infomodder | IC contact [Mask or Menace]

Did you go on a date with Freddie?

We went out for drinks. Not a legitimate date. There is a difference.

[Except for the fact of the matter that even if it had been a date, it still would have left him drained in every way. Because it's Freddie, and Freddie spilled some beans Will had been ignoring for months.]

[ except they went out, together, and since abigail had to actually ask freddie not to be rude to will in front of abigail... this is big, weird, disorienting news. teach her to ignore the network for weeks on end because it's ~weird on the levels of instagraming dinner. ]

Why? She hates you.

[ that could have been slightly less blunt. ]

[Will doesn't have that luxury. When he's got nothing else to do at work, he follows it. All of it. He's even told people that. Only one of them seemed to react to it in a favorable manner, not that it matters. He'll stalk whether people want him to or not.]

Just because Freddie and I have our differences doesn't mean we can't meet up to talk. [Their differences is putting it nicely.] Can't discuss everything important in life over these things.

[One does not break the news about Hannibal being a DOUCHEBAG ON HARD DRUGS over Gchat.]

[ idk man she and marissa probably could have just snapchatted. which, in hindsight, would have been better. the technology generation. she grew up with wireless. ]

What were you discussing?

[Stuff. Things. DO NOT OPEN DEAD INSIDE.]

What did you discuss with Freddie when she came to visit you in the hospital?

[This for that.

It applies worlds away.]

[ or is it schrödinger's dead? ]

Her book.

[more like freddie's dead, in two words!]

The one about your father? Is she going to try to get it published here?

[Everyone's name is changed.

But they all rhyme, don't they.]

I said she could. As fiction.

[ :) ]

[He has to take a moment to figure out what to say back because he's conflicted, which is nothing new so it's just another day in the life and times of the "Baltimore" crowd.]

So then history repeats here. Seems like a good idea.

[A little cruel, he knows. But coddling won't do anyone any good.

It just makes it worse.

So much worse.]

History does that. What harm is there in keeping Freddie happy? She's always been on my side, I'd like to keep her there. You caught a serial killer. You saved my life. I don't see the problem.

Is it really to keep Freddie happy, or is it so you can profit monetarily? Give yourself some independence? I don't think either of you realize how much higher the stakes are in this place, and that this is more of a terrible idea than it was before.

Enlighten me.

[ maybe he can extrapolate her bitter tone, but she's the one who died. she's pretty sure she knows how high the stakes are. better than anyone. she's only got one ear left. but if she can get freddie to write about her dad, then that's where the focus will be. on garrett jacob hobbs and abigail's horrible, horrible life. on abigail, herself.

not on hannibal. not on will. because they saved her. (ahahahahahahahhahahaha hahahaha ha.) they're the "heroes" of the story.

but, you know, will is totally right and she doesn't realize how high the stakes are. #fucking children. ]

We're in a world where people can fly and turn themselves completely intangible, and you don't see how much worse of an idea it is now than it was back in a world where people had to put actual effort into abduction and gutting and murder? Look, for example, take me. I can breathe underwater. How much easier would it be to kill someone and make it look like an accidental drowning when all I have to do is take them down with me for an hour?

[Jesus Christ, Freddie didn't get it either, though he didn't go quite so far in his explanation because implying to Freddie Lounds that he'd thought about how he could totally drown someone and get away with it with his new power was a piss poor idea. If Eldon Stammets had the power of disguise, he could have taken Abigail out to his mushroom garden without any problems, and no one would have been any the wiser.

And if Abigail wants to bullshit herself into believing that Freddie can keep out wording that makes Will (and Lecter, too) or whatever his "stand in" may be sound less than heroic, he can find some swamp land to sell her with her profits.

He isn't supposed to be the Only Sane Man, what is happening, someone help him who is...no, no one help him, there would be blood. Maybe she can extrapolate his incredulous tone, because if she could see his face? She wouldn't need to hear him speak.]

That doesn't make sense!

[ she might be slightly shaken and abashed at the gutting comment. gutting is personal for her. so her reaction is more violent than it would have been otherwise. the texts come in rapid fire succession the way only a teenager can do it. ]

It's not like a book will make people go out on murder sprees or turn them into serial killers.

That's not how it works.

You know that.

It's my life.

My father.

My FAULT.

Shouldn't I be able to salvage something from it?

I lost my entire family. What do I even have left to lose? My other ear?

[There is so much to address here, and he's damn grateful they're not talking. He's damn grateful he's at work and can use that as a reason for him having to take his time as opposed to trying to figure out how to phrase it without giving away that he's been filled in on certain things.]

Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon (one of the Beatles), was found with a copy of The Catcher in the Rye the night he shot him. He had signed his name as the name of the main character in the book, Holden Caulfield. When they found him, he was reading it. He said the novel was his statement. He even sent something to a newspaper that urged everyone to read the book. That was 1980. In 1981, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. attempted to kill President Reagan. Do you know what book was found in his hotel room? You know why he did it? Hinckley Jr. was obsessed with an actress who had been in a movie involving a presidential assassination plot. He wanted to impress her. It's your life, but your life includes other people. Should you be able to salvage something from what your father did? Yes you should. Of course you should. I personally do not like it but it is not my main concern if Freddie Lounds' book paints me in a bad light here. That's not why I protest. I protest because what's happened to you in the past with those other people that ties into everything I just told you. With you and some of those people stuck in a totally strange world where people can do just about anything without having to stop and think on it. Which is not your fault in any way, Abigail. You want a book deal with Freddie Lounds that gets you money, fine. Send her to me. I've got stories that don't involve you in any way and you can have whatever monetary profits are made. I don't need it. But don't open this door again, not here. You may not think you have anything to lose other than your ear and Freddie might not be able to see it either, but let me use some French here and call that complete bullshit.

[ y u logic.

y u logic in a way abigail can completely understand and forces her to rethink her life choices.

y. ]

Fine.

[Because he doesn't want her to get killed or abducted or anything awful again, duh.]

Fine what?

Fine, I won't open the door.

[ not "fine, you're right" or "fine, i have more to lose" because she stubborn enough to be unwilling to admit the former and she doesn't actually believe the latter. she's a survivor, yes, but it doesn't mean she actually wants to keep going through it. ]

[Fine, you're right, sir. Dad-isms all up in here.]

Good to hear it. If you need help shutting what you've opened already, let me know.

I can do it. I don't want you to wind up in Tattlecrime again.

I'll be in Tattlecrime in some way or another no matter what I do or do not do. You have no sway on that. I have no sway on that. Don't let that stop you if you feel like you need back up.

It's Freddie Lounds. Least likely to probably murder me. I'll be fine, promise. And I know who John Lennon is, I'm not that young.

Is that all you wanted to talk to me about, then?

[Hannibal gave Will a chance to get everything out on the table once, one he has yet to experience but still would not take. Abigail's getting one, too.

Only...Will is not going to do anything like what Hannibal did if she doesn't take it. So.]

Should there be more?

[ she did say she would talk to him, just not then when she could use emotional trauma as an excuse. it doesn't mean she's itching to say "oh btw i've been alive for three months". or anything else. what if will stops liking her. ]

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