hannibal: narrative Who: Hannibal What: Narrative: Learning Will has a new friend. Where: Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. When: Recent. Warnings/Rating: Internal creepy?
A psychiatrist of Dr. Lecter's caliber certainly enjoyed certain privileges which would otherwise be unavailable. Accessing the visitor's log at the BSHCI was a prime example. Now, Dr. Chilton was normally not very accommodating unless he either needed to be or gained something from said accommodation, but Hannibal had a certain arrangement with the man which, of course, still stood, altered circumstances notwithstanding. He was interested in the log of only one patient; Will Graham. His visitors had, up until now, been quite predictable: Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz... and himself. Poor, poor Will, that those who interrupted his solitude were those who believed him to be a killer.
Yet, the unexpected occurred. A new name appeared, one which had not before. It was unfamiliar. Not a lawyer, not a journalist, not a psychiatrist or even a curious student. More interestingly, it was a woman. Tsk tsk, he thought, had Will made a new friend? One from those other doors, where books about him existed and his name was well known? Hannibal had thought he would have known better, but perhaps not. Perhaps he so desperately craved a companion, an ally, that his judgment was clouded.
But no matter. Hannibal had her name, and should she visit again, he would know. He contemplated paying her a visit of his own sometime in the future-- to satisfy his curiosity, at the very least. And Will? Will would know nothing of it. Let him think his dear new friend was safe from harm. In time, he would learn.