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I’m really happy for them, congratulations 💍

"But they cradled me, yes?"

Is this from a season 4 fic? Because it might just be season 4 in a nutshell.

Hannibal’s hands are not clean and never will be. They are instruments of violence, drenched in blood and Will knows this better than anyone - after all he was on the receiving end as well.

And yet…when they touch him, they are always gentle.

The tenderness does not erase the blood, and the blood does not erase the tenderness. They coexist, and that coexistence is what makes it so much more intense.

By season 4, there was nothing left to obscure it.

Will is no longer trying to imagine a version of Hannibal where the horror and the love can be separated. He is seeing both with absolute clarity.

To accept Hannibal’s hands on him is to accept all of it - all of him.