I've always wondered what Hannibal, Abigail, and Will's life on the run could've been like had Will had agreed without hesitation to go with them and run away with Hannibal and their "adoptive" daughter. I've always enjoyed stories in fanfics where we see bits or glimpses of the murder husbands with Abigail living here or there under alias names/new made up identities, being a family living together. What do you imagine it would have been like if the thought ever crossed your mind?
It definitely has crossed my mind many times!! It’s really hard to know what that would have looked like since we never actually got anything close to it in the show (just a lot of desire for it) but it was also surprisingly close to actually happening so it’s fun to contemplate
(As I’ve said before I don’t really think the whole murder family shtick would have been the best thing for Abigail but it’s still fun to think about)
I never got the impression that Abigail particularly liked murder and stuff and I can’t imagine Will being comfy with pressuring her to murder unless she indicated she actually wanted to, so I don’t imagine her killing alongside them or anything
But I do picture Will and Hannibal killing together, at least eventually. Will maybe wasn’t entirely ready for that in season two when this was a possibility, but he was getting there and I figure he would get there faster if he’d given in to his affection for Hannibal
I imagine they probably would go to Europe, although they’d definitely keep a lower profile than Hannibal did during the Italy arc; Hannibal in Italy was a desperate man with nothing to lose, and Hannibal with Will and Abigail would be a man who had just about everything he ever wanted (which is definitely something he’d work to protect)
I imagine Will and Hannibal would go from platonic to romantic almost immediately—honestly I think once Will found out Abigail was alive he was 100% willing and inclined to kiss Hannibal so like if that happened under better circumstances (sans stabbing) a kiss almost certainly would occur, or at least a kiss would occur soon after. And from there I mean like they’re gay and in love and both grownups who like sex so like I imagine things would get physical in short order
Hannibal hadn’t really had a chance yet to realize exactly how far he’d be willing to go over his love for Will but I feel like he’d get there. And for Will it was always a matter of fighting his feelings: none of the bullshit they went through was necessary to get him to a place where he could really love Hannibal, he really loved Hannibal all along and didn’t want to give into it because of the bullshit. If we reduce the bullshit we increase the ease with which Will accepts his love for his stupid terrible soulmate
It’s a lot easier to accept his love for a man who mistreated him and killed his friend than it is to accept his love for a man who did all that and also murdered his daughter in front of him while he was bleeding out on the ground after being stabbed by that same man, who then tried to saw his head open to eat his brain, is my thinking
So Hannibal and Will would be gay and happy with each other and I figure things would probably at least be sort of okay for Abigail since Will has some concept of how to be a reasonable human being and it’s not like Hannibal wanted to make her life awful or anything
They’d probably send her to college or at least help her to gather the skills to do something she wanted to do, and she’s a generic-looking white girl who everyone thought was dead so she wouldn’t really have to keep that low of a profile on her own. And of course there would be plenty of money to support her so she wouldn’t have to rush to find something she wanted to spend the rest of her life doing
Hannibal would probably have trouble with the idea of her going away to college but I feel like Will would probably convince him it was a bad idea to just keep her confined to the house all the time and like she’s a smart girl, she knows what the consequences of turning them in would be
Maybe eventually she’d get married to some nice person who never has any idea what her fathers are/were and someday hannigram get to be grandparents. That would be a nice, reasonably safe way for them to get to be in the life of a baby that felt like Theirs without doing something as dumb or immoral as letting Hannibal Lecter be responsible for the raising of an actual child (not to say I don’t love fic where they have a baby bc lord help me I do I’m just sayin that’s really not the ideal environment for a child to grow up in)
I don’t know really, I imagine it would be a pretty normal life, all things considered. They’d have too many dogs and they’d kill people but they’d have jobs and a house and be too proud of their daughter’s accomplishments just like any parents
