Title: A Change Would Do You Good
By: angstytimelord
Pairing: Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham
Fandom: Hannibal
Rating: PG-13
Table: 1drabble
Prompt: 7, Change
Author's Note: Sequel to "The Man With Everything."
Disclaimer: This is entirely a product of my own imagination, and I make no profit from it. I do not own the lovely Hannibal Lecter or Will Graham, unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while. Please do not sue.
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Maybe a lifestyle change would be good for him.Will sighed softly, putting down the book that he'd been trying to read for the last half hour and glancing up at the clock on his living room wall.
He had spent most of his life being the outcast -- the person who everyone avoided, who no one wanted to be around. When he was a child, other kids had treated him as though he had cooties. Now that he was an adult, there were still people who acted that way.
Hannibal was the only one who didn't. Even Jack seemed to keep his distance most of time, though Will did consider his boss a friend.
But Hannibal ..... Hannibal accepted him.
That was a feeling he'd never been able to enjoy before, the feeling of being accepted exactly as he was. The feeling of having a real, true friend.
In so many ways, Hannibal understood him. Oh, he didn't understand what it was like to be cursed with his unique, specific ability. No one could. But Hannibal at least knew what it was like to always feel as though he was the one on the outside looking in.
No one else around him had ever seemed to feel that way. They had always been able to fit in, to mold who they were to fit society's expectations.
Will had never been able to do that, and he knew that he never would. It just wasn't a part of him. He wasn't the kind of person who could easily conform.
Instead, he held himself apart from society, aloof from it, always on the fringes. He wasn't social, and he didn't make friends easily -- if at all. Oh, he had acquaintances and colleagues, and he was pleasant to everyone he had to be in contact with. But that was as far as it went.
It was time for that to change, he thought with a sigh. He had to start putting himself out there into society a bit more, to try to .... well, to fit in.
Hannibal had made him see that he needed to change.
It wasn't going to be easy, and Hannibal knew that, too. In fact, he had offered to be the one to guide Will through the maze of society's good graces.
Tonight, they were actually going out. On a .... was it a date? Will frowned at the thought. He wasn't sure that he was quite ready for that, though he had accepted the fact that he was more attracted to men than women long ago. But dating Hannibal? Was he ready for that?
Still, the idea of going out with this man sent a thrill of anticipation down his spine. His mind sped ahead into the future, counting the hours until this evening.
Yes, a change would be good for him. And this would be a momentous change indeed.
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