The Rougarou
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Will Graham thought the Rougarou was just a Louisiana legend until he his chance encounter with one that resulted in a bite when he was twenty-three. Now cursed, he is a slave to his instincts every full moon where he kills to starve off the hunger and the ache in his teeth. He gets used to it.
Over a decade later, he shares a breakfast of eggs and very... familiar-tasting sausage with Hannibal Lecter, and he begins to wonder if he really is cursed, or if his damnation is actually a Becoming.
_________________Or, the highly requested full-length Rougarou Will Graham fic. For those unfamiliar, the Rougarou is Louisiana's werewolf. Can be read as a standalone, though the other scenes I've posted will be referenced in later chapters.
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- Part 1 of The Rougarou
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The Rougarou, or loup-garou, is a Cajun legend of a human who changes into a wolf at his/her own will.
_________________It should be impossible. It goes against everything that Hannibal has learned in his four decades on this planet, but…
“Will?”
The animal’s breath catches, and for a very long, very excruciating moment, the only sound is the wind whistling through the forest.
On the verge of desperation, Hannibal leans closer to the animal, and it remains frighteningly still. His heart is pounding and his blood is thrumming with powerful interest in this strange creature, burning him right up.
“Will?” He tries again, much clearer than the first time.
The wolf’s startling blue eyes flutter closed with a resigned sigh, and when he—because it certainly is a he—opens them again, Hannibal is met with a piercing stare that sends a shiver down his spine and liquid fire flowing through his body. He looks into the wolf and Will Graham stares back, and even though nothing about this makes sense, Hannibal Lecter is enthralled. He would never let this opportunity go to waste.
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- Part 2 of The Rougarou
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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Hannibal says, breaking the comfortable silence.
Will hums but doesn’t look away from the sky. “Except to each other.”
_________________Set directly after the sent of part one, Will transforms in front of Hannibal for the first time, then Hannibal gets to watch the Rougarou hunt.
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- Part 3 of The Rougarou
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Abigail becomes lost in the woods after hopping the hospital fence late at night. Scared and alone, she fears she may never get out of the forest until she is found by a frighteningly large creature with oddly familiar eyes.
_________________“Will’s my… well, I don’t really know what he and Hannibal are. They’re my guardians, I guess. They take care of me. Will like… collects stray dogs that he finds wandering around.” She shrugs. “He just picked up his seventh a couple of months ago, and you’re so… I don’t know. Nice? Domesticated? I don’t really know. He’d give you a good home though.” She shakes her head and tries not to feel self-conscious about discussing her guardian-who-shot-her-dad with a bear-sized wolf who seems much too intelligent to be a wild animal. “I bet he’d try to take you in though if I asked. How about it buddy, you want to be a house-wolf?” She reaches out and strokes a hand down its broad shoulders, then knots her fingers in the plush strands and grips tightly.
The wolf swings its big head over to look at her and Abigail’s heart stops beating.
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- Part 4 of The Rougarou