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avoirfaim
"You have reached Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I am out of my office or away from the phone at the moment, and if you leave a your name and phone number I will return your call. Have a good day."
avoirfaim"You have reached Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I am out of my office or away from the phone at the moment, and if you leave a your name and phone number I will return your call. Have a good day."
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Date: 2014-04-29 10:23 pm (UTC)You haven't been rewound into a young man fresh out of Johns Hopkins, have you?
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Date: 2014-04-30 03:53 am (UTC)Why do you ask?
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Date: 2014-04-30 06:31 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2014-04-30 06:42 pm (UTC)I have reached out to the boy. What do you think of him?
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Date: 2014-04-30 07:50 pm (UTC)He presents an interesting conundrum, that's for sure. I find him polite. Unrefined.
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Date: 2014-04-30 07:59 pm (UTC)[ Not that you're not still unrefined, but at least you are now unrefined like a raw diamond that glitters in uncontrolled angles. ]
What do you perceive the conundrum to be?
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Date: 2014-04-30 08:39 pm (UTC)[ All that hoary obfuscation, and never once did you doubt your judgment. Just how many times have you done this? ]
Where to start? Two of the same person, from different temporal locations, and also from a world where you somehow existed as a teenager during the fall of the Nazis.
It's a bit much.
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Date: 2014-05-01 02:30 am (UTC)I admit I was taken by surprise by his time-frame, though I can't say I was blessed with a life that was entirely Nazi-free. And while he does share my name and the face of my youth, among some other smaller details, that does not make us the same person. Nature and nurture work in tandem, not one with greater dominance than the other.
[ Half truths and half lies. He knows enough of the boy's history, should he be who he thinks he is, from the book to know that they are indeed the very same person. Will, though, doesn't need to know that. Not when an opportunity has presented itself. ]
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Date: 2014-05-03 01:52 am (UTC)[ He's not sure how else to verbalize it; Nazis are the things of Saturday morning History Channel binges and backdrops for pulpy horror novels, not part of the lives of anyone he knows personally. Hannibal's past isn't a subject that is brought up except in passing, but Will is somehow certain that attempts to pry further detail would be redirected, an easy sleight of hand. ]
Just how much resemblance does he bear with you? Nurture can produce drastically different results.
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Date: 2014-05-18 03:38 am (UTC)He had left rashness behind, but that boy who shared his eyes had not. ]
From what I understand, the environment that he comes from, being some fifty years earlier than my own, may very well be drastic enough. Who can say what that might lead him to do or not do. Trauma can outweigh other forms of nurture entirely.
I think that there is potential, in his nurture, to be the very worst of myself. Perhaps even what you believe to see in me. You know as well as I that while our nature defines who we can be, it is what we do with that nature that turns potential into reality.
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Date: 2014-07-02 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 07:25 am (UTC)Welcome back.
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Date: 2014-07-06 03:47 am (UTC)[It's an indirect compliment that out of all those in Wonderland, including the supposed Queens, that he believes himself the only one with a strong enough will to send or draw people there.]
Did any of the others leave with me?
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Date: 2014-07-07 02:57 am (UTC)Not with you, but Dr. Chilton seems to have left as well.
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Date: 2014-07-07 08:10 pm (UTC)Did he? A shame.
What of Mr Stark? Before I left, there had been some squabble about him or one of his people.
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Date: 2014-07-20 02:28 am (UTC)I haven't been paying him much attention regarding that, though you might want to.
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Date: 2014-07-21 05:33 pm (UTC)[Although he hadn't to this, not precisely. Given his technological knowledge limitations and absence, there hadn't been a good way to find out. Didn't help that he trusted no one but himself.]
Stark deserved it.
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Date: 2014-07-25 03:54 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2014-08-03 07:51 pm (UTC)text;
Date: 2014-08-06 02:40 am (UTC)And what a shame.
That event in itself had been too revealing, and frankly embarrassing. So, silence, waiting for Will to contact him first. Feigning disinterest heals many an oversight. ]
I do apologize, Will, it seems that I lost track of my schedule and couldn't find the time to reach out properly. Of course your appointment remains as long as you choose to keep it.
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Date: 2014-08-10 01:48 am (UTC)So. What to talk around, and what to confront? ]
It's not a problem. I don't get many opportunities to be concerned over you.
Do you have something you want to discuss outside of professional bounds?
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Date: 2014-08-10 05:41 am (UTC)As for personal versus professional bounds, I was under the impression that our conversations always straddled the line between the two. Is there something you want to discuss?
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Date: 2014-08-25 03:10 am (UTC)But I did want to say that our last dinner has made me look forward to the next.
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Date: 2014-09-24 07:39 pm (UTC)I am capable of a good many things, Will. As it happens that includes making you a follow up appointment with a nice Chianti, perhaps this time with my shirt sleeves rolled up.
[ It's a joke, Will, a jab at your jab. As for his behavior during the event though, the portrait of the artist as a young man was hardly flattering and he chooses not to touch that. ]
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Date: 2015-02-25 05:21 pm (UTC)Do they speak truth of you?
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Date: 2015-02-25 05:32 pm (UTC)voice;
Date: 2015-02-25 05:39 pm (UTC)voice;
Date: 2015-02-25 06:03 pm (UTC)Evelyn uses words she doesn't understand to label me in ways she can't possibly comprehend. That said, she is unquestionably an honest, moral person. She speaks what she believes to be the truth.
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Date: 2015-02-27 01:00 am (UTC)She says it is the truth and yet it is not; is that what you mean? Speak plain.
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Date: 2015-02-27 08:19 am (UTC)If you would like me to speak plainly I believe I deserve the same. Some of the things she says are true and some are not, you're going to have to be more specific.
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Date: 2015-02-28 12:59 am (UTC)voice;
Date: 2015-03-02 11:51 pm (UTC)How does that make you feel about me?
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Date: 2015-03-06 08:35 pm (UTC)I feel betrayed; though you may not have lied directly, you have been purposefully deceitful. Were you planning on murdering me, Doctor?
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Date: 2015-03-09 09:56 pm (UTC)Your feelings of betrayal are understandable but unfounded. As you said yourself, I never lied to you, and if it makes you feel better I never had any intention of harming you.
If that helps at all, I would much rather have this conversation in person.
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Date: 2015-03-14 05:42 pm (UTC)Fine. But if you make any move against me, I will never forget it.
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Date: 2015-03-15 01:51 am (UTC)You've eaten with me, have you not?
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Date: 2015-03-16 04:53 pm (UTC)If you have fed me another of the residents of this mansion, I will never speak with you again.
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Date: 2015-03-16 09:14 pm (UTC)voice;
Date: 2015-03-18 04:09 pm (UTC)