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    Will stares at the bird. The bird stares back. In its beak, a very finely embroidered cloth, and in that, the tiniest of soft fists pushing forward from a folded corner.

    “Don’t you dare,” Will says, crouching, hand that is not currently cradling an overly large pour of whiskey pointed at the bird to ward it off.

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    After Hannibal is arrested and the trial dates are set, the stork visits Will Graham. With it, it brings a baby, a legally binding birth certificate, and a hope chest full of gifts for her. Nobody except Will thinks this is weird.

    (Alternatively, what if the Scarlet Letter was a dark romantic comedy?)

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    18 Aug 2025

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    Will Graham is a professional mourner. He attends strangers' funerals and grieves their loss, for a fee.

    Hannibal is a serial killer. He visits the funerals of people he's killed.

    They notice each other immediately. Like recognizes like, and neither of them truly belong at the funerals they attend. Hannibal is fascinated by Will's terrible empathy, and Will knows immediately that Hannibal is a serial killer. None of that stops them from wanting to get closer.

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    24 Jul 2025

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    Author William Graham has had a book on the bestseller list for the better part of a decade. He's also a recluse—no interviews, only a rare book signing or lecture. Otherwise, no one knows much about the man beyond the words in his novels and the requisite headshot on every cover. Even the blurb printed underneath his scowling, bespectacled face, framed by a head of messy curls—

    “Oh my God,” said the woman strapped to Hannibal's surgical table, “will you please just kill me already?”

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    Dr. Hannibal Lecter has a thriving psychiatry practice and a not-so-secret obsession; William Graham has an impressive writing career and not a single goddamn clue.

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    24 Jul 2025

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    Several days passed, and that’s when she met Will Graham for the first time. He stormed into her shop, wild curls blowing in the cold wind. His jaw was set tightly, anger burning hot in his eyes. “Can- can I help you?”
    “Yeah,” he drawled. “I need an arrangement that says, ‘Fuck you, I hope you fucking die in a fire.’ You have flowers that will say that?”
    She blinked at him, completely at a loss. “Uh. Well, yes? In a way, yes.”
    “I want them to know I hate them. I don’t forgive them. That the light of friendship won’t touch us for a thousand years. I want... I want him to know that he’s the fucking worst.”

    Penny owns a flower shop in Baltimore. She gets caught in the middle of Hannibal and Will's bullshit, and helps navigate them towards a possible reconciliation.

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    23 Jul 2025

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    “Do you want to talk about what you found?”
    “Your murder doodles?” Will was mockingly oblivious, pointing a thumb toward the cluster of sheets. “Did you want me to find them?”

    Hannibal, though calm, let a prominent frown grace his features. He gestured to the mess throughout his office. “Not particularly. No.”

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    Will Graham is having a bad day. It only gets worse when he finds out his good friend is the Chesapeake Ripper. Panicked, he barricades himself in Hannibal Lecter’s office library.

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    09 Jun 2025