Chapter 7.
It was 11am and Calleigh were walking along a beach in California enjoying the nice weather when she heard a voice ask, "Are you Calleigh?"
"Why yes," she said and turned to face Hannibal Lecter, he was smiling at her.
"Oh where are my manners, Hannibal Lecter," he said and gently shook her hand.
"So you're the famous cannibal everyone is trying to get," she said and smiled at him.
"Not been active for a decade, but yes," he said.
"You look much different than your pictures," she said.
"Well had to have some facial surgery so I could live a normal life, you look more beautiful than I thought you would," he said.
"Why thank you," she answered and blushed slightly.
"So feeling any better?" he asked.
"A little, but I uhm don't know," she said.
"Where are you staying?" he asked.
"Hotel down the street," she said and pointed.
"Can you afford that?" he said surprised.
"Uh huh, have plenty of money, where are you staying?" she asked.
"I got an apartment not far away," he said.
"You do, isn't that expensive?" she asked surprised.
"Not really I have money and I mostly sublet it," he said.
"So how long since you were active now?" she asked.
"Here I think seventeen years or so, tried to keep a low profile," he said, but he looked away for a second.
"Why do you do it?" she asked and without knowing why she put her hand on his arm and looked at him.
"I don't know, started out as revenge and then it I just couldn't stop, it's just something about it, a rush if you get what I mean?" he said.
"I do, but have you ever though about quitting?" she asked.
"I have and I did for a while, but then…, and it all came back," he said and looked down.
"So what do you feel like doing?" she asked to change the subject.
"I don't know anything you want to do," he said and smiled at her.
"I'm hungry, maybe we could go somewhere and eat," she suggested.
"Of course my lady," he said and started to walk back towards the promenade, and as they kept on walking her hand gently slid into his.
A moment later they sat at café, they had just ordered when Calleigh asked, "Do you miss her?"
"To be honest I don't know, we had been together for nine years, yet I do manage well without her and after I meet you she have slipped my mind in a way," he said and smiled at her wondering what it would be like to kiss her lips.
"Same goes for me," she said as she looked into his golden eyes.
"May I as a question?" he said polite.
"Yes," she said.
"How come when you're not afraid of me when you know who I am and what I am capable of?" he asked and looked at her.
"To be honest I don't know, I know I should probably be afraid of you, yet there is something about you that makes me… how should I put this I want to see what will happen," she said.
"Hmmm, have you ever been involved with a criminal in any way?" he asked.
"No, never, I never had the desire to do so before" she said honestly.
"Why the sudden change?" he asked.
"I don't know, after being held at gunpoint and as a hostage and everything that happened last year I have been very careful and laid back in a way afraid of something like that would ever happen to me again, but when I meet you, you excited me and I want to explore it more. I find it refreshing, I mean I was always the rules girl, what would happen if I bent them a little, just this once?" she answered.
"How did you feel about being held by gunpoint and being taken a hostage?" he wondered.
"At gunpoint worst since I had to kill a person and I thought an innocent girl got killed, I was so scared, then stupid Stetler gave me heat for it since I had a drink on my day of when that really didn't matter at all," she said honest.
"You don't like Stetler do you?" he said.
"No I don't, he always makes a mess of everything, I'm sure his plan is to shut down our lab, but that won't happen," she said with a sigh.
"But you didn't tell me how you felt about being a hostage," he said.
"I was scared, because I didn't have control and I didn't know what they would do to me and I didn't like what they forced me to do at all," she said and looked down in the table.
"So you like being in control I take it," he said.
"Of course, don't you?" she replied.
"All the time," he admitted.
"Did you ever do as someone else wanted, put that person in front of you?" she asked.
"Did that with the ex, but didn't get me nowhere," he said.
"So you never tried to control her in any way?" Calleigh asked.
"At first but then I enjoyed loose the control a little," he said honest.
"Really," she said surprised.
"Yes, I don't mind do everything someone I…" he stopped and looked down.
"I know Hannibal," she said and without knowing why she placed her hand gently on his.
"So what do you wanto do when we're done here?" he asked.
"If you don't mind I would like to see your apartment," she said.
"On one condition," he said.
"And that is?" she said with a giggle.
"I get to see your apartment in Miami later," he said.
"Of course," she said as they continued to eat.
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