#c. bedelia

[eatrude]

@resistinstinct || starter call ! 

   “ I’ve a curiosity, Bedelia, if you will indulge.  Those with a similar thinking often recognize each other -- we share rather little in common, but I’m curious.  At what point did you SEE me? “  He draws the glass to his lips, breathes the well loved scent of a well loved wine and lets his gaze skirt the top of the glass in order to seek her attention.  

[eatsrude]

@cozeios​ / sc.

“ I believe Will was jealous of you. “  He offers a smile that bears no comfort, as he sets the table for her.  “ You were always going to end up at my dinner table, Bedelia, but even I found this course of action a bit too reckless for my taste.  But, I was unable to coax Will out of it ... I felt he might require this in order to move on.  As a therapist, I’m sure you understand. “ 

[eatrude]

‘ tell me, did your heart race when you murdered her? ‘

hannibal dialogue prompts || accepting ! 

There is an instant, just one, where a cold rage washes through him -- chilling to the bone and gone just as quickly.  An ... unsettled wrath.  He considers slitting her throat, watching her bleed over the bath, red running pink till it eclipses the water and begins to stain the water a true scarlet.  The impulse is so thorough and riveting, and he’s been so impulsive of late, that he thinks yes -- this is the moment in which Bedelia’s life will end.  

It doesn’t .  He freezes above her as she slips beneath the water, with a meaningful look.  He doesn’t kill her, but he almost does.  ( Bedelia is often little more than an annoyance.  But her steadfast belief that Hannibal killed Mischa -- while he makes no attempt to correct her, is irritating.  It grates upon a never healed wound, a thing that pours endless from the depths of his mind.  She grinds salt into a wound without knowing the animal is alive still to BITE. ) 

He does not mention it for some time.  And when he does -- it is the closest he has ever come to directly THREATENING her.  As if she could forget with whom she travels.  Enemies closer, perhaps, was her motivation.  He doesn’t know precisely, beyond the motivation of CURIOSITY, which has always been the only motivation he required.  This, though, is not to be played with for curiosities sake. 

“ It would behoove you, Bedelia, to refrain from mention of my sister again.  Provided you still have intent to get out of this alive. “ 

[eatrude]

@bedclia / sc.  ↳  song: don’t wake me up ( JT Music ) 

“ Fall asleep and wake in hell.   It's the one you've made yourself. “ 

[eatrude]

sighs in his general direction.

unprompted asks || always accepting !

He quirks a brow and gives his undivided attention to her then, a curious stare.  When he cna find know apparent source for her displeasure he quips a smile and tilts his head.  — “ Is something troubling you, Bedelia ? “ 

[eatrude]

@drdumaurier 

She has never been a force he could predict with any certainty -- like any force of nature, as wild as a storm and thrice as clever.  She has done an effective job maintaining a professional distance between them for ages now -- they have never been friends, not that Hannibal has ever had any real “friends” to speak of.  But she has come the closest to knowing him, even if he isn’t certain of her -- she came the closest to knowing him, and wisely chose to run the other way ...

“ I’ve considered it -- and find I cannot come to a conclusion ... what do you gain from this?  you escaped unscathed, and I have barely allowed myself to question why you would return ...?  Curiosity? “