Alternate ending
After Mizumono instead of before.
Luna looked at the clock, it's already an hour and a half after dinner.
Hannibal is late for some reason.
Did he forget?
Maybe he didn't care anymore now that he has Alana.
What does she do?
What options does she have?
She got into a fight with Corina earlier.
She told them she's going to stay and try to make things work with Hannibal.
Corina thought it was a crazy idea, she said things are different now, him getting together with Alana and all.
They were going back to Italy, live in Hansen's estate, they wanted her to go with them… start anew.
She'll have to talk to them again tomorrow. Maybe tell them she's changed her mind.
She'll think about it all tomorrow, right now she has to eat then rest.
It's been quite a day.
She was clearing up the table when she heard the front door open.
She walked towards the living room to find Hannibal in the middle of it.
He was soaked in rainwater and blood.
Her body quaked and her worry propelled her towards him.
"Hannibal?" he did not respond.
The unshed tears in his eyes clued her in.
She cupped his face then asked "What happened to you?" Her eyes examining him closely.
He stayed quiet, while watching Luna's hands go up and down his arms soothing him.
"Let's go away tonight" he said out of the blue.
Luna's eyes searched his, he didn't flinch, he was dead serious.
Something terrible just happened and he's trying to run away from it all.
"Okay let's do that" he hands stopped on his shoulders, assuring him with a smile.
For the first time in a while, Hannibal felt safe.
His hands slowly moved up to pull Luna closer by the waist, It relieved her of all her apprehensions.
Luna responded by resting her head on his chest, Hannibal mirrored the gesture by resting his cheek on her head.
She was warm and it felt good to be surrounded by her welcoming arms.
They stayed this way for who knows how long.
Finally Luna managed to say something.
"I think you should get out of these wet clothes, I still have some of your things in the guest room, I'll get them" she then wiggled out of his embrace.
"No, I'll go there myself, you need to change as well, I'm sorry for getting you bloody and wet" surprisingly he was still able to giggle.
He gave her a kiss on the cheek then he left for the guest room.
Not everything was lost,
Hannibal thought, they need to leave right after they change.
A sigh of relief, realizing Luna still trusts him.
She's always accepted him as he is.
After changing he packed a few of his things in a bag and got out of the room.
Leaving the bag in the backyard.
He got back inside wondering what's taking Luna so long
He decided to check on her.
No one's picking up, that's odd Luna thought.
She tried to call Hansen but it just kept on ringing, maybe they were still upset, it was her fault she thought.
She sat on the bed beside her wet clothes.
She tried to dial Will Graham's number again decided he's leaving him a message this time.
"I'm leaving with Hannibal tonight, I'm so happy it feels too good to be true, things are going to change from now on!
Promise I will take care of him for you don't worry, I will call my aunt now to let her know where we'll be."
The door was left ajar, Luna was talking to someone on the phone.
Hannibal closed his eyes hands shaking,
"…I will take care of him for you don't worry"?
"I will call my aunt now to let her know where we'll be"?
Hannibal kept repeating the lines in his head.
It's impossible, Not Luna he thought.
Then again he thought the same of Will earlier today until he caught a whiff of Freddie's stench on him.
He found it unbearable, he walked away and paced around the living room.
He went back after a few minutes to find Luna talking to Corina.
They were arguing as usual about what a doctor said.
"Luna" he called her attention, she turned around to look at Hannibal, and the expression on her face was a flat out give away of her admission to conspiracy.
Hannibal walked towards her.
Luna gave him a smile, it was immediately replaced with surprise and then pain.
Her eyes followed the direction where Hannibal's hand thrust.
She realized a knife just made it's way into her chest.
She raised her questioning face up to him, to find his betrayed expression in return.
"I left Will Graham on my kitchen floor to die"
Wait did he just admit to killing will?Luna's shook her head confused.
Then it hit her, he heard her leaving a message and he misunderstood.
Luna sobbed, Hannibal took the knife out slowly making her feel every excruciating second of it.
Blood starts to ooze out, Luna's hand covered the wound it left by instinct and she miserably failed at making it stop bleeding.
Her hand held on to the post of the bed, sliding down as she did.
Hannibal walked away from her leaving the room.
She dragged herself to follow suit, "Please don't go..." she managed to say coming out of the bedroom.
Hannibal didn't pay her heed; she was lying on the living room floor now.
Hannibal continued to walk away towards the kitchen.
"Corina worries" she said pausing with a cough
"For me" she sighed as her hands fell to her sides.
She felt like a fish out of a fishbowl "and the baby".
Hannibal stopped on his tracks.
Trying to digest what he just heard.
Then it happened, He heard her take her last exasperated breath.
He turned in time to see her head turning to the side.
He walked back towards her, his hands on her shoulders, shaking her awake.
"Luna!" his eyes grew wide at the realization of what he just did.
He tried to cover her bleeding chest with his hand, but it didn't work.
He's a doctor he should know how to deal with this.
He took Luna's hand and placed it on his cheek hoping she would radiate with warmth as she always did, but there was nothing.
He carefully laid it back on the floor as if she was just sleeping and she didn't want to wake her.
His trembling hand starts to make its way to her womb
She smelled different when he hugged her.
He should have known! The essence that surrounded Luna earlier was his.
He couldn't sense it anymore; it was gone.
"Luna!" he called again with panic in his voice.
He started rocking Luna with his body.
What has he done?
He let out a guttural tone, this can't be real he thought.
"Wake up!" He yelled at her.
Then he heard a car park outside.
He heard Corina's voice; she was talking to someone on the phone.
"If I have to drag her out I will" she said.
Hannibal set Luna down on the floor, hating every painful inch of separation.
He placed a quick kiss on her cheek his bloody hands leaving her face.
He made haste for the kitchen's sliding door.
He walked away knowing he died tonight.
He survived the first death with his heart still intact.
But he lost it somewhere in that house when Luna and his child died by his own hands.
Corina's screams reverberated through the night.
Hannibal stopped when he got to a safe distance; he found an alley he sat on the ground with his back on the wall.
He closed his eyes to listen to Corina's cries.
She screamed for the pain he can't let out.
He thanked her in his head.