Hannibal wants to share so much with Will. He has delighted in watching his friend's horizons grow, watching him experience the pleasures that the world has to offer if one is only willing to eat the drowned songbird with their face uncovered before God. Paris is a place of a multitude of exquisite experiences. It also has a large population, and one that his friend is not personally familiar with. It will be a forest in which they may be lost...and which may provide trees for their purposes. Who notices when one or two trees fall in a forest?
Hannibal is aware of the tight heat in Will's belly due to Will's scent, the tang of adrenaline, and due to Will's wide pupils and dilated cheek capillaries. It is common for intense experiences to be entangled in arousal, but he is certain that there is more to this. There is an undeniable physical attraction between the two men, and a tender touch was certain to heighten it. As he leads Will to his bedroom he considers his course of action. The wall safe that holds the documents he spoke of is behind a painting, and the suitcase he has packed is tucked in his closet. But there's also the sexual implications of being led to one's bed. It's a complicated play. With anyone else Hannibal would have no compunctions about preying on the sexual attraction and tightening the bonds of his subject through physical intimacy. But with Will, he finds he cannot be merely coldly calculating. He wants the intimacy, desires it. He would be taking a piece of Will, yes...but he would be giving Will a piece of himself as well.
They are in this together, though. And perhaps it is worth the risk to draw Will closer. Perhaps it will ultimately give Hannibal another point of leverage.
Hannibal opens the door to his bedroom and gestures for Will to enter, then closes the door behind them.
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Date: 2016-02-01 04:58 pm (UTC)Hannibal is aware of the tight heat in Will's belly due to Will's scent, the tang of adrenaline, and due to Will's wide pupils and dilated cheek capillaries. It is common for intense experiences to be entangled in arousal, but he is certain that there is more to this. There is an undeniable physical attraction between the two men, and a tender touch was certain to heighten it. As he leads Will to his bedroom he considers his course of action. The wall safe that holds the documents he spoke of is behind a painting, and the suitcase he has packed is tucked in his closet. But there's also the sexual implications of being led to one's bed. It's a complicated play. With anyone else Hannibal would have no compunctions about preying on the sexual attraction and tightening the bonds of his subject through physical intimacy. But with Will, he finds he cannot be merely coldly calculating. He wants the intimacy, desires it. He would be taking a piece of Will, yes...but he would be giving Will a piece of himself as well.
They are in this together, though. And perhaps it is worth the risk to draw Will closer. Perhaps it will ultimately give Hannibal another point of leverage.
Hannibal opens the door to his bedroom and gestures for Will to enter, then closes the door behind them.