AN, heh, I'm tired and waiting for someone to go online on MSN (Yep, SURE you're offline. I have the 'Appear offline' button too ya know!) so I decided to write the second chapter as well. This is before I've even posted the first one on Now I'm HOPING that this won't end up like all my other fanfiction that has been on hiatus for a year or so (Yeah, ok, I will update them… I WILL. I know I've been saying that for a year or so but still…) Now, onto the story
A year had passed since the doctor had met the girl and he hadn't thought of her since. He hadn't forgotten her, Lecter never forgets, he had just put her away somewhere in his memory palace. His mind was too full with happy memories of Clarice.
But then she'd left. He knew why, he'd known all along that was how she'd felt. After she left, the happy memories stopped coming. And, gradually, he started seeing Mischa again.
At one time, he felt angry, wanted to make Clarice pay. He went on the internet and set out to track her down. She was no longer Clarice Starling. She had joined the WPP and had become Melissa Harvards. But she had a new beau and a new life. He couldn't just go and kill her. So it was while he was depressed that the memory of the young girl came to him.
Hannibal went over and over it in his mind. Now seemed the perfect time to being the hunt. But where to start? He didn't even know her name.
The doctor went onto the internet and went on to a dictionary site that had recordings of various accents. It was divided into countries and regions and Hannibal went through all the ones listed for England, playing them on the computer as he player her voice in his head. Eventually, he came across one that sounded like hers. The raising the pitch of the voice near the end of a sentence and the missing out of ts and hs.
After he got this the rest was quite simple. He found out what county her accent was from. Then he pulled up a recent census and searched for girls born between 1986 and 1987. (A/N: The book was released 1999 and this is set a year later, 2000. Hannibal guessed the girl was around 12/13 when he met her, so he typed those dates in. Of course, this is pretty much all guess work he's doing) After that he started typing the names, followed by the name of their city or town, into an image search engine. His eyes darted across page after page of pictures until they stopped on one that bore a resemblance to the girl.
The person in the photo looked slightly different to the girl. A little older, a little taller. But she had the same bone structure, the same eyes. That was her.
"Hmm, Kara Finnley, born April the fifth, 1986. Currently resides in Cromer."
He shut down the computer and began making arrangements to get to Cromer. The hunt had begun.
A/N Yeah, it's a bit short. But some of Thomas Harris's chapters were half as long as this, so there.