#SummertimeSlick: Unrequited or Requited Love [omega Will/alpha Hannibal; 03x07 “Digestivo”
Not even Hannibal's rescue of Will from Muskrat Farm is enough to forgive him from sawing into Will's head. Will spurns Hannibal's strange love and turns him away; in the process of destroying his relationship with Hannibal, however, Will begins to destroy himself. (for @hannigram-a-b-o-library)
He doesn’t remember the last time he ate, to be honest. The kitchen is haunted by a man he never saw standing there, by dogs that have new families, by a daughter who was never really his to parent.
It’s cold, but he hasn’t used the fireplace since the last fire built there burnt out. There’s nothing here but the bed he couldn’t sell, and the chair that likewise refused to leave, and a few other odds and ends that used to serve a purpose, just as he did.
He’s certain that he wasn’t the one to put the chamber pot under the bed, wasn’t the person who moved it out from under the bathroom sink, a remnant left by the previous tenant, the man they found dead in the bedroom upstairs, though no one knows exactly when he died. After all, he was alone.
Will feels dead. But he isn’t.
Starvation is the worst way to go—someone told him that, at some point, back when he was more alive. Will knows better. It’s loneliness that kills the hardest, and regret that atrophies the muscles and rots the bones, that makes the meat too gamey and tough to even stew.
He looks out the window onto the porch once in awhile, when he isn’t asleep or freezing or both. If he squints, Will can still see him looking back. A face streaked with tears, painted with the sting of rejection, a little boy lost out in the snow who doesn’t truly understand what he did wrong, who’s too smart to draw the right conclusion until it’s too, too late. Red-rimmed eyes and slightly parted lips and words lost to the wind and the wood of the porch.
Jack followed his footsteps. There weren’t many to follow. Hannibal had simply disappeared.
[read this and the rest of the Quick Slick Fic on ao3]