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Youth in medicine (Hank)
Hannibal was not often apprised of new doctors coming to the hospital, he just didn't really have the time to bother with it. Especially considering how often they rotated right back out. But since the disappearance of Simon, he'd been keeping his ears open, hoping that the doctor would return. He felt as if he wasn't quite finished with the project that he'd started there. Things would be easier with River, of course, without the meddling and concern of her brother, but there was unfinished business. Simon had had in him a darkness that Hannibal had wanted to cultivate. He was holding out hope that Doctor Tam would reappear, though he knew it wasn't likely to happen, nor was it likely that if Simon did show back up, it would be the same man.

So it happened that he was made aware of another young doctor, apparently also brilliant, who was now working on staff. The more that Hannibal heard of him, the more curious he became. He had not encountered many others who held his youth in the profession, and he wanted to. He wanted to meet a mind that could rival his own without the years of training that most doctors had. He was informed through gossip that the new doctor, a Henry McCoy, was only 18. The age that Hannibal had been when he'd arrived in The City. Four years ago, now.

He listened for more, but there didn't seem to be anything else outside of the brilliance and the age. Nobody knew anything particularly personal, which was obnoxious. Hannibal thought that if there was going to be gossip in the hospital, it should at least be well informed. He caught brief mentions having something to do with size, but he couldn't get anybody to be straightforward about it when he asked outright.

So it was with this scant information that Hannibal Lecter sought out Henry McCoy on the lower floors of The City Hospital.