[Hannibal] Assimilation

"So killing someone, even if you have to, feels bad?"

It seemed to Gabriel that the words were addressed to him, but it could also have been Abigail addressing herself.

"What are you thinking?" Hannibal asked.

"I was thinking of Abigail saying she wanted to go home." Gabriel shook his head and sat up straight in the seat. His legs were too long, and there was not much room in the car to curl up and feel uncomfortable. "Father, Do you think she recognized your voice? I mean that phone call, Will thinks the person who made that call was a copycat. Abigail is a smart girl, I think she might have recognized you, It's not good for us."

"As you said," Hannibal reached out to brush Gabriel's forehead hair while driving, and pulled out the blond hair that got into his eyelashes. He smiled confidently, "Abigail is a A smart girl, she won't act rashly before she knows our details."

"The premise is that the hound won't drive her into a hurry." Gabriel looked at his fingers. He felt that Abigail was terrified when they met this time. It will make her nervous, and her behavior at this time is unpredictable.

"Let's see." Hannibal didn't deny it directly, he obviously agreed with Gabriel's opinion.It's just that for some purpose, Hannibal didn't want to take action.

Gabriel turned around, resting his chin on his hands to see Hannibal's reflection on the car window, slowly blinking his sore eyes a few times, his consciousness sank into the darkness.

The car stopped, Gabriel didn't move, he felt his father pull on the handbrake and whispered his name.Gabriel didn't know why he didn't want to answer him, he remained half asleep, and when Hannibal called him again, he snorted twice as an answer.

Hannibal chuckled and got out of the car.

Gabriel wondered if Hannibal's ever-elegant expression would crack if he suddenly woke up and startled him, which might be a good idea.

After a while, the co-pilot's door was opened, and the man gently moved his upper body to lean on his shoulder, and then a pair of thick hands appeared in the bend of his legs. After a slight shock, Hannibal picked him up.

Those movements were too tender, and Gabriel suddenly felt that he didn't want to do that. Hannibal's arms were reassuring. Although he looked thin, Gabriel knew how strong his chest was, and his waist How powerful the stomach is.

When Gabriel was placed on the sofa and carefully covered with a blanket, Hannibal turned around and went out again. Gabriel opened his eyes and looked at his back, with some malice spreading in his heart.

He wants to tear Hannibal apart, whether it's his never-changing, controlled smile, or his body, how wonderful it would be for a man as strong as Hannibal to cry in front of him ah.

The tall and thin man outside the window was walking back. He should have gone to the garage, holding the ingredients they bought in the supermarket and Gabriel's denim bag in his hand...

Gabriel stared blankly at the cloth bag for a moment, Hannibal helped him find it from the kidnapper's car, and it was discarded in the trunk.

Probably he was so engrossed in his thoughts that Hannibal forgot to close his eyes and lie down when he opened the door and walked in. Hannibal looked at him and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter? Gabriel."

"It's nothing, I didn't realize it, I fell asleep in the car?" Gabriel lowered his head to hide the expression on his face, and when he looked up again, he showed a perfect smile, and he lifted the blanket on his body and sat up, " I'll help you prepare dinner, Father."

"Alright, it's not good to sleep too much at this time, you won't want to eat dinner when you wake up."

"How come, as long as it is made by my father, I can eat it all by myself." Gabriel took his cloth bag and put it on the sofa, and then walked into the kitchen with Hannibal, the conversation between them , more harmonious than the most perfect model family.

When the red-haired woman came over, he caught Gabriel's attention. He didn't expect to meet Fred Lawz here. To better integrate into this place, he agreed to the senior's invitation and came to the coffee shop near the school.

The red-haired woman didn't see him, she went to the table behind him and sat down behind him.

"Thank you again for coming to see me, I know this is not easy for you." Miss Lowes handed the coffee in her hand to the boy opposite, it was a boy with yellow curly hair, he looked 24 or [-] years old , Gabriel took something from the cloth bag hanging behind his back, and glanced at him. The boy's eyes were swollen, his face was gray, and he looked very bad.

"Yes, you know." The boy took a sip of coffee, and he hugged his arm tightly, looking very fragile.

"I've written about Garrett Jacob Hobbs and I've interviewed the families of other victims," ​​Miss Lowes said.

Gabriel turned his head and smiled at the senior opposite him. He tapped the coffee cup lightly with his hand. He seemed to be quietly listening to the other person's words, but in fact, all his mind had been put on the man and woman behind him.

"Hobbs is dead, let him be cheap, his whole family should be cut to pieces!" The boy's voice suppressed anger, it is not difficult to imagine that if Hobbs was still alive, he might rush to beat him, of course, The premise is that Hobbs is caught by the police.

This is a somewhat cowardly boy with a slender heart. The murder of his family made him full of sadness and resentment.

"Justice has been done, how can you feel a little bit of comfort?"

"Comfort? My sister was nailed to the antlers, disembowelled, and his lungs were pulled out of her chest. What comfort is there?!"

Gabriel picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. He didn't expect this boy to be her brother. When Miss Lawz mentioned Abigail, Gabriel smiled——Fred Law This is a reporter who can make news for the sake of news, very good.

The boy left the café and Gabriel called to Fred Lords when she got up.

"Miss Lautz, I didn't expect to see you here."

"Oh, Gabriel Lecter, do you remember me? Yes, although we only met once, I don't think you will forget, right?" Lautz's eyes lit up, and she walked over to meet Gabriel Gabriel shook hands with his seniors, then sat down beside Gabriel without any ceremony.

"I'm impressed. Ms. Lawz is a beautiful lady." Gabriel nodded. He was young, but he had a calm personality and would never embarrass a lady in public. Fred Lawz left a mark on him. I was deeply impressed, after all, women who dare to climb over the wall and break into the school are rare, although they were immediately stopped by the security guards.

That's when Gabriel started following her.

Lautz glanced at the senior sitting opposite, and whispered to Gabriel: "I have wanted to interview you Gabriel for a long time. I was very interested in you when the case was last year. I will give Dr. Lecter After calling several times, he failed to agree, he is too strict with your protection."

"I'm underage, Miss Lowes, even if you interview me, your report can't appear on the website." Gabriel showed an elegant smile, looking exactly like Hannibal, which made Lowes very uncomfortable happy.

"It's just that the full name cannot appear. I understand the underage ban." She corrected, "And sometimes we don't need to pay too much attention to those small details, right?"

"Okay, Miss Lautz, it's rude enough for us to leave the senior aside. I don't want the alumni I will get along with in the next few years to think that I am a rude person. Maybe we can exchange contact information and make an appointment later. ?” Gabriel smiled apologetically at the senior, who waved his hand to show that he didn’t care, but Gabriel still insisted on sending Lautz away.

The red-haired woman felt the strength hidden under Gabriel's gentle appearance, so she had no choice but to give up. Before leaving, she said to Gabriel: "You are really like your father. If I didn't know that you were adopted by Dr. Lecter, I would I thought you were the real father and son."

--Bloomington, Minnesota--

Abigail's house had been painted with "Ogre" written on the wall, and Gabriel was glad the words weren't painted in red, but that was too much.Abigail's face was pale. She walked to the gate and looked at the pool of blood on the ground that was difficult to clean.

"Did my mother die here?"

"Yes," Will replied, and he walked to the door, face to face with the girl.

Gabriel looked at them, and Alana suddenly asked, "Gabriel, are you okay?"

"Ah? I'm fine, Dr. Bloom." Alana's sudden concern made Gabriel almost unresponsive. He glanced at Hannibal and smiled at Alana.

"You can call me Alana, but I'm your father's student. I've always wanted to see you, but I never had the chance before." Alana is a very beautiful woman, full of intellectual beauty, "At first I didn't agree with Hannibal Bringing you here, this occasion is not suitable for you, Gabriel. But I heard you want to study forensic medicine in college?"

"Yes, compared to other majors, I think forensic medicine is more suitable for me. It is a very rigorous discipline, and the most important thing is that it does not need to deal with many people."

"Really? I thought you were good at socializing." Alana said in surprise.

"Being good at it doesn't mean you like it." Gabriel shrugged. Will and Abigail had already entered the house. Gabriel said to Alana and Hannibal who was watching them with interest, "I Think we'd better go along?"

"Let's go." Hannibal smiled and walked in front.

Abigail went around the empty house, everything was put into the evidence box, some were taken away, some were left behind, even the photos on the refrigerator were transferred by the scene cleanup staff past.

They mentioned that call.

"That number is blocked, can you hear whose voice it is?" Will asked.

"Never heard that voice before." Abigail said shaking her head, her eyes swept over Gabriel, very stealthily, no one except him and Hannibal noticed.

They began to look through the things that were left behind, hoping to find something useful.Abigail seemed interested in Will, she kept asking about Will's abilities, and Gabriel touched the back of her hand while rummaging through things to shut her up.

"My dad is a perfectionist, he doesn't look like a paranoid psychopath."

"He didn't leave any useful clues." Will got up and said.

"So you asked me to come back and look for evidence?" Abigail looked at several adults, and Gabriel hid at the back, watching her performance.

"Are we going to reframe the crime? You're my dad, you're my mom." She points to Will and Alana, and finally to Hannibal. "You're the guy on the phone."

Hannibal looked at her calmly, the girl raised her head, showing a stubborn expression.

Alana stopped her, and the girl lowered her head and said despondently, "You won't find those girls, he respects every part of them, he once made elk bones into pipe glue, the bones left over from those girls Maybe it’s all made into glue to stick the water pipes.”

There was the sound of the door being opened outside, and a girl with long brown hair walked in.

The three young people were kicked out. The girl named Marisa was Abigail's classmate. Gabriel accompanied them to walk quietly a little further away, letting the girls chat by themselves.Then he saw a man hiding behind a tree trunk in the bushes, with yellow hair that looked familiar.

Gabriel stopped the girls and said to the people in the bush: "Whoever you are, please leave, this is a private residence."

The man simply rushed out. It was the boy he saw in the coffee shop and met Fred Lautz that day. He was even more haggard than he saw that day. He said to Abigail excitedly in a hoarse voice. : "Are you right to be the bait for him? Are you so cooperative? You lured them back to your father's place for dinner, that's how you lured my sister, did you strike up a conversation with her?"

"Get out!" Marisa picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at him.

He dodged and continued, "Would you help your father cut out my sister's lungs and hang her on the antlers?"

"That's enough! Please leave!" Gabriel looked at him, something frightening rolled in his eyes, the boy was frightened by him, and stayed there, not daring to move, Marisa hit hard with the second stone When he touched his brow bone, he turned and fled as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"What happened?" Will and Hannibal ran over.

"An intruder, he said he was the victim's brother." Marisa explained, Abigail looked flustered as she watched the boy leave, and she held Gabriel's hand tightly.

"Marisa?! What are you doing here? Come home with me!" Marisa's mother heard the movement, and found that her daughter's face had changed when she ran here, and hurried forward to hold Marisa.

"No, I won't go back." Marisa's expression became very impatient, and her mother emphasized it again, and she yelled at her mother like a spoiled rebellious girl: "Can you stop Are you like a nosy bitch?"

Hannibal glanced at Marisa who was angrily pulled away by her mother, and Gabriel knew that the girl might face a very bad fate, because he saw displeasure in Hannibal's eyes.Usually this kind of person who is rude to his mother will be put on the menu by Hannibal. Since they will not be here for too long, the girl may not survive the next morning.

They went to the woods to find the boy who had run away, and Hannibal hid the bloody stone by moving the leaves under his feet while Will didn't notice.

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