#hannishark

Unlikely but not beyond the realm of possibility that I can get this first chapter up today.

“Cake was alright?” Will asks D, eyeing the empty dessert plate that he is still holding in one clawed hand.

After a moment’s hesitation, D nods. Will can’t quite tell if that’s the truth or if D is just being polite, but he hopes that they big guy hasn’t given himself a belly ache for the sake of pleasing Will.  

Will sits the crate with the presents in it down, and when the twins wander over to see what he has, Will crouches down to their eye-level.

It occurs to Will that D hunkers down in exactly the same way when he wants to talk eye to eye with Will, and there’s an odd humor in that for him, and Will turns his head to see if D has caught it too.

The twins know what presents are - they get them often enough that they ought to - but they haven’t seen wrapped gifts before, and he tears back a corner on one of the packages and tells them, “See? There’s something nice in there for you, but you have to take the paper off to find out what.”

When Will puts the wrapped presents into the twins hands, the carnage is immediate; shredding the wrapping paper is fun in of itself, and they are both so caught up in the frenzy of tearing it to pieces that at first they hardly seem to notice the teddy bears.

Then Alexander crows and snatches his bear up to show Cyrus, and, his own toy clutched in one fist, Cyrus makes a grab for his brother’s toy. He catches it by the leg and there is a brief tug of war, then Alexander yanks it from his grasp and the two of them are up and running again.

They’ll be drowned and shredded within a week, Will knows from past experience with the ragdolls, but the stuffed bears will get a lot of love and attention between now and then.

Chapters: 19/35 Fandom: Hannibal (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Matthew Brown (Hannibal), Reba McClane, Francis Dolarhyde Additional Tags: Shark Hannibal, WWI Vet Will, Interspecies Awkwardness, Interspecies Relationship(s), Interspecies Sex, Monster Hannibal, merman Hannibal, merman, Hannibal is Ariel, He wants to be where the people are, (so he can eat them), It's not cannibalism if they aren't the same species, The Shape of Water AU, or vaguely inspired in some ways by TSOW, Mpreg, eventually and kinda except that Hannibal is not male, hermaphrodite Hannibal, Suicidal Thoughts, Biting, Handjobs probably, this is going to get weird, Alternate Universe - 1920s, Period appropriate lube, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Period-Typical Homophobia, Blow Jobs, Fish out of Water, Underwater Sex, Sign Language Summary: