Hannibal (i_consume) wrote in we_coexist, @ 2009-03-21 17:01:00 |
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Entry tags: | bella swan, hannibal lecter |
Return to normal (Bella)
Hannibal had returned to the library to have another look at Barbara Gordon. The girl that he'd fallen in love with out of nowhere. It had seemed irrational to him when it happened, and as the feelings faded, he realized it wasn't real. It wasn't really love. It wasn't really any emotion. He was still quite amused by the fact that she was a younger Barbara, given what he knew about her and what their relationship had been the last time she'd been in the City, but that's where his involvement ended, really.
He'd just wanted one look at her, to verify all of this for himself. He needed to clear this up before he saw River again. Otherwise she would read the confusion in his mind and he'd be unable to explain it fully. If he went and saw that it was for sure as gone as he felt it was, there would be no confusion.
In the library, it wasn't hard to catch a glimpse of her. He felt nothing. In the end, he wasn't surprised. It was just another thing that the City had decided to do to it's citizens. A game. Hannibal was tiring of these games. He didn't even feel they were particularly original anymore. It was more like a child exploring the world it had just entered. Poking at things. Testing limits.
But there was another new face in the library, sitting at a table near his, right across from him. There was a gap of carpet between them, but otherwise it was if they were sitting together. The fact that besides Barbara they were the only two in the library at this hour didn't help that illusion.
He just smiled.