"So," Elizabeth drawled out as she and Alana walked to work together with coffees in their hands. "Why aren't you already dating my brother from another mother, Laney?"
Alana smiled and gave her a look. "I mean no offense, but your brother is unstable and I don't want to just have an affair with him, but a stable relationship. We both can see that he is slowly breaking because of the things he's doing for Jack and he knows this."
Elizabeth nodded. "I've been trying to convince Will to let this go and go to teaching so that his mind won't burn or something. He doesn't listen to me and I know not to go to Jack because that conversation will be bullshit and won't mean a goddamn thing. I'm pissed off that my brother is being so reckless and their excuse is that 'oh, hey, he's saving lives', better he dies than them, right?"
"I'm just as angered by them as you are, Lizzie, but we can't do anything because they won't let us."
"Stupid men," Elizabeth grumbled.
Alana smirked. "Agreed. Now since you decided to interrogate my love life, then I can ask about you and Hannibal."
"Damn…I knew that you as a friend who didn't ask any questions would be too good to be true," she joked. "What was it that you wanted to ask?"
"Well, Hannibal says that he likes you a lot and I know you feel the same way, but judging by that necklace around your neck, I can tell that you two mean much more to each other than you both care to admit. What are your true feelings for Hannibal? Do you trust him?"
Elizabeth sighed heavily. "I somewhat trust him, but not completely. That's just my nerves talking of course. I feel something strong for Hannibal like a pull towards him. I wonder from time to time if what I was feeling was love, but I don't know. He gave this for our anniversary apparently."
"He called you his girlfriend once. You kiss, laugh, talk, and have dinners with each other every night. You both are in a relationship and together," Alana informed her.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes. "Okay, fine, I guess so, but still I-I don't know, Alana. I can't stay away from him and that scares me. I want to be with him. He consumes me and it's only been a month since we've been dating."
"But it's been almost three months since you two met." She told her. "Listen, you're my friend and I want you to be happy. God knows you deserve it after two serial killers setting their sights on you and Hannibal is one of the good guys. You and everybody else know that so don't be afraid to let him in and see where it takes you."
"Maybe we should have a Girl's Night. You, me, and Meredith drinking and clubbing around the town without a care in the world," Elizabeth snorted.
"Promise?"
Elizabeth nodded firmly. "Oh hell yeah I promise. Hannibal probably won't be too happy that I am spending time away from him, but he'll get over it."
Elizabeth stopped in the hallway and blurted out to Alana, "I'm thinking of having sex with Hannibal."
Alana froze and stifled her laughter as she whirled around. "He's my colleague and friend, might I remind you?"
"I don't know what to do."
Alana quickly pulled her into the supply closet. "What do you mean by that? Are you a virgin still?"
"I only had sex with one man and he was the freaking butcher. I got knocked up on the first time, Alana," she whispered worriedly. "We used a condom a-and everything. Then once I found out that I was pregnant, Roger tried to kill me and that's when he told me who he was."
"Did he know that you were with child?"
She shook her head. "No. I didn't have time to. I remember that day as clear as day sadly. I was so happy to tell him, the man that I love that we were going to have a baby. I was depressed for a long time after the baby, but eventually I got back up on my feet. I'm scared that Hannibal will reject me."
"You're beautiful," Alana reminded her. "Hannibal more than likes you and like I said before, you can trust him not to hurt you like others before him did."
Elizabeth nodded and suddenly the door was opened.
Speaking of the devil, she thought.
"Hannibal," they greeted with smiles.
Hannibal glanced around the closet with curious eyes. "Strange place to converse, is it not?"
Alana looked back and forth between the two and said, "Well, I think Jack needs me so I'm just going to leave you both alone. Good-bye."
Alana quickly left and Hannibal stepped inside, closing the door behind him and turning on the light. He smiled down at her and loved a curl behind her ear.
"I hear that I'm your girlfriend," she mused.
"I hope you think the same."
"I do," she confessed. "You're my boyfriend. It's been a long time since I called anyone that."
"Me too," he agreed and continued, "What were you two talking about before I entered?"
"The truth?" He nodded in silent response. "You…and sex."
"What an interesting combination," he pondered. "What was your question, Elizabeth?"
"So formal," she taunted amusingly and leaned up to kiss him.
Hannibal wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer. She felt herself being pushed into the wall as Hannibal's lips grow more passionately as he trailed kisses down her jaw and then her neck. She moaned softly and gripped wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him back to her lips where their tongues danced with each other feverishly.
"You unravel me," he rasped against her lips as her hands slipped under his coat, taking it off along with her own as the coats pooled around their feet. Her hands were on his chest as she led him to the other wall across from them, pushing him onto the wall, still kissing him.
"Good," she whispered and unbuttoned his jacket, her hands roamed his torso.
Hannibal's hands traveled under her shirt and she shivered when their skin made contact. A new feeling coursed over her entire body and she wanted to feel all of him. Elizabeth kissed his neck and jaw before slowly unbuttoning his vest. Hannibal suddenly lifted her up and she wrapped her legs quickly around his hips. He turned them around and her back hit the wall once again.
The air felt hot all around her causing her to breathe heavily and quickly. She moaned softly when he kissed her clothed breast, right on her nipple then he unbuttoned her black blouse and ripping it open. Hannibal gazed down at her white lace sheer balconette bra and muttered, "Beautiful."
She felt him kiss down her bare stomach, his hands placed on her hips, holding her still. He brought his lips back up her body until they were face to face, eyes wide open.
"I won't take you in a closet where people can hear so easily," Hannibal told her.
"I couldn't agree more…this was just a taste for you, Hannibal," she teased. "Of what you could have."
Hannibal smirked. "This evening, we will have dinner and continue this after."
He set her on her feet and she asked curiously, "How much self-control do you have with me?"
"When you're like this…none what's so ever," Hannibal acknowledged.
Elizabeth nodded and buttoned up her blouse as he did the same with his vest, fixing himself up again. He slicked his hair back and adjusted his suit.
"I like seeing the necklace on you," he commented. "It brings out the color in your hair."
"Red seems to do that for me," she said and picked up their coats, handing him his. "Just like dark colors work well with you. I rather like you in a suit…I can't seem to keep my hands off of you if we're being frank right now."
Hannibal pulled her back to him for another swift kiss on the lips before slipping her coat around her arms again and doing the same for his. Hannibal grabbed her hand into his and they walked out of the closet, smiling like fools as they walked into the room.
"Abel Gideon has escaped," Jack told them when the minute they stepped into the room.
"What do you want me to do?" Elizabeth asked.
"You have caught Gideon's interest and we all know that he seems to dote on you. You, Will, and Dr. Bloom will go to Dr. Frederick Chilton's office right now and see what he knows about Gideon's escape."
"What effect will I have on Dr. Chilton?"
"If you caught Gideon's interest then you have Dr. Chilton's interest as well," Jack informed her. "Charm or flirt with him if you have to."
"Jack," Hannibal started, but Elizabeth put a hand on his arm, shaking her head at him with pleading eyes.
"Is there a problem?" Jack asked curiously.
Elizabeth tensed and shook her head, forcing a smile on her face. "No, I'll go."
"Good." Jack said. "Oh and before I forget, are you two in a relationship?"
They looked at each other and Hannibal nodded. "Yes, we are."
"How long?"
"A month."
"Has the ripper made any threats to you lately?"
"None whatsoever."
"Has he been quite?"
Elizabeth sighed, rubbing her temples. "I think that the ripper is being quite because he doesn't know what to do yet with our relationship since he probably already knows about it. And how did you know about it, Jack?"
Will strode into the room and said, "There is something you might want to see, Lizzie."
He opened the laptop and in big mean red letters it read, "DEATH IN HEELS CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM!"
Then there was a picture of her and Hannibal holding hands and locking lips with each other. The article just kept on bashing on Elizabeth and how she was connected to the victims and caught the ripper's and Dr. Abel Gideon's attention. Then Freddie Lounds began to tell everybody that people should stay away from her unless they wanted to be cut opened and gutted.
"Fucking Freddie Lounds," she growled. "She basically ruined me and Hannibal! Is there anything that you could do about this, Jack?"
He shook his head regretfully. "I'm sorry, Lizzie, but it is Freedom of the Press. As much as I want to help you, my hands are tied because she's…she'll use that amendment and that it's her right to inform people of danger."
"You think I'm dangerous?!"
"No, but Freddie Lounds does."
Elizabeth scoffed and stormed out of the room, telling Will, "See you at the hospital."
She couldn't believe the gall of that disgusting woman. Hannibal didn't even do anything to them so why was she even attacking him. None of this makes any sense! Why does she look so damn familiar anyways?!
Elizabeth stepped in her car and her phone started to ring. She rolled her eyes at the Unknown Caller probably thinking that it was Jack or something. She answered, putting it on speaker, "Hello?"
"Hello, Agent Graham," Gideon's voice rang out into the car.
"Doc, hey, how's it going," she greeted casually, tensing in her seat.
"Not so good actually. Don't bother trying to contact someone from the outside. I want to talk to you."
"Why?"
"The ripper."
"Ah," she drawled out. "I honestly don't know why everybody's picking on me about the ripper. He's being unpredictable right now and I don't really know him. You, on the other hand, you feel scrambled right now. Unorganized and don't know who you are anymore, am I wrong?"
"Now Lizzie-"
"Am I wrong?" she asked sternly.
He chuckled. "Who angered you?"
"Freddie Lounds," she answered. "I'm tired of people these days."
"Tired of them?"
"Yes, I am. The ripper is constantly in my mind and I want him gone for good so stop making love sonnets to your boyfriend already."
"You have a temper."
"We all have tempers and it's how we control them that define us on control."
"Oh, dear," Gideon whispered in delight. "You're losing it, aren't you? Losing yourself in death and madness…what a pity."
Her hands tightened onto the wheel as she said evenly, "You do not want to get on my bad side, Doctor. You come near the people that I love and I will end you."
"That's a little dark for you, don't you think?"
"I seem to attract sickos and psychopaths these days, I'm not afraid of the dark anymore," she replied coldly. "But you are and you want the ripper's attention which means that you're probably coming for me and will hand me over to him as an engagement present since I'm pissing him off every second that I am still living and breathing in this world."
"He finds you amusing, Elizabeth. He likes the way you think in my understanding from the other side, I would to. You are persistent and tenacious to get what you want which is the ripper."
Elizabeth shook her head and told him, "No, I want justice…and to see you both behind bars in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. That is what I want, Dr. Gideon!"
She hung and shoved her phone away from her, yelling in frustration.
TBC…
THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS, FOLLOWS, AND FAVORITES! Next chapter, we will get to finally meet Dr. Frederick Chilton after all these chapters. They were supposed to meet first time when she talked to Gideon, but I decided against it since it seemed too early. I hoped you liked this chapter since Hannibal and Elizabeth got hot and heavy for a moment.
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