[Hannibal] Assimilation

"Nicholas Ball's body was found in Minnesota, he was found in the woods, frozen in ice and snow, they thawed it as fast as they could, but still can't be sure he was a week ago, He was killed on the night he disappeared six weeks ago." Hannibal heard this when he walked into Jack's office, and Will sat in a corner of the office, obviously already knowing about it, he kept his head down in thought, even Hannibal and the others didn't pay attention when they came in.

Gabriel is also here, and Jack specifically calls him and asks him to come with him.But he didn't make it into Jack's office, but waited outside.

In fact, as early as a few days ago, Abigail invited him and Will to meet in the nursing home and told them that she would accept an interview with Fred Lautz and write her story into a book for publication, but when he and Will objected , Hannibal had a hunch, but he didn't expect Abigail to be so fast, which didn't fit her character.

"How did he die?" Alana asked, the scene at that time flashed in Hannibal's mind, Abigail's hands were covered with blood, looking terrified, he and Gabriel helped her deal with everything , and now she betrayed them.

"Knife wound, he was disemboweled, I have had the body transported here, I want Abigail Hobbs to confirm it for us." Jack said to the other three.

"But you've confirmed his identity." Hannibal looked at Jack. This FBI director was stubborn and ruthless. It was very difficult for him to escape Abigail, and he couldn't let her hurt Gabriel.

"Abigail Hobbs hasn't confirmed yet," Jack looked at Hannibal, showing him an apologetic expression, "I still need to ask about Gabriel's situation at that time, Doctor Lecter, so today's Let him come with you."

Hannibal nodded slightly, although he was annoyed by Abigail's behavior, but now he couldn't show it.

"You can't let Abigail and Nick Boll's corpse stay together!" Alana's retort prevented Jack from paying too much attention to Hannibal, although he couldn't see it from Hannibal's face. What, "She's been having nightmares about him, Jack!"

"I'm curious about the reason for the nightmare." Jack showed a sarcastic smile.

Will, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "You don't think she has anything to do with this, do you?"

"I think Abigail Hobbs is related to her father's cases, as well as the deaths of Marisa Schull and Nicholas Boll. Everything points to Abigail." Jack heard Aware of the anger hidden in Will's voice, he replied loudly and loudly with a more intense voice than his own, "My gut tells me that Abigail knows something that we don't."

"What's suspicious about her, Jack?" Will felt unreasonable. How could a girl who was not yet an adult, so weak, become the object of Jack's suspicion?

"We have to start with the question of where she went after she climbed over the wall and left the nursing home. Maybe she went to see Nick Boll. None of us know what happened between them." No one can change Jack's decision, he Denied Will's request to accompany Abigail, leaving only Alana to watch.

While waiting for Abigail to arrive, Jack asks Gabriel a few questions, with Hannibal accompanying him.

"Gabriel, can you tell me more about what happened at Hobbs' house that day? The more detailed the better, including details that were not mentioned before." Jack was still polite to Gabriel, after all, he had nothing to do with this case relation.

"Okay," Gabriel said frankly. He sat there with a slight doubt on his face, just like a normal person should have when he thought the case was over but was brought up again, but he politely didn't Asked, but thought for a while and said, "When we went back to Abigail's house that day, she was very unstable and told me that she wanted to be alone, so I left her downstairs, and then I went to the bathroom , When I came out again, I heard a stranger's voice downstairs, and when I got to the stairs, I found my father and Ms. Alana fainted there, and then I heard Abigail's cry, and I called her name Just rushed down."

"You saw Nicholas Ball?" Jack asked.

"Well...to be precise, no." Gabriel replied after recalling for a moment, "I saw the door behind was opened, and there were many messy footprints on the ground when I chased it out."

"Those footprints later turned out to be Nicholas Ball's." Hannibal interjected, Jack nodded at him, and turned to Gabriel again, "So Abigail told you that Nicholas Ball was here, And attacked her?"

"Yes." Gabriel nodded and looked straight at Jack, looking flawless.

After leaving Jack's office, Gabriel found an empty corner and asked Hannibal, "I don't quite understand, Father, you made me emphasize that I didn't really see what Nicholas was up to, could it be..."

"It's nothing, just in case." Hannibal stroked Gabriel's hair, but looked away. Abigail Hobbs appeared at the other end of the corridor, and Alana went to pick her up .

They turned to the corridor leading to the dissecting room, but did not find the father and son on the other side of the corridor. Gabriel noticed that Hannibal's eyes were a little cold at the moment, and he showed a malicious smile behind Hannibal.

Regarding Nicholas Ball, Abigail answered all Jack's questions perfectly. Although Jack's suspicion of her could not be dispelled, at least Jack did not find any flaws on the surface. Gabriel was very satisfied with the current situation, and When Will came looking for him at Johns Hopkins, he thought the odds were better.

"It was Abigail Hobbs who killed Nicholas," Will said affirmatively, and they took a walk down Gabriel's dormitory, like any friend would do when visiting a student.Gabriel noticed that he had said Abigail's full name. It seemed that although driving for more than an hour had calmed him down a little, deep down he still felt unacceptable.

Gabriel lowered his eyes and didn't speak. The sadness revealed from his heart made him look very fragile. This was Gabriel's disguise. Of course, he couldn't involve himself in it, and it would not be worth the candle.

"When did you find out?" Will combined with what Gabriel said to him that day, it is not difficult to figure out what he discovered, and the most terrible incidents happened around him and Hannibal recently, only Nicholas Bol's death.

"Abigail sometimes escapes from the nursing home. Most of the time she comes to see her father. At first I was just surprised when they became so close..." Gabriel paused for a moment, revealing an unspeakable smirk .

"I understand that sometimes people lack a sense of security. Family is a wonderful existence." Will nodded. The boy was a step ahead of him, and he seemed a little embarrassed and scared. When Will thought of what he said that day, Feeling sorry for him, he tried to explain him, "But Hannibal is really good to you, Gabriel, you don't have to doubt that."

"Don't you think it's scary?" Gabriel turned to look at Will, with fear in his eyes, "Abigail killed someone, but my father knew it but helped her to hide it, and even made up a lie! He has done so much for her safety, who knows if there is anything else?"

"..." Seeing the sad expression on the boy's face, Will felt a strange feeling in his heart. He faintly felt that the reason why Gabriel's reaction was so agitated was because of Hannibal's protection of Abigail. Not the fault of the matter itself.

"Then why don't you report him to Jack? Tell Jack everything, about Abigail, about Hannibal." Will felt that what he had caught might be able to reach him without too much effort. The purpose of coming here today, "Because you are worried about Hannibal?"

"I..." Gabriel sneered in his heart, he showed a slightly fearful look, and turned his back to him under Will's puzzled eyes, "Yes, I'm worried about him, I'm afraid of telling Jack about Hanni Pulling out will cause trouble, so I can only keep silent, you are actually here today to persuade me not to speak out, right?"

"...Yes." Gabriel's gaze kept repeating in Will's mind just now, and he always felt that the child was hiding something crucial, but he couldn't figure out what it was, "Gabriel Lie, I'm going to see Hannibal, don't bother with this matter, leave it to me and your father to deal with."

Gabriel laughed, but without looking back, he waved his back to Will, signaling him to leave.

"He can always defend himself, Will, you have to be careful." A gentle sigh sounded behind him, and Will turned to look, only to see Gabriel standing in the snow with his back to him, like a lonely Elk.

"Don't let him lead you by the nose." This was Gabriel's last advice to Will.

Will's words were not perfunctory, he actually went to see Hannibal, and he wanted to ask why he did what he did.

"Nicholas Ball hit us first, Abigail was just self-defense, I lied about that because Jack Crawford would treat her like a prisoner for what her father did , the world will join him in burning Abigail, and it will go that way because Fred Lawz will write it that way."

"Abigail acts like you shot her father and I killed Tobias Butch..." When Hannibal wants to convince someone, he can always find the right reason.

"It's not up to us to decide..." Will said angrily, which ran counter to his moral values. When he first discovered this fact, he was too shocked. He wanted to come to Hannibal directly, but what Gabriel said that day But it suddenly appeared in his mind. He had an intuition that Gabriel should have discovered something unbelievable, so he drove all the way to Annapolis. Although he told himself that it was only to protect Abigail, he had to Said, after calming down, every word Gabriel said seemed to carry a deep meaning.

At this time, listening to Hannibal's excuses is even more inconceivable.

Why can he take this kind of thing for granted?

Why can he find so many reasons to defend himself?

What did he take his life for?

Hannibal's words gave Will the feeling that the only way to do this was the right thing to do and what a father should do.

"Who knows better than us that Abigail understands the pain she carries? Now that we are his fathers, we have better care for her than Garrett Jacob Hobbs."

Will was silent, and Hannibal went on with what seemed to make sense.

"If you go to Jack, you're ruining Abigail's future." Hannibal felt enough, enough to convince Will, so he asked, "Do I need a lawyer, Will?"

The brown curly-haired man turned around, frowning and pursing his lips, shaking his head slowly under Hannibal's gaze.

Hannibal nodded, secretly relieved, he walked up to Will and pressed his shoulders and said in a peaceful voice: "We can't tell anyone that what we did was right, and in the end, it will be The only story we care about."

"Where's Gabriel?" Will heard himself say this in a dry voice, he turned his head and looked into Hannibal's eyes, "Have you ever thought that if Gabriel knew, you should How to face him?"

"As a father, it's my responsibility to protect them." Hannibal's expression didn't change at all, and Will tried to see some changes in his eyes, but he was obviously disappointed.

Hannibal pats him on the shoulder, then turns away, and Will blurts out.

"You don't care about Gabriel as much as you make out, do you?"

Hannibal stopped, turned his face, his eyes suddenly became sharp, like a frozen lake in winter, or like a lion defending his territory, he said: "Will, you are wrong, Gabriel was sent by God Gift for me, I love him."

The author has something to say:

I was so excited to receive the torpedo for the first time (≧▽≦)/I will write a special episode for my little friend "What is love?"

This will be the case for torpedoes or long comments in the future. Verbal thanks are useless, and I can only repay you with code words.

Also thanks to "The Illusion of My Existence" and "The Demon King Who Loves XX" (づ￣3￣)づ╭?～