All I want is a place to call my own,
To mend the hearts of everyone
Who feels alone (whoa)
You know to keep your hopes up high
And your head down low.
A Day To Remember, All I Want
That small file that Hannibal found contained the information on a Mister Bronys Grentz, it seemed that Marcus Delaware liked to know anything and everything about his customers. Whatever had happened it made Delaware and his men leave in one hell of a hurry. The address wasn't far from The Madison and so seeing how desperate for Brian's return Price was he decided he would do it that night. Price pleaded to go with the Alpha but Hannibal refused him.
"Price you will only slow me down. You will act for Brian rather than your and my safety." Hannibal placed a strong hand on the Beta's shoulder. "I will bring him back, I promise. I need you to go back to The House and get a room ready for him and get my medical kit from my office, I will need to check him over."
"Okay."
It was all that Price could say, the Beta was filled with happiness, fear and need all at once. Despite wanting to be there for Brian he knew Hannibal was right. Hannibal was an Alpha and a killer whereas he was a Beta that had no chance against a fully grown Alpha.
XXXX
The stars shone bright in the sky as Hannibal approached Bronys Grentz's home, it was large and flashy nothing like the elegant town house that Hannibal kept. It was almost comical, how easy it was to disable the alarm; Hannibal very nearly laughed aloud. The inside of the flashy house was just as hideous as the exterior maybe even more so. Hannibal could smell Brian the second he walked through the door, the Omega was terrified. Thanks to his unmatched sense of smell Hannibal quickly located the other Alpha asleep in his bed, satin sheets pulled up around his shoulders. As quiet as a mouse The Alpha set down his cooler and went over to the bed trusty scalpel in hand, he tilted the Alpha's head to the side and without a second thought thrust the blade into Grentz's neck. Grentz opened his eyes but did not more, face filling with horror.
"No, no don't try and move. I have just damaged your spine beyond repair, so there is no point. Now you can still speak, scream but I don't suggest it. The last person who did was force fed her own tongue and an Alpha such as yourself is too proud to go screaming for help anyway so just sit back and relax."
Hannibal gave a micro smile and pulled the sheets off the other Alpha exposing Hannibal's canvas. He knew the man would scream, any man would with the amount of pain Hannibal intended to cause but Hannibal had a plan for that.
"Now Mister Grentz, I know you won't want to scream but you will so I am going to make sure that we don't get disturbed."
He pulled a needle and thread from his kit and brought it up to Bronys' lips, Hannibal took the other man's upper lip between his thumb and index finger and pushed the sharp needle through the skin, he then did the same with the bottom one and slowly the paralysed Alpha's mouth was stitched up. When Hannibal reached the middle of the man's lips he forced the needle through his tongue too. Soon Hannibal was satisfied with the pure silence and went back to the naked canvas.
"Hmmm, what to take first. How about the kidneys?"
Hannibal didn't wait for a response he just started slicing deep into Grentz's skin, blood pouring from the wound and dripping onto the hardwood floor. Drip. Drip. Drip. With the Alpha's skilled hands it took no time at all to removed the kidneys, liver, lungs and eventually the heart. His head filled with recipes, specificity one of William's favourites. Foie de Veau en Persillade avec Pommes de Terre, also known as calf's liver with parsley potatoes. It wouldn't be a calf's liver but then again Will had known that for quite a while. Hannibal wanted to take the dead Alpha's stomach as well but there was no room left in the cooler so he went to his second objective of finding Brian. He could smell the Omega, anyone could the sent was so strong. Hannibal followed his nose down and into the basement to find...no one. The room held a punch bag, a treadmill and even a rowing machine but no Omega, Hannibal was confused for a moment, his nose had never lied to him before then he saw it. Over in the corner by the rowing machine was an out of place lime green carpet, Hannibal had the sudden urge to burn it.
The Alpha kicked it out the way revealing a small hatch, he knelt down and picked the padlock.
"Does this man have no challenge what so ever? No probably not."
The hatch was pulled open and Hannibal could see the full extent of horror that Brian had been subjected to. Seeing an unknown Alpha Brian backed away, the florescent basement light hurting his eyes. He couldn't go very far the space was small, not tall enough for him to stand up and not wide enough for him to lie down. Hannibal was outraged, wanted to kill Bronys Grentz all over again.
"It's alright." He said. "Jimmy Price asked me to come."
Hannibal offered a hand to the Omega so he could pull him from the hatch, Brian looked curiously at Hannibal for a few moments and then decided that things couldn't get much worse and so he took the Alpha's hand.