Chapter Text
Late night decisions are the worst;
They are usually taken straight from the heart.
[12:41AM] Hannibal? WG
[12:45AM] Good evening, Will. Or would that be morning? -HL
[12:46AM] I think either is applicable. WG
[12:47AM] Good morning it is, then. To what do I owe the pleasure of your digital company so early in the morning? -HL
[12:48AM] Can’t sleep. Well… technically I was asleep, but I woke about 30 minutes ago. I can’t fall back to sleep. What are you doing up? WG
[12:51AM] Much like you, I cannot seem to find sleep tonight. -HL
[12:52AM] Oh. I’m sorry to hear that. What were you doing to help you sleep? WG
[12:54AM] I was composing a new piece. I am currently stuck on a section of the melody, though. Most likely because of the late hour. What were you doing before you reached out? -HL
[12:56AM] Nothing worth mentioning if I am honest. Do you usually compose this late into the night? Or early, as it were. WG
[12:59AM] Not usually, no. I thought it may help, but instead it’s only served to frustrate me more than I was before I began. Such is the peril of doing anything beyond 2AM. -HL
[01:00AM] Is that a rule for you then? WG
[01:01AM] Is what a rule, Will? -HL
[01:03AM] Do nothing of importance after 2AM. WG
[01:05AM] I find that it’s a good rule to live by for the most part, yes. It seems we are at our most foolish in the early hours of the morning. The mistakes we make when we are young may have a great deal to do with the adage, though. We tend to commit our biggest acts of idiocy when we are inebriated, and the cut off for drinking in public is, of course, 2AM in the states. -HL
[01:07AM] It's not quite 2AM, so I think we are safe. By the way, how is it that you manage to teach me something new even in the small hours of the morning? WG
[01:08AM] I could teach you plenty at any time of the day if you wished it, Will. For instance, what I would teach you now is to be honest with both your early morning companion and yourself as to the nature of our digital conversation. -HL
[01:12AM] I like the sound of that. Teach me that one. WG
[01:14AM] You are becoming tedious. Did you need something from me, or were you hoping to rouse me from my slumber to trade witty banter in hopes that you could best me if I was half asleep? -HL
[01:16AM] Are you saying I couldn’t best you under normal circumstances? WG
[01:18AM] You are hardly besting me now. Would you like to talk about the dream you had? -HL
[01:20AM] No. I don’t really want to talk about anything. I just needed to reach out to something… real. I’m alone in the house and it’s eerily quiet. I woke up covered in sweat and you were the first person I thought of. I’m sorry for bothering you. I hope you can get some decent sleep. WG
[01:21AM] There is no need to apologize to me, Will. I understand your dogs are still with Alana? Her new stray is taking time to adjust from what I hear. It was kind of you to loan out your pack to help the new addition to her family settle in. I am sorry you are having another bout of nightmares. No sleepwalking I trust? -HL
[01:21AM] Yes, Alana still has the dogs. I’m not used to the quiet. Usually I can hear them breathing and moving in the hall and it calms me. Knowing I’m not alone, you know? I suppose you don’t. You prefer your solitude, don’t you? No sleepwalking this time, or I’d be calling you for a ride if the state troopers weren’t hauling me back to the house. WG
[01:23AM] I do not mind company, but in the last few years I have found myself without it in the early morning hours. I am happy you didn’t sleepwalk this time. Would you like me to help you fall back to sleep? -HL
[01:24AM] How do you propose to do that, Doctor? WG
[01:25AM] There are many different methods I could use, but first let me ask you a question. When you wake from your nightmares, what do you usually do to ensure you are able to fall back to sleep? -HL
[01:26AM] I am not telling you that, Hannibal. WG
[01:27AM] Ahhh, so I earned my given name at last. May I wager a guess then? -HL
[01:28AM] Must you? WG
[01:29AM] You understand that my principle field of medicine these days is psychiatry, correct? If you truly did not want to discuss this particular topic, you would have simply stopped responding. Since you have not done so, I will wager that it is because you want me to broach the subject because you do not wish to seem weak or perverted. You are neither, not that you need my reassurance. Do you normally masturbate to fall back to sleep? -HL
[01:31AM] Yes. WG
[01:33AM] I see. And tonight you reached out to me instead of using your usual methods. Do I take it that you are hoping to glean some inspiration to help you accomplish the task? -HL
[01:34AM] For God’s sake, no. I couldn’t ask you to do that, nor would I. That’s crossing some sort of boundary, isn’t it? WG
[01:35AM] It is not unheard of for someone in my field. However, I would help you in this regard because I am your friend and would do what I can to help you when you are in need. I will ask you again, and I want you to think carefully before you answer the question. I can help you fall back to sleep if you’d like. You will be relaxed and more sated than if you dug through the saved collection of meaningless porn clips you have saved in your phone. Do you want my help, Will? -HL
[01:36AM] I’m not going to ask how you know about my phone. I am not sure I want the answer.
[01:36AM] How exactly would you help me? WG
[01:37AM] You’re being tedious again. This is a Pandora’s Box moment, but wholly without the dire consequences of letting out anything dreadful that could wreak havoc on humanity. You will simply be guided through a set of instructions that I want you to follow to the letter. You do not have anything to lose except some of the fear you’re currently exhibiting. Let go for once and let me help you. -HL
[01:38AM] I don’t know if I can do that. It has been more years than I can count since I've been with a man. WG
[01:39AM] Nothing would change tomorrow. It is, of course, up to you. This is your last chance. You can suffer for your lack of sleep because you are attempting to attach sexual preference where none need be attached, or you can let me help you. I am your friend Will, but my patience is not endless. What is it going to be? -HL
[01:43AM] No response is childish. -HL
[01:48AM] Goodnight, Will. -HL
[01:51AM] Wait, Hannibal. I was just… thinking. WG
[01:51AM] Thinking about what, may I ask? -HL
[01: 53AM] What it will mean if I let you do this. WG
[01: 54AM] It won’t mean anything you don’t choose it to mean. It can just be what it is. A release to help you sleep, aided by someone you trust. You do trust me, don’t you? -HL
[01: 55AM] Of course I trust you. WG
[01: 55AM] Then why the hesitation? -HL
[01: 56AM] I don’t want things to be weird between us. I would miss what we have too much to risk it. WG
[01: 57AM] You are safe with me, Will. Safe to explore, safe to let go. -HL
[01: 59AM] ...Okay. WG
[02:00AM] Okay what? -HL
[02:01AM] Okay I trust you. WG
[02:02AM] I’m afraid you’ll have to say more than that. You’ve already shown reluctance and I must know I’m not pushing you. So I’ll ask you again. Okay what? -HL
[02: 03AM] Okay, I accept your help. Please, Hannibal. I need you. WG
[02:03AM] I like it very much that you need me. Now, do you promise to do everything I say and read every word I send you, even if you feel that it may make you uncomfortable? I’m asking you to trust that I can do this for you, but I will not waste the effort if you are not putting in the work. Do we have an understanding? -HL
[02:05AM] Yes, Doctor. WG
[02:06AM] Excellent. Please be as vocal as you feel you need to be while concentrating what I am having you do. I will request that you mostly read what I send you, but when I ask you a direct question, I need a response. You may also use the phrases ‘more’, ‘please’, and anything else that will convey how you are feeling.
[02:06AM] There is one other thing that I feel I must warn you of now, before we get started. I will be using myself in this fantasy as your lover, because it is easy for me to describe to you what I would be doing if I were there. Do you have any objections to this scenario? -HL
[02:07AM] I trust you, even though this would not be my normal choice. I have no objections. I will do as you ask. Can we please get on with it? WG
[02:08AM] Ahh, I’m afraid impatience will get you nowhere tonight, but have no fear. We are about to get started. Please adjust the temperature in your home to where you can be comfortable naked. Then kindly strip and climb into bed, but do not cover yourself. I want you to experience what I offer without the shame that so often happens when we disrobe. Please let me know when you are in bed. -HL
[02:12AM] I turned up the heat. I’m currently laying on the blankets in my bed. WG
[02:13AM] Perfect. It would be pleasing to have you like this, you know. Awaiting the pleasure I wish to offer you. I will guide your hands by walking you through what I would do to you. I’d like you to use your hands in place of mine, as well as in place of my mouth and my cock. Can you do that? -HL
[02:13AM] Your… never mind. Yes. I can do that. Please continue. WG
[02:14AM] Good. I would start with a kiss. A gentle brush of lips to settle you, familiar pleasure. Can you feel my lips on yours, Will? Warm, wet when I slide my tongue along the seam of your mouth to beg entrance? Can you feel my tongue against yours? -HL
[02:15AM] Yes, god I can feel your lips on mine. My lips are tingling with the sensation. WG
[02:16AM] Good. I would then run my hands through your wonderfully soft curls so that I could direct your head and expose your neck. I often think about tasting the skin there, and if I was given access, I would help myself. Glide your fingertips along the side of your neck for me, Will. Slowly and gently, just the barest brush of skin. Imagine its my lips gently dragging along your flesh. Did you shave this evening, or do you have stubble? -HL
[02:17AM] Stubble. God, please… more. WG
[02:19AM] Don’t worry, darling. We are just getting started. Stubble pleases me immensely. I like the different textures of your skin against my lips. Now, as you move your fingertips, imagine my tongue tracing a trail down your skin. I want to taste you, catalog the contours of your body. Trace your fingers for me where you would like my mouth. And don’t be quiet. Moan for me. -HL
[02:20AM] H-Hannibal… WG
[02:22AM] That’s it, show me how good it feels. Now, while I am helping myself to your neck, and now that I know you’d keep still so I could taste you, I want to feel you. Trace a line with your fingertips for me. Down your sternum, swirling over your heart. Pause there a moment and feel how your heartbeat. Is it racing for me? -HL
[02:23AM] God yes. It’s beating so fast. Making my breath come faster. WG
[02:25AM] Good, perfect. Trace those fingers along your nipple for me. Tell me how you like to be touched here. Would you like just my fingers tracing around? Do you like them gently pinched? Or would you prefer my mouth tasting your skin? -HL
[02:26AM] Taste me. Please. WG
[02:28AM] Very good, darling. Thank you for telling me. Trace your flesh here for me, and pinch gently. Imagine that instead of your fingers, you are feeling the edge of my teeth, gently bringing your right nipple to a peak. Wet your fingertip for me, and trace that circle so you can feel the cool air against your skin. Tell me how it feels. -HL
[02:30AM] It’s… god it’s so good. WG
[02:33AM] Moan it out for me, Will. Let me hear how good it feels. Trace your fingertips along your sternum to your left nipple for me now. Wet your fingertip so you can properly feel how my mouth would feel on your skin. Does it feel good? -HL
[02:33AM] God yes. More. Please. WG
[02:35AM] I cannot resist you when you beg like that. Are your legs together, or have you spread them for me? If they are closed, don’t be shy. I need somewhere to settle so I can continue my explorations. Spread your thighs for me, darling. Give to me. -HL
[02:37AM] Yes… God, please. WG
[02:38AM] Would you like me to kiss down your stomach or start with your upper thighs? There is no wrong answer. I want all of you, and I will have my fill of you before the light reaches the sky. -HL
[02:40AM] Stomach. Familiar touch. Please. WG
[02:40AM] Anything you want, it is yours. I want to taste your skin, feel the contours of your body. I’ve waited so long for you to let me do this. I want you to read my next words, then set your phone down and follow my instructions. Are we clear? -HL
[02:41AM] Yes, Doctor. WG
[02:43AM] Good. You’re doing so well for me. Slowly draw your fingertips down your ribcage. Use enough pressure that it does not tickle, but I want you to feel just my fingertips. Imagine my hands being accompanied by my mouth placing hot open mouthed kisses down your sternum to your stomach. Both hands on your ribcage now, love. Take it slow. Are you still making noises for me? -HL
[02:45AM] Glad I don’t have neighbors. It feels so good and I can’t keep quiet. I’m so hard, Hannibal. Please. WG
[02:47AM] I know, I know you’re hot for it, mylimasis. We still have areas to cover before I can fully take my pleasure from you. I do need to know something though. Before we try this next part. Do you have toys that you’ve teased yourself with anally? -HL
[02:48AM] I think you know the answer to that. WG
[02:49AM] Do not be tedious, Will. -HL
[02:50AM] Yes, Doctor Lecter. I have toys. WG
[02:51AM] You are more than I dared hope, Will. Please select your favorite and lubricant. You will be needing them soon enough. -HL
[02:55AM] I’m ready. WG
[02:56AM] Delightful. How hard are you for me? Are you leaking onto your skin, sensitive with your passion? -HL
[02:58AM] Iron. Dripping with it. Stomach is getting sticky. WG
[02:59AM] Mm. What I would give to taste you. Would you like it if I tasted you? -HL
[02:59AM] God, please. Yes please. -WG
[03:00AM] Good. Hold onto that thought, darling. We are not there yet. Open your legs wider for me, and trace your fingertips on the inside of your thighs. I want you to avoid any intimate areas just yet, but I want you to feel open for me. Imagine my hands tracing the delicate skin along the inside of your thighs near the seam of your leg. Gentle fingertips for me, love. Describe for me your heartbeat. -HL
[03:01AM] Fast and hard. Pounding in my chest. Wondering what’s going to happen. Excited, not worried. WG
[03:04AM] I like your excitement very much. I would hope to see it in your eyes. Brush your fingertips across your scrotum for me. The lightest touches you can stand. Caress yourself for me, let me feel those intimate areas. I want you to gently run a finger along your perineum. Not every time, but every once in a while. Feel the slight shock of it as you caress yourself. Is your breath hitching for me? Are you making noise for me? -HL
[03:04AM] Yes, god I can’t stop moaning. I want you so much. WG
[03:05AM] And you will have me, darling. Open yourself for me. I want you to apply lubricant to both your toy and to your fingers. You are going to need them. -HL
[03:06AM] Yes, Doctor. I’m ready. WG
[03:08AM] Good. We will begin gently, as I’m sure it’s been some time since you’ve taken, and I very much want to take you. Would that be okay? -HL
[03:09AM] Anything. Want you. Please. WG
[03:12AM] Shh, darling. I want you to open your legs wide. Brace your weight in the balls of your feet. Touch yourself down your perineum, then gently brush your fingers on your entrance. Do not push in just yet. Brush your wet fingertip around the skin in a gentle spiral. Feel yourself want to open to me. -HL
[03:13AM] God. WG
[03:14AM] Good. Now gently begin to press. Just the fingertip, love. Do not rush it. Give yourself plenty of time to adjust. And take me into you. Feel it as if it was me doing this for you. Moan it out for me, darling. Make noise for me. Tell me, does it feel good to have me inside you at last? -HL
[03:18AM] God Hannibal. In me. You’re inside me. WG
[03:19AM] Yes, inside you at last. Feeling you clench around me, even just my finger. Can you feel my body against yours, how hard you’ve made me? How good it will feel when I take you? -HL
[03:20AM] More, please. I need more. WG
[03:21AM] Take one for me, love. As far as you can reach. Gentle and slow. I have no wish to hurt you. Rock your hips down for me. Rock on your finger and feel it as if I was pulling you gently onto my own. Do you feel me moving in you? -HL
[03:23AM] Jesus, Hannibal. I can’t wait much longer. WG
[03:26AM] I know, and you’ll have what you need, I promise. I don’t want you to ache. I want you to enjoy this. I want you to feel me opening you up for me. Can you slide two fingers in? Go slowly. I want you to feel it. Moan for me. -HL
[03:27AM] God… WG
[03:29AM] That’s it, Will. You’re doing so well, letting me prepare you for me. Is your toy close and well lubricated? -HL
[03:31AM] Yes. Please let me have it. Please. WG
[03:32AM] Would you like me to draw this out, or would you like to come now? -HL
[03:33AM] Yes. WG
[03:35AM] You are more a delight than you will ever be able to comprehend. Are you ready for me, mylimasis? Do you want to feel me? -HL
[03:36AM] God… please…. WG
[03:36AM] Good. Very gently, begin to slide your toy in. I want you to feel every inch as if it was me taking you. Imagine my lips on yours, kissing patterns from your lips to your throat so I could hear the noises you make. I want your legs wrapped around my waist. Can you feel me breaching you my darling? Are you panting for me? -HL
[03:38AM] God… so much… want more…. Hannibal I want you WG
[03:40AM] Shhh you have me. Feel the stretch as I fill you. Take me inside you, feel us become one. Do you feel my hands pinning yours down? Do you feel me on top of you, moving slowly inside you? I have wanted you for so long, and I will enjoy every single moment of this. Follow my rhythm exactly, darling. Are you ready? -HL
[03:41AM] Yes. God, please take me Hannibal. I’m ready. WG
[03:44AM] Yes. It is time. Move with me, darling. Feel my skin against yours, let me taste your lips and swallow your cries as I take you. Slowly. Just faster than your heartbeat. Move with me, Will. Let me feel your body wrap around me. You’re so delightfully tight and hot. I could keep you here like this all night, let the sun rise with you wrapped around me. Lay back and let me take care of you. -HL
[03:45AM] Please, God. Hannibal I want… WG
[03:46AM] Are you ready to come for me, darling? HL
[03:46AM] I need it. I need to come. Please make me come. WG
[03:47AM] Show me. Let me see you pleasure yourself. Feel me deep inside you as you wrap your fingers along your cock my love. Stroke yourself. Just your fingertips to start, from root to tip. Gather the moisture at the crown of your cock to ease your movements. Be gentle and let it build. Ride the pleasure with me. -HL
[03:48AM] Please… WG
[03:49AM] Show me how good I’ve made you feel darling. I want you to come for me. Right now. Come crying my name. Let me taste your pleasure on your lips. -HL
[03:53AM] HANNIBAL... WG
[03:58AM] God… WG
[03:59AM] Back with me, are you? -HL
[04:00AM] What the absolute fuck. WG
[04:00AM] Are you okay? -HL
[04:02AM] A little wrecked if I’m completely honest. I don’t think I’ve had that intimate an experience in person, let alone over text. I’m exhausted, but sated in ways I didn’t know it was possible to be. WG
[04:03AM] Mm. Excellent. Would you call this a successful experiment then? -HL
[04:05AM] More than that, and you damn well know it. I can’t believe you can roleplay like that over text. It was incredible. WG
[04:08AM] And what makes you think for an instant that any of what I was sending to you was fabricated beyond the distance between us? I can conjure lust, Will. I can’t create passion where it doesn’t exist. -HL
[04:09AM] Do you feel better? -HL
[04:10AM] Yes. So much better. You’re saying that everything you said… WG
[04:12AM] Is something I would experience with you in a heartbeat, should it ever be offered. I do not hold out hope, and you are under no obligation. But truth is best, especially in the small hours of the night. I want you, Will. Very much. I have for some time now. Do not fret, though. It will not change the dynamic of our friendship. I have become very adept at reining in my emotions where you are concerned. -HL
[04:13AM] I don’t want you to do that. WG
[04:13AM] I am afraid that at this time, you have no choice. -HL
[04:14AM] I can’t let it go, not after you just blew my mind like that. We need to talk about it, Hannibal. I’m not letting this… you, go. WG
[04:16AM] Very well. Perhaps, one evening, we can discuss it over dinner. Does that suit? -HL
[04:17AM] That would be great. Tomorrow evening? Or today, rather? It’s getting to be very late indeed. WG
[04:18AM] That seems rather sudden, but I would be very pleased to have you here, Will. Please remember you are under no obligation of any kind when you are in my company. -HL
[04:20AM] It’s not about obligation. I want to see what happens when I can have what you just gave me in text, but the real thing. I want all of it. WG
[04:21AM] We shall see how you feel after you have had some sleep. Do you think you’ll be able to sleep now? -HL
[04:23AM] Absolutely. I can’t thank you enough for your assistance. You’re unbelievably creative when it comes to helping me relax. WG
[04:27AM] It was nothing at all, my friend. Sleep now. We shall discuss this at length over dinner tonight. HL
[04:27AM] I’m holding you to it. Plan something romantic, okay? WG
[04:29AM] As you wish. -HL
[04:30AM] Goodnight, Hannibal. WG
[04:30AM] Goodnight, dear Will. -HL