That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know
Nickelback, Far Away

Hannibal had spent most of the evening after Olivia told him about the website logged onto her account looking at every little piece of writing on every page. What he had found disgusted him pages and pages of Omegas neatly categorised, everything about them listed along with a terrified photograph. The youngest he had found was seven. Seven. That was a year younger than Abigail had been when Hobbs sold her to Crawford, Hannibal was angry there was no denying that, when it came to his family his mask was harder to keep in place than usual. He had checked to see if the Omegas from The House were on the site starting with Beverly and so clicked; female then 30-35 and a rather long list of women appeared, most had been auctioned off months ago, it seemed that the images were added to more than deleted. There was however, no image of Beverly or it seemed any of the others which left Hannibal thinking one thing; Those who are sold in person are debated over on the fly. Abducted, moved and sold before they know what hit them. Hannibal was completely disgusted, he had done some pretty horrendous things but to sell a seven-year-old into sexual slavery was barbaric and made what The Chesapeake Ripper did look like a fuzzy kitten. Still Hannibal couldn't remain at his tablet screen all night, Will still had nightmares if he wasn't there and Hannibal still had things to plan for Abigail's birthday. She kept insisting it was no big deal but Hannibal knew it was quite the opposite, she was turning fifteen and The Alpha was determined for her to have a birthday again, no child of his would have that ignored.

The day of Abigail's fifteenth birthday finally arrived and Hannibal was actually a little nervous. He had everything in place and everyone knew their parts, the Betas, Alana, Rain and Brian would bring her over from The House at noon and they would proceed to show Abigail what a birthday was about again. Hannibal and Will had insisted that they all have lunch together and after much pleading on Will's part Abigail had consented. She really didn't see birthdays as anything important, to be honest neither did Hannibal or Will but Abigail had been refused her childhood and celebrating seemed to be one of the best ways to remind her that Crawford was dead and she was free of what that place was.

Will, Beverly and Rex had been upstairs getting Abigail's secret present ready for three days solid, moving things around and refusing the Alpha entry. Well that was more Will than the others but it seemed the Omega was determined not to let Hannibal see until it was the finished product. Hannibal could respect that, Beverly and Rex couldn't go out and buy something stupidly expensive like Hannibal could, not that he would Abigail wouldn't like that. Since he had taken over The House everyone that stayed had taken up some sort of job and so Hannibal had just started paying them, he could afford it and he was sure that they didn't all want to live in that building forever, despite what The House had become it was still a place of horrid memories. Alana was in the middle of her degree at the time Verger had taken here and so had sort of become The Houses' therapist, Hannibal had his own patients to see of course. Alana seemed to excel in therapy, he had even had a wall knocked through to create an office for her that was opposite his own. The office had overjoyed her and Hannibal was pleased he had been the one to make her smile. It had been simply furnished, Alana wasn't really the sort of person to go over the top , there was a reasonably sized charcoal coloured desk with a comfortable matching leather chair. Everything one would expect for a therapists office was there, but it was the bay window seat Price had suggested went in that Alana loved the most. She would curl up at the end of the day with a book and just read quietly every now an then looking up at the forest before her. Alana's office faced the front of The Hosue unlike Hannibal's that looked out over the garden. Beverly was a good listener and often found herself with Alana during therapy, as did Abigail on occasion. Alana and Beverly had become quick friends before Marcus Delaware had separated everyone, and it seemed that they also complemented each other extraordinary well as colleagues.

Jimmy Price and Abel Gideon had become Hannibal's unofficial second in commands though everyone knew there was no other term for it. Price was a good man that Hannibal respected and after Price and Brian mated he knew that Price understood that everyone in The House was a family. They were all broken, Hannibal more than most, but that just enforced their bond with each other. Gideon had a basic understanding of Hannibal and how he wanted things to work, Hannibal stood by he belief that Gideon would have made an excellent Alpha and possibly serial killer. Barney, Clarice, Joshua and his sister Kari's jobs remained the same, Brain normally helped them as well, it was a big house and a lot needed doing. They did everything from maintenance to cooking dinner on the days Hannibal was unable to. Barney did love to cook.

Rex's job had come about after one new Omega refused to talk to Alana, she saw the scared young thing finally speak to Rex as he was drawing. Since then Rex had become a sort of art therapist for those who refused to speak to Alana. Rex loved it, no one really spoke they just drew and it was like he could see the tension leaving their bodies. It really did seem to help them.

Rain was, of course, the gardener. She loved nature, it was truly her element. Hannibal had been surprised by how quickly she got the decrepit garden under control and filled it full of life, then again he was sure the human fertiliser was doing its part as well. Where once there had been hard soil and dead leave lay bright greens and a rainbow of different plants red and pink Cyclamen, white Osteospermum and blue Hydrangeas. The garden was truly a place of beauty, bursting with color. Rain had out done herself.

Though Hannibal understood why Will, Beverly and Rex were keeping him out, he couldn't help but think its my house. He wouldn't barge in though, Hannibal wasn't the sort of Alpha that had to assert his dominance over everyone around him, that and he still had a meal to prepare.

It didn't take him very long to prepare the organs for dinner, no sooner had he finished putting everything on to cook the doorbell rang. Right on time. Hannibal liked that about Barney and Gideon they were very good time keepers, no one was ever late for anything while they were around. Hannibal quickly cleaned his hands and the walked through his house, patting Winston's head as he went to open the front door.

"Good Afternoon." He greeted them all and then looked down to Abigail who was front and centre. "Happy birthday, Abigail."

"Thanks Hannibal."

Hannibal stepped aside to allow the mass of people into his home, normally he had staff and appearance to keep but the people who had just entered his house didn't care about any of that and so Hannibal simply led them through to the living room where everyone took a seat.

"Wine? Or I do have beer, Alana." Hannibal said with a smile as he took her and Rain's coats.

"Beer would be wonderful, thank you Hannibal." Alana responded, the others all opted for wine.

Hannibal returned a few moments later with a tray of wine glasses and Alana's beer, he set it down and they all helped themselves. He wasn't surprised to find Abigail sat of the floor, she normally sat there with Winston and the twins. Thanks to the mass of people there wasn't really enough room on his couches for her anyway, the spaces that remained had been silently reserved for the doctor and Will. Winston followed Hannibal in and went straight to the birthday girl, settling down his head rested on her knee.

"What's this?" Abigail asked when Hannibal handed her a small glass filled with a purple liquid and ice.

"It is commonly referred to as a mocktail, specifically a blackberry vanilla one. I took the liberty of adding vanilla infused blackberries as well. Enjoy."

Hannibal smiled as he watched her take a sip, her face lit up almost instantly.

"Okay, wow." She said and everyone chuckled. She looked up. "This is damn right awesome." Another chuckle. "Where is Will and the others?"

"They are upstairs, I'll check on the food and then get them."

"Nah, its alight I'll do it. You just check on dinner." Said Gideon.

"Thank you, Abel."

With that Hannibal wandered off to the kitchen while Gideon took the stairs.

"Will?" He said as he walked the halls not knowing where anything or anyone was.

Suddenly Will's head popped out of one of the rooms behind him making the Beta jump a little.

"Yeah? Oh hi Gideon. Is Abigail here?"

"Yes she is. Hannibal made some weird drink now she's hooked." The Beta laughed.

"That's Hannibal for you. We'll be right down okay?"

"Yeah, okay."

Gideon took his leave while Will, Rain and Beverly finished the final touches then left the room.

"Will!"

Abigail all but screamed as he entered the living room followed by the other two Omegas. He and Beverly had picked up the twins on their way down and so he had to shift Claude into one arm so he could wrap the other around his eldest daughter.

"Happy birthday."

"Thank you."

Abigail may have been against celebrating her birthday but it seemed she was getting into the swing of things, while Gideon and Hannibal were away Brian had mused that the Alpha had spiked her drink. Abigail returned to the floor by Winston and Will joined her resting Claude in his lap, Beverly quickly handed Valentina over to Hannibal when he returned from the kitchen, he loved holding his children close; Abigail included. Will looked over to their guests.

"Where are Joshua and Kari?"

"Oh..." Began Rain. "They stayed with the Omegas at The House, they send their love though."

"Present time!"

Announced Alana once everyone was seated. Clarice made a face that suggested Alana may have used a too high pitch. Abigail looked up from her already half gone drink.

"You got me presents? You didn't have to do that."

"Of course we did." Began Will. "You only turn fifteen once."

"Thank God." Muttered Rex.

"You didn't like being fifteen?" Asked Clarice.

"No. When I was fifteen I broke both my legs trying to surf off the roof."

The group erupted into laughter, even the normally stoic Hannibal. Soon the laughter died down and Clarice spoke again, this time to Abigail.

"Open mine first, it's probably the most boring."

"I'm sure that is not the case." Said Hannibal as Abigail reached for the rather heavy and large sky blue present.

It was open in seconds, Abigail really was getting into the birthday spirit. Underneath the blue paper was a large stack of books.

"You said you enjoyed it when Beverly read you those Grimm stories, I thought you may want more of a variety. I didn't know what you liked though so I went with most genres."

"Cool." Abigail said as she picked up on called The Name Of The Wind.

"Glad you think so, there's all sorts in there: Rebecca, A Study In Scarlet, there's even some Dance In The Vampire Bund in there. Thought Manga was worth a try. The Name of The Wind is part of a chronicle so the second books in there too."

"Thank you, Clarice. I love them."

Abigail gave Clarice a large grin and she tried to ignore the fact that the author of Rebecca was called Daphne Du Maurier.

"Mine next." Alana insisted and held out a small gold wrapped box with a silver bow.

The young Omega unwrapped it with care, inside was a small lilac box that opened to reveal a small silver chain, at the end was a beautiful white pearl, it was tiny and simple but that was just the sort of thing Abigail liked.

"Oh, its perfect thank you." Abigail gave her a quick hug and then turned asking her to fasten the necklace for her. Alana did and couldn't take the smile from her face.

"Okay, let the men have a turn." Said Barney pointing to a large flat rectangular gift coated in crimson paper. "That one is from me and Gideon."

"Yeah, just don't break it." Chuckled Gideon.

Inside Abigail found a forest green laptop. She looked up at the two Beta's with awe filled eyes.

"You keep saying you want to be like Hannibal and Alana, you know, a psychiatrist..." Barney was cut off by Gideon who finished the sentence.

"So we figured you would need something for your school work."

"That is very thoughtful." Announced Hannibal as he shifted a sleeping Valentina in his arms.

After a few moments of conversation that informed Abigail that Barney had taken the liberty to set it all up for her she thanked them and looked over to Will who pushed a yellow box towards her.

"Fishing waders?" She asked curiously.

"Yes. When I was young my father taught me how to fly fish, I know you like nature so I thought you would enjoy it. I have the rest of the equipment but I thought you wouldn't want to get all wet."

"Omega bonding day?" She asked with a smile.

"Something like that."

Will was so nervous she wouldn't like the idea, especially after seeing the laptop from Gideon and Barney but it seemed his worries were for all for nothing, Abigail just enjoyed spending time with Will, he could have taken her to a parking lot for all she cared. Hannibal handed Valentina over to Alana and excused himself to check on the food, when he returned it was to Abigail sat in front of a large black box and Valentina looking at him with a face that said Daddy-make-her-stop-the-silly-voice. Alana was one to baby voice infants and Valentina didn't actually seem to be that fond of it, she was definitely like Hannibal. Reluctantly Alana handed his daughter back.

"Why did you stop?" He asked Abigail as he took his seat once more.

"We were waiting for you."

Hannibal gave a half-smile and a slight nod for her to continue. The black box was quickly opened and then everything paused. Abigail had no idea what it was as she took it out of the box, a look of confusion decorated her face. She looked up at Brian and Price asking the silent question, what is it? It was Price that spoke to answer.

"Its an alarm clock, but its also a fish tank."

The clock in question had a reasonably sized rectangular bowl sat on a lime green casing with a screen that was obviously the clock. There was a section to the green casing they stretched out over the fish tank with a little LED.

"That's really cool."

"That's what I told him." Said Brian. "You like?"

"I like a lot."

Abigail thanked them and set it back in the box and pushed it over with her rather large stack of presents.

"That has to be everything."

"Nah, only half way, kid." Said Gideon. "Go on keep going or it'll be Christmas and you'll have even more." The group smiled.

"Okay."

Abigail looked over at Beverly who held a pink wrapped present in her hands.

"No." Said Bev softly. "Me, Rex and Hannibal are last."

"I guess that means I'm up then." Said Rain as she slipped down onto the floor with a purple box, setting it down in front of the fifteen year old.

"This is huge!" Abigail exclaimed as she started to open it. Abigail gasped.

"I know you love nature but you hate plants. How does that even work?" She shook her hands as if pushing everything she had just said aside. "I'm getting off topic. I hope you like it."

It was rather plain that Abigail liked it. It was three pieces of slate held together by silver wire that looped around the stone to meet and form the trunk of a tree. The wire snaked upwards and exploded out in all different directions and ended with little pink beads that made the tree look like it was covered in small flowers. Abigail just stared at the sliver tree, her mouth gaping.

"I think we have a favourite." Announce Clarice.

"I think you're right." Agreed Rex and Brain at the same time.

"Come back to us, Abi." Laughed will waving his hand in front of her face.

She suddenly snapped out of it and hugged Rain tightly, thanking her quietly.

"I don't think all of this will fit into my room, Hannibal may need to have another wall knocked down."

"Oh, I don't think that will be necessary." Brian mumbled under his breath. Price was the only one who heard and quickly school his grin.

"Come on, this on is the last you have to open." Said Beverly setting the pink gift on the Omegas knee.

Abigail was rather puzzled when she opened it. The pink wrapping revealed a face sized lower case letter A. It was odd, Abigail had to admit but she also found it rather curious. It was apple green, that wasn't surprising, green was her favourite color after all.

"I don't get it."

"Follow us and you will." Announce Will as he stood, adjusted Claude in his arms and then led everyone upstairs to the door not even Hannibal hadn't been allowed to open.

Rex moved Abigail to stand in front of the door and then dropped his arms to his sides. Everyone had a huge grin on their face, except Hannibal who had his little micro-smile.

"Go on." Encouraged Brian.

"Open it." Said Barney.

Abigail did as instructed and pushed the door open, then bust into tears. The last time she had seen the spare room was the night Hannibal had brought Beverly home, it had looked just like every other room in his house. Not any longer. The walls were dark green off set by the soft white curtains that lined the widows either side of a huge king-sized canopy bed that had the same soft white fabric as the curtains. On the far left hand side by the door to an en suit stood a black bookshelf in the shape of a capital A, there was an empty shelf where it seemed Clarice's books were to go. On the other side of the en suit door stood a large television with a two seat rounded black couch. There were two night tables that seemed to be perfect places for Rain's sculpture and the alarm clock from Brian and Price. On the far right was a desk with a comfortable black leather chair, laptop there then, behind the chair fixed to the wall were the letters -bigail. Beverly saw her eyeing it.

"Guess where the 'A' goes."

Everyone entered the room and Abigail went over to the wall and hung the 'A' beside the other letters completing her name. When she turned around to face the door her tears started a new.

"That's my present." Said Rex quietly.

Covering the wall around the bedroom door was a forest scene, like the one back at The House but far more detailed. More beautiful. To the right of the mural was a bridge that looked almost as if she could wander off into the pained forest, there were animals settled on logs and sun rays that glinted through the trees. Rex had outdone himself. Hannibal was monumentally impressed with the work of Rex, Will and Beverley. They had wanted it to be perfect for her and there was no denying that his was. He just hoped his gift went down as well. Hannibal handed Valentina to Alana and moved over to his eldest daughter who pulled him into a hug instantly.

"Is this really for me?" She sobbed.

"Well, unless you can see another Abigail around her I think it is."

She gripped him tighter, until Hannibal pulled himself away to look at her, his hands on her shoulders.

"Thank you." She mumbled.

"You are quiet welcome but this was not me. Will, Rex and Beverly did all the work." Abigail turned her head and thanked them. "You are our daughter, Abigail. Claude and Valentina's sister, you will be treated as such. Giving you a bedroom here is just a symbol of that."

"You really want me to stay here?"

"Of course." Will answered before Hannibal had chance to. "We love you."

"Would you like my gift now?" Hannibal asked pulling himself the rest of the way from his daughter.

"There's more?"

Hannibal nodded, it was the one thing Abigail actually wanted. He walked to the en suit door and pushed it open. From nowhere came a large black puppy with a white spot on its chest, the animal also had a red ribbon tied around its neck in a bow. The puppy padded in and sat in the dead centre of the room, its tongue hanging out happily. Abigail had always loved Winston, and always wanted him to stay but knew the red-brown dog had to go with Will.

"Winston is now and forever William's, but he is all yours."

Abigail dropped to her knees and petted the dog who licked at her face. A thought suddenly came to Hannibal, my house was quiet and clean, now there are three Omegas, a young Alpha and two dogs. What the hell happened? Oh right, William. Hannibal looked over to his mate who was watching Abigail and the young animal. Worth it.

"What's his name? What breed is he?" Abigail's questions pulled Hannibal from his mind.

"He is a Belgian sheepdog. As for his name that is completely up to you, when you decided we'll get him a collar."

"What about Cobalt? Its a nice name..."

"You can call him whatever you want." Said Will.

XXXX

Time passed and Abigail's tears finally stopped falling, she was pleased to see that Winston and young Cobalt seemed to get along well. Though Winston was older he could still give the pup a run for his money.

Dinner was delicious as always, and it was also beautiful. Hannibal found a sense of pleasure just knowing people enjoyed his food. Yes, I do all the butchering myself said Hannibal at one point and then looked over to Abigail with a knowing smile. Abigail actually helped me, she was very good for a first try. Everyone agreed, Olivia Mendel was delicious. As Hannibal stood to get desert Will insisted on helping as did Barney. They returned only moments later with another work of art and set each plate down carefully.

"Okay, Hannibal this is way to pretty to eat." Announced Alana while everyone else agreed.

"Is this ice cream?" Abigail asked. "You made us ice cream sundaes for my birthday?"

"Indeed, everyone loves ice cream on their birthday."

"Unless your lactose intolerant." Said Brian with a grin.

The glasses were tall and stood on golden plates, it was a true work of art.

"Strawberry and Passion Fruit ice cream with edible gold leaf, candied fruits and Passion fruit infused sugar. Enjoy."

They did. What Abigail had thought would be a small meal had turned into a full afternoon affair, just when she thought it couldn't get better Hannibal brought out a cake with huge candles. She couldn't believe it had all been for her.

Long after the sun had set, Abigail and Cobalt retired to her brand new bedroom. It was so warm and the pillows were so soft that she fell asleep instantly with her arms around the puppy. Abigail was happy.

Down the hall Hannibal had taken the opportunity to throw Will down onto the bed and ravish him. He leaned over his mate and pressed kisses down his naked chest, nipping at Will's nipples making the Omega gasp.

"You think Abigail will be happy here?" Will suddenly asked as Hannibal kissed his stomach, Will would soon go into heat and they could have the child Will had been begging him for. "Like, really happy?"

Hannibal leaned back to look down at his Omega, blue meeting maroon.

"Yes, William. She is our daughter, she should be with her family."

"But she's not our daughter, is she?" Will sighed. "She's Hobbs', I know he's no parent to her but there's a difference between saying she's our daughter and her actually being our daughter."

"Oh, but I have a plan for that. Hobbs never reported her missing since he sold her, so the police have no idea she's no longer with him."

"So your plan is?" Prompted Will.

"I am going to ask Hobbs to give up his parental right to Abigail leaving us free to adopter her officially. People don't usually want teenagers so no one will contest us, throw in that I'm a thoroughbred mated Alpha that can provide for her and its pretty much done." Hannibal kissed will softly.

"And if Hobbs says no?"

"I doubt he would. And if he does I'll kill him, either way we're getting Abigail."