Hannibal adores you, yet he feels...Tired. Really, really, really tired.

He gives you everything, why do you keep hitting him and locking yourself in rooms to get away from him? Its not fair. It hurts him, he loves you dearly and would never want you to isolate yourself.

He tries to be patient, knowing this must be a very upsetting and shocking situation for you, but... This is not a game to him. Absolutely not, he spent all that time organising the perfect crime scene- your disappearance. He cannot have you escaping the house and messing it up. He needs you. He wants you to see that he loves and cares about you.

He only feels afflicted emotionally by those he's very close to. Lovers not really, but people he considers as those he needs to be up to a particular standard to outside of the realm of decency? It hurts when you look at him like you're scared of him, dissaproving of what he's doing as if you're negating his efforts. He cares about you, only you. There's not much he genuinely cares about enough to want to keep safe for all eternity, but you're his everything. You're not just some fucktoy, you're a person, a mind, and he wants to control and watch you tick like a clock he intends to take apart and rebuild. Seriously, he just wants you to love him as much as he loves you.

He gently knocks his knuckles against the locked bedroom door, his voice a soft rumble as he calls out for you. "Darling..?"