What have we done
with a war that can't be won
This can't be real
Cause I don't know what to feel
So am I still waiting
For this world to stop hating
Can't find a good reason
Can't find hope to believe
Sum41, Still Waiting
William's heat had ended and Abigail was finally able to move back into their house along with the twins, Winston and Cobalt. It was nice to have them back and Abigail was glad to be back with her family. Two days previous Hannibal had woken to Will looking down at him with a huge smile on his face, he'd been confused at first until Will had said those two little words that would always echo through the Alpha's mind, I'm pregnant . His heat had ended a day early which was a sure sign of pregnancy and the doctor could smell it on him. Hannibal was in a delighted mood not even the phone call he got from Gideon telling him that Joshua and Barney had somehow destroyed the entire electrical circuit to The House could take that happy mood from him. It took around an hour and a half for an electrician to drive out to The House, a Beta of course, only for said electrician to tell him that the whole house needed to be rewired and that it would take days if not all week for a house of such size to be fixed. Hannibal had electrician receipts going around in his head for a good ten minuets when he heard that, yet still he was in a happy mood and Will just found it plain funny to think of his Alpha dicing electrician while humming away to himself. They had been falling over Beta electrician's for days leaving Clarice and Brian annoyed because they kept having to clean up after them.
Doctor Lecter had just about given up on the website that Olivia Mendel had told him about when suddenly there it was listed at the top of her inbox in bold white letters against the black , an address he remembered well. 9727 Emerald Mews, Mossbank. It seemed Marcus Delaware was returning to a former sale site and Hannibal was determined to get there nice and early. The auction was dated for late that evening and Hannibal was fairly certain Delaware's men would already be there preparing for their boss. Doctor Lecter pushed himself up from his office in The House and leaned down to the intercom box pressing the button softly.
"Gideon, would you please join me in my office."
A few minuets later there was a triplet knock on Hannibal's office door and Gideon stepped inside upon hearing Hannibal say come in. Gideon knew something had happened the second he saw the Alpha, Abel Gideon was highly intelligent and wasn't afraid to look Hannibal in the eyes. The Beta took a deep breath and planted his feet in front of Hannibal's desk, Gideon just stood their waiting for the Alpha to speak.
"The website I told you about, there has been an auction posted."
"Where?"
"The Madison, just like the last one. The reason I called you up here is because there are bound to be several people there, mainly Betas. Marcus Delaware is likely to run his operation much like Jack Crawford did."
"And you want me as your back up." It wasn't a question.
"Yes. You are aware of what I am even though you have never admitted to your knowledge..."
"I don't judge you, Hannibal. It would be rude and you're not just some mindless killer."
All fell silent for a moment before the Alpha spoke again.
"There will be too many for me to handle on my own and I doubt this will happen quietly. You would have made a good Alpha Gideon, I would like you to come with me because you are the only one who can."
"Kill a complete Alpha bastard, his lap dog and put an end to an Omega trafficking ring? How could I say no to that?"
Hannibal was pleased with Gideon's words, the doctor sat back down at his desk and looked at his wrist watch.
"The sun will set in two hours, the auction is scheduled for midnight, not very original I know. Meet me at my car in an hour and a half, we should get there just after the sun sets."
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Sure enough Hannibal pulled into a parking lot a block away from 9727 Emerald Mews just after the sun had set. The two walked the short distance to The Madison and were rather surprised by how few guards Delaware had at the back of the building, The Alpha and Beta stood in the tree line up on the grassy ridge behind the abandoned ballroom for a few moments just watching until Gideon's attention was pulled from the guards to Hannibal dropping to his knees and pulling open the organ cooler he had brought with him. From the box Hannibal took his plastic suit and slipped it over his clothes, the doctor had sensed that he would need to have full mobility and so had left his suit jacket, tie and waistcoat behind in his office. Once the suit was zipped up Hannibal dropped back to his knees and pulled another suit from the cooler and held it up to Gideon.
"A present for you, Abel."
"Thank you." He took the suit and quickly slipped it on over his jeans and grey-black t-shirt. "How did you get one of these in my size at such short notice?"
"I have my ways."
The pair smiled at that and then Gideon was presented with a scalpel, brand new and glistening in the silver moonlight of the early evening. Gideon thanked the doctor again and watched as he took a scalpel for himself and then clicked the cooler shut.
"Would you mind holding this for me until we have gained entry?"
"Oh, yeah. Sure." With that Gideon took the cooler and tucked it under his left arm.
It only took seconds for the Alpha and Beta to race across the small grass area and up to the first Beta guard who had been pacing along the west side of the building, Hannibal waisted not time and simply slit the short African-American man's throat and then dragged him just around the corner of the building where the other guard would have no chance of seeing his body. The two waited for the second guards, a woman somewhere in her early thirties, she looked a lot like Alana only she was blonde. Hannibal did the same as with the African-American man and slit her throat dragging her behind a crate that looked like it had been their since The Madison Ballroom was abandoned in the fifties.
"Is it always this easy?" Gideon asked in a hushed tone.
"As of late, yes."
The blonde had been closest to the loading dock door and so Hannibal and Gideon slipped inside quickly. The Madison was a small ballroom and theatre made smaller by the fact that the theatre had collapsed in the eighties, the building had been condemned not long after yet it still sat there waiting to be knocked down and replaced with something new. Pain peeled off the walls and the various conversations of Beta's filled the halls giving life to the once dead building, candles lit up certain areas pushing away the inky night and providing a warm golden glow. Hannibal remembers his way around from his time there with Price what seemed like forever ago and so turned to Gideon.
"You take care of this floor. Everyone down here will be a beta, its unlikely for Delaware or Dolarhyde to be anywhere but upstairs. Use the south stairwell, by the time you clear the first floor I should have cleared the upstairs hallway. Go up the stairs and take a left then your second right, there should be a small green room with nothing in it, inside that room on the right is a small door that is where they were keeping the Omegas last time, let them out unless you see an Alpha then just retreat back to the first floor. I'll deal with Delaware and Dolarhyde. Please leave my cooler here."
"Alright, have fun."
With that Gideon set the cooler down and wandered off down the hall towards the south stairwell, carefully avoiding any enemy Betas. Hannibal hadn't expected Gideon to be so calm and controlled, he truly did seem more like a Alpha. With a deep breath Hannibal took himself up the north staircase and began slicing through the thin necks of Beta after Beta, he'd almost reached the south stairwell when the last Beta suddenly turned and saw Hannibal stood a few feet away. The red-brown haired man reached for his walkie and Hannibal charged...