Title: The Birth of Venus
Summary: Clarice Starling has been put on forced temporary leave by the Bureau. When she goes to Florence to track down Lecter, she's put on Il Monstro's hit list. What will happen when the good Doctor finds out?
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, the ownership is not mine of anything in this story but the plotline.
Setting: Modern day, in the movie-type world.
A/N: I don't think I changed Hannibal all too much, but Clarice perhaps more than I would have liked. I tried to keep them as IC as possible.
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Special Agent Clarice Starling stepped into the street and looked around the square, shielding her eyes from the bright summer rays with her hand. The first order of business, she thought, would be to buy a good pair of sunglasses. Second to find Doctor Lecter.
She shrugged off an apprehensive shiver. If she hadn't known better, she would have said she felt like she was being watched.
Brushing off the feeling, she strode confidently into the heart of Florence.
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Clarice had been being watched… but not by whom she'd thought. Out of the shadows of a peddler's stand stepped a middle-aged man. He nervously put his hands into the pockets of his work clothes as he considered her back.
Normally, he did not go for single women. Lovers, always lovers. Lovers to be arranged in perfect synchronization with Master Botecelli's paintings.
But this one…
He watched her receding body as she absentmindedly put her copperish hair into a ponytail.
But this one was far too good to pass up.
The man the papers called Il Monstro stepped back into the shadows to consider what to do.
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A/N: Short, but I promise it gets wayyyy better. xD I need at least 3 reviews to update. :)