Title: A Thousand Truths Author: Tiggy Malvern Artist: NinPotato Rating: Explicit Tags: Canon-typica

Title: A Thousand Truths Author: Tiggy Malvern Artist: NinPotato Rating: Explicit Tags: Canon-typical gore, angst, pining Posting Date: 30th January 2021 Summary: Hannibal wants to know why Will testified as he did at Hannibal’s trial.  Will has many different answers.  Red Dragon Arc and beyond… Preview: “Why didn’t you testify at my trial, Will?” Hannibal’s words halt him when he’s already halfway to the door. His voice flows around the room, gentle and… intimate, but the content is incongruously false. Will turns back, his lips twisting in bitter jibe. “Confinement must be wreaking its havoc on your memory. I was there. I said what I needed to.” “Yes, you did.” Hannibal’s head shifts into that familiar tilt, inquiry and invitation combined. “To some degree.” “To my degree.” “You could have said more.” “I was tired of following along with other people’s plans.” “And yet here you are.” Hannibal clasps his hands behind his back and blinks slow. “I’m certain you didn’t volunteer your services until Jack exerted his unsubtle form of pressure upon you.” “And here you are, once again so concerned with my welfare, so determined to defend me against Jack’s malicious influence.” Will hears the snap in his own voice, knows the mistake of revealing anything of himself to this man, yet his reactions, all of them, are so far outside of his control he might as well be tacking into a hurricane. Hannibal doesn’t respond to the anger, of course he doesn’t; he’s still and calm and offering the slightest of smiles. “It seems we have come full circle.” Will raises his eyebrows, looking away from Hannibal to the safety of the walls of shelves, sweeping his gaze ostentatiously over the room. “Your position in society was somewhat more prestigious the last time I consulted you on FBI cases.” Hannibal ignores the taunt, the distasteful faux pas of speaking the unmentionable. “What is our progression to be this time, Will?” His voice drifts even lower, his accent sliding definition through each syllable. “Are we to make our way around the rest of the circle once more? From animosity to friendship, and beyond? We have done so twice already.” Hannibal’s eyes are dark, steady, full of softness and that years-old offer of safety, of a space where anything Will says is accepted and embraced. Full of another offer, of so much more. -- source link

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