Hannibal would be a hypocrite if he looked at the blood lazily seeping from her IV after Neph drags herself closer to him and thought to himself that she's being a bit dramatic. And yet he's never really not been a hypocrite. He'd also been expecting her head in his lap, where he can easily pet her hair and pull it back from her face - they've done that often enough when she's gotten her period, with him slowly breathing out that mint-cool soothing that seems to wind her right back down into napping for a few hours through the worst of it - but this is nice, too.
Quite frankly, knowing that she crawled up to his shoulder with a burst of energy after having been in a coma for the better part of a week is nothing but nice. Hannibal tilts his head towards hers, because it feels different to rest near her when she's conscious, when she has all the little movements and changes in breath that someone who's awake does without thinking.
"I could ask him." Hannibal says, and suddenly there is a hint of deviousness in the stare he's directing down at her hair. "But then he'd be expecting you awake when he arrives back." Which is only a problem if Neph, say, didn't want him to have a heart attack. "Did you not want to surprise him?" That. That right there. That is why Will doesn't fully trust them together. It's this thing that's happening right now.
The burst of warmth Hannibal feels for her eclipses even the comfort of messing around with his other friend's head, however. "I missed you." He says all at once, matter of fact and staring at her face.
everyone's taking out their cuddling icons, though!
Quite frankly, knowing that she crawled up to his shoulder with a burst of energy after having been in a coma for the better part of a week is nothing but nice. Hannibal tilts his head towards hers, because it feels different to rest near her when she's conscious, when she has all the little movements and changes in breath that someone who's awake does without thinking.
"I could ask him." Hannibal says, and suddenly there is a hint of deviousness in the stare he's directing down at her hair. "But then he'd be expecting you awake when he arrives back." Which is only a problem if Neph, say, didn't want him to have a heart attack. "Did you not want to surprise him?" That. That right there. That is why Will doesn't fully trust them together. It's this thing that's happening right now.
The burst of warmth Hannibal feels for her eclipses even the comfort of messing around with his other friend's head, however. "I missed you." He says all at once, matter of fact and staring at her face.