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After ending the call with Annabelle, Hannibal placed the phone back into the holder and looked at his tablet. It had old photos of her in different magazines and other photo shoots. One he paid close attention too as it had Annabelle, three years after they separated, with a two year old Mischa. It didn't take him long to believe that she was his as for one she had his unique maroon eyes. The other reason was because she looked just like his late sister when she was that age. Anger flew through him as he was angry that Annabelle had kept this from him. Yes, he knew that a child in his lifestyle hasn't been one of his goals but when he was with Annabelle he had thought about it. She had denied him of the experience of being a father to his own daughter. Being there when she was born to hold her, to see her first steps and hear her first words. This was really rude of her and she knows how he feels about rude people. So Saturday night he was gonna give her a chance to explain herself before he decides what to do.
Saturday came faster than Annabelle expected. She was lucky Raven was able to babysitted as the weekends were her days off. The whole day she has been nervous, only because she didn't know to tell Hannibal that he is Mischa's father. She knew that he would be angry at her as she had eleven years to tell him. Her only defence was that they had different lifestyles and knew a child wasn't part of his and she didn't want to ruin it. When she found out that she was pregnant she was okay with raising the baby by herself. Not to mention she did call once when she was 6 months pregnant and tried to tell him. A woman answered, clearly he had moved on but when Annabelle introduced the woman's voice turned cold. From the sound of it he wasn't completely over her as the woman turned caty and tried to humutalty Annabelle. Saying that she should get over Hannibal as he was with her now. This only made her mad and let just say that woman was never heard or seen again. She never tried to reach out to him again.
After she had done her hair and makeup she went through her walk-in closet and checked out her wardrobe. She found a beautiful dress that showed some cleavage but also back. A smile appeared on her face as she looked at the full length mirror and she saw her wicca and pegan tattoos that were on her back. In the past she was a little insecure because of them and didn't know how Hannibal would react to them. To her surprise he actually encouraged her to show them off, ever since then she no longer cared and wore them off with pride. So she decided to wear it with some styleless black heels. After placing everything on she walked out to show Raven and to her girls.
"So what do you think?" She asked "Too much?"
"You look pretty, Mommy?" Penelope said
"Red is your color, Mama." Mischa smiled
"You're gonna kill your date with that outfit." Raven smirked
"Good." Annabelle winked
She looked over at herself one more time in the mirror and completely agreed.
"Now girls, remember, Raven is in charge until I return. After dinner, take a bath and it's off to bed 10. No junk food before bedtime. And no staying up watching horror movies, Mischa." She said
The ten year old pouted but nodded at her mothers' rules. She was happy but a little jealous of her mother right now. Mischa knew about her birth father since she was three. Even on her birthday Annabelle will tell her the story of how the two met and fell in love. The young girl even had an old photo of him on her nightstand that she always says goodnight to. She always wanted to meet him but he didn't know about her so she knew that she had to wait. Now, she prayed that her parents would reunite again and they could be a family.
Once Annabelle was ready she grabbed her coat and purse before getting in her Lexus. She drove to the address that Hannibal gave her and when she arrived she looked over his house. Annebelle shook her head with a little chuckle as she didn't expect anything different.
He always did love the lavish lifestyle.
His house was tall, imposing and of course very lavish.
She walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. Hannibal appeared within seconds and opened the door.
"Good evening, Annabelle." Hannibal smiled, let her inside.
"Good evening, Hannibal." She smiled
"May I take your coat." He offered
"Thank you." She nodded
She slipped off her coat and Hannibal unashamedly eyed her back with lust. He remembered the passionate nights as he kissed and leave lovebites on it. When he finally pulled his eyes away from her back he looked at the rest of her dress and he had to control himself. After placing her purse and coat away he showed her to the dining room and pulled out her chair for her.
"Dinner will be ready in a few minutes. I'm glad you could make it." He said
"Glad to be here." She smiled "You have a beautiful home, almost makes me want to explore."
"Maybe after dinner I can give you a tour." He said
"So what is on the menu tonight? You were always a great cook." She asked
"For the first course we have Minestrone soup, followed by the second course of Bistecca alla fiorentina with sauteed roasted red potatoes and steam peppers. Then for dessert Tiramisu." He said as he poured her some water, knowing that she doesn't drink alcohol.
Annabelle looked at him with a heart warming smile.
"That was the meal of our first date. I should have known that you would remember." She smiled
He gave her a smile before heading to the kitchen as the timer ding, letting him know the meal was ready. The food was wonderful, as always. During the whole dinner everything went well as they talked about their favorite memory of their dating past, their success, and other things. Then it came when Annebelle brought up that she had children. To her surprise he didn't recoil or shock like most men do when she dated. Something tells her that might have known.
"How many?" He asked
"Two daughters. Penelope, my youngest, she's four years old. And my eldest is...Mischa, she's ten years old." She said
She looked into his eyes and knew that he knew.
"How long have you known?" She asked
"Yesterday. I found an old photo of you with Mischa." He said "I was giving you a chance to tell me yourself. Why didn't you tell me?"
Annabelle looked down and mentally sigh, not sure to explain this to him.
"I wasn't sure how to tell you at all. I wanted to but I was worried oh how you'll react." She replied
"You didn't think I would want a child with you?" He asked
"I...I don't know...maybe. It's just...I didn't think your lifestyle had room for a child." She replied
"What made you think that?" He asked
She looked up at him and for a second she saw hurt in his eyes. This was the first that she had ever seen him show this kind of emotion.
"Come on Hannibal. If you had wanted a family you would have done it before we had met." She said
"True, but maybe I never found the right woman that I wanted to start a family with back then." He replied "But I always knew that I wanted to start one with you."
"Hannibal, we were so different back then. We still are now." She said
"I like to believe that opposites attract." He replied
"What are you saying, Hannibal? You want to get back together?" She asked "I don't mind you wanting to get to know Mischa, but I don't want to get her hopes up with that idea in her mind."
"I'm not saying, I'm implying. I truly have missed you Annabelle. And I want to give us another chance." He said, he reached over as he took her hand into his. "I want to get to know Mischa and Penlope. I would like for us to be family. Give me another chance, my Bell."
Annabelle nearly shivered in delight when he used his old nickname for her. He was still a charmer and knew what to say. There was no fool in her mind that she still loved him and wanted to be with him. What's that old saying, you never stop loving your first love. So she agreed to give them another go.
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Back at the house Mischa and Penelope were watching a YouTune channel on the t.v while Raven was cooking dinner. It was beef stew but she was low on meat so she had to head to the basement for more. When the girls saw this they followed her as they wanted to see. She walked in the winery room and moved the built in fridge to the side where a door was hidden behind it. She walked down to the bottom of the steps before turning on the lights. After putting the butcher outfit on herself she grabbed a meat hammer off the table with other tools and headed to one of the doors. When she opened it a muffled scream was heard and a man came crawling out fast of the room. He had his mouth sewed shut, all ten of his fingers were missing and both his legs were missing from his kneecaps. He was one of the few unlucky paparazzis that didn't run fast enough from the doors or got caught in one of the traps that were in the woods. From Mischa's count he was number eight, that she knew of.
"Oh stop being such a baby." Raven sighed as she walked out of the room.
Seeing that he was trying to crawl to the stairs, she quickened her steps and hit him with the meat hammer. The impact was hard but he was still breathing. She grabbed a hold of him and was able to place him on the stainless surgical table and strapped him on. The girls stayed by the staircase as they watched Raven saw off the rest of his left leg. By the pain he woke up and started to muffle a scream and cries before passing out again. When she was done she sealed the wound and placed him back in the room before locking it. She changed out of the butcher clothing and took the bowl of meat.
"Up, up you two. I'm almost done with dinner." She said
The girls nodded and ran back upstairs with Raven behind them. She locked and closed everything up before heading to the kitchen.
After dinner Raven had the girls take their baths before placing them in bed. The girls slept in the same room as Penelope was still afraid to sleep by herself. When the girls were ready for bed Raven sat down in the plush chair before picking up the grimm's brother's fairy tale book. A bit dark but it was one of the girls favorite books.
For tonight's story she decided to read the Cinderella tale. Mischa giggled when the two stepsisters cut off parts of their feets so they fit the glass slipper. Then she smiled when the birds pecked their eyes out. She liked that part of the story as the step-sisters deserved it.
When the story was done Penelope was already asleep so Raven tucked her in before doing the same for Mischa. The ten year old was far from tired and wanted to stay up a little bit more. She waited for a few minutes when Raven left the room before taking out a flashlight, sketch book and her crayons. When she was ready she started drawing a storyline. Not by the Cinderella story but something that she saw on the YouTune channel she watched. It was a drawing of a bald monster that had no eyes or nose on his face but had a mouth with pointed teeth. He wore a black and white suit with red gloves over his claw like hands. The creature was known as the Look-see from Crypt t.v. He was one of her favorite monsters on the show, along with the Mordeo wendigo, Kinderfanger, Shelley, Sunny cult and some of their own versions of the fables stories.
So to tire herself out Mischa started to draw herself in the Crypt world and was founded by the Look-see. He didn't hurt her as she didn't feel guilty or have any regret. He could see that she was different so he took her along with him to his world.
It wasn't until an hour had passed and she was starting to feel tired already. So she placed everything away and lay down but looked over at the picture of her papa and mama.
"Goodnight Papa. Goodnight Mama." She whispered, and fell asleep.
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Somewhere in a school lot…
The football team had just finished their practice and the players all headed to the locker room and hit the showers. One by one each player took a quick shower and headed out. All expect one player. He took one long shower before drying off and changed into his regular clothes. Once he was ready he headed out to the lot. When he got close to his car he saw something on his window. It was a poster of four young girls around his age and he just scoffed at it before crumbling it. He tossed it aside and digged for his keys. Not once did he sensed or heard someone behind him. The masked butcher stepped quietly behind the young man before placing him in a choke hold and covered his mouth with a cloth covered in chloroform. The young man struggled a bit but it wasn't long till the chloroform knocked him out. Once the man was out, the masked butcher lay him down and bound his hands and feet with zip-ties. When the butcher was done a van appeared and two men with the same mask came out and hauled the young man inside.
The young man started waking up and found himself in a dark van. He tried to get up and scream but realized that his mouth was gagged too with some bar and his hand and legs were bound but that didn't stop him trying to. One of the masked butchers got annoyed by this and kicked the kid in the stomach and face to shut him up. This shut him up for a few minutes but he didn't try again. When the van stopped the door opened and the two masked butchers that were in the back grabbed the young man and dragged inside a barn that was filled with pigs and cattles.
Once inside the driver walked ahead and opened a hidden floor door. They pushed him down the steps before dragging him down the underground tunnel. It wasn't long till they reached another guarded door and the guard opened it for them. Inside the room was a beautiful office room that was filled with Greek and Roman antique artifacts, some furniture, and paintings and weapons on the wall. In the back of the room, opera was played on an old record. The main thing that caught the young mans' attention was the large desk where three men were sitting by, smoking cuban cigars. One of the men happened to be Hector Gallo and he was sitting in the big chair in front of the desk. The masked butchers took him over to them and had him kneel in front of them.
"Luis Wheeler, do you know why you are here?" Hector asked
Unable to talk Luis just shook his head.
"Elena Gomez, Halley Fisher, Penny Rider, and Mindy Marton. Remember them? They were the poor girls that you raped." Hector said "You were never sentenced or gone to trial because...from our sources...your father paid off the judge and even tried to pay the girls to keep silent. But your fathers' money won't work on us. We are the jury, judges and executioner. And from all the evidence that we've gone through, we found you guilty." He looked at the two men sitting in the chair across from him. "Now my brothers, for the sentenced. The Cattles or to the Butchers."
"From what we found in his locker and GYM bag his meat will taste terrible." One said
"Even if we do wait it out I doubt the meat will have any taste." The other said
"Very well, to the Butchers it is." Hector smirked "The children always need more projects to practice on. Take him away."
The mask butchers grabbed Luis again and dragged out of the room through another door. After walking down the hallway they enter an elevator headed down. When the elevator doors open Luis's eyes widen in fear at what he was seeing. There were cages and cages of other people inside as if they were cattle. The butchers dragged him to an empty cage and cut him from his binds before shoving him inside and locking the cage door. Luis quickly ripped the mouth bar off him before trying to break the door. He quickly stepped back when he felt the 1000 bolt hitting him.
"FUCK! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE!" Luis shouted "I DID NOTHING FUCKING WRONG! GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"
"Scream all you like, piggy. No one can hear us." A woman said
She was two cages down on the opposite side of his.
"What did you do?" A man said
He was on the left side of Luis' cage.
"I did fucking nothing. Just a bunch of bitches that lied." Luis glared
The man and woman just chuckled.
"I love it when they are still in disbelief. I didn't do it. It wasn't me. Oh the classic." The man said and sat back down. "I was just like you boy a few weeks ago. If you don't get picked you'll soon realize it is your fault and you deserve it. We all did."