h3 style="margin: 6.45pt 0in; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #f4effc; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;" span style="font-size: 15.5pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #2a2a2a; font-weight: normal;"Course Nine – Second Main Course/span/h3
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"The next morning, she got out of bed and got ready, at the front door Hannibal was waiting for her as usual. She walked out to him and he walked her to class with neither of them talking. In class she sat on the other side of the room and he stared at her the whole time. She wouldn't make eye contact. After class he rushed out without waiting for her. She sighed and got up to leave./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Excuse me," the professor said walking over to her. She looked up and he smiled at her, "I know it's not my business, but I noticed you didn't sit with Hannibal today."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Oh, we are just having a little spat," she said trying to sound casual though her voice was shaky./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Well whatever it is, you should know that I've known him since he came to this school, we worked in the lab together many times, and he's. taken several of my other classes, and I hadn't ever seen him laugh or even smile until you came to this class," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She felt tears welling up in her eye and she smiled, "well I'm sure that's a coincidence."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I don't think so, anyway I know he's a little odd but he's one of the good ones and you seem to make him happy, just don't give up on him so easily okay," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""How do you know it's my choice and not his?" she asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I saw how he was looking at you today, he looked like his heart was breaking just from looking at you," he tilted his head a little and sighed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She stood up to leave, trying to hold in her sobs, "I'll keep that in mind."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Once she left the class she took off running, looking for Hannibal. She ran to his next class and he wasn't in there. The professor gave her a dirty look for poking her head in. She ran to some other places he might be, but she couldn't find him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal!" she shouted, ridiculously./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hey," a girl said, walking up to her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She turned and looked at the girl, "yea?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""You're looking for Hannibal, that foreign guy who wears a trench coat?" she asked. Fynn nodded, the girl pointed to the old lab building that had been shut down for years, "I saw him a couple football players go behind there." Fynn barely muttered a thanks before she took off, she knew one of them was Nathan, he must have recruited someone else to help him after last night, but she didn't think it would help them anyway. She ran as fast as she could, she needed to stop Hannibal before he hurt anyone./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She slid like a baseball player turning to go the back of the building. Laying on her side she saw that Hannibal was on his knees, arms held out at his sides while two boys took turns punching him. She scrambled to her feet and ran over to face him. His lip and nose were bleeding and one of his eyes was swelling shut already./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Stop it," she tried to grab Nathan's arm, but he pushed her away. Then Nathan motioned for the other guy to grab Fynn. She tried to run but she wasn't fast enough. He got her by both arms and stood behind her, holding her so she could witness Hannibal's flogging./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Fight back," Nathan yelled at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal," Fynn sobbed, he looked up at her, "fight back."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He just stared at her intensely. She knew he was doing this to prove to her he wasn't violent, that he could have self-control, but to not even defend himself was too far./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Fight back, Hannibal," she shouted, sobbing. He spit blood out and continued to be silent. Nathan was kicking him and punching him in the sides. Hannibal grimaced a little but didn't move. Then Nathan kicked him in the head and he finally went down./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""NO!" Fynn shouted, trying to get away from the other guy./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"The other guy loosened his grip a little, "hey Nathan, man maybe that's enough, you proved your point."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Nathan stopped and pointed at the lump that was Hannibal on the ground, "this fucker tried to kill me… because of HER!" He pointed to Fynn, "that little slut."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""That 'slut' saved your life," Hannibal groaned from the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What the fuck did you say to me?" Nathan kicked him in the side, Hannibal said nothing, "that's what I thought." /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Leave him alone, leave us alone," Fynn sobbed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Yea man come on," the other guy said again, he loosened his grip more and Fynn struggled away from him, but he didn't stop her. She ran to Hannibal and knelt beside him, she leaned over him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Nathan ignored her, "I'm going to kill him!" he shouted walking over to a bush and pulling out a baseball bat./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hey man, calm down," the rational one said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Nah, I'm going to BASH HIS GIANT SKULL!" Nathan said raising the bat above his head. Things started to go in slow motion. Fynn was leaning over Hannibal's limp body, she felt Nathan's presence on the other side of Hannibal hovering over them. She saw his shadow on the ground, slowly (only to her) bringing the bat down to hit Hannibal in the head. She put her hand inside Hannibal's coat, she had one chance to save his life and she hoped what she needed would be there. Before Nathan could finish the job, Fynn swung around and stabbed Nathan in his side, right above his hip. He choked out his surprise, dropping the bat to grasp his side with both hands. The knife stuck out of him, she had buried it deep, all the way into the handle. He stumbled backward and fell down. Hannibal moaned and she turned her attention back to him. He opened his eyes and looked over at Nathan who was rolling on the ground in agony. She saw the adrenaline kick into Hannibal's eyes, and he raised up groaning./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What have you done my love?" he asked, looking into her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I…I…" she stuttered, she looked down at her trembling hands and they were covered in blood, who's she didn't know, she stood up her mouth agape in shock. Hannibal took her hands and said, "get out of here, now." She shook her head 'no'. He got on one knee and she briefly thought he was going to propose, he took his coat off and leaned over Nathan's writhing body./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I've got to stop the bleeding, you got his kidney and he won't likely make it but if I can stop the bleeding he has a little bit of a chance, you HAVE TO GO," Hannibal turned to her and she understood that he was threatening her with letting Nathan die if she didn't obey. Hannibal used his own very expensive coat to try and stop the bleeding. He didn't take the knife out because that would make it worse. He applied pressure with one hand and used to other to take out his wallet. He threw the wallet at the other guy who was just standing there in shock, though his athletic instincts kicked in and he caught the wallet./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Take all the cash, get her somewhere to a shower and call an ambulance," Hannibal said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What do I need the cash for?" the guy said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I'm paying you to do this, and to say that she was never here," Hannibal said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""No, Hannibal, no," Fynn started but the guy got the cash and dropped the empty wallet at Hannibal's side. He then grabbed Fynn and pulled her away kicking and screaming. She figured someone would come to help her get away from this guy, but the campus yard was empty. Everyone was in class./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He called the police and ambulance and eventually he got her to agree to go home for a shower. Kalisi saw her walking up the stairs sobbing and bloody, he guy let her go and ran away./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Oh my gosh," Kalisi ran to her and held her as she sobbed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal, Nathan… he was beating him, Nathan was stabbed," she managed through her sobs./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Is Hannibal okay?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I think… but I- I," Fynn started to tremble uncontrollably./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Okay okay you can tell me later, let's get you cleaned up," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Fynn didn't even consider why Hannibal wanted her to get a shower, everything was a blur and she couldn't think straight. She had just stabbed someone, and he could die. Once Kalisi had showered and dressed her, the pieces started to fall into place./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I have to go," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""No, Fynn the police are there they'll take care of it, it was self-defense, I'm sure Hannibal won't be in trouble," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"When Fynn heard the words 'Hannibal' and 'trouble' she took off, luckily Kalisi had already put shoes back on her. Kalisi tried to stop her but she got away and ran all the way back to the abandoned lab. There were police everywhere and she saw an ambulance loading a body, his head was covered. She looked around to find Hannibal, he was leaned over a car and a cop was handcuffing him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She ran over, "no," she grabbed the cop's arm, "what are you doing?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am, please back up," the cop said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He didn't do anything," Fynn shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am please," the cop said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Hannibal looked at her, "it's alright," was all he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, Hannibal, no," she fought with the cop, but he finally got Hannibal into the back seat and shut the door./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He grabbed Fynn's arms, holding her back, "I need you to calm down, I know you love your boyfriend, but he just killed someone."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, no, self-defense… and I- it was me, I stabbed him," she said, she held out her hands to show him, but they were no longer bloody, she stared at them confused for a second./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am you just got here," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, no I was here before, I, I, I left, and I came back," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Then why is your hair wet?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She touched her head like she just now realized it was soaking wet, "I-I took…a… shower," realization started to set in that this was hopeless./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "So, you left to shower and came back? Why?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because he said to," she pointed at Hannibal through car window, "he's trying to protect me can't you see that?" she shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I have to go by the evidence, he was here and the knife was clearly his, after we found the secret compartment for it inside his coat, he also had an unregistered revolver with the serial number scratched off, which is suspicious… and on top of all that, he confessed."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She shook her head in disbelief, "what? No…no, no, no," she slammed her hand on the car window where Hannibal sat staring ahead, "NO!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" He ignored her and looked down at his lap like she didn't even exist./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He also tried to stop the bleeding with his coat, then tried to stitch the wound with a piece of thread from the coat and a paperclip, M.E. said it was a fantastic stitch job considering the tools he had… miss, I'm sorry, your boyfriend might be handsome and a hell of a doctor, or seamstress… but he's a murderer, my advice? Find a better boyfriend," he patted her shoulder and walked away./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She folded her arms and looked at Hannibal again, he was still staring straight ahead, she wondered how many murders he had confessed to, she let out a sob./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" The car he was in started to pull away and she walked beside it, it sped up, so she started running after it. When it got too fast she just fell to her knees and wailed. Kalisi came running around the building and saw her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I've been looking for you," she said getting on her own knees to hold Fynn, who sobbed into Kalisi's shoulder for a while. They watched the ambulance drive past them./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Nathan's dead, Hannibal got arrested," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Well he can claim self-defense, I'm sure he didn't mean to kill him," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He didn't… I did," Fynn said. Kalisi shook her head in disbelief./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Please, I need someone to believe me," Fynn said her hands trembling as Kalisi held them./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay," Kalisi hugged her and rubbed her back, "I believe you sweetie, it's okay, it's gonna be okay."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Fynn sat back and gasped, "the boy."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "The what?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "The- the football player that brought me home, did you see him?" Fynn asked excitedly, everything was coming back to her in bits and pieces./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Yea, that was Nathan's best friend, Todd."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He was here, he saw it, he saw me," she said, "I have to find him." She tried to get up but her legs were shaky./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Hold on, you have got to calm down and get some rest, clear your head?" Kalisi offered./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, I have to help Hannibal," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Honey, he's fine for a few hours, you can help him more if you have your story straight, you are still in shock and little shaken up," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "We have to find him," Fynn looked up at Kalisi, "please."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay fine but we are both missing classes for this and I am not failing just so you can keep getting that good dick," she elbowed Fynn./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Fynn tried to laugh but she couldn't focus on anything but freeing Hannibal. Not because he was completely innocent but because she knew she couldn't let him take the fall for her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" They found Todd on the football field pacing back and forth. He saw them coming and put his hands up in front of him, "no, no, stay back."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Relax, we just want to talk," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Are the police gone? I didn't know it was gonna go this far, Nathan said that weird foreign guy who never talks, threatened him just because he was overly jealous of you, he pointed at Fynn./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She scoffed, "Nathan didn't tell you he was stalking me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He said you guys used to have a 'thing' and Lecter was jealous about your past," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Nathan raped me," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Todd's face twisted in anguish, "oh man, I didn't want to get into this mess, I don't want to go to jail."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "You're not going to jail, you're just a witness, I need you to tell the police the truth," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "If you hadn't noticed, your boyfriend is hella scary, he paid me to say you weren't there," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He's so scary but you attacked him when Nathan said to? He's so scary that he just let you guys beat the shit out of him?" Fynn shouted, walking toward Todd with her finger pointed at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay, honey calm down," Kalisi put her hand on Fynn's shoulder./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I'm sorry… about all of it, I didn't know Nathan was gonna take it so far, maybe I could tell the police about it being Nathan's idea to attack him and that Hannibal didn't fight back until he had to," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "That sounds reasonable," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, you have to tell them it was me," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Why? Why you need to go to jail?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because I did it and I don't want this hanging over my head the rest of my life okay?" Fynn shouted. She got closer to Todd who took a few steps back, "look, please, he paid you to lie, all I'm asking you to do is tell the truth."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" As they all three got a cab to the police station, Fynn thought about why she really wanted to do this. She couldn't tell them that she was terrified that Hannibal would confess his entire past to them, then he really couldn't claim self-defense. Seeing him get beaten and then handcuffed had made her realize she didn't truly believe he deserved to be in prison for his crimes. Though it was wrong, and murder, legally. She knew why he did it and she needed him to know that he deserved love and forgiveness./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" At the station Todd went to give his testimony and Fynn asked to see Hannibal, Kalisi waited for her for moral support. She was led to the back where the small holding cells were. Hannibal was standing in the middle of the cell with his hands behind his back./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Well hello Fynn," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She sat down in the chair and officer had placed there for her, she sighed, "I'm sorry."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "What are you sorry for?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I brought Todd here to tell them you lied and that it was me, I'm going to confess," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" He looked at the ground, "I took care of it, why would you do this?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because… I love you, and you didn't stab him, I did," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Don't you think I deserve to be in here for other… reasons?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She glanced at the officer standing in the corner, "Hannibal, I … no I don't."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "You know I would get off on self-defense anyway," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "So will I," she said and he grinned, she didn't know why but she continued, "why did you try so hard to save him if you were going to try and take the fall anyway?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because I didn't want you to have that stain on your soul, I know you, I didn't want you to feel the guilt of taking a life," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She sighed, "I will learn to live with it, besides it was him or you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "And you chose me," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I always will," she smiled./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;" /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"The next morning, she got out of bed and got ready, at the front door Hannibal was waiting for her as usual. She walked out to him and he walked her to class with neither of them talking. In class she sat on the other side of the room and he stared at her the whole time. She wouldn't make eye contact. After class he rushed out without waiting for her. She sighed and got up to leave./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Excuse me," the professor said walking over to her. She looked up and he smiled at her, "I know it's not my business, but I noticed you didn't sit with Hannibal today."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Oh, we are just having a little spat," she said trying to sound casual though her voice was shaky./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Well whatever it is, you should know that I've known him since he came to this school, we worked in the lab together many times, and he's. taken several of my other classes, and I hadn't ever seen him laugh or even smile until you came to this class," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She felt tears welling up in her eye and she smiled, "well I'm sure that's a coincidence."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I don't think so, anyway I know he's a little odd but he's one of the good ones and you seem to make him happy, just don't give up on him so easily okay," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""How do you know it's my choice and not his?" she asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I saw how he was looking at you today, he looked like his heart was breaking just from looking at you," he tilted his head a little and sighed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She stood up to leave, trying to hold in her sobs, "I'll keep that in mind."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Once she left the class she took off running, looking for Hannibal. She ran to his next class and he wasn't in there. The professor gave her a dirty look for poking her head in. She ran to some other places he might be, but she couldn't find him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal!" she shouted, ridiculously./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hey," a girl said, walking up to her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She turned and looked at the girl, "yea?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""You're looking for Hannibal, that foreign guy who wears a trench coat?" she asked. Fynn nodded, the girl pointed to the old lab building that had been shut down for years, "I saw him a couple football players go behind there." Fynn barely muttered a thanks before she took off, she knew one of them was Nathan, he must have recruited someone else to help him after last night, but she didn't think it would help them anyway. She ran as fast as she could, she needed to stop Hannibal before he hurt anyone./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"She slid like a baseball player turning to go the back of the building. Laying on her side she saw that Hannibal was on his knees, arms held out at his sides while two boys took turns punching him. She scrambled to her feet and ran over to face him. His lip and nose were bleeding and one of his eyes was swelling shut already./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Stop it," she tried to grab Nathan's arm, but he pushed her away. Then Nathan motioned for the other guy to grab Fynn. She tried to run but she wasn't fast enough. He got her by both arms and stood behind her, holding her so she could witness Hannibal's flogging./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Fight back," Nathan yelled at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal," Fynn sobbed, he looked up at her, "fight back."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He just stared at her intensely. She knew he was doing this to prove to her he wasn't violent, that he could have self-control, but to not even defend himself was too far./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Fight back, Hannibal," she shouted, sobbing. He spit blood out and continued to be silent. Nathan was kicking him and punching him in the sides. Hannibal grimaced a little but didn't move. Then Nathan kicked him in the head and he finally went down./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""NO!" Fynn shouted, trying to get away from the other guy./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"The other guy loosened his grip a little, "hey Nathan, man maybe that's enough, you proved your point."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Nathan stopped and pointed at the lump that was Hannibal on the ground, "this fucker tried to kill me… because of HER!" He pointed to Fynn, "that little slut."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""That 'slut' saved your life," Hannibal groaned from the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What the fuck did you say to me?" Nathan kicked him in the side, Hannibal said nothing, "that's what I thought." /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Leave him alone, leave us alone," Fynn sobbed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Yea man come on," the other guy said again, he loosened his grip more and Fynn struggled away from him, but he didn't stop her. She ran to Hannibal and knelt beside him, she leaned over him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Nathan ignored her, "I'm going to kill him!" he shouted walking over to a bush and pulling out a baseball bat./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hey man, calm down," the rational one said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Nah, I'm going to BASH HIS GIANT SKULL!" Nathan said raising the bat above his head. Things started to go in slow motion. Fynn was leaning over Hannibal's limp body, she felt Nathan's presence on the other side of Hannibal hovering over them. She saw his shadow on the ground, slowly (only to her) bringing the bat down to hit Hannibal in the head. She put her hand inside Hannibal's coat, she had one chance to save his life and she hoped what she needed would be there. Before Nathan could finish the job, Fynn swung around and stabbed Nathan in his side, right above his hip. He choked out his surprise, dropping the bat to grasp his side with both hands. The knife stuck out of him, she had buried it deep, all the way into the handle. He stumbled backward and fell down. Hannibal moaned and she turned her attention back to him. He opened his eyes and looked over at Nathan who was rolling on the ground in agony. She saw the adrenaline kick into Hannibal's eyes, and he raised up groaning./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What have you done my love?" he asked, looking into her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I…I…" she stuttered, she looked down at her trembling hands and they were covered in blood, who's she didn't know, she stood up her mouth agape in shock. Hannibal took her hands and said, "get out of here, now." She shook her head 'no'. He got on one knee and she briefly thought he was going to propose, he took his coat off and leaned over Nathan's writhing body./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I've got to stop the bleeding, you got his kidney and he won't likely make it but if I can stop the bleeding he has a little bit of a chance, you HAVE TO GO," Hannibal turned to her and she understood that he was threatening her with letting Nathan die if she didn't obey. Hannibal used his own very expensive coat to try and stop the bleeding. He didn't take the knife out because that would make it worse. He applied pressure with one hand and used to other to take out his wallet. He threw the wallet at the other guy who was just standing there in shock, though his athletic instincts kicked in and he caught the wallet./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Take all the cash, get her somewhere to a shower and call an ambulance," Hannibal said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""What do I need the cash for?" the guy said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I'm paying you to do this, and to say that she was never here," Hannibal said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""No, Hannibal, no," Fynn started but the guy got the cash and dropped the empty wallet at Hannibal's side. He then grabbed Fynn and pulled her away kicking and screaming. She figured someone would come to help her get away from this guy, but the campus yard was empty. Everyone was in class./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He called the police and ambulance and eventually he got her to agree to go home for a shower. Kalisi saw her walking up the stairs sobbing and bloody, he guy let her go and ran away./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Oh my gosh," Kalisi ran to her and held her as she sobbed./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hannibal, Nathan… he was beating him, Nathan was stabbed," she managed through her sobs./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Is Hannibal okay?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I think… but I- I," Fynn started to tremble uncontrollably./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""Okay okay you can tell me later, let's get you cleaned up," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"Fynn didn't even consider why Hannibal wanted her to get a shower, everything was a blur and she couldn't think straight. She had just stabbed someone, and he could die. Once Kalisi had showered and dressed her, the pieces started to fall into place./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""I have to go," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;""No, Fynn the police are there they'll take care of it, it was self-defense, I'm sure Hannibal won't be in trouble," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"When Fynn heard the words 'Hannibal' and 'trouble' she took off, luckily Kalisi had already put shoes back on her. Kalisi tried to stop her but she got away and ran all the way back to the abandoned lab. There were police everywhere and she saw an ambulance loading a body, his head was covered. She looked around to find Hannibal, he was leaned over a car and a cop was handcuffing him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She ran over, "no," she grabbed the cop's arm, "what are you doing?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am, please back up," the cop said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He didn't do anything," Fynn shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am please," the cop said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Hannibal looked at her, "it's alright," was all he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, Hannibal, no," she fought with the cop, but he finally got Hannibal into the back seat and shut the door./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"He grabbed Fynn's arms, holding her back, "I need you to calm down, I know you love your boyfriend, but he just killed someone."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, no, self-defense… and I- it was me, I stabbed him," she said, she held out her hands to show him, but they were no longer bloody, she stared at them confused for a second./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Ma'am you just got here," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, no I was here before, I, I, I left, and I came back," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Then why is your hair wet?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She touched her head like she just now realized it was soaking wet, "I-I took…a… shower," realization started to set in that this was hopeless./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "So, you left to shower and came back? Why?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because he said to," she pointed at Hannibal through car window, "he's trying to protect me can't you see that?" she shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I have to go by the evidence, he was here and the knife was clearly his, after we found the secret compartment for it inside his coat, he also had an unregistered revolver with the serial number scratched off, which is suspicious… and on top of all that, he confessed."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She shook her head in disbelief, "what? No…no, no, no," she slammed her hand on the car window where Hannibal sat staring ahead, "NO!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" He ignored her and looked down at his lap like she didn't even exist./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He also tried to stop the bleeding with his coat, then tried to stitch the wound with a piece of thread from the coat and a paperclip, M.E. said it was a fantastic stitch job considering the tools he had… miss, I'm sorry, your boyfriend might be handsome and a hell of a doctor, or seamstress… but he's a murderer, my advice? Find a better boyfriend," he patted her shoulder and walked away./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She folded her arms and looked at Hannibal again, he was still staring straight ahead, she wondered how many murders he had confessed to, she let out a sob./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" The car he was in started to pull away and she walked beside it, it sped up, so she started running after it. When it got too fast she just fell to her knees and wailed. Kalisi came running around the building and saw her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I've been looking for you," she said getting on her own knees to hold Fynn, who sobbed into Kalisi's shoulder for a while. They watched the ambulance drive past them./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Nathan's dead, Hannibal got arrested," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Well he can claim self-defense, I'm sure he didn't mean to kill him," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He didn't… I did," Fynn said. Kalisi shook her head in disbelief./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Please, I need someone to believe me," Fynn said her hands trembling as Kalisi held them./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay," Kalisi hugged her and rubbed her back, "I believe you sweetie, it's okay, it's gonna be okay."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Fynn sat back and gasped, "the boy."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "The what?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "The- the football player that brought me home, did you see him?" Fynn asked excitedly, everything was coming back to her in bits and pieces./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Yea, that was Nathan's best friend, Todd."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He was here, he saw it, he saw me," she said, "I have to find him." She tried to get up but her legs were shaky./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Hold on, you have got to calm down and get some rest, clear your head?" Kalisi offered./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, I have to help Hannibal," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Honey, he's fine for a few hours, you can help him more if you have your story straight, you are still in shock and little shaken up," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "We have to find him," Fynn looked up at Kalisi, "please."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay fine but we are both missing classes for this and I am not failing just so you can keep getting that good dick," she elbowed Fynn./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Fynn tried to laugh but she couldn't focus on anything but freeing Hannibal. Not because he was completely innocent but because she knew she couldn't let him take the fall for her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" They found Todd on the football field pacing back and forth. He saw them coming and put his hands up in front of him, "no, no, stay back."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Relax, we just want to talk," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Are the police gone? I didn't know it was gonna go this far, Nathan said that weird foreign guy who never talks, threatened him just because he was overly jealous of you, he pointed at Fynn./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She scoffed, "Nathan didn't tell you he was stalking me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He said you guys used to have a 'thing' and Lecter was jealous about your past," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Nathan raped me," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Todd's face twisted in anguish, "oh man, I didn't want to get into this mess, I don't want to go to jail."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "You're not going to jail, you're just a witness, I need you to tell the police the truth," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "If you hadn't noticed, your boyfriend is hella scary, he paid me to say you weren't there," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "He's so scary but you attacked him when Nathan said to? He's so scary that he just let you guys beat the shit out of him?" Fynn shouted, walking toward Todd with her finger pointed at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Okay, honey calm down," Kalisi put her hand on Fynn's shoulder./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I'm sorry… about all of it, I didn't know Nathan was gonna take it so far, maybe I could tell the police about it being Nathan's idea to attack him and that Hannibal didn't fight back until he had to," Todd said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "That sounds reasonable," Kalisi said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "No, you have to tell them it was me," Fynn said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Why? Why you need to go to jail?" Kalisi asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because I did it and I don't want this hanging over my head the rest of my life okay?" Fynn shouted. She got closer to Todd who took a few steps back, "look, please, he paid you to lie, all I'm asking you to do is tell the truth."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" As they all three got a cab to the police station, Fynn thought about why she really wanted to do this. She couldn't tell them that she was terrified that Hannibal would confess his entire past to them, then he really couldn't claim self-defense. Seeing him get beaten and then handcuffed had made her realize she didn't truly believe he deserved to be in prison for his crimes. Though it was wrong, and murder, legally. She knew why he did it and she needed him to know that he deserved love and forgiveness./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" At the station Todd went to give his testimony and Fynn asked to see Hannibal, Kalisi waited for her for moral support. She was led to the back where the small holding cells were. Hannibal was standing in the middle of the cell with his hands behind his back./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Well hello Fynn," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She sat down in the chair and officer had placed there for her, she sighed, "I'm sorry."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "What are you sorry for?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I brought Todd here to tell them you lied and that it was me, I'm going to confess," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" He looked at the ground, "I took care of it, why would you do this?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because… I love you, and you didn't stab him, I did," she said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Don't you think I deserve to be in here for other… reasons?" he asked./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She glanced at the officer standing in the corner, "Hannibal, I … no I don't."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "You know I would get off on self-defense anyway," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "So will I," she said and he grinned, she didn't know why but she continued, "why did you try so hard to save him if you were going to try and take the fall anyway?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "Because I didn't want you to have that stain on your soul, I know you, I didn't want you to feel the guilt of taking a life," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" She sighed, "I will learn to live with it, besides it was him or you."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "And you chose me," he said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" "I always will," she smiled./p