatever meat they couldn't feed to Winston or cut off and burn. Hiding it was a doggie bed bought at the local pet shop. There was also a bag of fresh groceries that Will had purchased, along with some just acquired ingredients.
"So, you're dating-"
"Not really!"
"-and you have a daughter-"
"Surrogate!"
"-and you're bringing him his favorite meat. I'd say this is a proposal."
Will sniffed, but didn't comment further.
While passing through Quantico, Will got that call that both had been waiting for. Asking him to come into the building because he was needed.
Conveniently, they were only a few minutes on the highway so Will was able to chuck the bag containing Freddie's broken phone out the window while Kailani did a U-Turn and cut through the grass that divided the two sides of the highway.
"That was illegal," he pointed out, earning a glare.
"Do I even need to point out your illegal deeds today?"
"Point taken."
"Exactly."
"Don't do any talking until I've spoken," warned Kailani. "He'll want to know why I'm with you, so this works in my favor. We're planning to join Hannibal for dinner and then the three of us were going to the opera tonight. We're seeing a German performance, which is rare for Baltimore."
Alana Bloom was at the door to sign them into the building. Both clipped their visitor passes to their collars and followed after her. She only showed small confusion at Kailani's presence.
Inside Jack Crawford's office, they found Hannibal and the main man himself, who had no problem asking why Kailani was there.
"I'm his ride."
"What?"
"The radiator on his car blew this afternoon and he needed to go shopping and bring his dogs home, so I took him shopping, we brought the dogs back, and then I was going to bring him back to Baltimore because we're joining Hannibal for an early dinner and then we're all going to the opera. After that, I'm to drop him off at the shop where he'll get his car and go home."
Hannibal was looking Will over - though discreetly - and he looked pleased. He also wasn't fazed by the lie that Kailani told and merely nodded in agreement.
Jack gave a slow nod and pulled out his cellphone where he proceeded to play the message of Freddie Lounds screaming to death.
"Freddie Lounds left me that message three hours ago. Her cell signal is dead now. The call was traced to the nearest phone tower… six miles outside of Wolf Trap Virginia. We have her on security cameras filling her car up at a gas station and then about an hour later, walking around Quantico taking pictures with her camera. Her car was found parked at the local Wegmans, but she is nowhere to be seen.
I need confirmation of where you were."
Kailani was already pulling her McDonald's receipt from her purse, as she'd gone to get some after leaving Will and had to come all the way back to help him.
"Date and time on the receipt when we got McDonald's. Will give him the receipt from the store, you shoved it in your wallet."
Being paranoid had its advantages sometimes.
And it was those two receipts that put Will in the clear.
"Surely, Freddie Lounds has more enemies than Will," Hannibal said, turning the attention from the brunet and brunette.
"Not in Wolf Trap or Quantico."
Out in the parking lot, Kailani, Will, and Hannibal made their way to their vehicles. Kailani turned to Will and asked, "Would you like to go back with him or stay with me?"
"Will you be… joining us for dinner?" Hannibal asked.
"No," she snorted. "Will, come and get your 'groceries'."
Will took the large bag from her back seat and leaned into Kailani, "What about the dog bed?"
Being a key replacement for 'skeleton' and the dog bed was covering it just in case.
"I don't know. Should I just dump it off somewhere?"
"There is a landfill not too far from here."
"Or we can go out to the beach and bury it tomorrow."
"Or that," he agreed.
"Alright. Go to your man, he may get jealous if we lean too close to each other."
She sent a playful wink before getting in and pulling away.
Will was unloading his bag of groceries. "I provide the ingredients and you... tell me what we should do with them."
Hannibal was grinning, pleased that Will was joining him for dinner - though it was a bit unexpected - but that was okay. He'd been annoyed when Freddie didn't show up, but now she was missing, conveniently outside of Will's territory and he could extrapolate from what he knew of Will. And Will was with him instead.
"What's the meat?" the doctor asked, curious if Will would admit to it.
He slid the small cooler across the counter. "What do you think."
Hannibal took care in opening it and allowed his eyebrows to ascend because he couldn't have asked for a better collection of gifts.
Inside rested a human heart, two kidneys, two lungs, and a liver.
Still, Hannibal played along and took a deep whiff, "Veal?" But Freddie was most certainly not worthy of such status, so he amended his rhetorical question with, "Pork, perhaps." He was playful, enjoying the little game between them.
Will gave a small smile and said, "She was a slim and delicate pig."
Hannibal could barely contain his excitement. Will had done it! He'd done what Hannibal had planned to do! He was so proud!
"I'll make you Lomo Saltado. We'll make it together."
Hannibal removed his suit coat and rolled his sleeves up. He removed the lungs from the cooler and placed them on the counter. He then put the cooler in the refrigerator to keep the meat from spoiling.
Grabbing a knife from the block, he handed it to Will and said, "Will you chop the ginger?"
Will snorted obscenely and giggled a little, before accepting the request and asking, "Do you have a cutting board?"
And so Will sliced the lungs into perfect, one inch thick slices and Hannibal couldn't have been more aroused than in that moment.
"Honestly," said Will, "I don't know how you haven't been caught yet when your damn puns are practically a confession."
They ended up going to the opera, Kailani tagging along just to keep up appearances.
"How was the ginger?" she asked when she sat beside them in the auditorium?
Hannibal was wide eyed and Will simply smirked.
"Pretty okay, but apparently fear taints the meat, so it was a little acidic."
"The meat was bitter about being dead?" she laughed.
"That's what I said."
She hummed, smirking at Hannibal's stare. Will was simply amused.
"Well, so long as you're happy."
Kailani and Will buried the box and its contents the next morning. The beach was the best place to do it as the sand wasn't something that people just decided to dig in. It could be years before anyone found the parts. Will had dealt with a human totem pole and the people buried around it had been missing for years and no one found them. It was for the best. And the only reason they were found was because the old man wanted them to be.
Kailani then went to work where she had to deal with Mason Verger. He was a creep and he literally brought guards wherever he went.
The guard would sit in the waiting room, cracking his knuckles obscenely every five minutes. One whole hour was hell on earth. If Hannibal decided that he wanted to kill Mason as well, Kailani would have no problem with it. Not that she really cared if he killed people or not. It was just she was kind of hoping that he didn't like Mason and decided that he'd make a good meal.
When the man was gone, Kailani barged into her boss' office, ready to rant, but was stopped by the hand Hannibal had raised to silence her.
"I already know how you feel," he told her. "I am working on it."
Breathing a sigh of relief, Kailani asked, "Can you work on it a bit faster maybe?"
"At the most, Mason will have two more sessions."
"Thank you."
"I'm doing it for Will."
"And I happen to benefit from it, so thanks."
Hannibal placed his sketch in his desk drawer and stood, buttoning his suit as he did so. "As we have no more clients today, it is safe to depart early."
Kailani grinned, "Thanks! I'm going to meet Margot so this just makes everything better!"
"Should we expect a happy announcement some time in the future?"
"I'm twenty-three, Dr. Lecter. I'm not ready for marriage any time soon."
"I was merely wondering. You seem to have hit it off with her. Though I wonder, can you love her even though you still love Yvonne?"
Kailani's smile dimmed slightly. "I love Yvonne. I want her to be healthy and safe. But sometimes when you love someone, you need to do what's best for them. I may love her, but her mental well being is better without me around. And while I love her, I don't want her back when she is ill.
Besides, a human's capability for feeling is in depth and we are capable of vast amounts of love. Various kinds for different people. I can learn to love Margot just as much if not more. Whether I'll be in love is yet to be seen."
She left them, letting him think it through.
Hannibal invited Will over for dinner once again and as a surprise, he had brought Abigail down from the shore.
"You won't have to hide forever," Will promised, thinking back to a small discussion he and Kailani had had when he'd stayed with her for a few weeks.
He'd won a lot of money off Kade Prurnell and had opened a separate account under a different name, in order to save it. Kailani had told him that she had two different savings accounts just in case and that he should do something similar as well.
If there ever came a time to flee, he'd be able to taken his funds with him. So should he and Hannibal have to leave at any time in the near future, Abigail could come with them.
"I know," she smiled. "It's not bad or anything. I can wait."
They both looked up as Hannibal entered, carrying a large platter that held a cast iron skillet. In the skillet, were three, small birds. Ortolans, burning.
"Three life sentences in a pan before me."
Hannibal's lips quirked, "A right of passage, I should think. The recipe calls for the Ortolan Bunting to be drowned in Armagnac then roasted, and consumed whole in a single mouthful."
Hannibal's voice made eating sound like a sexual act and Will looked away for a second to regain his bearings. "A rarity that takes effort to find among the masses of everyday dwellers, which then must be marinated and that roasted, until it is consumed whole. Tell me, Hannibal. Do you plan to consume me as well?"
Abigail giggled. "So you finally got together then?"
The two men shared a smile.
"Yes."
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