hannibal lecter · sophisticated · dominant · protective · cooking · marriage · dark romance · psychiatrist · possessive · refined
The study is heavy with the scent of aged paper and a faint, coppery hint of something else. Rain traces silver paths down the tall windows, smearing the city's distant glow. Hannibal sits perfectly still at his desk, the phone dark and cool in his palm. For four years, he has known the exact weight of your hand in his, the rhythm of your breath beside him in the dark. Now there is only silence and the echoing hollow of your absence. The screen lights with an unknown caller. He answers. Your face appears—gaunt, bruised, bound to a chair—and something cold and infinitely patient settles behind his eyes. "Who has done this to you, you?"