[Wow, it's his life, it's not gossip, how dare. How dare.
Will assumes that despite Jeff's apathy, he might like to know if he's living with a dangerous individual who could reasonably kill and eat people, that's all. Even April had gotten the spiel, with nervousness behind it, though she'd gotten more. An ear in a sink more.
Jeff's reaction has Will quickly reaching for that glass to swallow down as fast as he can, shaking his head at the summary. No, wrong, he'll explain.]
He didn't put me there. He was doing his job. I can't hold that against him. [Because he has enough difficulty laying full blame at Hannibal's feet in his poorer moments, so he has to put up clear, precise boundaries. He'll later stumble around them, everything bleeding over and blending in, but he knows, he knows who put him there and he knows holding it against anyone else only serves to give Hannibal some leeway and that is unacceptable.] It...
[He drops his fork in his box, running a hand over his mouth as he tries to think of the least depressing way to say this. And struggles, because everything is awful in Baltimore.]
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Will assumes that despite Jeff's apathy, he might like to know if he's living with a dangerous individual who could reasonably kill and eat people, that's all. Even April had gotten the spiel, with nervousness behind it, though she'd gotten more. An ear in a sink more.
Jeff's reaction has Will quickly reaching for that glass to swallow down as fast as he can, shaking his head at the summary. No, wrong, he'll explain.]
He didn't put me there. He was doing his job. I can't hold that against him. [Because he has enough difficulty laying full blame at Hannibal's feet in his poorer moments, so he has to put up clear, precise boundaries. He'll later stumble around them, everything bleeding over and blending in, but he knows, he knows who put him there and he knows holding it against anyone else only serves to give Hannibal some leeway and that is unacceptable.] It...
[He drops his fork in his box, running a hand over his mouth as he tries to think of the least depressing way to say this. And struggles, because everything is awful in Baltimore.]
...could've been worse.